Author Archives: Gidge Uriza

The Clock Is Ticking Toward The TRUTH DISTRICT FALL EVENT

Truth District is bringing it this weekend and I’d like to say THANK YOU to Truth Hawks for recognizing my birthday by having a huge sale. It’s SUPER considerate of you, I’ve always known you are lovely. I’m writing you a thank you note RIGHT NOW! Continue reading

The Festival Of The Pumpkin Has Begun!

It is possibly my favorite time of the year, the time when we all get excited about playing dress up in the world in which we already play dress up.  Schadenfreude has released the best treat bucket around (yell at strangers TOUCH MY BUCKET! they love it) and if you are the trick or treat sort you’ll need it.

Go inside the Elephant and you will find it inside on the floor, along with a dizzying array of fun new pieces recently released.

Today I’m also wearing my first fall sweater acquisition of 2011 from Somnia. These have been released in a huge rainbow of colors (thanks Sanura) but I was in a fall sort of mood. I should get some sweaters RL. I really don’t own any.

Oh and I’d like to point out, I got these AWESOME boots at G Field last year and was chastised that they were a waste because I’d only wear them once. They are awesome pumpkin print cowboy boots.

Boots this awesome are NEVER a waste.

Your Shopping List:
Jeans: :::Sn@tch Iron Cross Boyfriend Jeans (Brown):::
Boots: *GField* Short Western Boots -halloween-
Sweater: .: Somnia :. Striped Queen {Fall} {J}
Nails: * RezIpsa Loc * ~ Black & Orange Dot Nails (glove layer)
Bra: Baiastice_S_silky Bra&Panties-amber-Undershirt
Brows: -Belleza- Chloe Medium Light brows
Lashes: Amacci – Eyelash Tattoo 6
Lipstick: -Belleza- Chloe Medium Lips 1
Hair: ::Exile:: Bailey:Vanilla
Jewelry: Dark Mouse Chocolate Sparkles Earring – Copper (
Dark Mouse Chocolate Sparkles Necklace – Copper (Spine)
Dark Mouse Statement Ring – Brilliance (Right)
Bucket: Schadenfreude Treat Bucket, 2011
Shape: Gidge ~Savoir Faire Shapes~ (new)
Skin:-Belleza- Chloe Med 30 Cleavage
Eyes: classic – amber (m) bright
Poses: STaTUS

The One Where I Got Shadows

Something odd happened to me several months ago. I went out and spent a lot of money on a pretty bad ass computer. You could literally see the little sales guys drool as we upgraded memory and video and basically, our motto was “what else ya got?”

I bought a nice computer. Tis powerful. Goes Zip Zip Zip fast. You get the idea.

I brought it home and installed SL. And my cartoon world blew up. Nothing worked, nothing worked right. Pictures were shit. Kirstens viewer went to hell then didn’t work at all, the official viewer didn’t work and basically, I was pretty upset. Continue reading

Bitches Love: Nothing But Mesh (almost)

I’ve been sitting at my computer for like 30 minutes like Ron Burgundy going “Meshy meshy mesh mesh mesh” putting on mesh things hither and yon trying to decide what to wear now that I’ve installed Firestorms Mesh beta viewer. (Love you Firestorm, you are the shiznat.) Continue reading

It's International Customer Service Week: Salute to Kittycats

As a customer service professional for over 20 years I tend to be rather cynical when it comes to the service I receive. I don’t expect much, and I don’t get much generally.

So when a business in either life shows me exemplary service, I notice, and I continue to patronize them.

Kittycats has never once failed to wow me with their prompt service and their amazing concern for their customers. Food failed delivery? No problem. Here you go. Cat gone missing? No problem, here you go.  Never do they say anything negative, never is it the customers fault from where I’ve sat. And lets face it, sometimes it IS.

Kittycats has impressed me every single time I’ve had to deal with their service. Well done guys!

I’d be glad to recognize some more businesses this week btw – if anyone has any great suggestions.

The SL Weekly Words Challenge: Solitude

This weeks word is SOLITUDE. Is there any sound that makes you feel more alone, than the crunch of fall leaves under your feet with no conversation to break the silence?

The SL Weekly Words Challenge is a blogger challenge where you are challenged to  portray a word or words in a photo of your choosing new or old. There is no right or wrong way, it’s all about what the word or phrase means to you.

Don’t forget to link back here in comments so we can all see your pics! And put them up in the flickr group!

 

THE WORD FOR NEXT WEEK IS: Autumn

Style Notes:

Shirt: fri. – Basic.Turtleneck (Navy) – Shirt
Jeans: haut.monde – Ardor Jeans – Lightning – Pants
Nails: Adam n Eve Ariadne Nails Mani & Pedi Orchid
Lashes: Miamai_LesMakeups_Lashes 12
Ring: Dark Mouse Marcasite Statement Ring – Diamonds
Earrings: Dark Mouse Vintage Pearls on Velvet Earring – Silver
Necklace: Dark Mouse Vintage Pearls on Velvet Necklace – Silver (Chest)
Boots: lassitude & ennui Celtic boots black
Hair: [elikatira] Here – Blonde 01
Shape: Gidge ~Savoir Faire Shapes~
Skin: Adam n Eve Skins – Ariadne – Natural Fizz – Bewbs (new release!)
Eyes: Poetic Colors classic – diva (m) bright

Poses: STaTUS – Systemic – Avail at 4.44.444 Event

Shot on Location: Taken at Three Moons Village (65, 160, 31)

IOF PSA: Marketing 101 for Bloggers – Social Networks

So after Cajsa did her unbelievably thorough marketing pieces for Creators (mostly fueled by frustration- don’t get us started) it was mulling through both our minds that not only do Creators need some sort of SOP and content marketing strategies for marketing success, so do us bloggers.

This list is by no means comprehensive or complete. Blogging is a real time evolving thing. It changes month to month. Day to day even. You don’t have to write complete sentences to be a blogger. (see what I did there?)

Regardless, there are some things you can do to improve your blog’s marketing and traffic and I thought I’d list of some of those basics here.

First of all quit lying about not caring about traffic. If you didn’t care about traffic your blog would be private or invitation only. You DO care. The degree to which you care is what is going to motivate you to take steps to market your blog effectively, and how aggressively you market yourself.

We bloggers are peacocks of various ilk. That’s ok. It’s what we do. So then, where to start? Continue reading

Funny Thing About My Inventory

Things keep disappearing and reappearing. Case in point, awesome cute jewelry from Caroline’s. Saw it in my offlines. Logging in, it didn’t deliver. Sad face. Forgot about it.

Searching for jewelry while styling – THERE IT IS! YAAAAAAY!! Continue reading

Dear Sachi I Was Wrong

It’s LOVE-LOVE.

Adam N Eve have a new skin that will be released very soon and I’ve had it on for three days. Sachi asked me to try it on just to see what I thought of it, and I liked it a lot at first. She said “but not love-love eh?” And I floundered. I couldn’t decided.

I was wrong. I’ve had this skin on three days. I’m a skin chameleon excitedly changing from one to the next. This skin is so gorgeous and feels so comfortable on Gidge, I’ve left it on outfit after outfit.

I simply cannot wait till she releases it. And if you are on Sachi’s TL on plurk, you know it has really nice boobies too.

So put aside your lindens girls, there is a gorgeous new skin coming your way soooooon. Continue reading