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!

Still some costumes left to win! Weee!

Scared in Dixie!

Thanks to everyone who posted! Hope you like the costumes! Almost everyone should have gotten them already!

Because of some double posts and no name posts, there is still ONE robot costume to be won and ONE Chiquita costume. So don't pay attention to the number of comments and get posting to get a free costume! Yay! :)

On a side note, if you are in the mood for a little spooky adventure, go check out Mystic Brodsky's lake in Dixie Land Estates. The girl sure knows how to decorate for Halloween (or any holiday really!). This lake puts my little spider webs and jack-o-lanterns decorations to shame! lol Here's the slurl. Go see quick before Halloween's over and she packs it all up! DIXIE LAND ESTATES

New Costume! *Crafty Robot*

Made a couple of playful costumes for Halloween (or any other time, this is SL after all, we can dress up all the time!) They are available in either COPY or TRANS versions.

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First up is BEEP BOOP THE CRAFTY ROBOT, an old school, homemade cardboard robot adorned with aluminum foil, scotch tape and glitter stencils. A real beauty! Comes with dryer hose legs and arms, tissue box shoes and basic PJs to keep things PG under the box :D

This robot also comes equipped with a very menacing hair dryer that shoots rubber duckies at people. Hours of fun! (maybe I need to get out more? lol) and a freebie animation to make you spin into space (not litterally! just floating in circles...no orbiting involved!)


Hope you enjoy this costume as much as I did making it!

New costume! Chiquita!

Hair *Double Daisy* by Calla -- Skin by Lovey Darling

The second costume is called *Chiquita*

A fun, playful little costume loaded with fruit! Comes with banana leaf bikini and skirt, a lot of fruit (for your bewbs and waist), a fruit bowl hat, matching sandals and pineapple earrings.

You also get a tasty fruit punch that you can share with all your friends (the drink is copy/trans) and a little freebie dance for extra fun. Yay!

Available in either COPY or TRANSFER versions.

Halloween Freeb at Fashion Mode

Ashlin Leandros organized a little impromtue Halloween thingie for Wednesday night at Fashion Mode. Each store has a little display for gifts and/or discounted items!

I didn't have anything Halloweeny in my repertoire, so, I made something real quick. Now, since I usually don't like things with too much "holiday" stuff on it, I went with Halloween "colours" instead so the outfit doesn't become useless after the holiday has come and gone. However, I felt it was missing a little something and then I though... " OMG Pasties!" lol Yay!

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Introducing *Trick or Treat Me*

-1 nightie (top/bottom/prim skirt)
-matching panties AND pasties. Oulala!

Everything comes in all available layers. Copy/Mod. and all for a cool 1L$.
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At Fashion Mode, right now! Then at the Main Store and other locations until the 31st.

Enjoy!

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...)

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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.

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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!

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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!

SL hates my clothes

Me: Wanna see my "what was I thinking pack?" lol I need pricing advice.
Evil friend: lol. Looks great! You should add a few more options for the skirt.
Me: Nooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Evil friend: lol!

It's official. SL hates my stuff so much, it won't let me release it.

Here is a little recap of the past few days...

I finish a couple of details while waiting for SL to let me change clothes. Fun! I upload the new textures. Yay! I apply them to the clothes. Woot! I take pics for the posters. So far so good! I make the posters. Weee! I upload the posters. Awesome! I apply them to my boxes. Cool! Now, the next step would be... put the clothes IN the boxes. Woohoo! *record screaching*

*the region...bla bla...bla bla...5 minutes*

Ok. No problem. I have to pee anyway. I wash my hands, wait a few more minutes before TPing back to my cave. Ready! Time to pack everything! And then...

*the region...bla bla...bla...* Again and again. *kicks computah*

That was yesterday. Tonight's bug du jour is my mini map turning red and me not noticing, which means I am working along, all oblivious-like, for absolutely nothing cause I'm not connected to the server anymore. *big buggy eyes* Argh!

The upside (?). I gave up packing and made more color options, thanks to my evil friend who put the idea in my head that it would be nice to have more options for the skirt. So now, there are more colour options for the skirt, shirt, coat, and cardigan. lol

Please please, let me pack this stuff so I can move on and stop adding stuff! Pleeeaseee!

This nervous breakdown was brought to you by: Total Betty, bringing fine quality clothing to SL women since 2006 (when it let's me)

*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!

Sneak peek for this weekend's release

The highlight of the night for me was after the show!

A hunk in my bathrobe! Woo!

As promised, here are some pictures of the new designs that were featured as part of the Divine Intervention event. It was a very fun night! So many different styles and yet, the models did a great job of making it all work together. Thanks again to all of you! A special thank you to Miabella Foxley of Imagen Divine Agency for making this night happen. I wish I had more pictures to show you but my photography skills didn't rez last night...

I am still fiddling with the posters and packaging everything. I would like to get it all done by tomorrow *crosses fingers*(oh and I noticed a seam! Noooo! Need to fix that before it gets packaged!) It has been a loooong week.

After those are done, I will work on some other colour variations. Maybe not for all the designs, but a few!

Ok, enough with the late night rambling. On with the outfits!

Six new outfits total. Some are mixy matchy, like the College Bound set, some are stand alone and one is a revamped version of an old classic.

*Dainty* / *After Hour Diva*

*Dainty* / *After Hour Diva*

*College Bound* (mix n match singles/sets)

*College Bound* (mix and match singles/sets)

*Office Chic* / *Wrapped Up*

*Office Chic* / *Wrapped Up*

Of course, I cannot go without throwing something fun in the mix! After many requests for the retired SLRFL *Poodles* outfit, it is making a comeback. In brand new colours and patterns. Send your requests my way if you have any specific colours you would like to see! Those will be out later this week if all goes well.

The Return of the Poodle! Coming soon!

Time to get some sleep! I will post an announcement once everything is in the store.

Thanks for looking and have a nice weekend.

Divine Intervention tonight!

Less than one hour to go until the big event! Here is a sneak peak of the exclusive freebie I included in the Divine Intervention gift bag. This is one of the outfits featured. This colour will only be available at the event and will not be sold in the store! So come grab a copy and check out all the latest fashions at the same time! (see previous post for the complete line up)

I will post pictures of the new releases after the show! Lots of new stuff for the Fall!

I will post pictures of the new releases right after the event. Lots of new stuff for the Fall! Everything should be in store sometime tomorrow. Working on the posters as we speak (Oy! I'm overdosing on photoshop this week!)

Please note that the event has been moved to another sim for better performance! The old link will have a LM giver but just in case, here's the new slurl! La Isla Pacifica (122, 105, 23)

Hope to see you there!

Video Teaser! Divine Intervention -- October 5th 5-8pm SLT

The wonderful Miabella Foxley just sent me the link to the teaser for Friday's big couture fashion venue -- Divine Intervention presented by Imagen Divine Agency [ida].

Friday, October 5th from 5pm to 8pm SLT.
Live Elements (217/237/491)

Check it out!



Machinima by Cecil Hervi

The venue will feature designs by TULI (Tuli Asturias), Casa del Shai (Shai Delacroix), Ingenue (Betty Doyle), Karamia (Kara Eagle), Calla (Haedon Quine), Amaretto (Lux Yao) and Total Betty (Betty Barracuda aka moi! Eep!)

Imagen Divine Agency: Miabella Foxley, Elysium Eilde, Victoria Coppola

Featured [ida] models: Dendre Benelli, Bex Hathaway, Addison Krupinski, Halfpint Pennell, Mellyn McCarey, Feles Seitan.

There is a rumour going around that in addition to a fabulous fashion show, there will be gift bags full of goodies but you didn't hear it from me! ;)

Hope to see you there! IM me if you need a LM.

Fashion Show -- October 5th!

October 5th from 5 to 8pm SLT

Oops! Forgot to mention that I will take part in Imagen Divine Agency's fashion show on October 5th from 5-8pm, on Live Elements (217/237/461)

The venue will showcase designs by Tuli Asturias, Shai Delacroix, Betty Doyle, Kara Eagle, Haedon Quine, Lux Yao and yours truly. Yay!

I am very excited about the project. Stressed but excited! It is such an honor to be amongst such talented and established designers.

I have been working hard on the designs. They say pressure builds diamonds. Let's hope it's true! (although I'd be happy to end up with some convincing looking cubic zirconias). hehe It's nice to get the creative streak going again.

Don't forget to vote on my little poll. It needs some luvin'. Tell me what type of designs you'd like to see more of!

That is all.

Back to PS I go :)

Get more cozy! *New colours added*

Mornin' all!

Added four more colours to the Cozy Plush sets following a few requests for darker shades.

The four new colours are:

Fuschia Fox
Azure Amazon
Emerald Empress
Tangerine Temptress (or Orange Old Bat as I like to call it...)


Also added packs for each colour sets (Pastels and Vibrant) as well as an Indecisive Pack which includes all eight of them (although, I am not sure anyone needs that many bathrobes but I liked the name of the pack hehe)

Note to self: Teal backgrounds...don't agree with resizing!

You can get them at Total Betty's Main store on Son!

Have a nice weekend!

PS: Congrats to the five lucky FashCon members who won themselves a Cozy set by being the first five to leave a comment on the blog! And thank you for the kind words everyone!

Because every gal deserves a break! *New stuff!*

Well Tigerlily, you wanted something new...here it is! haha. For now anyway ;)

Keeping up with the latest fashions can take its toll on every gal! Break away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life and pamper yourself! Wash that prim hair, get a facial, rest your tired ugly feet and let the stress just melt away in your comfy bathrobe.

Each COZY PLUSH set includes:

- 2 bathrobe tops (jacket-shirt layers)
- 1 bathrobe bottom on the skirt layer
- Bathrobe prim belt loops and prim sleeves.
- 2 nightie tops (undershirt-shirt layers)
- 2 nightie bottoms (underpants-pants layers)
- 1 nightie prim skirt
- Sculptie slippers (one for each foot!)
- 3 sculptie hair towels (with or without bangs) Warning - I am NO hair maker...
- Cucumber slices with facial strips (attaches to left ear)

Everything is COPY and MOD. NO TRANSFER.

Available in four girly colours at the main Total Betty store and on Onrez! (links top/right of blog). I also put them up at Fashion Mode and MO Island.

Pink Princess

Peach Pinup

Blue Belle

Green Goddess

Making this was a blast. It started with trying to make more sculpties... they sorta looked like a hair towel, so I just ran with it! As usual, it ballooned into a bunch of items but eh, I can't help it. Hope you enjoy this silly, fun release! My sketch book is full full full, so there will be more "serious" releases soon. I just need to find time. Anyone has some spare time they could give me? Pretty please?

Have a great week everyone! Hope you have as much fun wearing this as I had making it!

PS: Ewww! the pic quality is horrible! Just noticed I forgot to resize before uploading. I'll fix it tomorrow! I need to get some sleep :)

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/

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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!

Alive and kicking

Kicking my phone service provider that is!

I have been missing due to some exciting things like broken phone lines and ISPs taking forever to hook us up at the new house. Fun times I tell ya!

Just got back on the internets after over 2 weeks. Woot! It was very zen though, not having to worry about emails etc. Just wish I could've warned people before hand but eh, what can ya do?

I did start to worry when my rents were due for my stores. Oy! I was getting scared everyone would give me the boot but I finally made it back before everyone kicked me out. *whew!*

I have been fiddling with some designs but I will not release anything until the Fall. I am still too busy to really concentrate on releasing things and I want to have a nice little collection ready instead of the random shirt/skirt here and there.

That's it for now. Just wanted to give a quick update on my whereabouts. If you tried to reach me while I was away, and I have not gotten back to you yet, contact me again because the message probably got lost.

Ciao babes!

SL Relay for Life outfit. It's Xmas! In July y'all!

Available in five, yes FIVE vibrant colours!

I took time off my busy RL (by giving up sleep for almost an entire night!) to make some outfits for Saturday's Christmas in July event. ---See other post below---

*Xmas in July* (sue me, it's late...that's all I came up with for the name) is a lovely Xmassy (is this a word?) skating ensemble --skates not included--

It includes:

A short strapless dress in two versions (with and without the black belt), a short jacket (it's cold on the ice!) and a flexi prim mini skirt. Also included is a low rise version of the glitch shorts (with belt).

It is available in five colours: Red, Green, Blue, Purple and Pink.

Everything is MOD and TRANSFER and it is ONLY 60L$!

100% of the proceeds go to raise money for Relay for Life.

You can buy them only in Total Betty's Dixie Land Estates shop, located here --insert slurly thing-- http://slurl.com/secondlife/DIXIE%20LAND%20ESTATES/138/234/25 Total Betty @ Dixie Land Estates

Buy the outfit and then join us outside on the skating rink! (join us even if you don't buy anything!)

G'nite all! See you at the event!

Christmas in July! SLRFL Fundraiser

Yes, It's Christmas in July! The Dixie Rebels and the Silver Dollar Saloon are celebrating Christmas. There will be TWO back to back events on Saturday, July 14th from 3-5pm at Dixie Land Estates and then 5-7pm at Silver Dollar Saloon.

The first half will be 2 hours of skating at Dixie Land Estates hosted by the Dixie Rebels for Relay for Life. Get those skates on and come donate for RFL.

Then head over to Dixie where the Silver Dollar Saloon will continue the celebration and fun with a Country Christmas event witDJ Dee Stars musical lineup.

Here is the slurl y'all!

http://slurl.com/secondlife/DIXIE%20LAND%20ESTATES/130/32/22

I'm not dead, just moving!

Greetings!

I have been busy busy since Summer started. Busy enjoying the nice weather, busy working, busy running the business, busy living in between two houses as I am in the process of moving!

So...this sadly does not leave much time for releasing things! Hopefully, once the move is complete, I will be able to settle and get creative again. I am working on some stuff when I have time, but it will probably end up as a big release after the Summer. Making things isn't so much the problem... it's everything that comes after something is designed : logging in to test it, taking pictures, making the posters, packaging it! Oy! If I could just shove everything in a plywood cube and mark it for sale, it would be much easier. hehe. Although, I doubt I would get many customers with this practice.

If you have any problems, questions etc, feel free to drop me a note. I check in regularly to answer IMs and fill in the Alphabet custom lettered sweater orders, so I will get back to you. I just don't hang out much in world at the moment. Not that I would have many people to hang with. Most of the crew seems to be playing outside as well these days!

Relay is coming up soon! July 28th. So get your walkin' shoes ready! And donate!

I hope everyone is enjoying their Summer. I shall be back one day with lots of goodies and new things for your shopping pleasure.

Ta!

Betts