Home Show and Sans Souci Cottage and Outbuilding

Home Show began on July 1st and for the first time, Sanctuaire is a part of an actual home and garden event!  For the Home Show, I was stumped on what to create.  My first thought was a chicken coop cause for some wacky reason I had a vision of a shop full of chickens clucking.  Then the sanity returned to me and I was watching a really bad movie.  I mean cringe-worthy movie.  In the first few minutes of the film I saw it.  Like a magic light from bad movie nirvana.  My Home Show build.  Sans Souci.

Front View of Sans Souci

Sans Souci Pergola

Sans Souci is based off of a 12th century French farmhouse.    There is a pergola off of the house.  All of the windows and doors work.  Because I hate windows that don't do anything. You can also mod the script in the doors to lock for you.  I didn't set it to lock cause I actually wanted you to be able to go in and experience the house.

View of the Living Space of Sans Souci

 Sans Souci stairs are really special to me for sentimental reasons.  For years while in choir as a first soprano, I had to sing a certain French madrigal. Mon cœur se recommande à vous.  A basic translation is: 

My heart is offered still to you
Full now of woe and deep despairing!
Be not to constancy untrue;
Say one farewell, my sorrow sharing!
My mouth which once could smile in gladness,
And charming stories improvise
Now can only curse in its madness
Those who banished me from your eyes.

 Upstairs is what I call a sleeping/living space.  But it is large and open and you can fill it to your hearts content with anything that makes you happy.

Sans Souci Outbuilding

Upon popular request for a bathroom area.  I built an outbuilding that matches the house and can free float or attach to the house.

It is a large empty space that can be used as a bathroom, an artist studio, a study, a very small and cramped bordello.  I mean it is an empty room and the choice is up to you.

The house is on display staged in Winterfell though out the month of July.  As well as for sale there and at the Home Show event.









Landmark to the Home Show - http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Argentina%20Amor/127/164/24

I hope to see you there and I hope that you love the house as much as I do!

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New Build - Catskill Cottage

I normally build a house in under a week.  Then take two days arguing with myself about how to do the pictures - because pictures are sooooo not my thing.  This time however the build took eons for me - almost two weeks.  Granted a lot of stuff has been going on.  I have been in my first ever hunt and it is going really well.  I am getting a lot of positive responses back and learning that I am not falling flat on my kiester.  Which honestly is a relief.  Anyway, I finally got the house done and I named it Catskills.

This build is based off a build that my friend Serra gave me.  She said - hey why don't you build this.  So I did.  Or I did my version of it.  The build is exactly double the actual size of the house in rl because for some reason the people of Second Life love being amazons.  So, the build is still small, but not as small as it could be.

It has a sleeping loft - cause I love lofts.  It also has screen doors and hinges and knobs and radiator and all those little details that make my heart do cartwheels.  All for under 85 prims (it is 84 prims).

I hope you love it as much as I loved creating it!

- Take Care -
Scout

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First House in the Old South / Louisiana Series - Fais Do-Do Shotgun

 Ok, I admit it I have been watching a lot of True Blood.  But this house has nothing to do with the show.  This is the beginning of my ode to New Orleans and the Old South.  My grandmother was from New Orleans and she used to tell me the tales of it as a little kid while eating gumbo out of a bowl on her lap.

So in honor of everything I love about Louisiana, I have decided to start building a few houses in a series that are inspired by the South.

The first is Fais Do-Do.  In Creole, Fais Do-Do is a dance party that would happen after the kids would go to bed.  So, I built a shotgun house that makes me want to do a little dance and have a party.

I hope you love it as much as I do!

-Scout

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Introducing.... Sanctuaire Homegoods and Sundries

The first thing I learned how to do once entering Second Life was create furniture.  Well, actually the second thing.  The first was learning how to adjust my clothes to fit my small self.  But rapidly after I taught myself how to create a sofa.

Well, I got fed up with doing it.  That and seeing all the amazing things that my now good friend Yelena from Noctis was doing.  I would look at her items in awe and go - no, no I can't do this.  So, I gave it up.

After a bit of introspection recently and a bit of hint hint hint Scout - I decided to start making furniture and fixtures for my builds and in the end to be sold separately in the store.

So I present to you....

I am going to create things that make me smile.  Things that you don't often see in Second Life.  Cause if I don't go that route - I will wind up hating myself.

I look forward to sharing with the first pieces with you soon!

- Take Care
Scout

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Four Walls Hunt Gift Finished! Party for me!

I have been taking a break from building my current build (which has taken me longer than usual to do due to being very picky.  Trust me it will be worth it when I release it in a few days.)  To work on my Four Walls hunt gift/prize.

I decided to create my version of a garden party.  It is copy/no mod/ no transfer.  This is my first almost entirely mesh item.  Only two items are sculpt and that is cause I couldn't find a mesh item the quality that I wanted.  Well, that and being to lazy to figure out how to make it myself in mesh.

The hunt is from September 1st through 15th.  There are a ton of fantastic designers involved and I am proud to have been accepted.

Here is the first pictures of it.  I hope you love it as much as I did making it.

- hugs and all that stuff

Scout

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As Promised - New Build Today - Meet Unicorn

Hey!  I have been looking on market and from personal experience and noticed there weren't many builds that spoke to me.  When they had - I would have to mod them to death to make them even remotely like what I wanted them to be.  (This is one of the secret reasons that I learnt to build.)  So, I was speaking to one of my best friends Serra who owns a little realm called Winterfell.  She was bemoaning the lack of amazing store builds.  Ones that you didn't need to do weird stuff to to make them fit the plot.  Ones that when you looked at them you said - ooh I want to shop there.

Now don't get me wrong, there are some amazing builds.  Some that actually make the choir of angels come out and sing a little hymn to you.  Mine sing 30 Seconds to Mars and look like Jared Leto - but hey who am I to judge your angels.-Anyway I digress, I started thinking about builds and stores.  Then I started thinking about my favorite real life stores.  Stores I have shopped at and made me feel like I was somewhere amazing.  And then it hit me.  Replicate one of them -- in your style.  Sooooo, I have.

I want to introduce you to Unicorn (white).  Based off the Unicorn Boutique in Montreal.  I call it white cause I am going to make it in other colors or something else equally clever very soon.  It has a living space above with locking doors.  The store itself has two large windows and a french door entry.  You also have a backroom area and a lovey front window counter display area.

Oh and before you ask - the interior of the store is white.  There is a reason for this.  IMO - your clothes or items for sale should be the jewelry.  I never have understood why people put a bunch of crazy wallpaper up - only to cover it all up with clothes that often clash with it.

-Ok, done rambling.  I hope to see you in sanctuaire soon!

- Scout

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Me on Mesh...Just my opinion

For the record.  I love mesh.  Well I love details and mesh gives me the details I want in an item for very little prims - in most cases.  However I also love the ability to customize items.  I don't know about you but when I buy a home/store/random build - often the item isn't exactly what I want... But it is close.  I tend to only buy builds that I can modify.  Well, with all of the all mesh builds I have found - you either can't or it is tricky to do.  In fact for most people I wouldn't even tell you to attempt modifying them.  Bad bad mojo happens.  So, what is a builder elf to do?   Let me tell you about my - for the moment master plan.  You should lean in close as I whisper this.....

I am going to meld everything into my builds.  Yeah I know, a shocking and majorly strange concept.  Primwork has been around for eons in SL -- so obviously it works.  So I tend to shell (the walls and exteriors) of my builds as primwork.  However I am clever and know of ways to make this lower prim.  And no, I won't tell you how I do this even though I am sure you are smart enough to figure out how I do this.  I use sculpts sparingly.  Why, well cause I honestly feel that in most cases mesh is better - so why use it.  Yes, some cases - it is smarter to use sculpts.  So never be shocked if you see a few but the majority of the build will not be.  Now back to my beloved mesh....  Did I mention that I love mesh?

Any detail that you see in my builds is probably mesh.  Which means you need a viewer able to see mesh.  Why mesh when I can do it in alphas?  Well, I hate alphas.  There I said it.  I hate them.  I hate clashing.  I hate when you look at a window and the tree appears through it.  It just really irks me.  So, why should I use an alpha "sticker" corbel when I can use a mesh one that has so much more detail?  For me logically it is a no brainer.  I am not against wasting a prim or two so I can have the look that I want.  But that is me.

Ok, I vented on my opinions on the current items that I use in my builds.

I hope it clarifies a few questions that I have received...

Viva la Mesh!

-Take care
Scout

P.S. - This doesn't mean that I won't be making an all mesh build ever -- oh it is coming.  Just for now and to make the most people happy - this is the route I am travelling.

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