Vows on the edge of 2010

Last night at 21.00 GMT was the moment for Cat and Petrov; their SL marriage. I was invited and after major SL trouble in which I appeared as a noob on my laptop screen 30 minutes before the ceremony started... arghhhhh, I managed to be at the venue just in time wearing all parts of my fancy Gingko LeeZu dress. I immediately took out my camera  and started taking pictures. I had too little time to adjust the light settings but pff at least all people present had rezzed.

Of course there was the ubiquitous lag, but hey who cares as long as the atmosphere is ok, which it was. 

Cat is a beautiful bride in her lovely Son!a Luxury Fashion dress. I loved the lace bodice, so nicely made. Notice the bridal bouquet of white and pink roses: the work of Cerberus of G*Field, she makes the best roses in SL!

Petrov is wearing the awesome suit and shoes of Redgrave. Doesn't he look handsome after his remake? 

Andy accompanied me to the wedding. He looks smashing in his suit, which he was able to find somewhere tucked away in his 3,5 (or is it 4?) years old closet. Although finding appropriate shoes was even more difficult as they were all still boxed. 

Walking together in SL ain't always easy.....

As Andy said: "This had all the trappings of a real world wedding and more.....like the lag effect that propelled the groom down the aisle ahead of his bride....and then left him stumbling over the flower decorations".  

dancing the night away

Wish you lots of happiness Cat and Petrov.

And to all who read this blog entry a SUPER 2011!

Dikke kus

Dido

G*Field's Stella at the Borobudur

This evening Michiel tped me to the Borobudur, well to be precise the project Borobudur coz it's not finished yet. However, what's finished is impressive. I took too many pics and will show you some. Do go and have a look.

Wearing G*Field cocktail dress Stella in red. I love the detailed wrinkles in the bodice and the smooth way the skirts floats around my pixel body.
Also wearing: the red Tiburon booties and Joceline skin both Xmas gifts of YS&Y and Truth Kalista hair in Champagne.


Merry Xmas
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Zaara sweaters and a bottle....

Yesterday my friend Kooky showed me the Abranimations Mocap Drunk AO, which is a Xmas gift and comes with drunk AO and Bottle of wine with drink animation. Is too funny and I had so much fun wearing it. It looks sooo real.

Anyway I decided to blog the awesome Xmas gift of Zaara: a sweater male and female, in resp. green and red. Zaara makes awesome clothes so yeah also these nice sweaters fit super, they come with a collar/shawl and sleeve prims.  
Of course I had to adjust the sleeves of the male one a bit, but I do wanna show you coz it's a super sweater. I love the wrinkles, aww they both look so real. Thanks Zaara for your kind gift!


Wearing also a Xmas gift I picked up at the Rumor sim: the CiCo Uggs powdered, wow they are cute and fit super.

Furthermore:
LaVie Advent Calender 2010 #20 Crazy for Christmas pants in green and red
LAQ Vilda Xmas gift Glow skin in Fair Blonde 
Maitreya Lauren hair in Charcoal
Kosh Bendy nail bracelet
The Rock - caLLie cLine red diamant ring
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Dido

Vilda

 

Posing in another awesome Xmas gift: LAQ Vilda Glow skin (wearing the Fair Blonde option)
Thanks so much Mallory! Smooch


Furthermore
YS&YS Freckles Add Tatoo layer, part of the Xmas Joceline skin gift. Think I won't remove this layer anymore; luv it!
Truth Kalista hair in champagne
Poetic Color eyes Easter Lilac


Happy Xmas
Dido

Basta

As this is a blog about my SL I have to mention that I finished my relationship with my SL BF Matt. Basta, finito or whatever.
This last picture I took I do wanna post however, coz he does have a nice avi and good taste ;-) No hard feelings I hope we can stay friends.


Matt is wearing his Redgrave skin and UncleWeb hair (see former blog entries for info) and:
SF design hoodie duffle jacket mens red
NU i Simple T Shirts Letter black
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Dido

Red is the color

  

 

Red is for sure the colour of Christmas. Showing you some of the awesome gifts I received these days:

YS&YS has been very generous for groupmembers: there are 3 Xmas boxes in store. I show you two, the 3rd is a necklace with earrings.


One gift box contains several Joceline shapes, I am wearing the Joceline Tall skirt, Jocelin skin with several options AND last but not least a freckles add tattoo layer. Wow now this last option is really gorgeous.
The other box contained the Tiburon ankleboots in red with white and red socks option. Love them!


PeppermintBlue: cellFrame glasses hollygreen with hollyleaves
Ellabella: Holly Jolly Xmas piercing (3 wearing options)
The lovely Turtleneck dress I am wearing is from Acid & Mala and a hunt gift
The hair with hairband is the Xmas gift of Maitreya called Lauren, it comes in several colours and you can change the color of the hairband of course ;-).


And you know what this is by far not all ;-) but I picked out a few favorits. Thanks to all the designers for their generosity!
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Dido

Happy holidays

After returning from my super RL birthday trip to Lisbon and Barcelona I logged into SL and have been soo busy with downloading new viewers, hunting/unpacking Xmas gifts and many more useless things. Yeah sooo many Xmas and hunt gifts .... //me sighs. Some are really awesome, some are crap but hey they're gifts right.


And then there are the many SL holiday greeting cards from friends I received, (hugs, thx so much!), buy presents, pack them and make a holiday greeting myself. Well here it is, I posted it last nite: snowqueen Dido (wearing part of LaVie Advent Calender gift #15)  
Wish you all my dear readers a merry Xmas (don't eat too much and no furry animals like rabbits coz they are too cute) and a smashing, happy, healthy, wealthy 2011!


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Dido

Santa's Helper (LaVie Advent Calender #9)

Today I fetched the LaVie Calender gift number 9 'Santa's helper outfit. Pff how green can you get ;-)
Wearing only part of the total outfit that comes with big green shoes, big ears, a skin, scarf, hat and a yum yum.


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Dido


Wearing:
YunA'sHAIR [YH]-22 brown 02
L.Fauna dimples freckles
PC eyes easter lilac
Tuli Claire brunette
Dark Mouse chocolate sparkles earringgs
LaVie Advent Calender 2010 #9 Santa's helper (part of it)
PeppermintBlue Pawswalker tartangreen sneakers
MS FlapJack scarf - sage 

Fishy Christmas gift

Yesterday evening I fetched the Christmas gift of Fishy Strawberry; a super cute babydoll in bright red, which comes with a fur shawl. I love it and combined it with the Joanna highwaist short of R.icielli which I bought this week in the 'Red clothes Sales' (indicated red items priced L$ 20).
Furthermore wearing red Naive Vixie socks, red Enkythings high heels, red diamond Callie Cline ring and *W*red gloves all from my wardrobe.
Posing with Matt at his driveway.


Matt is wearing:

Redgrave Pale Skin Craig 
pc eyes dark wood  
UncleWeb  Jin-Hair02 coffee
Scars Design jacket set [Gray]
Scars - Design Pants [Black]
Redgrave Strap Loafer -Black-  
[MANDALA] Kookai Belt /Black
*Charismatika* Men's Nail Styles - Black

the bear and me ...

I prefer the high waisted R.icielli shorts underneath this babydoll as it shows nicely when the sculpted skirt moves around my pixel body. Boots: Twisted & Spoiled furry cherry.


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Dido

Golden Dress at TDR

When I put on the dress I had to find a matching top coz the dress comes without one, soooo naked tits ;-)
I found this Maitreya Bastille top and yep it fits well same kind of texture.


Wearing: 
A&A Fashion Tal Dress Gold (TDR 18)
Maitreya Bastille top Yellow
Tuli Clair skin
Poetic Color eyes Spring Meadow
Truth Tamina hair blood
R2 Pumehana eluha  boots orange


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Dido

Christmas feeling

Matt is wearing:

A:S:S - Furline hoodie - black
Scars - Design Pants [Black]
[*RG*] Strap Loafer -Black- *REDGRAVE*
Barbed Islands Necklace *KR*
[MANDALA] Kookai Belt /Black

Dido is wearing: 

Fishy Strawberry Winter Outfit: Cuddle Maxipull beige, brown Curduroy Treggings

YS&YS ankleboot Tiburon beige

Picture taken at Snowflake Experience sim

R.icielli Petra II at TDR

Not really suitable for the winter season this Petra II dress coz it's really cold now here in Holland and other Nothern European countries. However, before you know it, it will be Spring again ;-)

I love the textures of this R.icielli dress, the sculpted upperparts and the way the skirts moves around my body. 

Matt joined me at the 'Snowflake Experience' sim, wearing an outfit in a matching color ;-)

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Dido

Dido is wearing:

R.icielli Petra dress

Tuli Clair skin

Poetic Color eyes Spring Meadow

Truth Tamina hair blood

CaLLie cLine ring: the ROCK red diamond

Scribble Necklace Hemp and Glass beads

Matt is wearing:

Redgrave Pale Skin -Cruz- /3daybeard

Poetic Color eyes dark wood
UncleWeb  Jin-Hair02, coffee
Outfit: Phoenix Rising- Risk (Red)
MANDALA Kookai Belt /Black

Hermony Wristbands (black)

LeeZu Vaughn at TDR

I went shopping this afternoon at TDR (The Dressing Room) as there is a new collection out, i.e. the 18th already. Couldn't resist this brown-red  LeeZu Vaugn dress. It comes with two different skirts styles: flexi & sculpted. Showing the flexi version. I love the textures and style and... sooo LeeZu ;-)


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Dido


Wearing:
+Mocha+ short loose socks plain dirty brown
Truth Tamina hair blood
Tuli Clair skin 
Enkythings Ekota T chocolate brown shoes
CaLLie cLine ring: the ROCK red diamond

Hunt and gift girl December 2010

Wearing a mix of hunt gifts:
WLF (With Love For hunt) Fishy Strawberry Metal Foil top
WLF Fall Out Pucketti Jeans (wow super textures!)
League Sheepskin Mittens light brown FLF
DeeTaLeZ wool scarf, part of WLF hunt outfit
COCO belt (old Group Gift)
Fishy Strawberry college glasses (FLF)


D!va hair Chisato topaz forelock (8000 member groupgift)
Poetic Color Spring Meadow eyes
Redgrave pale skin Jessica smoky 
Dark Mouse color change pearl stud gold earrings
Sassy Kitty high heels damask black
C&D Benelli bunny tattoo


Dikke kus and wish you a nice weekend!
Dido


Pics taken at Matt's home 

Gold finger(s)

Yesterday I received this bloggers preview item (55 L Thursday) from Finesmith Jewelry: golden (& purple) nails in three sizes including the awesome rings. I never wear nailpolish in SL but I like these golden nails and I adore the rings coz they resemble my RL taste. 


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Dido

Bints and Slookbook: male stuff

Accidently I stumbled on these cool blogs about male stuff. I like the style and bet a lot of guys with an interest in SL fashion (sometimes I wonder if there are any when I look around me in SL ... ahum) will like to read. And girls who want their SL BF to look good.

 Slookbook entry 'Forever Young

Yeah some free marketing for BINTS by Senan Gardner and Slookbook by Ravi Loresfield. Great blogs guys!
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Dido

Nerdie glasses

 

Wearing:

Tuli skin Claire tone 3/dk/fr 03 (for Skin Addicition group only)

Clawtooth hair Beg Your Pardon - coco (FLF)

Poetic Color eyes spring meadow (free)

Milk Motion My leather shorts 

Fri.day Dion.Shirt teal (FLF)

Myself Barbara vest black (part of outfit with shirt and vest)

Miel Lo refurbished socks

Tiny Bird Scruffy legwarmers dark grey (FLF)

Dark Mouse round about glasses (gold/black) 25L SALES

HoD Fallen Necklace female

The Rumor Pumpkin ICE Cold As Ice Ring

NX-Nardcotix Kurvy pump black

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Dido

Christmas girl Claire

My friend told me that some plurkers have been complaining about me using demo Tuli Claire skin in my blog entry called 'Mwah'. Well to be honest I don't see the problem, however dear plurkers ... as I did not like the blog entry anyway I replaced it with this Christmas girl outfit AND guess what YEAH today after ample consideration I bought the Claire brunette skin.

Price is L$ 1000 and can only be bought by members of the Skin Addict group. For that amount of money you get: 12 different make up options (6 freckled), 8 different lipsticks, several cleavage options and a shape. Not bad, so a sincere thanks to Tuli for being so generous.

Wearing:

Tuli skin Claire tone 3/dk/fr  NEW (NO demo version this time, I bought it Plurkers.. 

MINA Jean hair dark chocolate

Poetic Color eyes Spring Meadow

R.icielli Gabriela military jacket green

Crazy Leire undertop green

MIS Up or Down skirt red

TonTastic biker gloves black

+Mocha short loose socks plain dirtty green

Courtisane La Vivien boots (last year Xmas)

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Dido

Emotions

Second Life is all about emotions. Well nothing new about that, but I am again fully aware of this. Is it bad? Nope, but pfff it's intense to discuss about one's feelings, differences in character and deep thoughts (some safely tugged away), in chat and in a non-native tongue. Most important thing: you cannot see nor hear the other person. So you can only interpret his/her emotions by analyzing the text he/she types, the silences there are (no text), the amount of mistakes made, etc 


Sometimes I wonder why am I doing this, why not keep to myself, behind my safely self built wall and shop, dance, explore and blog about it ... After all I did that for a long long time over the past 1,5 year; i.e. lead a quiet SL, apart from a few lovers....

However, since I met Matt 2 months ago we have become very close. Now that means a totally different SL for me. Now it's difficult not to discuss certain issues that come up and I cannot tp away when I am touched, hurt, bored, or whatever. Reason: I care. 
In the beginning I was sure, after having several BF's in SL, I would do it differently, but nope I guess I have only one way of playing in SL and that's being me, including the usual drama, but isn't that always a part of (second)life.


There are already too many blogs, movies, video's about this topic 'Relationships in SL', but I did wanna share my thoughts with you, my diary


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Dido

My avatar and me

Today I visited the IDFA (International Documentray Film Festival Amsterdam) and the first documentary I saw (of a total of 5) was .... 'My Avatar and Me' (big smile); a Danish creative documentary-fiction film made by Bente Milton – in cooperation with Mikkel Stolt which tells the story of a guy that enters Second Life and the influence on his RL. 

I loved it and OMG the things happening to the lead actor were so familiar to all in SL. And the poses, the dances, the drama arghh I recognized a lot. 


If you are interested visit their website or go and see it in Amsterdam at IDFA. Well that is if you are living near ;-)


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Dido

Synopsis (I copied from the website for all you lazy people):
Mikkel Stolt - is a troubled and unsuccessful documentary filmmaker, who decides to create a new identity, and join the pioneers and settlers in the virtual world “Second Life” on the other side of his computer screen. He chooses the name Mike Proud for his “avatar” and starts off with a typical off-the-shelf standard body.
Shortly after his arrival, a mysterious and influential woman named Helena picks him up and takes him under her wing. Helena gives Mike a complete makeover, and turns him into a sophisticated avatar, equipped with all the animations he needs to interact with the most advanced users of Second Life.


Mikkel is very attracted to Helena, and extremely curious to find out more about her, but she refuses to meet him in real life and her true identity remains a mystery.
Helena introduces Mike to Rob, a professional filmmaker who works for BBC in his real life. They become friends and decide to go into business together. The business thrives as Helena uses her in-world influence to pave the way for Mike’s career.................... read the rest of the story on the website of 'My Avatar and Me'

Pig Sale and D!va Celebration hair Chisato

Pig is moving to another sim (Lloyd) in the nearby future, coz their present location is being sold. Therefore some items at Pig are being permanently retired and prized down to only 25 L$ (fatpacks 99 to 150 L$)! Furthermore anything black and grey is 50 L$. So hurry over there!
I could not resist to buy the fatpack (150 L$) of my fav cardigan 'Ladies like flowers' (wearing in mud here).  

Showing you the D!va celebration gift (this time for over 8000 group membership), Chisato hair in 4 colors (black amber, cat's eye, onyx and topaz), each with 2 styles (with or without Forelock). Hey I love this hair!

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Dido

Swing

Couldn't resist these new Tiburon YS&YS ankle boots and combined them with the LeeZu Madison pants.

Initially I also wanted to buy the new LeeZu Maria jacket, but (sobs) .... I could not find a color to match my newly acquired Madison pants. So I took a deep dive into my closet and came up with my 'falling leaves' Pig cardigan and a Miel tulip tank top to match my new pants and boots. 

It was fun, however, to visit the refurbished LeeZu shop; I hadn't been there for a while. LeeZu is one of my first fav shops in SL. I bought a lot of her clothes over the past 3,5 years and it was fun to recognize many items when strolling around the place. Mmm, maybe she will add a brown Maria jacket to the collection, who knows.   

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Dido

Wearing:

Skin: YS&YS Sharon 07 Smokey Red

MINA hair Jean Red Orange

L.Fauna Dimples Freckles Pale

YS&YS Tiburon beige ankleboots with lightbrown socks (NEW)

LeeZu Madison pants rust

Miel AM tulip tank Vino

Pig cardigan There b Leaves on it (Seasons Hunt)

Poetic Color Eyes Sunny glade

Spencer Museum of Art

Yep Smiling and me we went exploring and here's the result. Another awesome place constructed by Cutea Benelli and Blotto Epsilon is no doubt worthwhile a visit. So for all those who did not yet discover: go and be enchanted. 

On the Museum's Second Life island this organic architecture was constructed by a team of the Spencer Museum of Art, part of the Kansas university. Visit their website for more info about the Petrovsky flux: a cluster of devices that grow, assembling themselves from modular units, only to blow apart and rebuild themselves. Sooo take care of your head coz there are constantly parts of the flux falling down. 

Each time they rebuild differently so the place is constantly changing. There is much to explore here! Smiling and me we had fun watching the flying sheep, sitting on the pink moving chair, jumping on the many scattered poses and sipping our wine in the little cafe. And... there is much more to discover. 

Be enchanted, here's your taxi to Spencer Museum of Art 

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Dido

returned there this evening ... too much to see 

weirdo creatures

Tears of a Clown

Today was a weirdo day for me. My RL best friend is sick, very sick and that influenced my SL a lot of course.
So no words but pics; i.e. the results of a hunt I did to put my mind on something totally utterly completely different: the Bad Juju Happy Birthday Hunt 

There are 17 Birthday packages (blue) hidden throughout the first floor of the store! The prize is a special Birthday clown outfit! Well what you see in the picture is the result of the hunt ;-)

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Dido