MadPea - The Case for Praying Mary Hunt - and my gift

I was very excited to have been accepted along with fourteen other designers to participate in the MadPea - The Case of Praying Mary hunt.

The tale behind the hunt is as follows :

Widow Millar was nicknamed 'Praying Mary' due to gruesome killings of three of her husbands and praying next to their dead bodies. Mary denied everything and claimed it was all a misunderstanding. Her motives were never understood. Once Mary was caught during her murderous act towards husband number four, she was sent to the Peatonville Asylum and was locked away in an isolated cell. The number XVIII was engraved over and over on Mary's cell, but no one was able to figure out the meaning for it. Mary herself passed away under sinister circumstances in the Peatonville Asylum in 1934 and the case went cold.

Millar's abandoned house was long closed from public until it was eventually sold to a family fairly recently. While refurbishing the house, they discovered a hidden journal underneath the planks on the floor. The journal seems to have been written by Mary herself and it desribes clearly how Mary did not only kill the three men who married her, but also the 15, who refused her proposal or otherwise got in her way.

After some thorough investigation it's been confirmed, that 15 men went indeed missing during the years of 1920 and 1933. The grounds of the former Millar house were turned upside down, but no bodies were found. The journal is the only clue of what has happened to these men. On each page of the journal, next to the description of the killings, Mary has drawn a cross with jibberish on it. It's believed that when someone deciphers the message, the bodies of the men can finally be found and their souls released to rest in peace.

My contribution/gift for the final act of the hunt is - a house.  Yeah I know.  But I love to build houses.  This house is really special to me though.  It has working windows, locking doors, and a hidden compartment.  It also has all the normal sanctuaire details - like trim, hinges, door knobs - oh and of course custom textures.  The total prims for this house are 129.   Yeah I know!  Like I said I am pretty proud of myself for this one too.

Here are all the pictures for it -

So to start the hunt - go to http://slurl.com/secondlife/hoshi%20island%20/68/159/48/?title=MadPea%20Hunt

Let your journey begin!

Huggers- 

Scout

Oh and by the way - On the 11th of October - for Boobiethon - EVERYTHING IN MY STORE (other than hunt items) - WILL BE TURNED OVER TO THE EVENT.  What does this mean - well all proceeds for 24 hours will go to the Boobiethon Event.  The proceeds go to the Feel Your Boobies Foundation to help fight against Breast Cancer.

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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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Sanctuaire introduces its first home good - a radio

I promised that I was going to start a homegoods line and my first venture into this is my antique radio.  It is 100 percent mesh and available in 10 wood tones and colors.

You can add or access over 100 stations with it and it works on group owned land as well.

I hope you like them!

- Scout

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Second Location in New Toulouse Algiers

It has been a busy week.  Mostly of my own creating.  I decided to open another location for sanctuaire.  After very little thought and preparation I decided to get a plot next to Noctis in New Toulouse Algiers.  First reason is that I love Yelena and I enjoy any chance I can get to wander over to her store and get something.  Second reason is that I love the look of the sim.  It is semi swampy and laid back chill.  I wish I could be all of those things.  Yes, even swampy.

After less than 24 hours I built the new build from scratch.  It is based off of one of the seven sisters in New Orleans.  Then I started fitting it out with random things and nonsense.  From the New Orleans toile, to the black and white photos of New Orleans - I hope to get the feeling of the Big Easy - with a major touch of me.

I hope you love visiting as much as I loved creating it.  So, stop in - shop a spell.  

http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20Toulouse%20Algiers/127/110/30/?title=+sanctuaire+%20NT%20Algiers

- 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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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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