I’ve finally put together the bulk of my both at the Fantasy Faire!  You can find Kitheres in the Avatopia sim, just to the right of the path when you arrive, facing directly east.  (Or you can use this handy SLURL:  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Avatopia/209/118/22)

Kitheres Dark Fantasy Eyes

There are quite a number of new releases this time around.  I’ve been using the last few weeks to put together two new outfits, Hera and Breanne (pics lower in this post), as well as a bunch of new eyes, releasing some sculpted ears that were made to work with the Delvian skins, and putting together some goodies as RFL donation gifts and freebies.

Elven ears for Delvian skins

All of the new stuff will ONLY be available at the Fantasy Faire, which runs from June 15-21.  Afterwards, I guess I will have to figure out more space for the new goodies

In any case, I am offering three donation gifts for RFL this go ’round:

SeiRei wings - RFL donation gift

Breanne - Jacket/skirt combo with leather pants - RFL Donation gift - Also available in teal, red and black.

Hera - corset and bodysuit - RFL donation gift - also available with green, blue or white trim.

Fantasy Faire is a 9 sim affair and sure to be busy all week!  When you decide to visit, please make sure you take off any unnecessary scripted items.  Primming down as far as you can will also go a long way to making your faire-going experience smoother.

For more info about other vendors at the show, check out the FFC’s Fantasy Faire blog, here:  http://fantasyfaire2009.wordpress.com

Kitheres is pleased to present the following two releases for your interest:

Leather Backlaced Boots
These boots come with scripted texture change and resize, and include 6 colours in total.

Sakura Blossom Circlet and Choker
To help celebrate the new spring season, consider adorning yourself with a cherry blossom circlet or choker!

Come on over and have a look!

Kitheres is pleased to announce it has moved from its intermediate location to a more permanent home in Sylvan.

As part of this event, Kitheres is releasing a new line of eclectic skins in a five shade range in a variety of different makeups!

To help us celebrate, Fmeh Tagore will be DJing the grand opening of our new home location on Sunday, January 25 from 12-2PM SLT! Join us and have a look around or just to hang out and party!

Selected older items will be on sale, and a variety of freebies will be on hand.

We look forward to seeing you there!!

Things are coming along decently – if you’ve been following the Flickr feed, you’ll likely have seen updates along the lines of makeups, finalised skin tones, and some promo shots. The train is finally moving, but there are many things to do before I can really say these are ready for release.

Ideally I would really like to set a date within the next week or so, but it will all depend on some behind the scenes design and paperwork. My main concern at this point is that I would like to treat this line release as an overall rebranding and store opening – that in itself is proving to be an interesting challenge. I’ve done other stuff under the Kitheres banner before, but it’s been well over six months since I’ve done anything specifically for it, and I’d like to move it in a direction that is less stagnant.

I will likely be moving most/all of that content to a discounted area in the new store. Figuring out what to do with my existing store will be interesting. Perhaps it will be nixed? I am not sure.

Anyhow, keep an eye open here for more info on an upcoming opening event!

In the mean time, here’s a little something I’ve been working on for general use:

A bit of skin tone comparison underway. I’m probably going to send out test skins some time soon either today or tomorrow, and am hoping to remain sensitive to ethnic colouring. Having some concerns with screen to screen colour calibration, but there’s really not that much one can do to control the end user’s experience

In any case, hoping to push through this as soon as I can so I can get to some of the makeup options.

There isn’t much here yet, and I’m working on adding a customized template fairly soon to coincide with some new content I’ve been working on, but i figured I’d kick off my postings to this blog while I felt like posting (and also since it’s pretty late and I don’t really want to start filling my head with CSS and HTML )

In any case, those who are familiar with Kitheres will know that it’s mostly been my scifi/fantasy based hobby/business, which has mostly taken a backburner to my tree business, Organica.

I’ve always wanted to try my hand at developing Kitheres further though, because I have always been interested in avatar customization, coming from an illustrative and character design background.  So within the next couple of months, along with a bunch of other personal and location changes, I’ll be posting a bit about various things I’m working on as well as products that I am releasing.

Elyion Alecto modelling a work-in-progress skin for Kitheres

For one thing, I’m pleased to announce that I am working on a new set of skins for general and genre use.  I’ve sent around several editions for testing, and will probably begin working out skin tones based on their finalized bases within the next couple of days.  After that, probably some basic makeup options, finalizing a building for my store, and then prep for some major changes to my overall presence in SL.  Basically, I will be upgrading Sylvan to a full region, so my first point of order is to move over all my Organica stuff, set up Kitheres in the sim as well, then completely re-landscape the sim to take advantage of added primmage, etc.

And then hopefully work stuff will catch up with me ;P

Sooo yeah.  Busy busy next little while. Pretty optimistic though, as long as I keep the pace up, i guess!

Anyhow, I wanted to publicly thank the folks (Leilany Lafollette, Vivianne Draper, Zorena Deckard, Zuleika Deere, Kira Zobel, Vertigo Paris, Dahlia Eilde, Arilynn Karu, Charlemagne Allen and Ash Garden) who have been a great help with testing thus far.  There’s a bit of testing left yet, but i really, really appreciate the help you’ve all provided thus far!