I visted the Great Wall of China during my first month in Second Life five years ago and it was always a wonderful place to go. That’s why I was sad to read that it and three companion sims owned by Amiryu Hosoi may be forced to close. Please stop by and drop off a donation in the box at the landing point and don’t forget to shop at her store, Hosoi Design, if you’re looking for Japanese furnishings, prefabs and decor.
Look at this awesome stuff! I do love stuff, especially when it’s worn, macabre, and slightly dingy, like this lovely rug, skull, and scarf-draped box from MiaSnow. I also love stuff when it’s vibrant, green, and lively, like this set of plants from /artilleri/. In fact, I’m pretty sure that if I cautiously opened my “garden” folder, I’d find that plants take up more than half of my inventory, and macabre stuff the rest of it…
Stuff:
/artilleri/ Plant – Cute climber *green pot*
/artilleri/ Plant – Awesome aloe v2 *brown/green pot*
/artilleri/ Plant – Awesome aloe v1 *blue pot*
MIASNOW Home – SKULL Mustache Man
MIASNOW Home – CRATE Draped Grey 2
MIASNOW Home – RUG Raggy green
The theme of August’s Collabor88 is Baroque – a thematic direction sure to bring dramatic and bold fashions such as this confection from Nylon Outfitters – the Baroque Bustle Mini. It comes in pink, gold, lavender, black and green, I had to go for the pink because it looks like a lovely little bonbon. Continue reading
Donna Flora added another dress to their Vintage Fair offerings. It’s a luscious little dress released in ten colors (See vendor pic 1 and pic 2.) including this glorious gold silk charmeuse. It’s amazing how beautifully shiny the silk is, but then you see the inset piping around the breasts and at the waist, and just have to marvel at Squinternet Larnia’s texturing ability.
The Fabienne skybox is the latest release from Barnesworth Anubis for Collabor88. It’s amazing to me what architecture can inspire in a person. While the name, Fabienne, put my brain in a very salty Pulp Fiction sort of place, upon rezzing it and seeing the beautiful build, I slipped into a very different frame of mind.
It reminded me of the sort of place a kept woman would live. Lol.
It has a masculine elegance and with just a touch of feminine grace that truly reminded me of a place that a man would BUY – for a woman. Barnesworth is going to kill me now I can just feel it. Continue reading
O where have you been, wandering Acha?! I’ve been a million places, and I’ve rocked them all, of course. Actually, I’ve been contending with the fact that SL no longer likes me to take snapshots. Remove snapshots from the blogger and what’s left!? Things seem to be settling down again, so I managed to catch these beautiful sandals before they got lost in the realm of capped messages.
They remind me of Indian Summer, these Blossom Wedge Sandals from Lassitude & Ennui. They remind me so much of it that I put on a bathing suit to soak up a few final last rays before August succumbs to September. (You can find these sandals at L’Accessoire!)
How have your summers been? Mine came and went far too quickly.
Shoes: Lassitude & Ennui blossom wedge sandals for L’Accessoire
Skin: Fashionably Dead Freya with thin brows in blonde
Sunglasses: /artilleri/ Onyxia
Hair: Clawtooth good gracious redux, mesh hair in starlet blonde
Bikini: /artilleri/ Jackie bikini in green/orange/blue
I love finding a new (to me) store at events like Vintage Fair. It’s a double bonus when their designs are fresh, high fashion styles that make me happy. InMonster certainly does that. There’s so much to love about this dress, from the bright scarlet lace to the structure cap sleeves. I definitely will be keeping my eyes out for more from this high fashion brand.
All of the best things in my Second Life I do with Cajsa. That’s no lie. Anything awesome and spectacular started with us going “what if we did ….” and suddenly we’ve got something that makes us both squee.
This box of light is like that. Cajsa had started messing about with projectors and boxes and then we realized that once again, the symbiotic nature of our relationship fit together perfectly – she could build it and I could script it with poses and we’d have something beautiful. Continue reading
Since Gidge and I have been playing with projectors lately, a few people have checked out the tutorials and asked a few questions about how to do it. So Gidge got the great idea of setting up a pose box with the projector and light leak texture built right in along with some poses situated in the sweet spot where the projectors come together. Thus the Status Dual Projector Box 1.0 was born. It makes taking fun pictures as easy as 123. But first, let’s take a look at this gorgeous top and skirt from Baiastice for Vintage Fair. It comes in several colors and you can put the same color top and skirt together to look more like a dress, but I love hot pink and lime – they are just the perfect expression of summer. I love the easy style of the top and skirt with the great details that make it special, like the inset belt and the soft pleating at the hem of the skirt.
I can’t promise you would find a Teddy Bear’s Picnic, but the little bit of woods at Lettuce, home sim to Cafe Adrastea, does have the loveliest little glade of trees. A glade filled with flowers and light, though I could not resist adding a projector to give add some color to the light.
The June Party dress from Sn@tch is a floral explosion of color in itself. It’s got a very 50s silhouette with the figure hugging bodice, nipped waist and full skirt and is one of Sn@tch’s Vintage Fair creations. Ivey Deschanel made this lovely dress in six beautiful colors. The dress is made of system layers, sculpts and flexi. It’s one of the great things about Ivey and Sn@tch – the wisdom to choose the right technology for the dress. She makes excellent mesh, but knows that not every piece is best served with the latest technology.