When You Really Like the People Behind the Designs - Featuring Lyrical B!zarre Templaces at Fashion Collective and Loovus Dzevavor at .PENUMBRA. Fashion Week

My other look took on a completely different style. The frock has been cut by the completely, unbelievably, overwhelmingly... (okay yes, a few adjectives but I love this girl) amazing Lyrical B!zarre Templates designer in such a way that it's both avant garde and casual. I think that's a great feat in design.

The whole outfit, called Under, consists of a bra-like layer, a high waist skirt that then has cutouts just above mid thigh and down to the knee, a unique cape that hooks around the back instead of over the shoulders and then to complete the look, she added legwarmers. Such a sexy set! Recently, I had the privilege of interviewing both Victoria Vikeejeah James and Blac Quartz as a part of an article that introduced the owner and designer of Loovus Dzevavor and 2013's Face of Loovus Dzevavor and now fellow designer for the brand as women of distinction.

As I got to know them, I admired both for their accomplishments, professionalism and warm nature. The heels (Cypress) and purse (called Destination) go well together. These and many other items comprise the Autumn/Winter collection from this fashion house.

Featuring Lyrical Bizarre Templates Under Mesh at The Fashion Collective

Featuring Loovus Dzevavor Satchel Silver from .PENUMBRA. Fashion Week

Featuring Loovus Dzevavor Signature Stilettos Silver from .PENUMBRA. Fashion Week

1. MG: Wild 

2. KMADD/Moda: Mesh Eyes

3. October's 4 Seasons: Alabaster Skin Tone

4. SLink: Elegant 1 Hand

-- Female Feet High

5. Pure Poison: Tomnia Jewelry

6. Exile: Voodoo Extreme

7. Countdown Poses

Fixing My Mistakes - Featuring 24 Squared With >Asset< and Blacklace; Featuring - DE Boutique from Designer Showcase

This week I've been away, on vacation, and happily soaking up the sun. Perhaps the sun addled my brain or perhaps I did that all on my own. Either way, I've had a terrible time with focus and details. I've sent apologies to the designers that were effected by my loss of focus. I'm glad they were thoughtfully forgiving. I'm glad that I'm allowed to be human and err from time to time. I'm ready, however, to get my balance once more. I'll be returning home tomorrow.

Items I have to share include two items from the 24 Squared Event that begins on September 5. It's a Siren Productions event, and will include a variety of designers including the two represented by this blog. Within the time frame, fashion shows, live models, and post show parties are scheduled.

Blacklace offered this bustier and shorts combination, along with multiple colors not showing in the photograph as part of their 24 Squared elements. The variety allows for all sorts of mixing and matching and makes it easy to style.

>Asset< and this slicked back hairstyle, offers this exclusive Vono Megapack at 24 Squared and only then, will you be able to purchase it. It will not be in stores after the event. Also, a limit of 25 per color and 25 fatpacks will be sold, and then they will be gone for good. If you love it, you should haste to grab it while the gettins' good.

I thought this image would be a good way to close this blog. It's a little bit like how I feel. The Wild West event has been mentioned in a previous blog showing the Saloon Pose set. This pose comes also from IE from it's Slain set. Once in a while, when we over do it, we feel like falling out on the floor, and taking a nap... A N Y W H E R E. So I think I will.

Featuring BlackLace from 24 Squared - Brandy Chapagne Set

Featuring DE Boutique from Designer Showcase September - ss14 Chester Fille Heels Essentials Pack

Featuring >Asset< from 24 Squared Vono (Unisex) Hair

1. Pure Poison Eve Style Necklace

2. ~Snake People~: Belly Piercing

3. *AE* Peace Silver Earrings

4. Lip Piercing *Onyx Paw*

5. SLink: Elegant 1 Hands

-- Mid High Female Feet

6. Moondance Boutique: Stalking Tiger

7. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Lily Skin Tone (Hannah)

8. Maxi Gossamer: Swallow Wings Red & Black Worn

9. KMADD/Moda: Mesh Eyes

10. Image Essentials Poses and Props: 1) Graceful Elegance Pose 

and 2) From Wild West Compilation Slain Pose

I Love Flowers -- Featuring FINESMITH

Some days feel as if they sling by me! Other days drag onward towards a slow and tired end. It's all in a 24 hour time period, but my brain processes those 24 hour periods very differently each time a new one comes. If time really is a construct of the human mind, I imagine that time looks nothing like it did when people in centuries past looked at it.

While I don't seem to have enough time to show all the beautiful items from different events, wonderful designers, and creative people, I don't have to worry about hand washing the clothes in a stream of water and hanging clothes on hemp rope to dry. I enjoy food, primarily as a pescetarian, I don't have to spend the day cleaning the fish and salting the fish and cooking the fish and curing the leftovers.

I can only begin to imagine how terribly L - O - N - G those days could get. Today I played with the elements of a new outfit released by FINESMITH recently that included some beautiful floral pieces that expanded in three dimensions in addition to the top, pants and heels that are included in LOVE Flowers. I added a bit more from FINESMITH, the CEN Necklace and the FLORA Belly Jewel. Many new releases this spring and summer have included both jewelry and clothing. If you haven't been by to see recently, you might have missed some of the beautiful new designs.

This blog would not have been possible without the support of these designers:

Featuring from FINESMITH Love Flowers

1. Corpus Poses

2. Maxi Gossamer: Wild Full Thick Lashes

3. KMADD/Moda: Mesh Eyes

4. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Marigold Skin Tone Hannah

5. SLink: Female Feet High

-- Elegant 1 Hands

6. Morphine: Juliana Eyeshadows Pack Purple w/Liners

-- Freya Plain Lips Pack Blight Plain Dark Lips

7. Indyra Originals: Garbo Glove Cuffs

8. Pure Poison: Couture Umbrella Hat (hood)

9. FINESMITH: Flora Belly Jewel

-- Cen Necklace

CRYYYYY - Featuring Sakura and Kaithleen's from FASHIONART Faire, EMO-tions and [[j'adore]]

I met Kaithleen when I was maybe a 10 day old model. I remember she had created a mesh item that was see through, enough that I could see my nipples and I was really anxious about this because I wasn't sure how edgy fashion in SL would let me get, and how to draw that line. I think I understand that line a little more now than I did back then, and I've seen a lot of Kaithleen's art since then as well.

Today, the pantsuit from FASHIONART Faire (still in progress til 31 May) comes from Kaithleen's and it gave me an overall vibe of playful casual. If there were summer snowballs, I'd make them and throw them wearing something like this. How's that for imagination!? Sakura has an entire outfit called Baby Pink also found at FASHIONART Faire, and it includes these precious low heeled pink Mary Janes.

The jewelry from EMO-tions has a number of pieces all from the DRAGONHEART series. I used a few of them, and repurposed one of the rings so the broach at my throat had a little more unique detail. The last new thing to share with you comes from [[j'adore]], a pose store I've only become familiar with recently as they participated in one of the events I worked, and I decided to go by the store and see what I could see. How could I turn down a group gift with 5 different 'couples' pose sets? Even though I don't have a special someone (CRYYYYYYY) to use the pose sets with, I did use a pose from each set so I could show you a little bit more of [[j'adore]].

Without these great designers, I would not be able to do what I love:

Featuring Sakura (Baby Pink) Pink Mary Janes from FASHIONART Faire by Glamourist

Featuring Kaithleen's High Waist Pants w/Sleeveless Top from FASHIONART Faire by Glamourist

Featuring EMO-tions DRAGONHEART Headpiece, Bracelet-Ring, and Ring

Featuring [[j'adore]] Group Gift Poses

1. MG: Wild Full Thick Lashes

2. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Blossom Skin Tone

3. SLink: Elegant 1 Hands

-- Med High Feet

4. Pure Poison: Umbrella Hood

5. Luziefee: Shania Blue Day Hat

6. KMADD/Moday: Mesh Eyes

My Chrysalis -- Featuring KL Couture, Pure Poison and JUMO from FASHIONART Faire, and FINESMITH

Sometimes I hear a story in my head as I prepare the fashion looks I want to share here and on my blog. Before I was ever in Second Life, I was a writer, a passionate one at that, and I wrote erotica and children's stories.

I've published children's stories but never any erotica. I always have the funniest look when people know this detail about me, especially when they toss in Youth Pastor as another of the things I've done in my life.

So I took this gorgeous Butterfly gown from KL Couture and styled it with stunning new jewelry from Finesmith. Pure Poison - Fashion provided the handbag (and handbags are so hard to pose ohh emm gee... I'm so glad for Wicca's Wardrobe poses that had a series that worked!) and JUMO has new skins and makeup accessories for sale.

KL Couture, Pure Poison and JUMO's items are from the FASHIONART Faire that's open til the end of this month. After I put together a style, I think about the girl that emerges, this time very much like the escape from chrysalis that a butterfly makes, the first time a girl goes to a fancy part. The anxiety and excitement making butterflies in her tummy. The first time her wings spread and she can fly, but how high? How far?

I loved the illustrative art. I arrived at a beautiful ball room. The place was so beautiful. Someone invested tons of time into creating it and then it was empty. I thought of how heart broken such a pretty girl, ready to fly, would feel if she were meant to attend a ball and then it was cancelled at the last moment. There she is, captured in photos to share with you.

Many thanks to the designers who made this blog possible:

Featuring JUMO Armorial Lips Red from FASHIONART Faire by Glamourist

Featuring KL Couture Butterfly Storm Gown from FASHIONART Faire by Glamourist

Featuring Pure Poison Hbao Hand Bag from FASHIONART Faire by Glamourist

Featuring FINESMITH Nina Aqua and Gold Set

1. [elika]: Breathe

2. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Divina

3. KMADD/Moda: Mesh Eyes

4. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Pearl Skin Tone

5. SLink: Elegant 1 Hands with basic nail applied

6. Wicca's Wardrobe: Handbag Poses

Like Mike -- Featuring from SAVIAD Silken Moon, Xen's Hats, [natzuka], PosESioN - Also Pure Poison

I want to be like Mike. Well no, not Mike. It was an advertisement campaign some years ago, when everyone thought Michael Jordan was the ultimate in basketball athletics. There was nothing he could not do. And yes, that double negative was intentional. Nothing.

 I really want to be like the elegant, sophisticated eloquent model bloggers whom I might idolize a little like children wanted to be like Mike. My favorite continues to be Cao. She shares her soul and happens to dress in the most stylish, most fun, most bestest way while she does. She cares for others, invests her time in causes she truly supports with time and effort, and she's always quick with a shoulder or a hug for friends.

I really want to be like October. She seems to have her finger on the pulse of fashion. Her networking skills are leaps and bounds ahead of my own, and I consider myself pretty good at getting the right people together to make something happen. In the midst of everything crazy in her life, she manages to make me feel like I'm someone important, that I'm never interrupting her (even when I know I am) and that she really listens to what I share. It's not a head nod and okay thanks bye-bye.

I really want to be like Wicca. Every time I've ever spoken to her, she's apologized for not knowing English well. I wonder why this is, since I could not even begin to speak German and I do not apologize for this. I think I save her ears by me not even attempting it. Besides this, she's very humble when she receives compliments. I think maybe it's possible she doesn't realize how astoundingly amazing she actually is. Her style helps me see that style should be original and special, and unique to self. With my own whimsical approach to things, combining these super heroes of the fashion world, I feel like I can grow, I can learn, I can reach higher and farther and push my own envelope.

One hero, Mr. Juan Frolic Mills, I really don't want to be like him. No, not in a mean spirited, oh how did he just say that to me... sort of way! Every time I've ever spoken to him, he's had 5,000 things in progress. He stays busier than anyone I've ever virtually or physically met. It's no wonder the businesses he touches evolve in positive ways. It's no wonder that the legacy he's created will live beyond his wildest dreams. I just don't have the energy to sustain a life like his. I probably don't have the energy to attain the heights of my other heroic influences either, but Mr. Mills... well he just seems HuGeRtHaNLiFe!

Special thanks goes to each designer who made this possible:

Featuring SAVIAD PosESioN Poses

Featuring SAVIAD Silken Moon Estara Gown

Featuring SAVIAD Xen's Hats Kawana Hat Blue w/Aqua

Featuring SAVIAD [Natzuka] Spring Ring Daisy Blue

Featuring Pure Poison LouLou Earrings and Necklace

1. **Feel** StarDust Classic Nails

2. Kyxe Skins & Shapes Marigold Skin Tone (Candice)

3. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Captivate Lips Caliente

4. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Splendor Eyes Brown Diamonds

5. Truth: Stargaze

6. KMADD/Moda: Mesh Eyes

I want to be like Mike. Well no, not Mike. It was an advertisement campaign some years ago, when everyone thought Michael Jordan was the ultimate in basketball athletics. There was nothing he could not do. And yes, that double negative was intentional. Nothing.

 I really want to be like the elegant, sophisticated eloquent model bloggers whom I might idolize a little like children wanted to be like Mike. My favorite continues to be Cao. She shares her soul and happens to dress in the most stylish, most fun, most bestest way while she does. She cares for others, invests her time in causes she truly supports with time and effort, and she's always quick with a shoulder or a hug for friends.

I really want to be like October. She seems to have her finger on the pulse of fashion. Her networking skills are leaps and bounds ahead of my own, and I consider myself pretty good at getting the right people together to make something happen. In the midst of everything crazy in her life, she manages to make me feel like I'm someone important, that I'm never interrupting her (even when I know I am) and that she really listens to what I share. It's not a head nod and okay thanks bye-bye.

I really want to be like Wicca. Every time I've ever spoken to her, she's apologized for not knowing English well. I wonder why this is, since I could not even begin to speak German and I do not apologize for this. I think I save her ears by me not even attempting it. Besides this, she's very humble when she receives compliments. I think maybe it's possible she doesn't realize how astoundingly amazing she actually is. Her style helps me see that style should be original and special, and unique to self. With my own whimsical approach to things, combining these super heroes of the fashion world, I feel like I can grow, I can learn, I can reach higher and farther and push my own envelope.

One hero, Mr. Juan Frolic Mills, I really don't want to be like him. No, not in a mean spirited, oh how did he just say that to me... sort of way! Every time I've ever spoken to him, he's had 5,000 things in progress. He stays busier than anyone I've ever virtually or physically met. It's no wonder the businesses he touches evolve in positive ways. It's no wonder that the legacy he's created will live beyond his wildest dreams. I just don't have the energy to sustain a life like his. I probably don't have the energy to attain the heights of my other heroic influences either, but Mr. Mills... well he just seems HuGeRtHaNLiFe!

Special thanks goes to each designer who made this possible:

Featuring SAVIAD PosESioN Poses

Featuring SAVIAD Silken Moon Estara Gown

Featuring SAVIAD Xen's Hats Kawana Hat Blue w/Aqua

Featuring SAVIAD [Natzuka] Spring Ring Daisy Blue

Featuring Pure Poison LouLou Earrings and Necklace

1. **Feel** StarDust Classic Nails

2. Kyxe Skins & Shapes Marigold Skin Tone (Candice)

3. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Captivate Lips Caliente

4. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Splendor Eyes Brown Diamonds

5. Truth: Stargaze

6. KMADD/Moda: Mesh Eyes

I Support Fashion Pride -- Featuring Schoen and blackLiquid -- Also Featuring Retro', Chop Zuey and Bens Beauty

The Fashion Pride event raises awareness on AIDS, HIV, and the people who have been affected by this life changing affliction.

Designers like Schoen, the Kimono seen above, and blackLiquid, with awesome shades, have offered exclusive items for sale to support this event.

You as shoppers will be able to shop till you drop March 10 - March 17.

Other new items include the bag from Baboom!, Chop Zuey's brooch and earrings from Ben's Beauty.

Thank you designers who supported my newest styling!

Featuring *..Schoen..*Kimono Gown Typell for Fashion Pride

Featuring blackLiquid Shades for Fashion Pride

Featuring Retro' Nicole Pink Heel

Featuring ..:: Ben's Beauty ::.. Amulet Nazar Boncugu Earrings

Featuring Chop Zuey Dulcinea Brooch

Featuring Baboom Mesh Bag Gacha Blue Bow

1. Butterflies Tat by Caryn

2. KMADD/Moda: Eyes Confidence

3. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Lily Skintone

4. SLink: Elegant 1

5. [Mirror's Enigma] (now Morphine): Azuka Butterfly Lips

6. VicE: Dangerous Liasons Bangles

7. .::Shellac Nails Spill

8. Pure Poison: Umbrella Hat Hood

9. Wicca's Wardrobe Poses

All Things Considered... Featuring Tresor and Pure Poison (another item from the J&A Expo -- in progress!)

I love the public radio station program that comes on at night. "All Things Considered" is a news program that does reporting much like television news, but of course without vision to aid the listener, the stories end up being more verbal, and in my opinion, better explained.

I also like it for its content. No matter where I've traveled in the US, in my younger years, I always tuned in to the local radio for this show. It had a local clip prior to the show or just after it, then talked about anything, since all things that happened could be considered news of the day.

I've also heard the words 'all things considered' used prior to explaining something that had some minor errors, but went well. Broadway openings sometimes have reviews that end with the phrase. The debut of a restaurant might have the same type of review. It's understood that it takes a lot to produce either.

After the party that celebrated Kyxe Skins & Shapes move to its new location at 4Seasons Mall, I spoke briefly to the people who'd been there with me to do the celebrating. The people were happy. Little things happen, but that's just life. All things considered, IT WENT REALLY WELL.

Live! Laugh! Love!

Featuring Tresor Blue Christmas Gown

Featuring Pure Poison The Snow Queen

1. Bliss: Mandy

2. Face Paint: Navy Liner

3. MADesigns: 

- Eyelashes - Moonlight

- Eyes Confidence - Blonde Ambition

4. Kyxe Skins & Shapes:

- Kyxe Alabaster Skin Tone

- Kyxe Devine - Cognac

- Kyxe Glamour - Ombre Ocean

5. Manifeste Poses

6. {{BSD Design Studio}} Christmas Figurines

KL Couture and Kyxe Skins & Shapes plus CASHMERE&KEANE, IMaGE Factory, K-CODE, Pure Poison, {{BSD}}, and Rook Hold from J&A Expo

Another way to look at it... would have been the title of this blog except that there are so many new items and special things from my sponsors that I couldn't fit a title!

The items from this Jewelry and Accessory Expo are sooo diverse. Today I have on a beautiful wonderful and quite unusual hat, there are boots, a ring, and a knuckle ring too, and then there's my little friend!

The Kendra dress from KL Couture had such personality that it needed some spice to accessorize. With all these different accessories, I found just the spice I wanted.

I have a couple of pair of ankle boots but if you've followed my blog, you know how much I LOVE boots so when I saw these, I fell in love again again.

I found a striking pose that ended up with fur in my face and my paint and hood, and yet it felt like it spoke volumes wordlessly.

It's easy to daydream when styling. I see visions of all sorts of life, and worlds I'd never visit except in my imagination.

I continue to thank all the sponsors of the J&A Expo. It will open for shoppers 12.6.2013, very soon!!

One other detail to share... Kyxe Skins & Shapes opens a new location at the 4Seasons Mall on Saturday, and there will be a party, presents, and fun to be had by all. It will revolutionize the way you shop for skins and makeup (and even help you with shopping in your world off line!!).

Live! Laugh! Love!

CASHMERE&KEANE Caicko Knuckleduster from J&A Expo

IMaGE Factory Snowflake Bottle Necklace from J&A Expo

K-CODE MEGAN 1 from J&A Expo

Pure Poison Couture Umbrella Hat from J&A Expo

RookHold Crescent Mood Rin from J&A Expo

Also Featuring KL Couture Kendra Dress

Also Featuring Kyxe Skins & Shapes Blossom Skintone

1. Face Paint: Mime v3

2. MADesigns

- Eyelashes - Photoshoot

- Eyes Confidence - Placebo

3. Kyxe Skins & Shape: Apple Blossom with Gloss

4. Candy Nail: Rosey Black

5. Manifeste Poses

6. {{BSD Design Studio}}: Xmas Carol Singer - red

Behind Bars -- Featuring Dot-Be Fashion, [NikotiN], ::Marshmallows::, and Delirium Style

Help! I'm in jail! Okay, I admit. I went searching for a jail where I could film these photos. I had to find a place that really looked like a jail and a place that wasn't ultra busy so I wouldn't have people who came into the camera's view while I was setting up the photos, and asking questions or worse yet, trying to interact with me as if I were in the jail as a set up for some role-play. Places like that are not so easy to find in Second Life. It seems loads of people LIKE being in jail!

Strangely enough, when I got the new [NikotiN] clever little cigarette set, I knew I wanted to blog from a jail cell. I also knew finding one that would not be crowded would be a challenge. Most jails seem to be on Adult sims with all sorts of tricks and traps set up for the epitome of play. I didn't want to step into anyone's trap and have to explain. No no. Really. I'm not here to be... stop. No. Wuf? Really? Okay. I finally ended up here in this little basement room with walls and bars and little else.

I have heard references to jail in all sorts of literature, the movies, and pop music. The allusion to life, where our worlds are bound up behind bars, restrictions, limitations, past choices, makes sense. It's not that different from the physical world, the rock and mortar and the old rusty iron. If I were passionately avid about escaping, I imagine the rust would work in my favor and over time I could wiggle my way out of such a setting. I have to imagine in like manner that I would do the same in life.

I know that those who've lived in an institution like a prison for a good portion of their life have a hard time wanting to come out from behind the bars. Somewhere in their world, the bars became a security that kept them where they actually felt safe. They learned the rhythm of the prison, the day, the night, the people's faces, and what was permitted. Then they learned to beat the system, and get items that were not permitted. I don't think anyone who's been in that situation said, "OH I LOVE IT HERE!"

I get the idea, the being institutionalized, the getting comfortable within a setting, even if the setting is putting bars on your windows and bars on your heart. If it's been a while, and you haven't acknowledged your own bars, things holding you back, I encourage you to take a deep breath of bravery and rattle that rusty cage door till it comes off its hinges. Fight to get back into your life, and do it with head held high. You can't fail if you don't try. You must try.

Life behind bars will always be less than ideal. Only you can make the decision to do something about it. I pray that you do. Take baby steps. Don't rely on the patterns and consistency of the world you're in now, even if there's a sense of peace and understanding. Don't get so comfortable with wherever you've caged yourself in that you don't realize it's a cage. Always... Live! Laugh! Love!

The Dot-Be Aviator Jacket and [NikotiN]'s new cigarette set inspired me. One thing I really love about Dot-Be... every time I try something new from there, it takes me some new 'where' in my head, and shows a diverse style. Not only does Boniefacio create a whole array of women's things from exquisite formals to urban grunge, he does men's things as well, so if you haven't been by to see, it's worth the trip!

Featuring Dot-Be Fashion Aviator Jacket and Shirt

Featuring ::Marshmallows:: Nu Sneakers

Featuring Delirium Style Easy Slim Jeans 01

Featuring [NikotiN] Cigarette Premium

1. Pure Poison: Snowman Earrings

2. EnvyMe Samia Skin Fair Light Collection With Makeup

3. Kyxe: Exotic Liner Dual Point

4. Face Paint: Eartha Black Lips

5. Sexy Mama Sculpted Nails

6. Nikita: Double Density Lashes

7. EMO-tions: Nova

8. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

9. Poses Built In w/Cigarette

The Rest Of My TBCF Goodies -- Pure Poison, D.o.R.k., Nous Vous, Something Sexy, :NS: Cutie Store, 7 Deadly s{K}ins, [Mirror's Enigma], Dulce Secrets

Also featuring
Zamento Latzo - Fantasy Eyes
N-Core Essence
Hairoin
Finesmith
Irrisistable

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Through the past two weeks, I've done a lot of combination stylings with pieces from the Boho Fair. I ended up with a mishmash of items that could not really be cross styled. I like showing how designers create great items, and being able to show how they blend well with other designs and designers.

 TBCF

:NS: Cutie Store

7 Deadly s{K}ins Boho Special

Also Featuring

Fantasy Eyes Devilred

Finesmith Damaged Spiked Eye 1

Irrisistable Halloween Hats Purple

1. [elika]: Say

2. Gaeline: Fantasia

3. [S H O C K]: Starshine Glitter Nails

4. Candy Nail: Bare Feet

5. Manifeste Poses

As you may have noted, I did all the TBCF blogs on the same background. I thought this would help later, when people looked back at my work, either here or on my Flickr site or on Facebook. When I introduced new pieces, or pieces new to my inventory, I've used 'Also featuring'.

TBCF 

Nous Vous Green Short Romper Dress

[Mirror's Enigma] Ashley Peach Skintone

Also featuring

N-Core Essence Champagne

1. IKON Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. EMO-tions: Semiramis

3. Natural Beauty Lashes #6

4. Candy Nail: Marble Strawberry

5. Finesmith: Chloe Silver and Gold Set

6. Manifeste Poses

It's a fun time of year as well, and I've gotten some little gifties delivered from around the grid, people I don't know, places I haven't been, so I tried to add them as well because we're all running out of time to enjoy Halloween.

TBCF

Something Sexy Haven Dress

Also Featuring

Hairoin Halloween Gift Cracked 1 & 2

Finesmith Halloween Items Mutant Eye Piece

Fearsome Skin

Fantasy Eyes Dead Brown

1. KMADD Erin Hair Blonde

2. Quintessencia Nails: Square I

3. Manifeste Poses

It's a little bit amusing to me that one of my all time favorite 'beauty' photos was taken during this flourish of finishing up the Boho content. And... one of the most unbeauty photos was taken to celebrate the crazy drama some find expresses Halloween so well.

TBCF

Pure Poison Boho Skirt Model 1

D.o.R.k. Debbie Top Boho 1

Dulce Secrets Starley Cabernet Karat Furor

Also Featuring

Zamento Latzo Night Light Eyes

1. [elika]: Abbey

2. Slink: Elegant 1 Hands

3. blackLiquid: Autumn Nails

4. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Kyxe Exotic Onyx Liner

5. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Kyxe Blushed Berry Matte

6. Role Optic Glasses: Clara

7. Manifeste Poses

I set up a great little studio arena for this series. I'd gotten away from studio shots as I have loved exploring light and shadow and windlight settings in recent months. It just made sense to do the Boho photos similarly.

TBCF

:NS: Cutie Store

7 Deadly s{K}ins Boho Special

Also Featuring

Fantasy Eyes Devilred

Finesmith Damaged Spiked Eye 1

Irrisistable Halloween Hats Purple

1. [elika]: Say

2. Gaeline: Fantasia

3. [S H O C K]: Starshine Glitter Nails

4. Candy Nail: Bare Feet

5. Manifeste Poses

A couple of designers had repeat uses, both because they had several colors or styles and because there were so few of their type of product included in the items bloggers received. I had four skins from the Boho fair.

TBCF 

Nous Vous Green Short Romper Dress

[Mirror's Enigma] Ashley Peach Skintone

Also featuring

N-Core Essence Champagne

1. IKON Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. EMO-tions: Semiramis

3. Natural Beauty Lashes #6

4. Candy Nail: Marble Strawberry

5. Finesmith: Chloe Silver and Gold Set

6. Manifeste Poses

Only a few designers contributed jewelry and a few did shoes. It makes sense, statistically speaking, because this breakdown of clothing tends to be a fair cross section of Second Life shopping. I even received a few men's items. It seems men must need to change clothing less often? or something!

TBCF

Pure Poison Boho Skirt Model 1

D.o.R.k. Debbie Top Boho 1

Dulce Secrets Starley Cabernet Karat Furor

Also Featuring

Zamento Latzo Night Light Eyes

1. [elika]: Abbey

2. Slink: Elegant 1 Hands

3. blackLiquid: Autumn Nails

4. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Kyxe Exotic Onyx Liner

5. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Kyxe Blushed Berry Matte

6. Role Optic Glasses: Clara

7. Manifeste Poses

So let me show you the rest of my photos, and then that's a wrap, for a little time. Then I will be working with items from another holiday. Can you believe how close Christmas is already?

TBCF

Something Sexy Haven Dress

Also Featuring

Hairoin Halloween Gift Cracked 1 & 2

Finesmith Halloween Items Mutant Eye Piece

Fearsome Skin

Fantasy Eyes Dead Brown

1. KMADD Erin Hair Blonde

2. Quintessencia Nails: Square I

3. Manifeste Poses

And...

TBCF

Pure Poison Boho Skirt Model 1

D.o.R.k. Debbie Top Boho 1

Dulce Secrets Starley Cabernet Karat Furor

Also Featuring

Zamento Latzo Night Light Eyes

1. [elika]: Abbey

2. Slink: Elegant 1 Hands

3. blackLiquid: Autumn Nails

4. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Kyxe Exotic Onyx Liner

5. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Kyxe Blushed Berry Matte

6. Role Optic Glasses: Clara

7. Manifeste Poses

And...

TBCF

:NS: Cutie Store

7 Deadly s{K}ins Boho Special

Also Featuring

Fantasy Eyes Devilred

Finesmith Damaged Spiked Eye 1

Irrisistable Halloween Hats Purple

1. [elika]: Say

2. Gaeline: Fantasia

3. [S H O C K]: Starshine Glitter Nails

4. Candy Nail: Bare Feet

5. Manifeste Poses

And...

TBCF (one extreme)

Something Sexy Haven Dress

Also Featuring

Hairoin Halloween Gift Cracked 1 & 2

Finesmith Halloween Items Mutant Eye Piece

Fearsome Skin

Fantasy Eyes Dead Brown

1. KMADD Erin Hair Blonde

2. Quintessencia Nails: Square I

3. Manifeste Poses

And...

TBCF 

Nous Vous Green Short Romper Dress

[Mirror's Enigma] Ashley Peach Skintone

Also featuring

N-Core Essence Champagne

1. IKON Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. EMO-tions: Semiramis

3. Natural Beauty Lashes #6

4. Candy Nail: Marble Strawberry

5. Finesmith: Chloe Silver and Gold Set

6. Manifeste Poses

Thank you to everyone who made this fair happen, and for including me in the experience. I have many pieces from each of the boxes that I have yet to share, and will let them work their way into coming blogs, but I want to make sure the designers want me to keep posting things from the event after it ends before I do so. Live! Laugh! Love!

Autumn Fashion -- Featuring Zanze and ~ghee

It's truly time to take a walk outside, breathe in the fresh air after living in canned air for the summer. Though to be fair, it's still quite warm during the day in my part of the world, but I saw on the news this morning that we might be in the high 50's tonight. For southerners like me, that's called 'COLD.'

Featuring Zanze Nina Dress

Featuring Dot-Be Fashion White Sneakers

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Hairoin: Blair

3. [Mirror's Enigma]: Croix Light Skintone

4. Angel D-Signs: Piercing

5. Paddling Melody: Ripple Earrings

6. Pure Poison: Silver Tomnia Necklace

7. Tentacio: Winter Leggings - Green

8. [LAP] Poses

It's that time of year when you can wear a cute dress like this Nina Dress from Zanze, pair it with leggins for the cooler part of the day, then slip them off when the sun appears. I like to think of practical things as I'm styling, even if it's a pixel world where anything could exist, so having a versatile little dress like this one makes that kernel of reality that much better for me.

Featuring Zanze Nina Dress

Featuring Dot-Be Fashion White Sneakers

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Hairoin: Blair

3. [Mirror's Enigma]: Croix Light Skintone

4. Angel D-Signs: Piercing

5. Paddling Melody: Ripple Earrings

6. Pure Poison: Silver Tomnia Necklace

7. Tentacio: Winter Leggings - Green

8. [LAP] Poses

It's not a bad thing at all that this dress made me feel a sense of child-like playfulness. It's one reason I chose to pair the dress with new tennis shoes from Dot-Be. I've only owned four pair of tennis shoes in Second Life, and this now makes five pair.

Featuring Zanze Nina Dress

Featuring Dot-Be Fashion White Sneakers

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Hairoin: Blair

3. [Mirror's Enigma]: Croix Light Skintone

4. Angel D-Signs: Piercing

5. Paddling Melody: Ripple Earrings

6. Pure Poison: Silver Tomnia Necklace

7. Tentacio: Winter Leggings - Green

8. [LAP] Poses

For me off line, I'm a jeans and tee-shirt kinda girl. Not only that, I rarely get 'dressed' for the day in street clothes. I live in my jammies. I don't have a shopping fetish in Second Life because I'm constantly measuring the money I invest into it.

Featuring Zanze Nina Dress

Featuring Dot-Be Fashion White Sneakers

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Hairoin: Blair

3. [Mirror's Enigma]: Croix Light Skintone

4. Angel D-Signs: Piercing

5. Paddling Melody: Ripple Earrings

6. Pure Poison: Silver Tomnia Necklace

7. Tentacio: Winter Leggings - Green

8. [LAP] Poses

Despite being born without the shopping gene, I do love to have a varied inventory in Second Life full of items that are nothing like what I wear off line. I think that's part of the fantasy for some of us. It's one reason blogging continues to truly thrill me. I get to style 'Barbie' (except we call her Caryn) over and over again.

Featuring ~ghee Chinoiserie Gown Paon

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Fantasia

3. Face Paint: Black Liner

4. Candy Nail: Chidori Gold

5. [Mirror's Enigma]: Azuka Light Skintone

6. Chop Zuey: Venetian Honey

7. Hairoin: Incognito

8. Juicy: Classic Pumps

9. In-Pose!

As a young girl, I had two male siblings and a neighborhood filled with fellas around my age. I didn't have a close female friend in any neighborhood where I lived except when I lived in Delaware for 2 years. Between brothers and neighbors, I ended up very much the wild tomboy, determined to keep up with all of them, and win when I could!

Featuring ~ghee Chinoiserie Gown Paon

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Fantasia

3. Face Paint: Black Liner

4. Candy Nail: Chidori Gold

5. [Mirror's Enigma]: Azuka Light Skintone

6. Chop Zuey: Venetian Honey

7. Hairoin: Incognito

8. Juicy: Classic Pumps

9. In-Pose!

My mother, as I've shared previously, tended to push me into roles that were non-stereotypical. She probably doesn't realize it, but she joined a group of women who became their own stereo-type in hindsight. Dress up, playing tea party and owning a Barbie were all no-no.

Featuring ~ghee Chinoiserie Gown Paon

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Fantasia

3. Face Paint: Black Liner

4. Candy Nail: Chidori Gold

5. [Mirror's Enigma]: Azuka Light Skintone

6. Chop Zuey: Venetian Honey

7. Hairoin: Incognito

8. Juicy: Classic Pumps

9. In-Pose!

And whoa is me. If I'd actually done any of those things, I'd surely have grown up to be a girlie-girl. Horror! It helps explain why beautiful clothing in Second Life presents a level of pleasure that might not have been so important if I'd been raised differently.

Featuring ~ghee Chinoiserie Gown Paon

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Fantasia

3. Face Paint: Black Liner

4. Candy Nail: Chidori Gold

5. [Mirror's Enigma]: Azuka Light Skintone

6. Chop Zuey: Venetian Honey

7. Hairoin: Incognito

8. Juicy: Classic Pumps

9. In-Pose!

I see something glamorous like this Chinoiserie Gown Paon from ~ghee and fairly dance right out of my shoes figuratively speaking. And photos in this case don't do the gown true justice as this gown sparkles and comes alive when I wear it. ~ghee is a new sponsor to my blog and I'm excited to play dress up with more items like this as time passes!