Lots Of Pictures, Lots Of Beauty, Lots of Fun -- Featuring Sabra Style November Releases, Featuring Truth Sian

Kylie Sabra has an array of hats she wears, and everything she does, she attacks with passion and energy and influences the world around her as a result. Besides being a tremendous designer, she works in one of the finest Art Galleries on the grid as curator, the Rose Theater Art Galleries. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Angel%20Manor/106/154/29

I've had the joy of spending time with her, in public spheres and private spheres and I admire everything she touches. The clothing collage I put together displays an array of items she's created and has for sale this month at Sabra Style. I don't know how she manages to keep up with everything, but look at how well she does!

If you've never visited the gallery, I encourage you to go. Are you an artist? You should drop her a note card. Have you seen her collection of clothing she's created? You must go. When someone works with as much passion as she exhibits, you know that you're going to love something if not everything there is to love about what she does. Visit. See. Invest. Enjoy!

Featuring Autumn Sabra Style (a & b)

Featuring Truth Sian

1. Dark Horse Nails Gold Stripe Polka Dots

2. SLink Elegant 1 Hands

-- Female Feet High

3. October's 4Seasons 55L Thursday Special Edition Cinnamon Skin Tone Giselle Face

-- Golden skiss Gloss

4. FuLo Bangles and Watch Set Gold

5. VIOLATOR The Dark Note

6. KMADD/Moda Mesh Eyes

7. Corpus Poses

8. Gaeline Fantasia Lashes

#c Chelsea Blue, -{ZOZ}- Ria Heels Cocoa Middle, Kunglers Medusa Earrings

#d Gayla Grey (Includes Special SLink Nail Applicator)

#e Celestine Blue Without Skirts

#f Collette Sweater Red Pin Stripe

-- Collette Slacks Mocha Plaid

#g Evelyn in Red

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Classy, Sleek and Sexy -- Featuring Carrie's Lingerie and Image Essentials from The Black Fair

I imagine you can tell I really enjoyed taking these photos. Sometimes, everything just feels right. I felt it from head to toe today, and such a sexy toe too!

The new outfit is a teal color of the set Jazzy, found at Carrie's Lingerie. Every single item from the slinkiest nightie to the most delicate wedding pieces has a special air of elegance and class to it. It's one of the reasons I love Carrie's and have since I discovered her 4 years ago. It's hard to believe the first Limited I bought was August 2011. Time flies, doesn't it!

Image Essentials Props and Poses has several items at The Black Fair including this chair that's been designed with multiple pose options built into it. The basic black and white makes it easy for you to find a place for it anywhere in your house or club.

Featuring Carrie's Lingerie July Jazzy

Featuring Image Essentials from The Black Fair The Slipper Chair

1. Violator - WaterLily Jewelry Set - Right eyebrow from set

2. Violator - NightLight WhiteSilver - Earrings

3. :::LP::: Leather Cage Sandals

4. SLink: Elegant 1 Hands

- Female Feet Mid

5. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Pearl Skin Tone

6. Face Paint: Breezy 5

7. *~Damesfly*~ Kippar Rigged Mesh

Ask Alice -- Feautring Violator, JUMO from FASHIONART Faire, Face Paint, and no. 7

One pill makes you larger And one pill makes you small And the ones that mother gives you Don't do anything at all Go ask Alice When she’s ten feet tall.

And if you go chasing rabbits And you know you're going to fall Tell them a hookah smoking caterpillar has given you the call Call Alice When she was just small.

When the men on the chess board get up and tell you where to go And you just had some kind of mushroom And your mind is moving slow Go ask Alice I think she'll know.

When logic and proportion Have fallen sloppy dead And the white knight is talking backwards And the Red Queen's "Off with her head!" Remember what the dormouse said, "Feed your head."

I put together this wild styling with Violator by Soraya Vaher at the heart of the design. The new Light and Shadow Pretaporter has lines and curves that inspire almost a madness. For that reason, this old song by Jefferson Airplane came to mind. I began to put together pieces after that with chaos as the core aesthetic. Black lips from Jumo are a part of a set from FASHIONART Faire. Face Paint has a set called "Killer Liners" and I used one of those, apt to the overall feeling. And no. 7 had a series of masks out during a Gacha fair in recent past. The Dark Mask was one of the items from that series, and something I hadn't shown. You've seen EMO-tions Semiramis style before, on my blog and others' perhaps, but you've never seen it like this.

I find myself ever grateful for the support of designers like the following who make this blog possible:

Featuring Violator PretaPorter Light & Shadow

Featuring Jumo from FASHIONART Faire by Glamourist

Featuring Face Paint Killer Liner 2

Featuring no. 7 Dark Mask

1. EMO-tions: Semiramis

2. KMADD/Moda: Mesh Eyes

3. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Alabaster Skin Tone

4. Candy Nail: Rosey Black

5. Lunas Boutique: Gothic Gloves

6. MiWardrobe: Horns Earrings

7. !Lybra: Malificent Arm Accents

8. Baboom!: Mesh High Knee Boots

9. In-Pose!: Artful Hands Set

What's Black and White and Red All Over? Featuring Dead Dollz from PENUMBRA, Kyxe at OMG Room, ((Crystal Line)), Violator, and Moondance

The dress... unique.

The hat and necklace... unique.

Dead Dollz has this 1985 dress at PENUMBRA Fashion Week, along with some other awesome items.

Violator created the Dark Note hat and choker, and to me, it looks like it's made of the blackest night's barbed wire. Jewelry with a twist and I love it.

Luscious lips are new at Kyxe Skins & Shapes and the brilliant red color truly pops on an otherwise black and white styling. You can find the new lips at the OMG Room, and a great price too.

New Addiction nails from Moondance Boutique were tintable but they began black and white, and perfect to go with the dress.

I found a new set from ((Crystal Line)), called the Mabe Pearl set and used the bracelet, then pulled another basic black and white bracelet from my ((Crystal Line)) collection, called Twist Change and it felt like it fit with the spirit of that wild choker and hat, and the colors worked too.

Without the designers shared here, this blog and style would not have been possible. Thank you!

Featuring Kyxe Skins & Shapes New Luscious Lips at OMG

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Valentine%20Heart%20Island/115/127/22

Featuring Dead Dollz 1985 PENUMBRA 

Featuring Moondance Nails Addiction

Featuring ((Crystal Line)) Mabe Pearl Grape Bracelet

Featuring Violator The Dark Note Hat and Choker

1. *~Damesfly: Kalima

2. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Divina

3. KMADD/Moda: Mesh Eyes

4. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Blossom Skin Tone

-- Kyxe Shine Gold Essence Eye Shadow

5. ((Crystal Line)) Twist Change Bracelet

6. Manifeste Poses

A Wow Moment! -- Featuring Nya's Closet from PENUMBRA Fashion Week, Violator, Lybra, EMO-tions, Face Paint and :::LB:::

Motivation comes from many places. We're all individuals, and what we bring to the table means something different and hopefully the conglomeration we present is greater than the sum of our parts. I often hear things in my head that different leaders, mentors and friends in the 'biz' have suggested while I'm working on blog photos. And I LOVE it.

One person who's made a lasting impression in my exploration of fashion (and I can't believe I just used the word biz in little quote markers!!) is Wicca from Wicca's Wardrobe. I knew her before my big venture into the fashion world and thought she was a remarkable, fun and brilliant woman. I ran into her again when I took classes at MVWMA. She was my educator for two of the classes. I also attended at least two lectures she offered.

Wicca is a Wow moment, in progress, almost all of the time. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wiccamerlin/ shows you Wicca in motion, with so many different sponsors, so many different clothing styles and yet everything exudes the essence of Wicca. I want to find that essence of Caryn. I'm getting there. I know I am because I feel it more each time I style, each time I put the puzzle together, and each time I share with my world here in Facebook and my blog. I just sense it. I knew I needed to find it because there are others who so obviously have theirs. Wicca is sooo Wicca. Strawberry Singh is sooo Strawberry. Cao is sooo mooooo.

I paired a whole array of fun items for this look and then I used Wicca's poses. She was in my head the whole time I played. You see new hair from EMO-tions, the new Antoinette - let them eat cake?! yipes. Violator has an incredible array of jewelry pieces in the set called Water Lilly, so I pulled a few from the set, then repurposed one or two. PENUMBRA Fashion Week is in full swing and the Alice outfit I have on is from Nya's Closet. Lybra has a new Marketplace link with a very special deal on the Alice bag seen in the photos (https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/132834). Face Paint wants to warm you up for summer with the new "Warmth" release. And though they've been in inventory a while, me procrastinating the actual buying of Slink feet, they're on my blog for the first time, and I think they're cool. I wish I could buy them in my world off line. The Cage Sandals from :::LB::: along with a few favorite items round out the style I put together today.

These great designers are the only reason I'm able to do what I love passionately and to them, I'm so thankful!

Featuring EMO-tions Antoinette

Featuring from PENUMBRA Nya's Fashion Alice Outfit

Featuring Lybra Alice Purse in White

Featuring Violator Water Lily Jewelry Set

Featuring Face Paint Warmth

Featuring :::LP::: Leather Cage Sandals

1. Chop Zuey Hana Shobu Belly Ring with Blue Gems

2. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Orchid Skin Tone

-- Kyxe Jewel and Gemstone Nail Appliers

3. KMADD/Moda: Mesh Eyes

4. MG: Inverted Crown

5. SLink: Elegant 1 Hands

-- Med Feet

6. Wicca's Wardrobe: Cool Bag Poses

Japan Fair - Candy Nail, *+Crie Style+*, +Honey+, Plus EMO-tions, {{BSD Design Studio}}, and Violator

It's Easter weekend. In the past, my whole world calendar revolved around children, when they were in class, when they were on break, how long I had to make it before they drove me crazy and put us all in the loony bin. This weekend, they're coming home for a visit, each at their own time, marching to a beat of a different drum.

The eldest continues his quest to find his niche in the right fit for him regarding leadership in a Church. He's currently volunteering while he's in Seminary but competition really seems to be steep, so he's sending out resumes, doing interviews, and all that comes with the next stage of growing up. I was a Youth Pastor for over 10 years, and at the time, he growled at having to be a 'mascot' because of course he went with us on every trip and did all the crazy stuff we did. Now he finds his interest to be -- drum roll -- wait for it -- being a Youth Pastor.

My youngest son continues to be the free spirit who refuses to stay in one place long, and one who's willing to try anything even when it's rather irksome to his mother. I know he needs to make his own choices and learn to live with them, but sometimes I wish I could still say, "Because I said so..." It just doesn't work like that anymore. His fiance and he both work two part time jobs. I wonder how often they see each other. I know I don't see either of them unless I plan a date. So Easter Sunday, they're coming over for one of those dates. I think the world of his special girl, and hope they choose to do the old fashioned thing and get married, but I do recognize that traditional weddings seem fewer and farther between in our current culture. I just want him happy.

As I prepared mentally and emotionally for their barrage, because it is that even though it's one I LOVE to feel, I sat quietly in the house, a window open, a fan blowing on my feet, and my little world of fun playing 'Barbie'. KaTink shared new poses, and the first half of the Roxeanne pose set is shared here. {{BSD Design Studio}} celebrated last weekend with a beautiful fashion show (woot!!) and I celebrate with them on their anniversary. The shoes are bright and edible pink, and called My Destiny. I love that name. Violator shared several different sets in the events this year including this silver set, NightLight. EMO-tions creator Mirja Mills might not ever sleep because she's so busy creating new looks for every style and taste; Clara is one of the newest releases. From the JAPAN FAIR 2014, I have Candy Nails Qween Rose/White, a new pair of *+Crie Style+* glasses, and a cute little cocktail dress from +Honey+. The total amount raised continues to increase and you can still help by participating, shopping, and knowing your investment goes to a good cause - Shelter Box.

Thank you to each designer who made this style possible:

Featuring KaTink Poses Roxeanne 1

Featuring {{BSD Design Studio}} My Destiny Pink

Featuring Violator NightLight White/Silver

Featuring EMO-tions Clara

Featuring from Japan Fair Candy Nail Qween Rose Mist White

Featuring from Japan Fair *+Crie Style+* Sakura Miyabi/NU

Featuring from Japan Fair +Honey+ M009 Mesh Cocktail Dress

1. White Stockings by Caryn

2. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Pearl Basic Skin Tone

3. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Glamour Bubble Gum Lips

4. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Candy Powder Blue Eyeshadow

5. KMADD/Moda: Eyes Attention

6. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Mysteria

Creative Genius at SAVIAD Tiger Alley from Mila Tatham, Soraya Vaher and Aliza Karu - Poseway @ SAVIAD - Kyxe

What happens when creative designers build long term friendship based on respect of one another's craft?

This new outfit from SAVIAD's Tiger Alley. Spring Tiger by Mila Tatham, Violator by Soraya Vaher and Aliza Karu combines the talent behind *SoliDea FoliEs** from SaliMar, Violator and AngelsDemons.

Also from SAVIAD, poses from the Wind series at Poseway help show this gorgeous gown.

This weekend, you want to drop by Kyxe Skins & Shapes to see all things new including this skin - a free gift! - and a great way to see how great Kyxe Skins are.

Warm greetings and thanks to the designers who made this look possible:

Featuring SAVIAD Spring Tiger by Mila Tatham, Soraya Vaher, Aliza Karu

Featuring SAVIAD Poseway Poses from Wind Series

Featuring New Gift at Kyxe Skins & Shapes Papaver -Imagination-

1. KMADD/Moda: Mesh Eyes

2. KMADD/Moda: Leopard Hairbase

3. Face Paint: Nail Art

4. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Captivate Bubblegum Lips

SAVIAD Opens Today!! -- Featuring SoliDea Folies, PosESioN, and VIOLATOR - Also KMADD/Moda, FINESMITH and Kyxe

Two beautiful gowns from *SoliDea FoliEs** from SaliMar, pieces from VIOLATOR, and PosESioN all contributed pieces to make this pair of photos possible.

I also used pieces from a recent release at FINESMITH, a skin gift from Kyxe Skins & Shapes and KMADD/Moda hair.

Other designers complete the styling for my latest look from SAVIAD! It opened today at SL 1 p.m. so you can go go go!!

I can't thank you enough for your ongoing support that makes my blog possible:

Featuring SAVIAD VIOLATOR Water Lily Jewelry Set

Featuring SAVIAD SoliDea FoliEs Fiera 2 and Blooming Spring 2

Featuring SAVIAD PosESioN Piero Sete

Featuring KMADD/Moda Marina

Featuring Kyxe Skins & Shapes Flowers in Asia Skin

Featuring FINESMITH Roxanne Pink

1. [Nikita Fride]: Ludic Drama Lashes

2. KMADD/Moda: Hairbase

3. KMADD/Moda: Mesh Eyes

4. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Glamour Bubble Gum

5. FINESMITH: August Queen Set

Almost Naked -- Featuring {WearMe}, Air Ophelia, BeLoD, DANIELLE, INNUENDO, Lua's Urban Style, and Violator

I was inspired by Wicca Merlin's Flickr tonight. I actually had my computer turned so my sweetheart could see her photos from where he was sitting and for a few minutes he stopped watching football so he could do so.

I edited this one in a paint program, to see what I could do with it, to edit it to a point where it was beyond a photo and bordering on art. I think it takes time and loads of practice. I just enjoy it!

This was the original photo, so you can see where and how I edited. I see so many photos on Flickr, not just Wicca's, that look like someone used oil paints or very real art supplies to make their photos.

I pushed the edge of sensuality to the very limit. I didn't want to show everything, yet I wanted to only show the jewelry and accessories. I think it would be a little more difficult to do so at a show, but in photos, it's fun to try.

With a great bag, while standing still, I cover the bits that need the most coverage. From head to toe, I played with items, modifying them, making some glow, coloring others, till I got to this final stage. I hope you enjoy!

Live! Laugh! Love!

Featuring {WearMe} **Feel**StarDustClassical Nails from J&A Expo

Featuring Air Ophelia Earrings from J&A Expo - As I modified items to create this look, some items appear in unusual places. These earrings are part of the nipple rings.

Featuring BeloD Lux Handbag Viola from J&A Expo

Featuring DANIELLE Sage Boots Bistro from J&A Expo

Featuring INNUENDO NAIKE black Italian Style Rare from J&A Expo

Featuring Lua's Urban Style Winter Shoulder Armour Purple from J&A Expo

Featuring Violator Night Light White Silver - I modified the earrings from this set and added them to the other earring set to make the nipple rings.

1. Wicca's Wardrobe Poses

2. Kyxe Skins & Shapes Orchid Skintone

3. Kyxe Skins & Shapes Ripe Grape Gloss

4. Gaeline Mesh Lashes Fantasia

5. MADesigns Eyes Confidence Subtle Ocean

6. Osmose Chignon Golden