Drew is one of the exclusives released by Purple Moon at Fashion For Life. It is beautifully made in every detail from the sumptuous embroidery to the black piping on the bodice that feeds into the spaghetti straps. The execution on this dress is flawless. Continue reading
Do you sometimes want a gown so rich and full and extravagant you feel as though you are the figurehead on some elegant ship of state? If so, the ‘Heartache’ gown by Tres Beau at Fashion for Life. With rich saturated colors and a gorgeous corset, it demands some dramatic photos. I ended up making a smaller pinpoint projector texture that I will add to the bottom of this post so you can download it for your own photos. Continue reading
…makes me feel fine, blowing through the jasmine in my mind….
Love Seals and Croft and that song just felt like it fit this mood. Standing on the beach at Black Basalt Beach, a beautiful sim to just hang out or surf (or take pictures). This post is dedicated to the summer themed items at Collabor88, which just opened on June 8th.
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I would have fit right in with Pete Seeger and the other folk music activists in this out fit from Spyralle – at Fashion For Life, I really love this long ponytail from EMO-tions a Fashion For Life exclusive.
Watching the efforts of the builders, designer and bloggers that are doing their utmost to make Fashion For Life a success, I think of the words of Pete Seeger’s wonderful song, One Man’s Hands.
One man’s hands can’t tear a prison down
Two men’s hands can’t tear a prison down
But if two and two and fifty make a million
We’ll see that day come round
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The Naiades dress from [sYs] is all about the side boob. At least it promises side boobery, but if you wear the right size, it’s a promise unfulfilled.
This year’s Fashion For Life features a Passport Game that encourages visits to every sim. To play you pick up your passport at one of the Redemption Center’s located on each sim. Then you wander the sims, picking up a souvenir on each sim. The souvenirs are provided by the builders and fit into the themes of the sims they built. Each souvenir requires a 50L donation to Relay For Life. You can find the souvenirs in each sim’s Gacha area. All you have to do then is wear the items while wearing the HUD. Each item stamps your HUD. As you can see, I made an “outfit” out of mine, who knew a flower pot made such a lovely skirt?
Once your HUD has all 10 stamps, then you are ready to redeem your passport. Go to the redemption center to choose from the many prizes provided by creators and builders. You can only play the passport game once – so choose wisely.
After a week of traveling isn’t this how you think you should look when you are homeward bound? Fashion for Life, Miamai and ZOZ outfitted me for my trip home….
Come home with me….
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Deep within my heart
Lies a melody,
A song of old San Antone,
Where in dreams I live
With a memory,
Beneath the stars all alone.
When I put on the Auffaellige Rosen dress from Schoën I immediately think of my great-aunt. She sang the background vocals to that song with Tex Ritter at the Grand Ol’ Opry and it was one of many songs I enjoyed listening to her sing. She was what is commonly called “a pistol” – a woman who lived life to the fullest from the day she was born to the day she died and that was a long time. Born in the 19th century she lived to enjoy the 21st century’s arrival and promise. From horse and buggy to manned space flight in her life time. She buried three husbands during that lifetime – oddly enough while they all had different names, their names were homophones. So while she changed the spelling, she never changed the pronunciation. She was 92 when she married her 3rd husband, a youngster in his 80s. Continue reading
Today I took a walk on It All Starts With a Smile and every time I go there I find cute spots to relax. And what better to relax in, than the newest release from Mutresse at FaMESHed.
Wanna go for a walk with me?
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I probably would not be organizing Fashion For Life if it were not for Squinternet. It was in an effort to get funds for her treatment and nursing that I organized Love Donna Flora which probably is why folks looking for an organizer this year thought of me. A lot of the time when I am working on this and feeling frustrated, I think of her and take a deep breath and carry on. She would want me to because she loved Fashion For Life.
OK, Squint loved Fashion. She went to the runway shows and participated in the events because she loved them. But Fashion For Life was special to her – even more so when she got cancer. She also loved Second Life finding support and sustenance through her hard times. She charged a small group of her friends with the task of taking care of her store, keeping it open and keeping her alive in this pixel world.
Monica Outlander is one of Squinternet’s dearest friends. In an act of extraordinary generosity, she put aside her own work during Squint’s final month and acted as her hands so some of those wonderfully imaginative designs that were tucked inside Squint’s lively brain could be realized in out world. For Fashion For Life, she has created new exclusive versions and will release them only at Fashion For Life – at 100% donation. She will also reprise her gown for Love Donna Flora – an exclusive that will only be at Fashion For Life.
But in preparing for Fashion For Life a treasure was found. Monica suggested that some of Squint’s recent jewelry be sold at 100% donation at Fashion For Life. While searching for the folders to pack into the vendors, more copies were found with different colors of stones – not quite finished but all the prims and textures were complete. A little bit of effort to finish them up and three new, previously unreleased jewelry sets were finished. All the prims and textures are from Squinternet, the only assistance was placing some textures on the few prims that had not been completed.
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