#484 The butterfly counts not months but moments

.....and has time enough - Rabindranath Tagore

I felt kinda springy today and wanted to wear this truly gorgeous skirt form Mon Cheri.  Apart from the fabulous selection of patterns to choose from, you also get the skirt in sheer and not so sheer.  What is even better though, is that it comes with undies attached!  This made me jump for joy, confident in that if my studio was full of people, I would not be flashing my bits at them :).  I find this a real issue when wearing short skirts over a mesh body - I dance a lot and last night found myself camming up my own skirt to check I had my undies on - with this skirt, no need!   Whatever skirt texture you choose, the undies coordinate, I so wish more designers would do this for short skirts, I think it is such a great idea.

I am including the pic below simply because I wanted to show the skirt pattern, which is my absolute favourite.  I have worn this sports bra from Just Because but it remains one of my favourites, and most tops don't work great with a high waistband, whereas this one fits perfectly.

I am wearing my Avi-Glam eyes again, this time using the Nature hud.  This will probably be my leisure time hud, as I am pretty much always a green eyed redhead when not blogging, but I like experimenting with different styles and colours on my blog.

Credits:

Mesh body: Maitreya Lara
Mesh Head:  Catwa Jessica

Applier: WoW Skins Fatma

Hair: Wasabi Pills - Ryleigh - available at FaMESHed

Eyes: Avi-Glam Nature pack
Manicure & Pedicure:  Wicked Peach - Mani/Pedi - Ethereal

Skirt:  Mon Cheri Alice Skirt
Top:  Just Because Casey Sports Bra
Shoes: KC Couture Caty Wedges
Necklace & Earrings:  EarthStones Butterfly Necklace & earrings, tickle
Poses:  Hopscotch - Pose me Pretty

Props
Greenhouse and all it contains - Aphrodite - this was an offer so may no longer be available as a conglomerate
Tortoise - Hopscotch tortoise pet gacha - this is the treasure chest rideable tortoise

Tools I use in most blog posts:

SecondSnaps Photo studio

Pose Anywhere 

Lumipro 

Anypose 

ComboFix

Info

If an item is for sale at an event, I give the slurl to that event, however in case this blog post is read after the event has finished, I also include the slurl to the mainstore.

I wear a mesh body, head, hands & feet in all posts. Most items I blog fit various mesh body parts, and often classic avatar standing sizing and/or fitmesh. Please make sure to demo anything you see here that you are thinking of buying to be sure it works for you.

There are often more photos of blogged items on my flickr account here.

SLURLs are current at time of posting.  If you need help with anything I have blogged, feel free to send me an email, inworld IM or nc, or a plurk (all links on contacts page).

#481 Young & Beautiful

This post has been a while coming as I am suffering a lot of hypos at the moment which have made it hard to put together a blog post.  I have been attempting but not liking the results - this is my third shoot for this outfit!   Things will improve as I tweak my insulin and get my blood sugars balanced, meanwhile I will keep on keeping on, just maybe a bit slower than usual.

I am still having fun experimenting with my mesh heads, and seeing what I can achieve by tweaking the sliders.  I am really loving this applier from WoW, one of their earlier releases and which comes with a choice of eye and lip make-ups, and various choices for freckles and beauty spots.  

I love these original mesh shorts and crop sweater from Entice which are available at Project Se7en until April 30.  They are exceptionally well made, and fit my Maitreya Lara mesh body like a dream.  You can choose from a wide variety of matching or contrasting colours, or go for the fat pack and mix and match to your heart's content.  There are also applier tights available which I am not showing.  

My heels are brand new from KC Couture atTres Chic, and are absolutely fabulous.  They come with a texture change hud allowing independent texturing of multiple faces for ultimate customisation.

Credits:

If an item is for sale at an event, I give the slurl to that event, however in case this blog post is read after the event has finished, I also include the slurl to the mainstore.

Mesh body: Maitreya Lara

Mesh Head:  Catwa Jessica

Applier:  WoW Skins Angelica bronze

Hair: No Match - No Angel - available at Hairology 

Eyes:  Ikon Odyssey

Cosmetics
Aalaskametro v2.1 skin nailpolish

Clothing

Entice  - Young & Beautiful Shorts - available at The Project Se7en 
Entice  - Young & Beautiful Top - available at The Project Se7en  
KC Couture Sura Heels - available at Tres Chic

Accessories

L&B Triskelion Hoop Earring - available at 100 Block Event

Poses

Hopscotch 

Location

My SecondSnaps Studio

Tools I use in most blog posts

Pose Huds: Pose Anywhere 

Studio:  SecondSnaps

Lighting:  Lumipro 

Eye focussing:  Anypose 

Fix for broken ankles etc:  Combo Fix

Info

There are often more photos of blogged items on my flickr account here.

SLURLs are current at time of posting.  If you need help with anything I have blogged, feel free to send me an email, inworld IM or nc, or a plurk (all links on contacts page).

#472 A triptych in the hand is as good as.....

....well, maybe not quite as good as a triptych on a blog

This is a first for me, just one pic, and a triptych at that - I have given myself a challenge - to get a post done, start to finish, in 2 hours.  To many bloggers that might be the norm, but I take a lot longer usually, and I want to "streamline" my blogging so I can show more good stuff.

So, my challenge involved putting the outfits together, choosing poses and location (I cheated and used my new home, on pretty much the only piece of furniture I have down right now!), writing credits and adding links, taking pics, tarting them up in Picmonkey (which means cropping, basically, plus triptyching for this one of course), loading pic to flickr, writing these words, and adding triptych.  Previewing and checking everything.  I have 2 minutes left, help!

Read the next two paragraph very fast without pausing for breath so you are sharing in my adrenalin rush.  So, get down to the 10 Fashion for Life sims - you have till the 20th to buy lots of goodies for a fantastic cause.  I have shown you three items from The Vintage Touch because I love them all and couldn't choose just one - there are lots of colours to choose from, I just went with blues because.....well, I just went with blues.  Oh, my nails are also from Fashion for Life and are lovely, though unfortunately you can't see them clearly.

Hang around the FLF sims too, as there is plenty of great entertainment going on too.  30 seconds to go - I will try to get more posts done before FLF closes, wish me luck!  Whoohoo, I did it, I did it!  Ok, adrenalin rush might be slightly hyperbolic, but not entirely :).  I apologise for the proliferation of exclamation marks in this post - please blame the adrenalin!

Credits:

If an item is for sale at an event, I give the slurl to that event, but in case this blog post is read after the event has finished, I also include the slurl to the mainstore.

Body

Maitreya Lara
WoW Skins Yasmine Bronze
Amacci Hair - Kendra, blondes hud

Mon Cheri Falsies

IKON Hope eyes

Cosmetics

Koffin Nails - Maitreya HUD - Winged Hope - available at Fashion for Life

Clothing

Vintage Touch items available at Fashion for Life
1.  Charisma Strapless in midnight
2.  Grable Pinup dress in shadow
3. Chloe Floral Coat in sky
Baby Monkey Milena (come with texture change hud

Accessories
Glint - Multi colored Oval charm necklace & earrings (seen best in first pic - they are texture change) - available at Fashion for Life 

Blissiere two-tone celtic cuff - lapis - available at Luck of the Irish Fair

Poses

Hopscotch  - Friday Night (two packs) - Hopscotch  available at Pose Fair

Tools I use in most blog posts

Pose Anywhere 

Lumipro 

Anypose 

Combo Fix

Info

There are often more photos of blogged items on my flickr account here.

SLURLs are current at time of posting.  If you need help with anything I have blogged, feel free to send me an email, inworld IM or nc, or a plurk (all links on contacts page).

#422 Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.....

......Martin Luther - some say it was Martin Luther King, but whichever of these great men said it, it's a quote that is close to my heart for many reasons

I had got this outfit finished and was about to sort out poses/background for a casual vintage style post when Hopscotch's fun Paper Tree prop landed in my inbox, and Zsa wanted to use it because I (the slave who does all the work behind Zsa) have a thing about apples. Yet strangely enough my garden contains no apple trees, just several pear trees, a damson tree and a huge wild blackberry bush.  Oh, and an olive tree that will not bloom for the next 65 years - a lesson in reading an advert fully before you buy!

So anyway, Zsa is showing you a few of the four poses in the tree prop (there are others on my flickr) which is just 5L in the Photographer's Hunt with a little searching in the Hopscotch main store.

My outfit is available at Fashion Limited and you can buy either this full set of sweater with intrinsic shirt, and leggings, in black, and/or just the sweater/shirt combo in pink or green.  Only 25 of each item is available and they are all exclusive to Fashion Limited.   

Credits:

Body

Maitreya Lara

 WoW Skins  V2 Nour Tan 01

Elikatira  Fiona - reds hud

IKON  Eyes

Cosmetics

Mon Cheri Falsies Eyelashes

 Encore Maitreya Nail Appliers - Set 20 (manicure)

Clothing

Cupcake Roll up sweater Black - only available at Fashion Limited

Cupcake Zips leggin Black - only available at Fashion Limited

KC Couture  Amy "Ballerina" 

Accessories

Indulge Temptation Hathor Earring Hud 3

Indulge Temptation Delice Bracelets Hud 1

Poses

Hopscotch Paper Garden (5L in Photographer's Hunt)

 KaTink Skies Backdrop

Info

There are often more photos of blogged items on my flickr account here.

SLURLs are current at time of posting.  If you need help with anything I have blogged, feel free to send me an email, inworld IM or nc, or a plurk (all links on contacts page).

#406 A dress on Isis is better than two in the inventory

In today's post I am wearing some newness and some "been in my inventory a while, time to blog" stuff.  My gorgeous skin is new from PXL exclusively for Festival of Sin.  Available in Sunkissed or Pale, each skin contains: 4 eyebrows color/options (embedded on the skin), Tintable Eyebrows tattoo, Freckle Tattoos (3 shading). Moles Tattoos (3 shadings), Cleavage Tattoos (2 options), 3 LipGloss shading on Tattoo, Nail eraser on a glove, SweetLips Appliers.  Appliers for Slink, Maitreya and Belleza bodies are available separately and other appliers are available in the PXL mainstore.  I have chosen the no eyebrow option and have added some from Belleza.

My lovely, easy to wear dress from DE Designs comes in both solid and patterned choices.  I am wearing the patterned in the above pics, and have shown you the other pattern options below.  Beautifully rigged, it is compatible with Belleza Venus/Isis, Maitreya and Slink, and also classic avatar fitmesh.  It fits like a dream and can be bought singly or in extremely reasonable fat packs.  

Compatible with Belleza, Slink, Maitreya and TMP, my shoes from KC Couture come with an incredibly generous hud allowing you to change every part of the shoe separately.  Next to the shoes I have shown you the solid colours of the DE Designs dress - it is hard to show, but the colours are not just bland non-textured colours, they all have a very subtle self pattern which brings life and dimension.

Credits:

Body

Mesh Body:  Belleza Isis

Skin:   PXL Aurora SK Makeup 02 - available at Festival of Sin

Hair:  Elikatira Chantal

Eyes:   IKON  Triumph
Brows:  Belleza - Amelia SK Brows - Dark Red

Cosmetics

Eyelashes:  Mon Cheri Falsies

Manicure & Pedicure:  Nailed It - French Manicure - Dark Set 

Clothing

Dress:  DE Designs - Baley Dress 

Shoes:   KC Couture  Andria

Accessories

Necklace:  Cae :: Helix :: 

Earrings:  Cae :: Helix :: 

Bracelet/Bangle:  Indulge Temptation - Halcyon Bracelets 1 HUD

Poses

Poses:  Hopscotch  Pose Me Pretty

Backdrop:  KaTink 

Info

There are often more photos of blogged items on my flickr account here.

SLURLs are current at time of posting.  If you need help with anything I have blogged, feel free to send me an email, inworld IM or nc, or a plurk (all links on contacts page).

#396 The lazy avatar's guide to effortless dressing

My post is so titled because my whole outfit today comes with texture change huds - so wear 'em, click 'em, and everyone will think you just pulled your outfit straight out of the laundry pile, freshly washed and ironed (does anyone still iron these days?).

Today I am sharing some newness and also some go-to items from my inventory.  I don't wear brown much in sl (and never irl - it reminds me of my yucky school uniform), but I think maybe my state of mind irl led me to darker colours (it would have been my mum's birthday last week, and yesterday was five months since she passed away, and I struggle at times to deal with it), but I didn't want to do black, so brown won.  

This cute skirt from DE Designs comes in leather (worn here), plaid and fabric. It is available in single colours with which you get a hud allowing you to change the texture of the band and hardware, or fatpacks operated by hud.  You will receive skirts rigged for Belleza Venus, Freya and Isis, Maitreya Lara, Slink Physique, classic avatar fitted, and standard mesh sizes.  

My top from Just Because fits perfectly and is of course beautifully made - it comes in a large selection of colours from brights to darks to neutrals, and can be bought singly or in a fat pack, and comes rigged for Belleza Venus Freya and Isis, Maitreya Lara, Slink Physique and classic avatar standard sizing.

My jacket from Lapointe & Bastchild is an oldie but a goodie, and of course texture change - I love the distressed leather texture which makes it look very real, particularly in this colour.

I am wearing another set of jewellery by Indulge Temptation, a new-to-me designer, and who I featured for the first time in an earlier post here, wearing a different set of this design.  I am really loving both the design and texture change options in their jewellery and will definitely be looking out for more from them.

My boots from Glamistry are a work of pixel art as you would expect from him - and as always come with his ingenious hud system which allows you to add new colours from your living room (or anywhere in sl for that matter).  You will only ever have one pair of shoes in your inventory - and even better, each new colour is added to the "pool" from which you can customise your footwear.  

Credits:

Body

Skin:   PXL Shara Carnival Natural Makeup 03 at Wayward Carnival

Hair:  Argrace  Megumu

Eyes: Ikon Sovereign

Hands & Feet:  SLink 

Cosmetics

Eyelashes:  Mon Cheri Falsies

Clothing

Jacket:  Lapointe & Bastchild Jacket - "Classic Color" (texture change)

Top:  Just Because Janice Tube Top (texture change)

Socks:  Lapointe & Bastchild "Silk" Footless Knee Socks  (texture change)

Skirt:  DE Designs  - Fala Skirt Leather (texture change)

Boots:  Glamistry - Nemesia Ankle Boots (texture change)

Accessories

Necklace:  Indulge Temptation - Futuristic Set 1 (texture change)

Earrings:   Indulge Temptation - Futuristic Set 1 (texture change)

Poses

Props: Hopscotch - Peyton & Brooklyn 

Backdrop:  KaTink - City Nights

Info

There are often more photos of blogged items on my flickr account here.

 
SLURLs are current at time of posting.  If you need help with anything I have blogged, feel free to send me an email, inworld IM or nc, or a plurk (all links on contacts page).  

#394 Bella Poses Prettily

I have lots of lovely newness to show you today so will work from the head down.  My hair is a new release from Exile at the Hair Fair.  To be honest, I wasn't all that keen on the demo but I have a thing about messy updos so I took a chance - I am so glad I did, I love it now and am sure it will appear again on this blog.

My skin is new from PXL for The Wayward Carnival - it comes in pale and natural tones, both with new make-ups for the lovely Shara skin. Each skin pack contains dark, light, medium and no brow skins, 3 freckle tattoos, 3 mole tattoos, 2 cleavage tattoos (2 options), 3 lip gloss tattoos, nail eraser on a glove, SweetLips appliers.  I have added a lip colour simply because the lips on the skin were lovely, but didn't work with this outfit.

Also new is the PXL body freckles applier which includes 3 different tones giving the ability to match with any skin.  You get 2 densities of freckles and 2 transparencies. The appliers work with the latest mesh bodies from Maitreya, Belleza & Slink and are compatible with all skins on SL.  This hud is available at the PXL store for the MIX event.

My cute dresses from Somnia are also for Mix and are only 200L for each color set - dark or light.  they come with a hud allowing you to change the dress, belt fabric, laces and hardware separately.  I am showing the darks above and the lights below.  They are cross compatible so you can mix and match.  Although not specifically rigged for Maitreya Lara, it was easy to get them to fit with a few alpha cuts.  I know I will wear this a lot, it is so easy to wear and has a light and fresh feeling to it - even the darks!

My cute flatties are a recent release from KC Couture and come with their fantastic texture change hud allowing you to change independently the textures for main, cord, stars, 3 separate jewels, insole and sole. They come fitted for Maitreya, Eve, Belleza and Slink. 

And finally, my mani/pedi is from Wicked Peach who have just moved to a new location, and I recommend a visit, they have some fabulous make-up and they are well worth a visit. One of the things that made this little blogger very happy is that their nail appliers include not only Slink appliers but Belleza and Maitreya too.  I am including their advert below because you can't really see them in my pics.

Credits:

Body

Mesh Body:  Maitreya  Lara 

Skin:  PXL Shara Carnival Natural, Makeup 02 medium brow, cleavage 2 at Wayward Carnival 

Hair:  Exile  Walking On Sunshine

Eyes:  Ikon Soverign

Hands & Feet:  Maitreya
Body Freckles:  PXL  Freckles, Pale Tones for Mix

Face Freckles:  PXL   Face freckles light (tattoo)

Moles: PXL Moles Dark (Tattoo)

Cosmetics

Eyelashes:  Mon Cheri Falsies

Lips:  Belleza  Amelia SK MIX Gloss Lip 4

Manicure & Pedicure:   Wicked Peach (new landmark) - Mani/Pedi - Sparkling Wine - Maitreya  

Clothing

Dress:   Somnia Bohemian Bella - Lights & Darks for Mix

Shoes:   KC Couture  Ginko Flats  

Accessories

Necklace:  Maxi Gossamer  - Gypsy Flower Amulet of Antimony

Earrings:  Maxi Gossamer - Gypsy Flower Amulet of Antimony

Poses

Props: Hopscotch - Pose Me Pretty  

Backdrop:  KaTink - New England 

Info

There are often more photos of blogged items on my flickr account here.

 
SLURLs are current at time of posting.  If you need help with anything I have blogged, feel free to send me an email, inworld IM or nc, or a plurk (all links on contacts page).