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Burlesque worlds for your home

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New Lucky Chair Gifts
by (*chanimations and deviousMind
Happy Mood in a Frame!
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Starting with spring, we decided that those pretty 3d displays for Fashion For Life last month were way too pretty to be just a one-time-use deal.. unfortunately, they also didn’t quite fit into the current display setup at our mainstore, so instead, they got a golden baroque mesh frame around them now and will be available as lucky chair gifts at deviousMind sim for a while :)

These are copy/no transfer versions, but don’t worry, I am working on transferable versions as well to allow you to make them a gift – with more artwork to be added so be sure to keep eyes and ears open cause you don’t want to miss these! ;) If you’ve looked around our sim and like our artstyle, then I can promise already you’ll be very very excited about my plans… *evil tease*

Have a great start into spring!

Love, Chandra

Credits of all the things used in each picture:
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Top left frame:

!dM “Queen Cockatrice D’Lite” costume in **TANGERINE** and **TEAL**, staged with
(*chanimations FetishCabaret SET 14 “CabaretBeauty” in the back, and pose from (*chanimations GoodTimes #1 in front

Top middle frame:

!dM “Creme d’Elise” costume in **STRAWBERRY** and **ORANGE**, staged with
(*chanimations fruitFetish! #15 “SurpriseCake”.
Pose in front comes from FetishCabaret SET 31 “UnCover”, baloon decor is from (*chanimations PhotoStage “TravellingCircus”.

Bottom left frame:

!dM “Miss Betty” PinUp Dress as Fashion for Life edition (currently not available for purchase in this color,
but many others instead  in our mainstore or marketplace!), staged with
(*chanimations FetishCabaret SET 30 “RetroGlam” and !dM DiscoBalls.
Pose in back comes from FetishCabaret SET 32, “ChainedDesire”

Bottom middle frame:

!dM “Lady Vayne” Peacock Costume inFashion for Life color **LILAC** (currently not available for purchase in this color,
but many others instead in our mainstore or marketplace!), staged with
(*chanimations FetishCabaret SET 28 “BurlesqueSwing” and pose in back again from FetishCabaret SET 32, “ChainedDesire”

Right side frame:

!dM “Taunting Leda” FetishCouture inFashion for Life color **LILAC** (currently not available for purchase in this color,
but many others of our regular release in our mainstore or marketplace!). The fountain used for staging is not available yet, it’s a special texture version of the one included in (*chanimations PhotoStage “1001 Nights” made for our FFL 2013 store.
Pose in back comes again from (*chanimations fruitFetish! #15 “SurpriseCake” and the one in front is a pose I made for my clothing ads, sadly again not released yet in a set.

“Dear Santa…”

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… A deviousWishlist!
by (*chanimations and deviousMind
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As most of you know already, I was able to successfully capture a christmas elf two years ago which was found lurking around deviousMind sim. We had our fun and playtime, anyhow long story short, in the end could strike out a deal for some early xMas present deliveries (Blackmailing Santa’s Elf with possibly sending the photos to the Boss did prove rather efficient!).

Turns out, said elf became some sort of Chief Elf Christmas Executive (CECE) at the company last year, so that our blackmailing practice of the year before was even more successfully last year! *evilgrin*

So we shall continue that little tradition, shall we. Christmas Corp is in a bad economic spot currently, so it is reasonable to assume that they will be all too willing to hand out some gifts to keep down the public scandals ;)

So same as the past two seasons, you will find a little mailbox at deviousMind waiting for your wishlist!

HERE’S THE RULES:
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Write Santa a few short lines. If we— um… HE likes what he reads you might get your wish fullfilled!

Your notecard must contain the following information:

• A short note to Santa why you deserve presents
• Your full SL name inside the notecard
• One item you’ve always wanted but never got out of our stores!
Please look up the name of the item, if needed you can find most
on the marketplace or our blog. And of course deviousMind sim!
[Applies to any single item (not color packs) valued below 2000L from deviousBeauty,
(*chanimations, and deviousPoses (adult)]
• Name your notecard “2012-12-[date] Dear Santa…” and it’s going to be part of our daily drawing!
IMPORTANT: Notecard name MAY NOT include your avatar name!
• Only notecards dropped in the mailbox will be considered – please don’t sending any to my avatar!

DAILY DEADLINE:
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You turn your notecard in by dropping it into the mailbox right above the fireplace at (*chanimations main theater stage. Unfortunately my schedule varies dramatically this year, so the deadline will be fluctuating slightly every day – I’ll empty the mailbox between NOON SLT (12pm) and 3pm SLT though.

The winner is drawn each day from all notecards received. Once entered, your notecard will be part of the drawing each day until christmas. Of course unless you won something, then you’re out :) Everybody can win only once.

GOOD LUCK!

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(*chanimations at
!dM deviousMind
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Searching for a fun pose that’s not everyday-standard?
Searching for poses for artistic shots? Searching for a bit of
nostalgic flair?

You found it!!

Please stop by and have a look! or brows our blog:

http://chanimations.deviousmind.net/

If you’re on flickr, please join the (*chanimations and !dM deviousPoses group and share your pictures with us! We’re sooooo curious for your creations :)))

http://www.flickr.com/groups/chanimations/

YOU LIKE?
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Join our update group if you’d like to stay in touch with us about the release of FetishCabaret SET 20 and any other new releases and future group specials, gifts and everything more!

(*chanimations -> secondlife:///app/group/d114d452-96d2-73e5-b704-d7533ae248d3/about

!dM deviousMind UPDATE group -> secondlife:///app/group/535f7ee1-83e8-101c-8de7-53b0ab396a0a/about

Stars&Stripes for everybody!
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While I always need a slap on the head from Elise when it comes to remembering holidays, this time the slap was an awesome one cause I LOVE how this little present for you all turned out :)

(say “thank you Elise!” at this point :D)

Have a happy Holiday and safe travels to all of you in the US :)

And true enough, while Independence Day is an American holiday the meaning it holds is still a global one beyond nations.

Independence is a very precious thing, throughout history we have learned this in so many cases – so let’s remember how important freedom, independence, freedom of speech and all things that make life enjoyable truly are.

<3 chandra

“Coming down the chimney tonight…”

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“Santa Baby”
(*chanimations and deviousMind
Christmas GroupGift 2011
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I’m making this short and sweet this time: YOU ALL ROCK!

Wishing you a Merry Christmas from deviousMind
<3 Chandra and Lucca

YOU LIKE?
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Grab the gift while you can in our past group notices! (from now on the usual 14 days that SL keeps them) – Join our update group if you’d like to stay in touch with us about new releases and future group specials, gifts and everything more!

Search for “(*chanimations” in groups if you’re only interested in our poses, or join “!dM deviousMind – UPDATE Group” (both without quotes) if you’d like to receive update infos about all our other products as well (skins, eyes, living space, and whatever else crosses our creativity *chuckles*) — the poses information goes out to both groups so no need to double-join!

“Dear Santa…”

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… A deviousWishlist!
by (*chanimations and deviousMind
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As most of you know already, I was able to successfully capture a christmas elf last year which was found lurking around deviousMind sim. We had our fun and playtime, anyhow long story short, in the end could strike out a deal for some early xMas present deliveries (Blackmailing Santa’s Elf with possibly sending the photos to the Boss did prove rather efficient!).

Turns out, said elf is some sort of Chief Elf Christmas Executive (in short: CECE) at the company now, so it’s just reasonable to assume that last year’s blackmailing practice will be even more successfully this year! *evilgrin* So same as the past season, you will find a little mailbox at deviousMind waiting for your wishlist!

HERE’S THE RULES:
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Write Santa a few short lines. If we— um… HE likes what he reads you might get your wish fullfilled!

Your notecard must contain the following information:

DAILY DEADLINE:
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You turn your notecard in by dropping it into the mailbox right above the fireplace at (*chanimations main theater stage. Unfortunately my schedule varies dramatically this year, so the deadline will be fluctuating slightly every day – I’ll empty the mailbox between NOON SLT (12pm) and 3pm SLT though.

The winner is drawn each day from all notecards received. Once entered, your notecard will be part of the drawing each day until christmas. Of course unless you won something, then you’re out :-) Everybody can win only once.

GOOD LUCK!

Big Congrats!

We’d like to say a huge contrats to Majik for finding the 5000L giftcard joker gift! Apparently she’s had the right intuition while clicking around prims in the sim, or simply massive luck :-D

Now the good news:

Since it didn’t take all too long that the first joker was discovered (yes, I did indeed say ‘first’ :D) we have decided to throw out another few of them in the upcoming weeks of our hunt! There will be multiple more giftcards slipped into the sim from time to time – join our Update Group if you’d like to be informed when they are released to the sim (and of course to get the info when they are found).   Good luck to all in finding one of them!

Help our chief investigator!

If you haven’t been at deviousMind sim yet to go and hunt your gifts, see the next post for all goodies that can be found and stop by to grab them while you can :-D You’re hunting for gifts by Cupcakes&Poetry, (*chanimations photography props and poses, Captain’s Quarters and !dM deviousBeauty in a delicious looking hunt-box: look for the apple with whipcream and compass as seen in the picture to the right!

Have fun and enjoy!

Report from deviousMind: As the events unfold

Chief Inspector D. Vious had been busy these days (apparently that helped his pale complexion as well a little) and while he couldn’t retrieve the lost items in question, by now he had a very good idea of the things missing. It was even possible to find pictures, not all of them offered very voluntarily but a bit of bribe would do wonders, even for somebody of his rank and honor.

Easiest to come across was a full picture of the stolen costume in question, which belonged to the missing things of deviousBeauty. The chief didn’t even need to bribe anybody for that one, as it had been all over the newspaper in the last months accompanied with “Stunning Show at the FetishCabaret!” and “Breath-taking Glamor and irresistible Tease” and similar headlines to celebrate the big show of the season. A short call to the printing press, and the full colored image was his. And now has its neat little spot in his investigation journal, marked with “stolen item #01″ neatly written next to it.

(click the image for a larger view!)

The Cupcake-Conspiracy

Not quite as easy was the discovery of the missing hats from Cupcakes & Poetry – in fact, only one of them seemed to have been documented on a picture. After talking to nearly every customer of the bakery he could get a hold of (it would appear, that most of them appreciated their cupcakes fresh out of the oven, so they were out at un-godly hours to get them!), he eventually ran into one helpful young jounalist who took a snapshot of Ms. Chandra wearing the item in question for a bakery event 3 months ago. Images of the other two hats were not documented but it would appear that they were similar in appearance (at least if the statements of Mrs Capalini-Cale were correct), one made of black leather and the other one sewn with white satin.

The photograph was glued into the investigation journal with a #02 written next to it – he was a thorough policement, one could tell.

From deep down in the Captain’s Quarters

Eventually, our good old Chief Inspector made up with Ms. Parisi as well for his unfortunate first meeting (see his report some pages earlier). It took him a few purchases and quite a few snippy remarks from her when he showed up, but in the end she would be noticably more friendly. The fact that he didn’t destroy anything during his visits at Captain’s Quarters and the very expensive old world globe he purchased (on the police offices’ expenses of course) might have helped his case.

Finally, he held a copy of a photograph in hand. It showed a belly dancer (was that again Ms Chandra?) in the middle of a fine display of antiques. “An event we have had to introduce our new collection to the residents.” Ms. Parisi commented on the picture when passing it to him. The Chief noded, and glanced over the picture pointing at the items in order as he spoke: “So these lanterns at the ceiling are the items stolen, correct? As well these baskets upfront and I see a pillow lying on the raised plattform, that is one of yours as well?” – “Yes, correct.” Ms. Parisi nodded. “The pillow is especially nice – it let’s you lounge on it for hours and hours, and is comfortable in all sorts of poses.”

The chief nodded, and slid the photo into his investigation journal – later it would be pinned in there as “deviousMind case, #03: Items missing from Captain’s Quarters.”

Devious suspects are every where.”

Last but not least, there was that final part… looking at the suspects. Of course, any and all residents living and wandering through deviousMind sim were suspicious, but only 4 of them were available to capture on photograph. Needless to say, this happened under loud protests and with a lot of mockery of the fine Chief. A friendly spirit at (*chanimations (who shall remain anonymous here for the risk of getting fired or whatever these deviants would do!) was kind enough to assist the chief with the set-up of all suspects.

He made little notes in his book along with the finely printed images:

Ms. Parisi:

From the looks of things, very talented Lady with a sense for decor and housing. Somewhat twisted lady who seems to have a flair of pirate-baroness in her some days, then is seen again wearing normal clothes or near to nothing-clothes. So maybe she’s actually less crazy than what meets the eye – or involved into the theater production or filming industry, who knows. Or it’s simply part of dealing with antiques and furniture? New Resident on the sim since July. Suspicious, especially since a wide variety of costumes seem to be at her hand. But certainly not pulling the strings of the crime quite yet.

Mr. Staheli:

Slick as an eal, certainly Gentleman on first impression and Playboy on second, and both at the same time most of the time. Not many scandals are known but it would seem that he has influence and controls a lot of the on-goings of the place. Certainly one of the top suspects as he seems to know his way around; nothing can be proven though, he might as well being set up by a competitor. Beyond all suspicion of his own actions, none of the other suspects dared to point fingers at him. Was it true respect of this Gentleman, or was blackmail involved – one would not know.

Ms. Chandra:

Throughout his investigation, Chief D. Vious found one thing: this woman was a chameleon! Very suspicious indeed. As well one of those hard to catch, as it would seem just as you picked up her trace in one of the buildings of the sim she was gone already again and showed up at a different spot. With charm combined, this might be a successful receipe to be the one behind all these deeds – he heard Mrs. Elise had said something similar, although it was whispered behind hands and just been reported by an informant. Nothing confirmed, and no traces left at either scene of crime in the sim.

Mrs. Elise:

The lady of the bakery was top suspect for the vanishing of her own items, as it had been an issue with her and the cream a few times reportedly. Although what makes the deeds unclear is the fact, that most of the missing items in question were no longer in her possession when they vanished. A mystery indeed.