Casa del Shai

Its time for ultra luxe glam and the billowing chiffon dress beckons. Casa del Shai welcomes La Eleganza. A sophisticated nod to this season’s Summer Nudes but with a twist of gold. Sculpted front bodice capped up with twisted gold cord at the neck. A gold braided belt ties everything in, worn with a full flowing skirt.

This is the gown for the summer’s big event. Take it away, La Eleganza!

In White, Gray, Flesh and Cocoa. Only available at  LE. Look Sim as an exclusive offer.

Somewhere, inside a little closet, hides a tiny discarded bedraggled sack doll. Roughly hewn and faded, it smiles back like a faded memory of long lost nightmares and crawled out dreams. This Halloween, it comes out to haunt you as shakes, rattles with a new life.

The Kulam Sack doll Avatars is our first sculpted tiny avatar venture into the realm of wicked witchcraft. These dolls are handpainted in Photoshop, sculpted in Maya and brought to life with scripted Blinking Eyes!

Each doll comes with its own personality:

Punk is an mohawked pierced with a needle teenage boy. Pinned is a do-gooder, fashionably cool with his neatly pinned body and a newsboy cap. Pirate is a buccaneer complete with a scabbard and a bandanna. Rollers is your regular fabulously coifed, dolled up Lady in lipstick. Stitches is almost done up but not quite, his arms off-kilter as its sewn midway.

Kulam is a Filipino word for witchcraft and sorcery.

Only sold at Casa del Shai sim and XStreet SL.

We would remiss if we didn’t give members of the Shai Shopaholics inworld and subscribe-o-matics groups an opportunity to enter the “Jungle Survivalist” contest.

(D’oh!)

As such, the Shai Shopaholics Flickr group contest has been extended to June 21, 2009. For further details on how you could win a L$5,000 store card from Casa Del Shai, see the original contest details post … then enter using your Flickr account.  Use of Photoshop editing is welcome, however, Casa Del Shai products and the overall photo should not be obscured beyond recognition.

To enter:

• Join the Flickr photo sharing community at www.flickr.com. It’s free and easy.
• Upload your photo and add it to the Shai Shopaholics Flickr group.
• For help after registering, browse www.flickr.com/help.

Submission deadline:
Edit: June 21, 2009 @ 11:59PM PDT.
May 31, 2009 @ 11:59PM PDT.

Prizes:

• Grand prize: L$5,000 store gift certificate
• Second prize: L$2,500 store gift certificate
• Third prize: L$1,000 store gift certificate

Submissions must:

• Be sent to the Shai Shopaholics Flickr group
• Make visible use of at least one Casa Del Shai product
• Have the full tag: “Shopaholics Survivalist Contest”

Photos: (A) submitted in-world will not be accepted and will be disqualified; (B) that do not adhere to the eligibility criteria will be disqualified.

Hello Shopaholics,

In the spirit of Bear Grylls (Man vs. Wild) and Les Stroud (Survivorman), Shai Delacroix brings you the “Jungle Survivalist” Flickr contest. Conquer your fear, suspend your thirst and hunger before plunging into a photographic adventure with Casa Del Shai on your tool belt.

You don’t have to kill and kill a gila monster with your bare hands or use your pants to purify dirty water. Just use your imagination to capture the spirit of human perserverance amidst the backdrop of unforgiving jungle foliage and you could win Casa Del Shai Goodies.

Use of Photoshop editing is welcome, however, Casa Del Shai products and the overall photo should not be obscured beyond recognition.

To enter:

• Join the Flickr photo sharing community at www.flickr.com. It’s free and easy.
• Upload your photo and add it to the Shai Shopaholics Flickr group.
• For help after registering, browse www.flickr.com/help.

Submission deadline:
Edit: June 21, 2009 @ 11:59PM PDT.
May 31, 2009 @ 11:59PM PDT.

Prizes:

• Grand prize: L$5,000 store gift certificate
• Second prize: L$2,500 store gift certificate
• Third prize: L$1,000 store gift certificate

Submissions must:

• Be sent to the Shai Shopaholics Flickr group
•  Make visible use of at least one Casa Del Shai product
• Have the full tag: “Shopaholics Survivalist Contest”

Photos: (A) submitted in-world will not be accepted and will be disqualified; (B) that do not adhere to the eligibility criteria will be disqualified.

Edit: Winners to be announced on or before June 30, 2009.
Winners to be announced on or before June 15, 2009.

After painstakingly spilling over the submissions for Casa Del Shai’s “Life is a Cabaret, Old Chum” Flickr contest with a cigarette in one hand, a glass of cabernet in the other and classic Nina Simone playing in the background, it is my pleasure to announce the winners.

First, a special thank you to all those who entered their photos. I hope you had as much fun prancing around scantily clad in the kick-line ensemble as much as I enjoyed creating it.

Without further adieu, Casa Del Shai’s official Kit Kat Club revue (whom I will be contacting in the next few days):

Grand Prize: Shelby Ziskey

Second Place: Honeydew Lake

Third Place: Darkley Aeon

Honorable Mentions:

We had to mention these two entries who made fabulous impact on the judges. They both win $L500 each and will be contacted shortly.

Eve Kazan

Skell Dagger

Show the world what fantastic SL photography you can do with the “Mein Herr Costume” Set and win these prizes:

Grand Prize:
5,000 worth of Casa del Shai Gift Certificate
A modelling stint for the next Boudoir Release
Casa del Shai Top Model (to represent us in upcoming fashion shows)
Winning poster will be up at the Casa del Shai shop

Second Prize:
3000 worth of Casa del Shai GC

Third Prize
1000 worth of Casa del Shai GC

Must show the full Mein Herr Costume on the photo.
Skins, Shoes, and jewelry will be up to you
Must depict the theme Cabaret
Photo Title will be judged accordingly
Must be fun, fabulous, and not sleazy (cant show naked photos).

Submit your photos to this Pool:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/696885@N21/

with your SL avatar name.
***Submissions in-world will not be accepted and will be disqualified.

THEME: “Life is a Cabaret, Old Chum!”

Contest Starts December 31, 2008 and ends on January 18, 2009

Introducing the Casa del Shai Holiday Release for 2008, a collaboration between Shai and Luth Brodie of Reel Expression.

The Mein Herr Costume is a tribute to the fabulous performance by Liza Minelli. As the Cabaret theme goes, this snazzy outfit includes a sculpted bowler hat,  the bowler hat with Liza’s curly black hair, Leather Vest in all layers, Sequined Shorts, garters, stockings, and a black studded choker.

The Bowler Hat is also sold separately so our men can be all dapper this season!  The hat comes in singles or the bowler 3 color packs, or you can buy a bowler hat with hair separately.

Now shaking at the Casa del Shai

Also available for gifting here:

On Rez

XstreelSL

Happy Holidays!

As the SLRelay for Life draws to a close, Shopaholics for a Cause/Cure Team would like to thank you for the support you have shown us with our campaign against Cancer. We are blessed to have people like you share your time with the Date a Designer Event and the Tarot Reading Event. That with as little as a couple of lindens, we can help cancer patients within our virtual community, friends from this digital world. This weekend is the culminating event for SLRFL 07 and we are releasing limited editions from the team. The Casa del Shai along with Nicky Ree, Calla, Muse, Earthtones Boutique, Tete a Pied, Aitui and many others invite you to explore our sim at Relay Sim 28 this weekend. All proceeds of these releases will go the American Cancer Society funds.

Mark your calendars, pixels! Saturday April 7, 2007 at 12 PM SLT you can totally bid and snag that designer you’ve been buying stuff from.

Join the Shopaholics Relay for Life teams in a spirit of good-natured frivolity on the beautiful island sim of Nuku Hiva in a landmark event where 10 or so of SL’s high profile designers and content creators will be date auctioned to aid in raising funds for the American Cancer Society. Each one of us will be pwnd to the highest bidder and mind you, we dont expect any wining and dining. All your lindens are going to benefit cancer stricken residents from our world. Aint life so grand?

So get goin and party with us in bikinis and sexy trunks,. Dont forget the meshhair and leave the prim dos at home. Bid on that designer of your choice and get to spend a couple of hours talking to them, exploring the beach, and dancing the night away.

The After hours party will be groovin with DJ Sean Clancy spinning on the turntables. And boy you ought to hear his sexy voice over the stream. I shall see y’all lovely pixels on Saturday! Please drop Grazia Horwitz , Ryan Darragh or me an IM if you got any questions.