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*** BURLESQUE ***

HOUSE OF HEARTSDALE & THE RUNWAY CAFE PRESENT BURLESQUE ~
a unique and exciting show based on a brand new concept ~
a fusion of fashion with theatre.

The show will feature some of Second Life’s top fashion models performing famous songs from movies such as Burlesque, Cabaret, Moulin Rouge and Sweet Charity.

A total of 6 designers including: Blacklace, !dm deviousMind, Hugo’s Design, INSOLENCE, Lady Thera and Mon Cheri will be participating in this event, which will feature custom built set designs, choreography, and special effects in a way never before seen in Second Life.

Animations will be provided by MyANIMATION (who are creating dances specifically for this show), Animazoo and Vista Animations.

The show will run for 3 days in January 2012:

WEDNESDAY 25TH JANUARY – 1 PM SLT
FRIDAY 27TH JANUARY – 2 PM SLT
SATURDAY 28TH JANUARY – 3PM SLT

Sponsors of the show include: BOSL, Maniera, Icon and Too Sexy Magazines, with media coverage including print, radio and TV. A video is being produced which will be available on You Tube.

We look forward to letting us entertain you!

CONTACTS:
Nino Heartsdale, CEO House of Heartsdale
Alix Abruzzo, CEO Runway Cafe

Abruzzo/125/129/35

Santa is coming to town…
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…so last year’s xMas pose set, !dM HouseWarming, got an appropriate update too ;D

The fireplace includes a color change menu now that let’s you pick between 3 shades of wood (a redish wood tone, nut tree and teak wood). And of course a bunch of stockings and decoration were added for each of the fireplace versions as well. With that, you have a total of 8 options now for either yourself alone or with a bunch of other girls (the fireplace fits 7 people total in its multisit version).

Have a look at our marketplace listing for all updated info on the set :)

“Ladies and Gentlemen – The Show beginns….. ”

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“ShowTime” CouturePack
**XMAS EDITION**
by deviousMind and (*chanimations
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Following our previous burlesque CouturePack releases “ShowTime” **WINTERBURLESQUE**, **BLACK PEACOCK** and **CANARY YELLOW** is naturally one to fit the season – so the feathers have been replaced with soft pine needles, and it’s time that the curtain raises for our **XMAS EDITION**. As all previous ShowTime sets, this costume is beyond a versatile eye-catcher somewhat of a personal add-on edition to (*chanimations releases -ShowGirl-, -ShowDiva-, -FeatherQueen-, -FeatherDuet- and -MoulinRouge-, containing all the outfit pieces of these sets without poses, plus our DiamondLingerie in a special christmas color.

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“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!

I’ve been working on something as silly and “simple” as a Landmark-Giver cause i was asked for one – anyway, it ended in a massive project as you can see above – I am more than happy with the final result though!! :D

The poster shows the following costumes:

left: !dM “Good Girl” **MINT** – NEW Release
right: !dM “Perola do Brasil” **WHITE**
middle: Costume mix from several releases:

!dM “LaMadame” (MermaidSkirt and gloves **PEARL**, shirt layer **GOLD**),

!dM “MissDhalia” (corset in **PEARL**),

!dM MoulinRouge **BLACK** (pasties and tassles),

!dM “MmeChatouille” **WHITE** (tophat);

(*chanimations FetishCabaret SET 10 “ShowDiva” **WHITE** (pose and matching feather boa, cigarette holder)

Feel free to click the poster for a direct taxi to deviousBeauty!

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Halloween is on its way!
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…and of course the computer is smoking already from working on all the new goodies :D

It’s not quite time for release yet, but I couldn’t hold it back any longer so here’s the first official tease for our upcoming costumes for Halloween Season 2011!

Elise (our sim’s lovely-and-totally-non-creepy *cough cough* cupcake-lady from Cupcakes & Poetry) and me declared this time of year clearly the deviousSeason. *nods nods* Anyway, we’re building stuff like mad and there will be a ton of new things out over the next weeks :)

What the spirits will reveal…
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Currently 2 new costumes for deviousBeauty are done! Well, prototype-wise at least, still needs to be split on layers and boxed and all that good stuff ;D Also a set for (*chanimations which had been an exclusive gift for last Halloween’s photo contest winners, will be officially released this year. So it’s been waiting for quite a while now to be let loose – litterally! :D

As usual, there is more stuff I’m working on at moment but not far enough yet to give any hints what it will be ;) Planned is a bunch though, so keep watching notices and our blog for hints, teasers and release dates :D

Oh wait, did I mention yet? Halloween is coming! *jumps up and down all excitedly*

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I really don’t upload pictures that often… so here’s an early new year’s resolution to do some pure picture posts from time to time again :D

While you usually see the vendor pictures of the things I create (unless you follow my flickr), there’s actually really those occasions where we go out to “just” take pictures *laughs* In the following some of the shots with “The Siren’s Song”:

Admitted… the one above is an obvious left-over from the ad shooting starring (*chanimations SirenRock (aboveSurface) prop with poses from “The Siren’s Song” release, and *Deviance* Mermaid Tails “Fairy Moss” (green) as well as goldfish “Orange Crush”, both wearing the matching Shell Tops (tails and tops are sold separately either as color packs, color lines or individual packs). The 3rd mermaid costume comes from Evie’s Closet, named “Lumina”.

Location: my photo plattform, windlight settings and graphics programm lol.

Deep Down Below:
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Since the pose prop comes with 3 different versions and only (aboveSurface) found its way on the vendor poster, I went out another day to take some shots of the underwater build. Of course it wasn’t that difficult to find the perfect fish conspirator who, on top of it all, had excellent knowledge of underwater location scouting ;D So we ended up at LEA sandbox with perfectly many underwater locations :D

My fish of choice here is more of the deep water kind, so the *Deviance* tail and shell top got combined with an old avatar I got in 2008 from Tekeli-li named “Anglerfish” (it is still available). The avatar comes with the skin and your personal anglerfish buddie to swim along with you :D (you see him somewhere further down in one of the pictures)

Chic is wearing a free mermaid outfit, you’ll find all details (and more pictures of our shooting) in her blog post here!

For the record, plan some time underwater cause turns out your favorite windlight settings are with a 99% chance total trash under the watersurface. Surprisingly, making good and somewhat realistic light settings down there is damn hard :D I ended up using Torley’s “HORROR” settings as a basis and started tweaking sliders from there.

(Please click images for larger view!)

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!