Huge New In the Zone Pro Cheer Uniform Collection Release!

The wait is over! After a year, SPIRIT's In the Zone Pro Cheer Mix n Match Uniform Collection still remains among our best sellers. So to celebrate this week's start of the NFL football season, we've decided to give you even more designs in the collection to choose from, this time with sculpted details and updated footwear! Also available are several items for $1 each. Below are the ads and details...


Scripted Flexi Skirts - Includes satin ruffles flexi skirt with unscripted and SmartSkirt scripted versions (so you can walk, run, stand, and sit pretty), plus the skirt base comes with built in underwear on the pants and underwear layers, or without underwear on the jacket layer.

Long Sleeved Crop Tops - Features rhinestones and hand painted details at the cleavage and on the figure flattering full satin sleeves.

Team Windsuits - Comes with pants and jacket with two collar options (up or flipped down), plus sculpted collar and pant cuffs.


3 Quarter Length Sleeve Tops - Comes on jacket, shirt and undershirt layers. Features handpainted details at the cleavage, rhinestone trim, and semi-transparent 3 quarter length sleeves.

Cropped Tied Jerseys - Comes on jacket, shirt, and undershirt layers, plus sculpted tie.

Striped V-Waist Shorts - Comes on pants and underwear layers.

Pro Spirit 3.0 Sculpted Boots - Knee high boots includes resizable scripted sculpted uppers in 3 sizes, plus sculpted foot parts for size 0 feet. Made of soft leather with a subtle sheen and long zippers on the insides of each calf, plus thick heels for maximum balance while dancing and cheering.

Also spread throughout the In the Zone collection are the following dollarbie items for just $1L each:

And finally, the SPIRIT store has been redesigned. Don't worry, the football stadium is still there containing all the cheer animations and poses, and so is the main part of the dance theater and stage. But the maze-like backstage dressing rooms have been removed, replaced with just one dressing room on the left side containing the ballet and dance animations and poses. All the other items are now arranged by category in small shops with signs over the awnings, with reduced-price skins and a brand new SPIRIT Living collection of sculpted cheer/dance themed furnishings in the center of the courtyard. Hopefully this will reduce lag and make everything much easier to find. :)

Spring '08 Ballet Collection Now Available!

After a LOT of hard work, the Spring '08 Ballet Collection is now available at SPIRIT in the backstage dressing rooms (use the Dancers' Dressing Rooms teleport sign when you first arrive at SPIRIT to get there quickly). This is a huge collection filled with a ton of mix and match items perfect for both ballet classes and performances AND everyday wear. It includes...

-- Ballet Class Sets with:
* Leotard upper (can also be worn as a tank top) on 3 clothing layers
* Leotard lower
* Sheer shrug on 3 clothing layers
* Sheer wrap skirt (system skirt)
* Flexi skirt
* Sculpted Pro Ballet Slippers

-- Ballet Tutu/Corset Sets with:
* Corset with front and back lacing
* Briefs
* Traditional (nonflexi) tutu in both Arm Pose AO and unscripted versions
* Flexi tutu/skirt
* Romantic (longer) length flexi tutu/skirt in both SmartSkirt scripted and unscripted versions
* Sculpted sash in both short tutu and long tutu versions
* Sheer bell sleeves with flexi ruffles
* Sculpted short puffed sleeves
* Sculpted long puffed sleeves with sculpted bows
* Sculpted Pro Ballet Slippers
* Sculpted TuTu Sweet Purse (also available separately)

-- Ballet Boots in Black Leather, White Leather, and Floral Print, each in all 9 colors

Freebie/Dollarbie - For one week only, the Ballet Boots in White/Cream will be available for just $1! Do NOT miss out on picking up a $300L pair of these boots for just $1L!

New Release: Ballet Class Outfits!

The Ballet Class Outfits are now up for sale at the Spirit shop! Available in 12 colors shown above (top pic, left to right, top row: Black Swan, Grape Leaf, Rain; bottom row: Autumn Brown, Copper, Old Gold; bottom pic, top row: Rain, Plum, Lavendar, Sugarplum; bottom row: Old Gold, Gold, Cream, Silver). Each Ballet Class Outfit comes with...

- Leotard with shadowing and detailed hand painted seams along the neckline and straps (no mod/copy/no transfer)

- Flexi skirt with semi see-through flexi ruffled skirt, satin texture waistband and bow, and flexi bow ties (mod/copy/no transfer)

- Sweater with semi see-through cashmere texture, shadowing, hand painted wrinkles and 2D tie front (no mod/copy/no transfer)

- Sculptie prim leg warmers in 2 sizes (large and small) with knit texture (no mod/copy/no transfer)

Shoes are sold separately. $400L per outfit.

Each Ballet Class Outfit color coordinates with the Ballet Pointe Shoes from SPIRIT, and these outfits have been designed so they can be mixed and matched for tons of different looks. Look for a new Graceful hairstyle to come out in a few days with hair accessories that will color coordinate with these outfits too!

And for a limited time, there are two jewelry sets available for FREE in the Spirit shop! Look on the second floor in the jewelry case for the Ballet Circle Necklace & Earrings Set, and the Ballet Charm Bracelet...both free!

SPIRIT Ballet Class Outfits Completed!

Okay, I'll admit it, this post is nothing more than a tease, lol. But darn it, I can't help it, I am so dang excited about the next release! It's going to be a BIG one, with 12 ballet class outfits, each containing sculptie prim leg warmers, leotards, flexi prim skirts, and tonight's completed design, a see-through cashmere textured knit sweater that ties in the front and has lots of wrinkles, shadowing, and seams. All 12 ballet class outfits are completed in-world. Now I just need to do a photo shoot tomorrow and create the vendors!

Instead of waiting a week to send out this release, I will get it out the door and on the Spirit shop's New Items wall as soon as the vendors are done. College starts next week, and I'm worried I won't have much time left to do a lot of SL designing once my classes begin.

Wait...me not design anything for SL? YEEEEK! Perish the thought! LOL

New Sneakers and Boots!

New this week at SPIRIT... Color Change Sneakers and Knee High Boots!


In the new Pro Spirit Collection, we have a set of knee high Pro Spirit Boots in 14 colors for $300L (with 2 sizes included). The Black and White versions are plain, and the other 12 colors have a soft suede texture that will allow them to be worn with any cheer or dance costume AND other outfits in your wardrobe. Available in the following colors (shown below from left to right)...
- (Top Row) Wine, Grape Leaf, Blue, Plum, Lavendar, Sugarplum, Black
- (Bottom Row) Autumn Brown, Copper, Old Gold, Gold, Cream, Gray, White

And SPIRIT is proud to introduce our first color change scripted items, the Spirit Sneakers! Available in white or black, each Spirit Sneaker features sculpted letter S inserts on the sides that have color change scripts inside. You can choose up to 2 colors for your shoes' inserts at a time, and with 14 colors to choose from, the color combinations are endless! Color coordinate your Spirit Sneakers to your team colors, your favorite colors, or to match whatever outfit you're wearing them with! Spirit Sneakers also feature flexi prim bow ties, and are $300L per pair.

Free Sculptured Prim Debut at SPIRIT!

I took the plunge and tried out Blender, despite the many warnings I've received regarding how complicated the program is to use. It WAS pretty involved to make just one glass shape, and the resulting sculptured prim didn't come out perfect (the edges are slightly wobbly). But for a first attempt at Blender, I'm just thrilled that it didn't come out with huge holes or gaps in it, and it's very much recognizable! LOL A large "gold trophy" version of this first Blender sculptie is available for free in the lounge area of the SPIRIT shop. Feel free to take as many copies as you like, change their size, even change their texture to glass, pewter, gemstones, marble, or anything else you can think of! (I'm trying to find a place in the shop where I could get away with a large marble birdbath style fountain using this sculptie as the catch basin part of the fountain...lol). Hmm, can anyone say strawberry daquiries at the SPIRIT lounge? ;)

I have also used Rokuro, a lathe style sculptured prim maker, to create knitted, scrunched up leg warmers. Rokuro is much simpler to use; unfortunately, it only creates items that are rounded and symmetrical on both sides (think carved banister railings that hold up handrails on stairs, and you'll get the idea of what a lathed item is and what Rokuro can make). The leg warmers turned out GREAT, though, so look for them to become available as part of the ballet class outfits in 16 different color coordinating colors to match the new SPIRIT Ballet Pointe Slippers that are available now!