Cranberry Snowflakes

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Today I’m showing you a beautiful Christmassy blouse from Moonstar’s Advent Calendar!

It comes in classic mesh sizes plus fitmesh for classic, Freya, Isis, Venus, Lara, Osasin, eBody, Hourglass, Physique, Curvy, Fine, and TMP!  While the fit is great on Lara, the really long cuffs on the sleeves have some clipping issues with Slink hands, so I’ve retouched the pics a little 🙂

I also finally get a chance to show off my Christmas present to myself, these absolutely fantastic corset laced jeans from L&B Swear!  I saw them on a blog I follow and they instantly became a must-buy, and as it’s Christmas time, I got them for myself.  They come in a one-size-fits-all for classic, and specific fitmesh for Lara, Physique, Hourglass, Venus, Isis, and Freya.

They have a massive texturing HUD with 14 denims ranging from light stone wash though dry and blacks, plus a bonus black leather version!  You can change the metal rivets, button, and grommets to five different metals, and there are 26 different colors for the corset lacing!  Very versatile!  They are not cheap at L$699, but they are are fantastic jeans, and I’m a sucker for corset lacing 🙂

  • Top: Cranberry Snowflake Blouse by Moonstar
  • Jeans: Chloe Corset Pants V2 by L&B Swear
  • Body: Lara by Maitreya
  • Head: Jennifer by GA.EG
  • Hands: Slink Dynamic
  • Boots: Silver Seduction Ankle Boots by Bootgasm (marketplace link)
  • Hair: Zuyu by Monso
  • Necklace: Single Bead Cord Necklace by Ghee

Hyperborean Chieftan

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I make it a point not to re-blog old items, but sometimes you have to.  I first blogged the Snowmoon Silk Road tunic and pants from Spyralle almost two years ago — just a few weeks shy of two years.  Do you want a good laugh?  Go back and take a look at that post!

There’s a good reason to come back to the Silk Road tunic — Kerryth has created Eagle of the Snows, a new headdressb designed to complement Snowmoon, and it’s available only at Genre!

  • Spyralle — Eagle of the Snows Headdress, exclusive for Genre!
  • Spyralle — Silk Road II Tunic (Snow Moon) and Trousers (Midnight)
  • Baby Monkey — Debbi Boot
  • Dragonsfyre — Sky Nation Native American War Lance
  • [Kikay] — Lolita Gothic D pose

Eagle of the Snows has a number of wonderful options!  There is a removable mask-like portion (shown attached above, and removed, below).  There is also a texture HUD that allows three different pattern choices for the front and side gems.

The War Lance from Dragonsfyre was just what I needed to complete the ensemble.  It’s very nicely done, my only problem was that while resizeable, the minimum size was too big for a “normal” sized avatar (that is, my height of just under 2 m tall).  No problems, I was able to edit -> edit linked and resize the staff and adjust the feathers just right!

Okay, now for the bad news.  This is the last time for Genre!  Spyralle has been a part of Genre for a very long time, and Eagle of the Snows is a bit of a good-bye to this wonderful event.

Do stop by, let’s give Genre a good send-off!

Mahalo!  A hui hou!

Baby Monkey Advent

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Baby Monkey have been running an Advent Calendar, but it hasn’t been advertised much outside the group, which is a shame as it’s open to everyone with no group required!

The dress and boots are from this year’s calendar, and the tights are from a couple of years ago.  Firstly, the dress is in fitmesh for Freya, Isis, Venus, eBody, Lara, Hourglass, Physique, Curvy, and Fine.  There are no classic sizes.  It comes with a three color HUD too.

The boots and socks are one item, and are non-rigged/no modify with a resize script.  They also come with a HUD that allows you to select the color of the boots and socks independently from three different colors.

A great little outfit for tramping though the snowy landscape!

  • Dress: Geena Dress Advent by Baby Monkey
  • Body: Lara by Maitreya
  • Head: Jennifer by GA.EG
  • Hands: Slink Dynamic
  • Boots: Denise Boot Advent by Baby Monkey
  • Tights: Tights Fall/Winter 2015-16 by Baby Monkey
  • Hair: Zuyu by Monso
  • Necklace: Single Bead Cord Necklace by Ghee

As cold as ice… and warmer than fire

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It’s time for  The Trunk Show, and Bee and Solace at Silvan Moon Designs bring you Winter Splendour!

Winter Splendour comes in your choice of eight fabulous colours, some subtle (such as Ice, shown) and some bright and strong.  These are beautiful, and well suited for the Winter Dance!

I have a favourite set of earrings and necklace from EarthStones, the beautiful Twinkling Lights set, but it wouldn’t do for this.  Fortunately, another trip to EarthStones found the beautiful classy Snow Flurry set.  They’ve a beautiful little hud for silver and gold metal textures.

Once again, Bee and Solace at Silvan Moon Designs create a beautiful gown perfect for the season!   The Trunk Show is open now, so  stop by and pick up the demo today, and find your own winter spirit!

Peggy

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A gift from Day 10 of Glitter’s Advent Calendar.

This nice knit dress is only available in standard sized fits, hence there are a couple of tiny clipping issues with Lara.  As it’s not fitmesh, a couple of tiny tweaks to your shape may be required. But the texturing nearly makes up for any issues!  It looks really nice, just the thing for a winter’s day!

Umiko

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OK, since I’m in the Southern Hemisphere, and it’s summer, a Christmas themed swimsuit is fantastically appropriate!

This is the Day 13 Advent Calendar gift from Prism.

I’m so happy to see one piece swim suits making a comeback. I’ve always liked them more that bikinis 🙂

This one comes in sizes for classic smalls, classic larges, and specific fits for Lara, Physique, Hourglass, and Ebody.

Christmas Redemption

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This is my entry in the Flawless Collective Christmas photo competition, which closed last Friday.  I just happened to have used a nice bodysuit by Entice to set up a fallen angel themed outfit for a contest recently, so I thought I’d use that to do an entry.  The rules were simple, take a photo on one of the three sims from the Collective (this was taken at the Entice sim) and be wearing a piece of clothing from one of the Collective’s stores.

There were two main categories for entries, SL snapshots and retouched photos.  Obviously mine is in the latter category as I like to take huge pics in SL (usually around 4200 x 2200 pixels) so I can get good detail, save them to disk, then crop and resize them in Gimp.  For this photo, I also used Darktable to do some color balance, some sharpening, and to get more control over background blur than SL would allow me.  I also added some hair with my meager drawing skills.  As usual, I’m using a projector light to get the lighting effects on the avatar and the ground.

In addition to the two main categories, if a photo doesn’t win the grand prize, it automatically get considered for three themed prizes: most creative, best showing of holiday spirit, and best display of product.  Strangely, by doing a photo of the redemption of a fallen angel at Christmas time wearing a bodysuit by Entice, I think I have all of those covered lol

I can’t wait to see the results, which should be announced on either the 18th of December or the following Friday, as “Friday December 18th” as stated on their web page doesn’t exist on my calendar, at least for this year!

Here’s what I’m wearing:

Nighty night

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This is the Advent gift from Entice’s calendar for day 13!

The lace detailing is super nice.  There are fits for Freya, Isis, Hourglass, and Lara.  The bodice has visible mesh structure (you can see the individual triangles).  Looks like someone forgot to hit the “Smooth” button in Blender, but it’s OK as long as you don’t cam too close.

I took these photos in our house.  I just wanted to point out that the bit of “artwork” over the fireplace is actually a photograph of a section of the Veil Nebula from the Hubble space telescope!  The universe is truly a beautiful and fascinating place!  Both Aeon and I love astronomical things, hence the number of objects I’ve built around astronomy 🙂

Lace Chocolate

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OK, why do I keep finding lingerie to blog?  It seems that I’ll have to run out and do a hunt or something for some winter wear!  This set of lace is from Day 12 of Entice’s Advent Calendar.  Not very seasonal, but I don’t mind 🙂

The set consists of fitmesh bodice, panties with garters, and a skirt that are all separates.  It comes in sizes for Lara, Freya, Isis, Venus, Hourglass, and Physique.  The stocking are applier for Maitreya and Omega.

And here’s the skirt mentioned above.

Ivy Sweater

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I seem to have been coming across lingerie and swimsuits lately so I thought I better find something for the season, and who doesn’t love a cute little sweater dress, tights, and boots during the colder weather?

The sweater dress comes in classic mesh sizes, plus fit mesh for eBody, Freya, Venus, Isis, Lara, Hourglass, Physique, Curvy, Find, Ocacin, and TMP.  I paired it with some leggings from a few years back, and one of my favorite pairs of calf boots!

  • Dress: Ivy Sweater Dress Crystal by BlackRose
  • Tights: Tights Fall/Winter 2015 – 16 by Baby Monkey
  • Body: Lara by Maitreya
  • Hands: Slink Dynamic
  • Boots: Laced-Top Leather Boots, Nude by NYU
  • Hair: Zuyu by Monso