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Entertaining for Christmas

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This year I get to host Christmas dinner and have been menu-planning for over a week and dithering back and forth between the many ideas rolling around in my head. I know exactly what I plan to make for my first course and second course, but the third course is giving me fits. I am serving beef tenderloin, but folks like a starch with their main course, so I am trying to choose between Pommes Anna, Patatas Aioli or Mushroom Risotto. I am planning on roasted vegetables for the other side dish. Anyway, my shopping list grows and luckily I have a gorgeous clutch to carry it and a handy pen around for reminding me of things I need to buy. 🙂

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Inspiration Unfolds

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Monica Outlander of MiaMai released her newest collection on December 8th. I love her shows. They are always an extravagant and imaginative work of art with music, text, illustration, photography and fashion coming together in a meaningful and thoughtful performance. I missed the show this time since my computer was still in need of repairs, but that doesn’t mean I missed the collection.

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I found myself inspired by this rich brocade gown that brings together traditional formality in texture with a modern silhouette and avant garde embellishment. While brocade has been around for over a millennium, it reached its heyday in the 18th century. I have a mental image of one of the weavers who produced the lush silks for the Sun King’s Court seeing this brocade gown with its antlers and wings and wondering why she had not thought of that.

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The Parties of Christmas Are Upon Us

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Sissy Pessoa of Baiastice releases a gorgeous collection of stunning holiday gowns every year and this year, with mesh in her masterful hands, the holiday collection is more gorgeous than ever. This Juliet dress is a stunning cocktail dress that can be worn two ways, with the yoke and hem sheer or opaque. Its rich jewel tones and its wrapping paper shimmer are simply perfect.

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A Knitted Mess for My Second Box

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Somnia released to the group an adorable sweater skirtset for winter called A Knitted Mess that is perfect for casual winter days. Layered to keep you warm, it pairs great with tights or the included leggings, and I added some fun color boots from DUH! Continue reading →

An Event Trifecta

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So now that my computer has been repaired I was able to hop over to Collabor88, The Arcade and faMESHed without getting a black screen kernel panic meltdown. Things are still not quite right and I think I will have to upgrade my operating system to Lion to get shadows again, but now I can go where there are people.

My dress is from Ingenue for the Collabor88 event and comes in many colors. It’s a perfect foundation dress to wear with scarfs, jackets or to show off fun jewelry. Its simply lines make it a wonderful frame for fun accessories. Speaking of fun accessories, here’s another of the pesca scarves from The Arcade Gacha. I plurked about my desperate desire for one of these stoles when Arcade opened while my computer was still in bad shape and was lucky to receive several different ones from friends. This pink plaid seems made for the Ingenue dress.

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Sunday Morning Means Classic Jazz

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It’s Sunday morning and that means I am heading over to the Velvet to play two hours of classic jazz from 9 to 11 AM SLT. It’s my regular Sunday gig that I do every week. It’s always a relatively quiet set, suitable for an early Sunday morning. Before I go, Kunglers has released a great new dress. I love the graphics solids over the wild multicolor sequins. It comes in six color options with bold and subtle palettes.

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Long Day’s End

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It was a long day yesterday. By the time I got to sit down on my own bed I ached and my feet hurt like mad.  It’s been a tough pixel day if your feet hurt. Continue reading →

VISION by A:S:S – mesh eyes Exclusively for MY SECOND BOX

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Beautiful mesh eyes from A:S:S that are exclusive to My Second Box have been released to the group. You get ALL of the eyes you see her for the 300L group join fee PLUS you get all the other awesome gifts too. VISION by A:S:S made the first mesh eyes that I ever thought looked at all wearable and you’ve seen me wear them quite a bit in posts here. I love the natural look sclera and the gorgeous tones you can get them in.

I put a few colors on to test them with my skin tone. Resizing them is a snap with the HUD.
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So 20 colors of eyes for 300L plus oodles of other goodies – My Second Box is a great deal this month. Continue reading →

Back in the Saddle Again

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This has been a long week while my computer was away getting its logic board replaced. They replaced the battery plugin and the bottom keyboard and cursor touchpad as well because they decided they were not up to snuff. I am thrilled to have it back after 5 days of using a 9 year old computer to browse the web. My old desktop is fine for playing iTunes and checking mail, but coughed and spluttered and ground to a halt when trying to look at flickr. In this outfit, I am wearing a new jacket from Baiastice with a Baistice skirt from last month and a black shirt from Kyoto Couture. I love the look of the Western style tie and the black on black with the jacket.

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