Three new for the weekend

Well, I'm beat. Have I mentioned I'm tired of coloring? Three new styles out today, woot! Two of the styles are a bit of a stretch for me on the funkyness scale.



Fern is actually my Halloween hair, with bangs. I made Princess Leia slave hair, and actually wasn't planning to sell it because it didn't have bangs. Lots of people want bangs. So I added some and figured I'd put it out. The world needs more braids.



Dragon-plant speaks for itself. My husband stood over my shoulder while I was making it, I really needed help with the texturing. I've never actually seen dreads IRL, so it was a combination of googling and my hubby's knowledge. Hopefully it turned out okay.



Bindweed was the result of my weekend of uncreativity. That started during the hours I stood on a pose stand last weekend and got nothing. I asked our update group what they wanted to see, and a short flexi was at the top of their list. Some wanted really short bangs, but I went longer. Since the hair is all mod, those who like shorter can do it pretty easily. I'll even offer to help if anyone has problems.

Have a wonderful weekend, and I promise to try not to crash the grid. No guarantees.

Africa

I went to pick up my husband at work yesterday. He comes out and says, "They're talking about Second Life on NPR." Naturally, being the talk-radio junkie that I don't admit to being, I said, "Oh! Turn it on!" (See, if I don't turn it on, I'm not quite as geekish.)

It was really quite interesting, and they had callers call in, some who played SL, some who had never heard of it. One lady asked, "So you sit in front of a computer and do all this?" I just had to laugh. They had to explain to her what an avatar is. I really wonder if that much of the population has no idea.

Then, some woman called and completely went off. She found it "disgusting" that people were spending this much time and creative energy in a virtual world on things that weren't even real when the world was in the state it was in. She went on and on, and got to the children in Africa spiel. Except it wasn't that they had no food, it was that they had no clean water to drink and how dare all of us play games when there were kids in Africa who needed blahblahblah.

The Reuters guy, Adam Pasick, was there and spoke up. He said something to the effect of, "not everyone can hop on a plane and go to Africa." I so laughed. But, next time you go to log in, you might want to consider heading over to Africa instead. Or at least think about building a sim named Africa.

Bling on!!

I have to ask... what is the deal with bling? Why is it so popular to shine like a spot light at a grand opening? Some girl walked into the shop last night with earings that shined so bright I couldn't even see her face.

I don't really wear jewelry. I mean, I own a lot of it. (I can't resist shiny things) I won't buy things with bling though. The one constant piece of jewelry I wear is a nose ring from *SS* Designs. The only bling I have.. is in my eyes. I know, strange right? Think they're called Sparkle Eyes. I got them at Skin Deep. It's such minimal bling though, that you have to zoom in all the way on my face to actually see it.

Places I can see bling are like... tops of buildings, or things you want to catch peoples attention with. I can't stand the multiple bling either. If you are equipped with a bracelet, ring, necklace, earings, hair clip, anklet, belly ring, nose ring... and they're all blinging at different speeds... you need to take a good hard look at yourself. You're going to cause someone to have a seizure. And that is NOT cool.

Happy Sunday

The weekend's almost over. I've had zero, absolutely zero creative energy this weekend. That's really unusual for me. Maybe I just needed a break. I've done a lot of nothing all weekend, and have just hung out in the store talking to customers. Which is something I realize I really miss.

I used to spend a few hours every morning on the couch in the store, talking to people, helping out the noobs who came in totally clueless. It's been a while since I've done that, and I've spent all weekend making up for lost time.

Hae's been gone all weekend with RL stuff, and I've totally missed coffee on the couch with her on Saturday and Sunday mornings.

Just something fun that I can't pass up sharing. We had the pleasure of seeing some really, really big hair.

New Releases and the Pumpkin Packs!

I tried to post this yesterday and SL blue screened my computer and I lost it all. So maybe we'll get through it this morning.

We released two new styles yesterday, as well as putting out twelve styles in the Limited Edition Pumpkin Pack colors. We'll be leaving the Pumpkin Packs up through Halloween, so grab them while you can.

First, the new releases.



Jonquil is one I've been hanging onto for a few weeks now, because I just didn't feel like coloring it. I love the style though. This is how I wore my hair to my first RL prom. I had to hang my head upside down for what seemed like hours to have my hair braided that way. But it looked so pretty and was so worth it afterwards! Expect to see more braids!



Meadowsweet is my second really long style. I tend to like the mid-length better, but I know everyone loves the long hair. I do my flexi differently than most people do. I taper it for two reasons. One, I like how it looks. Two, it's tons easier to color. And let's face it. When you have some 60 odd colors, quick is nice.

And now for the Pumpkin Packs! Kudos to Haedon for coming up with the cute name. I really suck at that kind of thing. We picked some of our favorites that look great tipped. So here they are:








There ya have it! That's what went up yesterday. We hope you like them!

ImSo Preddy!

So when I get bored at work... I check out the new last names that SL is giving out and see what's available.

Congratulations, the Second Life name
CowGo Mu
is available!

The Second Life name ImSo Preddy is unavailable.
(* Side note, I need to meet you.)

Congratulations, the Second Life name
HeadSo Rumey
is available!

The Second Life name Up Schuck is unavailable.

Congratulations, the Second Life name
omgWhos Snoring
is available!

Yeah, I got issues. But I'm starting to like them, because they kind of define me.

Another thing I like to look at, which can sometimes be as fun as the name thing... but most of the time just makes me think, is the Post Secret Blog. Usually Lily and I read this together over coffee. They post new ones every Sunday.

A case of the Mondays

Bleh. Just. Bleh. I so don't like Mondays. The house is always a disaster from the weekend. The hubby goes back to work and I'm left with the mess and the kids, and to top it off today, I think I'm getting sick.

So I went shopping this morning. I love when ETD releases new stuff. My first day in SL, Haedon took me to ETD and showed me the amazing world of virtual shopping, and I think I probably tried on every single style she had. Twice. I fell in love with ETD and it became my "I'm bored, gonna go shopping" spot. I've literally spent hours and hours in the old ETD/Nyte'N'Day store. Mostly looking because I didn't have L to spend. It's probably why I finally tried making hair on my own, I just didn't have the L to buy one of everything ETD had.

Anyway, I love ETD's hair. Always have, always will. Elikapeka is my SL hero. I've been fortunate enough to have the opportunity to tell her that. I really admire her, and I wish that there were more people in SL with her integrity.

So this weekend while the grid was down, I read that she'd released some new styles. Yay! Then promptly got too busy once the grid came back and forgot. In my blehness this morning, I returned to my "I'm bored, gonna go shopping" ways and headed to the new shop. I'm really loving her Couture Collection! I'm a big hater of the stupid flicker that happens with transparent textures. I really hate working with them, because it just looks...weird. Hair shouldn't flicker. I tried on the Updo, and loved it. Something I've always loved about ETD's designs are that they're "me," but prettier. Softer. The Updo was no exception. Love it! So I bought it in the browns. Somehow, and I have no idea how, but somehow she's managed to keep the flickering to a minimum. This is definitely one of my ETD favorites.

One of my favorite things about hair in SL is that you could line up 5 hair creators, tell them all to make a ponytail, and you'd end up with 5 completely different styles. Each one of us has our own "feel." I can spot an ETD at 96m. Gurl6 I usually recognize because I just can't manage that funky flair she has. I guess I'm not a funky person, no matter how much I might want to be funky.

Speaking of funky. Haedon told me yesterday that my "I hate boys and I'm pissy at everything, and there's this purple crap on my face" look just didn't work for me. I didn't think it was
that bad. Granted when she told me, I was bald and in a pair of rejected leather pants a friend of ours had made, and our "Boys LIE" tank and my Beckenbauer Revolver boots in Ox Blood Red. (Okay, so that totally would have made a better picture.) I can't carry off the "Bad Girl" look for very long it seems. I'm not only non-funky, but too goody-two-shoes and prissy to be bad. ;)

I finished a new style last night, Meadowsweet, and started 2 more. They're still in progress and if I can master this baseball cap, I'll have them out this week. So keep an eye out.

I'm gonna go make more coffee, search for some cold medicine and get to work. And maybe, maybe, maybe get all the current styles out in the new colors today. ~o)

New this week at Calla

We put out three new styles this week. Two by Haedon and one by me. I've got one finished in my inventory that needs coloring. /me is really gonna go on a coloring strike.

Obviously the grid isn't going to be back any time soon and I won't be able to get everything out in the new colors as I'd hoped today. So in the meantime, here are the ads for the three we put out this week.



Aster - This one is Hae's, and turned out so pretty. She cursed the curls every step of the way, but they came out so sweet.



Crocus - The other one of Haedon's this week. So love this one! I actually was watching Saturday morning some-crap-of-a-teenage-show on tv this morning, and one of the girls had her hair like this. I was like, "OMG she's wearing Crocus!" Anyway, I think this one is totally adorable. It'd be super cute on the little girl avies.



Gardenia - This one is me, like really me. I tend to make styles that I've worn or would wear IRL. I think this one has taken the "Favorite of the week" spot for me. Every time I make a style though, it's a new "FotW" until one of us makes another. Though I was wearing White Camellia in Golden Red this morning before they booted us all out and thought I really should wear it more often. It's my favorite long style, and one of Haedon's. *\o/* Oh yeah, and it has scripted color-change pearls as an optional attachment.

We also put out 7 styles in the LTD Ed colors. I can't remember which ones off hand, except Iris and Verbena which are so incredible in these tips.

Grid down again...

I figured I might as well blog, since they just booted us all due to some permissions exploit. Yet again. *sigh* I was mid-sentence with a customer.

So, as Haedon said yesterday, I'm Tigerlily Koi, the other half of Calla. We started out with me making anything I could possibly make in an effort to find my niche. Haedon was the business side any my main support while I got things off the ground creatively. I finally drug her kicking and screaming ;) into make hair with me. You'll see, she's really very good. Sometimes you can look at the styles and tell which one of us made it. Sometimes, it's a toss up. And... shhh... sometimes, it really is a joint effort.

I'm really blessed to have her as my friend and partner in this venture. We work very well together, and both of us aren't the type to work with anyone, ever, on much of anything. There are few people I trust with anything, much less everything. Loves you girlie.

Enough mushiness. Had to get that out of the way though.

Next time I've got the brilliant idea to add more colors, I'm hiring someone to color all our previous styles. I'm so sick of coloring hair. It's all I've done for a week. I'm really itching to create a style, it's been bouncing around in my head for days now.

And yet here I sit and think about doing Halloween colors. Orange with black tips. Black with orange tips. Then I think about the coloring of everything...

I really hope to get all the new colors out today. I've got 4 more styles left to do. Assuming the grid comes back up.

Oh, Joyus Friday!!

Yeah that's right. It's pink. The blog is pink and I can't tell you why. Personally I hate pink. Drives me up a wall, makes me think of Barbie... whom I hate. Stupid little pink Jeep. Anyway. I blame the undies... and the lack of coffee.

Here's to a happy friday. I've got my fingers crossed on this one, cause it's Friday the 13th! *gasp!* And my day started off with a severe case of road rage, cold pancakes, and an email that my car insurance was canceled. Oh, joyus friday!!

Since this is a new (pink ew!) blog, I suppose I should tell you who I am, and why I'm here...

My name is Haedon Quine. The name of this blog is Calla, which is the name of a store in an online game called Second Life. It's a virtual store, where my best friend and business partner, Lily, and I have the opportunity to make real money. Which really works for me, because I hate my real job, and I hate leaving my house in general. I like the comfort of being alone, the freedom to not wake up to a blaring alarm clock, and the ability to wear monkey slippers 24/7. You should get to know me! Cause I'm cool.. or I will be really soon. I'm working on it.