Category Archives: Second Life

Totum quod splendet

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It’s true, all that glitters is not gold. Sometimes it is bronze, silver or platinum. And sometimes it is a bit of all at once as in this gorgeous top from Fashionably Dead. The peplum top is available at Collabor88 where the theme this month seems to be proving that glitter comes in every color. I dressed it up with the bottom of the Kamille dress from Countdown. One of the advantages of combining mesh with system layers, as Countdown has, is the ability to mix and match which makes me happy.
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At The Office

At The Office

 

It was a busy day at the office yesterday. My To Do list was a mile long and I don’t think it got any shorter by the end of my day. Fortunately, Cajsa has put up a lovely new office at Glookbone so at least if I have to sort through the work part of my SL I have a pretty place to do it. Continue reading

American Hearts

  • Skin: The Body Co. – Sky
  • Ears: Aitui – Stretched Ears 2″
  • Hands: CheerNo – Mesh Hand Relaxed
  • Hair: Taketomi – Gosling
  • Facial Hair: Zovo – Classic
  • Glasses: Yummy – Summer Shades
  • Necklace: Kosh – Multiplex
  • Top: FateWear – James
  • Pants: FateWear – Jack
  • Shoes: WMD & Hermony – Chucks

Poses by Izumuya

St Patrick’s Blue – Week 12

Slowly plodding through my 52 colors…..
The week I am on is St Patrick’s Blue – who knew St. Patrick had a blue? I sure didn’t…. well… now we do… and here is MY take on St. Patrick’s blue — this great dress from Purple Moon…..

St Patrick's Blue
more after the cut
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It’s nice when technology forces me to grow

CHANGE BAD! But sometimes necessary.

Then there came the patch in which shadows broke. I couldn’t enable them in Phoenix Firestorm without crashing SL so badly that I had to clean install every. Single. Time. Cajsa hopped in with a fix for that: upgrade my Mac’s OS to the latest, and it would work! So I upgraded. And Lo, it was possible to enable shadows again. Sadly they don’t actually photograph yet (or there’s a fix I haven’t found), for only about half the shadow photos, and the rest is lost.

And then my ancient Photoshop broke. I shoulda made sure CS2 worked in Mountain Lion before hand, but sadly I didn’t and it doesn’t. I have downloaded Gimp and will try my best to learn it. All whining aside, it’s nice to have an SL that works reasonably well again. And change definitely forces me to think. And thinking is ALWAYS good. Right?

Anyway. I am wearing things by people. List below.

Gimp is annoying

Tattoo: Katat0nik Eva Bunny Tattoo Sleeve
Hair: Lamb Sweet Jane – Milkshake
Hat: Nylon Outfitters Funky Pompom Cap – Red
Shirt: Nylon Outfitters openback lace tee – black
Skin: Mother Goose’s Bomi II 1L
Necklace: Bliensen + MaiTai Grimm’s Necklace
Shoes: Hate Me and Eat Me the Dune boots in red
Purse: MG – purse – Madame Midnight in black
Eyes: Poetic Colors Christmas Pearls
Stockings: Schadenfreude blush luisa stockings
Skirt: Tee*fy Aspen high-waited skirt in night

A Not So Quick Dip

A Quick Dip

 

I have to head back home later today but didn’t want to go without one more dip in the gorgeous waters here.  I brought with me a “not new” yet “still awesome” swim suit from One Bad Pixel, the ringed bikini. It’s perfect for swimming or just being pretty.

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The Carnival Trope

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I went to Carneval last night, staying up until 4 A.M. exploring the amazing sim. MadPea has designed so many of my favorite sims and this one is perhaps his most stunning yet. Colored in a restrained black and white palette with touches of blood red here and there, the duotone colors make it so very dramatic and allows your windlight settings to paint the scene for you. This picture was shot in the specified region wind light which gave it an eerie desaturated gloom. The spooky, abandoned amusement park is a familiar trope, but MadPea takes the familiar and gives it new life. There is a KAOS effect ride which makes me wonder if it was inspired by the Get Smart episode where Max and Agent 99 went to the KAOS Amusement Park.

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I dressed in this chic coat and skirt from VoguE, though from prior experience with MadPea’s mad creations, I should perhaps have known better. If you have not enjoyed a MadPea experience, you have been missing some of the best that Second Life has to offer.  Combining rich, detailed textures and meticulous builds, MadPea creates places to play, to interact, to explore. Oddly enough, WordPress just autocorrected explore to expire – an ironic and macabre recognition of the world of MadPea.

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