Rez Day Sale

Yesterday was my 4th anniversary of my SL rez day! I'm not normally one to celebrate my rez day (it's too close to my RL birthday). 4 years feels pretty good tho so I thought I'd put up some sale wings. Both of these wings are 150L

Available at my store in world only

More Free Wings?

How it works:

1 - Add Material Squirrel to your picks if you haven't already.
2 - Wait a day or so (after adding pick) and come back to the store.
3 - Click on the Profile sign near the TP area and recieve a the free set of wings (pictured).

I will be changing the free set of wings every so often!

My Store in World

More Free Wings

Free wings for a limited time at Material Squirrel
To get:
Go to my store in SL and touch the subscribe-o-matic to join. Then go to history for past notices. You'll see 2 free pairs of wings, different boxes.

OR

Search groups for Material Squirrel. Join the group. Go to the notices, see past notices. Again, there is another set of free wings there too.

Happy Halloween!

Free Wings!

Remember these wings? They are an old free wing that I've re-released as a freebie (with the new wing features). These went out to my group and my subscribe-0-matic members.

I will be releasing NEW free wings on Thursday. (Or Friday if Thursday really sucks).

Haunted Zuzu - Horror Gore Dress

Do you dare,
do you dare
to wear
this dress?
If you dare
take care
you might scare.
-
Limited Edition Halloween 2008 Dress - 450L.
Sculptie Skirt.
Dress will be taken down sometime in uh, November.

Available at Haunted Zuzu

Ely's Pic

Elysium Eilde took some gorgeous photos of the Isolde wings. This is my favorite.

But this one is a close second:




I am horribly jealous of the gorgeous photos that Elysium takes. Really, if you need some killer product shots for your store walls, she will do your product justice.

Isolde Wings

Isolde Wings at Material Squirrel


Available:
In my store

I haven't put them on SL exchange or shop on rez yet. Soon tho.

Shadowed Wings

New wings - the Shadowed Series


Available:
In my store

On SL Exchange

On Shop On Rez

Halloween Fashion

My everyday Halloween outfit that I threw together one day and now love. I wish I had more time to do these fashion type things.

Wings - Daray Wings Material Squirrel
Skin - Marionetta, Pierrot line, by Nomine
Dress - Circus Candy by HauntedZuzu
Jacket - Devil in the Details by ~silentsparrow~ (I think this was a group freebie)
Stockings - by Celestial Studios
Shoes - by Maitreya
Hair - by Tukinowaguma Hair Style (this is a male hair)

Morgause and Coal Wings

I made some new wings. Go me! The second one is available in green and red also. I am too lazy to upload more pictures. Just take my word for it.

As always, you can find them at my in world location.

Or

Coal Wings at Shop on Rez
Morgause Wings in Purple at Shop on Rez

Coal Wings at SL Exchange
Morgause Wings in Purple at SL Exchange

Tim Burton meets Tentacle Porn

Hello my darling space monkey love puppies,

I have FINALLY finished this outfit, it only took 3 months. My inspiration was a cross between Tim Burton movies and tentacle porn.

The skirt is made out of sculpted tentacles. I included my usual 3 fit options, but since this is a prim work, you may need to edit for individual fit AND tweak your AO. I am still trying to perfect building with prims, so well, perfection may not quite be achieved here.

I also want to thank everyone who has blogged about the Black Fire outfit. I try to add comments of thanks whenever someone blogs one of my outfits - but this week in RL, my sister got married and as part of the wedding party, I was quite involved. And now I have a nasty cold too. Blech! So thank you and my apologies that I didn't leave comments.

-HauntedZuzu

In world location

Shop.Onrez

Press!

Adaire DeCuir wrote a lovely article featuring some of the fashions from the show - and featured the Black Fire dress and took a lovely picture of it.

Thanks Adaire :)

Black Fire by Haunted Zuzu

Hello my Dearlings,

My pixie spider minions would like to tell you that this dress is premiering today at noon (SL time) in the Passions of the Black Swan Fashion show. (for direct link - SL URL).

Today through Sept. 30th, the dress will only be available on the Black Swan sim. Half of the proceeds on this dress go to the Black Swan sim upkeep, etc. My darlings, I truly believe in supporting the arts as I was tortured by my fellow dodgeball players in PE as a child. The dark dreary child in the corner is soooo much fun, apparently. And thus, I support the arts because where else do misfit kids turn to but drawing severed unicorn heads?

The spiders worked hard on this dress, so please do go out and support them as well. Or I will give them 10 lashing each and they will cry black diamond tears.

Don't make the spiders cry,
HauntedZuzu Sorbet

PS - We are looking at creating another blog for the Haunted Zuzu line but we'll continue to spam you on this one until THAT one gets added to the Fashion Planet feed.

New Wings - On the Dark Side

Oh look, I made something finally! 2 new wings. I didn't think I'd be lazier than LAST summer (when I was pregnant), but I'm having a hard time finding motivation this month. Maybe it is just August. And Ziggy and I have had a ton of real life stuff going on.

Material Squirrel in World

Dystopia Wings:
on SL Exchange
on Shop.OnRez

Azrael Wings
on SL Exchange
on Shop.OnRez

Thank you!

Thank you to everyone who bought a pair of the Material Squirrel Relay for Life 2008 angel wings! I wanted to post when it was close to the last day, but the ending of RFL snuck up on me, as it always does.

I've been taking a break from SL for the past few weeks. I badly needed some distance. I feel recharged and ready to create again.

Circus Kitana - New Haunted Zuzu Outfit

A customer requested the Circus Rose outfit sans roses, and here is the result!

Circus Kitana Outfit Includes:

• Short flexi prim skirt - 3 fit options/different sizes
• Long flexi prim skirt - 3 fit options/different sizes
• top (on both undershirt and shirt layer)
• gloves

Mod/Transfer

Available
In World

Shop on Rez

Pigtails!!!

I'm in love with these pigtails. I saw the Curious Kitties ad on the Fashion Planet feed and I had to have them. And I love them. My only complaint would be that when I scroll out, the sculptie does the LOD thing and I have bald patches in my hair, but I fixed this by making a black hair base. The LOD thing is not the designer's fault, it is just a sculptie thing.

And I rarely share outfits on this blog, I just don't have the time now. But I'm stuck on my current wing project - we are having some scripting issues with how we want them to work and the obvious function to make it work that has been broken since 1.7 - you know, the release when they came out with FLEXI. Remember that? The Lindens have tried to fix it in nearly ever release since . . .

Outfit Credits:
Hair: Curious Kitties
Skin: Nomine
Top & Gloves: Noir by Nomine (Munchflower Zaius)
Skirt: Kyoot Army
Shoes: Legend by Fatal Raine

Oblivion Wings

New wings at Material Squirrel

Available in world
At the Material Squirrel Store

Shop.onrez

SL Exchange

On Camping, the old and the new

Material Squirrel has been displaced by another wing vendor for the number one slot when you search (top right corner) for wings. I'm a bit sad, but that's how the cookie crumbles. I will NOT be adding a pay to add this location to your picks type dealio at this time. I'll never say never, since who knows what market forces may occur. But in general, I believe that if you make a quality product and market it within the normal guidelines, you should not have to resort to gaming the system.

I am old enough in SL years to remember when people first started using camping. A lot of people were up in arms about it. It made searching so difficult because sometimes I'd teleport to the top spot in the search and I'd find 5 items on the wall and 20 campers. I remember one store that I went to and it was similar - now they are a very established brand but I still won't shop there.

Perhaps this is sour grapes. Maybe. There are plenty of people who will argue that any marketing measure you can use, whether some might feel it is gaming the system, or not, is fair. Perhaps. I still feel tho that if you make a quality product and get the word out, you won't need to pay people to advertise for you.

New Wings - Nocturne

New wings at Material Squirrel

In World

SL Exchange

Shop.OnRez


Also, time is running out on the RFL wings. I did not sell as many of these as last year (sadness) so you will be getting something pretty darn exclusive.

Free Tank top for Haunted Zuzu Subscribe-o-matic group subscribers

My subscribe-o-matic Haunted Zuzu group members received this tank top as a freebie gift yesterday evening. You might still be able to catch it if SL isn't acting up. Go to the Haunted Zuzu location and touch the subscribe-o-matic object and go to the history tab.

However, when I tried it, it did not give me an object.

BUT I will be doing more of these tanks and they will be free gifts to the group first, then maybe for sale later.

New Haunted Zuzu Outfit

Finally, and I do mean FINALLY finished this dress. It only took like a year. I had the idea over a year ago, but I couldn't figure out how to make it work. In about November (2007), I finally figured out what I wanted to do. I guess sitting on a rocking chair endlessly breastfeeding gives one LOTS of time to ponder. I did work on it a bit then, but I couldn't figure out how to make the seams work. Matching the wispy seams on the side was just impossible. And yes, I tried because I am crazy like that. Finally figured out another option.

And you will notice that the seller is HauntedZuzu Sorbet. Yes, Hello Alt! The inventory in my Kala account is just getting soooo crowded. It is really refreshing to have 1,000 something in inventory again. Well, in my alt. Anyway, it's not a secret hiding alt, just another way to work.

I feel rather dorky releasing just ONE outfit when I haven't done clothes for a while, but in the limited time I have, I get done what I get done, or I'll be releasing a bunch of stuff . . . next year . . . or if I ever find a babysitter for a few hours a day.

The dress details:
- Flexi prim skirt - 3 fit options
- glitch pants
- top (on both undershirt and top layers)
- gloves
- butterfly train
300L

Available:

Haunted Zuzu location in world

on Shop.Onrez.com

Monster Truck Wings - Upgrade Info

Please follow these instructions to upgrade your existing Material Squirrel Monster Truck wings upgraded to Version 4.2.1

INSTRUCTIONS
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1 - Please RETURN the old wings to Kala Bijoux in a folder with your name in the folder title OR in a notecard IN the the folder with your name in it .

2 - In the Folder name (or notecard), please indicate the Number of wings in the folder (example: Kala's Wings - 10 Wings).

3 - Please indicate in a notecard IN the folder which extra set of wings you would like. You can choose from ANY of our wings. Please be sure to include the full name of the wings you'd like.

4 - If you have more than 10 wings, please break them into separate folders - 10 wings each.

5 - You do NOT have to change the wing names back to their original names.

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Version 4.2.1 is NO TRANSFER so please be sure you give me the wings from the avatar you want to receive them!

***Upgrade bonus - I have lowered the price on the MTV wings. To make up for that, upgrades on the MTV wings will get a bonus wing of their choice (if they follow the direction correctly!). If you don't specify a wing you'd like, I will just give you one of my choosing.

If you give me a discontinued wing, I will give you back the original wing.

Wing upgrades are free.

Offer is good on Material Squirrel wings ONLY. If I didn't make 'em, I won't upgrade them.

I will upgrade any previous version of my wings.

Version 4.2.1 is the latest version for all flexi wing sizes and shapes. If you have that version, then you do not need an upgrade.

Future upgrades will be automated! Thank you for your patience!
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Thank you,
Kala Bijoux

Monster Truck Wings are Back!

The Monster Truck Wings (our HUGE size of wings) are now back in the store with the new upgraded 4.2.1 features. I also managed to get a few new styles out for these wings.

Please note that these wings are as large as prims can go (without mega prims) so the size change works in the smaller direction. These wings differ from the normal 4.2.1 wings as they go a bit larger and the textures are made to specifically work with larger prims. Due to the size, however, the fit is NOT perfect so please use the demo stand before buying. If you are looking for a pefect fit, these are probably not the wings for you.

Upgrades - Give me a few days and I will have the info for people who wish to upgrade their old Monster Truck Wings! I plan to do something a little special for the upgrades due to the price change of the MTV wings.

Location in world -
Material Squirrel Wings

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Winged%20Isle/110/59/47/

Violent Nightmare fashion show

A shot from the Violent Nightmare fashion show. I was there, but very briefly as RL called in the form of dinner and a baby who needed to sleep. I keep hearing about these babies who just sleep all the time. That is not MY baby.

Credits:
Skin - Nomine
Hair - Philotic Energy
Clothes - Sn@tch

I wish I'd caught the model's name.

2008 Relay for Life Angel Wings

Finally finished - my contribution to the 2008 SL Relay for Life to benefit the American Cancer Society.

Aside from helping out a great cause, this is a Relay for Life exclusive - meaning once the final bash is over with in July, these will not be available. So . . . you can get some limited edition wings that will be pretty unique. In past years, I've had people ask for the angel wings well after the fundraiser was over, so . . . get them now, I guess.

Turn on glow on these wings for a different look.

Only 299L - all proceeds from these wings benefit RFL

Available:
In my store

Relay for Life Angel Wings - Sneak Peek

Here's a sneak peek at the angel wings I created to benefit Relay for Life 2008. This is my 3rd year making a pair of angel wings! The photo doesn't show the detail in the wings - but you can get this effect by turning on glow.

They aren't quite available yet, Ziggy needs to do a bit of scripting since these are a different size and with the normal scripts, droop looks spastic, but soon, soon. I even completed the adbox shots.

New Wings - Lorelle Fairy Butterfly

I also created 3 other colors, but I don't want to list them all.

This week I'm putting the finishing touches on the Relay for Life fundraising wings and they'll be ready soon!

Available:
In my store


On SL Exchange

On Shop.OnRez

New Wings - Lachrima

I am still blogging the new wings I designed for the WingFling, even tho it is now over!

Available:
In my store

On SL Exchange:
Red Orange Green Purple

On Shop.OnRez
Red Orange Green Purple

New Skirt Single to benefit Wheelies

My friend Sasy Scarborough put in a request to all her friends to help raise money for the Wheelies group in SecondLife.

I really wanted to help out and also create something new. But these days I am so short on time and I still haven't done the the Relay for Life angel wings yet (they are in progress tho!). But I did remember this skirt single that I had almost finished, so yesterday, I put the finishing touches on it.

And here it is:

I changed the skirt singles a bit - I removed some of the old styles since one had massive texture transparency flicker issues and the other I didn't like. So you still get a nice mid-length (pictured, full color in ad), but also now you get a shorter length(greyscale full image), and an extra-long ball room gown length (not pictured).

The skirt pack is only 100L and all the proceeds from this skirt sale go directly to Wheelies.

And I should add, once the fundraiser is done, I will not be selling this skirt - it's a limited time dealie-o. I prefer charity raising products to be like that - so you know you are getting something special! And if you feel like 100L is too little, I placed a donation kiosk right below the ad, so drop a little more in the pool.

Available in world, at my store
SL URL

New Product - ColorFX color changing scripts

A new product add-on available for Material Squirrel 4.2.1

This product was created by Kim Ninetails and we loved it so much that we decided to work with Kim to bring it all of our customers. (And yes, we are profit sharing with Kim since she did the main work.)

ColorFX is a script that you add to your wings to get the color effects. The effects include emotional color options - like heartbeat, dead, and other cool things. My favorite is the color flows - which cycle the wings through colors.

This works best with certain wings - such as the Avalon wings or the Storm wings. I have a list up at the WingFling with what wings work best.

Available - or check out the demo at:

At the WingFling Fair

soon to be in our store, need to get that setup!

New Wings - Daray Wings

More new wings! These have a nice transparency effect and also look great tinted.

Available:
In my store

At the WingFling Fair

On Shop.Onrez

On SL Exchange