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2/52 – Coral

vikirose — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:35:57 +0000

No, I am not time travelling. I am kind of playing catch-up with 52 WCC Part Deux. Week 2 was Coral.

The various tones of the color coral are representations of the wide range of colors of the class of cnidarians, also called corals. The first recorded use of coral as a color name in English was in 1513.

Location – Empyreal Dreams (The Raven art installation).

Filed under: Blogger Challenges Tagged: Calico Ingmann, DUH!, Jane, Mother Goose's, Secret Store

4/52 – Iron

vikirose — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:35:14 +0000

Given that I don’t particularly like Christmas & New Year these days, I had to take time away from SL and have a bit of me time in RL. This meant that I missed the start of Luna Jubilee’s 52 Weeks of Colour Challenge – Part Deux, so I jumping in at week 4…

Filed under: Blogger Challenges Tagged: D!va, DUH!, Jane, Mother Goose's, Ricielli, Sleeping Koala

2011 in review

vikirose — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 10:24:28 +0000

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 2,900 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 48 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

Filed under: Uncategorized

Acid & Mala

vikirose — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:42:38 +0000

.:A&M:. Skull Tattoo Long Tank – Purple Halloween ’11 group gift *no onger available* (other colours in store for 100L$)
Pants | Plastik | Aeda – Slack / Gunmetal

Filed under: Clothes, Group Gifts Tagged: Acid & Mala

I love Plastik

vikirose — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:37:18 +0000

No, not a spelling mistake. Certainly not that stuff you get in real life! I mean The Plastik, one of a very small number of stores in SL that I really love.

If you dont know already, there is a big sale at The Plastik to help Aikea Rieko get her external harddrive fixed (for more info click here). As I don’t have much in my inventory from The Plastik, I couldn’t miss up the opportunity of 50% off the clothes. However, there are other savings to be had in the store (see above link).

Filed under: Clothes, Hair, Sales, Skins Tagged: Cool Beans, Exile, Jane, Plastik, [IREN]

Alphabet Challenge – F & G

vikirose — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:23:45 +0000

So everyone else is on K… but all kinds of dstractions got in the way, so I am kind of playing catch up.

Filed under: Blogger Challenges Tagged: Apple May Designs, Cool Beans, Detour, Exile, Filthy, fri.day, Gato, Jane

Interview with Evelyn Hartshon

vikirose — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:07:00 +0000

I have known Evelyn, aka Evie to her friends in SL or Plurk, for most of my time in SL. I first met her when she was a DJ at Foot Loose, a club that I had come across by accident but sadly closed after a few months. Since then we have become best friends and family

Evelyn started her SL career as a designer when she started to make cothes primarily for herself but soon started to make her wares available to the rest of SL. Her first store was Evie (rebranded to Pompompom), and on 01.07.11 she launched a new store called Sleeping Koala.

What inspires your designs?

A mix of RL fashion and SL fashion. I tend to just mess around with the generic LL clothing templates and see what appears on it!

How you started out as a designer in SL?

As a manager at CAFE Andromeda I’m entitled to a parcel of land, without rent or tier costs, so I made the most of it. I bought a small parcel, and decided to open a store. I had never made any item of clothing in sl before I opened the store so I was totally new. I downloaded the tshirt templates from the SL tutorials and pasted cartoon pictures on them. Then my store grew, started making some furniture stuff and my store has grown from there.

What do you enjoy about being a designer?

I enjoy making a small contribution to make residents experiences in SL more exciting. I like helping them to look good and feel good about the way their avatars look. I also enjoy learning new things and testing my imagination and design abilities.

Who are your favourite SL designers, and why?

Hmm, For clothing, Tyr Rozenblum (Grixdale/Aura) goes without saying. I love her hand drawn clothing, textures and designs. Last Call was my all time favourite store for clothing, sadly Ginny Talamasca (the owner) is no longer with us

Mochi Milena (Pink Fuel) and Kaethe Dressen (Leafy) are my favourite skin designers. I also love Japanese stores, but there are too many to mention (I think you mean obsession , lol.)

Filed under: Clothes, Interviews

Betty, Lulu and Marie

vikirose — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:56:41 +0000

I thought I would do a Look of the Day post. I haven’t really done in ages, and with some really nice group gifts out in the last few weeks/days, it was an opportune time to do a LotD.

Skin | Filthy | Nov.gg . f . Ivory group gift
Hair | =YunA’sHAIR= | {Marie}=[Gift] group gift
Dress | Sn@tch | :::Lulu Knit Dress (Brown):::
Sweater | Sn@tch | :::Lulu Knit Sweater (Black):::
Boots | Plastik | Arke Boots – Betty group gift (no longer available )
Piercing | [VIRTUAL INSANITY] | MORBID EXTRAVAGANZA

Poses – Hopscotch – Scenes de Ballet 3 -m & 13

Filed under: Group Gifts Tagged: Filthy, Hopscotch, Plastik, Sn@tch, Virtual Insanity, Yuna's Hair

Vampiric Kitty

vikirose — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 08:21:53 +0000

You can find the complete outfit at Rotten Defiance, to the right of the stairs for 100l$. It includes 6 different cuffs for the pants.
The hair is from (love). You can find it on the counter for 1L$, and includes the Melanie style. Although it is labelled fatpack, it is just one hair of both Agitha & Melanie styles with a HUD with which to recolour your hair.
I had been doing a bit of the October hunts, one of which is the 5th Zombie Popcorn Hunt. I will be doing a post on the ZPH5 soon. One of the 100 stores taking part is Virtual Insansity.

Location : Rotten Defiance mainstore

Filed under: Freebies/Cheapies, Hunts Tagged: (love) hair, Rotten Defiance, Virtual Insanity

Seraphim

vikirose — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:12:22 +0000

One of my go-to blogs regarding sales, weeklies etc is Seraphim. They have opened an inworld HQ and had some cool stuffs for free, but you need to join the -Seraphim- group(which is free to join). Word on the grapevine is that there could be more goodies coming soon, so join the group to keep up with the news!

Location : The Far Away

Filed under: Clothes, Hair, Shoes, Skins Tagged: Seraphim