Fun Raft loaded with cuddles!

I had tons of fun making this, it's all mesh and the whole thing is only 3 pe, even with the umbrella! I loaded it with 77 cuddles, plus 6 "Sharing" food and drink, that as you can see also rezzes an ice bucket with a bottle of wine and a little pile of cherries and strawberries nestled atop the ice cubes. Also a bunch of solo sits for M&F. I did it in two colors, one the blue, and then textured it to match the Tiki Delight set; in fact, these pictures are taken outside my tiki hut on my homestead, with the waterfall in the background, and there's a mermaid habitat in the lagoon beneath.

Sweethearts stuff for Valentine's Day

Yessss, I know I've been bad about keeping up my journal... but better late than never, right? So I got this AWESOME heart-shaped tree and immediately saw POSSIBILITY! I hauled out my animations, and stuffed it full of 117 cuddles! There are 7 longer sequenced animations sets, from 1 minute to 4-1/2 minutes, variously. It was only 10 pe (even with the ferret! LOL!) but the picnic hamper with the wine glasses and the box of chocolates was another 10 pe, so I put those in the blanket to rez by a button, as the user wants or not. The blanket rezzes a book and laptop, and gives wine, cherries, the box of chocolate and a piece of chocolate to hold.
EbE Sweethearts Cuddle Tree ADc


THEN.... I got really random (I just love my ADHD sometimes) and made this block of letters.  Each section has 4-5 cute cuddles. Just for fun! ;)
EbE Valentine Fun ADc

The Cuddle Sled!

I'd made this last year, just 2 cuddles, with one of my mesh reindeer pulling it. And I never was quite  happy with it, but when I pulled it out and was looking at it, along with the sleigh (not sled) pulled by five reindeer, I had An Idea!!! Over the course of this last year, I'd begun  picking up various critters in mesh. So I pulled out the horses. The best had this great pose with one foreleg lifted, perfect to pull a winter sled! The only problem was.. it was ugly. Really ugly :( A kind of dirty off-white. So... I added a bit of color to her, aiming for a kind of palomino (but not quite) feel with the slightly darker coat and the flaxen mane and tail. Then... really getting into it, I decided to gussy up the mane with bows and so forth. I pulled out bows, and bells, and garlands, and even curly ribbon streamers and set to work. I had a total blast, making decorations for the mane, adn then a bow and some curly ribbons for the tail. I also added a bunch of animations to the sled, for a total of 19 cuddles. One of the cuddles rezzes a quilt to keep warm under, and another is a reading animation, and I put in the "I Believe" Christmas Treasury with... of course... the famous "Yes, Virginia..." letter. Oh yes, and there are some animated twinkling snowflake lights hanging off the front of the sled. Did I ever mention, I looove Christmas??? :)

EbE Cuddles Sled wHorse ADc

Something to sit on

Sooo I hauled out the His & Hers Christmas Chairs from last year, which by the way, I really really like. The only changes I made were upgrading the animations code and finding nicer mugs of cocoa for them to give, get new pictures taken, and they were ready to go. I did  pretty much the same thing for last year's living room suite. I'd never been entirely happy with it, but there wasn't anything actually wrong with it, and so I decided every year I would make a new Christimas Living Room, and keep the previous year's, so updating the code (and cocoa) again was all I did, although it kills me that there are so few animations in the cuddles sofa, but no fears! I plan to make up for that in the 2014 Living Room model. This, by the way, is the same Living Room set that I shrunk down (minus the fireplace) and put in the snow globes mentioned in an earlier post ;)

EbE His & Hers Christmas Chairs ADcEbE Christmas Living Room (stars) ADc

Oh right! I almost forgot. As a kind of afterthought, I needed some kind of table to display ALL that food on, and the side tables weren't big enough, so I draggedout my very favorite coffee table, of curved wood and a glass inset, and retextured it in red and green, with gold etched glass, and it turned out just gorgeous:

EbE Wood & Glass Christmas Coffee Table (red) ADcEbE Wood & Glass Christmas Coffeetable (green) ADc

And then of course, there are the fireplaces! I just loooooooooove the ones with the mantle cloth, as it has  animations in it, for sitting, reclining, and generally relaxing, including reading or drinking cocoa, all on the mantle of the fireplace. The taller fireplace is bedecked with garlands and Christmas lights .The picture frame set into the upper part is texture-change, and loaded with half a dozen really charming winter/Christmas scenes.

EbE Christmas Fireplace wMantle Sits (wood&gold)2014 ADcEbE Christmas Fireplace wPictures ADc

BAKING!

So I reeeeeeeeeeeally got into the mood, and spent two entire days doing Christmas baking, SL style!!! Mostly cookies... but digressed a bit into cupcakes, a Christmas pudding, and even a chocolate log!


EbE Christmas Cookie Party Platter ADcEbE Christmas Cookie Sleigh ADcEbE Christmas Pudding on Plate ADc

EbE Christmas Pudding on Tree Stand ADcEbE Plate of Christmas Cookies #1 ADcEbE Plate of Christmas Cookies #2 ADc

EbE Tier of Christmas Cupcakes ADcEbE Tier of Christmas Sweets ADc
That done, of course, we had to have a tea service! Only, the one lovely low-prim mesh tea service I had came with lovely china textures.. .but none suitale for Christmas. So I thought to myself, hmmm, let's see what I can do... and pulled out my Christmas fabrics organizer. And I think I am justifiably proud of the result I achieved!

EbE Christmas Tea Service (snowflake red) ADcEbE Christmas Tea Service (snowflake green) ADc




EbE Christmas Tea Service (Venetian red) ADcEbE Christmas Tea Service (Venetian green) ADc

Tables, Tabletop Sleighs, Musical Snowglobes

I decided to start next with smaller items, the tabletop things like the musical snowglobes and the tabletop sleighs, but I needed to have tables to display them on, so first, I hauled out my side tables from last year, and decided I could do better. I made the table in three different woods, mahogany, maple and chestnut, and each one has three different table covers, draped cloth, a runner, and a tapered runner. The covers have a texture change option, with (I think) 5 color options in the runners, and 7 in the draped cloth.

EbE Christmas Side Table wDrape (mahogany) ADcEbE Christmas Side Table wRunner (chestnut) ADcEbE Christmas Side Table wTapered Runner (maple) ADc

Those done, I started with the sleighs. There are 3 mesh ones, one just the sleigh and nothing else, with a super low prim count of 2, plus people can fill it with their own goodies. Then one with just a snowy tree from the woods, and one loaded with a lighted tree and a sack of presents. Then there is the sculpted sleigh, with very fancy runners, and lanterns off the back, for a rather ouchy 24 prims, but I love it SO much, and I figured there might be someone out there who loved it as much as I do and doesn't care about the prim count, so here it is anyway!



EbE Tabletop Sleigh wPresents&Tree ADcEbE Tabletop Sleigh wSnowy Tree ADc
EbE Tabletop Sleigh ADcEbE Tabletop Sleigh (fancy) ADc
Next, on to the musical snowglobes... one song per globe. The living room scene in two of the snowglobes is the actual living room that I made last year (minus animations, of course, LOL) and shrunk down to fit inside the globe, and I just LOOOVE it. And yes, it's abit primmy but can't be helped. I should make some more simple snowglobes with very few prims, but give me time.... I'll get there! LOL!

EbE Christmas Snow Globe (Living Room)(green) ADtEbE Christmas Snow Globe (Living Room)(red) inset

EbE Christmas Snow Globe (Living Room)(red)inset ADtEbE Christmas Snow Globe (Sleigh & Tree)(cream) inset ADt
EbE Christmas Snow Globe (Sleigh & Tree)(red)inset ADt

so then....

I pulled out some cute little trees in clay pots and began decorating! I kept one fairly simple for the low prim count, not to mention it was just adorable as it was (snowy with lights), not to mention it's my personal favorite ;) and some more loaded with decorations, as the whim struck me. I had a fine time! Prim counts range from 2 to 6, depending on the decorations.

EbE Living Christmas Tree (baubles) ADcEbE Living Christmas Tree (baubles n beads) ADc

EbE Living Christmas Tree (frosty-baubles) ADcEbE Living Christmas Tree (lights&baubles) ADc
EbE Living Christmas Tree (snowy-lights) ADc

The Holiday Building Season begins!

I know, I know, most builders start building for Christmas back in June ,but I just can't work up the enthusiasm for it that early. In fact, I spent all October telling myself, every day, TODAY I'm going to start on Christmas! And I'd go up to the Christmas build platform and look at everything I had rezzed out... last year's Christmas creations, all the new fp meshes and sculpts and textures for Christmas I'd picked up throughout the year... texture organizers everywhere, the gingerbread house and a path through a wooded snowy land... well... I'd just look at it all and slink away, mumbling "maybe after lunch" or "tomorrow! definitely, tomorrow". So finally, I decided to bite the bullet, and take baby steps... update the Christmas trees. I had two different styles of trees, twinkling lights and blinking animations, and each one offered in three different sizes. So I was changing their perms to copy, and also I was going to have to take all new pictures since I didn't ever really like last year's photos, when suddenly it came to me!!!! NOT three different sizes! I'll put a resizer script in the tree skirt! Hurray! My Muse woke up, sat up and said "oh yeah, this is good..." and off we went!

There are three of the trees with twinkling lights, dark spruce (my personal favorite), Nordic and Nordic snowy, each with a revolving golden star at the top. There's five of the blinking animations trees, wtih a pretty silver ornament at top. All have the resizer menu in the tree skirt. They're all mesh, and weigh in at 4 pe (twinkling lights) and 2 pe (blinking animations)... they do change in the land impact if you get the size up way high, but not by much.



EbE Christmas Tree Twinkling (dk spruce) ADcEbE Christmas Tree Twinkling (Nordic snowy) ADc

EbE Christmas Tree Blinking (rose twinkles) ADcEbE Christmas Tree Blinking (aqua twinkles) ADc

Curved Social Sofas

Gracefully curved sofa with lush upholstery on a carved wood base. Seats up to 7, with three singles cushions, and two bolsters with singles and cuddles. Throw pillows have 54 M&F sits; bolsters have 22 charming couples cuddles plus 54 M&F sits. Rezzes books & laptops. Gives various beverages to drink.
 

EbE Curved Social Sofa (aubergine) ADcEbE Curved Social Sofa (caribbean) ADc