If it's Baroque, and even if it's not...

One of the first gowns I made in SL was the Madam de Pompadour Bleu with the ship in the hair wig. Since then I think I can safely say that my texturing has improved ;). So, I've re-released it, updated with sculpted panniers, sculpted short bloomers, an additional short version of the skirt and the skin is included AND it is now in three color ways to make three full suites. So, without further fnerdling, here are Reformation Blue, Reformation Rose and Reformation Vert.

Marie is finished!

This is my first photo sourced skin. Marie took about a month to finish, makeup and all, but here she is.





And here is the makeup line


Marie demos are available both on xstreet and in my main shop

A quick up to speed post...

It has been almost a year since I last posted and there have been so many new things that have happened. My RL family has been blessed with a new baby boy, this is our second boy. I have been very busy working on a number of new skins and a good few new articles of clothing. Most of the new items have been added to my photostream already and should be on the slideshow on the main page here. The main shop in world has been expanded to make room for more new additions, and the wonderfully talented Carrie Broke has made a new sign for Kleineschwein by Seisenbacher. I have added it to the photostream as well.

I would like to also add that there is a new and wonderful marketplace site that interacts with Second Life and it is slapt.me (not .com ;)). slapt has some of the most fantastic forums, sort of the combination of both the official SL forums and the xstreet forums. The site is really well laid out and the management is very prompt and in touch with the customers and merchants. slapt can be found here...
http://www.slapt.me/

More new soon!

Freebies for Caledon Oxbridge...

After a lot of time, as this is nothing like I've done before, there are two finished gentleman's avatars on their way to Caledon Oxbridge. The clothing is relatively easy, simple pants, shirt, vest (in Caledon tartan of course), and jacket. A bit of an ascot at the neck, and shirt cuffs. The really hard part was to do the men's skins. Having never worked with photographs before it was a bit of a challenge to line up all of the features so that they would work on any SL avatar and not just the ones I created for this set. But, I think I can safely say that it was a success. And, without further ado, here they are...















The hair is only offered in brown for the freebies, but it will also be released in other colors very soon (as soon as I finish boxing the silly things ;)).

Trick or Treat...

Halloween is my favorite holiday...well, excepting Hogswatch. Either way, I love Halloween, so Kleineschwein will be celebrating by having a bit of a treasure hunt. Starting October 30th at 12AM (midnight)SLT and continuing through November 1st 12AM(midnight) SLT, there will be items in small pumpkin packages in each of our shop locations. Of course, the best treat will be in the main store location ;). The pumpkins will be either obvious or hidden, and no, I will not give hints. In addition, Anyone who purchases any Kleineschwein items during this time period will be able to receive a second item of equal or lesser cost for free. Please visit the Kleineschwein main location in Caledon Eyre http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caledon%20Eyre/41/107/23 to pick up the notecard with all of the fine print. This treasure hunt is open to both Kleineschwein group members and to new folk, so please feel free to bring your friends! We will also be partying New Orleans style in the New Toulouse sim on Halloween, so join us, we'll be having a blast!

Skin Making addiction...

Sooooo, I haven't gotten to the tutorial writing yet... big surprise ;) Instead I was sidetracked by Eloh Eliott's .psd files and skin making. Was it easy? ummm, no. Was it fun? Heck yes! So, here is what I came up with...









































































... and this is the work in progress. It is what will be one of nine Chinese opera mask skins. As you can see, it is still just the rough, but the colors are in the right places.

Madam de la Mer has been unveiled!

Due to some unfortunate computer issues on Sunday I was not able to either attend or post about the unveiling of Madam de la Mer. The baroque gown that is sister to Madam de Pompadour Bleu. The top and pannier "poofs" are textured with a photograph of a stormy sea, and the black accents are a handmade satin. Like Madam de Pompadour Bleu, it has the ship adorning the wig, but unlike it, the gown's color palate is much more Spanish than French. The shape of the ship's hull is also changed and refined. So, without further ado, here is Madam de la Mer!


























And here is the image used on the vendors....