Okay well, I just need to heartfart about something.
My mum likes prowling brocante/baroque-themed decoration shops for ideas and trinkets (and so do I, but for different reasons), so she often comes home with magazines and folders and whatnot. Last week or so she brought a catalogue from a company called Baroque: House of Classics. SO. PRETTY. Between this and Francine (a shop that carries black and neon modern baroque stuff) I could indulge myself into poverty.

Too bad I live on a student budget in a tiny, tiny room. Oh well, that's what TS2 is for, yes?



Speaking of decorating, here's a tutorial class in Malrennan State College. Poor Neyri is no longer an unemployed historian working as a bartender, but forced to teach bored undergraduates while working on a thesis. I'm using it in only one or two shots, but it reminds me of good times.







I forgot where I was going with this, so I guess it wasn't all that important. Cheerios!

♫ Cafe del Mar: Mandalay - Beautiful
Well, it's Cafe del Mar, so expect ambient/chillout music with ~dreamy~ vocals.

Italian is on my sexy-language-I-must-learn-someday list. That aside, 'tis picspam time! This is supposed to be the office of the leader of some seedy underground guild. Vaguely inspired by Ezio, Antivans, Athkathlans and vague references like that.

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More ACII music, because that's what inspired this in the first place.
♫ Jesper Kyd - The Plague
Speaking of the Black Death, if you read eyewitness accounts of contemporaries (like the Decameron) while listening to that, you can really imagine the horrors they're describing, egh.

Well, I finally slapped my game and computer back into submission, as well as the lighting mod I was pouting over for not being available any more. Just in time to be kicked by a bout of inspiration, in fact.

This is Aele's house, inspired a wee bit by an old dijkhuis... dyke house? in my town. He likes collecting pretty furniture and just puts it all together without much regard for whether it has any business being in the same room or not.


Garden:




Living and dining:












Bathroom (of the small and difficult-to-photograph type):




And the git himself, because I liked the lighting:


I can't be arsed with the bedroom and kitchen, meh.

♫ Elizabeth Fraser - Moses

IT'S 1337-O'CLOCK 8D and I come bearing stuff. Rather simple stuff, but I like simple things.
I love this retexture by Madizzo/Stajl of a Maxis mesh. Sexyfeet default replacements mean creepy shoe deformities are abound however, so I slapped flats on the base game nightgown, added some bits here and there and recoloured the result in a few shades, some of them intentionally tacky to get that 60s/retro/Twiggy feel (yeah what, I've been looking at old sewing patterns all day). And there you go.

Outfit Information
File name: yuxi-clothing-nightie&flats
Polycount: 2100F 1462V.
Morphs: Yes.
Categories: Everyday.
Hands: Maxis hands.
Last updated: 11 April 2010.



( Cut for pictures of all colours. )

The mesh parts and shoe textures are derived from EAxis stuff, but all the credit for the original dress textures goes to Madizzo. All files have been compressed and they should have correct shoe sounds.


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Oh, and I had way, waaay too much fun making my entry for Nymphy's contest *hintenterhint*, so I'm going to be a bugger and post it here too.

ETA - I added a CC list to the bottom.


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( Cut for obnoxiously long credit/resource list. )

( And its occupant, Lei. )

Now I'm off to finish MF. I'm stuck on the last page.

♫ Nujabes - Voice of Autumn
That's the oh-so-pretty music I was listening to while decorating that room.

I was going through my Imageshack account and found some pictures that are all lost somewhere in the Coffin thread at GoS. Sadness! I like looking back at these myself, so I just had to widen the bloody layout to fit them here. They're all locations in Malrennan, so some might look familiar.

Neyri's desk

Gang's HQ

Squat of Serafino, Pristina and Eoghan

Holly's apartment

Xi Hao's penthouse

Ah, yes. My collector spirit is now at rest.