It's the weekend and I had the urge to do a pic and I seem to be on sort of a retro kick at the moment. So I pulled out this dress from salt. called understated beige vintage chiffon lawn dress, It is a really lovely dress for 150L and just like the name it is understated but very sweet and pretty with a lovely heart created by the neckline of the dress and caplet. Because of the neckline I left off a necklace as to not distract from simple beauty of it. The hair is fri.day and it's called Marie and the shoes are Maitreya Slinky Stilettos in Nude. Overall nothing extravagant here just sweet and simple and in my opinion a very lovely outfit.

Elymode Groupie

I am a closet groupie, they say that admitting it is the first step in getting help. When I first logged into SL I was overwhelmed and very confused by it all, but being an extremely shy person in RL I forced myself to emerge myself in all things SL. One of my first experiments was the "modeling contest". I joined the JCNY group and of course misguidedly thought ok my avi is not too bad, why not? The smartest thing I did in this was look at the "official photographers" lookbook. I was omg! She can make me look beautiful! She being Elysium Eilde. I contacted her and she agreed to take some pics for me, first off the girl has skills cause she made my lil newb avi look good! The thing that made me a closet groupie was not only the fact she is amazingly talented but nice! We chatted of course during the pics, had some common interests and Ely gave me some skin tips (Tuli, omg! I love her!) for which I will be eternally grateful. Whenever I would run into her, Ely would offer a "hello" and "how's it going?" Do not tell her, but back then whenever she acknowledged me it was like "OMG! She just spoke to me in public! How cool is that!" ok I still think that, but please don't tell anyone. The thing is all this groupieness I had and still do, is because her talent still blows me away, also became a friendship that has lasted through a lot of ups and downs. My shyness keeps me from being in the mix of all things SL but there are a few people in SL that should they ever need me, all they have to do is IM, email, send up a flare and I am there. We don't have to "chat" non stop, sometimes we don't even speak for weeks, we take off from SL for some RL craziness, we keep tabs on each other, check on each other occasionally and if we ever need help hiding a body we are gonna be there when called. Ely is like that for me. So why the long history? Well I sort of took a sabbatical from SL and about the time I was headed out Ely started creating her Elymode line. The Elymode line is a real treat and about to celebrate it's One year anniversary! Trying not to sound too groupie-ish, but as a fashion obsessed soul, I have to say, I really, really love her creations! They are cute and sexy and fun and make me feel good when I wear them. I am modeling the new group gift coming out next week, and comes in a purple, blue and the green I am wearing. I think if you go and check out her shop you will be a fan too. Now I have to go and try to regain my coolness, and stop gushing like the groupie that I am.

Outfit: Elymode VIP Group Gift in Green/Blue (available next week!)
Skin: Tuli Jade shade 3 version 5 (did I mention how much I love Tuli?)
Hair: fri.day Marie Cranky Brown

Floating on a Cloud of Pink

This is one of those gowns that once on you feel like a princess and everything changes, your posture, the way you move, how you hold yourself. I love this gown. It's so elegant, and texturally interesting, the color is said to be pink but I would call it more of a blush that leans to peachy pink. I know this pic doesn't highlight the front of the gown and if I wasn't so tired from this week I would have done a front shot too but well I got carried away working on this photo and now I really need some rest, but trust me, it's a beautiful gown and one of my new favorites.

Baistice Gown: Comme des fleurs in pink

Paper Couture Necklace: Golden Nest Necklace

Hair: Fri.day Joanna

Skin: Tuli's Jade Tone 3

Shoes: Armidi Barcelona Slingbacks in Peach

Brigitte Gown

This is a quick post on a gown I bought last night. I fell in love with this as soon as I got the notice from my BOSL magazine readers group and rushed to My Precious by Agnes Finney to purchase it. If you join the VIP group you get a discount on the gown to boot! This is so "my style" and it's really a beautiful gown. The lace top and ribbon accent is just gorgeous. I am only showing one version, because...drum roll please....It comes in different versions all in one package! There is the short pencil skirt, long column skirt, with train and without, the top has an optional ruffle bottom and you can mix and match as you choose. I love versitility! My skin is TULI's Jade and jewelry is Paper Couture and available on xstreetsl.com. Gee I think I might start humming "I Feel Pretty".

Summer vacation and looking to go shopping in style. The artilleri black tank and sunglasses a couple of my favorite wardrobe staples, and the COCO pumpkin pants are sassy and cute but still fashionable, toss on Lelutka's Audrey hat and Start a Riot necklace with my Maitreya Gold Shanti sandals, grab my Lelutka bag and I am off to burn up my credit card in the shopping district of my fav vacation spot!

Newbie Challenge

Gogo issued this challenge:

http://juicybomb.com/2010/07/04/newbie-style-challenge/

I decided to give it a shot, I went for a dressed up version. First stop was Miel for the group gift a really cute hair with a scripted head band that has multiple colors, a bonus for those on a shoestring budget as it will go with more than one outfit. Next stop skin, I wanted a good quality skin, and lucky for me ORTA's group gift of a lovely dress and accessories that we have seen on the feed lately comes with a wonderful Lelutka skin. ICING has always got really sweet dresses for those on a tight budget, there are usually three available and all are free and pretty. (If you are keeping track I have 4 dresses at this point, one complete with accessories) I wanted to create a more cocktail version so I headed to COCO who has several group gifts and picked up the ruffle lace skirt, this worked great to make my look more of a cocktail version. Shoes were easy, Maitreya's group gift for subscribing is 15 pairs of colorful pumps! Jewelry, JCNY has a Newb gift bag with earrings (please be sure to turn off the bling!). In my searching there are many many quality creators that offer gifts you just have to search them out. If you don't have the lindens to purchase the look you want, you don't have to beg for lindens, find a person who's look you like and just ask, who are their favorite creators and does that creator offer free or group gifts, most will be happy to share the information. One last thing, Dove Swanson of LAP offers a free AO for newbies so you can lose that awkward walk! All in all I am happy with my finds and fear not, you can look great on a shoestring budget!

Lelutka Summer Top

Little post on one of the Lelutka summer releases. I bought this top: [LeLutka]-VALLEDUPAR Top in black, on a whim, and it sat for a bit in my inventory but I was rushing to get some more shopping done and threw on my *COCO* AnklePants inWhite and needed something quick to add as my top because well lets face it, no shirt, no shoes, no service is in fact a good idea. So I quickly opened up the bag it came in after wearing it which is nice since I don't have ANY prims left at home to be opening things and I was all set! I think I may need it in more colors! Definitely a new fav!

PXL's Candy

Ran by PXL today to check out Hart's new skin called Candy and it is appropriately named as this is a sweet skin, I love it! I have a nice collection of various skins and I am thrilled to be adding this one to the collection, I am sure I will be adding more makeup's of this skin very soon! Beautiful work Hart!