Earlier in the week I took a picture featuring a rather gorgeous bed that I told you I’d tell you all about….

First things first, I’d *never* heard of Sway’s Creations before until this week, but now I’ve visited and seen some of the wares on offer..well wild horses couldn’t keep me away! This is a place where dreams are made folks. Seriously, Sway Dench has created some beautiful items to better furnish your Second Life with and once you see them you’ll be utterly converted and may find yourself taking up hobbies that in Real Life you’ve never considered….(note, *nice* hobbies, nothing horrid like scat or owt…) Example: Knitting. I’d rather lick stamps than knit..I just don’t have the tolerance/patience/aptitude to be bothered with it. I like the pretty colours of the wool and I’ve got a rather special scarf that my friend Tracey made me (She knits.Lunatic) but I just can’t be bothered. So why was I knitting with such gusto when I visited Sway’s Store in world? What the heck is that all about? Simple. Sway has created a rocking chair and replete with knitting needles and animations that it would be ruddy *criminal* not to sit on and play with. I often say that in RL SL is the virtual equivalent of playing dolls houses..Sway has really made it feel like that for me this week. One of my favourite things as a little girl was just re-enacting things in my dolls houses-decorating them, arranging furniture and just doing ‘Stuff’. Sway has gifted us via her wonderful imagination the ability to let your avatar do some pretty wonderful things in world. Even better than that, not only are the animations great, but the objects are just beautifully built that even if you don’t use them, just placing them in your virtual residence will bring you *lots* of pleasure. It’s like Pottery- I couldn’t give a shit about pottery. Sure, I tried it at school and made something resembling a squidgy brown blob (that was after the clay was fired and painted as well) so the fact that I’m as eager as Demi Moore was to get the potters wheel between her thighs (alas, no Patrick Swayze avatar to enhance my experience) says a lot about the quality of the animations and the sheer gorgeousness of the objects here. In fact I defy any fashion designer in SL not to fall in love *immediately* with the Tailor Set. Here’s an idea..get yourself one of these, and when you’re in-world and attending to your store use it. It’ll give a really good vibe to the place as punters are strolling around and can see the designer sat in the corner busily creating:) Again, the set is just amazingly imaginative and beautifully created. There’s an antique sewing machine for starters, with rotating wheels and foot pedal. A tailors chair, with two animations for you to use whilst working plus a mannequin, again this has two animations to create the effect of the hard at work designer. You get some bloody lovely extras too- a sewing basket and bales of fabric, scissors, a measuring tape. It’s ruddy stunning..I defy you not to be impressed with it! I cannot possibly cover everything that Sway has created here because she’s made a vast amount of objects and themed sets. If you flunked Woodwork at school you can be a Carpentry genius in SL, courtesy of Sway. So we have knitting, pottery and carpentry covered. Virtual gardening is also catered for with Sway’s beautiful gardening kits, which feature such delights as watering cans, wheelbarrows and animations to suit. The gardening sets are so pretty, with flowers and seed bags and all the little bits a budding Percy Thrower needs to have a fabulous SL garden. I love mine, which is hilarious when you consider that in real life I have the garden from hell. My favourite items though just have to be the make up table and the bedroom set. (I haven’t even told you about the Spinning Wheel, the Laundry Set, the bureau or gorgeous kitchen but you’ll have to go and see them yourself!!) Let’s start with the make up table, which is quite honestly a work of art. Bugger Tracey Emin and her unmade bed, this is a piece of virtual creation to really lust after. You get a classy, kidney shaped table replete with mirror and a chair. The table has opening drawers and a chair that matches containing three smasheroonie animations: brushing hair, applying make-up and looking in the mirror. There’s a hair brush (wear with the anim) and *lots* of bottles of make-up to scatter across the table surface. Perfume canisters, lipstick tubes, cosmetic brushes and powder compacts aplenty..the only thing that could have made this any better would have been dust particles emanating from the powder puff. Seriously it is stunning. You also get a vase with flower, a glittery ball decoration AND a photo frame ready for your fave SL snap. I cannot tell you how much I grinned in real life when I saw this and I just new I had to have it..it’s great. At this point I should tell you that Sway also designs clothes, and these are just as good as her static creations. I’m especially enamoured with the Valerie set, which features hair curlers, slippers, bathrobe and panties. I have one of these already from ‘Total Betty’, the ‘Cozy Plush’ set and both are great fun, but I prefer the curlers you get with the Sway version more than the towel turban from ‘Cozy Plush’.BUT having said that the cucumber slices and the zit strips you get in the ‘Total Betty Cozy Plush’ outfit more than make up for that..I’ll shush now, I’m being contrary) So Sway is evidently a genius and to further substantiate that fact she also makes glorious furniture, and I really do mean glorious. I LOVE the Rattan bed and sofa set called ‘Cathy’. They’re just divine AND menu driven so you can chop and change colours and textures as much as you like. I love the tousled messy duvet on the bed..it looks great. If you’re looking to furnish your place you MUST come to Swayland and check out Sways things as you will kick yourself if you shell out a lot of Lindens and then visit..trust me on that one! So now on to the bedroom set….it’s called ‘Princess’ and has a white frame festooned with drapes. The drapes are colour change, you can have the blankets on or off and you also get two side tables with lamps to compliment. There is so much to see here that you should just visit Swayland and take your time enjoying all the sights and objects. I haven’t even told you about the jewellery, the clothes OR the Cookie Bears, but I figure it’ll be nice for you to find those yourself:) Get yourself off to Swayland for the afternoon..go on, you know it makes sense!