Illusions

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Who does not love a dress with a bit of illusion? Illusion is the sheer fabric that is often used to make clothes look like they are defying gravity. If well-matched to your skin, it is invisible and can be the structural support for bodices that appear to stand on their own or, as in this Action dress from Countdown, the base for garlands of beautiful embroidery and beading.

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Even on a clear and warm May evening, I like something to throw over my shoulders in case I feel a chill. This stole from Sascha’s Designs that I dug out of my inventory is a perfect complement to the dress, it’s duotone color picking up the gold from the embroidery and the pink-tipped ends adding a slightly darker shade of the same pink as the dress, tying it together with the hat. Tinting my white gloves from 5th & Oxford (no longer available) to a pale gold helps emphasize the pink and gold theme.
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Gidge’s Fast Five: May the Fourth Be With You Edition

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GidgeFast Five We are getting over three inches of rain today where I am in RL. THREE INCHES. I am lucky that I live high on a ridge, those zombies down in Atlanta will all drown or float away and all this walking dead business will be solved. But until then, I thought I’d bring you a fast five.

1. Gothic Maid Doll: I love this first picture. Does she have an egg hanging out of her mouth? Seriously, I was torn between giggling and ooooing because of the gorgeous tones of this photo. It’s a great costumed or role play look. I’m not sure WHAT you’d role play in it but that’s your business. Continue reading →

Cajsa Fast Five: March 3rd

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Fast Five I will take advantage of this spot to highlight a fun event on Saturday – The Velvet: Circus of Dreams. I will be one of the eleven DJ’s taking you on a surreal trip to the Circus. I hope you can come.

 

  1. Romeo & Juliet: Opening Night Reviews Are In  Canary Beck shares a collection of reviews of the dance performance of Romeo & Juliet at the Basilique. More importantly, she has dates of upcoming performances. 
  2. Luscious Bombshell: An exclusive and entirely fabricated interview with Gogolita  Caduceus Lorakeet continues his hysterical reportage with an interview with the inimitable blogger of JuicyBomb.
  3. Technology Facilitates Thoughtless Indignation in Second Life: Honour McMillan writes about a loss to all of us brought about by acting without asking or thinking and how technological abuses damage our community through the lens of one specific example. “Who says is real and what is not real.”
  4. In the Pink Sky: Bom shares an adorably romantic picture. It will melt your heart.
  5. Engrama: Drax profiles a band that performs live in-world with no backing tracks. They talk about how they make music and what goes into their performance.

Cultural Appropriation – It’s Whats For Dinner !

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Cultural Appropriation Is For Dinner

 

I could not resist the Mexican Fiesta at Rassassy last Sunday on the Lazy Sunday sale day. It was ONLY 75L for a lovely meal to cater at my house and I LOVE PIXEL FOOD DON’T JUDGE ME.

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The Suspense Is Killing Me

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Whimsy Winx and Sasy Scarborough have been collaborating on photo sets for several months now and I look forward to each new photo set for My Attic at The Deck. This session has closed and the items are in the W.Winx & Flair store at The Deck, so I am still going to show you this great photo set with poses even if it is late. I also have on the new dress from Baiastice, but you will have to wait until I finish changing.

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Cajsa Fast Five: May 1st

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Fast Five Happy Labor Day to most of the world! Happy May Day!

Some great posts today, some with creative writing, some with magical photos.

 

  1. The Very Special Agent:  Irina Strazytski imagines undercover law enforcement in 2037. I loved the post and her imaginative character-building. The styling is fabulous, too. 
  2. Fiona Blaylock Naked Art Show Raided by NTPD. Vaneeesa Blaylock has a fun post over at IRez reporting on her sister’s antics and the resultant police raid.
  3. Lights of Remembrances: Opal Lei takes Dim Sum to a magical place.
  4. FireStorm Clouds: Inara Pey shows how to access new clouds in FireStorm and they are amazing! Now if only it did not crash the instant I try to save a photo.
  5. Peace: Whiskey Monday’s photos are always wonderful, but this is my favorite of them all. It’s stunning and you will not want to miss it.

Pop Cans

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Every once in a while you see a designer release a collection that brings them to a new level of excellence and creativity. Shinichi Mathy of Shiki has released just such a breakthrough collection this spring. With textures he developed from the banal elements and detritus of urban life, he has performed an alchemical transformation in to creative gold. For example, the fabric in this dress is inspired by a container filled with empty soda cans, cans seen from the top and the sides as they lay in a pile waiting to be picked up for recycling.
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Have a Seat Darling

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HANDverk has released a set of post modern moulded furniture that would be perfect for a vagrant pixel Auntie Mame to terrify suburbanites with.

I’m showing off my favorite piece in the collection right now, a sofa nee chaise fitted with multiple sits and easy adjusting to keep your arms out of the sides.

I will be showing off the entire set soon but I wanted to pair this piece with the avant garde complete outfit I picked up at Black Haus White Market on Lazy Sunday. Lazy Sunday still one of my fave sale days, thanks for keeping it going.

My nails are SO two days ago, from FLAIR where you can get more nails than you can shake a stick at, to color your SLINK mesh nails. I always wear the ones marked ANIM and they move perfectly with my poses. It’s magic.

The hair isn’t a new release but it’s from Amacci, whom I consider to be a staple of quality releases.  You should pop over there if you haven’t been in a while.

Busy Wednesday is Busy.

Be beautiful my loves!

Gidge Is Wearing:
Dress and Skin, leggins and boots: *Black Haus White Market* – Avante Garde
Lashes: Amacci – Eyelash Tattoo 5
Amacci – Eyelash Tattoo 1
Hair: Amacci Hair Nami ~ Vanilla Blond
Nails: Slink Avatar Enhancement Fingernails (ANIM)
Shape: Gidge ~Savoir Faire Shapes~
Eyes: Vision by A:S:S – Quinn – Gaynor natural
Sofa: HANDverk – Eames Lachaise

 

I’d Like to Be Under the Sea

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I was not sold on this dress the instant I saw it at Collabor88. It had to grow on me like tentacles getting a purchase and expanding their hold little by little until their prey is helplessly entangled. I loved the bodice from the instant I saw it with the corseted bodice, the welted seams, the rick-rack trim, the buttons. I was in love. Octopi, though, that took some getting used to. I guess my memories of pulpo en su tinta with my host family in Spain remain fresh after two decades. But really, it’s a cartoon octopus, so I got over it.

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