Luna's House Pictures from November 2024

I've been working on and changing around Luna's house, Honeysuckle Hideaway, for ten years now. It's a hobby for me and I don't think there will ever be a final version of her house. I wanted to post some pictures of the current version, both to show you guys and for my own documentation. I hope you enjoy looking at this project of mine.

Exterior

Exterior Seating

Painting Station

Entryway

Whittling Station

Picture Frame

Kitchen

Bedroom

Tower

There is a lot of custom crafting in the home. In the entryway, there is a cheesemaking station and a winemaking keg. In the kitchen there is a ton if custom cooking, a lot of which is visible while cooking, and there is a whittling station across from the entryway. In the tower there is static alchemy and a Cobl grinder. Outside there is a painting area where Luna can paint a number of different paintings that show up on the easel once done and it requires paint that she can make to paint them. Once the paintings are done she can put them in the empty frame at the bottom of the stairs and it will show up in the frame.

I hope this was interesting for y'all. Happy Holidays!

Suzania's House Update Pics

For anyone who doesn't remember, Suzania is my blind character based off of my mom, who is legally blind. She lives near Skingrad in a cottage called Shadeleaf Retreat. It is next to Shadeleaf Copse I lost the original cottage in a water-on-my-laptop incident last year, and so have finally rebuilt it from the ground up. I like the new version a lot better. Suzania collects lots of magical trinkets, so I gave her lots of display room. Here are some pictures.

Exterior

Entryway

Alchemy Station

Dining Area

Kitchen

Sitting Area

Bedroom

This is a link to pictures of the original if you would like to compare them:

The Original Shadeleaf Copse

Comparison of Nova And Myself Through The Years - Pics

 

Nova Starshine is based on me, in both appearance and personality. Over the years, his look has changed quite a bit, as has mine. I first made Nova, then called Luna, when I was in 2013 when I was 23. I have since lost almost all of the screenshots I took of him over all those years in a water on my computer incident, so I don't have the picture where my mom's friend exclaimed "That's you!" before I even told her that Nova was meant to be based on me. I only have the pics that were on this blog, and so have done the best I can with what I have to show the evolution of Nova and myself over the last several years.

This is as close to the birth of Nova as I can take you with the pics I still have. At this time, I was still identifying as female and was still in the goth phase that I wore quite proudly all through high school. I tried to mimic my face shape as best as I could and gave Nova similar makeup to what I was often wearing at the time.

This is in about 2016, right before I started getting so sick. I had stated identifying as nonbinary at that point, and gave Nova a makeover to match. I made him some kind of emo-ish clothes with a flat chest, as that was how I was dressing at the time. I lessened his makeup, changed the general style of his hair, and gave him the facial piercings I wanted to get. (I never got them because when I got sick soon after this I became allergic to all metal jewelry and couldn't even wear my existing ear piercings anymore.)

That brings us up to now. I have figured out that I am a trans man, and I have gotten quite ill. Nova no longer wears any makeup, dresses lore-friendly, and I adjusted some of his face shape to match what I look like now. My illness shows on my face a bit if you know what to look for, plus I'm 31 now and have aged a bit. The main thing I did was adjust his eye shape. My eyes have started drooping in the last few years. I can't fully open them anymore due to issues with compressed nerves, so they look different than when I was younger. (The difference isn't as pronounced in these photos because the first two were taken outside and I was squinting in the sun.) We both have brown hair now, as I have become severely allergic to hair dye. I adjusted his jaw and chin a little bit as well, and I think he still looks enough like me that if you know he is based on me, you might be able to tell.

I love Nova as a character and have loved evolving him with me through the years. I really enjoyed going through the pictures I still have and picking out the best ones to showcase the different phases of our lives. Anyway, I hope y'all found this at least a bit interesting. I found it fun.

Luna's House Pics - July 2021

As those of you who have been around for a few years know, I have been decorating and redecorating Luna's house since like 2014. It has been through two different house models and two different locations. When I first started, it was very modern, but it has been completely lore friendly for the last few years. It was originally located very near Anvil, in front of the stables, and now it is in the wilderness of the West Weald. I like to use similar textures to the nearby towns in my architecture, and so the wood and doors used in the house are from Skingrad, as well as the exterior stonework. I have recently done a lot of work on it and wanted to show it off to anyone who would like to see. Here're some pics for your viewing pleasure. :)

Entryway

Alchemy Station

Kitchen

Upstairs

Tower

Exterior

(The window box has a couple flowers from Morrowind because Luna is originally from there and is the Nerevarine)