My friend Alicia, over at Ch’Know Style had a NYE celebration early and I’m afraid I came home a bit late. Breakfast wasn’t really my cup of tea after such a long night, but I felt like I needed to try to eat something before facing my pixel New Year’s Eve officially.
I’m not saying it was a great party, but apparently I’ve committed to creating Peeps Anal Beads this Easter. That’s gotta mean something. Continue reading
Here is to wishing everyone a safe and Happy New Year!!
Please drink responsibly, void where prohibited and all that fun stuff…ohh look new pretties!
Hybie Is Wearing:
Skin: Lara Hurley – Joy – Pink
Hair: Lamb – Gemini – Ink
Eyes: IKON – Eternal – Brown
Dress: Nigella Nightfire – Mesh Evening Dress w/ Butterfly 5
Bracelet: Leverocci – belgravia circa 1885 Bracelet
Shoes: N-core – Triumph
Chic is the word for this Drift jacket. You can see its lineage in the glorious history of Chanel with its short-cropped waist, it’s beautifully tailored fit and the rich wool fabric. The skirt, from CIA Designs, is beautifully made. With its relatively high waist, it will work well with all sorts of tops and jackets. For the With Love Hunt, it is only 10L and comes in red, brown and blue. It is one of the can’t miss hunt items. Make yourself comfortable and you should find it.
New Year’s Eve has never been a big holiday in my family. Most of the day was spent cleaning and preparing for New Year’s Day which was much more important. We always had a sparkling clean house and a feast on New Year’s, honoring a folk tradition that what you experience on New Year’s Day is the harbinger of the coming year. Well, one thing you would not want on New Year’s Day is a hangover! We didn’t make resolutions either. This was probably more the influence of my mother more than any tradition. She always said that if you plan to do something, just do it. If it’s important enough to do, it’s too important to delay until the new year. What we did do, though, is look back at the year and appreciate our good fortune.
Those traditions continue. I have been cleaning today. I am having a New Year’s dinner party tomorrow. And I have been looking back at 2012 and appreciating my good fortune.
Sascha Frangilli sent me a note that said if I wasn’t too busy chasing around ducks I should check out this gown.
That might make no sense, except that – Sascha and I are RL facebook friends and she and several of my other friends thought that my quest for a duck for Christmas last week was for a duck for the yard or pond. I don’t have a pond. But, if I did, I suppose a duck might be a nice edition. Continue reading
So waddya like in a party dress? Something kicky and festive? Or something formal and elegant like the black HOCO dresses 2022? Well, luckily, the grid isn’t running short of either this last holiday bash of the year. Continue reading
It’s a beautiful day, the sun is shining and we live for new adventures..make the most of it!
A new year is approaching and I can’t wait for what the year has in store. I know my resolution is to live a little, take more chances and remember to appreciate the small things. What are yours?
Hybie is wearing:
SKin: Glam Affair – Cassiopea – Europa 02
Lipstick: Exodi – Sophie – Cachet – Cherrie Pop
Eyeliner: Exodi – Sophie – Glamour
Hair: Truth – Sassy 2 w/ roots – Chocolate
Outfit: SUGAR – Delirium – Cherries
Shoes: N-core – Coquette – black
Eyes: IKON – Horizon vs – White
Lashes: Amacci – Eyelash Tat 2 & 3
Necklace: Izzie’s – 50s Pearl necklace cherry
I play a classic jazz set every Sunday morning from 9 to 11 AM SLT at The Velvet. Usually I focus on the oldies from Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, Zoot Sims, John Coltrane and many others. I have a strong preference for the old jazz greats but the old jazz forms are still powerful influences on today’s jazz. With the year end upon us, I am doing a special set looking back at the fine jazz of 2012. I hope you can swing by.
Sissy Pessoa of Baiastice has created a fabulous dress perfect for any jazz chanteuse. I wish I could sing well enough to be a chanteuse of anything. However, I am perfectly dressed to sing. The heavy silk charmeuse drapes as beautifully as a caress.
Pixel life can be too busy. I am not sure why but man, it certainly can. So I decided that tonight, mostly because I’m sick, I’m going to relax and just spend some me time with something delicious from +9. None for ANYONE ELSE!
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I seldom shop on Marketplace. There’s several reasons for this. First, let’s just admit that Marketplace search is close to worthless thanks to the proliferation of deceptive sellers who pad their listings and keywords with fraudulent and deceptive descriptions in order to show up in more search results. They go on my list of stores I will never buy anything from because I am not going to reward liars. I also prefer to buy directly from the in-world store to support the existence of stores and sims. I am sad to see more and more stores opt to sell only on Marketplace, saving the cost of tier. I don’t blame them, but it makes our world smaller and less colorful as more stores decide to close their in-world doors. Of course, the main reason is the enjoyment of shopping with friends. Marketplace shopping is a solitary experience while in-world shopping is social. You can run into people you have not seen in ages, meet new people and experience much more of the social part of Second Life than you can on Marketplace.
However, I do browse Marketplace sometimes, looking for new stores. More specifically, looking for new-to-me stores. I was browsing the other day and came across new-to-me Paisley Daisy where I picked up this fabulous sheer mesh dress. Sheer mesh is going to require a bit of shape editing since it comes without an alpha. Well, technically, the creator Joeylin did provide a mesh, but it would look silly to wear it. I had to edit just a bit around the waist and upper thighs, but once that was done, the dress fit fabulously. Of course, with a sheer gown there’s the issue of lingerie, but I long ago made some very basic system lingerie that I could tint to my skin color to wear with clothing that reveals more than I want it to.
As you can see, my blog pictures and posts are all done under close supervision by Oscar. Because I reached for the camera and shifted back to take the picture, he is positioned a little farther from the laptop than he likes to sit while I work. While I am working, his preferred position is on the very edge of the laptop with his front paws on my forearm and his forehead leaning against my chin, completely blocking my view of the keyboard. Apparently he liked this shot because he walked across the keyboard and saved this shot to disk.
This is the picture Oscar took. The dress is from LIV-Glam and is a fabulous party gown that comes with a HUD allowing me to change it from silver to gold. It’s a perfect dress for us indecisive folks.
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