With all the Easter talk going on lately, Kavar was inspired to make a special gift for the Exile Gear group members. Bow Peeps is a great play on words and lives up to its name with big colorful bows and candy birds scattered around a loose ponytail. Just wear your Exile Gear group tag and click the vendor at the front of Exile to take Bow Peeps home with you. And we’d love to see photos of you rocking this style or any of your other Exile hair and clothing in the Exile Flickr group.

Treads, the brand create by Ju Weissnicht and responsible for the amazing boots I blogged months ago (and still wear everyday) has found a new home on Covet. I decided to infiltrate the waterfront store at midnight to have a look around while it was quiet. The store takes the form of a platform suspended just above the water off the docks of Covet’s shopping area.

Aside from the amazing boots Ju has added some animations as well. While I was waiting for a friend to arrive I had some fun playing with the new sitting animations available from Treads . Its a small selection so far but there will be more to come in the future. As it is there are several walks for men, some sitting poses and a few ladies poses as well. While I was waiting the creator himself turned up, but, like the store itself, he remains a bit of a mystery. A quick exchange of a glance and a blink later he was gone.

Finally my friend showed up, also in Tread’s K boots. Since the boots come prefit in 5 sizes they are great for anyone looking for something easy to fit that looks great. You can also see her here in one of Ju’s new stand animations for women. Its one of two stand animations for the ladies and they are both smoothly animated with a little bit of attitude.

Treads new mainstore is not to be missed. I have seen people shopping at the platform, fishing on it, parties breaking out on it, and I have late night plans of my own for it. Be on the look out for new shoes, animations and who knows what else from this enigmatic creator and his continuing evolution at Covet.

In the meantime.. back to my plans….

Until next time…….

Boots- Kboots in black by Treads

Necklace- Survivor by Shine

Vest and gloves- Cargo Suit set for men by GEMINI Cybernetics

tats- Code human and the Wired garden by Garden of Ku

Arm cuff by Tonktastic

Stand and sitting animations by Treads

Couples pose- Surrender by Vain

So Covet is finally open and and I finally get a chance to blog about Shine. Shine is the brand that Brandy Rasmuson Started around a year ago. She began with eyes. And I watched her get better and better. She talk about making jewelry one day as well and after some chatting and weeks passing I got a great necklace for my rezday months ago, that she had be holding out of me for months with lol. Time passes again, and I can tell shes really interested in it. So for her birthday I made her something in zbrush, and the second part of that gift was I was going to teach her how I made it. And before you know it a few msn tutorials and questions here and there and shes cranking out her own sculpts with her own burned textures. Which brings me to the post again, sorry if I’m long winded, its just that weird feeling you get when your really proud to be someones friend after the have accomplished a personal goal they really wanted to achieve. So this post is about Shine, now in its own beautiful store on Covet next to Exile.

For the post I will be gender bending, I tried to look the part   And I chose some stuff from a few stores I know Brandy is a fan of, and I like them too heh.

First up is the Geo set. Its a bold chunky jewelry set. The necklace in the pics is one of two include in the set, the other being a choker. In addition to making the sculpts and textures herself, Brandy also wrote a color change script for the gems in Geo, so you get the choice of 5 tints and the original silver texture making 6 options. The eyes are also by Shine, The Covet series the color is Willow which is a hazel brown/green mix. I chose to turn up the attitude and go to Artilleri where I found Antonia’s ah bella top in tropical yellow and the green betsy pants. I grabbed Antonia’s Rina hair in choco as well. You can see the yellow again on the shoes, courtesy of Juicy , the classic pumps in lemon.  Also the skin is from Curio-:GP: Sundust [Dark] Vixen-Mink 1 , and its beautiful of course.. I wonder how much bribery it would take to get gala to try a male skin… hmmm.. something to ponder later.

Jewelry and eyes- Shine

Clothing and Hair- Artilleri

Shoes- Juicy

Skin- Curio

Next is the Harvest set by Shine. This is a warm copper set with a teardrop pendant, adorned wrist cuff and design engraved ring. The textures are amazing on it and while it looks very earthy I think it works in a black tie setting as well, so I went to Slink this time to pick up a slinky black dress, the satin bodice cocktail dress in black. I also chose to wear Siddean’s Ashley hair in brown and its lovely. The eyes are from Shine’s Covet series again, one of my personal favorites called Flannel, a gold color that blends into a grayish dark blue. The shoe hook up again comes from Juicy classic pumps, this time in blackberry. And the skin is Gala’s vixen in mink again as well.

Jewelry and eyes- Shine

Clothing and hair- Slink

Shoes- Juicy

Skin- Curio

The last set I will show here is the Juilet set by Shine. There is something really timeless and elegant about this one. Soft silver rings make up the set with a subtle placement of diamonds to give it some sparkle. The set comes with two sets of earrings to chose from, the Ornate ones I have on in the pics and a more simple drop version. The eyes are from Shine again, a pretty mixed of greys and muted purples called Covet Antique. The clothing is from Silent Sparrow, one of Brandy’s all time favorite stores for Hya’s beautiful hand drawn textures, this time taking the form of the nephilim set in black and red. The skin is another one by Curio- the Moonbeam tone with the pinup face- I think the makeup is pure, but I bought the fat pack after deciding to make a Pinup/betty/dita model and now I’m not positive.. at any rate they are all beautiful.  I hope the pictures look ok.. I was kind of rushing by this point as I’m pretty sure I was sitting in someones house, as a woman, dressed in a corset and panties and I was trying to think of what I would say should they walk in lol.

Jewelry and eyes- Shine

Clothing- Silent Sparrow

Skin- Curio

hair- Exile

So that is a little taste of Shine. Be sure to stop by Covet and check it out, Everything is really lovely and unique, there are men’s jewelry items too which I will get to later in the week and everything is very affordable due to Brandy being very generous or extremely crazy, either way you win hehe. Hope it was interesting to read

Until next time… Shine!