I headed off to the Mother Road for this shoot. The outfit is more contemporary than the vintage aesthetic of The Mother Road, but the colors made me think of that time period, so I went with it.
If you ever plan to motor west,
Travel my way, take the highway that is best.
Get your kicks on route sixty-six.
Ok… on to day two of my “catching up” phase…. Week 20 of the 52 Weeks of Color bloggers challenge was sky blue and for my choice I went to my closet and found… TADA….. this lovely dress by []::Tuli::[]. Its been a staple in my closet for quite some time and I love the fabric textures and knew it was EXACTLY the dress I wanted to use for Sky Blue.
I love the embroidered and jeweled embellishments on the waistband and the sleeves. The fabric has a gorgeous sequined look. AND the dress comes in two lengths, formal and mini.
Style Notes:
Dress: []::Tuli::[] – Gwen, powder blue
Shoes: N-Core – Illusion, silver
Jewelry: Dark Mouse – Deco Squared, silver
Lashes: Miamai – No Alpha Lahses, No1
Hair: fri. – Tatum, passionate red
Eyes: Poetic Colors – Classic, October Wind
Skin: Curio – ::GP:: Sundust [Dark] Lustre, Glamour Puss 2
Nails: Candy Nails – Basic Nails, Pink01
Lazy Day From ELY MODE
I grabbed a few MOODY MONDAY GOODIES from my inventory show you super super fast! Moody Monday is the NEW SALE DAY where everything is 55L and there is an amazing assortment this week! Above – a cute casual lounging set from Ely Mode. I love her textures, they look cuddly to me. Continue reading
Cajsa took me exploring on the Emerald Green sim the other night, and I decided it was a good excuse to shoot a few out of the studio. The entire location is so amazing and beautiful I’m probably going to have to go back a few times. There are tons of gorgeous vignettes and scenery. It’s a happy blogger place for shooting.
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I am stealing a segment and the title from D. H. Lawrence’s poem. You know, for all his notoriety for Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Sons and Lovers and Women In Love, I always thought he wrote most passionately about nature. He wrote as though he wanted to strip and roll around naked in the grass and describe all the pokes and prickles, the fresh scents and the soft springiness.
And the ghostly, creamy coloured little tree of leaves
white, ivory white among the rambling greens
how evanescent, variegated elder, she hesitates on the green grass
as if, in another moment, she would disappear
with all her grace of foam!
This was shot at Emerald Green where little surprises like this lovely garden are hidden around every corner.
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Possibly one of the most dangerous questions in history, Second Life fashionistas know that system skirts can prompt the question “does this make my ass look fat?” For whatever technical computer-y reason, system skirts seem to float above the body mesh, creating what Phaedra of Real Housewives of Atlanta calls donkey booty. You can prevent donkey booty with a skirt shape. There’s some resistance to this idea, I think folks feel it’s too much work, but really, it’s a short and easy one-time effort.
Here you can see that with my regular shape, there is a bit of a donkey booty. The best made system skirt in the world will give you a bit of a donkey booty unless you already have a very small bottom. Of course, the larger your bottom, the more donkey in the donkey butt there will be. So, you can see there’s reason for making a skirt shape and saving it in your inventory so you have it on hand for all future system skirts.
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It was a dark and stormy night in Borobodur. I had come unprepared for the wind and the rain and desperately wished I had brought an umbrella and was not wearing open-toed sandals. My feet were wet and my shoes slipped on the rough stone stairs. I shivered as sheets of rain poured down soaking through my clothing.
Then I changed my windlight settings. The outfit I wore to Borobodur was a cotton candy confection of pastels and springtime inspirations. It all began with the delicate floral Spring Forward tank from Ingenue. It’s beautifully made with excellent attention to details that we have come to expect from Ingenue. The minty color make me think of these leggings from Bubble that had sat in my closet waiting for their moment. I added the sweater from Tuli because springtime weather can be unpredictable. I was prepared for breezes, but not for downpours.
Betty Doyle of Ingenue creates lovely, soft femme pieces that never fail to make my inner and outer girly girl drool when I put on her work. When I tried on her Spring Forward tanks yesterday, my first thought was, how lovely they’d be with some crisp white slacks, or a cotton skirt. Perfect for a day of antiquing and lunch with your girlfriends – like everything Betty makes it welled me up with girly joy.
And then I decided there are no antiques in SL except for all the bling in my inventory. Continue reading
I wouldn’t be a very good shepherdess. First of all because sheep stink to hell. I used to spend time in the winter in far northern Minnesota with my cousins, who had a huge sheep farm. It would be freezing cold like nothing I’ve ever known. My cousins would put fireplace warmed bricks at the feet of our beds, wrapped in towels, to keep our feet warm and warm up the sheets. Continue reading
The Second Life® community never stands still and it never stands by either. There’s always someone with the energy and courage to step up and do something when something needs to be done. So, now we have more than one charitable event going on at the same time. What to do? Why, shop of course. And why not put together an outfit highlighting items from both events just for fun. That’s what I have done here with items from Vanitas Vesture and Kouse’s Sanctum for Fashion For Life and from Peqe for the Pacific Crisis Fundraiser.
Now, while you are admiring the front view of this gorgeous jacket and texturing details in the skirt and top, I want to take a moment to remind you that the donations are from the creators. If you are getting clothing at the market value at a charitable event, you are not donating, you are shopping. I just think it’s useful to remind ourselves of that when we get ideas about how events should do this or that differently. The donation is coming from the participants who have the energy, talent and courage to put themselves out there on behalf of charities. The rest of us, including me, can support their donations by buying stuff, but we are getting our money’s worth.
Since CNN pulled one sentence out of the paragraph above, some people who did not read the post have gotten the impression that I think our participation in charity events does not count. As you can see from what is bolded, that is not true. However, the key ingredient to conflict is isolating an opinion from context to make it more polarizing, which is what happened, unintentionally as it probably is. No fundraising event can happen without the synergy between the people who contribute items to sell and those who buy. Much of the shopping is motivated by the desire to support the effort and to raise funds and people often buy more than they planned. I know I sure do.