I had some RL drama to attend to so haven’t been active in the past two weeks.  Things have settled and upon returning to peruse the fashion feeds, it struck me that there is one blogger I wish to pay my respects to. 

Ms Kitten Kurka produces a gem of a blog called Kiss Kiss With Khitten Kurka and it’s one that always makes me smile and feel good.  Apart from the fact that it’s obvious a lot of work goes into it and she consistently produces stylish and informative posts, it is her dedication to representing the real woman she is that makes me just love her.

Khitten describes herself as African American and that her avatar is a SL representation of her in RL.  She says:

OK this is going to be short because I’m too excited to concentrate for long.  The most beautiful surprise I could ever think of occurred tonight when I logged on.  The irrepressible Truth Hawks, hair dresser extraordinaire, sent me a message saying that a little birdie told him I would love a Truth hair style named after me.  This is very true.   You may recall me pleading shamelessly a couple of posts ago.  Well it happened.  He did it!  Truth sent me the Chalice hair shown below and if I’m lying,  may my boobs hit the floor and stay there, this is my favorite ever Truth style.  It’s just…………………………………………perfect. 

I went over to the store and can’t yet see it there but I’m hoping it will be in his usual Friday releases.  You just have to get it.  Darling Truth…you have seriously made this girls day, week, year.  Take the ...

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Not having had time to peruse the feeds this evening prior to submitting this post, I suspect the new release shoes from Pacadi Jasha titled Armadillo Plateaus will be blogged quite a bit; however, when I received them upon logging on tonight, they screamed to be matched with my new House of Fox outfit called Lady H.O.F. that I planned to blog about.  As I’m apt to do, I substituted the Black Sheer Top, also from House of Fox, with the black bra provided with the outfit.  I love, love the look.

No doubt we’ve all seen the amazing pairing of Alexander McQueen’s 10″ stiletto’s with Lady Ga Ga’s feet.  Like Dolce & Gabbana, Trinny & Susannah and Gautier & Madonna, this duo was made in fashion heaven.

How timely given the impending ‘For The Love Of McQueen’ tribute show being  produced by AVENUE and scheduled to run at 12.00pm ...

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Sometimes out of the blue, Sevenstar Amat, designer extraordinaire of Stitch by Stitch will send me wonderful treats she has been working on and whatever I’m doing, I can’t wait to pop them on.  The day she sent me the penis hat I was out shopping and nearly spat my drink across the room when it finally rezzed.  I thought it was a Carmen Miranda type hat with banana’s atop until the thing became visible.  Its the most favorite thing I own but out in the middle of a shopping sim surrounded by people, it felt like a beacon saying ‘look at my lovely collection of penis’ on my head’.  So these days, I grab a quiet corner just in case because Seven’s creativity knows no bounds. 

What I received this time was the La Boite Bunny Hat.  She knows I love hats and this little gem is no exception.  ...

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You know, I get a big thrill when a designer sends me something to consider blogging as I take it that they feel I might do justice to the fruits of their labor.  Last night was one such time when I clapped my hands and went ‘Ooooooo’.  I was in the middle of an SOS question in a group when along came some treasures from Fashionboi Landar, the owner/designer of House of Fox.  When said emergency was over, I threw on the contents of my newly acquired folders and jumped for joy.  These are my kind of clothes.  This is taken from Fashionboi’s profile because who can explain a label better than the designers themselves?

I’m on a mission at the moment that has been taking up some time.  I’m creating a note card in alphabetical order of great photography sims with a brief description and LM.  I’m doing a few every time I log on and it’s one of those tasks that becomes bigger the more you do it.  The catalyst being my endless searching for LM’s in my inventory or in the search engine for places I vaguely remember and my frustration in trying to recall the names.  Once done, I’ll be happy to share with anyone who doesn’t have a one stop shop of photography LM’s.  There are a few kicking around but I’ve found the one’s I was given have a lot of old LM’s. To the people who’s bedroom’s, bathroom’s, lounge-room’s and kitchen’s I have landed in, I’m very sorry.  I promise my eyes were closed until I could find ...

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My challenge if you choose to accept it, is to create two bridal looks only using what is in your inventory.  If you happen to have a wedding dress in there, don’t use it because that defeats the purpose.  This is about being creative, reflecting your personal style in what would be considered a very important day in your life.  Because flowers are such an important part of any wedding regardless of style and the fact that you might not have ...

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It’s taken a while but I think I’ve finished decorating.  I’ve purchased things I thought I’d like only to end up replacing it with something I liked more.  I do love my SL home because unlike my RL home, it’s peaceful, quiet and I’m alone…lol.  It’s my head space away from the frenetic craziness of my life, which I love by the way, but it can get a bit much.  Shopping was so much fun and with only 1225 prims to play with, I think I did good.

I wasn’t happy with the water nor my previous off-sim islands so as of today, I went shopping to rectify the situation and now I finally have what I’m happy with.

 

• Off-sim jetty from The Beach Store 
• Chair comes with 2 female/male poses and 1 stand where you lean on the back of the chair.  ...

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The worst tonight was some anonymous twat who responded on someone’s blog with a post so nasty, so untimely and so inappropriate that sitting at home in my haven with my fluffy cat and adorable dog who lower my blood pressure just being around me,  I felt like punching said person in the balls or boobs.  I don’t know which because of course, they’re anonymous. 

Don’t you feel so helpless when someone is just so wrong, and nasty and lacking in compassion that it makes you seethe?  There’s little you can do other than write your protest down in a response but it’s ineffectual really and does little ...

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In light of some recent happenings played out in public, I just wanted to remind us all how fragile and delicate life is and in the blink of an eye, everything can change. Without wishing to inflame matters or take a side, which I can’t because I don’t know anything, just on the periphery and putting two and two together, I can see there has been some dissent. 

It happens all the time and will continue to happen and for the most part, its healthy that we don’t all see things the same way.  I merely wanted to suggest that before we say or write anything, we think for a minute ‘where will this information go”‘, ‘will I feel this way tomorrow?’ and ‘what can people do with this information?’  If you’re happy with your own answer’s, go knock yourself out and say what what you gotta say but be ...

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When people are down, contemplative and just plain needing a hug, SL can be an incredibly supporting environment. Gogo and Wilma  had a T made for Lizzie Lexington to cheer her up and announced on their blog that there were more T’s to go around so why not join Team Lizzie too.  Isn’t that just the sweetest thing?

I popped my hand up and received a baby pink Team Lizzie T designed by T-Junction.  I love it to bits but love the motivation behind it even more.

Why not cheer up your special mate today.  I popped over to the Isle of Goodness (what better place) to take a couple of pics to say thanks and that I hope Lizzie is cheered by her lovely surprise. I also popped on my peace ‘n’ love hair from 3636, a freebie called Gypsi.

The more I am traveling about looking for photographic opportunities, the more I am appreciating the beauty of SL particularly playing around with windlight settings.  I have another Stitch by Stitch treasure tonight, called the Miranda Gown, a stunning gold brocade dress with flower and bead embellishments.  The hair accessory is from LeeZu and I’ve had it for ages.  It’s one of my favorite things.

Here is the Miranda Gown shot at this amazing sim called Funky Crazy.  Just the loveliest place and I’ve included a photo of a scene on the island.  Blogging is certainly giving me more enjoyment than anything else I have done in SL because it’s opening up more opportunities to discover the amazingly beautiful work of builders.

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This just happens to be my favorite from Stitch by Stitch called Red Roma.  I have loved it from the moment I purchased it and to me, epitomizes all that is wonderful about this brand.  Perfectly constructed, surprises everywhere, vibrant colors and just plain gorgeous.  It has a playful sophistication inherent in European fashion.  Having coveted Maitreya Gold’s Salience heels for so long, I thought Red Roma deserved Salience and vice versa.  I love the result.

I took off to the Foul Whisperings Strange Matters sim to take these pics and as usual, had a hoot discovering new places.





Designers:
Skin:  Eclat Light Make Up #4 from LeLutka
Hair: Light hair base and Eclat Hair 2 by LeLutka
Eyes: Expressive Eyes in Blue #4 by Nany Merlin
Nails: Skin Deep Diamond Series Red by Polly Pavlova
Lashes:  Photoshoot 11 by LeLutka
Outfit: Roma Red from Stitch by Stitch
Beret: From ...

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Ms Sascha Frangilli from Sascha’s Designs asked me if I would be interested in bringing some Spring to the feeds with her new season outfit called Ra Ra. 

While I’ve been melting my make up off down under, I thought why not share some sun and warmth wearing Ra Ra for a tantalizing taste of what’s to come for you guys up North.  Colors to lift the spirit, barely there textures and some of my favorite retro sunnies all fuse together to create Spring time fun.  Ra Ra comes in Summer Blue, Pink, Yellow, Purple and Blue.  As usual, spoiled for choice, you have 4 skirt options per color.  Brighten up your beach in Ra Ra.

Grab a taxi to Sascha’s Designs and kick Winter in the butt.

Continuing with my week long hug of Stitch by Stitch creations, I bring you the Coco Dress.  Wonder who that is named after? 

I am having fun styling Seven’s designs because they give you carte blanche to be as unconventional as you want to be but still maintain an avant garde fashion look without it looking like a costume..  Of course, I’m known to  take things to the nth degree and am not in anyway understated so my look is mostly an eclectic fusion of color and texture loosely following a theme.

I sped over to Rouge to take these photo’s because I wanted something richly red but found this cute stage set up so thought my life’s a stage so why not photograph myself on one.  Hope you enjoy.  I like to think that gorgeous diamante ‘C’ brooch stands for Chalice.  Haha.

I received a lovely note card recently from Ms Christensia Parkin, designer and owner of Hyper Culture inviting me to blog some of her clothing if I wished.  One thing that I know about Hyper Culture is that Christensia certainly works hard to market her outlet and going by the large variety of stock in the shop, must be a very busy woman.  I jumped at the chance to feature Hyper Culture on my blog and received the Viviera Gown in all hue’s. 

The dress is simply cut around the bodice to form a halter neck and is tightly fitted to the hips where it simply drapes down to the floor with very little poof.  You have a choice of the simple skirt or the train skirt as you can see in the photo’s below.  Both skirts are beautifully constructed and hang perfectly.  A daring plunge back emulates the plunging ...

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Another amazing outfit from Stitch By Stitch called ‘Dirty Diana’.  The leggings, the skirt, the top all work together so well.  Lime ‘n’ Orange being my fav colors this week, get a showing once again.  I LOVE this outfit.  The mind boggles wondering what the story behind this dress being called Dirty Diana is.  Stunning Seven stunning.

Walk through Stitch By Stitch and really take note of the whole package…the theme.  It’s an amazingly brilliant concept and full of a Second Life of work.  Sevenstar Amat is an artist in RL….like of course!   Look into the materials and textures and that is blatantly obvious.  I bet my boobs that this creator hasn’t yet received the kudos she deserves possibly because she is a humble person who let’s her art speak for itself.  It is my job dear fashion lovers, along with my other blogging colleagues, to showcase items we love and in turn, raise the profile of the designers/creators.

This lady is one person I think deserves mind boggling recognition as she continues to provide us with arty, edgy and impeccably crafted fashion items.  This is my week to showcase the work of Sevenstar.  Today I’m wearing Cora – Dark Hour and Seven’s Forest Love hat.  ...

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I purchased some seriously stunning pants from Glam Affair the other day.  I really do love the classic lines reminiscent of film stars of the 40’s and I particularly think of Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo and Katherine Hepburn strutting elegantly like they owned the world.  I also love the treatment at the waist and sassy bow which give the pants more symmetry.

Imagine the myriad of ways you can dress these pants to create your signature look. 

 A wonderful new mall will open Feb. 1. with a grand opening celebration to include demonstrations, live music, a fashion show, and a hunt. The shops are almost filled to include MEB, Ala Folie, Lady Thera, Violator, G Sloane Couture,  Anubis, Prism, AlpeStyle, Ezura, Divine Couture, DD Style, Innuendo, MIDI’S, kakaue, Aurora Borealis, Vincenca Rosca, ginevra Lancaster, and Style Box.

I am going to give you the drum on the best, BEST bargain in SL right now. You don’t have to thank me because I do it for love although a foot rub, a fanning and a few grapes would be nice.  I strongly recommend that you get your cute butts down to Sascha’s Designs for the amazing Mad Moo dress selling for a meager….DRUM ROLL PLEASE….$175L.

How can you not need a big black dress that is so simply elegant with it’s display of silver beading reminiscent of a midnight sky full of stars.  The full lace skirt is gossamer light that it sashays as you walk and twirls as you turn.  Do not miss this one ladies (or gents) because you won’t find something of this quality for such a low price.

Ms Sascha Frangilli has done it again guys.

Look what I got! Look what I got!  KINKY BOOTS.

Well let me tell you how I got them.  This morning (my time), I received an IM from new designer, katiecue Wood from KTQ Designs.  Katie told me that she designed this new pair of boots she named Kinky Boots (great name eh?) and wondered if I would be interested in blogging them.  I’m always interested in helping designers & creators gain exposure on my humble blog so jumped at the chance.

Like many designers in SL who started out, I TP’d to Katie’s shop and noticed she has a small selection of  male and female fashions, furniture and of course, these boots.  I just love people in there having a go and I wish Katie the best of luck with her venture.  Now these boots are really good.  With a sizing script, I threw them on and went ...

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I admit I don’t need much of an excuse to go check out new things in SL and this evening was no exception.  Having been sent the new Leona skins from Ms Aida Ewing of Glam Affair, I hopped on the hover-bike and headed over for a first hand look.  To say I was impressed is an understatement of mammoth proportions.  It is beautiful.  Soft sandstone, lots of glass, nooks for resting and admiring your purchases, Glam Affair is a class act.  It’s sprawling but easy to navigate due to the court yard style build.  

Inside it just get’s better.  Lots of room to wander and it has a flow through feel walking into each section.  Clothes, lingerie, skins and so much more unfold as you walk the rooms.  Aida I take my hat off to you for creating a superb place to shop, meet friends and hang out.  ...

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