59th Street Bridge

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Retro prints make me happy and I could not resist trying to make a thoroughly modern look out of the gorgeous Kitsch leggings from Tableau Vivant for Collabor88. Adding a very modern bodysuit and capelet from Molichino, this look may be feeling groovy, but it’s hippie chic not hippie chick.

Slow down, you move too fast, you’ve got to make the morning last
Just kickin’ down the cobble-stones, lookin’ for fun and feelin’ groovy

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Cajsa Fast Five: April 11th

Fast Five Today is going to seem all about me, me, me! But I can’t help it. It’s just my lucky day.   However, there are posts about other things, too. One is a Flickr PhotoSteam that every SL explorer should follow – for fabulous landscape photos and ideas for places to shoot.

  1. Connecting 365 SL Lives – Cajsa Lilliehook: Today was my turn to write an entry for Katya Valeska’s blog sharing the stories and experiences of folks in SL. There are still openings, so if you want to participate, please click on the To Connect tab and apply. 
  2. Playing With Projectors: I have been playing with projectors for a while now and on a whim put one on sale on Marketplace. Strawberry Singh kindly blogged all about it and I was thrilled to see my projector in use. And besides, there’s a beautiful picture! If you’re at work, though, there is tasteful nudity.  Continue reading

Cajsa Fast Five: April 10th

Fast Five April 10th! Three of my hometown friends share this birthday, so I spent the morning catching up. I guess I have known them since birth since they were still in the hospital when I was born on the 15th – not that I remember! Anyway, that is why I am off to a late start on this today.

  1. The Fashionista – A Second Life Role-Play Archetype. When Gidge, Hybie and I started brainstorming ideas for the Fashionista Achievement Awards series, our goal was humor. However, Estelle Pienaar is deadly serious in suggesting that we are, in fact, role-playing and should recognize that fact. It’s an interesting article that unpacks  some of our assumptions about Second Life. I think of SL as a social media community, but confess that yes, there are role-playing elements. What do you think?
  2. Mesh Deformer in Action: Nalates Urriah shares a YouTube video from David Turenne of the newest iteration of the Mesh Deformer.  I point to her post instead of the video because she adds valuable context and commentary. Frankly, her blog is full of news today, with a link to a good tutorial on materials, info on the new viewer and much more. She’s been busy.
  3. Thanks, LL, Now the Nineties Are Back: Aemeth Lysette is excited about the new Materials texturing but recognizes it has potential for abuse. Could materials be the new bling? Check out her funny post and see what you think?
  4. Memoirs: LisSska Sl has a gorgeous photo and a beautiful blog. However, you know how blogspot says there may be mature content and click to continue? Well that question comes up in Russian, so don’t be worried. It’s just cyrillic and not some phishing scheme or anything.
  5. Lion:  Rayne Morgan’s post featuring Lelutka’s Jolie hair has two pictures, one of which has been photoshopped into a glorious study of the hair with fabulous lighting. Very beautiful.

My 10 SL Firsts Meme

I decided to do Strawberry Singh’s new meme.

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  1. First SL Friend: My first SL friend was technically Stardust Perl. We came into SL together from there.com. I loved that virtual world. It was so different than SL in so many ways. It was a real sense of community. It would have been unheard of for ppl to just stay in their homes and not go out. I miss it dearly.
  2. First SL Kiss: I don’t remember the avatars name but it was at some free sex place, he looked like Harry Potter. It was the funniest shit ever.  I was two days old I think.
  3. First SLex time/place/partner: See question 2.  Continue reading

With Stockings and Tights For All

New Stockings From Adam & Eve

 

When the mesh boobs came out, every creator on the planet started making everything “with appliers” and most of us without mesh boobs went, oh, so what are we supposed to wear?

Eventually people told us we could wear the things too – but since they weren’t being marketed that way none of us “got it”. When you tailor something “FOR THIS” and I am NOT that, I assume it’s not for ME. Continue reading

Culture Kitsch

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The theme for April’s Collabor88 is Kitsch. Well, Kitsch never had it so good. Normally, I use the word pejoratively, describing some tired gimcrack tchotchke. Don’t get me wrong. I have kitsch. Most of mine is Scandinavian folk art, but it’s still kitsch. The kitsch is in this outfit from ISON is the flying bird patter in the sheer bodice, but in such skillful hands, it’s kitsch as art.

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The ISON dress can be worn with the long sleeves that I chose or as a sleeveless sheath. It comes in black, blue, green, gray, purple, red and tan and there is no reason you cannot mix the system layer bodices from one color with the mesh dress pieces of another – just to add more interest.

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Cajsa Fast Five: April 9th

Fast Five What a day! We get to meet a new survivor from Gallifrey. That does not happen often. There’s a crazy, fun sim highlighted and SL textures may be changing dramatically in the future.

  1. The Time Lord’s Idiot Cousin: Whovians rejoice! There is another Time Lord in town, but he’s a bit on the sad side as his Tardis has no door. If you love the Doctor, you should check out Caduceus Lorakeet’s fun and clever new post.  And alert the BBC.
  2. Summer Vacation Time: Jackson Redstar features an incredibly whimsical sim that makes me want to log in right now and not even finish this post. The sacrifices I make for you readers!  Continue reading

Another Reason To Join The PXL Creations VIP Group

PXL VIP Skin Spring 2013 - Sophia NATURAL

 

I’ve been waiting for Hart to release Sophia in a Natural tone because this girl doesn’t tan in either life. He just recently released her in ALL tones so if you do love a darker or mid range tone run to demo!

But the VIP Group once again proves that this group is a blogger’s good friend. You need versatility and lots of skins as a blogger (especially a new blogger, this isn’t cheap) and belonging to VIP groups that provide quality awesome skins is where it’s at.

Plus I think it’s lovely that it has the same name as Cajsa’s mom.

Gidge Is Wearing:
Skin: PXL Creations VIP Group Spring Gift
Hair: EXILE – Raspberry Beret
Eyes: Poetic Colors – Coral Reef
Lashes: Amacci Eyelash Tattoo