Shades of Grey -- Featuring Evolve, blackLiquid, Finesmith, Chop Zuey and [Underscore]

I like the fact that there is no such thing as perfect. Many of us have at one time or another read or heard a story about a Utopian settlement, a Utopian government, a place where perfection did actually exist. Unfortunately, those stories remain fantasy by excellent science fiction and fantasy authors.

Featuring Evolve Fleur #2

Featuring Luziefee Sabin Platin

Featuring [Underscore] Sidhion

Featuring Chop Zuey The Bakersfield Mens Bracelet

Featuring Chop Zuey Crux Invictus Women's Necklace

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. *Glance Skins: Anais

3. WoW: Diva Lashes

4. Face Paint: Nail Art

5. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Blushed Berry Matte Lips and Devine Royalty Eyeshadow

6. Image Essentials Poses

Maybe it's a good thing. We're a creature with a great ability to think and learn and change as well as change the world around us. We might want the perfect crisp lines of our world, all lined up, all easy to understand, and what we end up seeing looks more like the watery reflection in this photo.

Featuring Evolve Fleur #2

Featuring Luziefee Sabin Platin

Featuring [Underscore] Sidhion

Featuring Chop Zuey The Bakersfield Mens Bracelet

Featuring Chop Zuey Crux Invictus Women's Necklace

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. *Glance Skins: Anais

3. WoW: Diva Lashes

4. Face Paint: Nail Art

5. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Blushed Berry Matte Lips and Devine Royalty Eyeshadow

6. Image Essentials Poses

Recently, I had a conversation with an artsy friend. He's taking some of his artistic design and uploading to Second Life so that he can then use his art to create men's clothing. I thought it was a great way to use his talent. One thing I noticed that didn't quite fit was a stark white in his designs.

Featuring Evolve Fleur #2

Featuring Luziefee Sabin Platin

Featuring [Underscore] Sidhion

Featuring Chop Zuey The Bakersfield Mens Bracelet

Featuring Chop Zuey Crux Invictus Women's Necklace

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. *Glance Skins: Anais

3. WoW: Diva Lashes

4. Face Paint: Nail Art

5. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Blushed Berry Matte Lips and Devine Royalty Eyeshadow

6. Image Essentials Poses

I shared with him a small anecdote that I'd also heard told as an anecdote, perhaps more legend reality and perhaps credited to the person who said it or perhaps not. I don't know if she actually said this, but the story begins with a question to Finesmith designer Yula Finesmith.

Featuring Evolve Spring Time

Featuring Finesmith Black Bride

Featuring [Underscore] Sidhion

Featuring blackLiquid Colibrifer Headpiece

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes: Steel Blue Pale

2. WoW Diva Lashes

3. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Laura Copper

4. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Blushed Berry Matte Lips and Devine Royalty Eyeshadow

5. Demise of Flight Poses

Someone tried her jewelry and asked, "Why are your items not mirror images, balanced on the x, y and z axis? This piece here looks larger on the left than the right." Her answer was said to have been something like this, "I don't do perfect. Nothing in our world is perfect..." and it's true.

Featuring Evolve Spring Time

Featuring Finesmith Black Bride

Featuring [Underscore] Sidhion

Featuring blackLiquid Colibrifer Headpiece

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes: Steel Blue Pale

2. WoW Diva Lashes

3. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Laura Copper

4. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Blushed Berry Matte Lips and Devine Royalty Eyeshadow

5. Demise of Flight Poses

Maybe Ms. Yula said this. Maybe it was someone else. The essence of the story meant a lot to me and continues to be something I think about when I'm trying items in Second Life as a consumer, sometimes as a builder and yes, as a Finesmith shopper. It makes sense. In my opinion, only God does 'perfect.'

Featuring Evolve Spring Time

Featuring Finesmith Black Bride

Featuring [Underscore] Sidhion

Featuring blackLiquid Colibrifer Headpiece

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes: Steel Blue Pale

2. WoW Diva Lashes

3. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Laura Copper

4. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Blushed Berry Matte Lips and Devine Royalty Eyeshadow

5. Demise of Flight Poses

It relates to the story about this man's new clothing in this manner. We know mentally in our minds that white represents every color in the world and that black represents a lack of color. They are both absolutes. Absolutes are a lot like perfection. They simply cannot exist.

Featuring Evolve Spring Time

Featuring Finesmith Black Bride

Featuring [Underscore] Sidhion

Featuring blackLiquid Colibrifer Headpiece

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes: Steel Blue Pale

2. WoW Diva Lashes

3. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Laura Copper

4. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Blushed Berry Matte Lips and Devine Royalty Eyeshadow

5. Demise of Flight Poses

In our world, we actually see thousands upon millions of shades of grey. Our optic nerve takes all the coding and translates it to what we call color. I suggested to Mr. Trav that he might add a touch of grey to all his whites and all his blacks and the clothing would look and sell better in this Second Life.

The Fabulous and Fantastic -- Featuring Evolve, Chop Zuey, Hairoin, {{BSD Design Studio}}, Dot-Be Fashion, and blackLiquid

As I continue to work within the fashion industry, I'm also working in an ever evolving Second Life platform that provides new opportunities regularly. Since I began playing in 2005, a lot has changed, so much so that I could probably not list all of those changes.

Featured Evolve Paisley Me

Featured Chop Zuey Toffa Arabia Set

Featured Chop Zuey Starbust Hair Sticks Cats Eye

Featured Hairoin Electron

Featured {{BSD Design Studio}} Fashion Show First Row Black Velvet

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Divina

3. Face Paint: Orange Frost

4. Glance Skins: Anais

5. Face Paint: Black Liner

6. [Mirror's Enigma]: Azuka Butterfly Lips Pack

7. Candy Nail: Chidori Gold

Depending on who you ask, these changes have been for the better (or worse) and each time one comes along, a whole plethora of time must be set aside to learn about whatever that new thing is, how to apply it to my Second Life or yours, and what value it will offer once I learn it.

Featured Evolve Paisley Me

Featured Chop Zuey Toffa Arabia Set

Featured Chop Zuey Starbust Hair Sticks Cats Eye

Featured Hairoin Electron

Featured {{BSD Design Studio}} Fashion Show First Row Black Velvet

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Divina

3. Face Paint: Orange Frost

4. Glance Skins: Anais

5. Face Paint: Black Liner

6. [Mirror's Enigma]: Azuka Butterfly Lips Pack

7. Candy Nail: Chidori Gold

I designed clothes in the Stone Age of Second Life. My first big hurdle to learn related to flexi. Everyone around me were adding flexi items to their clothing, and some more successfully than others. There are still some flexi items that look and work wonderfully well and others that never did.

Featured Evolve Paisley Me

Featured Chop Zuey Toffa Arabia Set

Featured Chop Zuey Starbust Hair Sticks Cats Eye

Featured Hairoin Electron

Featured {{BSD Design Studio}} Fashion Show First Row Black Velvet

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Divina

3. Face Paint: Orange Frost

4. Glance Skins: Anais

5. Face Paint: Black Liner

6. [Mirror's Enigma]: Azuka Butterfly Lips Pack

7. Candy Nail: Chidori Gold

Other changes occurred as a result of varied legal questions. Gambling became illegal and changed the entire face of the grid. There was once a teen grid, to encourage kids to play in sections where they were not exposed too soon to the craziness of our world and now we have General, Moderate and Adult.

Featuring Dot-Be Gemma Gown

Featuring blackLiquid This Is Autum

Featuring Hairoin Hypertension

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Starlia

3. Candy Nail: Resort Sunset

4. [Mirror's Enigma]: Victoria Tan Skintone

5. EMO-tions: Aphrodite Earrings

6. Material Squirrel: Isolde Wings Autumn

7. Face Paint: Liner and Lash Black

8. In-Pose!

Just as some of the new techniques befuddled me and made me take a step back from design, so also has it affected many peers. Some people caught on to the sculpting program and mesh as well, and others could not and businesses closed. It seems that those who are most flexible have the best chance at making their SL business long term.

Featuring Dot-Be Gemma Gown

Featuring blackLiquid This Is Autum

Featuring Hairoin Hypertension

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Starlia

3. Candy Nail: Resort Sunset

4. [Mirror's Enigma]: Victoria Tan Skintone

5. EMO-tions: Aphrodite Earrings

6. Material Squirrel: Isolde Wings Autumn

7. Face Paint: Liner and Lash Black

8. In-Pose!

Now that I approach Second Life from the vantage point of a model, I look at change differently. Ever eager to discover new ideas, to be the first to wear, the first to try defines many of my peers in this business and me as well. I'm not as afraid of change, or learning new tricks as I once was.

Featuring Dot-Be Gemma Gown

Featuring blackLiquid This Is Autum

Featuring Hairoin Hypertension

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Starlia

3. Candy Nail: Resort Sunset

4. [Mirror's Enigma]: Victoria Tan Skintone

5. EMO-tions: Aphrodite Earrings

6. Material Squirrel: Isolde Wings Autumn

7. Face Paint: Liner and Lash Black

8. In-Pose!

Instead, I embrace all that's tossed out when I've been given a chance to work with various people. My newest sponsor - blackLiquid - gives me a whole new perspective on makeup in Second Life (This Is Autumn). I miss Face Paint, and I enjoy trying new things now that it's closed its doors. Each time I receive a pair of shoes from {{BSD Design Studio}}, I know it's one of a kind mesh design and something created with love and passion. I love wearing the fashionable couture from Evolve (Paisley Me) and Dot-Be Fashion (Gemma Gown) and finding all the fun ways to use the many splendid hair designs from Hairoin. Chop Zuey, as well as other designers who put out free items for their group members have and always will help me manage a budget. I think I've changed as Second Life has changed, and I don't regret a minute of it.

You Work Hard For the Money -- Featuring Liv-Glam, Hairoin, blackLiquid,

It's a catchy phrase that was blasted across the airways in the 80's by Donna Summer. "She works hard for the money so you better treat her right." I know many people thought the sexual revolution in the US occurred many decades earlier, with the Suffragettes, and earning the right to vote. But there was more.

Featuring blackLiquid Kaja Earrings

Featuring blackLiquid Gatsby Makeup

Featuring Liv-Glam Christelle Draped Dress

Featuring Hairoin Cronos
Featuring {{BSD Design Studio}} Supermodel Shoe Collector Red Paint

1. Aidoru: Ethnic Dream Necklace

2. Black Ethnik Bangles

3. Glance: Anais

4. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Golden Kiss Matte Lips

5. Candy Nail: Rosy Black

6. Face Paint: Gem Eyes Bronze

7. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

8. In-Pose! taken on site at Image Essentials

Long after women were permitted to vote, it was still unusual for them to work outside the home. In our current age, that seems so foreign but just a little time past in our history, it was very different. Both my grandmothers worked. One was a full time nurse. The other was a part time teacher.

Featuring blackLiquid Kaja Earrings

Featuring blackLiquid Gatsby Makeup

Featuring Liv-Glam Christelle Draped Dress

Featuring Hairoin Cronos
Featuring {{BSD Design Studio}} Supermodel Shoe Collector Red Paint

1. Aidoru: Ethnic Dream Necklace

2. Black Ethnik Bangles

3. Glance: Anais

4. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Golden Kiss Matte Lips

5. Candy Nail: Rosy Black

6. Face Paint: Gem Eyes Bronze

7. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

8. In-Pose! taken on site at Image Essentials

The choices they made to work were not easy. In many cases, the fact that women joined the work force when they did changed the course of US History and in a bigger picture, world history for now and a long time to come. By the time my mother made the choice to work, she was supported and not shunned.

Featuring blackLiquid Kaja Earrings

Featuring blackLiquid Gatsby Makeup

Featuring Liv-Glam Christelle Draped Dress

Featuring Hairoin Cronos

Featuring {{BSD Design Studio}} Supermodel Shoe Collector Red Paint

1. Aidoru: Ethnic Dream Necklace

2. Black Ethnik Bangles

3. Glance: Anais

4. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Golden Kiss Matte Lips

5. Candy Nail: Rosy Black

6. Face Paint: Gem Eyes Bronze

7. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

8. In-Pose! taken on site at Image Essentials

**I could not get over how much the special Red Paint version of the Supermodel Shoe looked like it was designed to accompany the Christelle dress.Featuring Hairoin Alien

But even with support, the rules were different for women in the work force. Cue up the Donna Summer song. A woman went to work, sometimes in a job where her co-workers were all men, did the same job the men did and yet got paid about 30% less then men.

Featuring blackLiquid Kaja Earrings

Featuring blackLiquid Gatsby Makeup

Featuring Liv-Glam Christelle Draped Dress

Featuring Hairoin Cronos

Featuring {{BSD Design Studio}} Supermodel Shoe Collector Red Paint

1. Aidoru: Ethnic Dream Necklace

2. Black Ethnik Bangles

3. Glance: Anais

4. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Golden Kiss Matte Lips

5. Candy Nail: Rosy Black

6. Face Paint: Gem Eyes Bronze

7. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

8. In-Pose! taken on site at Image Essentials

When the laws of the US began to support women's needs for fair pay and other similar controversy, there were people of both genders on either side of the coin, pointing out how wrong (or how right) the laws were and how needed or how much they wasted time.

Featuring Hairoin Alien
Featuring Zanze Debbie Retro
1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale
2. Face Paint: Metallic Green Liner
3. [Mirror's Enigma]: Azuka Milk Skintone
4. Chop Zuey: Winter Berries Set
5. {{BSD Design Studio}}: Post Modernism
6. Wicca's Poses

I think it took a lot of diligence to push past each of these hurdles. I also think that while there were some who argued for and others who argued against the whole concept of women in the public sphere working, they each had some rational arguments and some that were irrational. I see both sides.

Featuring Hairoin Alien
Featuring Zanze Debbie Retro
1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale
2. Face Paint: Metallic Green Liner
3. [Mirror's Enigma]: Azuka Milk Skintone
4. Chop Zuey: Winter Berries Set
5. {{BSD Design Studio}}: Post Modernism
6. Wicca's Poses

Even when women won the right to work, won the right to vote, and won the right to do many things that men had been doing for ages, they still faced adversity. Sometimes it was of a very personal nature, other times it was public. 'Women are too emotional,' they'd say.

Featuring Hairoin Alien
Featuring Zanze Debbie Retro
1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale
2. Face Paint: Metallic Green Liner
3. [Mirror's Enigma]: Azuka Milk Skintone
4. Chop Zuey: Winter Berries Set
5. {{BSD Design Studio}}: Post Modernism
6. Wicca's Poses

I think when you put the word "too" in that sentence, that's where the problem lies. Women are emotional. Men are also. Women can deal with emotion differently then men do and when they are involved, they often bring new perspective to old problems and have helped in many work arenas.

Featuring Hairoin Alien
Featuring Zanze Debbie Retro
1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale
2. Face Paint: Metallic Green Liner
3. [Mirror's Enigma]: Azuka Milk Skintone
4. Chop Zuey: Winter Berries Set
5. {{BSD Design Studio}}: Post Modernism
6. Wicca's Poses

When I have a chance to work with brilliant women in Second Life, I love it. I know that each of the designers I represent and some who are simply great friends work hard for the money. I don't know who's at home with them, treating them right, but I hope they feel some sense of accomplishment.

I don't know how many hours a week Ms. B from blackLiquid or Samantha from Liv-Glam... Elke from Hairoin or Zzoiee from Zanze... put in to making their product viable, and beyond that, wonderful and useful too. Each devote a part of their soul to make it work though, because whether you see it or not, each tiny pixel is someone's brilliant creation and beautiful art. We support them when we buy from them. They work hard for the money and I do hope they're treated right.

Sometimes You Just Have To Be Fierce -- Featuring Hairoin and Carrie's Lingerie

When I took this photo, I wasn't really processing the set up of the photo or why this one time I decided to use a facial emoter HUD. Looking at it today, two days after the shot, I can tell how I was feeling, such a natural emotion too. Anger!

Featuring Carrie's Lingerie Bleeping Bunnie Hunt

Featuring Hairoin Philandra

1. Miroku: Chain Bracelet

2. Liv-Glam: Odeur

3. *Glance Skins: Anais

4. Face Paint: Spring Gems 4 Pouty

5. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Divina

6. IKON: Steel Blue Pale

7. Stromfield Motors: Pocket Knife

I'm not angry at the designs or the designer. I'm frustrated to the point of anger with life. We all face our dark moments, our demons, the things that could make us or break us, depending how we handle what comes next. I can't blame anyone for where I am in this world currently. For the most part, I keep my chin held high and make it through one day at a time.

In a moment of tongue-in-cheek humor, I created this look on Monday. I loved the Hairoin Philandra. I've loved it since I saw it and knew at some point, I would be inspired on a special style and this was that day. The Bleeping Bunny Hunt and Carrie's Lingerie were paired together and I found this great lingerie the other day as well. It all seemed to work together and yield Fierce!

I take this world one day at a time and I know that I don't have to be quite as fierce as the photo because I have friends and family that make this world just a little easier. I don't have to be fierce because I have you.

On Being a Moon and Not a Sun -- Featuring Evolve, Pure Poison from 24 Event and Warm Animations from 24 Event

We think of the moon as a light source that comes to our aid in the night. There are times that the light is not so great in the tiny sliver of a crescent period, but even that tiny bit of light shimmers and can make the difference between being totally lost in the dark and able to find your way.

Featured Pure Poison Angela Dress Black for 24 Event

Featured Warm Animations An Array of Games for 24 Event

1. [noname]: Defining Boho Sandals

2. RYCA: Earrings and Necklace

3. FuLo: Bangles and Watch

4. [Mirror's Enigma]: Sapphire Tan Skintone

5. Face Paint: Fall Matte Lip Scarlett and Liner

6. Sexy Mama Sculpted Nails

7. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Mysteria

8. EMO-tions: Nova

9. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

All levels of models have been involved this week in the 24 Event. Some have been around a very long time and have earned their classy reputation from time invested and respect earned. Others are newer, like me, "Little Sister Models". I see the radiance of a seasoned model and all I really want to do is reflect on their source of light and learn from it.

Featuring Evolve Romanticism

1. N@N@: Seraphine Bangle

2. Finesmith: Aqua Earrings and Necklace

3. *Glance Skins: Anais

4. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Divina

5. Calico Ingmann: April

6. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

Though we perceive the moon as a light source, it really only reflects the brilliant majesty of the sun. The sun seems to disappear for a time, allowing the moon's light to glow. I think there are times when models fit into one of these categories, the sun or the moon, and sadly one other category, that of a black hole that sucks energy and life out of people but thankfully that's a rare and small group.

Featuring Evolve Romanticism

1. N@N@: Seraphine Bangle

2. Finesmith: Aqua Earrings and Necklace

3. *Glance Skins: Anais

4. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Divina

5. Calico Ingmann: April

6. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

It's probably that many models who begin their role in Second Life fashion as emulators and reflectors, little glowing moons of enthusiasm will eventually become a sun in their own right. It comes with determination, dedication and a willingness to be patient for the time to come. It's so easy too, to want to have everything happen NOW. But most things that are great are worth waiting for, and whether you're the powerful ball of sun or the reflective glow of the moon, you have your place in this virtual-verse.

I Haven't Got Time For the Pain -- Featuring SAAL from 24 Event, Pure Poison from 24 Event, Evolve and Luziefee

You know the type. Negative nillies. It really doesn't matter what's happening in his or her life; life just ends up wrong. Sometimes these negative focused personalities can be a little bit energy hungry, plugging in to anyone who will feed them energy by pausing to buy into whatever the latest tragedy is.

Featuring SAAL Poses from 24 Event

Featuring Evolve Jalissa

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. MADesigns Hair: Demi

3. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Fantasia

4. Face Paint: Fall Matte Lip Scarlet

5. Face Paint: Metallic Green Liner and Lash

6. Candy Nail: Tea Time Pink

7. *Glance Skins: Anais

8. [Liv-Glam]: Catwalk Shoes

9. Pink Cherry: Silver Grey Hoops

Once in a while, everyone has a rough day or a difficult week. It's wonderful to have friendships that weather the test of time and the ups and downs and curve balls we have to manage. It's definitely more easily accomplished when you have a wonderful support system.

Featuring SAAL Poses from 24 Event

Featuring Evolve Jalissa

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. MADesigns Hair: Demi

3. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Fantasia

4. Face Paint: Fall Matte Lip Scarlet

5. Face Paint: Metallic Green Liner and Lash

6. Candy Nail: Tea Time Pink

7. *Glance Skins: Anais

8. [Liv-Glam]: Catwalk Shoes

9. Pink Cherry: Silver Grey Hoops

It's when it's chronic that it gets dangerous. It's not healthy for the person who wallows in their own mire of darkness and depression. It's also not healthy for the people around them who attempt to help pull them up and out of the murky mess.

Featuring Evolve Madison

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Osmose: Desir

3. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Fantasia

4. Face Paint: Fall Matte Lip Red

5. Face Paint: Metallic Green

6. *Glance Skins: Anais

7. Celestina's Wedding: My Lady

8. Felicity: Jessica Stilettos

9. Trendy Dolls: St. Patricks Day Nails

What I find most difficult is letting go, and not making time for any more pain. I want to give chance after chance for someone to heal, to change, to grow into a better person. Eventually, I have to pause and say, "I can't listen to this right now. I haven't got time for the pain." Even typing it here as I think about those times I finally did have to say something similar still makes me feel anxious and worried. I feel responsible.

Featuring Luziefee Fatima Rose

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. *booN

3. Zuri's: Ring

4. [Liv-Glam]: Zofany Boots

5. Sexy Mama Sculpted Nails

6. Face Paint: Matte Lips and Eye Liner

7. Taken on site at TCL

It's never going to be my nature to turn people away when they come to me. If they come with a defeated attitude, already sure they're a super huge failure, and I've had such discussions with them in the past, I offer a sincere hug, a smile, a bit of 'catching up' talk, then I get busy in my world. I enjoy the part of life that shimmers like a bar of gold and shines like a bit of silver.

Coming Soon -- Featuring {{BSD Design Studio}}, Evolve, Snowpaws and [[Masoom]], Plus 24 Event Information

Every so often, no matter where you are in the world, you probably see a sign or read a news article or find an advertisement for something new coming soon. The idea is to instill in you an interest for this thing you did not have that will now be available to you in such a way that by the time it arrives, you couldn't imagine what you ever did without this new arrival.

Featuring {{BSD Design Studio}} Supermodel MVW Raw from 24 Event

Featuring Evolve Mendola

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue

2. Face Paint: Glam Smoke

3. face Paint: Prim Lashes and Liner

4. [S H O C K]: Animalier Nails

5. *Glance Skins: Anais

6. EMO-tions: Orion Set

7. Bliss: Yanni

It's such a tease sometimes. If I know a new store will arrive soon, I actually develop cravings for whatever it is that store may specialize in to a point where I'm anxious for it's opening! The power of suggestion works mightily. The heels shown here appear at The 24 Event later this month. Look for {{BSD Design Studio}} and you'll find their Supermodel MVW Raw heels.

Featuring {{BSD Design Studio}} Supermodel MVW Raw from 24 Event

Featuring Evolve Mendola

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue

2. Face Paint: Glam Smoke

3. face Paint: Prim Lashes and Liner

4. [S H O C K]: Animalier Nails

5. *Glance Skins: Anais

6. EMO-tions: Orion Set

7. Bliss: Yanni

This pretty little dress, the Mendola from Evolve, arrived in the store this week, and it reminds me of more innocent times. It's bright colors catch the eye and add a radiance to the room. This item remains on sale as well as part of the 60L weekend sale, so you don't have to anticipate its arrival. It's there already!

Featuring [[Masoom]] Afra Lingerie

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue

2. Bliss: Calima Hair

3. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Starlia

4. Face Paint: Glam Violet

5. Face Paint: Black Liner

6. [Mirror's Enigma]: Vanity Tan Skintone

7. EMO-tions Orion Set

8. [S H O C K]: Animalier Nails

Lingerie fluttered to my feet all around me this month. Items like this Afra Lingerie, a golden little bit of satin from [[Masoom]] joined with other seductive pieces and made me chuckle. I visit different sims and enjoy the photo studios as well as live sets, from Model's Workshop, Image Essentials and more recently from The Creative Loft.

Featuring [[Masoom]] Afra Lingerie

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue

2. Bliss: Calima Hair

3. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Starlia

4. Face Paint: Glam Violet

5. Face Paint: Black Liner

6. [Mirror's Enigma]: Vanity Tan Skintone

7. EMO-tions Orion Set

8. [S H O C K]: Animalier Nails

The reason it made me chuckle, well.. as you can see, the top does not really cover the upper body bits. Lingerie should titillate and entice, and this little gold number definitely does so. I was going to try to find a little pose to the side or add a cover so it wasn't quite as bold, but then it loses effectiveness. Over the next few weeks, I think I will lose all sense of modesty. Some of you probably think that's not such a bad thing either!

Featuring Snowpaws Pesia Mesh Tube Dress from 24 Event

1. Bliss: Lavinia

2. Snowpaws: Rejouir Nightfall Earrings

3. Luzifee: Alison Tearose Necklace

4. [Mirror's Enigma]: Vanity Tan Skintone

5. Candy Nail: Diva Blue

6. Face Paint: Glam Navy

7. Face Paint: Black Liner

8. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Mysteria

9. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue

Several of the designers I work with have items that are prepared just for you at the 24 Event. This dress Pisia dress from Snowpaws is an example of that coming soon enticement. Carrie Snowpaw continues to make flirtatious fun clothing and blends a great mesh with the flutter of flexi material.

Featuring Snowpaws Pesia Mesh Tube Dress from 24 Event

1. Bliss: Lavinia

2. Snowpaws: Rejouir Nightfall Earrings

3. Luzifee: Alison Tearose Necklace

4. [Mirror's Enigma]: Vanity Tan Skintone

5. Candy Nail: Diva Blue

6. Face Paint: Glam Navy

7. Face Paint: Black Liner

8. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Mysteria

9. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue

I have more pieces from the 24 Event as the week unfolds ahead, and will share them with you as often as I can. It will run August 23 - August 31. You'll find designers from all over the grid with great items prepared just for this event. And yes, this is meant to be a little nudge, to get you thinking about visiting the event and enjoying all the hard work put into it by Siren Productions and each contributor.

If you are interested in participating in future Events produced by Siren Productions, drop a note card to Lexie Jansma or Alon Alphaville in Second Life. Visit sirenproductionssl.com for more information.

I Don't Always Believe... Featuring A.F.I Designs

I have insomnia this week. It's something that comes part and parcel with the change in my status physically, and on that note, its AMAZINGGG. Whatever those new docs did two weeks ago in my micro-surgery helped. I have been pain free for almost 10 days. When I don't have pain, I don't need medication. This also is AMAZINGGG! Lack of sleep seems a small price to pay.

So I was up at 4 a.m. this morning, trying my best to distract myself and enjoy what I love most online, a bit of Disney Girl with a healthy dose of Second Life modeling/fashion/blogging. While I was practicing on a runway gym, I saw a notice pop up for this awesome company I'd not ever known but thought looked terrific. I spoke to the designer behind the name, a very industrious woman who shared some of her expectations and successes.

By the time she added me to her blogger group, I felt a sense of 'out of my league.' I have a healthy respect for the process any new endeavor takes to learn, a good self-esteem, and an understanding that I'm better at what I do than I was yesterday and I know I'll be better than that tomorrow. I learn from those who walked in this path prior to my journey. I try to share with those who are stepping in that path behind me. It's a joy to me and most of the time, I simply believe in myself.

This was one of those moments of doubt. I didn't have all the criteria to meet the expectations. I do have drive, passion and ambition to reach for those expectations with all that's within me. I want to learn and live up to the challenge. I had one of those knots in my throat, not quite able to swallow. I found it was there as we talked and later as I styled this first item she sent to me, this Ice Tiger Dress. What a first piece to wear it is too!

She made a decision to let me try this, and share her designs on my little corner of the web. I find the dress inspiring. I find the designer inspiring. I don't always believe. I have moments of doubt. I do my best and reach for the stars. I appreciate DJ A.F.I (ladigirl). I know that for the next little while, whatever the length of our season where we get to walk this journey together, I am the fortunate one. Thank you for the opportunity.

Featuring A.F.I Designs Ice Tiger Dress
1. EMO-tions: Kimi
2. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale
3. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Divina
4. Face Paint: Lip 7
5. Face Paint: Metallic Shine Green
6. *Glance Skins: Anais
7. FuLo: Bangles and Watch Set
8. Chop Zuey: JW Mirror of the Soul Necklace
9. WetCat Poses