Sometimes, I think it would have been fun to live in the days of the traveling circus. To have side show freaks and bearded ladies, siamese twins and tattooed lizard guys or something like that. Being on the move and exploring the country and meeting people from all over. But the reason my dolly looks sad is because times were not always wonderful. Money was hard to come by and when people didn’t have money, people didn’t come see my dollies show.
What have I been up to? Closing on my first house and curing myself of some more cancer, and that’s just this week. My avatar has therefore only just now gotten around to wearing this fabulously Gelfling mesh head from fashionably Dead, a Christmas gift from my partner Ms. Jackal. I’m also traipsing around in a bunch of clothes everybody else wore half a year ago. Lucky for me my beautiful knotted pearl necklace and demiboots are new! Also new: some adorably cute house decor in the form of banners from ~silentsparrow~.
Hang on. Why does my avatar look naked? OH CRAP, I FORGOT MY HORNS! Sigh. Well, anyway, it was a week.
Necklace: lassitude & ennui Knotted pearl necklace purple
Shoes: lassitude & ennui Timea ankle booots – green / gold
Shirt: DP**yumyum shirt 06
Sweater: Ingenue Ever After cardigan in seafoam
Head: Fashionably Dead Doll Head – blushing smile
Hair: Lamb Oleander – washed out
Skirt: Honey Kitty dot-yellow half pleats skirt
Tights: So Many Styles braid knit tights in mustard 3
Vest: So Many Styles knit vest in mustard
Penants: (Corg-eee!) Decorative Pennants ~silentsparrow~
Table: Schadenfreude Nemean Drum Table
Hiring a live in nanny for while you travel isn’t as easy as it seems. We’ll see how she works out.
Gidge Is Wearing:
Tank: :::Sn@tch Butch Tank Top (Tan/Sheer-S):::
Hose: (CM) Pantyhose (gradient) (black) sl
Hair: *Alice Project* Vicious – Infinity & *Alice Project* Vicious Fiber Optics
Sweater: :[The Plastik]:-Astreia Sweater [XS-S]:// Lilia-Golden
Pants: :[the Plastik ]:-Stardust Pants://s:Invaders
Shoes: Miamai_Daisy_Moss Green
Clutch: [HANDverk]Red Scale Clutch.gift
Shape: Gidge ~Savoir Faire Shapes~
Skin: -Belleza- Ava Fair 3
Eyes: Ibanez Liquid Eyes – Cotton Candy
Poses: STATUS – Clutch It
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