Maritima, Inc. Fashion Week

December 4th through the 10th, Maritima Inc. is holding Fashion Week.  In addition to seeing some amazing creations, you can support a worth cause.  Fashion Week is raising money to donate to Amnesty, International.  If you can stop by any shows, please feel free to do so.  See amazing fashion, It's been incredible so far!  Don't miss another day

52 Weeks of Color Challenge: Sepia

Okay! I've even got as close as I can to sepia font to make up for the fact that I totally caught a space out on Sepia! *LOL*  I searched my inventory, tp'd to all kinds of stores and even looked through marketplace a bit.  I gotta say I found a fantastic pair of eyes on there, sepia tone with a heart in the center.  Too cute lol, but I digress because I didn't get them!  I remembered way back when I was a avi out on my own, looking for a really awesome skin to own I found Rockberry.  I still have and wear on occasion several of my Rockberry skins and this one I've never had the chance to properly show off until now! 

This is the Rockberry Character Skin.  It is created in the sepia tone, to have that old school photograph feeling and I thought it was a really awesome idea.  Truth be told, I never had the instance to use it and I'm so glad I remembered I had it!  The backround stuff, I edited to match the skin because it looked really funky with the actual colors.  The yellow for next week might be insanely easier to handle LOL...I think I have a gray hair now.



Rockberry Character Skin
boof! Whipped Cream Pasties
.magoa. furniture edited in Photoshop
Magika Hair
Shape by Moi

The Snowflake Experience

On a rare occasion, just being known as a blogger will put me in the midst of somewhere I definitely want to be. Before I get into that, let me take you back aways...I was about 15 years old and my older brother was being recruited into the Marines. My parents were divorced and it was just the 5 of us, four kids and a loving mom. Of course, we do the best we can and thats all that you can do to survive. The Marine recruiter came to visit us a few times at our home and surprised us all the day before Christmas Eve by bringing a few little gifts courtesy of Toys for Tots. I was a bit old for that by then, but I was given a big stuffed bear which I thought was cute. My little brother and sister were so happy that it made a big difference to our holiday season. This is what the Toys for Tots means to me. One year, they brought smiles to my family for Christmas and I can never forget that.

The Snowflake Experience, starting December 4th is raising money to support the Toys for Tots charity. 62 designers have come together to donate creations, with the proceeds going to the charity. We are hoping to raise 5,000 USD to give to the children, and I sincerely hope you can all come out and support this amazing organization. For more information, please visit http://www.toysfortots.org/ and read up!

Now, it's only right for me to show you a little sneak preview of what you can find hehe.  There are so many amazing things to show, I hope I get a chance to showcase them all.  This first look was a hoot, I mean really! Long  johns! How friggin adorable is that lol, created by Zoey Gabardini for The Snowflake Experience.  I went with the child-like look because it seemed a bit cute and of course, it IS to benefit the children.  I did wear them as my normal avatar also, yep I did and just as cutesy I might add.  All the excitement of Christmas for children and adults alike, in one little picture!  They come in the blue, with the snowflake pattern or the red & green striped design.  Stop by the paper.doll exhibition and support the kids!  Ah to be young again...

This next photo is a small preview of the great sweaters available via [aRAWRa].  I went with the patterned sweater because it was fun and festive.  It is a great gray color with black accents and it is snug and warm.  Perfect for hitting those snowy sims with your favorite pair of jeans, new snazzy boots and a smexy snow partner!  I've been re-assessing my inventory, which I have let get out of control while blogging all of these events lol and I came across this hair again.  I like it I think I'll keep it! Usually, I'm more of a long hair type person being that I just like long hair [RL also] but its very bouncy.  Not positive, but I think I picked it up at Hair Fair.  Check out this and lots of other goodies available from [aRAWRa] @ The Snowflake Experience.  IT'S FOR THE KIDS! COME ON DOWN!!

And finally, for my preview extravaganza...a little pretty from ~* INDIE ROSE *~.  This is the Dita Corset Dress in Teal [I know, hard to see the color with that kinda pic but hey it's a preview! Go see it!].  It is also available in black, as well as alot of other goodies to choose from.  The pillow comes with the pose and it is from {what next} subscriber group. So this is what you all do, tomorrow you go down to The Snowflake Experience...walk around and shop a little!  You go home with some amazing pressies and you help a beautiful charity for the sweetest people made...children.  I truly hope you stop by!  My donation jar is located @ my job, Similar Italian Footwear if anyone would like to give a small linden gift!  There will of course be jars out at the event, so feel free to donate there as well!

TP here to Subscribe to The Snowflake Experience!

52 Weeks of Color Challenge : Plum

The lovely and talented Anya Ohmai told me today about the 52 Weeks of Color Challenge that was created by Luna Jubilee.  It is currently in it's 4th week and I was immediately interested in joining the fun.  It seems like a totally creative way to blog as well as joining together with other bloggers to see what we all come up with.  In addition, I think it will help me to just be a better blogger all around.  We can all be exposed to brands that we aren't familiar with, and broaden our SL horizons!

This week's color is plum and I was frantic because I don't really wear many shades of purple.  It happens to be my sister's favorite color, and even she doesn't wear it much.  I thought and thought about it and I initially wanted to do a Plum Bedroom scene but I couldn't really find anything I liked.  So I went with what I know...clothes!  The shirt is from paper.doll, and it is "Imagine" in Plum.  The leggings are also paper.doll, WildThing in Amethyst.  The foot laces are from Scribble, and they are purple as well.  Fhang Candy made the skin I'm wearing, which has a light purple makeup palette.  The hair is Truth and I colored the headband purple although it's not quite that easy to see with the pose I chose.  NSA created this pose that I thought went wonderfully, as I wanted to seem like I was skipping freely through purple grass.  Nifty that I found purple grass, huh.  Had a blast on my first try for the Challenge...can't wait to see what we have to come up with next!

Thank you Anya! <3 And also Luna Jubilee for thinking this up!

Hair : TRUTH
Skin: Fhang Candy
Shirt: Paper.doll
Pants: Paper.doll
Laces: Scribble
Pose: NSA - No Strings Attached

Love it when...

Every now and then the SL Gawds will stick you in the right place at the right time.  In the midst of all my Thanksgiving baking, (btw I hope everyone that celebrates had a fantastic one!) I signed on to make sure I was up on all my 5 million things to do everyday.  I was sifting note cards, and as many subscribers as I'm on I have at least 8 every time I sign on.  Crazy right?  Alot of the time they're doubles because I've been offline all day, and sometimes I just know I don't need them and poof there they go.  Do you see how I start to ramble and completely get off topic? Anyway, I hesitated but ended up opening a note card for another hunt.  Slightly burnt out on hunts now, I tried to prove to myself I could finish one which I kind of did I think but that was only because it wasn't very big lol.  Well, I hadn't been to the shop in awhile and it was a hunt that you pay for the items not a free one so I tend to like those a bit more.  They have nicer items, and less fighting for the items than when they are free hehe.  I got an adorable dress from SwanSong for 10L and then my attention diverted and I just started roaming around the sim.  There was a large building with a name I had never heard of, so I swishy-walked right over there and checked it out.  The name was Peqe, and it said formerly Fume which I had also never heard of.  I was in a slight state of shock and dismay, because looking around I could tell I liked the designs of the shop and only finding it now I could only agonize on what I had missed in the past.

This dress caught my eye right away from the texture, to the cut and style but can we talk about the shape of the shoulders? LOVE. How delish is that back? And of course it goes fantastical with my Similar Footwear. The dress itself has a pretty kind of glowy shine to it that is thankfully not over the top and latex looking as well as the super femme waist bow. What can I say? I like it! There were so many more items that I wish I could have added to the story but I am a poor blogger on a tight SL budget lol. I couldn't resist purchasing these though, just to give you guys a taste of this amazing new find. I want to add so you all know that there were ankle boots that matched the dresses, and another style of this kind of dress was White Croc, and there were MATCHING BOOTS. Ugh, you have no idea how hard it was to TP out of there with a few lindens intact.

Now that I look at it, I didn't really show off the fact that I was wearing two different skirts. But, hey I'll let you all know now it was a flat mini and a prim frilly [yep, thats how I describe them] and I like them both! Again, rockin my Similar Footwear lol [shameless plug] and I love the lace in the top and black and white rose skirt. It is so girly and cute, I mean how can you not love how you look in a dress like that?? In addition, Peqe is part of the With Love From...hunt and I got a cute little Tartan Red Plaid dress that I haven't had the time yet to snap a photo in. Take a moment and stop by, seriously I have at least 5 more outfits in my head that I want to get at some point. One of course being that White Croc dress and boots, and there was a Peacock Feather Skirt, or tank dress or mini dress also and they are all adorable! There are tops, pants, everything! Go right now and then show me what you couldn't live without *lol*


Peqe Mainstore

{paper.doll} re-opens!

So, in all actuality it wasn't closed very long BUT now that it's re-opened there are some new designs that are so totally femme and cute, with such amazing attention to detail. This particular little look I created is with the lovely Hannah Sweater dress which can also be worn as a long sweater if your pants/leggins are available in undie layers which paper.doll does!   I found this shop awhile back and I've blogged it before but not really to this degree.  There was always a lil something from paper.doll that I added to a picture or something like that.  Right here, right now I'll let you all know that I love this shop.  The owner is a sweetheart, total doll face and works so hard to make clothing that has both quality as well as some of the most well done sexy type women's clothing I've seen.  It is so easy to make a mini-dress look...what's the word...I'm gonna go with hoochie but I've actually worn some of them [which I never do, really] and lurv'd them!  The colors, the styles, and the new overall look of the shop is worth the TP over.  And can I just say if you have never been, and you don't go?  I'll have to find you and drag you there myself.  I can do it too, I have magical powers in SL!

I've been having a lot of fun mixing and matching new items, perhaps too much but I digress.  The thing I didn't notice until I was editing pictures was that this shirt is slightly translucent and I could totally see my nips.  It's not really something you notice right away though if that helps any *LOL* but I love the Imagine tee's and I'm going to continue to wear them.  I love these Spencer pants, I have to say.  I have every color and I will wear at least one every week!   I recommend going down and at the very least subscribing to the group.  There will be some more new releases next week, wonderful Christmas themes and some new jeans.  Alsooooo I've been harassing Zoey horridly to make some things that I happened to have in my head so I'm looking forward to the release of those as well.  You will really want to check them out...why you say? Because it's me! Well, me and Zoey lolll we all know I can't make a thang.

This would totally be an example of the mini-dresses that are so adorable that you can't help but wear.  The off the shoulder style coupled with the button detailing on the sleeves make Jordyn ooh so glamorous and casual at the same time.  If you really feel its a bit too much toosh to show, you can of course always slap on some leggings and call it a fab day.  It has a really nice shimmer type thing going on and I think the grey one in the picture is my favorite one...plus it looks really great with my shoes! I would imagine it could be worn possibly as a shirt layer if you wear the tucked in look as well.  Things like that pop into my head, I like to get the most out of my clothes lol I'm a thrifty avi. 

Okay now, I don't like this backround anymore but I wanted to get this blog posted lol.  This shirt is my favorite thing, mostly because I know Zoey was thinking about me when she made it.  She doesn't have to say it...I just know.  It's called 'Fly' and its awesome;  the wings on the front because I am so angelic [mhm check the name lol], and all the amazing colors that it comes in as well as the smexy appeal cuz this one's kinda see thru also hehe but a lil more masked because of the wing detail on the chest.  The leggings in the picture are a new paper.doll release as well!  They come in a variety of amazing vibrant jeweled colors with an edge.  They are called WildThing Leggings and in retrospect I should have put some brighter colors on hehe.  My bad!  Those are black and dark blue, shiny and adorable! 

Someone find me a drum to roll, last but not least we have this loverly dress Alexia that has an amazing circle cutout back and the sweetheart neckline in the front with a zipper accent.  One of my favorite RL things to wear is shirts and sweaters with long sleeves that cover about half of my hand.  I don't know why I like it, but I do and this dress has a glove layer that does just that.  Can I also just mention that I think I saw Zoey put up a picture in the shop of the top of this dress coupled with the Spencer pants or perhaps a pair of jeans.  At any rate, I love the variety with all of these pieces and I am silently praying that all of this crazed rambling I'm doing has given some of you the motivation to stop on by and look at some super girly stuff!  OTR...Zoey Gabardini is an amazing designer and should have a place in your second life...well at least your inventory!

Paper.Doll Mainstore

E. E.

Anjelyc:  How do you think that looks Pa? 
                            
 Giovanni: You don't even look like you right now 
            
Anjelyc: i'm trying to mix it up a lil what do u think?
                     
 Giovanni: You look fine how you normally are
                             
Anjelyc: sheesh...perdoname for tryin somethin new lol

Nowadays, everyone is all about the tattoo layer makeup.  It is popping up everywhere, in skin shops and even in clothing shops!  I was...I think I was working and dodging group notices here and there when somehow I came across a listing for a sim that supposedly looks like Manhattan.  Being a NY'er I got all excited and wanted to see what it looked like as well as how it resembled the real deal.  So I patiently played tug of war with the time clock and when it was time to leave, I punched out and TP'd right over to this sim.  I landed in a shop, but I didn't know it was a shop right away being that everything was so gray.  Apparently alot of work went into that sim so I was excited to wander around a little bit and check out the build, as well as the shops on the sim.  We all know I can't resist an impromptu shopping spree. 

So, once the shop started to rez I saw a box with lips on it. It was for tat layer lipstick and it was like...I don't know...60L maybe? I can't remember for sure and my viewer is acting up right now so I can't check. Not that I would...well I might. Anyway, I've become somewhat obsessed with finding a skin for myself that has that perfect dark red lip for the smoldering latina evening look lol. Yep, that's what I call it! As of now, I haven't found it and I am still looking but these tattoo layers could be the answer to my prayers. I have a bunch of skins that I love love LOVEEE but the lips aren't dark red. Pinks, yep and nudes oh I've got a bunch. I love the dark smokey eye with the nude lip look. I even go for it in RL, so I went a tad overboard with that. I just want one skin to have the tone I'm looking for and I can end this madness once and for all! *LOL* As for the tattoo layers, I haven't found the shade of red I'm looking for as of now so I hope to randomly come across it and excitedly tell you all about it.

Once I had rezzed, I realized I was in a shop that was specifically created to make and sell tattoo layered makeups! There is a definite variety of the genre you can just delve right in and make yourself at home putting together a million looks right there in your head lol.  Some of them weren't really what I would call my style, but I know alot of models out there love the extreme fierce look and the dark makeup or dramatic colors.  I have to say the variety is really what stuck with me.  So, even though I am completely overrun with the amount of groups I have I joined this one also.  I don't think I'll be leaving it, to be honest.  The owner is super nice, chats with the group and asks opinions of her customers.  She has started making skins, all the skins and layer makeups in the pictures here are hers.

In the 3 days that I have been a member of the group I think she's sent out 3 or 4 gifts.  At least 2 have been skins from the new line she is working on!  I've never been in a group like that before haha, but it's totally fun and everyone is polite...the gifts are awesome.  I bought a fantastic layer makeup called 'The Clone' that comes in black & white in the same box and its such a shame I refuse to use V2 [so hard! waaaah] because they are 2 part face tats and I can't wear it yet!  I hope TPV's can allow us that also because I'd really enjoy showing it off!

Soooo have I kept you waiting long enough? Hehe...the name of the shop is Elegant Epiffany and it is owned by Bubble Faintree!  For the Budget Impaired on SL, she has gatcha available and also lucky chair.  Group members can participate in Midnight Madness or...is that what it's called? I think so!  There is a group gift at the shop, and like I said random one's via the group itself.  I'd recommend joining if you enjoy wearing the makeup layers.  It's a great, affordable new little place with enough different styles that anyone can find something they'd enjoy! And at some point I have to go back...because I never did check out the rest of that sim build...

Elegant Epiffany