Fantasie

I sampled the Fantasy Faire that finishes in a few days, and was enchanted by this dress and wings by Spyralle, which is on the Titan’s Hollow sim. The yellow versions (which I’m wearing) are Relay for Life items. The wings aren’t animated, but they flutter prettily when you walk or fly. I made some tights to match the dress – the pants that come with it are briefer. I stopped by Analog Dog on the Dragon Spire sim and bought this “Pip” hair in the “Splash” pack which includes my normal blue as well as this violet colour which I thought toned better with the dress. While I was wandering round I realised that the scenery toned with my dress too, so Dragon’s Spire is where the pictures were taken.

Thornweaver dress – Yellow: Spyralle
Thornweaver Wings – Yellow: Spyralle
ombre nails (sakura): [croire]
Flower Pumps “Eve” -white: G Field
GABRIELLA necklace: Donna Flora
pip hair in fairy night: Analog Dog
Glam Affair Roza Unnamed 01 skin & Aphotic Gloom – Amare Eyes (Blue)

 

A drift of pink

I’m floating in pink chiffon swirls, courtesy of Sascha Frangilli: this is her group gift for April. I did pay 75 Linden to buy a “grande” skirt instead of the slightly less frothy free one.

I am a born-again fan of Magika’s hair, and this is her latest product: a beautiful long plait with a colour-change ribbon entwined in it. I used to buy Magika hair years and years ago, and then for some reason I stopped buying, but now that I’ve explored her shop again I’m really enthusiastic. The Mesh hair manages not to look too clumpy, with nice strands of hair framing your face. The jewelry is classic Donna Flora, with four possible colours for the enamel flowers.

April 2013 dress: SAS (there are also prim roses round the neckline, but they didn’t go with the wrap sweater)
Studio Wrap Sweater (Pink): Sn@tch
ombre nails (sakura): [croire]
Hair Daisies: ploom (came with the Aries hair)
Sakura Hair Stick – Daydreams: AITUI
blossom wings [sakura]: Frozen Night (free on Marketplace)
GABRIELLA earrings ad necklace: Donna Flora
Rewind (hair): Magika
Glam Affair skin (Roza Unnamed 01) and Aphotic Gloom eyes (Amare)
Pose by Persona

 

Magical

Evie’s Closet was one of my first destinations for beautiful gowns when I was new to Second Life. She is now moving to Mesh work, but she’s selling a new non-Mesh gown for only 75 Linden per colour at the Adore and Abhore event (link given below). Her gowns have a beautiful, graceful flow to them. I visited the Blasphemy sim and posed with an old wizarding wand I found in my inventory (you can cast various spells, of a Harry Potterish kind). The necklace and earring set is also very good value (either 70 or 75 Linden, I can’t remember which): especially as it is texture change.

Cersei Gown in pink: Evie’s Closet (at Adore and Abhor)
Flower Pumps “Eve”: G. Field
BLACK TO BLACK BRACELET #1, LAPIS: !ELEMENTAL
Hair Ayana ~ Blue: Amacci
Kiyomi ~ Earrings and necklace: Zibska (at the Gallery Gift Shop)
Wizarding Wand v1.2.3: Arcanum
Roza Unnamed 01 skin: Glam Affair
Amare eyes blue: Aphotic Gloom
Poses by Bounce This and Marukin

 

Dusting down in the city

The location for these shots is Shin Akaba. It seemed right for this Fifty Linden Friday special from Deco, the Deathrattle Duster coat. It is sold with a male and female version. I spent rather more than 50 Linden on getting the necklace and earring set that I wanted, but the metals and jewels are all colour change and they are really nice textures. The cute glassess (see the last picture) with the little skull are also colour change, from December. I’m using two Olive Juice gun-toting poses that I got in an event a good while back – one (the leaping one) is “Lara (Croft)” and the other one is “Alice”.

Her Deathrattle Duster: Deco
Classic Jeans *ash*: Zaara
Wedge Bootie “Beth”: G Field
Neato Sweatshirt (grey): Tres Blah
Wanderer -Black- Bracelet: *League*
Glasses No.21 skull & Rose: *D* (December)
Briony – teal: Truth
En tournant Choker and earrings: Lazuri
Glam Affair skin (Roza Unnamed 01) and Aphotic Gloom eyes (Amare – Ice)

 

Belated Valentine

I know it’s way past Valentine’s day, but today I happened to pick up a couple of freebies that were still out, one of which was this box of chocs. When you click it, it showers you with outsize chocolate hearts (see this picture). I felt the spring flowers and the fancy box made a nice contrast with my rather monochrome outfit. The jeans are not Mesh – I think they still look good!
Classic Jeans *ash*: Zaara
Wedge Bootie “Beth”: G Field (Mesh)
Lace Details Sweater – Grey: Fishy Strawberry
Observation Earrings: (Yummy)
Brianna w/Roots – babyblue: Truth (Mesh)
Leather Jacket Saul Light Black: Emery (at FaMESHed: Mesh)
NODA NECKLACE female: KOSH
Valentine-day choco box: Cyan includes the shaking-the-box pose
Skin is Glam Affair’s Roza Unnamed 01 and Amare (Ice) eyes by Aphotic Gloom

 

Happy Chinese new year

It is year of the Snake, which is my birth sign, so I’m giving a particular welcome to this Chinese New Year. I’m celebrating with this lovely new Jiu-Li dress from Sascha. It has a curvy mesh base dress and then a variety of flexi skirts to add to it. I chose the mermaid tail skirts, as I think the flowing train matches well with the shape of the dress. Mandala recently brought out some hair ornaments (sticks and a hair corsage in 3 colours). They are copy, so I moved a copy of the red bejeweled corsage to make it a wrist corsage in combination with a Swallowtail bracelet.
The pictures were taken in Japanese Dream: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Country/160/178/1201

RUSHANA chopstick hair sticks and Head Corsage (also copy worn on wrist): Mandala
Jiu-Li Black dress Mesh: SAS
Flower Pumps “Eve” -black: G. Field
Free Fan: BareRose
Hair Ayana ~ Blue: Amacci
Branch Necklace [black] and Branch Bracelet: Swallowtail
ULTRA Mesh Fingernails rigged V3: Jamman
Roza Unnamed 01 skin: Glam Affair
Amare Eyes (Ice): Aphotic Gloom
Poses by Marukin

 

Boho

I missed getting the limited edition of the Princess dress by LpD, but I did get one of the regular colours (Black and White). In the end I just used the gorgeous fluffy net skirt (I love this sort of skirt), as I wanted to put it with something colourful, rather than the plain white mesh top it came with. I reached for several favourite items from Meena to give it a boho flavour. The picture below was taken on the installation by Yooma Mayo, Yes Giovanni, inspired by the Japanese story Night on the galactic railroad (picture of the whole thing here).

Filigree Jeans: Sn@tch
Mishti tank *apricot*: Zaara
Buzkashi Boots; striped afghan shawl; Paisley top; Kuchi hoops earrings: Meena
IVORY CROSS [Necklace] Rosa: CentoPallini
*Princess* Dress (Skirt only):*LpD*
Andel Peacock Headdress (comes with Andel hair): Sanu
Cynthia hair and flower from Kalia hairstyle: TRUTH
Skin by Glam Affair (Roza Unnamed 01) and eyes by Miriel (no longer available)