Category Archives: Second Life

It's a Blue Moon

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Well, not really, but you can make a blue moon in Windlight any old time and that’s what I wanted for shooting this lovely blue dress from LaLei. I used a photo box from LUST for this background. LUST photoboxes are fun little items and most are only 10L so you can’t go wrong. Anyway, after I recently received a review copy of the Flower Fever dress from LaLei that I blogged last week, I had to check out the store and see what else there was. Well, it’s a gown-lovers paradise and I only managed to walk out with just one purchase because I could not decide on one color for the other dress I wanted to get – so decided to be strong and come back when I made up my mind because I am trying to get my inventory under control.  However, for this dress, the gorgeous blue was irresistible. In fact, this dress chased me around the store hollering “Buy Me!” when I tried to move on.

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Phoenix Rising:The Bree Jacket

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posted by Gidge Uriza

Phoenix Rising releases Bree on Weds March 3.  A belted pea jacket in rich deep tones it’s constructed with a casual open look that is great with or without something under it. I opted for a tank because I didn’t want to blind you with my boobs. Continue reading →

The Big SL to RL Baby Contest – Hybrid Ansar and Gidge Uriza Are Having Babies!

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Oh No I'll Lose My Girlish Figure!

posted by Gidge Uriza

We kept it to Plurk for a few days but I think it’s time to open the rest of the flood gates for the BIGGEST CONTEST EVAH! The GUESS THE DUE DATE Contest for both Hybie and me! You see, Hybrid Ansar and I are due one day apart and as we both hit the 32 week mark this week- we decided it’d be fun to have a little contest to see who would deliver first.

It’s turned into a big contest! I MEAN HUGE! This is the prize list as it currently stands:

Gift Card Donations

  • Evie’s Closet – $L2000
  • Sn@tch – $L1000
  • Musashi Do – $L1000
  • Phoenix Rising $L1000
  • Dark Mouse $L1000
  • Hilarioius $L1000
  • Kess Kreations $L1000
  • Mer Elf Creations $L1000
  • House of Hucci – $L1000
  • This is a Fawn – $L500
  • Hilarious – $L500
  • DeeTaleZ – $L500 (Donated by Winter Jefferson)
  • Astraia – $L500 GC

Clothing/Merchandise Donations

  • A-Bomb
  • Abstract Reality Designs
  • Clio’s Pret a Porter
  • Bag Lady – New Life Bag (pictured above!)
  • Filter Cam from Mechanized Life

Plus Clothing from

  • Sascha’s Designs
  • Bare Rose
  • Tres Jolie
  • Blacklace

and I’ll bet there will be more. I apologize in advance if I missed anyone – my list is constantly changing and evolving so I need to make a new master list 🙂

How to play/THE RULES.

You should enter a guess on the web page link I give you for both Hybie and Me.  The person who guesses WHICH of us has our baby first,and is closest with the date and time WITHOUT GOING OVER (just like on the PRICE IS RIGHT) will be our GRAND PRIZE WINNER and will win the LOT!

Our Web Pages are – Hybie’s Due Date Game and Gidge’s Due Date Game . So go to EACH of them and enter a guess if you like.  I do advise closing one page before opening another. If you open them on top of one another – they tend to revert back to the first page you had open. It’s wonky.

So you’d like to apply some folklore,family beliefs or personal experience to your guess? Here is what I can tell you so far about us and our babies:

HYBIE:

  • Due April 28 2010
  • Expecting – a baby boy
  • First Child
  • Had her 32 week check up today – so we can update any baby stats later today!

GIDGE:

  • Due – April 27,2010
  • Expecting – a baby girl
  • This is my 4th Child
  • First Child delivered at 36 weeks 3 days, at 9 pounds 1 oz
  • Twins Delivered at 38 weeks and one was over 7 pounds and one was just under
  • At my 32 week check up, the baby is 4.5 pounds and her head is 10cm long 7 cm wide – 33cm circumference.
  • My doctor has no plans to induce me
  • I have never had a c-section

NOW! Apply all those old wives tales and go play!

I love that our SL and our RL can celebrate such a happy and wonderful time together! The more the merrier – anyone is eligible to win but the name who wins gets the entire cache. Cajsa Lilliehook will serve as our neutral 3rd party and will hold the cache and pass it to the winner!!!

If anyone wants to donate to the cache of prizes, just drop it on  me, Hybie or Cajsa with a notecard! 🙂

Black Goth/White Goth What's Your Flavor?

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posted by Gidge Uriza

Delia, the new release from Blueblood was dropped on me by my now favie Uriza Cousin Ghanima and I couldn’t decide which version I liked better, the black or white goth – so I decided to bring you the purple of each.

It’s a very festive take on a man’s pantsuit complete with frills and a stylized mutton leg sleeves to lend a more girly and vintage look to the styling. I’m wearing some of my favorite big clunky shoes – the Baby Jane Heels from Sn@tch. Which, in my mind, continue to be the Typhoid Mary Heels and I don’t know why. I may have to rename them in my inventory just to be able to find them. Continue reading →

Hot Fun in the Summer Sun

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A few weeks ago, Jon Stewart did a typically hilarious bit that looked at the silliness in the news regarding the Unusually Large Snowstorm on the East Coast.  Of course, like the pundits who confuse weather with climate, there was Jason Jones insisting that the snow proved that global warming was not a problem, meanwhile down in Austalia, there was Sam Bee saying that of course there was global warming, it’s 96 degrees in February! It’s a funny piece and well worth watching. Of course, it slips my mind from time to time that lots of folks in Second Life® are from the southern hemisphere and enjoying warm and sunny days. We get little reminders, though, from time to time like this lovely summery dress from Kunglers – South American designers who I hope are enjoying hot fun in the summer sun.

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Maya

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I love ruching and the ruching on this new dress from Sissy Pessoa of Baiastice has amazing ruched details. Beginning on the left bodice and curving round the torso and right skirt, it adds visual interest and highlights the best of the feminine shape. Sissy made this dress in eight different colors and with two skirt options – a snug one as shown or a full sculpty skirt with a paper bag waist. Alexiaa Allen did a great post featuring the paper bag waist option, but as for me, I was loving the snug version.

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Vintage Mood

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To be honest, this lovely polka dot dress is clearly a modern interpretation of the familiar vintage full skirt and not authentically vintage. Available at the Nouveau Miranda store, it’s made by Wicked Loudon – the new identity of one of the former FOAM creators who is now an adult and back in Second Life®.

One look at the umbrella curving shape of the gores that make up the full skirt makes the dresses modernity evident. However, the fitted waist, the fullness of the skirt, the draped collar and the polka-dot fabric all pay homage to the fashions of half a century ago.

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It's Not Raining in SL

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Oregon weather is so consistent. It’s warm and pleasant and dry for the summer and it’s cloudy, rainy and cool in the winter. It comes in two flavors and the one that’s on tap right now is not weather for this dress. Luckily, in SL I can be in any climate I feel like with a quick teleport from spot to spot. Snow, rain, tropics or jungles, deserts or forests, cities or castles – what you want you can find.  So, when I saw the lovely new Poppy skirt at Sugarcube I did not hesitate to pair it with a very summery top from So Many Styles.

I made the tiniest of concessions to reality by adding a short little velvet shrug from Adam n Eve, but seriously, if your jacket does not cover your midriff – it’s worn for fashion, not function. And clearly, fashion leads the way with that lovely silver embroidery and the adorable little hood. The jewelry is from Puarangi Design – though I have had this set so long it’s labeled Hi-Flo from the stores old name.

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Can't Learn Nothin' In School They Don't Teach On The Streets…

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posted by Gidge Uriza

When I got the new releases at A-BOMB today I have to admit, the thing that made me SQUEEEEEEEEE was totally the bowling bag purse. I’m serious, how many things can I make this match? I love quirky accessories and even though I might not wear a rockabilly look on a regular basis, I was instantly so in love with the purse that I had to style the rest of the releases with it on the spot. Continue reading →

Quick Look: Hyper Culture

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I shot these photos at the end of January – but misplaced them and forgot. Now how could that happen with such a lovely dress as this? I don’t know and have no excuses other than the fact that SL has so many great designs and great clothing that sometimes we drown in an embarrassment of riches. I love the gorgeous rich cordovan leather color in this dress and the bold bronze top-stiching. It’s a dress that says “Look at me!”

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