VPoses and Devo

I meant to post this...a bit ago, but I suck and kept getting distracted. As it is, the panty hunt officially ended last night...but you might get lucky and still be able to find some. After last year's hunt, we were still finding clams for months.

And by "months" I mean "I saw a clam from last year's hunt out in this year's".

Our community manager got a cheat sheet from everyone (in theory), so maybe, just maybe, they will have been returned if people haven't picked theirs up...but I haven't logged in today so I don't know if she's done that yet!

But anyway. Now that I've apologized for not wearing pants...again...and possibly taunting you with things you can't have.

Nestled up in the foothills behind Thimbles is a little building that houses VPoses. It's got some glass walls as well, so there are some great views from it.

I don't know about you, but I'm always on the lookout for more good pose shops, and VPoses has a lot of nice "model" poses (including some with great attitude), as well as fun poses and group sets for snapshots, and a great sofa with a number of poses (especially tuned for couples. Awwwwww).

Devo is located at the foot of Mount Lolita, down the stairs from VPoses, and is full of all sorts of scripted wild and wackiness. The piano I'm posing on here actually plays when you touch or stand on it, and you can record songs to play back as well.

Yes, I do have no legs (and put on a more skin tone skin as the legless attachment isn't really meant for someone as blindingly white as I usually am! Regardless, it is still made of awesome, and I am willing to get a tan for it), courtesy of a thresher accident, and Devo. The picture behind me is something I halfassedly drew- you can play with it with your whole ass and draw pretty pictures on it too.

VPoses and Devo are located in scenic Floyd, below and to the side of the giant flowers scattered across Mount Lolita.

Starlust's 1st Annual Flickr Contest has begun!

Show us your best photos in the Starlust sims and you can win BIG!



The day has finally arrived! The first ever Starlust Flickr photo competition has begun, and will run through July 24th! Take your best photos in any/several/all of the seven active Starlust sims, and you can win incredible prizes (literally THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of Linden worth of merchandise from our vendors in every sim!). Also, everyone who participates will receive a gift pack just for entering!

Information and official rules are listed below! Best of luck everyone!

Prizes:

• Seven lucky winners will receive gift bags FILLED with exclusive prizes and gift cards from Starlust vendors!

• Winning submissions will be chosen by a select panel of judges and displayed indefinitely on billboards throughout the Starlust sims!

Contest Rules:

• All photographs must be taken within the Starlust sims! (Floyd, Lloyd, Herman Melville, Horst, Harold, Eugene, & Bill).

• Photo Dimensions: (recommended but not required) 1024x512 (length 2x width!)
  

• You must be wearing or showcasing items (at least 3!) purchased in the sim in which your picture is taken.

• You may submit up to three photos per sim. Currently there are 7 active sims-- two are new (Eugene and Bill) -- so you can have a maximum of 21 photo submissions!

• These photos must be posted to the official Starlust Flickr page!
  

• All contest submissions must be named: "CONTEST - Your Name - Sim". So for example, if I posted a picture taken in Harold, my entry would be titled "CONTEST - Averie Larnia - Harold"

• Please also include relevant tags: i.e. sim the photo is representing, designer names, etc.

• In the description of your photo, please include credits for the products you are wearing/displaying. i.e. store name and item names.

• Post processing is not required but encouraged!

• Deadline to submit entries to Flickr site: July 24th

• Winners will be announced on August 1st!

Links to the Starlust Sims

Lloyd: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lloyd/93/71/23
Floyd: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Floyd/35/59/25
Herman Melville: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Herman%20Melville/171/62/59
Horst: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Horst/219/212/46
Harold: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Harold/173/65/23
Eugene: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eugene/168/74/25
Bill: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bill/131/195/43

Special Delivery! <3 The Starlust Motel

A very disgruntled and exhausted-looking postal messenger asked me to deliver this postcard to you. He mumbled something about.. workhorse.. slave labor.. stingy money mongrels.. some other expletives I wouldn't dare repeat, and then he wandered off. Wonder what that was all about! Anyways, here's your mail! It looked important...


The message on the reverse side reads:

Coming..... July 1st-- Stay tuned for more info!

The Garden

We don't really have a name for the area in the middle of Floyd, the foothills of Mount Lolita covered in giant plants. I call it the garden (which occasionally gets "wait, where?" in response).

Originally there were 13 flowers planted on the slopes of Lolita, brought into being by Apatia Hammerer, Melatonin Hax, and myself; as each of us created some of the flowers until we hit our desired number- they almost built themselves, unlike most builds where I sit there and worry and plan and try to figure out how to work (I obsess. It's a character flaw). Well, two of mine aren't really flowers, per se, but carnivorous plants, as I have a bit of a soft spot for them (though, sadly, not the climate to grow them, as my venus flytraps and my pitcher plants have never lasted more than a season, regardless of the terrariums I try to set up for them). I'll let you in on a secret- the pitcher plant is my favourite. It's also the one with the most ridiculous traffic flow, having to climb up and down to get into it!

I shall momentarily single out one store in particular- usually I try to avoid much of that in the broad tours when covering a larger area because then I'd never finish, however Aisuru Rieko of Beloved Designs, not only chose the pitcher plant of the ridiculous way of getting in and out, she also helped out when the garden was replanted- first providing the adorable temporary booths of bowling pins and balls, as well as adding a few of her own creations for buildings when the garden expanded.

When the garden was originally planted, the Starlustland sign wasn't around- it only ended up coming into being one day I was working on Horst, before any of it was open to the public. I think, for some reason, it was the bra that brought it about (maybe because of some cognitive leap that involved Frederick's of Hollywood as one of the steps? I don't know, I just know that it seemed fitting and wanted to see it happen). When the mountain was (finally- if you visited Horst in the interim, you know that it sat there near the bra for a while, though it was always planned to move to Lolita once we terraformed for it) carved out to create a place for the sign, the garden expanded beyond the original 13 to include mushrooms, a potted onion, crate, watering can, wheelbarrow, and the barn. I find it a bit more fun to walk around in now, too, with little pathways hanging precariously off the edge.

Currently tending our garden:
Scribble, with cute clothing and funthings
i love 13, with imaginative inventive jewelry and floofy dresses
Beloved Designs, with quirky and adorable landscaping
77 Degrees, with pretty hats
Chaoslotus, with adorable jewelry
Picnic, with sweet garden and home items
Fresh Baked Goods, with candy coated jewelry
RC Cluster, with novelty items that make you cooler
Tousled, with cute girly hair
Hang the DJ, with casuals for men and women
Fresh Trash, with great clothing basics for girls
[CRAP], {BOUTIQUE}, Punch Drunk, and Fawn Fotherington Hair, all sharing a space in the barn, with clothing and hair spanning a few genres (you know I'm totally pulling all these adjectives out of my ass anyway, right? If you said "oh, I like _insert type of thing here_, I could tell you where to go, but I'm not good for coming up with the right types of descriptives! Also, yes, I overuse cute and adorable and fun, but, well, they all are, so....)
Kandy Kitty, with the most appropriate couch for smoochin' ever
Nimia store, with vintage and unusual clothing

Halflust Harbor

Halflust Harbor is on the inland shore of Floyd, and might give one the tiniest inkling into Floyd's penchant for sailors. (There's a lot you can probably infer about Floyd's personality if you look around the sim- and you'd be right.)

Halflust is a lovely place to sit and pick up sailors enjoy a nice day by the water, exploring the sunken depths of the Big Booty Big Money ship (we're not going to talk about how drunk I was when I sailed that in there), browsing the wares of the less soggy shops, and whiling away the time fishing (like most of the watery areas in Starlustland, there is 7Seas fishing at the Harbor, including special Starlust exclusive catches).

The harbor serves as the mainstore for a few places, including Twosome, Sisters, the Sock Shop, and Big Booty Big Money. There's also a fortune teller at the entrance to the center of Floyd, where you can try your luck with a friend to win fabulous prizes.

And after an exhausting day running around, there are comfy benches where you can take a nap.

Currently docking at port:
Twosome mainstore, with fun funky clothing for girls
Marinesta, with colourful casuals for men and women
Meriken Co., with classy separates for men and women
Brazen Tarts, with yummy cakes and hats
chicoco, with bright fun jewelry and headbands
Adjunct, with geeky cool menswear
1-800-Bettie's, with retro threads for men and women
The Cat Eye Boutique, with vintage eyewear
The Sock Shop mainstore, with fun and crazy socks for when your avatar's feet get cold
Milk Motion, with soft and sultry skins
Shabby Flamingo, with strongly patterend furniture
Snooky's Poses, with playful group poses in the front, and racier couples poses in the back
Sisters mainstore, with an assortment of pretty frocks
Big Booty Big Money mainstore, with strong colourful dresses

Pudge

Ah, the Pudgeburger. I set myself up for the pain that was the Pudgeburger because I offhand said "we could do something, like, food shaped, like a giant burger or something" when we were brainstoming ideas for the Neverdie expansion- Pudge had been in a very adorable cafe at Cubana, but as we had more room to play with, we wanted to keep the cafe idea, but give it a bit of a makeover in keeping with the ideas we had for expansion.


And Crystyle thought it was awesome. And then I thought about building it....and went "oh...shit." See, building a burger is easy. Building a burger with a door...somewhat less easy. Building a giant burger, with a door, with a very very limited number of megaprims? Therein lay my swearing. Neverdie and Lloyd were built up with the handful (ok, so it was a handful of something like 50, but that's still pretty lacking when you're talking everything from 11m to 512m+, on each of 3 sides) of megaprims floating about before the last viewer loophole that made the godsend of the SALT HUD possible. (If you build, you need that, trust me. It's even waaaay better than those boxes of 7000 megaprims floating around that were also created then.) To cut what's already a longer story than you're interested in shorter, what it came down to was that that burger, she taunted me, and required I learn a few new tricks to make things happen. And then, oh then I had to do it all over again, as the Pudgeburger was originally half the height it is now!

However, when it was all over, I've got to say...I love that burger, and think that burger is just dead perfect for Pudge. Pudge hair is fun and unusual, Pudge poses are wacky and a bit crazy (the pose on the Starlust Motel sign is a Pudge pose, and has been since the sign was created), and, well, with a name like Pudge, what is more fitting than a giant cheeseburger with bacon awning?

When Lloyd opened, Pudge was located on Lloyd, near the motel, in the vicinity of where the ~silentsparrow~ birdhouse currently resides. However, when Floyd came along, the burger moved on over to the Boardwalk, where it could expand into a little discount fry building, and sit on the edge offering tasty wares to passers by (not to mention fishers), assuming they were brave enough to fight off the seagulls. There's also a drive through you can attempt to navigate if you rent a Bispa, and you can pick up some yummy Pudgeburgers and a Pudge Soda to wash it down while you're visiting.

Pudge is located on one end of the Baconlust Boardwalk, on the west coast of Floyd, not far from Thimbles. Pudge also keeps a new release blog.

Thimbles

Thimbles means a lot to the Starlust- for without Thimbles, there would be no Starlust. The new plot in Cubana, aside from being a bigger area to be able to play with and have more shops as well, was Thimbles' new mainstore. The Thimbles girls, Melatonin Hax and Apatia Hammerer, had had their mainstore on a little sliver of mainland (I have never made the plunge into land ownership myself- I've considered it, but the tier thing is a bastard), and the Starlust Motel happened when they decided they needed more space.

These girls are madly prolific (they don't even bother to announce new releases most of the time because they'd be spamming constantly!), and create fabulous wardrobe staples- perfect fun floofy dresses, all sorts of tops and pants and accessories (the scarves!), and the plaid, oh the plaid. Thimbles is my "comfort food" when it comes to clothing. I built the Starlust Motel in Cubana largely in a Thimbles hoodie, with plain black pants and my mohawk pulled back in a ponytail (and socks, without shoes most of the time).





Thimbles is also the building that's gone through the most incarnations- at Cubana it was the big yellow brick lobby with the huge awning. At Neverdie (which never saw an opening), it was a huge truck stop, with a giant round staircase entry. The first Thimbles on Lloyd was the two round domes, which were demolished to make way for a tower, which is turn was demolished when Thimbles moved to Floyd, in the huge pair of Thimbles (which might actually stick around for a bit! Although I expect the basement will fall prey to their desire to remodel, at least).

I have made it a hobby to park Curio Obscura Oui Coupes on top of most of the later incarnations of Thimbles- getting up to the top of the notboobs and managing to stop without overshooting was a challenge (so is getting up that ramp in the new one! But then, so is walking up it, which I dearly enjoy as I get dizzy and fall down repeatedly). (Sadly I haven't made a hobby of taking pictures once I DO get parked, and I leave my cars unlocked for people to drive around the sims.)

Thimbles currently resides in a pair of thimbles, with a huge flooded basement below, nestled in a corner of Floyd, behind the boardwalk and the Pudgeburger, in the shadow of Mount Lolita, covered in flowers. The biggest thimble holds the newest releases, the smaller thimble holds the slightly older but still rather new releases, and the basement entered from the stairs in the small thimble contains yet older stuff. They also keep a new release blog, but lots of things don't actually make it into it!

Who? What? Where?

Who is this Polly Jean?!
AND
What does she sell?

Well, those are two fantastic questions!

The WHO.........

Polly Jean likes long walks, playful kisses, gin and tonics on the rocks with extra lime. Steve McQueen is the perfect man, and at bars, she can score on the first try.  She's vivacious, smart, and baths regularly...if she's so inclined.  

The WHAT.......

I pleased to offer you a current listing of all the DELIGHTFUL shops now a part of the Polly Jean and The Starlust Motel community. These shops where hand crafted by small elves that live in Melatonin's pants. *blinks* no no. wait. 

HOMESTORE SHOPS:

...spoonful of sugar (wee nip o' spice)

Bliensen + MaiTai

blonde

MARLYS

Nerdi

Nook & Cranny

FEATURE SHOPS:

[TACT]

Animals by Jon Haskell

irkmade
JuJu's Closet

League

Mayamaya Creation

Mixed Nuts

Naith Smit Designs

Numb Skulls

Rebel X

Striking Pose

Worldwide Industries

UnZipped

Zaara

These shops are fantastically fun, inventive and only further the brilliance of Horst, Floyd and Lloyd. 

Coming soon...... SPRAWL, AM Pro Rides and a Freebie Pill Bottle (duh. of course!)

In the near future, I will be spotlighting each of the fantastic shops and what they have to offer you and your wallets/purses/man bags. 

OX -------------- M.