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I Get By With a Little Help With My Friends.

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My computer has been hobbling along lately, in need of a new graphics card and system upgrades. That is one reason why I shoot fewer pictures with shadows and projectors. I can crash if I even think about doing that. But the worst symptom is how antisocial my computer has become. Any crowd, even if I drop RenderAvatarMaxVisible to 1 overwhelms and crashes my computer. I can rez about two people before crashing, so when I DJ I zoom in on the wall so I don’t see anyone. Needless to say, huge events like the Arcade Gacha are completely off limits. I saw one item in the shopping guide that I wanted desperately. I did run around to several yard sales on this huge list of gacha yard sales, but the people who are buying the pesca stoles are keeping them. Fortunately, I get by with a little help from my friends. The red plaid stole I wore yesterday was a gift from Gidge and Sylvia Olivier dropped this and a pink version of the Pesca stoles on me. They are certainly my favorite of the Arcade Gacha treasures made even better by virtue of the generosity of friends.

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Blogger Challenge: Seven years of Lassitude & Ennui

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Saiyge Lotus of Balderdash in L&E’s Wanderlust boots

Tonight I thought about my favorite boots by Lassitude & Ennui. They are the Wanderlust boots, and they come hand in hand with my favorite people and activities in Second Life. What I’ve always loved most about blogging was not taking pictures of myself, but instead collaborating with other people. I decided that for the “my favorite item” part of the Seven years of Lassitude & Ennui challenge, I’d do my favorite thing — photograph someone else. I love the Wanderlust boots because of the shape and construction. They look like a pair of boots that can kick some ass while being perfectly in place at a Babbage banquet, elegantly flexible!

The avatar that I felt perfectly embodies the Wanderlust boots is Saiyge Lotus. There’s something rakishly fey about her avatar and all of her creations that puts me in mind of far journeyings in magical realms. Could it be the vardos, or the rest of her creations? Or perhaps her personal style, a fine magical realist mix of contemporary and fairy? Maybe all of it. Saiyge was kind enough to pause in her creation of Yuletide fare and lean against a vardo for me.

These boots of Jackal’s walk a magical path, and so does Saiyge!

(Visit Lassitude & Ennui) (Visit Saiyge’s store, Balderdash)

Saiyge’s credits:

Hair: [LeLutka] -LIVELY hair – IronHotcake
Skin: -Glam Affair- Amberly – Europa -9 D
Eyes: Mayfly – Liquid Light Eyes (Green Tourmaline)
Sensations Mesh Horns – Old Ram
Izzie’s – Delusional Eyeshadow plum

Coat: coldLogic coat – palmieri.ebony
Pants: *League* Merino Leggings – Long Black
Boots: lassitude & ennui – Wanderlust – black duotone

Balderdash – Winter Waldgeist (unreleased)
Balderdash – Draoi – Winter- Headpiece (unreleased)
Balderdash – Bit of Christmas Necklace

Location: Oubliette – Balderdash *Sparrow* Wagon

We are…

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We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers
And sitting by desolate streams;—
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.

-Arthur O’Shaughnessy

Hybie Is Wearing:

Skin: Rotten Toe – Marina Pale Canvas
Hair: booN – PUN448 blk
Dress: Blue Blood – ALICE – Blk
Lashes: Glam Affair – Dark Ed Cosmetics no6
Eyes: Ikon – Eternal – brown

Go For It

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I have been seeing this fabulous damask dress from Vero Moderno lately, a bold red and white baroque pattern with modern styling such as dolman sleeves that drape open from the shoulder to the hem of the sleeve. I don’t know why, but when I saw the ad for Pesca’s shawl at The Arcade Gacha event, I immediately knew I wanted to pair the red plaid with the Vero Moderno dress. Plaid and damask are not patterns that come together naturally, but I decided to go for it. I think it works because the prints have similar values but different densities.

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Heat Rises

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One of the blessings (curses) of living in an upper floor apartment is the simple law of physics that heat rises. What that means in practical terms is that my downstairs neighbor pays for heat and I get most of it. I don’t turn on the heat. Right now it is 48°F outside (9°C) and I have two windows open and the fan running and it’s 76° in here. I imagine my downstairs neighbor as a lizard cranking up the heat and basking by the heater, warming his cold blood. It is hard to imagine a warm-blooded creature needing that much heat.

Heat rises in fashion, too, and I think the heat is bringing some really great stuff to the top at faMESHEd. Take this fabulous bodycon dress from Pink Outfitters. It’s figure hugging as any bodycon dress should be and comes in rich, saturated colors such as this fabulous eggplant. It also comes with fitted belts in silver and white. I love the long sleeves and simple round neckline that makes it perfect for big statement jewelry. My only quibble is that while dancing, there is an occasional break on the back of the legs where the leg will come through the mesh in some movements. This doesn’t bother me since coming from the era of sculpties and system skirts, that is a minor glitch.

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Hello there! :)

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*suddenly enters the room, visibly excited, waving at everyone*

Hello folks, Olela is back 🙂

RL kept me really busy the last three months, lots of things happened, i’ve also moved. I missed SL, i missed blogging, i missed you! Now i’m back and my inventory seems sooo poor and full of old stuff, but this problem will be fixed soon with lots of shopping which has already started. It feels so good, oh yeah! 😀

I received an amazing dress from the talented Aliza Karu, it’s one of her latest releases and i love it so much that i’ve decided to wear it in the first snaps i’ve taken after my return.

Covetousness

It’s called Covetousness, it’s mesh and also comes with sculpted skirt and hat which i’m not wearing in the picture. Aliza never stops amazing me!

Trust me

The adorable skin is the Pink Fuel item from the With Love hunt, the lovely hair is Ramona from esk-imo.

I took these snaps at Lea1 and played a bit with the Phototools settings, one of the new veeery interesting features of the latest Firestorm Major release.

I hope you’ll enjoy them, as much as my look 🙂

I’ll be back soon with some other wonderful stuff to show you, yayyyy!

Ciao 🙂 xxx

 

***CREDITS***

  • Skin: Pink Fuel – Alyx – Ivory – With Love Hunt item
  • Hair: esk-imo – Ramona – Blacks
  • Dress: Aliza Karu-AD Creations – Covetousness mesh dress
  • Necklace: Maxi Gossamer – Jewelled Butterfly
  • Eyes: Poetic Colors – lilac blossoms
  • Nails: Candy Nail – old anniversary gift
  • Poses: Epiphany – from the BoldGirl Model AO and the PolarChic set
  • Location: Lea1 – A Rusted Development

Very wee

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Book-sized.

Today while pondering that a few thousand people were trying to get into an area that can comfortably fit 32, I decided to put on my Petite avatar again. I love the one by Mynerva (so happy that I can change the skin any odd color that I want), and soon I was off hunting Petite stuff. I was so happy to find that Balderdash has a line of headpieces for Petites! Wasabi Pills hair, too. And *fingersnap* used up all my Gatcha moneys!

Boots: Moonstruck petite brocade shoes in black
Hair: Wasabi Pills Amandine Petite Mesh Hair – deep ocean
Headpiece: Balderdash Waldgeist petite headpiece
Outfit: Blue Blood Diana petite outfit
Avatar: Mynerva petite light drow

Restless

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Restless Nights

I made a run through a few stops on the WITH LOVE HUNT, and this nightshirt went right to the top of my hunting list, because I’m a sucker for PJs in SL. I must always have PJs. PJs plus slippers? WINNER! Continue reading →