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Cherry Blossoms

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The most exciting thing about events like Chic Limited is how creators can reify a single inspiration into a fascinating collection that illustrates perfectly that art is the expression of individuality. This month’s inspiration was Cherry Blossom and the collection ranges from softly feminine petal-adorned dresses to the pop art bold graphic style of this babydoll from So Many Styles.

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As you can see, I had fun running around MiC Musee de Roma Capitale art installation to shoot my pics. I also used Windlight settings by CodeBastard Redgrave for thee beautiful red sky that really brought the art to life.
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Babydoll No More

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I love many things about this dress from bubble that’s on sale at the Chic Limited Cherry Blossoms event, though it began as a babydoll before I lowered the skirt to my waist. I am never a big fan of babydoll dresses and often try that, but it doesn’t always work as well as it did with this dress. As you can see, this dress comes with a band that anchors the skirt so just increasing its size a bit made it look very natural at the natural waist. This lets me really enjoy the wonderful sense of playfulness in the dress design. I love how the fabric choices almost suggest a wall treatment with the more subdued black on black pattern meeting the vertical stripe pattern “wainscoting” and the cherry blossom border print “chair rail.” It’s cute and clever and makes a gorgeous dress.
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Fabulous Is Fabulous

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There’s three ways of looking at the coincidence that both Gidge and I chose the same clothing from Betty Doyle’s Ingenue to blog at the same time. One is that we’re boring and predictable bloggers. The second is that great minds think alike. The third is that Fabulous Is Fabulous and who can resist fabulous. Ingenue has produced high quality clothing as long as I have been in Second Life. In the beginning, Doyle focused on the niche vintage market, but her work over the last year has moved firmly into contemporary sportswear and separates that are flagrantly feminine. Take the top and skirt in this outfit. They were released about a month apart but there is such a cohesive vision behind the collection that Gidge and I both thought to combine them, though in different colors. That cohesive visions also makes the colors suitable for mixing and matching with just about everything.
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Such springlike romanticism made me think of springs and fairies and unicorns and other delights so I headed off to the Unicorn Sanctuary. I know it looks like it’s nothing but sunshine, gentle dew and rainbows, but explore around some and you will see that Enchanted is a very spooky place in parts.
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Ohhhh….Sakura!

Hello, cherry blossoms 🙂

I hope this lovely Springness put a smile on your face, not that we need the Spring season to smile, but heeeeey it might help 😀

This month’s theme for CHIC Limited event is……..guess……..”Cherry Blossoms” (!!!) and here I’m going to show you the amazing newest release from Miamai:

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Sakura Revealed, from the BlackLabel Collection, a tribute to the delicate beauty of the Sakura flower.

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It’s a gorgeous sculpted dress decorated with cherry flowers on chest, skirt and head (yes, there’s also a headpiece!) and absolutely sweet petals that add the final touch to this piece of art.
I also love the color of the dress and the flexy part of the skirt, which is perfectly jagged.

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White – Week 21

Still playing catch-up… but I’ll get there… eventually.  So, next on my list is white… Week 21 in the 52 Weeks of Color bloggers challenge.  And I did a little white search in my inventory and found something I had never worn before… not because I didn’t like it… but because I rarely get this dressed up. It was a group gift from PurpleMoon Creations, a favorite of mine.

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This One's For Eric Cartman

That’s all.

I crack me up.

Your Shopping List:
Shape – Savoir Faire – Gidge
Skin – TULI – Sarah – Peach Tone – Makeup 03
Hair – Truth – Kai – Swedish -with Bangs
Top – SN@TCH – Karma in Black
Jeans – Fri.Day – Low.Rise Jeans (faded)
Shoes – Republic – Charlotte Flats – Midnight Paisley
KittyCat – C Thomas Meow
Goldfish Prop from PROJECT FUR JAPAN – A.D.D. ANDEL! – Take Me Home – Goldie in a Fishbowl
pose – STATUS

Crossing the Brooklyn Bridge

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I thought I would walk around Old New York and Staten Island sims and even take a little hike across the Brooklyn Bridge. The Brooklyn Bridge is one of those bridges that capture people’s hearts and imaginations. Its stunning sweep and the visual delicacy of its suspension wires makes it a work of art. My outfit for the day is perfect for a jaunt around the City with a gorgeous tweed jacket that can be removed if the weather warms up.
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Sky Blue…..

Ok… on to day two of my “catching up” phase…. Week 20 of the 52 Weeks of Color bloggers challenge was sky blue and for my choice I went to my closet and found… TADA….. this lovely dress by []::Tuli::[].  Its been a staple in my closet for quite some time and I love the fabric textures and knew it was EXACTLY the dress I wanted to use for Sky Blue.

I love the embroidered and jeweled embellishments on the waistband and the sleeves.  The fabric has a gorgeous sequined look.  AND the dress comes in two lengths, formal and mini.

Style Notes:

Dress:  []::Tuli::[] – Gwen, powder blue

Shoes: N-Core – Illusion, silver

Jewelry: Dark Mouse – Deco Squared, silver

Lashes: Miamai – No Alpha Lahses, No1

Hair: fri. – Tatum, passionate red

Eyes: Poetic Colors – Classic, October Wind

Skin: Curio – ::GP:: Sundust [Dark] Lustre, Glamour Puss 2

Nails: Candy Nails – Basic Nails, Pink01

Edelweiss plus Zoom Tutorial

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Since Gidge brought up The Sound of Music, my mind went straight to Edelweiss when I looked at the pictures from last night’s shoot.

Edelweiss, Edelweiss
Every morning you greet me
Small and white clean and bright
You look happy to meet me
Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow
Bloom and grow forever
Edelweiss,Edelweiss
Bless my homeland forever


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I shot these photos at the blanc part of the noir et blanc installations at World’s End. It’s such a beautiful sim and very uncluttered so it struck me as a good spot to make a short video tutorial on using the Zoom keys to change your cameral “lens” in Second Life. Most of the time we zoom by pressing down the option or alt key and ten using arrows, view or the mouse to move our camera about and to zoom in. That’s great, but it makes for very distorted close-ups. This little video will show you how the zoom controls work and contrast proper and improper methods of zoom.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEGbu0J7SRA]

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