I think SL is a spectacular environment to embrace and soak up Fall/Autumn and Winter landscapes, decor, and sims. A lot of games/systems try to simulate seasons, but I truly love all of the creativity and skillfully designed within SL the best. (I’m not knocking how adorable Sim’s Cottage Living can be with Autumn, but I’m being objective here. *grin*) Although Halloween is quite the celebrated event in SL, gothic details can be appreciated throughout the year when used well, so I decided that I’d also feature a few favorite items I discovered during my Fall Wandering that were featured for Halloween, but I think there are more opportunities that make them either a good buy or a great location, and want to share. 🙂
If you follow my blogs or even Flickr, you know I am working through grieving the loss of my RL mother, so I’ve been slowly getting back into the “swing of things” in SL, and I’ve been late to a lot of events and such. One was the much-loved (and sometimes hated) Shop And Hop. I also am not above taking screenshots in stores of animations if I like the set up and such, so don’t pay attention to the sale signs in a few pictures. *laugh* For the record, I was so impressed I actually bought the featured item, but the store stall was set up cute enough that I wasn’t going to try to compete. The CHEZ MOI Cute Tomb (PG) is definitely an adorable additional to any Fall or Halloween decor, but if you’re a fan of The Nightmare Before Christmas like me, then it can arguably be pretty perfect for most of the year if you like to have little peaceful spots tucked away in your landscape with a bonus of cute poses included.
The CHEZ MOI Cute Tomb (PG) includes the pillows and rumpled blanket, plus a bunch of animations
This animation pulls at my heartstrings honestly and if you cammed differently, did a different background, etc., I can see this being an awesome prop for a memorial picture. There’s something so realistic and believable with this pose, in my opinion.
Add in a change of WL and using LumiPro to assist with lighting, and I think this is a really nice pic taken right there at Shop And Hop. I added a bit of contrast using my computer’s pic program, but no PS or such, and even with a less popular mesh body that carries the skeleton slightly differently due to being a pregnancy body, there aren’t clipped limbs even! (At 8 months PG in world, a lot of animations are now having some difficulty with the arms/hands disappearing into the baby bump *laugh*.)
And how cute is this one?! Ignore the wonky finger pose from the natural hand positions getting a bit, well, wonky, please. lol This would be perfect for taking pics with sitting Zooby toddlers or so neat in a little Fall foliage landscape.
One last picture that shows how there are subtle postional changes within the animations that makes me like this decor prop so much that I splurged for a Chez Moi item which is usually beyond my budget. I am honestly seriously impressed with this little prop and plan to have it as part of my landscape most of the year (and not being supported or even blogging for the company). I love a versatile landscape and decor prop, and a little Jack smile puts it in my fav decor file. *smile*
Credits:
Body: Zooby LOVEMOMMA 2.3
Skins: [Glam Affair] Cherry Skin [Lelutka EvoX] Honey
Head: LeLUTKA Avalon Head 3.1
Hair: TRUTH Monsoon – Brunette
Top: *BabyCakes – Aadi – Flannel Blouse (and Tank) – LoveMomma – 18
Bottom: {bb} Basics – Mommy Outfit #13 (Bluebird Baby)
Shoes: -KC- Dania Ballet Flats/ Maitreya… (KC Couture)
(taken at Shop and Hop event at time but should move to in-store) CHEZ MOI Cute Tomb (PG)
LumiPro HUD (Marketplace)
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