Part of why I’ve been so quiet can be seen in the photo above. Kavar, Kere, Ju, and I are co-owners of a lovely sim we’ve named Covet, and it’s finally open to the public today! It’s been my focus since it came into being, and it’s hard writing here when I can’t write about the main thing taking up my time in SL. I’m so happy I can tell you about it now though, and I hope you find the time to visit.

Covet is home to the main shops for Exile, Treads, and Shine. If you click through to the Exile blog, you’ll see some shots of new hair that Kavar made for the grand opening, and he’s also completely redone his textures and added new freebies and costumes and just tons of stuff. Treads is Ju’s store, and he has brown and black versions of my favorite boots available along with a growing collection of animations. Shine is my shop of course, and there’s a little preview of my new Covet series of eyes that’s currently only available in world, but I’ll be updating XStreetSL soon with all the new stuff.

And in addition to the new eyes, I have a few accessories finally up for sale too. It’s something I’ve meant to do for months, but I got so busy making things for friends that I never managed to make anything I felt like selling until now. Most of the items like my Harvest set make use of sculpted prims, and I’m tickled pink to be able to say that I created the sculpts and textures myself. There’s also a set not shown here that includes a script for choosing from 6 different tints for the gemstones. I’ve had so much fun learning while getting all of these items ready, and I really hope people enjoy them.

For the grand opening, I have 3 sets for the ladies, and I wanted to share a little preview of one of them here. I was really pleased with how the textures turned out on Harvest.

Shine also has accessories for the guys. Resolve is a reworked version of a dog tag I made for a friend. He liked it so much that he encouraged me to sell it, but I wanted that one to be just for him. I created new textures and changed a few details, and I ended up with Resolve.

There are also a few freebies in Shine, so check those out. I made some red/orange eyes in that Covet style shown above, and there’s also a leather wrist cuff made with guys in mind that works just as well on women and a chunky silvery blue necklace with a floral motif for the women. If you do visit and you see me hanging out in the shop with my puppy Winston, then you better say hello!