Something Different This Way Comes -- Jinx from Winter Market and Zibska from Sneak Peek

I took a cocktail dress from Zibska and modified to some degree so that instead of having a jacket with fringe over the dress, I had earmuffs for warmth.

I paired with a pair of jeans and boots from Jinx and created an entirely different look than either designer had originally shared in their original vendor photo for these monthly events (Zibska at Sneak Peek and Jinx at the Winter Event). Being able to shrink or enlarge, or able to adjust the texture just slightly can make it fun to see one thing and turn it into something very different. It's part of the fun of playing barbie dolls.

One of the things I think we all seek is our individuality. I hope you enjoy this look of the day as much as I did putting it together to show you! Thanks for your ongoing support. It means so much to me!

* Jinx (DD) Sara Cool Winter Pants and Boots from Sneak Peek
* Zibska Caja Cocktail Dress from Sneak Peek
(x) Modified Shoulder Pads to Earmuffs

- Wicca's Wardrobe Poses
- Dark Horse Style Curved Dark Nail Appliers
- October's 4Seasons Cherry Blossom Lips
- October's 4Seasons Eclectic 8
- October's 4Seasons Soulful Hot Pink
- MG Groomed Medium
- EMO-tions Josy

Standard Items:
-- October's 4Seasons Chocolate Cosmos
-- SLink Hands and Feet
-- KMADD Mesh Eyes

Are You Ready For Holidays? -- Featuring Sabra Style, -LOUX- and E C R U from Designer Showcase; Featuring Zibska and PosESioN from The Instruments

Some years, I truly struggle with the emotion of the holidays and by November 3, I'm buried somewhere down deep inside myself and bracing for the storm of the supposed "HAPPY" holidays that sometimes seem so far away from reality. It's something significant and not something only I struggle with, so I hope as you read this, if you know others who do, you might be a breath of gentle air, a warm hug, a cup of hot cider, a blessing of hope, and then just wait, and be there, because those of us who've learned how to hibernate through emotional seasons also wake. They'll want you there when they do wake and they will remember your touch and heart while they couldn't respond to you.

So I went over to a Winter Sim and found some precious displays and this little snowman standing in his own huge snowfall caught my eye. I know it's a bit early to think of Merry Christmas, but it's not too early to think of love, a love to touch the whole world, regardless of faith, and peace, enough to spread like a fire, and bring a calmness like the snow to every single of the 8 billion souls you'll find out there this year.

I'm wearing a new Charisma gown in red from Kylie Sabra at Sabra Style. You'll also find E C R U Ritz Heels and this bold yet elegant luscious new  lipstick from -LOUX- both at Designer Showcase

, excellent deals, and every new month that passes brings multiple reasons to return to enjoy this sale venue. Also, new Zibska Kelda jewely and the poses I used from PosESioN come from The Instruments event, for the November rotation.
Lots of beauty, and a breathless dream of hope and love and joy for each of you as we do brace for winter together.

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Winter and Christmas @ Snuggles 2014

Featuring E C R U Ritz Stilettos from Designer Showcase

Featuring -LOUX- Sensual Lipstick from Designer Showcase

Featuring PosESioN Side Poses from The Instruments

Featuring Zibska Kelda Jewelry Set from The Instruments

Featuring Charisma Red from Sabra Style

1. -{ZOZ}- Shimmer Basic Polish

2. KMADD/Moda Scarf Ribbed

-- KMADD/Moda Mesh Eyes

3. SLink Elegant 1 Hands

-- Female Feet High

4. October's 4Seasons Milk Skin Tone (Angelina)

5. Gaeline Mesh Lashes

6. EMO-tions Amita

Thank You Jamee! Featuring Lybra's COO, ♛ Miss V♛ SWEDEN 2015♛ - Lybra, Wicca's Wardrobe and October's 4Seasons at The Couturier's Docks

Last night was a rough night. On nights like that, I do my best to distract myself and make it one moment at a time. I was working on styling the new dress from Lybra at The Couturier's Docks. Mr. Rage has sold out his new dress at TCD within the first few days for 3 rounds, so I didn't want to miss out on it this time. I glommed over and grabbed mine the moment I saw the notice.

So I have on two different outfits to show you. The first is an unusual pant suit dress combination like nothing I've seen before in SL which makes it exceedingly interesting and fun. Libra's Mizuki may be purchased at The Couturier's Docks at the moment, and is shown as it was created in two photos I shot, then with only the pant suit on, as I turned a cartwheel in the ocean.

Wicca's Wardrobe also has some great new items at The Couturier's Docks, including the heels you can see in the photo of the cartwheel. There are several items from her including brand new mesh she created, something significant to her as her second ever mesh design, and something that no one else has, as a result of her creating it herself. She's very excited to offer this to her faithful customers and all who pass through The Couturier's Docks who might become new customers.

The brand new line of skins begins with Angelina. October's 4Seasons Skins and accessories has its first ever display at The Couturier's Docks. The Milk Skin Tone has never been sold previously and the Walnut Skin Tone might just be the very very best dark skin tone in all of Second Life. October's a great skin creator for a whole array of shades, but I revel in her ability to capture the colors of the darker skins in our world and how she brings them into the game.

Lori Jamee Sandalwood Loeffler aka Jamee Binder aka ♛ Miss V♛ SWEDEN 2015♛ was online and I thought well, it can't hurt to ask, though I knew she had a very busy schedule, and many things she's responsible for at Lybra, with her MVW contest, and the Models Give Back program she helps manage. I nudged her in IM and asked if she had time to do a Lybra pair pose with me. She said yes. I was so excited, I forgot for a little while that it was a rough day. That's sometimes the best medicine of all, by the way. Time, a friend, something fun.

For the pictures I'm in with Jamee, I'm wearing Lybra's Vex. It's a mini that employs the metallic craze that continues to be chic in clothing design this season. Around the chest and again at the skirt, the flexible materials flutter with life and remind me of feathers. Jamee put together her look with a Lybra dress called Daiki along with a jewelry set from Lybra called Taylor that includes a Black Pearls necklace, earrings and ring.

Featuring !Lybra Mizuki from The Couturier's Docks

Featuring October's 4Seasons Milk Skin Tone (Angelina) from The Couturier's Docks

Featuring Wicca's Wardrobe Lorraine Heels from The Couturier's Docks

1. Chop Zuey: MVW Pompeii in Espresso

2. Carrie's Lingerie: Halloween Corset

3. SLink: Elegant 1 Hands

-- Female Feet High

4. KMADD/Moda: Mesh Eyes

5. Gaeline; Starlia

6. Analog Dog Joan

7. Ma Vie Poses

Featuring !Lybra Vex

1. ~ghee: Tights Aluminum

2. EMO-tions: Ariel Silver/Black Set

3. -{ZOZ}-: From Hell Heels

4. SLink: Elegant 1 Hands

-- SLink Female Feet High

5. October's 4Seasons: Angelina Milk Skin Tone

6. Gaeline: Stella

7. KMaDD/Moda: Mesh Eyes

8. Analog Dog: Joan

9. XPose

My Guest for Whom I'm So Grateful - Jamee Binder - Provided This List of Her Style Items

Dress:  Lybra - Daiki

Jewelry:  Lybra - Taylor Black Pearls necklace, earring and ring

Hair:  Truth - Ainsley

Makeup:  Kyoot - Fever 1 Eyeshadow (no longer available)  & Zibska Eleventy Lips in Sangue

Nails:  {ZOZ}  - Azaria Gold nails in Black

Shoes:  StormCrow - Pumps with Strass & Gems 4 in 1 Black - Plain pumps

The Talented Kylie Sabra -- Featuring Sabra Style and Zibska - On Location At the Rose Gallery at Angel Manor

I visited Angel Manor's Rose Gallery this evening to take these photos. I did so because Kylie Sabra works as curator of the Gallery, which currently has several artists displayed, and the painter of the pictures, including the piece of photo behind me in the pictures. It shows what an incredibly artistic person she is.

The outfit she created included a gown, Rose Gallery Artist Series Cullum Writer BX, with flourishing flexible skirts, and a waist band of lovely flower blooms. Along with the other items, I found SLink nail appliers also painted with a design to go with the overall outfit. Alone or worn with this gown, they're tiny bits of beautiful art.

I did change out her waist decor for something unusual to keep with the autumn theme and to make the look unique. Instead of using her floral arrangement, I used Zibska's new Corbin headpiece, and wore that headpiece at my waist. You can find Zibska's new headpiece at The Instruments.

Featuring Sabra Style Rose Gallery Artist Series Cullum Writer BX

Featuring Zibska Corbin Headpiece (at waist) from The Instruments

1. .:JUMO:. Consort Jewelry Ruby/Diamonds

2. SLink: Female Feet High

-- Elegant 1 Hands

3. October's 4Seasons: Chocolate Cosmos (Laila)

-- Eclectic Shadow 6

-- Energy Lips Fire

4. Gaeline: Natura

5. KMADD/Moda: Mesh Eyes

6. *booN CCV788

7. Apple Spice Poses

Taking at Angel Manor's Rose Gallery, Kylie Sabra Curator and Artist

Summer Fashion Festival (Last Day): ArisAris and Blue Couture - Designer Showcase: [Opal] and Moondance Boutique - Plus Zibska and KANDINSKY

Today marks the last day of the summer fun event, Summer Fashion Festival and I've two more items to show you from there before the day ends. If you'll notice, there's a simple black dress with white dots as the basic element of my styling. The dress is ArisAris, and its simplicity with just a few fine details like those around the bust are one reason I enjoyed this dress despite the fact that it looks similar to many I have worn. The accessories I used are from Blue Couture, and they were designed to accompany a night gown / lingerie set. Instead I pulled one of the feathered arm pieces, the unique belted posture collar and the belt and added them to spice up the dress.

Designer Showcase runs a month at a time and always brings new designers to the table, as well as providing a great venue for more well known designers to offer special prices and expose new faces to their great quality items. This styling includes items from two different jewelers, both with several pieces at Designer Showcase July. Moondance Boutique's Gaia earrings shine just a bit and lit my cheek up just a smidge when I was standing with the sun setting. It was a neat lighting effect. The ring comes in several color options from [Opal] and worked well into my shades of grey styling.

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Zibska made this 'ball and chain' type hat for an event that occurred recently and I had not quite figured out when to use it. I almost used a different hat, but my sweetheart who's been home all weekend and thus eyes over my shoulder at times asked me, "Why would you wear a flower pot on your head?" So instead of explaining to him that it was couture and sexy ~grin~ I went through my box of hats that I haven't blogged yet and asked, "This one?" about 11 times before he said, "Yes!" So Zibska, like the judges on all these reality shows say, "You made it through." The hat's name is Sadie Noir. I just think it looks a bit like the old ball and chain used in some movies to represent poor old married folks, and in this case, the ball and chain helped me make a decision for this styling, so with tongue in cheek, yay!

I still have an array of items from KANDINSKY that I want to show. They're also from an event that concluded recently but I couldn't bear to through them away as they seem to mirror some of my favorite items from Game of Thrones, and for that alone, they get a bit longer in my inventory before I separate and discard, and low and behold, the Willow heels for SLink mid-high feet fit this style exactly! With all the puzzle pieces together, I really loved the overall look. Black and white stay in style every season. I promise to make the next blog POP with color but this time, shades of grey won the day.

So many great designers are represented here. Thanks to each of you!

Featuring from Summer Fashion Festival (Last Day) ArisAris Dots Tube Dress

Featuring from Summer Fashion Festival (Last Day) Blue Couture Sexy Night Set

Featuring from Designer Showcase [Opal] Tango Black & Silver Ring

Featuring from Designer Showcase Moondance Boutique Gaia Earrings

Featuring from Zibska Sadie Noir Hat

Featuring from KANDINSKY Willow Mary Janes for SLink Feet

1. JUMO Armorial Lips Black

2. SLink: Elegant 1 Hands

-- Female Mid-High Feet

3. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Alabaster Skin Tone

4. KMADD/Moda: Mesh Eyes

5. EMO-tions: Pria

6. Gaeline: Natura Lashes

7. Manifeste Poses

Going Nowhere? -- Featuring Snowpaws and no. 7 from the Skin Fair

On a bus to Nowhere? Some days feel like this lack of direction means there is a problem. I think maybe we all need 'nowhere' days to recover from the big days where we go everywhere and do everything. The photos I took last night were all curious to my mind set and suited perfectly to my mood.

How many pay telephone booths are there now? Did you ever run to answer the phone, hoping it was a boy you liked or a special girl, or news you were waiting for, only to find it was a wrong number?

I love to perform on stage sometimes. Other times it makes me ill for a week leading up to it, and several weeks after I 'get it over with.' Different jobs I've had in my 45 years prepared me for a whole array of reasons and whens to speak publicly, and it really depended more on the people, and if I liked them! then it did on me. ~chuckles~

I love Carrie Snowpaw. I've known her almost as long as I've know the fashion industry. I also know snippets of a personal world, and friendship details that have far more importance to me than pixels in this virtual world. I have had weeks when I was just beginning to blog where the only new outfit I could share was one graciously given to me from Snowpaws. I've never wanted to be the person with the hand outreached, begging for anything, but it's really special to know that there are friends out there who'd share what they had, and not judge you for being desperate, for begging, for yearning to do more and sometimes making them crazy in the process. That's my relationship to Carrie.

Carrie Snowpaw shared the Naika Ruffled Mesh Bodysuit Flush and Eclipse, a new release from Snowpaws. The print on the pale pink and red softened the first version while the hard lines of black and white made the second version feel a little more sophisticated. I paired with Kyxe Skins, Alabaster, for the Flush jumper and put the no. 7 Comic Book like makeup from the Skin Fair with it. On the second more conservative look, I show you Candice without any makeup layer, to see how exquisite the face is before you use any of Kyxe Skins & Shapes awesome makeup options that include new Electra eye shadow, new Nail Appliers and so much more! In Snowpaws Flush suit, I chose a very casual hair from Wasabi Pills and the Eclipse color has a playful hairstyle from blackLiquid.

My great thanks to each designer who made this blog possible:

Featuring Snowpaws Naika Ruffled Mesh Bodysuit Flush & Eclipse

Featuring no. 7 Fantasy Makeups

1. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Alabaster Skin Tone

2. KMADD/Moda: Mesh Eyes

3. Wasabi Pills: Lory Mesh Hair

4. blackLiquid: Chen Hair

5. [S H O C K]: Winter Nails

6. SLink: Elegant 1

7. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Candice Marigold Skin Tone

8. Ch: My Gold Sandals

9. Demise of Flight: Selective Set

10. Zibska: Maata Earrings

I Tawt I Taw A Puddy Tat -- SAVIAD: A.F.I Designs, Zibska, {{BSD}}, and PosESioN

One of the things I do to fill time is watch movies voraciously. I watch great movies, blockbusters and movies you've probably never heard existed. I've noticed many of the movies I've seen recently showed a post-apocalyptic world where humans were forced to start over and rebuild the world we know currently or a world on the brink of self-destruction, missing weapons, hidden agendas, and a global economy that's rapidly deteriorating. Is this the world we live in now?

I'm not a dramatist, nor am I a sensationalist. I see so much shared, even on so-called news stations that seem intent on generating fear, and I don't accept it. If the world were on the brink of collapse, I wouldn't live any differently than I do now.

I love taking one day at a time and finding the silver lining. I love making time to play and be silly. I love focusing on those I adore. I love ignoring those things or people who would try to tug away my peace and joy. I could wallow easily, but then what? I loved styling my latest outfit with items from SAVIAD Spring Fair.

First the beautiful "Birdy" dress from A.F.I Designs, then a unique hat "Sadie" (noir) from Zibska, wild heels "Lover From Mars" (wearing two pair to create the striped look) from BSD Design studio, and finally more new poses from PosESioN.

I'm so grateful to the designers who made this outfit possible:

Featuring SAVIAD A.F.I Designs Birdy Dress

Featuring SAVIAD Zibska Sadie Noir Hat

Featuring SAVIAD {{BSD Design Studio}} Lover From Mars Purple and Yellow Overlaid

Featuring SAVIAD PosESioN Irish Set and Art II

1. [no. 7]: Pop Art Bows from Skin Fair

2. blackLiquid: Brow - Ceraste

3. blackLiquid: Marker 3

4. KMADD/Moda: Mesh Eyes

5. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Ombre Ocean Lips

6. Kyxe Skins & Shapes: Mocha Skintone

7. SLink: Elegant 1

8. blackLiquid: Floral Nail Appliers

I Wanna Be... Featuring Evolve, Hairoin, Zanze and Zibska

When I was young, probably about 4th grade and about 9 years old, I attended some sort of after school program while my mother worked. She was a teacher 30+ years of her life and in her early years she got bus duty and all the 'ick' jobs that seniority avoids. I attended the school where she worked, so I'd wait in this program while she did the last of the day duties.

Featuring Evolve I Wanna Be

Featuring Hairoin Machine

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue

2. Gaeline: Divina

3. Face Paint: Classic Prim Nails

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

5. N-Core: Triumph

6. Demise of Flight: Luck Be a Lady Series of Poses

Most days, this after school program included having a television playing in one corner of the room, with the educational programming that was for elementary age students. First Sesame Street, which has gone on to be aired in so many languages in so many countries since it's inception, took the little children's focus.

Featuring Evolve I Wanna Be

Featuring Hairoin Machine

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue

2. Gaeline: Divina

3. Face Paint: Classic Prim Nails

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

5. N-Core: Triumph

6. Demise of Flight: Luck Be a Lady Series of Poses

I always thought I was older than I really was, so I didn't sit around with those 'children' to watch the first program, but I did make time to sit still when Electric Company came on after it. Morgan Freeman, all those years ago, got his big acting break with a regular character he did on Electric Company.

Featuring Evolve I Wanna Be

Featuring Hairoin Machine

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue

2. Gaeline: Divina

3. Face Paint: Classic Prim Nails

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

5. N-Core: Triumph

6. Demise of Flight: Luck Be a Lady Series of Poses

One Electric Company, they'd take topics that were more complex than Sesame Street and address them at a level that children could understand. One of the topics, even back in the 70s, was the concept of taking care of our home, our land, and being thankful for it, not taking it for granted and never littering. You never know when the litterbug is watching.

Featuring Evolve I Wanna Be

Featuring Hairoin Machine

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue

2. Gaeline: Divina

3. Face Paint: Classic Prim Nails

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

5. N-Core: Triumph

6. Demise of Flight: Luck Be a Lady Series of Poses

When I saw the name of the special outfit on sale this weekend at Evolve, I Wanna Be, a very old song from Electric Company came to mind. "Free to Be You and Me". I think they were hopeful in helping a very segregated world learn to accept one another. I think this song could apply to racial differences as well as religious, sexual preference and so many other things in our current world.

Featuring Zanze Reese

Featuring Zibska Maata Earrings

Featuring Hairoin Que Bella

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Gaeline: Mysteria

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

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

5. Indyra Originals: Coquette Kelsi Pumps Noir

6. InPose!

Bruce Heart penned the lyrics, and rather than writing them out here for you to read, I'll just put a link in if you're interested, to look up this song. He died about 6 years ago and has been lovingly mourned by a generation who was impacted by him. Free To Be You and Me.

Featuring Zanze Reese

Featuring Zibska Maata Earrings

Featuring Hairoin Que Bella

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Gaeline: Mysteria

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

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

5. Indyra Originals: Coquette Kelsi Pumps Noir

6. InPose!

Thirty years later, I still think of the things in that song. And when I consider the world of Second Life, and all the many options it offers, far beyond any structured reality we knew as children, I really can apply that song liberally. I do want to live in a land where... anything can happen and if you set your heart to it, it usually does.

Featuring Zanze Reese

Featuring Zibska Maata Earrings

Featuring Hairoin Que Bella

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Gaeline: Mysteria

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

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

5. Indyra Originals: Coquette Kelsi Pumps Noir

6. InPose!

I Wanna Be... healthy... happy... needed... never alone. My list could go on incessantly. It's a good thing to really look at what we really need from life and what we really want from life on a regular basis, so we can reevaluate, adjust and repair based on life's uncertain curve balls. But at the heart of all of it, those simple things in that beautiful little song says it all.

Featuring Zanze Reese

Featuring Zibska Maata Earrings

Featuring Hairoin Que Bella

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Gaeline: Mysteria

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

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

5. Indyra Originals: Coquette Kelsi Pumps Noir

6. InPose!

Whether I'm in a fantasy world, of pink fairies wearing a gorgeous dress, Reese from Zanze, and beautiful new earrings, Zibska Maata, or I'm in a surreal future world that someone's imagined, I'm imagining a world where all those things can be true, and I'm authoring my own dreams. You can see the future in that wild white 'Machine' hair from Hairoin, and you can feel the element of fantasy when you look at Que Bella also from Hairoin.

"...And you and me are free to be you and me." -lyrics by Bruce Heart