Vintage gone steampunk.

If you look back over the entries in my blog, you will see I am fond of showing contrasts.  Below is an image of me in Caledon at the Steam Sky City. I am wearing the same dress as in my last post, but I've added a few elements to give it what I think is a nice steampunk feel.  As always, I suggest you visit Caledon, one of the most scenic and friendly and vast estates in SL.  And they like you to wear Victorian and/or steampunk clothes if you have some.  Don't know what steampunk is?  Check out this link.  Without further comment, here's the image.

Vintage Awesomeness From Grumble

This weekend Grumble will be selling the mesh dress shown here for 60L!  With boots!  If the last one like this was Prissy's cup of tea, this one is mine.  Goth and/or steampunk style!  I luv it!  I'm going to dig up a top hat, some gloves, Victorian boots and brass goggles to give this a truly steampunk look. 

The hair is a freebie from A&A, you should check them out in the Marketplace. A&A and Blackburn were places I discovered in marketplace that have a lot of nice freebies you don't even have to be in world to pick up!

The location is Pair A Dice. As are most of my shots if I do not mention a location along with the image. If you've never been there you really should stop on by. If you can't find it in Search, look me up. The pick is in my favorites tab.

Random Randomness

I was looking for a snapshot today, and came across an image I barely recalled taking.  And I certainly don't remember where I was.  But it was an interesting shot.  So I ran through all the snapshots I have on my current PC in my Mint SLSS folder and found several nice images that I've never published here.  Some I recognize the location, some not.  Some outfits I've shown before, some I haven't.  The following are offered without further comment, as an illustration of things we just happen to find in Second Life.

How about some new sites to see?

I ostensibly started this blog as a travelogue of Second Life.  But I tend to get distracted by the shopping, and other things.  But there are so many neat places I just don't get around to.

I was having trouble sleeping, yet again, and decided to hit some of the recommended sites featured in the Singularity search dialog.  Most were interesting to some degree, but the two that made the most impression were:

The Winter Ice Rock Festival

And

Inspire Space Park

Interestingly, the Space Park is listed as a good place to chat.  While I found many avatars there, even at the odd hour of the morning when I visited, no one was chatting.  Though it is still an interesting place to visit, and perhaps at other hours it's filled with more talkative folks.  I also visited a few music venues, but none stood out for having awesome music, and as a rule, they were filled with people using obnoxious gestures.   I really could do without gestures in SL

Hope you are having a good life, both physical and virtual.

Enmeshed in black and white bargins.

Been shopping again, some at the month long Thrift shop event, some in marketplace.  Below are two really nice mesh outfits.  The black leather dress is from Dollle.  The black pumps are from Grumble.  The white dress is Novi and the shoes are from Blackburn.  The awesome black leather outfit is heavily discounted currently at the Thrift shop, the white dress is a dollarbie!

Prissy Pretty in Pink

There is another excellent 60L special at Grumble this weekend.  It is just the sort of thing my friend Prissy likes, so I got her to pose in it for you all.  Aint she adorable!

It's mesh, and includes not only the dress, but the leggings, shoes and hair band.  Called the sweetie apron dress, it is, don't you think?

Speaking of pink, below is the little Kawaii outfit from AIK I wore on Valentine's Day.

Valentine's Day Parade

I went to a great party at Club Stiletto for Valentine's day.  Live singing, DJs, and the longest dance line I've ever seen in SL.  My viewer reported 50 people there, which is I think about the most a sim can handle.  It was great fun!  This place is current favorite dance club in SL.  BTW, I'm the one in pink.

Grumble is hitting it outa the park lately.

Here's another picture of me in those awesome mesh ankle boots from Grumble.  But the jacket is also Grumble goodness.  This is a secret sale item this weekend only.  At the main Grumble landing point for only 60L!  It's an excellent item and would be priced twice that most places.  So, get on down to Grumble as quick as you can and nab one!

The skirt is a bargain item from last year's Goth fair, and the hair is a freebie from last year's hair fair.  I'm loving this little dressy yet goth outfit.

When the little head does the thinking.

I was recently people watching in SL, and saw an avatar I just have to comment on.  In SL, you can make your avatar all kinds of shapes.  Sometimes you see avatars that are obviously misshapen for effect.  But sometimes you see them that are just far enough off of what looks right, that you have to wonder.  And this fellow was that.  He had the typical massive giant male avatar, but then he had a teeny tiny little head.  And when I looked at his profile, I was surprised to see he was no noob.  He had been in world longer than I have been.  I was too timid to IM him and ask if it was a subtle joke.  Anyway here's a picture, face pixelated, next to DaVinci's Vitruvian man,  Which is considered an ideal male shape.  SL is 3D, so there may be a bit of foreshortening in the image, but I assure you, it is minimal.  The proportions in world are as shown.  And yes, he is standing on one leg.  His AO moved him just as I took the image.

When I see a massive misshapen avi like this in an adult sim, and they are not wearing clothes, I've noticed that the size of the lower head, is often as much over-sized, as the upper head is undersized.  I guess it might be a case of the image reflecting which body part is most involved in the thinking.

More awesome mesh footwear.

I wrote a few weeks ago about the best fitting boots I've ever had in SL here.  Turns out Grumble is starting to make even more stuff like this.  These new ankle boots shown here are part of offerings for the Thrift shop full sim event.  But the fact the boots are non-rigged mesh and mod, means that you can resize them in all three dimensions separately.  That makes them a marvel for fitting to any size avatar. 

The dress is an older offering also from Grumble.  As it happens the jewelry and hair I'm wearing are all from Grumble as well.  So you can see that it's a one stop shop sort of place.  The place is like Sears for SL or something. 

The location where I took the snapshot here is the new beauty salon at Pair A Dice.  All sort of activities and opportunities to catch up on your gossip abound.

So you should take a few minutes and swing by all three places and check them out.