Monthly Archives: December 2011

Merry Gidgemas

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I decided to show you what I wore to Gidge’s party on Monday. It was a Christmas sweater party, but I ignored the ugly part in the ugly Christmas sweater instructions and wore this lovely Christmas sweater from artilleri. I was not alone. Three of us there wore it in green and one wore it in blue! This was a popular sweater. I paired it with the red mesh miniskirt released last week by mon tissu. My booties are 2 years old, from Redgrave. They had huge invisiprims, but I edited them into a nubbin and hid them inside my feet. I tried on a few alphas until I found one that worked. With that, they work as though they were made this year.

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And here’s one of my Christmas presents from Gidge – Christmas earrings and a necklace from Frangipani Garden! The hair is a new release from Exile called Veronique.

****STYLE NOTES******

  • Poses: o0o Studio
  • Skin: [PXL] KATE NAT NE MEB C2
  • Makeup Tattoos: [PXL] KATE NAT Cherry Lips (Tattoo)
  • Eyes: [PXL] Eyes – Glow – DarkGreen – Med
  • Lashes: [LeLutka]-2011 lashes/curl/touch me
  • Mani/Pedi: [MANDALA]medium
  • Hair: ::Exile:: Veronique:Persimmon
  • Sweater: /artilleri/ Eartha top (jacket) *green + colour pattern*
  • Skirt: {mon tissu} Westbury Mini ~ Red
  • Shoes: Redgrave Icerock X-mas -Santa Red- with [Gos] Posh Booties Lower Alpha
  • Jewelry: Frangipani Garden *FG* Star Christmas_Earring_(Green)-

Merry Christmas Sequoia Nightfire

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Sequoia Nightfire was so busy keeping the Peace One Earth hunt train on the tracks, she had no time for guest styling before Christmas, but what a few days here or there? My parents once got a Christmas card that arrived in July 18 years after it was mailed. It came with a note from the Canadian postal service explaining that it was discovered when a desk was pulled out so they could paint behind it. Which raises the question, which is worse, not painting for 18 years or painting around the desk and not pulling it out for 18 years? Of course, coming so late, that card got so much more attention than if it had come 18 years earlier with the rush of Christmas cards. Somehow I think, though, if Sequoia Nightfire had been the picture on the face of that card, it would have glowed right through the envelope and out from behind the desk so they saw it and pulled it out and mailed in on time.

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I mean look at that red! I thought about making a box and covering it with wrapping paper and having her pose as the bow! This magical red dress is from Sascha Frangilli of SAS – Sascha’s Designs. It is one of those see it to believe it dresses with the flowing panels of semi-sheer fabric that seems alive.
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Snow Day

Is it cold where you live? It’s not where I am, I think it reached 80 degrees here in So. Cal on Christmas. Luckily SL provides me with all the snowy wintery goodness I could ever need. I can’t remember where I took these shots but I believe the sim is in the destination guide.
Anywho, did I mention how much I love mesh? No? Okay, well I love the mesh. Here is an outfit from a shop called TEN”10. I got the sweater, the skirt and the boots together for like 600L from the marketplace. Not a bad price at all. The outfit makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Perhaps it’s because the outfit IS warm and fuzzy.

Hybie is wearing:
Outfit: TEN”10 Outfit # 1 (all mesh)
Hair: [LeLutka]-YIPPIE hair – Burnt (mesh)
Eyes: Ibanez Liquid Eyes – nebula
Skin: -Belleza- Lily Pale Dark Xmas Gift
Lashes: KOSH- NO ALPHA LASHES V5

Shape Up for the New Year

“A Novel, in the end, is a container, a shape into which you are trying to pour your story into.”
~Helen Dunmore

I do admit I was very resistant to getting a new shape last year because I’d had mine forever and I love it and it was MEEEE and yadda yadda yadda.

But then, I tried on my shape made by Hybie of Savoir Faire (and our newest contributor here at IOF) and I fell in love. It’s amazing what a difference a shape made by someone with a brilliant eye for proportion and a great fashion sense can make. Continue reading

Blue Christmas

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Donna Flora released some beautiful gowns before Christmas that may have stuffed a few stockings since they were transferable. The gowns are called Faith and come in five fabulous colors. This one is Argentina – with its splashes of silver.

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Family we have heard on high…

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How did you celebrate Christmas? This year I was with family, a full solid day of it. I had fun, but given how loud and raucus my family is, my ears were ringing by the end of it. If you’re anything like me, you’re sitting at your computer with a glass of wine breathing a sigh of relief to play dress-up with your SL dolly. Acha looks cosy today, right? I think my avatar spent a quiet Christmas at home in her skybox, lying around in these super comfy mesh pants from Plastik and a few oversized sweaters, reading Pride and Prejudice. Lucky girl! And cheers to you all this Yule.

Lip ring: Ellabella Phedre – noel
Pants: Plastik Elizabeth mesh pants in Volcanic
Earrings: Bewildebeest hypatia gold earrings (Thanks Jackal! 😀 )
Fox stole: Ohmai for Collabor88 – a lil’ foxy in black
Skin: fashionably Dead bird skin – Winter 6
Shirt under the sweater: /artilleri/ Eartha top in green
Sweater: Nerd Project Cardigan 02 in gold brown (resized down for a chick, and without neck prim)
Hair: Kik – Lily (honey)
Eyes: Mutsu neko eyes in green
Socks: Vintage – Corduroy argyle socks in forest green
Shoes: SLink Felicia capped stiletto in black
Poses: Luth

Merry Christmas, Baccara Rhodes

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In Oregon, there are all sorts of buildings, streets and villages named after our pioneers. If we did that in Second Life, surely there would be many towns, sims and maybe even an ocean named after today’s guest stylist. Second Life launched on June 23, 2003 and just a little over a month later on July 10th, Bacarra Rhodes rezzed in-world for the first time.  In the book, Second Life: The Official Guide she is even designated The Grid Queen.

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When I saw her gorgeous purple ball gown I wanted to shoot at Wanderstill on the Ode sim which reminds me so much of Monet with its lush abundance of flowers. I also used Elysium Elide’s windlight settings to give me that saturated rich purple sky.

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Merry Christmas Alicia Chenaux

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I met Alicia Chenaux on Plurk, though I had read her blog for a long time before that. I should say blogs since she has a fun journaling blog where she chronicles her Second Life adventures as well as her fashion blog. I first began paying attention to her blog when she began her 365 Project which was such a huge commitment. I don’t know if I would commit to blog for a full year even after blogging for four years. For me, it’s so much easier to do something than to say I will do something, because then I really have to. I admire people who have the will to make that kind of commitment up front. I also admire the kind of openness and vulnerability that journaling blogs require. It, too, requires a commitment beyond what I would do.

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I was looking forward to seeing Alicia’s outfit because she’s a former model and I knew that work history would translate into an impeccable outfit that was perfectly fitted. And I was right from every Elikatira hair on her head to the GField shoes on her feet, everything is perfectly fitted. Her outfit seemed perfect for sightseeing and wandering the streets in the fashionable city of Venice which you can find on the Prada sim. I could see her modeling skills at work as she positioned herself on the dock by the gondolas while I was flailing around in the river after falling off the dock a few times. In fact, I had to run inside one of the stores and dry off while she patiently waited.

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