Once Upon A Time.....

This was one of the many wonders I found during my search for the Sleepy Hollow inspired dress (more to come on that - I finally have the dress!).

The first stop on my journey was Evie's Closet. An absolute wonderland of magical, fairytale inspiring gowns and accessories. If you haven't been there - you MUST add it to your To Do List.

I really don't want to detract from the stunning gown with matching Collar & Crown (sold seperately - but with all matching colours to the different variety of colours this dress comes in) so I'm hoping the photos do all the talking for me.

All I can think of when I wear this ensemble is Once Upon A Time - The Evil Queen. I feel a little Lana Parrilla at the moment. I don't know why, I just do. probably because it's one of my favourite shows at the moment. But obviously I have a little more ....... hmmm .... 'niceness' .... to me with the wings and delicate touches of flowers on the accessories. Evangeline Miles really does go all out with her designs and I'm so glad she does!

Shape: My Own

Skin: [CheerNo] Femme Belina - Tan

Hair: [e] Shine - Black

Eyes: Aphotic Gloom - Aquilius Eyes - Tirablue

Lashes: MIAMAI_NoAlpha Lashes_ N01

Ears: Panda Express - Lil's Elf Ears -Repent

Crown and Collar: Evie's Closet - Tuala - Crown & Collar - Fortuna II

Dress: Evie's Closet - Tuala Gown - Fortuna

Shoes: Dilly Dolls - Stella Dollies Dark - Red Option

I need this dre.....OMG SHOES!!!!

As do most of my random moments......todays mission started with a plurk!'

Some how, some where I stumbled upon pictures of Sleepy Hollow movie costumes and it all went downhill from there. So like I do - I ventured to plurk to ask if anyone knew of a creator that had made the gorgeous dress that Christina Ricci wore in the movie. Apparently having a random cleanout of your plurk friends list and narrowing it down to 60 odd people leaves very little in the way of getting a response. Oops, my bad! OH SANUUUUUURRRRRAAAAA....... please replurk my plurk because I 'KNOW'you have a huge amount of creators in your list *bats eyelashes*. She's the best!

Sanura's replurk lead to a few suggestions so off I toddled to a list of stores in search of this dress. I was on a mission and NOTHING was going to stop me! First stop - Evie's Closet. Oooo would you look at that cute crown and collar set, what was I here for again? yeah, nothing is gonna stop me, huh?!

After traipsing around Evie's Closet and buying NOTHING that I actually went there for (blog to come soon on that spending spree!) I went to a few other stores and ended up in Dilly Dolls. Shame on me for never having shopped there before! Now this entire time, I might add, Sanura and I are in a skype conversation and I'm rambling randomly on little things I find and she happens to mention that she knows Dilly Dolls is having a sale at the moment.....and that she makes awesome shoes. Bad combination of words in one sentence - Shoes & Sale!

So there I am....standing in a room FULL of shoes...and they are all 60% off. Oh which ones to choose? Hell, I'm just gonna buy one of EVERYTHING! Not to mention buying one pair of shoes twice and then SL eating my delivery - But the awesome brain behind Dilly Dolls, Miss Oriana Kuhr, was ever so kind and helpful in fixing up my blonde moment, and I got my shoes redelivered!

Now I had 3 neat little packages of shoes. BUT - here is the best part ladies - each pair comes in 8 different colours AND with the options of changing soles, straps and tinting......the colour combinations are endless! You think I would stop there right......wrong! I keep wandering the store in search of this elusive dress and stumble upon something just as wonderful.


A corset dress & god knows how many pairs of shoes later I head home completely forgetting about the dress I was in search for. I start unpacking and all of these new goodies overwhelms me to the point of needing blog tension release.

There I am, trying on all my newness and Sanura's awesome brain goes into overdrive telling me I need new horns to go with my new outfit! The best part, she's going to make me some (stay tuned Somnia peeps, Horns will be released soon). I busy myself in making sure my avvie looks just right and I start throwing shoes around the room trying to get dressed while Sanura makes my new horns. Happy Face!

Shoes......Shoes.....

....and more shoes! Oh and boots!

Now after all that, I still cannot find a likeness of the black and white dress I started out looking for. But I am determined.

SKIN: CheerNo Femme Belina

SHAPE: My Own - the dress comes with alpha body so a slight modification was needed to suit the dress

HAIR: [e] Shine - Black

PIERCINGS: [-B-] Basic Piercings Pack - Monroe

HORNS: .:Somnia:. Rawr Horns {Black & Red}

EYES: negaposi Dreaming Eyes - Azur

LASHES: MIAMAI_XGen_Basic Lashes B Black

COLLAR: Evie's Closet Tuala Collar - Fortuna II

DRESS: Dilly Dolls - Davinia (comes complete with built in AO to hold the shape of the dress with stands, sits and walk)

SHOES: 1) Argyle Wedges

2) Stella Dollies (dark)

3) Briar Boots

** Update - I keep forgetting about mesh items versus sculpted items...my apologies. All items in this post are Sculpted prims, however Dilly Dolls does have mesh dresses and boots out now \o/ **

Newbie Style Challenge II

I participated in this last year and had a heap of fun so I had to take up the Newbie Style Challenge Part II again this year.

Now I could have made a brand new account and used some of the stores that have free gifts for accounts under 30 days old. I wanted to actually make sure I HAD to spend money to set up an account so I broke out some newb accounts that I made simply to secure my name when the 'First name only' Resident accounts were started. There were covered in dust and cobwebs from never being used though so it was a definitely a big challenge.

Now I decided to do both a male and a female avatar look since I do use a male alt from time to time when doing photography shots so I already had places in mind to start looking for my shopping. I had originally just planned on leaving these on flickr (hence he info written down the side of the picture) but then I got my blogging bug back again.

Credits in full will be at the very bottom.

Male Avatar - Total Cost L$542

Shape: Made by me - L$0

Skin: Group Gift from *Heartsick* - L$0 (although, this is now a paid group to join)

Hair: [Uw.7R] Aj - Hair Meteoric - L$210

Eyes: .:Hermony:. - Eyes - Herbs - L$5

Ears & Horns: [-B-] Becoming the Bull - L$1 (tail not shown, but included in pack)

Piercing: [-B-] Basic Piercings Pack, Septum II - L$1 (packs comes with over 40 piercings)

Shirt: .:Somnia:. Imported From Real Life {Black} - L$75 (comes in a pack of 3 shirts with different 'Imported from' locations)

Jeans: *COCO*Homme_Geometric_PrintPants_Black - L$50

Boots: *COCO*Homme_Lace-Up_WorkBoots - L$200

Female Avatar - Total Cost L$381

Shape: Made by me - L$0

Skin: Group Gift from *Heartsick* (shown wearing the alpha Teeth layer) - L$50 (one time joining fee)

Eyes: .:Hermony:. - Eyes - Jungle - L$5

Lashes: MIAMAI_NoAlpha Lashes N01 - L$150

Hair: [e] Soft - Black - L$88 (special from COLLABOR88)

Dress: Ingenue ::Brie Dress:: Plum (mesh) - L$88 (special from COLLABOR88)

Shoes: *Patulas House Black & White Ribbon Heels (tinted to match my outfit) - L$0 (purchased from Marketplace)

Guess who's back...............

So I've taken my SL break and have recently rejoined the masses on the grid. I was debating on whether I wanted to start blogging again....and look out - SL now has mesh and Rors has fallen madly in love with all the new goodies she can find.

So this is a very simple post to get me back in the game. I have a few posts lined up ready to throw at you over the next few days so keep your eyes peeled.

For now I leave you with my latest addition to my endless folder of avatars I seem to be collecting. the Unicorn avatar is a full set (tail not shown in this picture). I found the "Violent Seduction - Kirin (fat pack)" on the marketplace and instantly said to myself, 'I must have this!' and so I did. Much to my surprise, because I clearly did not read the entire description properly in my haste to add this to my purchases, the pack includes 5 different Unicorn avatar packs. There's Green, Teal, Pink, Purple and Yellow - and all for $1000L. BONUS!

So as with any new avatar purchase I had to have new hair and clothes so it was over to Sn@tch for my new skirt and top (top comes in a pack with jeans!) and then off to .ploom. for some awesome new hair. I apologise for the lack of names at this point as I am not logged in to Sl to check and my memory is failing me =( but I shall update later.

WOOOOOO it's good to be back!

I Give Up

I gave up a long time ago. I used to think I was strong. I used to think I was able to get over it and move on. My friends tell me I am strong and I can do it. So I smile and put on a brave face, put one foot in front of the other and take the steps to move on with my life. I've let go

SL is a place where you can let yourself go, be something other than what you are in RL. But never lose sight of that fact that behind every avatar is a real person with real feelings and emotions. The endless ups and downs of relationships in SL is enough to crush a persons soul.

And yes that is me.

Fairy Magic

It's been a while since I did a blog review, now that all the fundraisers and store moving and set up has all died down for a bit I figured I'd jump straight back in with a bit of Fairy magic.

Tribal Soul Designs have this fantastic Fairy Line Avatars that include everything you need to look the part. They come in black, blue, golden, purple, green and red and are just adorable. From the cute prim feet with sandal straps to the decorative glowy wings and facial patterned piercings.

All poses (above and below) are from the Winged Poses pack from [ImpEle]

Fairy Line Purple from Tribal Soul Designs

Includes Skin, Shape, Hair, Eyes, Ears, Facial Glow Piercings, Wings & Feet

Fairy Line Purple from Tribal Soul Designs

Includes Skin, *Shape, *Hair, Eyes, Ears, Facial Glow Piercings, Wings & Feet

* I'm wearing my shape and hea-hea Hair in Orange from +BM+

~BBW~

Well if we want to technical it would be BBA.

Now be honest...who is scratching their chin wondering what BBW stands for? For those that don't know, it stands for 'Big Beautiful Woman' (some say Buxom Beautiful, Big Buxom...etc etc). So often we see blogs with all the pictures with what is apparently the SL version of a model. Stick thin, no hips, legs from here to Timbucktoo and ether no boobs, or huge ones. I'm not one to judge on what is right or wrong with our avatar looks, each to their own opinions. I also know there are a few blogs scattered around that feature the larger sizes. So in carrying on from my previous post about the Wear Gray blog reviews. I kept a couple aside for a BBW post.

You can still have curves and a chunky butt in SL and look good in the latest fashions.

Bellissima {1}

Bellissima {2}

For items that have many options I have underlined and italicised the layer, colour, accessories that are shown. Items not underlined and italicised are not shown in the picture.

Bellissima {1}

Clothes - Satin and Mesh available in all colours shown (red, black, blue, brown, purple, green) and with mini shorts or mini skirt (only available at Wear Gray)

Non Wear Gray Items:

Shoes - Sasha Boots in black from ETD

Hair - Zeth in blush/blueberry from [-B-] (Buried)

Shape - My Own

Skin - Acorn Frex [Light] Elf Soot2 from Curio

Eyes - Dreaming in azur from Negaposi

Ears - Elven Ear [Stary] from :Gauged:

Bellissima {2}

Clothes - Feeling Good available in gold/burgundy and silver/burgundy and with train or without the train (only available at Wear Gray)

Non Wear Gray Items:

Hair - Egomaniacal in ink from !lamb

Shape - My Own

Skin - Acorn Frex [Light] Elf Soot2 from Curio

Eyes - Dreaming in azur from Negaposi