Sunday, November 4, 2012

Charcoal and Bittersweet in Motion


A combination og last week's charcoal with this week's bittersweet. 

 Nice hair and autumn colours


Nice shoes

Those  bittersweet tights  are made for dancing:


I have just truly discovered MyAnimations dances. They are extremely varied and the latin dances are just perfect, this is one of many cha cha cha variations, all full of grace. 

I, Alexandra's background controller, will be going to the US for a couple of weeks, arriving in Florida on election night! But won't bring any computer, so there will be no posts from me till late November.

What I'm wearing:

Charcoal and bittersweet:
{SMS} 5am Torn Tights Dawn Red  (from collabor 88, October)
Hair: *Alice Project* Reema - Infinity
Coat: Baiastice Edy Mesh Coat-tweed/grey (from the cinema event)
Ring: LaGyo_Mother's pearl big ring R
Shoes: [Decoy] Reuxi Ankle Boots - Black Normal Zipper
Skin: Lara Hurley-Joy smokey eyes/Pale (I think this was from the cinema event too, but may be not)

Bittersweet dancing
Blouse: The Sea Hole -(MESH) Davenport Blouse L - Baby Powder (from the collabor88 event October)



Sunday, October 21, 2012

Catching up in Royalblue on Wings of Ghostly White

Never got around to doing the Royal blue post for Luna Jubilee's blog challenge. I was trying to put something together for that, starting with a blue dress, when suddenly it was time for the Ghostly White post. So I combined the two on a background of autumnal colors, dancing in the sky, flapping my  wings and letting the hair loose in the dramatic wind. If this is an angel, I think it is an angel of doom.

On my way down to the ground, in brighter, but less dramatic windlights
In the end, I would have been a fallen angel,  had the bar not caught me:
The person sponsoring my life around here, has to fly south today and therefore hasn't got the time for the slurls


What I'm wearing:
dress: Leverocci - Silk Embroidered Dress, navy
shoes: [monso] My Fabric Oxford
hair: *Alice Project* Willow  - Infinity, from the cinema event
Wings: Miamai_Icarus White Wing

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Cosmic in a Bottle

Cosmic is a color! Really? That's what Luna Jubilee says it is for her Colour Challenge this week - and it looks something like this:

I thought the best place to have a look at theCosmic of the Cosmos would be from a flying bottle. Made by Trompe L'Oeil and to be found at this month's Collabor 88. There are many, many , many poses in this gem of a room.
Here I look a little despondent. Don't blame me, I'm just following the whims of the couch.


To leave you on a brighter note, I wave from a giraffe somewhere on the grid, I just forgot 
where.


What I'm wearing:

Dress: Glam Affair - Dorota Shirt - Indigo 
Undershirt (worn to not show nipples) : Willow~ Filigree Bodysuit - Plum 
Skirt: {mon tissu} Westbury Mini ~ Black 
Stockings: xbordeaux - Hungry Hearts
Shoes: [monso] My Fabric Oxford (shoes)
Skin: [PXL] FAITH PA NE MEB C2 FR
Hair*Dura-Boy*36(Irish Coffee)
LaGyo_Alice earring L
LaGyo_Mother's pearl big ring 

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Antique Brass and 52 weeks of colour

Preparing for a party and dressed in Antique Brass for Luna's 52 week colour challenge.

A party can be physically challenging , so I went through a last minute routine of stretching and jumping:


And kicking....... might come in handy.


I'm ready to party. 100% self confident in my Purple Moon dress and Dura's hair for boys. 


What I'm wearing:

Dress: :: PM :: Mellie Dress in Copper
Hair: *Dura-Boy*36(Irish Coffee) (and hair base) 
Ring: LaGyo_Mother's pearl big ring 
Earring; M G (Maxi Gossamer)- - Tea + Cupcakes - GOLD - 
Stockings: xbordeaux - Hungry Hearts Stockings (Sheer)
Shoes: Schadenfreude Gilded Panache Heel 
Skin: [PXL] FAITH 
Make up: [PXL] FAITH PA Cat Eyes; [PXL] FAITH PA Passion Lips; 
                 cheLLe - Undereye Shadows (Blue)
Poses from: di's opera,  just a pose and  okinara

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Arty Amaranth


Before making this post with the colour Amaranth for Luna's challenge, I sat on the couch in my skybox to reflect. I looked down and lo and behold the couch was the very best approximation to Amaranth I had been able to find this week !

But anyway, I had been to a couple of interesting places in my less-than- amaranth amaranth outfits.

In the afternoon, I went to one of the LEA sims (Linden Endowments of Art). I posed in my Foppish coat in the sweet and 'naively' drawn black and white artscape by Cica Ghost . It is like a child's cartoon world.
I had not had enough of art, so I later went to the closing of  Mariaka Nishi's show about her giving birth and the thoughts about life this inspired in her, very interesting with photos and drawings.
I can't say that the colour of the jumpsuit I wore for the event is the best amaranth in the world, but it's red at least.

The show ended with a live concert played by the inimitable Ultraviolet Alter.
She always improvises, and her soundscapes slide and glide around you for an hour where you forget everything else in the world for the sheer magic of her music.
In the middle of the concert butterflies were fluttering:



and globes and stars were sputtering (if that isn't a word , it should be) while I did my little dance from Humanoid:


After a day of reflection on a sofa, posing in a cartoon landscape and dancing in a music induced trance,  it was time to simply stand on my porch and look at the autumn leaves  (and thus getting the close up for the day):


What I' wearing:

Picture A

Sitting on the  Trompe Loeil - Simple Culture Curve Couch - Zap
Jeans: Zaara : Distressed Jeans *light*
Blouse: Zaara : Ashima blouse  *ivory*
Hair:  [Iren] Posh-dark brown


Picture B
coat: [Foppish]Wooly Gown Coat-{Red}-
jeans: Zaara : Classic jeans *black* 
d-lab-Skunk-Arm-BLACK2
Hair: [e] Figure - Brown 08
skin: -Glam Affair - Giselle - Sent to Destroy  4


Pictures C etc
Jumpsuit from [Foppish] Jumpsuit-{Cranberry}
Bracelet ::je::suis::, africain:: dark 
Shoes from Baiastice_Ute Mesh Pumps-vermilion-
izm.daisy with ladybug ring
Skin and make up     [PXL] FAITH PA NE MEB C2 FR
                                      [PXL] FAITH PA Cat Eyes
                                      [PXL] FAITH PA Passion Lips
                                      cheLLe - (eyeshadow) Undereye Shadows (Blue)

Friday, September 28, 2012

Black and White

Black and white from me. I think the blog challenge might be over, but no matter.


What I'm wearing:

Jeans: Zaara : Classic jeans *black* 1
Top: coldLogic top - oneVoice.black/white
Shoes: from Compulsion Envy (Black)
::je::suis::africain::bracelet dark 
Rings: izm.daisy with ladybug ring
            LaGyo_Mother's pearl big ring 
LaGyo_Alice earring R
Hair: [e] Figure - Black 04
Skin: -Glam Affair - Layla Grey A
-tb- Nail Colour (Black)
cheLLe - (eyeshadow) Undereye Shadows 

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

every day autumn look

Just an every day look shot in my beloved New Orleans skybox from Barnesworth Anubis.







































Dressed by Cold Logic and Mon Tissu and with hair from Truth. I think it just cannot get  better than that

Beautiful skin from PXL

What I'm wearing:
Top and cardigan: coldLogic shirt - shereda.dusk
Skirt; {mon tissu} Oxford Pencil Skirt ~ Dark Beige
Schadenfreude Champagne Luisa Stockings
Bag; Le Poppycock *Pop Tote* Briar Rose (Gift 1/2)
Necklace:.:* LOULOU&CO *:. - Necklace :: TEA TIME :: 
Hair:>TRUTH< Winona w/Roots - beach
Shoes: Schadenfreude Ivory Cygnette 
Skin and  make-up[PXL] FAITH PA NE MEB C2 FR; [PXL] FAITH PA Passion Lips
[PXL] FAITH PA Cat Eyes; cheLLe - (eyeshadow) Undereye Shadows (Blue)

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Simply Hunter Green






































That's it from me for Luna Jubilee's color challenge this week


dress_ coldLogic dress - mills.greens 
hair: >TRUTH< Winona w/Roots - beach
necklace: je suis...voyante necklace *plain*
skunk from d-lab--Arm-BLACK2 (arcade Gacha event)
-Glam Affair-  Roza - The Arcade Gacha Events 
cheLLe - (eyeshadow) Undereye Shadows (Green)
pc eyes by LL - poison ivy - 

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Papaya Whip is a Colour !

My Puppetmaster behind the screen is playing a bit with the lights here, without very good result, I must say. All for Luna's Color Challenge where the colour this week is Papaya Whip, a colour we had never heard of a week ago.
I am dressed in items from the last Collabor88, and sitting in a Charles Eames Chair from the September  Fameshed event.
Now, as it were, this chair is a copy of one of the icons of twentieth century modern furniture. And the Puppetmaster happens to be the lucky owner of one. She got enthusiastic when we saw this very exact copy made by Tobias Convair for Handverk, a great place for many wonderful things. She told me that she has loved her chair for decades, and talked about how nicely it fits the human anatomy.
"Well, show me", I said. And here you are:


Sitting among her messy stacks of books, books, books. "It is too many - get rid of them all", I said. But she said "No !" and that was her only word on the matter (and she thought to herself : "Who are you to talk, with your more than 20.000 objects in inventory!).
I got to like her small reading corner after some time, and got quite upset when the time was up for me to go back to SL
She of course remained back there:


But kept this photo of me in my new super duper New Orleans skybox from ba (Barnesworth Anubis) (The collabor88 september ).  "Too few books , my little one", she said, posing in the only thing she had that looked a little like Papaya Whip, some old stuff from the bottom of the cupboard. 
Real Life is not like SL, they don't seem to buy new clothes every week there.

She is too shy to show her face, so to recompense here is mine in my new Faith skin from Bellezza, hair from Truth, eyes from Poetic Colors,  earrings from LaGyo.
Talking about Classics of design! We have them in SL too.


After all this effort of hopping between worlds - and for my puppetmaster after an exhausting week at work, topped by the effort of photoshopping me into her world - we needed some relaxation. We found it at Humanoid, where I had  teleported to check out their new female dance. I ended up trying out the male dances,  I always like them better.  
Isn't it incredible! The music is by the Danish master of Electronica, Trentemøller

What the video shows (apart from the incredible dance moves) are some of the problems in mesh creations. I love this little dress from u.f.o. but we do sometimes see the background through the skirt while I'm dancing, it could be  fixed by lining the garments. I also find that my arms became extraordinarily thin and somewhat creepy in this, might it be something with the alpha layer? I still love the little thing anyway, just saying there still is some room for improvement in the mesh creations in SL. I personally wouldn't know how to even begin this, so am a total admirer of anyone who can make good things like these.


Now to the final picture - I have put on the cute u.f.o. cardigan again (when I'm sitting like this, the elbow of the dress can be seen, no matter the size of dress and cardigan) to stay warm and cozy in the early autumn night after getting all SL-sweaty  up at the dance vendor.

What I'm wearing:

dress: ::{u.f.o}::you and me -cream- (plain collar)
cardigan: ::{u.f.o}::ribbonbon cardigan- grey  ( from Collabor88 September)
Shoes: Schadenfreude Ivory Cygnette
stockings: Schadenfreude.  Champagne Luisa Stockings
Ring and Earring from LaGyo: Mother's pearl big ring (from Collabor88 September)
                                                 Alice earring
Hair: >TRUTH< Siri w/Roots - oasis
-tb- Nail Colour (Black)
Skin and make up: [PXL] FAITH PA NE MEB C2 FR,  [PXL] FAITH PA Cat Eyes,
                              [PXL] FAITH     PA Passion Lips
eyes by Poetic Colors- bright - massive lead


Dance from Humanoid
Chair from Handverk (the chair is not at the store, but at the collabor event)

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Hot and Hurried Cinnamon


This week's color in Luna Jubilee's challenge is hot cinnamon. This cozy Leezu dress seemed to fit the color well, and at the same time I feel prepared for autumn in this nice sweater-like dress. I would have liked to show the dress in a nice landscape or something, but the Puppetmaster is mean again. Tells me she hasn't got the time for keeping me alive this week . What a nerve!


She says she is organizing a conference with people from 25 countries. I say: What's the point, why can't she just make them all meet in here. That would be cheaper and just as fun, I'm sure!

What I'm wearing ( no time for slurls today):

Dress: Luka Dress S (mesh,rigged) /peach by LeeZu!
Shoes : from Compulsion,  Envy Left  (very good new shoe creator)
Hair: /Wasabi Pills/ Veronica Mesh Hair - Gingerbread (from the Vintage Fair)
Jewellery:  LaGyo_Alice earring 
                    LaGyo_Bonbon ring gold 
Skin : .ploom. Lea_Vanilla - DB - Virgo (from the Zodiac event)
poetic color eyes by LL - dunes 

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Surprise in Feldgrau


Feldgrau is this week's colour in Luna Jubilee's blogger challenge. It was the colour of some of the German uniforms before and during the Second World War, for me that is a somewhat dispiriting thought.
I found a dress in the right colour at the Sea Hole. A little too bright , but the right tone.
But then , I felt a bit bored by the whole thing, and felt I had to do something radically different:

So here I am,  very different ! It feels a bit strange to call this person me, but this elderly gentleman still has my name above his head, so what else can I do. Call him he, I suppose.
He sat down the moment after his 'birth' and contemplated life as it is.


Wrigglesworth makes these old avatars. Look at him, doesn't he look kind.
I think it is a kind of problem in SL that you either have to look very young or very old, there aren't many realistic  mature, mature in a beautiful way, avatars.  I have noticed that when people have tried to make grown up women, they become very pathetic, tired , exhausted, wrinkled creatures with none of the sparkle of life, but may be it is difficult to create maturity realistically - and may be no one buys them. But Wrigglesworth's creatures are so old that they defy all that. They are cute in their pot bellied clumsiness.


Now here is the professor emeritus on his way to do some research at the Bayrische StaatsBibliotek .
He is a proud man, proud of the contribution he has made to his field. And happy to have found this  majestic library building lovingly recreated in SL.
We won't follow him into the reading room, we must respect the silent concentration.


But we meet the professor again and discuss some finer points in the grammar of Old Gothic in the sunshine that bathes the library courtyard.
It has ben a long day of studies. But even when he gets home, he continues his work:


He wants to finish his opus major, the comprehensive comparative history of the Indoeuropean languages. He is thankful to Winter Thorpe who made this perfect typewriter as What Next's contribution to the Vintage Fair. He is stimulated by the sound of the typewriter . It has been the constant soundtrack of his writing life.


As it grows dark, he is so engrossed in his work, that he almost grows taller, thinner and more dignified. But he does not know about that himself, he is just lost in creation.

What we are wearing:

Alexandra
Dress: The Sea Hole - Studded Chiffon Dress - rainwater (found at  the marketplace)
Hair; >TRUTH< Bria w/Roots - macaroon

The Professor:

(W) Button Down - White
(W) Sports Jacket Slacks - Grey
(W) Sports Jacket - Grey Houndstooth
(W) *MESH* Sinclair Frames - 4 Colors
(W) Bow Tie - Abstract Patterns
(W) Wilfred's Sculpted Hair
(W) Wilfred Shape
(W) Wilfred Skin
everything from Wrigglesworth.

Shoes from [monso] My Fabric Oxford (shoes)
Eyes  from Poetic Colors by LL - bright - massive lead 

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Very Snap Shots in Russett


I am dressed in Russett for Luna's 52 weeks colour challenge. And I'm rowing my new boat from What Next past my not quite rezzed home.  The excitement of rowing the boat made me less attentive to details .


Rowing towards the open waters after a tour through the wonderful  waterways of the Thistle region. In new hair from the ever creative Truth Hawks.






































Never row your boat into Linden waters. Shipwreck might result.  I stood there, waving my oars in the air, in too much emotional turmoil to even think of the windlights or anything. I could do nothing but watch the boat going down. Fortunately, in  SL, we can just rezz a new one.




























I'm wearing a dress from a new shop called La Penderie de Nicole.  They only have a few items out , but of very fine quality. As a dress this is a bit too short for me, so I added my Maitreya leggings and everything was fine. The creator , Marco. really pays a lot of attention to the texture of the fabric. And look at the details of the hooks in this, it's too cute:


What I'm wearing:

Dress: La Penderie de Nicole::My Little Linen Dress::
Hair: >TRUTH< Bria w/Roots - macaroon
Bracelet: Ibizarre Bracelets  (gold/brown)
Maitreya Leggings -  Black
Shoes:  from  Shiny Things. Tuli Pumps - brown
Skin: [Gauze] Nude - Ivory - F

Boat from What Next

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Uninspired Tyrian Purple






































Tyrian purple , the colour for this week in Luna's colour challenge, might be an old distinguished imperial color, that has been with us for millennia , but I was not able to be inspired this week. I cannot blame the color. I cannot blame the creators of the various very nice items I'm wearing, it is just one of those things.


This picture from my home parcel might explain some of the despondency. The owner of my region decided to let it snow on us all. My puppetmaster, who really is the one to blame for my mood, has just gone through one of the worst summer's within memory, and now it snows in Second Life !
She made me brave the elements in the new Vivaldi Hanging Bed that I picked up at Collabor88  with lots of nice poses in it, The pillows and the canopy, or whatever , changes color, here it turned into purple. The Collabor88 is  full to the brim of good things, I presented some of them in the post prior to this.

 Maxi Gossamer's butterfly necklace from is the best. Makes me a bit happy, in the end.

What I'm wearing: (laziness causing lack of slurls)

Dress or whatever: from Glam Affair - Dorota Shirt - Indigo (without the top under there will be nipple malfunction)
Top : from Willow~ Filigree Bodysuit - Plum (undershirt)

Shoes: [monso] My Fabric Oxford (wonderful and versatile)
Leggings from Maitreya, black
Hair:  :EMO-tions:. * SUSAN*/brown (can be put up or down, with animation , great)
Necklace : MG - - Jewelled Butterfly  picked up at Collabor88
LaGyo_Bonbon ring gold 
Skin from Les Petits Details: *LpD* Skins - *Laetitia* Violet Orchid
Eyes from Poetic colors: by LL - purple morning - large

Vivaldi Hanging bed from Cheeky Pea. Picked up at Collabor 88

Thursday, August 9, 2012

collabor88 from top to toe






































Collabor88 has existed for a year now. To celebrate, they have more things this month - and more people are coming to visit. The theme of the month is 'Baroque'. After braving the storm of the mass invasion , I could withdraw with my catch. And here I am, all dressed up in deliciousness from the event.


I went to the World's End. Peace and quiet reigned and I could take my time, snapping my shots, here in a Del May pose, not from Collabor88 .


Such tranquillity ! 


I have been to World's End before, but was reminded of the beauty of the place, when I ventured out for a new adventure: taking part in Photohunt Challenge. The group meets twice every week,  sets out to a given Sim, get a theme and have an hour to take pictures. Back in  the gallery, we put our best photo on the wall. We then all voted for the best picture of the day. I do not think I got many votes, I did not really deserve it.
But it was great fun. 




































Look at those shoes from Schadenfreude. Lately, everything Allegory Malaprop makes  is just so different and wonderful.

Have to have my close-up. It is a craving, sort of. 
And it shows off the hair , the Skin and the sweet butterfly necklace. 


What I'm wearing: Everything is to be found at  Collabor 88

Dress: (NO) Nylon Outfitters;  Baroque Bustle Mini, Black
Shoes: Schadenfreude Gilded Panache Heel
Hair; ""D!va"" Hair "Manon" (Type A)(Black amber) (changeable hairband, pearls and gems)
Necklace: from Maxi Gossamer - Jewelled Butterfly - Short 1 - GOLD. I want everything from there!
Skin:  -Glam Affair - Roza - BaroQ 02