Category Archives: Second Life

The Terra Cotta Army

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I love my new dress from The Sea Hole. It comes in six colors and, of course, I chose antique. There’s also a pink, yellow, blue, black and silver all in powder-soft pastels with fancy names like blush, custard, sky, shadow and silverscreen. Don’t you just love color names? There are such fabulous details on the dress and it’s a great sensible use of mesh and system pieces in combination. The bodice, with its sheer panels and sparking contrast fabric is a system piece while the skirt is mesh and rigged to move with your movements. It has a mesh alpha, but it’s not necessary, so you can wear some of your loveliest lingerie.

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Looking this good, I wanted to go out and about and what would be better than the fabulous new discovery at Tenth Rua. They were terraforming and their excavation lead to the discovery of these magnificent terra cotta soldiers that replicate on a small scale the vast Terra Cotta Army of Emperor Qin that was found under similar circumstances in 1974 when workers were digging a well. Who know such treasures lurked beneath the surface patch? Get digging, people!
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Trekking at Ivalde

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While checking out this new dress from Ivalde, I decided to trek around the Ivalde sim and climbed up high to get a good look. I am also taking a good look at this new dress with the colorful embroidery on the sleeves and bodice. I am wearing the teal dress, but it also comes in red, magenta, green, blue, and yellow all on a rich black fabric.

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It’s Time

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In less than four hours, Fashion For Life will be closing until next year. The vendors will be picked up and the sims will be dismantled and it will all go away, these beautiful builds such as this one that are all part of a monumental annual effort to raise funds in the hope of finding cures for cancer. Cancer is such a tricky bastard; it needs more than one cure. But the cures are possible; they can be found and it will take our concerted effort to find them.

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A new kind of mambo

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I DJ’ed last night at The Velvet and put together a fun set full of mambos, tangos and sambas with a bit of jive and other things to spice it up. I wanted to wear something samba-worthy and remembered this top I picked up at The Dressing Room Blue. It was from Mimikri, so I dived into my Mimikri folder to find a silver skirt to wear with it – and adapting this skirt from the Adele dress worked perfectly.

I love putting together different sets that explore a mood or a beat and have a lot of fun spinning my songs on Monday nights. My long-time friend and former partner is the manager at The Velvet and has really brought a new spirit to the place. If you have not been there in awhile, you might want to try it again. The old “We are cooler than you,” vibe is long gone and there’s a friendly spirit that focuses on the sheer pleasure of sharing music. There’s a blog that you should check out with posts from many of the DJ’s updating readers on upcoming sets.

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Half Dressed

I’ve torn my nylons with my plastic spider ring. I guess there is nothing to do for it but to blog about something else………like………SKIN!

Glam Affair has released LEAH which is a fresh, soft face even in thick red lipstick. I feel in love with the gorgeous look of this skin as soon as I put it on but I’m a sucker for soft girly looks.

And since it’s Monday that means……..I’m out.

Happy Shopping Today Girls!

Shopping List:
Tank: Baiastice_S_Kim-gold/lemon-Shirt
Hose:(Cracked Mirror) Pantyhose (torn) (black) pl
Nails: * RezIpsa Loc * ~ St. Patrick’s Blue Nails (gloves layer)
Ink: ::Para Designs:: Gypsy Color Light (Undershirt)
Eyelashes: Amacci – Eyelash Tattoo 6
Hair Ornament: .( bewildebeest ). Amphitrite Hair Ornament
Hair: >TRUTH< Dee w/Roots (Mesh) – swedish
ring:CONCRETE FLOWERS- Plastic Spider Ring
Shape: Gidge ~Savoir Faire Shapes~
Skin: -Glam Affair- Leah Natural – 07 BL
Eyes: Poetic Colors: classic – coral reef (m) bright
Poses: STATUS

 

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Wow, I can’t believe it’s been almost a week since my last post. How time flies when you’re stuck in a conference room in a hotel next to the San Francisco airport for 4.5 days. OK … maybe not. Even worse, the weather was dreary the entire time and even rained out the golf tournament, which was our one glimmer of fun all week. So as we all looked forlornly out the lobby window overlooking the SF Bay, I thought about warmer times and fun activities to be had there some other day.

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Unedited – Gidge Does The Opposite of Cajsa

I decided to do the opposite of Cajsa when picking up the Unedited Photo Challenge and do LOTS of color vs very limited range.  I followed my usual habit of snorking off of Honour McMillan’s blog for a place to shoot onlocation.   It was perfection that the place I landed on  is called Happy Mood, as I have nothing but one of those. Continue reading

The ghosts of gatcha past

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Have you been to the Starlust Gatcha Festival yet? It fills my melancholy longing for the Albero Gatcha festivals of yesteryear. In fact, while I was wandering around trying to find a location for a photo contest I was entering, I realized that all of AM Radio’s sims were gone now too. In a way, Second Life is like real life in a petrie dish, it reminds me that everything is mutable. I’ve gotta enjoy the awesome things while they last, because they will surely evaporate like The Quiet’s deep layers of snow. So I’m going to shower love upon this Gatcha festival (my poses, locket, and balloon come from there), because for now, Starlust endures!

Poses: Lolapop! Sucker poses, from the Starlust Gatcha Festival
Locket: ~silentsparrow~ owls chapiteau locket, from the Starlust Gatcha Festival
Balloon: Schadenfreude silver balloon from the Starlust Gatcha Festival
Outfit: League Organic Silk Dress in black, at Collabor88
Glasses: Crie Style Sprung
Boots: Lassitude & Ennui Wanderlust mesh boots in black
Hair: KiK kane in snow
Ears: SLink Sachara Elf Ears long, frogs
Skin: fashionably Dead vampire skin – 2
Eyes: Frick Normalish Eyes – Diablo
Tattoos: The Closet chain hart tattoo

One Step Closer

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I am a little late to the party of celebrating the Fashion For Life Event but my ardor is no less because this is truly one of my favorite things to support in both lives.  Everyone’s life has been touched by cancer, some more than others and for all of us it’s a journey.

I thought since lots of people have shared I would tell you the story of my Uncle George, who cancer took away.

He was a confirmed old bachelor (nudge nudge wink wink) who lived his life pretty full as a young man. He went to Cuba to gamble, he worked at 20th Century Fox as a hair dresser during World War 2. When I was very little he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, and told to say his farewells. Continue reading