Ghost Hunt madness and Halloweenie goodness!

Greetings friends,

wow, it's been a crazy couple of weeks. I have three new releases out. Saucy Bits is a modern line of short short skirts and fall plaids. There are also mid-length and longer skirts in each package, though these aren't really Free Womeen gowns without some adjustments.

I also participated in the great grid wide Ghost Hunt. Our new flagship store, Blisswood, is part of the hunt as is the store at Gorjus Island. So there's two new freebie outfits there. One is called Twilight Screams, the other is Blood Lusty. I have my favorite, I hope you pick them both up and find a favorite too!

I've also been making high heels to go with the short outfits. There's something fun about having matching heels, though I will still always love my ZHAO's! Yes, even designers have favorties.

I've already been working on the winter holiday gowns, with ideas swirling through my head at any given time. I look forward to having a few new things out.

Blisswood, as I mentioned a moment ago, is the new flagship store. It's a lovely place with areas to relax and sit, watch the waves or the sunset, wander the grounds and wave at the peacock, or just hang out and enjoy the ambiance. It's a place that was built out of passion and love, and I hope that feeling of bliss is something I can share with all of you at some point when you stop in to visit. It really is a place meant to stop and relax, not just to shop.

I'm close to completing my GIMP classes. For those of you who don't know, GIMP is a shareware program that is almost as powerful as Photoshop. For a good example of how versatile GIMP is find Bedrock in Second Life and visit it. Yes, that's Bedrock as in the Flintstones! It's a fun sim to visit too, and rated G I think.

Now, for those of you looking for the start of the Ghost Hunt, go to any Greenwood Designs group terminal, join, and ask for the old notices. It'll explain where to start. If worse comes to worse, IM me in world and I'll try to help. The hunt goes until noon on October 31st. There's over 100 stores, and I've already done about 1/3 of the hunt. It's a lot of fun. I've seen stores I'd never heard of before, and found new places to shop! I've also seen some very cool areas. While not ever prize was something I'd consider great, it has still been very enjoyable.

That's it for me today, I hope you all have a lovely weekend, and come by Blisswood sometime soon!

Soft paths,
Kembri

Late night thoughts and new gowns on the horizon

Greetings and salutations!

It's been forever since I last posted. I've been very busy learning new skills for designing. I have always felt I needed to constantly improve my graphic skills. With each new set of gowns I put out, I try to do at least one new thing for them that I haven't attempted before. With the Gypsy Princess gowns it was the V-neck prim ruffles. I love those gowns by the way. They are very richly colored and have a wonderful movement in the skirt.

This next line of gowns coming out soon (October 5th) is called Harvest Home. They're all reflective of this time of year when the harvest is in, but the cold has not yet driven those of us in the more northern climes indoors. This is the time of cool, crisp nights and a sudden shiver down the spine at some far off howling that could be the Wilding on the Hunt. Also known as Annwen's Hunt and other names for the Fae creatures of the Other world hunting for hapless mortals! It is a time when folks play and enjoy the brilliant autumn days. So the Harvest Home gowns are made with this changing time of year in mind. They're also based loosely on a time period of about 1790. I like the flow and line of those gowns, and attempting to do a specific time period is always a challenge. I do term these fantasy gowns however, as SL does not really permit totally faithful copies of gowns without a LOT of hard work and time. There are some very wonderfully talented designers out there that make perfect replicas of period gowns. I'm not one of them! I make my interpretations of the period, adding bits of whimsy and fluff as I see fit. I also keep in mind that the majority of my clients are Free Women and Victorian women and they need a certain degree of modesty in their gowns.

I won't be releasing as many gowns at once as I have in the past. These gowns are more time intensive because there's a lot more work involved. Remember I said learning new graphic tricks? Well, those new tricks take time to master! I'm very picky about what I put out under my name and label, so this time there will probably only be two or three gowns instead of six or so.

Then there's a brand new blow-you-away thing coming around the end of October. I can't reveal much at the moment, but I can tell you Second Life has never, ever seen anything like this in clothing before. I can't really rave enough about this exciting new thing. I've been working on it with a close friend, and when it's released, my flock will be the very first ones to know and have a chance to see and wear them! Now you must be asking yourselves, what in the world could Kembri offer that hasn't been seen in Second Life before? You'll just have to check back or keep an ear open to the in world Greenwood Design group to find out! I promise you, on my honor, that this is very much worth the wait and the excitement.

I wish you all soft paths and joyous, warm days filled with love, laughter, and good friends.

Bright blessings,
Kembri