Tata for now!

Please note that I will be away for a couple of weeks! Technically, I coming back around the 22nd, but seeing that I have just spent the week from hell with the flu, I might take a couple of extra rest days and switch the dates around a little to come back a little later like the 28th or around there. I don't want my snot to ooze through my eyes in the plane or something equally gross. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! I have heard too many horror stories from people in the past few days about traveling when sick. I do not wish to check the facts for myself!

I had planned a bunch of releases but my body betrayed me for the first time in like forever and gave me a serious beating. *wheeze* *cough* Sooo, it will all have to wait until my return.

If you need to leave me a message, send me a notecard with all the relevant information and I will reply as soon as I get back. Check my picks for more information.

Thanks! Back soon, hopefully cough free and fully refreshed!

Betty

Gris Wide Easter Hunt (one of em!) starts today

The Easter Bunny is going to be very busy this weekend! Lots of grid wide Easter hunts taking place this weekend/tomorrow and that is not counting all the Easter hunts that are planned in several stores/malls/sims. Oy! I hope you have big baskets to carry all the stuff! I actually had to pass on a few hunt invites because I didn't have enough time to make things for them, and who the heck wants to hunt the same items over and over again all over the grid? Now that would be fun...not!

One of the hunts I am participating in started today. I hid three eggs inside the store. Just buy them for 1L$ to get the contents. Clicky here for the slurl to the starting point. Good luck and have fun! Oh! and drop a few L$ in the Relay for Life kiosk while you are there. 1L$, 50L$, 100000000L$, it's all good! lol


More hunting goodness coming up tomorrow!

Total Betty Boutique has moved!

We moved! The new shop is now open for business. Official "opening" will be a little later on. I need time to finish the new releases that were put on hold while I was building.

While I was sad when I heard that my former landlord was selling his sim, in the end, it all turned out for the best. I found a gorgeous, clean, sunny place on Plush Rho. It is four times the floor space of my old shop, surrounding neighbors have nice shops, 24/7 service is lightning fast and rent is wayyy cheaper. Jackpot!

Since I had a bit of time before getting the boot, I decided to try my hand at building. Oy! I must be the world slowest builder but.... I DID IT! Yay! Sure, it's not the best technical build, I don't know all the tricks to optimize prim use, and aligning prims is a biatch... but I think it came out pretty well!

The new shop is spacious and airy. It has a lot of room to grow. No more playing vendor-Tetris for a while. Yay! Everything now has its own little corner. Sleepwear, fun silly outfits and items on sale are on one side of the shop. New releases, dresses and casuals are on the other side. The lobby in the middle has some bean bags to chill on if you need to rest your feet, or if your boyfriend doesn't feel like following you around while you shop.

I will be adding live models very soon. I am also working on adding a subscription system for goodies and store notices. Oh! And I added a shiny new mailbox at the entrance so you can now leave me comments, suggestions or even hate mail *sad* via note card right there on the spot. Weee!

Update your landmarks and drop by for a look see. Comments and suggestions are welcomed. Make my day and say it looks oh so awesome. Shatter my confidence and tell me the new place sucks beans. Whatever. I like hearing from you guys!

Slurly thingie for the new shop
Plush Rho (122,180,22)

See you there!

BettyB :)

Yay!

Woohoo! I have been enjoying my stay at Le Cadre and it looks like I get to stay a little bit longer. Yay! Thank you to Sensual Casanova :D

Le Cadre

Check out the new designers moving in soon!

edit: Le Cadre is now called Sensual Productions y'all. New name, same great stuff!

Halloween Ghost Hunt

Get your bag and start finding goodies!

The Grid Wide Halloween Hunt organized by Lucky Designs started earlier today and will last until Sunday November 4th. Yay!

I decided to jump in and join the fun, so I have a couple of ghosts hidden in the Total Betty Boutique main store on Son. I think they are pretty easy to find. My store isn't that big so hiding stuff is kinda hard. I also added an Apple Bob thingie so you can get some free stuff in there too!

Participating is pretty easy. Just make your way the the central hub to pick up your bag and then look at the big display board. It lists all the places taking part in the hunt. TP to one of them, find a ghost, click on it (while wearing the bag) and the prize goes straight into your goodie bag. Way cool!

Here is the slurl to get started http://slurl.com/secondlife/Jokung/177/14/36/

Happy Halloween everyone and happy hunting!

New release! *College Bound* Mix and Match Fall Collection

I finally found some space for the new things! Yay! Not sure I am crazy about the layout of the store...but it will do for now. A redesign seems in order. And I seriously need to redesign my older posters. I cringe everytime I look at the hair/skin on them compared to the new ones. Not to mention the old layouts totally don't match! Yikes! Oh well.

"Ok, *snore!!!* Betty. We don't care about your store. On with the new stuff!" (sheesh, you guys are so rude...)

*****
Introducing *College Bound*, a versatile mix and match collection for the Fall. It has pants, jeans, capris, skirts, cardigans, shirts, combined shirts... lots of stuff!

Here is a small sample of the items available:

First, the little short coats! Wear them with or without the prims. Short or slightly longer. They are what started this little collection. Originally, I just wanted a coat but I ended up with a whole wardrobe and then some!


Next, we have the flexi "Patched Up" Skirts. The glitch pants have matching line designs so your leg doesn't scream "I'm here!!!!!!" when you walk and just quietly blends in with the prims instead.

And then zee tops. Lots of tops. The Western tops come in green, yellow and pink (very muted colours). The cardigans (orange, gold or green) by themselves, or combined over the shirts. They come in long and short versions/tucked/untucked etc.


There are also dark jeans (in black, dark blue or dark brown), pants (yeah, just pants) in green, rust and brown and capris (similar to the skirt but without all the lines) also in green, rust and brown.

*****

The collection is available in singles or packs so you can pick only what you want and mix and match your outfits without breaking the bank.

Everything comes in all layers available for even more flexibility. Yay!

*****
It's available at the Total Betty main store location on Son as well as my two new locations at Le Cadre (thanks to Sensual Casanova! yay! I knew sending in those naked pics would work! Kidding!) and Pompadour City (Yay Marjie!) right next to the sushi shop.

The collection is not on Onrez yet, but will be listed shortly. Everything is in the box, I just need to add the pictures, details etc. Oy!

That's it, that's all! (it's enough!)

Hope you like!

As always, feedback/comments/suggestions are always welcomed! :)

Err...space maybe?

I have been so busy packing and colouring, I forgot one small detail... I do not have space for the new stuff!

So, I took out my tools and decided it was time to expand my little store. I didn't want to move things upstairs, as I don't think people like going up and down floors to shop and I sorta like my little art gallery and changing room up there.

I am so running out of prims. Good thing I planned ahead and got myself an extra lot on the same sim or I would not be able to do anything! Looks like I might have to say goodbye to my little skybox eventually though. *sad sad* That or trim down my building even more. I already nuked my little office. Not that I ever used it but it looked cool! Oh well, I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. Right now, it's working out ok.

Other than that, a big chunk of my time this weekend was spent looking all over Callatropia for their treasure hunt! yay! Today is the last day for the 50% sale on selected hairstyles in store (and to get the mega gift bag at the entrance of the Calla store) Woo! Hurry before it ends! (you can also bob for apples. Don't worry about getting your hair wet. Chances are, you'll win brand new hair to replace it!)

I'm off to dunk my head some more in the green goo... Wish me luck!

Ta!

*TILT!* Slight delay -- having technical issues

Just a short post to let you know I am having some issues uploading textures and creating clothing this weekend. Boo!

I wanted to add a few more versions to the cardigan (short, long, tucked shirt, untucked etc etc). I'm done everything but... I can't seem to be able to wear them! Ack! If it is not textures refusing to upload, it is textures showing when they're not supposed to be there, or not showing when they're supposed to be there. For all I know, I am walking around naked at the moment even though I look fully clothed on my end. Eep! I better hide from the fashion police until this is all sorted out...

So yes, there will be a slight delay with the release until I can put everything together in SL. The good news is that it gave me time to add a few things -- made a no belt version for the jeans, added another colour for the jeans as well, added another pair of pants, and made way too many variations of the cardigan and sweater combo (tucked, untucked, short, long, alone, together etc etc).

It also gave me time to buy some modeling poses and hair. I never release that much at once usually so...I was running out of poses for the posters (not that I have a lot to start with hehe)

Hopefully, this will all be fixed by the time I log back in later tonight. But for now, I am off to eat some turkey! yay! Thanksgiving here this weekend!

Ciao!

Sidewalk Sale at Fashion Mode!

Sidewalk Sale at Fashion Mode!

The lovely Ashlin Leandros has organized an impromptu sidewalk sale at her mall, Fashion Mode! All the vendors have little table with featured items on sale! Big savings!

I have a few items on sale myself. All the Swimmin' swimsuits are 50% off. Those include a little matching skirt as well as matching flip flops and all come on tattoo friendly layer options.

I also put the plaid mini skirts on sale for the occasion, also at 50% off.

The sale takes place today September 4th starting at 5pm and will last 24 hours (or until I find the time to pack things up!)

Hurry! Find it all here >>> http://slurl.com/secondlife/Amour/154/232/32/

******ONREZ****

Ohhh! While I am here, I would like to say that I finally found the time to list everything in my Onrez online store (formelly known as SL Boutique). Woot! Took a while but I am finally up to date! Check it out! Great for sending gifts on no transfer items. My Onrez store.

Ciao!

What a week it has been...

A Very Happy Betty

This ^ (see picture above) is how I looked on my friend Marjorie's monitor last night. I spent the evening grinning like an idiot. Usually, I'd just call it a bug. But this time, little Betty definitely had a reason to smile. Who wouldn't be this happy with all the cool stuff that has been happening recently?!

First, getting the chance to be involved with the Relay for Life Dixie Rebels crew has been a blast. The *Poodles* outfits seem to be selling well. I am so happy everytime I see that one of them has sold or that a donation has been made. I definitely want to make more things, so if you have requests, let me know! I need ideas and always love getting suggestions from people.

Second, I got blogged y'all! Not once, but twice! That was wayyyyyy cool! I want to say a big thank you to Tigerlily Koi from the Aspire blog and Grazia Horwitz from the Second Style Fashionista blog for their kind words. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Those reviews totally made my day (well, days really, since one was last week) However, the day wasn't done yet!

I logged in yesterday to find an IM waiting for me. It was from Blaze Columbia about the New Designer Forum. *faint* I had to wait a bit to reply because I was afraid of sounding like a real dork (waiting probably did not help much.) The convo pretty much went like this on my part : "thanks!" "thank you!" "thanks again!" "ty ty" and so on.

After a short convo, I got to met up with Blaze to pick my wall. It's a big wall. A very very big wall. A huuuuge wall. All I kept thinking was...there is NO WAY I can fill this!

Woah...that's a biiiiiiiig wall

Blaze left (probably tired of hearing thanks so many friggin times lol) and I went back to set up a little later on. I started with the new dresses. Haha! The posters were so so tiny! I have gotten so used playing Tetris with my posters in tiny shops that I must admit, I was a little overwhelmed by this wall. I ended up taking everything I had ever made out of my inventory, moving stuff around a few billion times (scaling some things to make them bigger so it wouldn't look so bare) and finally came up with a layout that I was satisfied with.

And so, there it was. All my work so far. All on one big, huge, giant wall. Not much by some standards, but more than I thought I would ever have when I first started. I definitely never thought I would end up here, in this place, or get written about, or get the chance to get involved in the SLRFL.

What amazing people I have met and what a fun ride this has been so far. It's a little surreal. And way, way cool. Thanks to everyone, for the kind words, the amazing opportunities, and most of all, thanks to my Son crew, who inspire me and make me laugh every single day.

Happy Vday! New things and freebs!

Hope everyone has a Happy Valentine's Day. GF/BF, significant other or not. It's a good time to wear pink and wear kitsch heart accessories. Rejoice!

I was trying to come up with some fabu stuff for Valentine's but all I ended up with were toe socks. Don't ask. I was making some leg warmers for a friend and got carried away...

Some goodies and a tiny release for Valentine's Day. Almost didn't make it at all since SL was being bad again and I couldn't do ANYTHING for the past three days. Bad bad!

Anyway, let's start with the new stuff. Toe socks! Presenting "Stayin In", a comfy "stay at home and do nothin" outfit. It includes:

• 1 Comfy flannel PJ Pants. Rolled up at the knees --with prim attachment at the knees and little strings on the waist band. (underpants and pants layers)

• 1 bummy but oh so comfy paint-stained shirt (in all 3 top layers)

• Stripey socks in bright "rainbow" colours with prim toes.

• And, the piece de resistance for this Valentine's Day, a free flaming trash can to burn to a crisp all the negative memories of loves past. Yay!

Super Vday special. 50L$. Only February 14th and 15th. Copy/Mod/No Trans (EDIT Hmm, 50L$ seems like a good price for those so, the price is staying the same forevah)



Valentine's Day (and the day after...) freebies/almost freebies.

"Strawberry Dots" trio which includes a bra, one pair of panties and a matching tank top. Tops come in all three layers, panties in two layers. 1L$ until the 15th (EDIT, I suck at sales...I can rarely bring myself to raise back the prices...so...these will remain at 1L$ forevah too! Yay!) at Total Betty's Main store in Son and in the newest location, Fashion Mode


Come grab your free flaming trash can! No purchase necessary. It's free, free, free. It's trans too, so grab one for a friend and get the fire burnin'.


Stop by Fashion Mode tonight, February 14th. Lots of freebies from FM vendors and a special event. The lovely Lovey will be releasing her skins and there will be raffles, so, you could go home with a new skin tonight. Yay! http://slurl.com/secondlife/Amour/154/232/32/

Have a nice week everyone!

It's been a year already...

It's been a year already since my last post! ;)

I know, I know...I'm getting the blogging disease everyone gets where they stop posting for a while. Luckily, it's not a chronic case so here I am, posting something new!

The last week has pretty much been me still hanging out with the friendly neighbors and revamping the store layout.

I also finished this latest outfit. I've been tinkering with it a little here and there for weeks now. It's not a complex design, but there was always a little "something here", "something there" that wasn't quite right. And then, trying to decide on the colour. It was brown originally. Now it is every colour but brown. hehe



Alphabet is a flexi skirt/sweater set available in 12 colours. Yes, twelve! Each colour set can be purchased individually or in 4 colour "packs". They are copy and mod (yay!) and no transfer.

There is a special promotion when you purchase Alphabet in-world (either at Total Betty's in !Matrix Mall! or in the Son Village Shopping Mall location). Get an extra sweater customized for free with each purchase of an Alphabet skirt/sweater set. You will get a voucher with your purchase which you can redeem for a free sweater customized with your own initial (or another letter if you wish).

Here is the slurl for the main store: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Son/175/209/27/

That's all folks! Hope you like this latest release. Comments/suggestions welcomed as always.

Have a nice week everyone!

Reminder. Free dress offer ends soon!

Just a little reminder that the free cocktail dress offer with every purchase of the Happy Hour business set is ending on December 30th! The 3 piece dress is also available for individual purchase at 150L$ if you don't want to buy the other full set.

I also listed my stuff on SL Boutique! You can now shop online or buy gifts for others with one simple click! Prices are the same as in the in-world shops, including the stuff on sale and the After Hour promo.

Here is the url for my SLB store : www.slboutique.com/betty_barracuda

Toodles!

Holiday madness

Tiny bubbles...

Whew! The holiday madness is finally dying down. All the shopping, eating, visiting and singing fun made it difficult to spend much time working on designs or even just hanging out.

I did get to hang out with my new neighbors a bit. Things always seem to turn into a party everytime Marj and Vic are around. hehe Last night was no exception. A bunch of us ended up dancing the night away in my loft. Dance balls, spotlights and bubbles materialized out of thin air and the party was on!

Even with all the fun neighborhood distractions, I was able to finish putting the shop together. It is now open to the public. Take some time and visit the other local shops. There is everything from furniture to clothes to art posters and cool avatars over at Victor's place. I think I will add a little neighborhood section on here to showcase the various things available on the island and maybe even share some of our crazy antics.

Still some great spots available for rent! Come take a peek and grab a spot before they are all gone! Not only will you take top notch service, you also get some pretty awesome peeps as neighbors!

Here's the slurl for zee boutique http://slurl.com/secondlife/Son/175/209/27/

Hope everyone had a great Christmas!

Movin' on up!

New boutique under construction on the Son sim.

I've been breathing in saw dust and paint fumes for the past 2 days. Yep! I'm busy with a new store! Yay!

After talking to Santa, and talking to a few people who told me his word wasn't as good as he claimed, I figured it would be better if I took the matters into my own hands.

I packed my bags and left on a very long journey through the grid, in search of the perfect spot. Lucky for me, the perfect spot ended up being one of the first places I found.

I was staring at an empty lot, admiring the view, when the landlord flew by and made the big mistake of asking if I had any questions. Had he known it was going to result in a two day interrogation, I think he would have kept flying. The dude seriously has the patience of a god. He really went out of his way to answer any concerns I might have had. You rock Rudolf!

It has been a couple of days since I started settling in and OMG! I couldn't be happier with my decision. The landlord is awesome and so are the tenants. I have had the pleasure of meeting most of them and they all rock. Seriously.


The neat thing about this sim is that it's brand spankin' new so we are all settling in at the same time. I love the layout. It has a nice open feel with lots of space left between each lot so we're not all into each other's hair.

There are still lots of spots available for rent if you are looking for a nice place to open a store/office. Drop by and take a look! Feel free to come bug me in my little shop if you have any questions and Rudolf's not around. I am there a lot, moving things around and mostly cursing at prims.

Here's the slurl http://slurl.com/secondlife/Son/175/209/27/

This will drop you near by store. I'm just too lazy to go check what the other slurl is for the center of the island ;)

Have a nice week everyone!

Oops!

I realized yesterday, while getting dressed, that my Charmin' "longer" top in black (Night) was the same length as the "shorter" one. I am not sure if I simply changed it after packaging everything or if I was half asleep at the mouse or what. Just to make sure, I went ahead and sent everyone who purchased the black dres a little note and a new top.

I am pretty sure I got everyone but if you have purchased the Charmin' dress in black (Night) and didn't receive a folder from me last night, drop a note or an IM to Betty Barracuda and I will fix it.

The longer top is not a huge deal longer (it's as long as a shirt can get) but it is still nice to have to wear with pants and such. Looks really nice with the jacket and a pair of jeans or black pants.

I corrected the boxed items last night in the store so anything sold on December 5th and later will have the correct items.

That's all!

Chuggin' along

My latest project has taken a life of its own. It has snowballed into wayyy too many pieces. It needs to be stopped. Now. *put the pen down...step away from the computer*

Good grief. What started out as a two-piece outfit has ballooned into...wait...let me count...one, two, three...TEN pieces. And I could've kept going. But a girl's gonna know when to say "enough!" (well, if I knew how to say that, I wouldn't have kept going til ten I guess.)

Let's see, there's two regular skirts, two prim skirts, a bra, panties, three tops and one jacket. In four colours. They all mix and match for a dressier look with a lot of detail or a simple but still classy look.

More pieces should be good right? Wrong! Now I'm trying to package it all. I'm going to end up with a 50 foot billboard just to be able to show everything. My shop is not that big! I will most likely go with several options like the bra/panties/mini skirt in one box, the dress/shirt/jacket/prim skirt option in another box (maybe the fancy one in one box and the regular one in another) and then an all out "I-want-everything-so-give-me-a-discount" box.

I have to say that I am really happy with the results though and reactions have been good. Yay! Thank goodness or I would've had to jump off a cliff if it had turned out butt ugly.

As I said in my last post, the release has been postponed until sometime tomorrow since SL was acting wonky last night. I had no body and my bud Tobias was stuck as a butchy looking chick.

Miss Tobias

Sharp dresser. Low maintenance.
Enjoys football and other things.
Leave a comment if you're interested
and I'll hook you up!

So that is all folks. I'm going to get some sleep and finish up everything tomorrow!

Tata!

Now open!

Yay! Finally! The SL Gods decided to be kind to me and let me finish setting up without too many glitches. Got everything packed in my boxes and they're ready to go! I think I remembered everything! Seems everytime I think I'm done, I remember something else to put in! Landmark! Thank you notes! Picture of outfit! Done, done, done! Whew :)

Posted a classified tonight. I was floored by the amount of money some people can put on those things. I, myself, chose to go for the bottom of the barrel shoppers. You know, the ones who hopefully scroll allllllll the way down the list to see what neat things they can find down there. *jumps up and down and shouts* "Down here!!! I'm down here!!"

So...here's the slurl for my little place! Total Betty store in Matrix Mall, Porcupine (98/145/117)

Come check it out! And if you have comments/suggestions etc, please drop me a note!

Cheers!

Opening tomorrow!

If all goes well...

I thought I would be able to open today, but seeing SL wasn't cooperating tonight, I had to push things back one day. Not like it's disturbing any one's schedule. This will be, how shall I say, a very under the radar opening. No fireworks, no big DJs, no parades. Just a few outfits on the walls and some finger crossing. ;)

Kinda hard to call anything "big" when you only have a few things on the wall anyway and when no one's heard about you! It would probably go something like this...

Girl #1: "I only see three outfits! Is the rest of the stuff rezzing for you guys?"
Me: "There are only three outfits..."
Boy #56: "Who is this chick? Anyone know her?"
Me: "Oh, I don't know many people. I tend to just stay in my house most of the time."
Fashion Girl #22 "Ewwww! An unknown designer! To think I clicked her display!: *runs off crying*

Setting up is pretty much completed. First, I have to redo some of the work I tried to do tonight, only to realize that I was working while being offline or something. I thought the mini map looked odd. Also, I couldn't move but hey, that's not gonna stop me! I'm crafty! I can zoom in pretty good with my uber mouse skills! And so, I went about my business of setting up the last displays only to find everything I had worked on reverted to sad little plywood cubes scattered all over my floor after logging back in. Fiddlesticks!!! Note to self : Red mini map = stop working!

Drop by tomorrow for some clothing goodness! Weeee!

Ciao babes!

Got my shop!

Weeee! Found the perfect little spot to open my store! I couldn't have hoped for a nicer place, I just love it. It isn't huge or anything but it's exactly what I needed. I will open very soon! Just letting the paint dry and sewing the last few stitches on the clothes!

The store is located in !Matrix Mall! in Porcupine.

I'm so excited!