Candy Heart deliciousness

So, I went over to a friend's house, and saw this ornamental plate on a stand. Not particularly my cup of tea, I'm more of a minimalist myself when it comes to interior decorating. However, the stand was very creative. It basically can be used for plates, books, what not, and folds up on itself. It had two chains on either side that kept it from folding out too far as well as keeping it from falling apart.

I took that idea home with me.. mulled it over, just loved the simplicity of the design. Then I got to thinking about maybe using it to display just a box or a heart shaped container. That got me thinking about more music boxes. I've had this lovely little melody set aside for a music box, and really didn't know what kind of music box to make for it (typically the music comes first.. I find I build the boxes around the music). So, I created this heart.. a hollow heart box, red laquered with a key right smack dab in the middle of it. On a folding stand held together by two sets of chains.

I rather liked how it came out.

I hope you do too.

C.Capalini

p.s. I only touched up the picture on the main advert. The rest of the pictures are exactly as I took them in Second Life. The video is exactly as it looks in Second Life.

p.p.s. You can go to my store located in New Babbage Canals and rez the music box via the vendors to see it for yourself.. and you can purchase it off marketplace. Btw, I packaged it in a pretty gift wrap box. I think I may do that from now on...

Pretty New Shiny Toy - iShowU

I just recently obtained a new program for my Mac, and it's an nifty little capture program. Not going to go into details.. (I just don't like getting technical) I now have the wonderful ability to video my working music boxes in Second Life.

I was asked to commission a music box for my good friend, Breezy Carver.. and it came out lovelier than I expected:

Titled "Merry Christmas from Piermont 2011" it plays "Carol of the Bells" (absolutely LOVE that song). No, this one will not be for sale, though I may fashion something similar later on. In the future, I would expect every single music box I create to be posted here with a video of it working. It's all well and good to create something and show you a picture.. but even better to show it working. Just so you can see the attention to detail and animation I put into every single music box.