Give to Me Your Leather

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I love the sleek, structural design of the Leather & Lace dress from Fanatik for faMESHed this month. It’ beautifully body-conscious, the waist curving in with long darts and the bodice highlighted with horizontal stitching. Every thing about it is sleek. The lace cap sleeves are added to soften it’s minimalist severity. They also provide a reference to the Leather & Lace trope that used to be a surprising combination in fashion. It has now become a fairly common theme ever since the Stevie Nicks song. Give to me your leather, take from me my lace.

I would be happy with a touch script to hide the sleeves because I would love to wear this dress with jackets or sweaters and the shape of the sleeve complicates that. It’s not that I dislike the sleeves, I don’t. I would like more flexibility because this dress could be one of those wardrobe foundation pieces that can adopt all sorts of personalities depending on its accessories. The dress comes in eight colors, though four are exclusive to faMESHed.

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Get A Sitter Girls, You’ve Got A Cute New Dress

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I have to say first of all, that sequins have been ugly in SL for years. I’m ecstatic that suddenly sequins exist that don’t make me want to cry because – SEQUINS ARE WHAT SL IS ALL ABOUT.

It’s glamour and shiny and fun and festive. If your SL isn’t at least two of those things you are probably doing it wrong. Continue reading →

In Love With Originals

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01 Nov 12

FaMESHed opened yesterday, showcasing another collection of excellent original mesh creations including this gorgeous top from Zaara.  Designer Zaara Kohime draws from her country’s traditions in this draped top with its rich brocade embellished with gold embroidery. She released this in both gold and silver options and in a rainbow of bright and muted color.

01 Nov 12

I pulled out some old cigarette pants from One Bad Pixel. I love the sheen in these pants and how that picks up the metallic threads in the top. The shoes are from Deco – with bold black glitter giving me some head to toe sparkle.

01 Nov 12

Speaking of sparkle, this updo from Exile for FaMESHed is stunning. I love the stray wisps and the suggestion of movement they convey. It’s a bold, wild style with just the perfect amount of disarray. To finish off, I added some simple, bold jewelry from Baiastice and the always classic Faith from PXL Creations.

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  • Poses: oOo Studio
  • Skin: [PXL] FAITH NAT NE MEB C1
  • Makeup Tattoos: [PXL] FAITH NAT Smokey Eyes
  • [PXL] FAITH NAT Bronze Lips
  • Eyes: Insufferable Dastard
  • Lashes: Lelutka
  • Mani/Pedi: SLink Mesh Hands Elegant
  • Hair: ::Exile:: Collide:Ember for FaMESHed
  • Clothing: Zaara : [Mesh] Sanya draped top) *ebony-gold* for FaMESHed
  • One Bad Pixel ::1bp:: Cigarette Pants Gold
  • Shoes: DECO – MESH Sequined Heel (onyx)
  • Jewelry: Baiastice_Ishar Gold

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night

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House Hunting For Me and Sophie

Searching for land is nearly impossible. Not because there isn’t any. I am old enough to remember when people made fat cash off of land. But now, it’s because, there is so much – how do you wade through it all? Whole continents for sale 512 at a time? It’s mind boggling. Continue reading →

Wrapped Up in Style

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Hervé Léger released the first bandage dress in 1989 and it took the fashion world by storm. Using elastane and other fabrics associated with foundation garments, he molded his dress to the body, pioneering body conscious clothing. A decade later, BCBG Maz Azria and Seagrams acquired Hervé Léger, the first time in history that a French couturier was bought by an American designer. Léger lost control of the company and his name and the line was shut down. It was relaunched in 2007 as Hervé Léger by Max Azria and all designs were by Azria, though their clear aesthetic source is the historical Hervé Léger designs. While totally legal, it always strikes me as wrong that he lost the right to his own name. However, he didn’t give up and is now designing under the name Hervé L. Leroux.

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Of course, there are more designers doing bandage dress designs today. After all, these are dresses that push in what you want in and push up what you want up. Giz Seom of Gizza has just released a fabulous bandage dress that exemplifies the body-con facility of the traditional bandage dress. It makes fabulous party and club wear, full of sex appeal, with a modern edge and a comfortable ease that makes it great for long, active nights of dancing.
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My Second Box WOMENS Is Open for NOVEMBER

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My Second Box is now open for NOVEMBER enrollment!! That’s right – it’s time to get ready for our November designers. For 300L you will receive 5 gift items that are for My Second Box group members only.

Our Designers this quarter are:

Adorkable
Donna Flora
Lassitude & Ennui
Hopscotch
Adore & Abhor
Sascha’s Designs
Blueblood
Embody
Status
Somnia
Bilo
A:S:S
L’Aph
MINA
Spyralle

Five of these designers will release a special item for MSB Shoppers each month Oct – Nov – Dec around the 15th of each month. You must rejoin the group each month as a shopper for a group fee of 300L.

My Second Box is a monthly subscription group with free gifts from carefully chosen designers from across the grid. Similar to the real life monthly sample boxes you get.

– Monthly Subscription fee: 300L every month.
– Subscription is open from 1st to 25th of each month
– Gifts are sent to subscribers on the 15th
– All subscribers are EJECTED FROM group on the 26th of month –
– Subscribers MUST re-subscribe and pay the $300L fee at the beginning of each month

DISCLAIMER: It is up to the subscriber (you) to obtain your gifts in a timely fashion. There will be a notice that the group will close within 24 hours just as a reminder.

MY SECOND BOX WOMENS Group Link

The stories live on

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Remembering

Once, a long time ago, I lived for a summer at my grandma’s farm. The farmhouse had a cellar built in the 1700s, dug into the hard cold New York bedrock, retaining the cold even in the depths of the summer. Down in the cellar, when it was pitch dark, I always felt as though the floor would open to reveal the past still trapped there. Down through years and stories, in ghostly stories deep into the earth, with all of the people who’d ever lived in the house lingering and trying to tell their stories. What is a human life but a story? I honor my relatives today by remembering their stories and telling them to my child, so that she can also hear the voices from the earth and the past.

The ones we've lost

Boots: Lassitude & Ennui wanderlust – black duotones
Eyes: Plastik Jerusalem BrownSea
Hair: Fashionably Dead Flowers – Orange 8
Shirt: Amerie’s halloween hunt shirt, mesh in medium
Hat: Amerie’s halloween hunt Lapin hat
Scarf: Shop Sey for LOxKE Halloween group gift
Socks: Pig – Duotone Socks with suspenders – black metal
Skin: Pink Fuel Dia de los Muertos (rose)
Necklace: Violet Voltaire Dia de los Muertos necklace
Sim: Mieville Shelley

Big Yellow Taxi

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Well, now that the tutorial is out of the way, I can actually work on today’s post. I am wearing the Edye hat and coat from Baiastice for Cinema! With its name and its mod style, I am assuming it’s inspired by Edie Sedgwick, the inimitable muse of Andy Warhol and Sixties style icon. It’s also very yellow. With my head already thinking Sixties, my very next thought was of the song Big Yellow Taxi.

Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you want ’til it’s gone? 

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