Frosty Fashion

The weather where I am in RL has gotten unseasonably frosty, so I've been wasting time indoors playing dress up with free stuff I've found in the Second Life market place. That's right, all of these outfits cost me 1L each or less to add to my repertoire and are completely new mesh gear. You don't have to spend a lot to look good!  All the snapshots below contain outfits built around new items, with older bits and hairstyles added in.  All of them were taken at Pair A Dice except number six, that was done outside Xcite HQ.

1. Red holiday sweater dress from VavaVoom.  Shoes from In Her Shoes.  Stockings from B@R.
2. Black & White dress from Voxxi.  Shoes from Patula's.
3. Red gown with corset from Gatit@s.  Hair from Vignette.
4. Top, shoes, jewelry and skirt from Iffyta.  (Collor change set in 6 tones.)
5. Leopard top from Alyce.  Shorts from =Aquarius=.  Shoes from Grumble.
6. Blue sweater dress from Fantazi, comes with leg warmers.  Stockings from Grumble.  Note that he alpha on this dress was too long in the arms for me, so I had to make some prim mittens and a hand alpha. Without the mittens I had floating disembodied fingers.

These are the 26th through 31st outfits posted here since the 1st of November.

Winter is coming.

No, this isn't a post about Game of Thrones.  Those words were used by people before ole George made it a catch phrase you know.  As it happens, the first really cold days of the year have come to my RL home and it does feel like winter is finally on the way.  And about the same time, I found that Tomomi-san, the owner of Momi-chan's, had redone her garden in a winter theme.  So, to get with the vibe, I put on some warm boots and my favorite puffy white jacket, stood near the nice little fire and took a snapshot.  The coat is from Grumble and has been in my blog before, but I do like it and keep wearing it.  For one thing, being poofy and mesh, it's easy to wear things under it, including nothing at all if you're in that sort of mood.

And, in to keep with the dress up and show off thing that I've got going, here are three more outfits I posed in around Pair A Dice.  The bits and pieces are from all sorts of places like Duh, B@R, Grumble, Baby Monkey and others.  And they are pretty random, as are the sorts of places I took the snapshots.

For the count, that's four more outfits, bringing my total posted since November 1st to 25.

Wicked Pirates

Here are two more looks, one is a Karu Karu latex outfit with Latex boots from Slave Dressing Room.  The other is a open front and back little number from Razor, shoes are from Belle Dejour.

The naughty little open laced dress shot was taken in the salon.  The latex outfit shot was snapped in the dungeons under the mansion at Pair A Dice. A sim based on pirates?  Of course we have a dungeon!

If anyone is counting, these two outfits are the 20th and 21st to be posted here since November 1st.  And today is only the 13th.

Are you an animal lover?

I've had all sorts of pets in RL.  My personal favorite pets are cats.  Cats and I get along.  We understand each other.  Dogs are OK, but I'm just not wired to appreciate the best parts of dogness.  One of my favorite quotes is, "We are gods to dogs, and staff to cats."  I really don't want to be anyone's god.

Regardless, those who look after abandoned animals are worthy of our thoughts, and perhaps our support.  If you think so, perhaps you should check out the Circ De Seraphim which is a fund raiser for the ASPCA.

Four More Random Looks

Without further comment, here are four more random looks.  Mostly from Grumble, mostly mesh.

More Mesh Looks

A few days ago I decided to just start playing dress-up and showing off the results here.  The point?  To demonstrate how many nice outfits a person can put together in Second Life and spend very nearly zero L$ doing it.  Most of these are promos, group gifts, hunt gifts, dollarbies, freebies, etc. all to be had for under 10L.  Those that cost more are, unless otherwise stated, purchased at a discount.  Usually on sale at the shop, or at a promotional event like The Thrift Shop or something run by Relay for Life.  I almost never pay full price for clothes in SL.  Yet, I think I put together a lot of quite lovely looks.

All that said, here are ten more outfits.  All the snapshots were taken in various places around Pair A Dice.  All but one of the outfits is mostly mesh.  That one exception is very old system and prim clothing, and I think still looks pretty cute.  It was also the first dress I picked up in Second Life.

If you are curious as to who made what, here is a quick listing of most of the clothing and shoes.

1. Pink dress by Meli Imako.  Shoes by Blackburn.
2. Silver dress by Wolves Virtual Project.  Shoes by Angel Alphaville.
3. Pink dotted dress by [S].  Shoes by Baby Monkey.
4. Smock with Arabic by Blaraby.  Shoes by J's.
5. Oriental Fan dress by ArisAris.  Shoes by Grumble.
6. Off shoulder smock from Black Dailia.  Boots from Slave Dressing Room.
7. Dress, shoes and hair all from Truth. (My oldest dress btw.)
8. Steampunk top by Grumble.  Pants from Karu Karu.  Boots from Blackburn.
9. Top from Meli Imako.  Skirt from HOC.  I made the hair myself.
10. Dress from Slave Dressing Room.  Boots from Grumble.

If you follow my blog you might notice that #8 is the item from Grumble I mentioned here that can only be gotten via lucky chair.  Recently, one night while at the shop, I got lucky!

FYI:  If you count since November 1st, I've posted images of 15 different outfits in seven days.

A wedding in Pair-A-Dice

A friend of mine Prissy, aka Amelia, got married last night at the chapel in Pair-A-Dice.  After the ceremony we had a DJ playing music, dancing, merriment and fireworks.  Considering how many hats I wore during this process I'm surprised it turned out as well as it did.  She seemed happy, which is what matters.  Anyway, to commemorate the happy occasion I took a bunch of snapshots.  Here are a few showing the lovely bride, groom, yours truly and the guests.

Saying their vows.

Dancing at the reception.

The cake and some pink rum punch.

Fireworks finale.

Life's a beach.

Keeping at putting more just random outfits here.  Here's a mesh bikini and a t-shirt and shorts combo I've had forever.  Both the t-shirt and the shorts have been in postings before, but this is the first time I've ever worn them together.  I put them on when someone made a comment about being forced to wear a t-shirt and cut offs...

K-Mart? Who cares?

I was wearing what I consider to be a cute little sundress type outfit the other day.  And someone made a comment, I think intended as a joke, about flowery muumuus from K-Mart.  I have attached some snap shots to this post wearing the outfit, made at the Tiki bar at Pair A Dice.  What do you think?  Do you judge this outfit as K-Martish?

Me, I think not, but maybe my opinion of K-Mart is stilted?  Regardless, the whole thing made me think about how many outfits I have saved.  And how many more I could put together.  So, in a vein similar to what I did a couple of years ago, I'm going to put together and post a new outfit every time I log in for a while.  I think this should be an interesting exercise.

More Library Mesh

Last night for Halloween I wore a "costume" that was mostly a mesh avatar from the shared library.  But I've found all kinds of stuff there.  Nearly all of it is no-mod.  And it is not in multiple sizes the way most mesh fashion is.  Each of the mesh avatars in the library has a mesh body of a particular size, so, the mesh clothing meant for them only comes in that size.  Happily, I'm pretty close to the size of some of them.  So, some of these items are usable by my typical avatar.  The alpha layers are much less so, but you can make your own, or find copy alpha layers that come from various vendors for other items.

As an example of this, in the outfit pictured here, the top is library mesh.  But the alpha goes too high on me.  So I had to make a little prim dickey.  The mesh pants from the outfit did not work on me, so I am wearing a skirt from Happy Undead.  Shoes from Grumble and some hose and garters.  I think the outfit is nice looking, perhaps with a sort of sexy secretary vibe.