Writer's Pouch

A while back Enktan Gully invited me to join his Dollar$tore initiative and today I'm proud to announce my first contribution!

Enky's Dollar$tore, formerly known as Enkythings, is a place where new residents can pick up inexpensive clothing, hair, shoes and other items. I went there myself as a newbie actually, which is why I'm excited to now be giving back as a creator. Enktan is currently in the process of reorganizing the entire store. He's created a new format, where dollarbies will be organized by creator rather than category. It's a great idea in my opinion, sure to connect new residents with stores that reflect their personal taste and style.

So this is my dollarbie: a little Writer's Pouch. It's an idea I'd had since a while and considered turning into a regular release. It's kind of sweet I think :)

Outside view of Enky's Dollar$tore. This place has such a distinctive layout. I still remembered it after 3 years! Ahh, those good old newbie days :)

View of the new Designers Section, which is filling up nicely. For now I'm on a little table because I have just one contribution, but future dollarbies of mine will go up here as well.

My little table. So cute! I hope this item will, in a small way, help support the location. All revenue from sales goes towards maintaining the sim and giving out L$1 payments to random newbie visitors.

That's it =^.^=

My Writer's Pouch will be permanently available at both my mainstore and Enky's Dollar$tore. At my mainstore you can also gift, like with any of my other releases. Hope you guys like! Feel free to submit photos of yourself wearing this item to the store Flickr pool.

AnnaMayaHouse mainstore

Enky's Dollar$tore

The Tiny Mobile Phone

This week I have the pleasure of participating in the 'I Love Originals' fair!

'I Love Originals' is organized by Artist's Voice, a Second Life group dedicated to preventing content theft and educating the general public about copyright infringement. They set up this event as a form of positive reinforcement, which I think is a really wonderful gesture towards the community, customers and creators alike. For more information on this amazing group, please visit their website.

So, to celebrate, I made this little dollarbie. It's a unique recolor of my (much larger) Mobile Phone and will only be available for the duration of the fair, February 8th-14th, at the Ruthenium sim.

I love my Ruthenium store by the way :)

As you can see, I put the dollarbie at the entrance. You can still gift it as well, like any of my other releases. Just left click the vendor and follow the gifting instructions.

A few interior shots of the ground floor. Those cute little marshmallow chairs are by my good friend Summer Seale, particle queen.

Iggy the Snail, in pink and light blue, overlooking the rest of the fair. I rezzed a green Iggy over the store entrance as well.

Pic of the upper floor. One can't go wrong with a giant Benny the Bear! I put my pose vendors here, which you can't see in this shot.

There we are =^.^=

If you want this dollarbie, go grab it this week. It won't be for sale again after the event. And also: the slurl I'm giving out will take you directly to my store, but be sure to have a look at the other participating creators as well. (Some have special offers for this fair too :D)

I Love Originals Fair

P.S.: Please keep submitting your photos to the store Flickr pool. I've been enjoying seeing all your cool outfits and creative snaps. I've been busy with RL for the past few weeks, but new releases are on the way :)

Yalin 3015

Portable music reinvented, with the Yalin 3015!

For those who saw The Mobile Phone, this item is not entirely 'new'. I originally made this cassette recorder as a sort of answering machine for my backpack. It turned out cute though, I think, so I modded it to wear around the neck. Read on by the way for information on a special offer!

Sales poster for the green version :)

All the available colors: pink, purple, green, blue, red and grey. My personal favourites are green and red. The red one's coloring is a bit more diverse than the rest, which I found to work well. For those wondering about the name: Yalin comes from my SL name obviously and 3015 from my real life birthday, march 15th.

This cassette recorder is a personal design as you might've guessed. I looked at some reference photos, as I always do, but in the end I just made it realistic enough to be recognized as a cassette recorder and quirky enough to be fun to wear. I used to own a cassette recorder. Not sure it still works, if I still have it that is. I'm very much into modern gadgets and technology, but I get so nostalgic seeing old devices like this. I had planned to put 'vintage cassette recorder' on the poster, but hey: it's a cassette recorder, so of course it's vintage!

Closeup of the keys. Often the record buttons on real cassette players would be red, but I thought that would turn into an eyesore. The volume indicators were a bit tricky to map out, but I love adding detail like that to textures. I considered putting just 'volume' and leaving out the 'level', but I've seen that mention on different recorders and it makes them look even older. (Of course volume 'level', what else? We'd just say 'volume' nowadays.) I might overthink my stuff just a tiny bit, I realize that :P

More detail: electric plug and screws at the sides. Fitting this together was a pain, but all the extra tweaking really made a difference.

The spools and tape. It's a shame some of the detail gets lost when viewed at a distance, because the textures are rather nice. The tape does have that distinct shine to it.

There we are =^.^=

The Yalin 3015 is priced at L$140 per color and available at all my store locations and on Xstreet.

Mainstore Location

Summer Store Location

The Yalin 3015 on Xstreet: pink | purple | green | blue | red | grey

And now for the special offer: for a limited time only, you will get an extra color for free when you purchase this item. This offer is valid on purchases made before noon SLT tomorrow, september 18th, and open to group members only. If you haven't joined the update group yet, please do so by clicking the sign in my mainstore. When you've made your purchase, you can then send me a note specifying the extra color you want and I'll send it to you after the deadline expires :)

A Cup of Cute

Phew, it's been a while since my last post. School got in the way as usual, but I'm getting ready to release a pair of shoes that I'm very excited about. They're gonna be ... different, of course. However, I really wanted to release something before then and I'd made this little bow for the shoes that I thought would work well on its own.



There's lots of bows out there already, I know, but this is my own take on it and it turned out nice, if I do say so myself. I spent a lot of time on the textures, which I hope has paid off. The Little Bow of Cute comes in 10 delicious flavors, L$60 each, with permissions mod and copy. You can also pick up the fat pack, which includes all colors at a 50% discount, in separates and in one handy texture scripted bow as well. Gabriel Watanabe graciously provided the necessary scripting power :o



And with these bows I've officially run out of space at my mainstore. It's time to move to my own parcel and I will, very soon. I'm working on a store building and will hopefully be at my new place within two weeks. Announcements about the location will follow here and in my update group, which is now set up. (Non-SL group, there's a sign to join at my mainstore.)

Speaking of which: I have sent a Little Bow of Cute fat pack to one subscriber. This time the lucky winner is Vasean Talamasca. Congratulations! Hope you like them. I'll give away more stuff and to more people in the future, but the group has to grow a bit still.


That's all from me! Pick up your favorite bows today at my mainstore, my store at the Summer sim or on Xstreet.

Mainstore Location
Summer Store Location

The Little Bow of Cute on Xstreet: pink | red | green | gold | dark purple | light purple | dark blue | light blue | white | black | fat pack


P.S.: I was very sad to see OnRez go. I personally always preferred it to Xstreet/SLX and made more sales there as well, because I could advertise at nice rates. I'm not optimistic about Linden Lab getting a monopoly in this market and seriously doubt any good will come of it. But let's hope I am wrong (like many others thinking the same).