Vintage vineyard blues

I'm not actually blue - the title just happened from watching too many episodes of Treme lately . What a great show, excellent writing and not run of the mill predictable either. The music is of course wonderful, what you'd expect for something based in New Orleans.

I finished up the new colab packs that will be out Wednesday evening. I'm really happy with the vintage things i've been working on - i'm using copyright free old images and combining them with textures and text and whatnot. I love the 'tooth' of old paper.

 This set will be on for 60L until Sept 8 th then goes to the regular price.
Oh and a second colab kit as well for lighting up the garden/vineyard. ( Can i say i'm glad i don't have to manage a vineyard? Must be a lot of work plus i'd probably just drink too much in the end lol)

This set is also 60L til Sept 8th .Sculpts and all :)

 So other than working i've been doing not much of anything really. Reading quite a bit. Getting Halloween things ready - the 'guts' sculpts are still selling .. i do wonder what people are doing with them!
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Has anyone else noticed how many shops are closing or have closed over the past couple of months? What the heck is up with that? There is always a downturn in the summer but people seem very affected by it this year.

Off to eat some breakfast and do yoga. Downward dog here we go :)

Aunty Mai 

Erm well summers almost over - Back to blogging!!

Its been a crazy summer here at Chez Maitresse. Family issues, job issues blahdidiblah blah blah. I'm thankful for SL and its wonderfully distracting ways!

I have been working on some fab new textures, opened a shop in Avination again at the gorgeous Khan Omizu's new place. At the moment my shop - and of course Angyl Cristole's Saffron Textures & Sculpts - are in the Full Perm Hunt. It's on until  August 30th so get your booty over there ! The prize from me is:

These are beautiful textures and are semi transparent in the solid (un puckered) stripe areas. There's a second box for sale as well.











This weeks Colab is out - my contributions are:

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Colab is a fantastic idea. There is a new component to it now - non full perm Colabs. I'm hoping to get some of my builds and Shabby decor in that eventually.

In the works - Texturemania 3 is coming up- stayed tuned for a preview of my set for it.

The other thing I've been working on is getting my Second Life marketplace stuff up to date. By the time I do that the magic boxes will likely be a thing of the past!

Ok. Blogging will return to it's normal couple of times a week. Tomorrow I'll share my lovely new Quilted Silks.
Happy Creating!
Mai