Oh.My.Goodness.

First off. Happy New Years! *blows noise makers*
2011 was an interesting year. A lot happened, I learned some stuff and man did it go by quick.

2012 my New Years Resolution was to.....not make any new resolutions until I accomplish the ones for the last however many years I've failed. YAY lol

Ok. News for you from LeBloom.
First off. The sim is just about done. I'm so freaking pleased as pie with how everything is turning out I could literally pee...but heather told me I can't, so I guess I wont.

Belle Epoque is now home to main stores of:
LeBloom (duh)
Savoir Faire Shapes
Exodi Skins
Pestle & Twig.

You can get everything you need here! Shapes, skins, clothing, jewelry, eyes, accessories, prefabs, home furniture & deco. One stop shopping folks lol
It's a happy coastal mountain sim, with plenty to explore and more will be added soon.
The new stores are up and just about ready to go so please stop by and have a look.
Belle Epoque
We are super excited about everything we have planned for amazing events, so stay tuned!

News news news.
FTLO Millennium hunt starts tomorrow and we've whipped up an awesome little New Years themed set.

Love.
36 prims. Cute little resolutions wall art.
Animated chair (3 animations)
Happy rug, wall plates, candles, table & lamp.
Yay!

The best part about it? 1L.
For real.

For more info. on the hut, there's a sign in front of our shop HERE!
Click on it, and it shall give you all the information you will need.





That pretty much covers it.
1. Come see new sim and check out awesome stores.
2. Get info. on FTLO Millennium hunt that starts TOMORROW.
3. Have a fantastic week :)

Lufffff
LawraLoo & hc

Oh new stuff, and new location....yes, again.

I will not bore you with details, I will juts say, our main store has moved. Again.
This however, will be the last time we move. Ever. lol
We got a pretty little sim, named it Belle Epoque and I'm loving it.

While we prepare the sim in beauty however, we have a shop in the sky in a bubble. I must say, I do love bubbles. :) We're hoping to have everything up and running (with available space to rent as well) by January 1st.

Now, on to new stuff!

Urban dress jeans. Perfect for anywhere you need to be.
Available in dark blue, light blue, subdued blue & gray.
L$99 each or L275 for all 4.
Mod.Copy

Sweet Daisy Jeans.
Available in heather gray, light cocoa & sky.
L$99 each.
Mod/Copy

Owl sweater!
I love owls. I really made this for Heather, but yes, everyone loves owls, yesh?
L$69.

Dim stripe sweaters.
Available in teal, olive & cinnamon stripes.
L$69 each.

Santa baby.
Cute little number just in time to be festive!
Only L1. Merry Holidays!








Also, don't forget the free holiday advent gifts in the store.
I've added even more goodies to the box.
You've got today, tomorrow, Friday & Saturday for free gifts!

Mwah!

Link to store in world

Ahhh. Black Friday here too?!?! Yay!

Ahhh. Everything at the shop is set for 50%-75% off today through Sunday.

I've also changed the prize parade to a 75% refund and it's only set to FIVE people.
Can you get 5 people here to get a refund on 55L? That means you'll only end up paying 14 freaking lindens for the cute Bailey dress in sugarplum.

Pop over, grab cheap stuff and be merry :)

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lucid/107/124/27

Guess what? I use templates sometimes! :)

Oh my goodness. I've just finished reading some serious negative crazy comments on a few blogs about sourcing content.
I guess this shoes how naive I am when it comes to this stuff.
I saw the post of my coat on the rumor. I also saw that it sourced my coat to the template. I honestly didn't think twice about it. I didn't think it was a bash, I didn't think it was negative. It said it was cute. So, who cares that it linked it to the template on the marketplace?

Guess what? Sometimes I use templates. :) I don't hide it. I don't have any reason to. If someone doesn't want to  buy things from LeBloom because some items originated from a template? So be it. I can't please everyone, though I wish I knew how. I just know it's not possible. Not in either life.

I will never claim that I'm as talented as some of my favorite designers. I can't sculpt to save my pixelated life, as many times as I've tried, I just suck. But I keep trying. I takes me forever to line up seams, but I continue to work on it. I suck at making my own textures for sculpt maps, but I spend hours trying to get it right. And I don't just take someone's template, color it in SL and throw it up for sale. I take the textures into Photoshop and rip the hell out of them to make them look the way I envisioned them in my head when I first saw them.

So yup, I guess I'm airing a dirty little secret...though I never thought it was a secret to begin with.

Sometimes use templates. And then I add to them. Like throwing on cute flower buttons, or changing the bake in Photoshop, adding stitching where there wasn't any before, creating an alpha, throwing colors together to see how it works, and  make something that I would wear in RL.

And you know what else? Buying templates from amazing creators like Kesiika Markova and the other talented people from RedPoly? It supports the SL economy. Buy.Sell. Buy.Sell. People like Kesiika put an amazing amount of effort and time into creating templates just like this one so that people will buy them

Kat Alderson has great points on the same topic HERE

She brings up a good point that I want to touch on. There are some amazing furniture builders in SL. Some of them make their own animations, some don't. I've never once expected them to make their own animations, or write their own sitter script. The amazing things we enjoy in SL are made up of amazing things that amazing people make. Scripts, textures, sculpts, animations, mesh, templates...I could go on and on on on.

A note from little ol' me to all the designers out there that use templates, mesh templates or sculpt maps and are feeling down about this rant? Please don't. There are amazing designers in SL that use mesh objects, sculpts and templates and make some pretty darn amazing stuff. As long as your putting time and effort into it, making it your own and doing what you love? Keep doing it. 

Thanks Lexi, I love this skirt :)

I also thought I'd throw in a teaser for some new releases next week while I'm at it. :)

 Bailey dress, comes in cinnamon, sugarplum, granite & chocolate.
$L75 each, includes the dress in clothing layer, sculpt sleeve cuffs and sculpt dress prim, mod.copy.no trans.

 

Belted halters.
$L99 for all 3.
No Mod.No copy.Trans Ok.











Guess what? I used some content from templates for parts of these too.
Can you guess where from? lol

Have a fantastic day

xoxo - LawraLoo