The Lights are on…

Things have been a bit quiet on the blogging front but not because I haven’t been busy. There have been numerous sales, new skins (yay!!) and my inventory is overflowing with new and old things to show you. Said inventory starting to look like plant from Little Shop of Horrors…



Today I am featuring a new couple pose pack by Rogan Diesel of Dieselworks called Best Friends Forever. And I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to show you my new alt. I have been fiddling with her shape and sending her to sales and cheap places to buy clothes. I did buy her one of the new Hounds of Love skins from & Bean which suits her quite well I think. I was going for a stronger less conventionally pretty look.



I bought a bevvy of new hairs for me, my girl alt and my male alt from Boon which was having a sale (I believe its over now). I have been looking for some different styles, and I’m especially happy with the male hairs (I will be showing those later). I also had to get over to Artilleri where I bought some really cute clothes as well as  guy stuff (Antonia was having a 50% off sale on red, white and blue!) I am wearing some of my Artilleri finds and my alt is wearing clothes that were all bought on the cheap from !Duh, Glam Affair (discount section) and Cupcakes bake sale. Aside from the skins nothing that I’m wearing was over 80L’s.



Besides my alt’s &bean skin, I am wearing one of Fashionably Dead’s new skins. I couldn’t resist picking up a few of those, as they are some of my favourites. So here I am waiting for the tornado I thought would come, listening to the crickets and looking at my empty wallet!



All pics were shot using Dieselworks Best Friends Forever Pose set 649L, or 199L ea. Pics shot @ Butterdish. Some of the stuff I’m wearing is older (ie older group gifts and sales).

Credits: Myself – Skin Fashionably Dead (fd) Slasher4 (bird skin), SLink Winkles Heels Bliensen&Maitai earrings, Artilleri 1st Mate Capri’s (red), Artilleri Sailorette Top (red), Tattoo Artilleri Old School, Deco Buddy Glasses (black), Hair Boon Tom245 hair (blond). Saoirse – Skin &Bean HoundsOfLove Koltrast (light), Boots !Duh Cowboy (black), !Duh Sweet Girl Piercings, !Duh cut stone corded necklace, Top [aRawra] Vintage Tankdress (black), Samsara Cupcake sale bracelet, Boon Bad980 (black).

Enchanted…

Normally when a new skin comes into my life I walk around the grid for a couple of days to get a feel for it. I tweak the face to fit the skin better and try to get a feel for the personality and how this skin fits with my Avie. “Enchanted” is the new skin from Cupcakes and at first glance has much in common with Seduction, another Cupcakes skin. I remember Seduction's lips primarily and these lips are still large and beautiful. I found my Avie had a sad look to her so the lips got smaller and corners turned up a little more than usual. She had something of a classic beauty look to her which is fine though I like my blonds to have an edge. I was running around shopping…(so many sales!!) when I spied this dress from A-Bomb and with the shoes..I realized all it needed was some funky hair and I’d have an 80’s Debbie Harry feel.

The body has some nice shading and its understated, soft with a lovely belly. There are areas across the body where the tone is a little uneven but could be interpreted as light tanlines. The face is especially well shaded with contouring around the cheeks, lips and eyes. I have shown the freckled versions as I love the texturing, freckles are lightly sprinkled around the body.

The skin comes in four tones; Cream, Apricot, Sienna, Sepia, and Cioccolato. All my pics are with the Sienna Tone, a light tan.

There are 11 Make-ups which run the gamut from Bare to Ruby. Eye make-ups are pretty, and lips range from very glossy to matte. Left side; Bare Freckles, Berry Freckles, Fairy Freckles, Glamorous Freckles, Golden Freckles. Right Side; Midnight Freckles, Natural Freckles, Princess freckles, Ruby Freckles, Smokey Freckles. (I left out Midori Freckles, oops!) This picture doesn’t do justice to the gorgeous eyes and lips, it is well worth demoing just to see them. Individual skins are 1000L with fatpacks going at 5000L. Poses are from Flowey, who is having a 50% sale this week and I found the Mike and animation (Falta’s Animation) for free in the sim where I took the pictures, Sinners Heaven. The Hair is from Truth and the shoes from A-Bomb as well, are texture change which makes them pretty versatile.

Credits; Outfit 1-Skin-Cupcakes Enchanted/Sienna, Eyes-Exodi Vetro Eyes Blue, Outfit-A Bomb Little Lisa Dress, Fukmi Shoes, Jewellery Violet Voltaire Creepy Crawly Cuppycake, Hair-Truth Grazia Mirage. Outfit 2-Skirt Tuli denim miniskirt pink, !lux! Pink Band Aids Luxicous Main Store, Flipflops Sand Shack Surf Co. Freedom flops pink. Poses from Flowey (Bottom pose is a blogger gift from Vposes.)

Blame it on the Hammock!!!

Rogan Diesel of Diesel Works Animations sent along a hammock for me to try. It didn’t take me very long to figure out that a hammock is no fun alone, so I called up my friend Qwynne MacMoragh to see if he liked it. Now I must tell you that we haven’t spoken for months and things were kinda left hanging… Awkward…

Who knows the reasons these things happen….I had originally hired him to help with some…dirty jobs, things that required more brawn than brains. Qwynne wasn’t pleased.. He started hanging around with that Hussy Vanitas Mistwallow, going AWOL, not showing up for shoots and then the accusations began. I will go on the record when I say I have no idea what became of her…One day..poof. I can assure you that girl knew how to find trouble. Anyway all that aside we found ourselves talking about things. It seems Qwynne is very interested in the development of the new adult continent Zindra. I told him, at this point everything is very generic with people standing around waiting for something to happen. I couldn’t believe it when he grabbed my butt…

Ok so, about the hammock. Pillows are texture change and you click on the pillow to change pose. The Hammock comes with either poles or palm trees, and I had to go for the poles as I’m living in a dystopian themed sim and I might get thrown out if the place starts to look too good. I also don’t really want to dig any holes…who knows what’s buried in the bog? (Take that Vanitas Mistwallow!!) Changing one animation changes for both male + female.

Qwynne will testify that the hammock is very comfortable. Just when things were getting interesting, he fell asleep …and I am now accompanied by the soft refrains of snoring…

Credits:

Qwynne MacMoragh-Skin MMS Madrid Halloween (chesthair..) Group gift from a while ago, Damiani Eyeglow, Earthstones Stoned eyes turk, Reaction Frosty Jeans, Stallie Shirt white, Thongs Charcoal (this guy has not bought any new clothes for a while..).

Shelby(me)- Skin Curio petal Frex June Doe, Outfit Mischief Shanie (Sale), Hair rose +RP+ Chain cross blk (fantasy faire), Bangles Dark Mouse DM Lotus Flower, Shea Bracelet, Eyes Tacky Star Strange Rainbow, Shoes !Duh Clogs Scarlet (all DSN).

Diesel Works Hammock- 899L, * Syncronized Animations, Texture Change, Smooth Swinging, 19 Prims, Available Group Discount. Diesel Works Also Sells Pose sets, A modelling Chair, and AO’s to come. The store is well laid out with a rezzed copy of the hammock for you to try.