posted by Gidge Uriza
I need to be done with the week. I swear stick a fork in me I’m DONE! And I was so in love with my new high tops from Pro Spec that I had to just go casual a day early.
In the 80s,I was absolutely a Chuck Taylor and Reebok High Top Girl. I can rock some high tops, thus whenever I run into any that melt my butter, I get all sentimental and smiley faced. Continue reading
I spent some time in Andalucia living with a family in Algeciras during me senior year in High School. One of their favorite things to do on the weekend was to drive to the mountains and make a paella over an open fire, play guitar, sing and dance flamenco. They would be joined by other families and there would be these crazy fun parties outside in the hills with extraordinary music and dance. There was one woman, Josefina, called Fifi, who danced professionally. It really is something you never forget, seeing someone who truly excels at their craft performing among friends and family. The dress, Andaluz, from Nardcotix reminds me so much of those weekends. Continue reading
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I didn’t feel it was safe, on a very lazy and sleepy Sunday morning, to be ambling around the grid doing random shopping so amazingly beautiful. So I added these glasses from booN to increase my dork girl factor. Continue reading
When my grandparents left Sweden, they left in a hurry. My grandmother was about to be arrested for an altercation with village’s minister who felt very strongly that an atheist should not be allowed to raise even her own children. Since they picked up what they could in such a hurry, they did not bring much, but one thing they brought was her spinning wheel. The name of the new store Homespun made me think of my grandmother – who died more than 30 years before I was born – and the heritage of free-thinking independence she passed down. I never knew her, but sometimes I do feel such a strong identification with her independent tough-minded spirit. I got a letter from my sister yesterday and she mentioned that she just had that old spinning wheel reconditioned last month – Spinning Wheel Keep On Spinning!
This lovely little birdie cardigan is from Homespun. Like most of the Homespun offerings, it makes me think of the everyday clothing of the simple life. Simple sweaters with hand-stitched embellishments, cotton dresses and sensible shoes. The clothing you might see in an Andrew Wyeth painting which made me want to shoot outdoors. Hopping around to interesting looking places I came across Sanada Go where I saw several people engaged in sword fights, but also found a lovely setting where you can rez for easy picture taking.
I hopped over to watch the Musashi-Do Fashion Show yesterday and wanting to be a good audience member, I dug in my closet a bit and slipped into a lovely bit of low arc clothing from Ingenue. The dress is Mama Loves Mambo and you know what, I do love the mambo. It’s a sexy shimmying song perfect for figure-hugging dresses like this one. The lovely sash down one side sways to the music and adds a lively touch to your dancing.
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posted by Gidge Uriza
I recently received review items from Talia Lefavre, from THE GRACEFUL LILY and was immediately put in mind of Bob Mackie’s designs for Cher in the 70s.
The Veronique dress drapes elegantly away from your midsection – luckily there are only perfect tummies on the grid. Continue reading
We’re all alone, no chaperone
Can get our number
The world’s in slumber–let’s misbehave!!!
There’s something wild about you child
That’s so contagious
Let’s be outrageous–let’s misbehave!!!
While MiaMai’s new Venom dress doesn’t make me feel particularly poisonous, I thought it is definitely hot enough to lead to temptation – so let’s misbehave.
This is my newbie self and yes, I was fortunate. When I entered Second Life, one of the first people I met was an SL mentor named Lilien Jewell who took it upon herself to ensure that I didn’t look like a noob for long. My 3rd day in SL I purchased the RaC (now LAQ) skin Amy – that she helped me choose and had a decent shape. The white skirt is the second purchase I made in Second Life – after the skin. The swimsuit I got a day later. I thought I was so clever putting a skirt over my swimsuit. The shoes were from Shiny Things. I think I was in SL six months before I knew there were more shoe stores than X3D (Digit Darkes), Shiny Things and Enkythings. This is me at about a month or so. It’s not my first hair which was Brittany from Bewitched, but I deleted that in an inventory purge long ago. You might note I had no jewelry. I really had none. It took me forever, it seems, to find jewelery stores that suited my taste. I searched for jewelry, but it was all too too too beauty pageant princess for me, so I just didn’t get any. From the first, I knew that I didn’t want bling. I also had no lashes. I didn’t even know they existed. I should add that I wore this outfit most of the time. It was my “go-to” outfit for the longest time.
My shape is shorter, with a larger waist and smaller breasts. My face is softer with more of a smile. I still don’t wear bling, and mixing and matching outfits is an everyday thing. I still wear that Mandy hair from Muism – though for this I am wearing a favorite from Amrita. The shoes are Maitreya which has become a favorite of mine for shoes. Back then, I might not have realized that I could wear my boots without the calf prims and would not have worn them because the calf prims intersect the pants. Now I wear jewelry almost all the time – and it’s my worst Second Life addiction.
Then:
Now:
Trouble in mind, I’m blue
But I won’t be blue always.
The sun is gonna shine in my backdoor, someday
If there were an award for most improved designer of 2009, it would have to go to Tracy Rubble of Trubble whose work has gone from textures that lacked detail to textures that have the sort of details that give depth and interest to the clothing. You can see that in the light and shadow of the skirt, the wrinkling shadows of the sash and in the overall quality of the entire dress. The dress is sleeveless, so being January, I added a little shrug from Cipher.
Hah! Someone turned the heat up so here you can see it without that jacket. Please note the lack of distortion in the bodice as the zebra print stretches over the breast. Also note how smoothly the seams are joined. By most improved, I don’t mean that she merely has become good, I mean she has adopted the skills and hallmarks of the best designers: good seam-matching, prints that maintain their integrity over breasts and hips, and texture details on all parts of the clothing that give it depth, highlights and shadows
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I know I’m having trouble getting back into the routine after Christmas break but……I forgot an entire shirt!
Oh no! 🙂
I wanted to show off the new leather jacket from Second Wave Apparel and just didn’t want to detract from how cute it was……..so I did opt for nothing at all. You don’t mind do you?
I’m also wearing slinky leather pants from Sn@tch and a pair of my favorite boots – The Cowboy Boots of Evil from Sn@tch…….because I was feeling very leather-riffic once I put the jacket on. Continue reading
