Ugh, it's Wednesday

Seeing as I just got home last night and want to build, of course the grid is going to be down and then wonky all night. At least I get some things up on SLexchange and SLboutique on these kinds of days. Some of the new things this update look pretty cool, and I'm loving that I can choose who can stalk me and who can't.

I just thought I'd voice my frustrations. I know we're all feeling it. Hopefully they'll get things sorted out. I've got all this hair in my head I need to clear out! (Yes, it's sort of like cobwebs.)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Well, as some of you might have noticed, I'm on vacation! We went to NJ to see my hubby's dad and stepmom. (I totally love my step-mother-in-law, so it's actually pretty nice to be here.) Anyway, we drove all day yesterday in the rain. That rotten Nor'easter storm. The flooding was horrible through NC and up into VA. They actually closed the road we were on, the one that was supposed to take us to the interstate. So we spent an hour lost and trying to find our way back to the interstate. Then we got a little turned around again later on after getting into NJ. What should have been a 9 hour trip turned into a 13 hour long trip with two kids who weren't very happy. They didn't scream the whole way thankfully, just part of it.

The first stop we made, my husband threw our 3 year old into a puddle. (Okay so he didn't but I like giving him a hard time about it. She actually slipped on the curb and landed face first in the grass in a huge puddle.) Of course it was cold and rainy, and she was soaked, so we had to take her muddy wet clothes off, and she spent the rest of the trip in a t-shirt.

So phase one of vacation trip is over. We'll do it again next week. Hopefully without the rain and flooding.

But the biggest best part about this trip, will be going to NYC and meeting Haedon there! Woohoo! I can't wait. I'm going to go do sufficently stupid touristy things and stand around with my mouth hanging open. I've never been to NYC before. And Hae and I have never met face-to-face (though we talk on the phone and stuff) so this is going to be an extra special trip.

I hope you all are having a great Thanksgiving full of family and friends, and all the things that make life special.

Two new!

I'll get right to it. I put out two more that just fell together. I love when that happens! Here they are:





Cornflower - This is a big elegant pulled back chignon. I had a lot of fun making this one, I really love the updo's.





Nettle - This isn't quite what I was shooting for, but it came out well anyway. The hair band/comb thing is pretty simple, but I didn't want it to take away too much, and it is on the back of your head, so I just left it a plain white with a low shine. Feel free to add your own textures if you want, but it is color change of course.

I hope you enjoy wearing them as much as I enjoyed making them!

New this week @ Calla!

I'm getting horrible about posting these lately. I'm blaming it on my children's sudden change in wake-up times. 4:30! Can you believe that?! I'm soooo tired. The last two mornings have been a bit better, 5:30, so maybe we're on an upswing. /me isn't holding her breath.

We put out three new styles on Tuesday! One of which was the sneek peak I showed you guys last week. ;)




Laburnum - Really long, and flexi! I can't remember, but I don't think I made any changes to it after posting the sneak peek. You girls seem to love it, and the guys I've seen in the shop have commented on how pretty it is. (Don't guys always love the long hair!) I'm still a little iffy on it, but I usually am until I wear them a few days.




White Heather - This one is Haedon's, and I think she did an excellent job with it. This is the longest ponytail I've seen anywhere, and of course, it's flexi too! Don't forget the color change bands! It's amazing how many people I say "You know those bands are color change?" and they're all "OMG really?! How do I do it?"

Btw, if you've got a Calla Color chart that you can't read, please drop me an IM. I thought I'd updated them all, but somehow the little ones (I was trying to reduce rez time) are still floating around, and you can't see the color names on it. I'll drop you a bigger one so you can see what colors there are to use! Our friend Polly Patterson IM'd me the other day asking how to make the color chart bigger so she could read it. She'd spent 20 minutes trying to stretch it and get it readable. So, if any of you are fighting the same battle, let me know!




Nightshade - I did a short style to balance out the super longs we did. ;) This one is boy-cut short all over, except the few long pieces in the front. For some reason, that middle pic of my avie (with the brunette hair on) reminds me of Kristian Alfonso. Guess I've spent way too many years watching Days. ;)

Shopping!

I'm walking through the grocery store the other day, and a woman comes around the corner and I look up at her. My initial reaction was "Oh my God! You're wearing Nasturtium!" I nearly said it out loud. How embarassing would that have been?

I got an IM yesterday from Ciera Bergman of Vitamin Ci. I love her designs. The first dress I ever bought was from her. I'm now pleased to say that I own that dress in every color she made. I'm also dying to get her to make me one in some spring colors. I'd give my left arm for one in color change. I digress.

She IM'd me yesterday which was a pleasant surprise. She's really a great girl, and so talented. I asked her if she had any new dresses that I needed to come see. She tp'd me in to see a new dress Simone has made (omg gorgeous) and a new set she had put out.

I'm one of those girls that loves the modest clothes. It's so hard to find them. But this set is amazing! The sweater covers my stomach (there is a shorter sweater option) and my buttcrack doesn't show. (My husband will occasionally walk past while I'm playing and say "Your ass is hanging out.") Even the skirts with this set are longer than most! I hate those tiny little flexi skirts that barely come past your waistline. They're just so not me and I feel uncomfortable wearing them. (I'm a self-admitted prude.) So I'm really pleased to have this set. It comes in 5 awesome colors (I had to get them all) and the sweaters have these great prim turtleneck attachments! They're so warm looking! This is a must-get!

Then we went shopping for shoes. I needed a pair of chocolate shoes (especially after getting that pants/skirt set in brown) and she took me to Paper Couture which I'd never even heard of. They had the perfect pair of shoes! They have some really pretty things, definitely worth checking out.

Sneak Peek

Here's something I've been working on this week, in addition to the upcoming Holiday textures!

I'd love some feedback on it, these long flexi styles are so hard to make look right. You have to have the non-flexi for the shaping, but we all want the pretty sway to our hair.

Front

Back

Oh yeah, THREE new!

I meant to blog, went to blog, forgot to blog. We put out three new on Monday, two for the ladies and one for the men.

Ladies first:



Red Poppy - This one is totally my new favorite! I had a pretty jeweled hair band in it, but it just wasn't working for me. I made the color-change flexi ties, and fell in love. This is my soccer-mom-meets-sexy 'do.



Bryony - A longish, side-parted, no bangs, flexi. Really, I'm trying to make some long styles, but they all come out looking the same. I'm working on it. This isn't quite as long as White Camellia, Holly, or Meadowsweet. But longer than Forget-me-not.



Puma - Say hello to Hae's first ever boy hair! Woot! The bands are color change, and the pony tail is flexi. (Guys like flexi, too. I tend to forget that.) It has no bangs, which is really a difficult thing to accomplish even though you wouldn't think so.

We've also put out the "I Want Them All" packs. Those super-mega packs of every color we have, including the LTD Edition colors. I even threw in the Pumpkin LTD's in the packs that we had the Pumpkins available in. Super low priced at 2000L for all 60+ Calla colors.

What you gon' do with all that junk?

We get a lot of noobs. We generally like noobs, because... well probably mostly because they're amusing. And we like helping people figure things out, and start to feel a little more normal in their second lives. But every once in a while, you get one that just doesn't get it. And you have to go to extreme measures.

Hae was gracious enough to put it in black and white for this noob.

To the clothing designers

You rock, seriously. In a huge way. I can't even successfully make a t-shirt. The one tank I made, that's it. All the stupid little miniscule details , trying to get the seams to line up right, making the lines of the collar and sleeves so they're straight, adding shadows and lighting so it doesn't look so flat... I just don't have the patience for it. Then add in the way the textures are going to have to stretch across the watermelon sized boobs every girl in SL seems to have.

I'm really not a photoshopper. (I use PSP anyway, but you get the gist.) I don't enjoy it. I really admire anyone who can sit and work for hours on a shirt and make it come out looking like an actual shirt. 'Cause I sure can't.

So a big hats off to you fashion designers out there. Keep on making those clothes, and I'll keep buying them!