** Alchemy Angels **

So, after a very stressful end of the year with loads of new things and me needing a holiday like never before, there is finally new releases for you girls!

My holidays gave me the inspiration and energy I needed to start this year:) I also got the chance to meet one of my dear SL friends, Alienbear Gupte. She not only showed me around Hong Kong but also took me for a traditional meal that took away (only a little bit) my fear of the unknown food you can see over there, but also explained about their culture and bought me and my family gifts!!! I’ve promised I’ll send one back (she’s a fan of teddy bears), so Alienbear, don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten!!!

This year I am also moving countries, actually next Friday to be precise, so probably the next release will be a few weeks after that, since probably next week I’ll be totally stressed packing and doing last minute visits!!! argh! lol

Well I guess I’ve bored you long enough with what has been happening in my life lately so I’ll get one with showing you the new releases!

First we have Fantasy, this is a ballgown I made just before going on holidays. It can be used also as a wedding dress. It’s very elegant and delicate. The ribbon on the top comes in 6 colours to choose from. Check out the demo to look at the details on the back:) For this image I have used jewellery made by Alienbear Gupte so go to her shop if you want to get the whole look!

Next in line is Timeless, which is a very elegant dress that comes in 6 vibrant colours. It comes with 2 skirts you can wear individually or at the same time. The necklace is not included but I got it from Tickled Pink.

Timeless also comes with the top and glitchpants in underlayers as well as a long top in the jacket layer and also the underlayers in case you would like to wear it with something else than the skirt.

Destiny is a more everyday outfit. It comes with several layers of the outfit so you can see what suits you best. It also comes with a shorter version of the top in case you would like some tummy showing. This outfit comes in 4 colours for you to choose from:) The belt of this outfit also comes as a separate jacket layer in case you would like to wear it with something else.

Gracious is a cute dress with buttons (I totally love buttons!) on the front and the back and a nice ribbon around the waist with a bow on the back. It comes with 2 skirts (actually the skirt on the poster is the second option). The other one is quite transparenty and silky and very 50s. The top also comes in a longer version to wear without the skirts and in the underwear and jacket layers too.

I’ve also made an outfit called Symphony. It can be either used as a dress or a whole outfit that you can either wear with boots or with the sculpty legs I’ve made for it. The dress is very feminine and the skirt very 50’s. The outfit looks sexier but still elegant! I have also done the top as a jacket and underwear layers and done the same thing with the glitch pants so you have a lot of choices when it comes with matching it with other things!

I have also added some extra colours for the Remarkable dress I released before Christmas so come to the main store to take a look!

Well that’s all for now:) I hope you like what I have done so far and be around for the first week of February cause there is a surprise on its way!

Also remember to send me photos so I can place them in my shop in-world! And don’t hesitate to send me a note if you have any queries, I promise I’ll get back to you as fast as I can!

Lots of Love!!!

Constanza Volare <3

Thank you to everyone who came along on Sunday for our Skating, Sleigh Ride and Santa party to celebrate Connie’s new releases :) It may not look like it in this shot (we were too busy to take many photos) but we filled the sim and at one point no one could leave! (I promise we didn’t fix the tp .. well, not much :P)

The rink is set up next to Angels main store (on the site of the old store). Connie’s new designs and our Remarkable EFA Design Awards entry are laid out around the edge of the ice rink and we have a HUGE Christmas tree with free gifts. During the party, Connie twice put her phenomenal Navidad dress up for grabs for 5 mins at a time and I threw in the matching shoes. We also put up several dresses and matching shoes at silly prices at various times, including Dream, Starburst, Poem and the big highlight, Alegria Mystery. We spent the rest of the time skating, taking scary sleigh rides above the sim (I think we might have lost a few guests there - sorry about that lol) and sitting on Santa’s lap. Probably best not to delve too closely into the last one :P Rina made herself useful greeting everyone who went into the store and begging them to throw her ball; she refused to go on the ice, her paws got too cold.

All of these (skating anims, sleigh ride, santa, gifts, new releases) are still on there by the way, so go along and have some fun!

Of course Connie and I had to try the skating out before the event just to prove that Remarkable is the perfect choice for any occasion!

We now have the wonderful EZ-Note message board up in both stores, to which you can add photos, audio messages and notes - so please take some pics (preferably in AlchemyAngels outfits but really we love to see you anyway lol) and put them up.

More exciting news in the next post!

OMG I have stared at the screen for a while not knowing where to start! Theres so much going on!! A couple of months ago i made all these outfits and dresses.. well not all of them but most of them that is. But the poster making took a very long time because my photographer had some RL problems:(. So I had to take matters to myself and spent the weekend making the posters! LOL It was quite the challenge but it was worth it:) I had fun, and now I’m able to release all these things I had lost somewhere in my inventory! I must tell you that most of them are quite summery because when I designed them it wasn’t winter of course! but I don’t want to wait for next summer to release them because I’d rather make new things for then!

I must dedicate a special thanks to Izzy who encouraged me into doing them in the first place, since I wasn’t feeling confident enough:). She is the best friend EVER and oh so cool and stylish of course! BTW remember that throughout all december Izzy has her shoe advent calendar freebies! So go get your free shoes every day!!!

Oh Izzy just tells me theres a wrong post in a blog she has seen this morning so I’ll explain this in case anyone is wondering what is going on. It says that we are giving away a free version of gold and silver Dream, which is not true. There are freebies in both our stores for this month, but dream isn’t one of them!

Well, as the title says we will be having an ice skating session over at Izzy’s place to celebrate the season and the new releases I’m finally able to show you all! And there will be some surprises as well for all of you who go! (Including an appearance of the free Christmas dress (Navidad) and shoes for all of you weren’t able to get it in time!!)

We also entered the EFA Design Awards!!! I’ll post image of our entry below:)

Ok, Ill start in order of creation LOL!

(Izzy will surely make shoes for all these releases so be patient!!! Shoe making is def. a very slow process!! Besides she always needs to see the finished designs to get inspired! …well that and the fact she is a perfectionist! which is never a bad thing when we are talking shoes right??)

First we have Moment, which is a fun and playful outfit. It comes with 2 sets of capris, one plain and the other with a detail on the leg, and you can get it in 8 different fabric designs!

Innoncence is a very femenine and cute outfit. It comes in various colours and has 3 different coloured capris… one is grey, the other black, and the other is the same colour as the ribbon on the shirt. The shirt also comes in grey and black. Theres also prim ribbons that adjust to the legs and prim cuffs!!!

Primrose is a very colourful gown. It’s very sexy, yet delicate and extremely femenine! Definitely one you will stand out in!

Primavera is a cute, sexy and flowery denim dress:) it has a very nice texture and a nice ribbon at the back!:) the top on this dress comes in an undergarment and a jacket version in case youd like to wear it with something else!:)

Ok and last but not least (lol) Adorable. This is a more wintery version. It comes with a cute scarf and a wrap around wool belt (which is not attached to the skirt in case you like it best without!)!:) I just HAD to call it like that because nothing else came to mind when I looked at the finalised version!:) Its very cozy but also very sexy!! Its got a deep back.. so I recommend you wear the scarf with it or you’ll get a cold! LOL this dress also comes with the undergarment and jacket version of the top for those who prefet to wear it with something else!:D its good to mix and match! I hope you like it!

On a different note, as i said before Izzy and I have entered the EFA Design Awards with a dress and matching shoes called Remarkable. It is a very elegant and distinguished dress! The silky skirt and scarf make a very poised combination! Take a look!

You can get this outfit at either of our main stores or on the on-rez website. I have put a direct link here!

I have also re-done some older dress posters and I’d like to share them with you! Since I’m on a poster making roll LOL.

I know they look small on this image but check out the fantastic earrings! Alienbear Gupte is the creator of these wonders you can find them here! They really are gorgeous! if i were you I would get my hands on a pair asap! View a more detailed image here.

She has promised to release a platinum version of these! I cant wait!!!

Ok I think thats it! haha I’m quite exhausted after that very long blog!

I really hope you like the new stuff and I promise you I’ll start working on the new collection as soon as possible!! Probably in the beginning of next year since this season is so busy! and I REALLY REALLY need a small holiday!!!:P

Well, HUGS to all! I wish you the BEST Christmas ever and and an amazing New Year 2008!

<3

Constanza Volare :)

Great holiday gifts for 2 days only, new dress and shoes and an Advent Calendar stuffed with shoes! Yes it’s the holidays! lol

Now Connie and I live in the same country, less than 60 miles apart .. and we’ve known each other in SL since January, but last weekend was the first time we’ve met in RL! We had a blast and guess what we did? We shopped! For 5 hours straight! lol Connie, you rock! :)

So somehow with all that we managed to get organised enough to do a joint release of Charismatic, plus we have a stunning free dress available for 2 days only and matching free shoes. AND an Advent Calendar full of shoes! Phew!

Ok, Connie’s Charismatic dress is cute yet sophisticated, with puff sculpty sleeves and optional lace on the full skirt. In 5 great colourways with a contrast sash and bow. My shoes use the same colours in reverse for matching sets that can be dressed up or down, according to your mood :) We’d like to thank Grazia Horwitz for being the very first to blog this, even before we did!

Our holiday gifts are firstly a stunning dress from Connie called Navidad. It’s elegant and sexy, with its low neckline, prim fur collar and choice of skirts. It’s so beautiful that we actually had a very honest customer query if we’d made a mistake on the price because she couldn’t believe it was free! :) The shoes are the same texture as the dress and have the white fur as a trim. The set is available for free in both our stores for 2 days only - i.e. until noon SLT on Tuesday.

The Navidad shoes will be available a little longer; until December 25th in the Advent Calendar at Angels flagship store only. The calendar contains Angels shoes designed especially for the holidays with lots of glitter and sparkle! Shoes will be given out randomly each day from now until December 25th, and everyone will get at least one pair of each style if you grab your gift each day. Note that due to the idiosyncrasies of LSL, the calendar changes date at midnight GMT, which is 4pm SLT. I’d like to thank Renee Roundfield for writing the great script for me :)

Enough talk, here are the pics

And here are the slurls:

Angels Flagship Store in West Sunset

Alchemy Main Store in Emilia

Well you can tell who’s the worker in our team and who’s the compulsive shopper/chatter! Actually I blame Fashionplanet, it keeps showing me new stuff to buy :P

And then of course there are all the Christmas decorations to buy for the store - that’s been so much fun! I finally got the new store open last night - it’s just across the street from the old one, you can’t exactly miss it :) I’m thinking of turning the old space into a skating rink/Christmas Wonderland feature for the next few weeks until Connie makes another 50 dresses and I have to expand the store again :P

Oh yes .. and I made new shoes! (See I do work sometimes). These are my favourites to date; I’m so pleased with the way the two-tone effect came out, especially on that cute flower trim. There are 5 colour combinations to match Connie’s fabulous dress plus Midnight Gold and Midnight Silver for those of us who can never have too many pairs of black shoes. My two faves are Tropical - a stunning hot pinky red and orange combination and Caribe, a cool Turquoise/Aqua that goes with a quite astonishing number of items in my wardrobe - sorry, inventory! Most of them also match several of Connie’s other dresses, as a bonus :)

Yes, it’s true, everything that Izzy mentions on her previous blog! It’s also true I never got anything interesting from the lucky chairs but to be honest my initial hardly ever appears on them anyway so I didn’t get much at all!!

This post was to show you my 2 latest releases:)

One is called Atumn and its a lovely and delicate girly dress! It comes in 5 lovely colours:)

Also theres another cute dress called Memories:) its very girly and delicate but also sexy!! It comes in 6 colours:)

I want to thank my best RL friend Stel who did an amazing job on this wonderful poster. I love it!

I have also added some new basics! (Yes, I have been busy lol) So take a look and I hope you like them:)

Izzy and I were also thinking we would like to have images of our customers, in our stores and here on the blog , wearing our creations!

So please send us notes in world with your names and images or to constanza.volare@gmail.com!!

<3

Yep, we used to camp and that’s how we met! :-) Then I seem to recall we would let each other know if we were by a lucky chair with the other’s name on it; I ended up with some very strange freebies, I’m not sure if Connie fared any better! lol

I remember very clearly seeing her first dress, Magic - I was stunned! I didn’t actually know until quite recently that Connie is a rl designer so I was more than a little impressed with her first effort. In contrast, my first pair of shoes were .. well, let’s say when I offered them to friends they suddenly found a reason to be elsewhere :-) I was probably the direct cause of several crashes around that time, as they tried to tp away! I still have those shoes, I should probably post a pic of them. Or maybe not. :-P

Dream was the first pair of shoes I was really proud of and they are still my best-seller. Connie’s clothes inspire me; I see the dress and in my imagination I’m wearing the shoes. There’s often quite a lag between that and actually creating them ‘cos I’m not the most disciplined of people :-) Gold Star was a natural extension to Silver Star (Connie always goes for silver/platinum whereas I’m the gold type) and in this pic it’s matched with Starburst, such a cute, sexy dress with its lace underskirt! The colour of the shoe here was requested by one of my customers and it’s named in her honour - Eternity :-)

Gold Star comes in 10 colours including black and Starburst in 8 starry shades :-P

Hello everyone:) I’m just going to post some images of the basics line at Alchemy.

I created it in many colours so you can mix and match your favourites and make your own outfits!

I also Made some cute tops I called Mona:) and some Basic tees with nice prints on (I’ll be adding more later)

As I said I would be posting some more images of the clothes I’ve been making:)

Also check out the shoes that go with them!

This is Star. Called it like that cause it has the glittery fabric at the top and bottom. Check out the shoes too!:) Izzy did a FAB job making some nice and delicate shoes to go with it. Both shoes and dress are available in more colours:D.

Hello everyone:) Im just starting to write today about whats been happening at Alchemy Angels all these months we haven’t had a blog hehe.

I must say that when I got to SL the first thing that caught my eye was fashion and decided then that I wanted to be part of it:).

Isobel was the first person I met in world and she helped me get out of the embarrassing situation of not being able to stop dancing hehe. I’m sure we have all experienced it at one time or the other:P. After a long time of wandering around our own ways we got in contact again and decided to set up a shop together.

I must confess it took me a while to get the hang of making clothes. I think it’s something you never stop learning about:).

A special thank you to Natalia from Sirena’s for her awsome tutorials. That really helped a lot:D.

Ill add some images of some of my past creations during the week.

<3

This is the Silver Dream Dress and Shoes:)

Dress: Constanza Volare (Alchemy)
Shoes: Isobel DeSantis (Angels)