Stopping off in another place to look for letters for the Room 326 hunt as it draws to a close before MadPea Productions opens a new hunt, I saw this fabulous old merry-go-round and had to go for a ride. I was dressed in some of the items from the last two Baiastice releases including this gorgeous handbag released a couple of weeks ago. With a rich alligator hide and classic styling, it’s a wonderful handbag to hold all those letters I am finding (or not finding).
Just because I am on the hunt for the 15 missing letters to help solve the Room 326 Hunt doesn’t mean I have to dress down. Some of the places you travel to along the way are quite elegant and deserve a little care spent on my appearance. Besides, I have wanting to wear the Tulip dress from E! Eclectic Apparel for Collabor88 almost all month. The Tulip dress is a chic little strapless number with a grosgrain black ribbon highlighting the empire waist that leads to a front pleat dress. The pleat’s soft folds convey the idea of a tulip giving the dress its name. Continue reading
It’s Only Fashion has been part of the SL Style Academy since shortly after its founding. It’s one of my favorite feeds, rich with blogs that feature excellent photos and conveniently separating fashion bloggers from store announcements. The academic metaphor is fun and leads to cute titles for the different parts of the Academy’s blog.
One of their innovations is allowing members of the faculty (fashion bloggers) to highlight favorite fellow faculty members and contributors to the book store (designers). I was lucky enough to be asked to highlight my own favorites from the faculty this month, so I hope you pop over there and check out my picks.
I won’t tell you who I picked, so you have to go look for yourself. It’s on the sidebar under Faculty Picks.
Onomatopoeia is the word that describes those words who sound like the sounds they describe. As the song goes, it’s “sort of zoom, zip, hiccup, drip
Ding, dong, crunch, crack, bark, meow, whinnie, quack.” But I think we need a word for words that sounds like what they mean. Take diaphanous, for example. Diaphanous usually is used to refer to sheer fabrics, but to me, the word even sounds diaphanous. Isn’t there something sort of light and feminine of the “dis” leading into the soft and delicate sound of “phan” that rolls in to whispery soft “pus.” Of course a word that sounds like that has to mean delicate, light, ethereal.
The Splash (onomatopoeia) dress from SySy’s is diaphanous. Its layers are sheer as cobwebs, a gossamer confection of sheer fabric floating over another layers of fabric and falling like a spindrift on the waves of the ocean. The ombre silver to green color of the fabric adds to the seafoam delicacy as to the waves suggested by the hemline.
I had so much fun posing and shooting this dress. That is because the mesh is simply amazing and I loved watching it work its magic when I changed poses. You see that fold of fabric in the front. Watching it fold and unfold as I moved, I was a struck by what is truly an amazing job of mesh engineering. The dress is from Gizza and is available at Euphoria LIMITED. There are only 100 copies for sale, so get there quick. Update: DANG! It’s already sold out. I hope Gizza releases this in other colors. UPDATE: It has been released in other colors.
Poses by CheerNo
DCNY released the Moto jacket in several colors in plain or embroidered options.
Well, I woke up Sunday morning
With no way to hold my head that didn’t hurt.
And the beer I had for breakfast wasn’t bad,
So I had one more for dessert.
Then I fumbled in my closet through my clothes
And found my cleanest dirty shirt.
Then I washed my face and combed my hair
And stumbled down the stairs to meet the day.
Gos Boutique released an entire collection of shoes that take all the guesswork out of tinting. You will find some problems when shooting with projectors since SL does not love alphas as much as it should. You can eliminate the issue by turning off the ankle sheath in the HUD settings.
I’d smoked my mind the night before
With cigarettes and songs I’d been picking.
But I lit my first and watched a small kid
Playing with a can that he was kicking.
Then I walked across the street
And caught the Sunday smell of someone frying chicken.
And Lord, it took me back to something that I’d lost
Somewhere, somehow along the way.
Did Monica Outlander intend to give us two dresses in one with her recent release of her Lorella gown for MiaMai? We cannot be sure, but we can be sure that opera length or full length, this gown delivers. With its rich brocade fabric in glorious jewel tones to the details such as the bow on the back and the bottom ruffle of flexi rib satin that gives it movement, the Lorella gown combines sumptuous luxury with sassy joie d’vivre.
In this picture, I have left the lower part of the skirt off, giving myself a lovely below-the-knee cocktail dress. This also lets you see the Lily pumps with their triple bows, another saucy bit of fashion know-how from MiaMai.
Hybie issued the OBJECTS FOLDER CHALLENGE and her edict was “make it work”.
I am afraid I played rather fast and loose with her rules. My interpretation was “go to the bottom of inventory, put on items found in “objects” folder, that were still boxed. Continue until dressed.
So, a skirt from Digit Darkes – was when she was still X3D, shades from Tesla, a Tee from Rezipsa Loc, a plate of tapas, hair from Diversity, free skin from Fab Free, so many lovely things still sitting in my objects folder.
Who even cares if they go together? Back in the day, the common wisdom was that this skirt went with everything.
Even a car purse.
No style notes, seriously, you can’t even get these things. 🙂
But – this was fun.