Pink and Blue in Alirium

Donna Flora and Ibizarre


I really like those huge bunnies that I featured a couple of blogs ago and I read somewhere that there were more in Alirium, so I had to go and see, there are a few huge bunnies but they are centered in the landing point, and I was hoping for them to be dotted around everywhere.

But no matter, the sim was very pretty and more than suitable to show of this very pretty blouse from Donna Flora, which I matched up with pink leather pants from Ibizarre which are almost the same colour. I have YS&YS Rainbow shoes on my feet which i picked up at TDR a few weeks ago and as normal my LAQ skin and my new red look which I never take off.


I am a big animal lover in rl although my favorite furry friend is a cat, I did used to have a rabbit called Tickle and I do have a major soft spot for Bunnies and I would love to sit and have the animals and birds come over to say hi.... just like Mary Poppins.

I do have my own little Bunnie to cuddle from Happy Mood, Bitter bought her for me, she likes to snuggle, her little nose is always twitching, she is actually very realistic, Anyway enough rambling from me on a Saturday Night.

Style Card.
Shoes YS & YS Rainbow Bianco TDR
Pants Ibizarre Pink Leather Pants
Skin LAQ Laci 06 Peach
Top Donna Flora, Sammy
Earrings ZC Nizamn Jhumka

New Skin, New Look

LAQ Skin

Laci Peach 01.. my regular look and favourite skin


I have decided I want a new skin, and of course I have gone back to LAQ, I know other skins are just as nice, but I am a creature of habit and for the price of under L2000, well that seals the deal for me.

So I went there today all kitted out in my new red hairbase and eyebrows, I am going auburn for sure for the Autumn.

Here are the 5 skins I like the best.. not sure which suits me best, please feel free to drop me a comment and suggest to me which you like on my shape.


Pearl Peach 01
Molly Peach 01
Alison Peach 01
Isabel Peach o1 ( brand new release)
Phoebe Peach 01

Dress in Coco

The Casual Friday Look



One of my favourite outfits in Second Life is almost all Coco, I often wear a similar look in real life especially in the autumn. So I teamed up this jacket and shirt set up with the distressed jeans and with little black boots from Maitreya, a gift from a while back, I added the gift belt just to finish the look, just for a change I am wearing the ORTA gift skin, light brows and blonde hair from Analog dog.

The stool I am using to pose on, is from the What Next vintage set I blogged several posts ago, I coloured changed the stool to light blue to match the colour theme of the picture. I must admit I am in love with the stool it is so versatile.

Style Card
Jeans - Coco
Belt Coco - gift board
Jacket & Shirt Coco
Boots - Maitreya Gift
Skin - ORTA Lola
Hair - Analog Dog Ais Ash
Eyes - Redgrave Ashley Grey
Shape - Custom
Pose - What next Vintage Stool

Analog Dog, Past to Present

Analog Dog

One of my favourite designers has released some new hair with attachments for your shoulders, it is such a great idea, no more hair prims, poking through your body and neck, the effect is truly lovely. I bought 2 styles, Dive which is below with lots of luscious curls, and Ais which is featured above , a flowing straight style, I keep switching between the two I cannot decide which I prefer.


With all the fuss over the hair fair I thought I would join in with a little hair worship myself. I have loved Analog Dog since I first bought Lola, what a revalation that hair was, I dragged all my friends to Queue's store to buy it. I have a ton of this hair and so I did some composite shots of my favourite styles, I have a couple more.. but these are the best.


Here is my take on my hair
Cafe.. is just 1930's glamour
Lola and Madision.. show me the way to the Elves
Emma.. Victorian style.. where did I leave my parasol
Sasha , Just call me Emma Peel
Ais and Dive, modern day style.

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Sudbrook - Luxury Homesteads

Sudbrook, Beautiful Luxury Homes with waterfront.


Bitter is the Estate Manager for a incredible new homestead sim, luxury properties with beautiful Japanese/tikki style houses with waterfront views.. they are really gorgeous and only 4 properties on the entire sim.

I could talk forever about them but I will just let the photographs talk for themselves, contact Bitterdrinker Varnish for all the revelant details.



Hillside Plot, this plot also backs onto the mountain in the center of the island with a flowing waterfall.



http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sudbrook/77/215/23

Plurky Challenge ,Oldies but Goodies

I have been looking at the other bloggers who have also been doing this challenge and seeing old designers long gone from the fashion scene in Second Life, I also have a collection of Last Call Dresses and outfits from back in the day. It was so difficult to choose.

So here we have my offering, my favourite store for the longest time was Bijou and I was a devout Tuli skin wearer and Analog hair, my first purchase was Lola, anyone remember that hair it was such a revelation.

Style Card

Bijou Gig in Beige
Boots.. DeLa Madeline in Leopard
Skin.. Tuli Natalie
Hair - Analog Dog April in Dark


My Poses are from LAP * Long Awkward Pose* - Dove Swanson, actually I have a huge inventory of Dove's poses, back when she was starting out she offered to send out poses to her friends so we could try them out and feedback to her. Grins she was dropping pose sets on me left and right and of course Dove's work is so great.. I wasn't gonna stop her. :), One of the ones I like best is her Emo set.. all forlorn and sad.. makes for great atmosphere.

Why did I choose this outfit, I really like the texture of the dress basically and the belt is drawn in, but looks terrific and realistic even close up. I have a lot of different boots but I have always liked this leopard skins ones the best.. might be something to do with the red sole, cant imagine who it reminds me off. LMAO and now with the new viewer I can make this tuck into my jeans for a great winter look, I love how many new tops I have now with this, maybe I should do a post on that.
Bijou
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Bijouaholic/156/138/58

DeLa
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/DeLa/114/111/24

Analog Dog
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife//95/190/21

Suede

It's A Hard Knock Second Life

For nearly a week now, I have been living my life as a particle cloud, it has been awful, I tried everything to fix it, read every blog and tried every suggestion, eventually yesterday on Kirsten's forums . I posted a frantic help me and someone suggested something I had not seen before, change all the layers including *eyebrows*.

I borrowed a friends computer and download SL onto it.. one which is much faster and newer than my old heap, and proceeded to give Suede a male shape, skin etc etc, so I would'nt by habit load up my normal items on Suede without realizing.. it worked and when I got home to my own computer and open up SL.. Suede loaded looking exactly how I had left her. We did try it before with Bitter loading up Suede from his computer (BTW.. he did say it was weird using my avi), but that time I told him to reload Suede's normal look.. I assume that is why it didnt work, cause I was back to a cloud when I logged her back on.. which left both Bitter and I shaking our heads, cause we had just spent 20 minutes * fixing* her.

So here is the final tip to de- particle cloud yourself.. when all else fails..

detach all items
detach all clothing
load default avatar.. you know that Ruth creature
then one by one reload your everything.. making sure that everything is different from your normal avatar
shape, skin, hair, hairbase, eyebrows, clothing, log off
clear cache
log back on

and Good luck,

cause I was so ready to stab someone with Kitchen knife, I am happy to be back to blogging.. I have a couple of new designers interviews to post on SuperElite and some great clothes from a friend who is just entering the clothing business.

kirstens viewer - landscape shoot

Imagine Romance Sim.. Wishing well.. Photoshoot location.


So, I have been having a bit of trouble logging into SL, I am using Kirsten's viewer and the landscape rezzes up at top speed and looks terrific, however Suede is not so lucky she is a permanent cloud avi. I tested this out with a rl friend who is also on SL, her avi loads up just great. so it has to be a glitch with Suede herself.. but for the life of me I cannot work out what the problem is.

So.. I took some landscape shots instead.

This lovely Fairy wishing well and forest is next to a bridal shop on the Imagine Romance sim. I didn't see any pose balls.. but I am sure you could take some great photos here if you have a hud you can use instead.

This shot is on the default setting.. still not bad.. but I did turn my graphics right up.


This shot was taken using KL Purple.. so the sky in the background has a nice purple sheen to it and also the colour highlights certain flowers in foreground of the shot.


This shot believe it or not I used the night setting and turn the gamma slider up to 2.10, I really liked the effect of the blue sky and the darker foreground.


Well, I also have a ton of great fashion to post but until I can fix my cloud issue, I cannot do it, if anyone has an idea of how to fix it. I would be grateful.

P.S.

• Tried rebake textures
• Tried Character test
• Tried renewing everything including skin and shape
• Cleared my cache manually
• Tried threatening, sulking and using foul language

Photographic Props

What Next Vintage Dressing Screen and Stool


Rather than a fashion post this is a post about a really great photography prop.

The * what next* Vintage Dressing Screen and Stool pose set is truly excellent, both pieces have about 10 poses in each and even though the stool and the screen come as a pair they are not linked, so you can move them around to get the shot you like. Both stool and screen are scripted colour change, which I didn't realise when I bought them.


Some of the poses on the stool, will work for a man, so the options are really large and I know the clothing is not very clear on these photos as I used the *camp champ* windlight setting on them, but the corset is actually cream coloured.


Style Card ( for what it is worth)
Hair Lelutka group gift, Rush Firetop, scripted colour change band, available now
Shoes Kookie Phoebe Brown
Jewelry Zaara
Corset & Stockings, Runo runo 5 minutes to curtain,
(I bought this at a special event a couple of months back).

Geometric Black & White

I picked up this dress up several weeks ago at the Dressing Room, which I am sure many of you did as well, so I didn't want to be boring and just do a blog on a dress everyone has seen already, which I teamed up with silver Prestige Boots and hair from Exile. So I clicked on my trusty Photoshop icon and here is what I came up with, and at the bottom of the post I will give you the settings I used.



I was considering that the bright white spot was too bright, but when I darkened it down, I found the quality of the image was reduced, and so I decided to leave it.


Photoshop Settings

Under Distort, Diffuse Glow
Grain 7
Glow 12
Clear 17

Under Filter, Render
Lighting effects, just adjust until you have the effect you like

Oh and P.S. I did notice I have a typo on the first picture, but I have flu and I am too lazy to go back and fix it.. I can spell Geometric, I just cannot type it... :P
Suede