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Black Goth/White Goth What's Your Flavor?

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posted by Gidge Uriza

Delia, the new release from Blueblood was dropped on me by my now favie Uriza Cousin Ghanima and I couldn’t decide which version I liked better, the black or white goth – so I decided to bring you the purple of each.

It’s a very festive take on a man’s pantsuit complete with frills and a stylized mutton leg sleeves to lend a more girly and vintage look to the styling. I’m wearing some of my favorite big clunky shoes – the Baby Jane Heels from Sn@tch. Which, in my mind, continue to be the Typhoid Mary Heels and I don’t know why. I may have to rename them in my inventory just to be able to find them. Continue reading →

Redhead Ballerina

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posted by Gidge Uriza

I was feeling like a redhead today, and this ballet gear + the red hair put me in mind of someone I used to know……so……

I have a story to tell you. When I started on the grid, it was basically in a very small group of mommy bloggers – one of whom owned an island. One of them – after some time passed, apparently went a bit batty and joined a ballet troup – declaring to everyone that “she was respectable now.”  And had all her AO and Dance huds switched to ballet poses and went about in ballerina gear 24/7.

Apparently, ballerinas don’t sin. Continue reading →

Femme and Sexy from Baiastice

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posted by Gidge Uriza

The gorgeous lace bodysuit recently released from BAIASTICE has some of my favorite traits of fantastic clothes. LAYERS. TONS AND TONS OF LAYERS.  You can see I opted not to wear the bottom layer MAKING it a body suit – because I wanted to show my gorgeous tummy – but Cajsa always prefer to cover up, so see this one perfect piece fits two very different girls perfectly. Continue reading →

Quick Look:House of Dashwood Venetian Valentine

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posted by Gidge Uriza

If you are looking for something that is not sticky with chocolate and hearts, House of Dashwood has released VENETIAN VALENTINE for your elegant holiday needs A long sweeping skirt witha  beautiful bodice, it’s a beautiful texture that is elegant and both holiday appropriate plus you can wear it year round. There is also a group gift which I recently posted over at Freestyle.

PXL Creations Grace is still one of my favorite faces, this is Grace in Natural Tone and Nude make up. Who wants a kiss?

Style Notes:

***Bold R Indicates a Review Item***

  • Shape – Gidge Custom Shape
  • Hair – Exile – Sylvie  in Scarlett R
  • Dress – House of Dashwood – Venetian Valentine R
  • Skin – PXL Creations – Grace – Natural – Nude eyes and lips R
  • Eyes – Poetic Color

Community Spirit:Winter Jefferson

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posted by Gidge Uriza

There is a rare breed of person that you meet out in the world, whatever world you live in, who sees the world through better eyes than you do. It’s not that they are more intelligent, or more holy, or even more able than you – it’s one simple difference.

They look – and they see possibility. They see a child who could learn to ride a bike, even if it means falling off it a few times. They see a creator who could expand their horizons to new places that they never thought they could go, and encourages them warmly to do just that.

They see the fusion of art and fashion, and how complimentary the two can be – and inspire others to see the same. 

They see the goodness in all people – even the ones you and I might think are total assholes. Continue reading →

Ballgowns Made of Cotton Candy

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posted by Gidge Uriza

I could never wear anything more gleefully than a big pink ballgown. Wait -it’s got a HAT? It’s got a PARASOL?!?!?!?

Sign me up. It’s so springy-fun and foofoo that I just couldn’t resist choosing the pink to show you out of the rainbow of colors that Sascha Frangilli offers it in. It’s rather modest in the black and differently exuberant in the other colors but in the pink, it says OHAI I’m a Barbie Doll and I’m ok with that. Continue reading →

It's Homespun

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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.

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Ahem, about that challenge, Lord Winter?

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When Winter Jefferson challenged Gidge to style an outfit featuring Exile’s exuberant Zoe hair, she rose to the challenge and threw down the gauntlet. Well, it seems Lord Winter is too busy planning his upcoming nuptials to Tenshi Vielle to answer the challenge – but never fear, I decided to give it a go and flap that glove in Winter’s face a few times. After all, shouldn’t a challenger actually do the challenge, too? So, here it is: Exile’s Zoe. Yes, it’s a wild and hairy sort of challenge – literally. However, I found it was deceptively easy. You see, the hair may be wild and full of exuberance, but it’s expertly placed exuberance that somehow just didn’t seem to intersect nearly as much as I expected. I really did not have to do a lot of searching for poses that work.

I did, however, think it deserved somethind wild, so I raided a pants set from Chatkare for the top and paired it with the truly wild Feather Skirt from So Many Styles.

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Exile's ZOE – The Gauntlet Has Been Thrown Down

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posted by Gidge Uriza

I got an IM from Winter challenging me to style this hair – a new release at EXILE.

I expected a lot more CRAZY out of the style than I got when I TP’d into EXILE. It’s some big hair, with dreads and big ringlets and I liked it immediately because it’s long hair.

And I LOVE long hair. I also love the shades of blonde Kavar uses so that was pretty much a WIN as far as I was concerned. What I HATE is to SHOOT long hair.

I find that I don’t think twice about intersections and other annoying bits of hair here and there when I WEAR long hair, we all know it happens – just like we know that the texture can stretch and distort over ya bootie if you don’t wear a skirtshape with your system skirts. Continue reading →