Krampus 2022

Originally made for Christmas 2022 for the Attention Magazine, this is my dark vision of Christmas. In south Germany we have the tradition of the Krampus.

Krampus, in central European popular legend, a half-goat, half-demon monster that punishes misbehaving children at Christmastime.

He is the devilish companion of St. Nicholas. Krampus is believed to have originated in Germany, and his name derives from the German word Krampen, which means “claw.”

Krampus was thought to have been part of pagan rituals for the winter solstice. According to legend, he is the son of Hel, the Norse god of the underworld. With the spread of Christianity, Krampus became associated with Christmas—despite efforts by the Catholic church to ban him. The creature and St. Nicholas are said to arrive on the evening of December 5 (Krampusnacht; “Krampus Night”). While St. Nicholas rewards nice children by leaving presents, Krampus beats those who are naughty with branches and sticks. In some cases, he is said to eat them or take them to hell. On December 6, St. Nicholas Day, children awaken to find their gifts or nurse their injuries.

Clothing

Jacket: !gO! – “Wild Fur Coat XS”

Accessories

Hat: S&P – “Santa Baby Hat”
Shoulders: [NC] – “AmazonQ – Arm Spikes” (Gacha, Ultrarare)
Rings: L’Emporio – “*Under Pressure*” (Maitreya, Bento)

Head, Body & Tattoo

Head: BeSpoke – “Monster of Famine”
Body: Maitreya – “Lara V5.3”
Hands: {aii & ego} – “Demonic Touch” (Maitreya, Bento)

Poses, Props & Tools

Pose: selfmade

Backdrop: DRD – “Last Christmas Shop”
Globe: 22769 – “Snowglobe Santa” (Gacha, Rare)

Model, Stylist & Photographer

Wicca Merlin

“Christmas time is buzzing in my Skull…”

TUNES

You know, I think this Christmas thing
It’s not as tricky as it seems
And why should they have all the fun?
It should belong to anyone

Not anyone, in fact, but me
Why, I could make a Christmas tree
And there’s no reason I can find
I couldn’t handle Christmas time

I bet I could improve it too
And that’s exactly what I’ll do
Hee,hee,hee
Eureka! I’ve got it!

[- Jack Skellington -]

Who says that freaks do not like Christmas… maybe no the typical, ribbon, red/green/white/gold one with candy sticks all over… but still.. Christmas :p What brought me to that idea for this post was the “Cozy Winter Collection”, which DRD released at FaMESHed and an older group gift – as well made by DRD – the awesome “DIY Christmas Tree” . I found it hilarious, when I saw that blank tree, a huge black sack with all the fir needles in it and three bottles of glue beside it – I simply love Jaimy’s sense of humor. With some parts of the “The Last Christmas Shop” as decoration and some more past group gifts, I tried to decorate my alternative Christmas room 🙂

Certainly I had to have the matching look to my scenery and I could not pass the cool glasses with that scary eyes by Madame Noir… such a cool accessory, that really creates a different vibe *grins* With my love for heavy boots I as well could not leave the “Ravage Boots” on the shelf at L’Emporio&PL. They are so hell detailed! If you take a closer look you can see every stud, every lace, and the cute hole in the sole – made me think of my New Rocks in real love and I love them to death 🙂 What as well caught my eyes were the awesome “Damned Claws” from L’Emporio&PL. They are made for hand and feet, but since the shoes cover my feet this time, I am wearing only the nail set. When I put on the HUD I was really positively surprised… beside different colors you as well can hide every single claw separate.

I have a few more scary Christmas ideas in mind and I am looking forward how they will turn out 😉 For now… Happy Holidays everyone!

Clothing

Top: L’Emporio – “Old Jeans Corset” (Maitreya)

Pants: adorsy – “Rihanna Jeans Shorts” (Maitreya)

Tights: .:Avanti:. – “Cozy Tights” (Maitreya Applier)

Shoes: L’Emporio&PL – “Ravage” (Maitreya)

Accessories

Glasses & Eyes: Madame Noir – “Eye Collection Megapack” – NEW @ The Darkness Event // December 2020

Mask: [CX] – “Devourer Mask”

Scarf: TonkTastic – “Shemagh TT1” (female)

Arms: [CX] – “Arm Bandages – Brown” (Maitreya Applier)

Nails: L’Emporio&PL – “Damned Claws” (Maitreya, Bento)

Hair & Makeup

Hair: no.match – “No_Command” – NEW @ Cosmopolitan // December 2020

Eyeliner: Corvus – “Blood Tears”

Head, Body & Tattoo

Head: LeLUTKA – “Erin 2.5”

Ears: L’Emporio&PL – “Athan”

Body: Maitreya – “Lara V5.3”

Tattoo: .:Vegas:. – “Tattoo Dark Summoning” (BoM)

Poses, Props & Tools

Poses:

Picture 1: CHEZ MOI – “Cozy Christmas Wrap Station”

Picture 2 & 4: Foxcity

Set:

Building: DRD – “San Mora – Roadhouse – B”

Furniture: DRD – “Cozy Winter Collection” – NEW @ FaMESHed // December 2020

Deco: DRD – “The Last Christmas Shop”

Clock: DRD – “Silly Clocks – Coffee” (Group Gift)

Picture Frame: DRD – “Emergency Smokes – Cigarette” (Group Gift)

Shelf: DRD – “October Shelf” (Group Gift)

Tree (nice): DRD – “AE – Train Car – Holiday Tree” (Gacha, Reward)

Tree (used): DRD – “DIY Christmas Tree” (Group Gift)

Packing Station: CHEZ MOI – “Cozy Christmas Wrap Station”

Glue: .random.Matter. – “Art Studio – Glue Gun [Blue]” (Gacha, Common)

Glue & Glitter: Kei Spot – “Kei’s Xmas Village Crafts (glitter)” (Gacha, Rare)

Model, Stylist & Photographer

Wicca Merlin

Christmas Countdown 2018 @ Wicca’s Wardrobe

Christmas Countdown @ Wicca’s Wardrobe (Dec 14th – 24th)

Christmas is near so it’s time to count down! We have 11 gifts to mark each day closer to Christmas!

We have created our very own Advent Calendar to celebrate the approach of Christmas! We have 11 gifts just for you. Each day will be a surprise gift. Come visit the store each day and just like a real Advent Calendar, open a door to reveal your gift! All of our Advent gifts are made for Maitreya, and some include versions for Slink and Belleza. When the image of the gift is revealed the image will indicate which bodies the item will work with in the lower left corner. Each gift comes as they are seen in their photos and without color changing HUDS. On the day of the gift the item is free to group members and L$50 to non-members.

On the “OMG I MISSED A DAY!” calendar, items for missed days are available for L$50 to group members and L$99 for non-members.

Taxi: Wicca’s Wardrobe

Dark Style Christmas

Finally I can post again!

After having my website hacked for nearly a month, we were able to solve the problem. I never would have thought, that the jetpack plugin from wordpress would be an open entrance for bot and hacker attacks… Everytime when I thought we fixed it, I wanted to log in the next day and same cryptic dashoard grinned at me and my own website was telling me I would want to cheat, when I tried to post something as I would not have the permissions to do so.

Lesson learned, jetpack plugin deleted!

Thank you to all of you, who had  patience with me for not being able to post something.

So I am actually a little behind on things, that I wanted to post over all that time and I would like to start the wrap up with one of the styles I made during the Dark Style Fair. I just re-did the pictures and added some newer things to it to make it some more ‘festive’ loooking for the upcoming season 😉

I am not too much of a Christmas fan in general… I do like snow, I like red and black, but all the Jingle Bells music and always when I hear the “All I want for Christmas is You” yelping on the radio I just wanna throw up :p

I have my own Christmas feelings and likings and so I wanted to make a look with some twist on it for my own personal mix of dark style and Christmas :p

I used a lot of different parts to mix and match my todays look. The jacket I found at COCO, the top is from Scandalize, the corset with the cool warp around and ribbon I found at Paperdoll’s, while the pants are a part of the amazing “Y6” collection from [sYs].

I do love mix and match a lot, even if it became significantly harder, since mesh is on the grid as layering different designers can be a real hard challenge if the clothing is not meant to go with each other.

The “Leisha” choker from Salt & Pepper ran right in to my heart when I saw it :p I love the look of the 2 skeleton hands, that wrap their bony fingers around your neck 😉 While I went through my headpiece & hats folder I came across the “Dia De Los Muertos Hat” from .AiShA. with the same cool grabby bone fingers holding the top of the hat!

If I would wash off the blood from my top and take off the eye patch, I really could see me going out on a christmas party *snickers*

What I really had to do for this post, is a close up for the shoes… I LOVE the eye for details, that UTOPIA puts on their designs. You can see every seam, every fold and the typical used spots that you get with leather shoes usually. I just could sit and stare at the shoes for hours and discover all their love to the realistic scale and details. Since the other pics did not show even a hint of the shoes I thought they deserve a close view 😉

I hope you had fun with my first ‘catch up post’, there will be more over the next days 😉

Details

Outfit & Accessories:

Jacket: *COCO* – “Jacket Over Shoulders”

Pants: [sYs] – “Y6 Pants” (Maitreya)

Top: Scandalize – “Good Night”

Corset & Bracers: …:PD:… – “Cadaveric Doll” (Maitreya)

Shoes: UTOPIA@Design – “Tera” (Maitreya)

Hat: .AiShA. – “Dia De Los Muertos Hat Red Moon”

Eyepatch: *elise* – “Chiara”

Bracelet: BEO – “Day of the Dead”

Rings: V.R. – “Dia De Los Muertos Rings” (Maitreya)

Nails/Claws: MEVA – “Bento Claws” (Maitreya)

Choker: Salt & Pepper – “Lisha” (Maitreya)

Hair & Makeup:

Hair: EMO-tions – “Thea”

Face Art: .ARISE. – “Death Mask” (Omega Applier)

Body & Tattoos:

Head: LeLutka – “Simone 3.0”

Body: Maitreya – “Lara 4.1”

Tattoo: PICHI – “Mexicannos Tattoo” (Maitreya Applier)

Poses & Props:

Poses:

Wicca’s Wardrobe

Props:

Curtain: [Cb] – “Cornice Drapes Free Hanging Closed Satin”

Skull & Candles: Ariskea – “Muertos Skull Candle & Flower”

Model & Photographer:

Wicca Merlin

LeeZu meets Finesmith for Christmas ;)

Awesome news by LeeZu and Finesmith, two of my favourite designers, made me combine them for the blog 😉

The first dress, what you can see above as well, unbeliveable but true is the actual groupgift from LeeZu. Perfect for Christmas and the Holy Days, this red dress has so many sweet details. The long skirt is made perfectly flexible. The top only is a tiny cute part that covers the private parts as much as it has to to keep the outfit PG 😉

The huge hat as well is part of the “Anastasia” groupgift. The candle, baubel and other sweet details really make this hat to a little peace of art. I just added the PurpleMoon “Ana” hair in platinum and the appropriate hairbase.The skin comes from Glam Affair and te makup was made by LovelyMi as part of her christmas gift.

For the jewelry I added one of the latest Finesmith releases – the “Alexandra” set in white. Yula Finesmith released some of her creations in white as a special for the season. “Alexandra” is one of them, the others will follow 😉

The second outfit as well comes from LeeZu. A special edition of the “Natascha” dress in red. The short and sexy dress in the perfect Holiday color makes a super cute Ms Santa as well 😉 The awesome red “Street Blues Boots” are as well from LeeZu. The boots come in 2 different versions for each color in the same packet. one is the uni color and one is mixed with some highlights. For the jewelry I decided to go with the set that Draakje Daily got for her national costume fat the MVW 2012 finals. The “Tulp” set in red was the best jewelry I could think of for the cute little sexy Ms Santa version of mine :p. I hope that I soon can show you all of the amazing sets , yula Finesmith did for some of the MVW 2012 candiates 😉

Outfit 1

Dress (incl. hat): LeeZu – “Anastasia” – GROUP GIFT

Jewelry: Finesmith – “Alexandra” /white – NEW

Hair: PurpleMoon – “Ana” /platinum

Makeup: LovelyMi – “Starlet” /eyes only

Poses: Manifeste

Outfit 2

Dress: LeeZu – “Natascha” /red – Special Edition

Leggins: LeeZu – “Burleske Tights” /champagne

Boots: LeeZu – “Street Blues Boots” /red mixed

Jewelry: Finesmith – “Tulp” /red

Makeup: LovelyMi – “Red Cry” /eyes only

Poses: Manifeste

Model & Photographer: Wicca Merlin