Category Archives: Second Life

Bare Rose Appreciation Challenge #3

I had this bright idea last night to try to double up on the challenge – producing a literary character to meet Teagan’s challenge and finding some or all of that character’s clothing at Bare Rose. I might have made it, too, if I had not been reading such a darn good book that I missed by bus stop and rode the bus 49 extra blocks before noticing.  And to top it off, when I asked the driver if he was turning round, he said it was his last run. So I had to get off the bus and wait for a returning one. I didn’t leave work til nearly 7 so needless to say it was late when I got home.  But if you only look at this picture, you might think I succeeded in dressing Nancy Drew at Bare Rose. When I think of Nancy Drew, I think of argyle sweaters and twin sets. Since it’s fall, I chose Argyle in a fabulous Bare Rose fatpack filled with every color in the universe. It’s sold with matching micro-minis but that was too prep school lolita for me.

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::: B@R ::: Appreciation Challenge #1

Winter Jefferson, the only sardonic Australian Vampire knight fashionisto on the grid, has issued a challenge that really appealed to me. He has asked fashion bloggers to show some love for June Dion and Bare Rose, the prolific, peripatetic and people-priced store that has been the lifesaver for costume hunters and bargain shoppers across the grid. Winter lists the many reasons to love Bare Rose and I won’t repeat them, just ask that you hop over to In Cold Blood and see if you don’t agree that Bare Rose is well-deserving of a blogging tribute.  Take for example, this chidori jacket…

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Requiem pour Lyly Straaf

posted by Gidge Uriza

My friend Lyly Straaf died.

She died in RL, so it’s permanent, and not some SL moment that can be corrected.

I can’t share with you about the little hands that will miss her, or the man that grieves. Or about what happened or how very sudden and tragic it is. These are not mine to tell, and I won’t break the rules of the grid and pour out the words that would make her flesh instead of pixel.

But I can share with you that she was funny. And we often had such a silly time in the past, filling up prims decorating a place to Vic’s chagrin. Griefing him with funny objects when he went AFK for too long. Laughing about our frustrations and spending time sometimes just talking about nothing.

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To Cleave or Not to Cleave

Chai Double Shot with Cleavage

Oh, such decisions we face when donning the new Chai Double Shots skin. Not only are there several makeup options, but each option comes with 4 basic choices, freckles or not and cleavage or not. The last is a new one and had  me in a quandary asking whether to cleave or not to cleave. Is it nobler to to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous flatchestedness or take bosoms against a sea of troubles and by shading and highlights end them?

Chai Double Shot without Cleavage

Chai Double Shot without Cleavage

To cleave, to sag no more and by cleaving  we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks of gravity that flesh is heir to. To cleave to inflate, to shade perchance to dream of bosoms, aye, there’s the tit.For in that cleavage of D cups what dreams may come when we have stuffed our mortal bazongas.

Oh, Will, I do apologize.

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Uncle Wiggly's Almost Free Skirt & Gifties

A trip to Uncle Wiggly is in order. Uncle Wiggly is one of those fun stores where there’s no particular type of creation – which varies from clothing to furniture to foliage and makes stops everywhere in between. What does not fluctuate is the whimsy and quality of these items – most of which are 1 linden. Which mean you should always add some lovely lindens to the tip jar outside. The shirt is actually from LaLa FooFoo and I am wearing it with an Uncle Wiggly skirt.

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It's All Golden

Shai Delacroix knows how to texture dresses so they look wonderful on you. She adds shadows, contours and shading so the dress is not just fitting your body, but it also looks like it’s fitting your body.  Her clothes are a dream to photograph because they are never flat and lifeless. Today, I am wearing her gold Aemillia dress and feel like a million bucks.

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We're going to party, karamu, fiesta

Red Party Dress from Zenith

Well, my friends, the time has come
To raise the roof and have some fun
Throw away the work to be done
Let the music play on
(play on, play on)
Everbody sing, everybody dance
Lose yourself in wild romance
Were going to party
Karamu, fiesta, forever
Come on and sing along!

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December Is Upon Us

December has arrived and it brought a little snow my way – at least in Second Life®.  This is in the Winter section of the photo park at MDR and I probably should have worn boots and not slingbacks, but I liked the way they look with the pants. I didn’t hike back down the hill, anyway. I jumped on a hangglider.

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Rain, Rain, Go Away

And Don’t Hurry Back! Some days the constant dreary rain can get wearing, knowing that it may be weeks becfor a patch of sunlight peeks out from behind the clouds. The only solution, then, is some fresh air and some good full spectrum light bulbs. Of course, looking good never hurts. I went for a little retail therapy at Chai’s new sim to pick up some of her new skins. That would cheer up the gloomiest gus.

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