When I saw the lovely Romance Rose dress from Prelude I knew I wanted to go to the SL Botanical Gardens where you can find anything and everything, it seems. Certainly such a romantic gown deserves a romantic setting. I love how Polaire achieves such a lovely sheer sash even on the system pieces. Real thought and planning went into making this dress.
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The Collaboration between Lark and Dark Mouse brings us FAE in gown and jewelry – a gorgeous set that truly screams for me to put on some wings.
And did you know I used to be a Fairy? I did!
But none of my wings matched.
And I’m lazy.
So I didn’t go wing shopping.
The gown and jewelry come in multiple tones each complimenting the other – I chose to wear gold because I was having a very blonde day and my blonde girl likes gold.
These two pieces are offered at the Etheria event which is still going on until the 20th . Continue reading
Sometimes the fabric reaches off the shelf and takes control of your hand, purchasing itself because it knows that you want it. You are trying to be sensible and tell yourself you have spent enough, but the fabric knows better. It’s beautiful, it has that lovely two-tone subtlety that speaks to you and it knows you love it. That happened to me when I saw this Laish dress from Lelutka.
And of course, one I had the dress, I needed a jacket that would look good with it, so I also bought the Biyaca Bolero. It took just a bit of editing to make it work perfectly and not intersect with the dress prims.
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The new Candy skin from PXL Creations is soon to be released and as always, Hart Larsson has made a tummy that is deliciously femme.
Seriously, like three people make tummies I just looooove. I’m a tummy snob. Continue reading
Astrologically, I am a fire sign – an Aries. But I have always been a water baby at heart – I grew up on a lake, spent untold hours canoeing miles of rivers in the NorthWoods and love the sounds of water. I have been blessed to hear the breaking up of the ice on the lake as the waves smash it into ever smaller shards on the shore – creating the sound of thousands of glass wind-chimes ringing as the shards clash against each other and the rocks on the shore. I love the sound of waves, the roaring of waterfalls and the lonely cries of loons resounding over the water. One of the joys of Second Life is replicating the sounds of my childhood – though I have yet to find anyone who has recorded the ice breaking up or the snap and growl of the ice in winter.
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The Etheria event is a perfect melding of girly goodness in my world. Gorgeous clothes and jewelry – really? FABULOUS.
The collaboration between Carolines and Ingenue brought together vintage styling with some gorgeously imagined jewels to enhance them,in coordinating or complimentary colors.
I love the realism of the boning textured into the bodice of this gown. Hoists the girls up – just like in RL! Continue reading
One of my favorite artists in Second Life is elros tuominen whose kinetic sculptures are fascinating expressions of hope and joy. I have several of them rezzed on a transparent platform in the sky because I love shooting pictures with them and also enjoy seeing them resting in the clouds. The particular sculpture in this set is called Cross the Sea – a series of moving blocks of shifting shades of blue to white. It’s hypnotically beautiful and a favorite of mine.
The Creone gown recently released by Monica Outlander of MiaMai is another beautiful expression of joy.
It’s a very sneezy Tuesday morning, so here’s a quick look at a gorgeous top (body suit) from Baiastice with a sculpted tiered skirt from Ce Cubic Effect. The skirt is quite old and when first released, the use of sculpties was still new and exciting. However, it’s so well done it still exemplifies how well sculpties can be done.
Offshore Oil Rig in the ANWR sim of Second Life.
I have found myself fast-forwarding or muting the coverage of the British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico because if I see those pictures of dead fish, dying birds and a mortally wounded eco-system I start to cry. I am not alone, many people are unable to watch without falling into despair. Usually in a disaster, people react with urgency and energy – full of things to do to help, but this time we are in over our heads – literally and metaphorically. We are dependent on the expertise and equipment of unreliable people – a company with a proven record of lying to us and to the government. Even the best experts in the field don’t know how to fix it quickly and so we watch this strangling of our southern shores with helplessness and broken hearts. It is our helplessness that makes us despair and for our own spirits we must find things we can do to help. That’s why I am excited about Operation Squeegee.
In addition to changes to the regulations that govern off-shore drilling, stronger and more active oversight, development of clean-up and disaster expertise within the government and prioritizing alternative energy sources and conservation, we can support with the sisyphean efforts to cleanup and restore wetlands. Many SL merchants will be participating and events are being planned. For more information, go to the Operation Squeegee website.
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I never shop on XStreet, but recently I was out there looking for something and thanks to their totally borked search function, despite searching ZOMBIE I found this beautiful tattoo. So I had to have it. Continue reading