Fashion, fashion and more fashion

It's been a busy and exciting week...wow!

Last week I did a photoshoot with the Ewing Fashion Agency photographer, Elisne Allen, on the theme of Eyes Wide Shut. Check her Flickr to see the result...I'm soo impressed :)

I've also been preparing for my graduation fashion show that is on Saturday. It's been hard work but I've thoroughly enjoyed it.



Here I am practicing my routine on the catwalk...haha



I've not done so much shopping in my life...here's one the fruits of my labour. It's by a new designer Journey McLaglen at Prism and is called 'Super Star'. Lovely tweed :)

And if that isn't enough, yesterday the Ewing Fashion Agency and the real-world talent managers, The Artist Advice held a simultaneous real-world and Second Life fashion show called First Fusion. First Fusion was filmed for Fashion 360 Television. I was one of the perfomers that were entertaining the crowds before the SL fashion show began. Tillie Ariantho got some pics of me on my unicycle so check out her Flickr to have a laugh and see the other pics from the fashion show.

I need a rest now...lol.

Skins and Redspot

I've spent the day trying on skins...Eloh Elliot has lots of lovely free skins at Another Shop.





Here I am at Redspot wearing Fe Brow 1 Freckles envy...



And this is Se Brow 1 Freckles lust

Redspot hasn't officially opened yet but if you join the group you can explore to your hearts content.



Mmm...I wonder if I'll find any treasure :)

Fashion, work and freebies

It's been a busy few weeks. Maybe it's the time of the year but my SL friends' relationship issues have certainly been the main focus...but enough of that...hhh! The dramas of life eh?

I've recently started the Ewing Model Training Programme so I've been busy shopping for work clothes...any excuse :)



The trousers are one of the Itparica Pants Slack Set by Myllie Writer, Persona (Myllie is also half of ANIMAH) and come in the light grey that I'm wearing, dark grey and brown. The sweater is also from Persona and is part of the Tame 2 set, Plush Chi (153, 105, 22). In the pic, you can't see the earrings that I'm wearing but they are so gorgeous, I have to mention them. They are a free gift from artilleri (92, 123, 26) and have a colour changing script...so clever!



Here is the ivory colour!

Talking of pressies...I picked up this from LowPrim < HighStlye Jewellery, Heathrow (17, 195, 22)



BTW, if you join the Fashion Consolidated group then you'll get notices of fashion freebies that designers are handing out. Just go into search, enter Fashion Consolidated, and there you will have it. :)
Well that's it for now lovelies...have a great day :)

New shoes

I'm feeling particularly pleased with myself today :D. Just made some sandals for the beach...and I love hanging out at the beach...hehe. They are sooo sweet or am I just being biased about my new babies...mmm?


I made them with the help of the lovely Natalia Zelmanov (from Sirena Hair and Fashion) and her excellent tutorial...ty Natalia!
http://www.mermaiddiaries.com/2006/12/day-94-creating-prim-shoes-part-1.html

I wasn't keen on brown so I used one of the textures from the equally lovely Torley Linden. Torley has hundreds of free textures at his/her (you're a complicated av Torley :D) Watermelinden office, Grasmere 164/33/44. They really are works of art!

Mmm...I SO need a pedicure :P


In case your interested, the bikini is the Wild Child Bikini from Sweet Leaf Creations and there's loads of different yummy colours! http://slurl.com/secondlife/FairChang%20Olas/173/64/23/


Just got time for some hang gliding before that pedicure :D

Killing Ruth

Hi lovely people

I get asked a lot about my poses in-world so I thought it might be useful (I hope) to share my experience with you.

An animation overrider allows you to replace some or all of the standard animations, such as walk, stand, sit etc, that you get when you first arrive in SL, with animations of your choice. I very quickly found the standard walk animation unbearable so replaced it with a 'Sexy Female Walk' that I put in an earring, using the Francis Chung Franimation Overrider Script…ahhhh that’s better :). I now mainly use the ZHAO II that contains walk, stand and fly animations. I've not yet found any sit animations that I'm happy with so if anyone knows of any good ones...share girlfriends :D. The other major AO tool is the WetIkon. I'm going to focus on the ZHAO II cos it allows you to choose stand times, and you can have up to 12 of each animation. I wouldn't recommend this though cos you are likely to crash...oops! The ZHAO II also causes less lag but you might need to turn it off still in high lag situations, e.g. sl fashion shows.

OK, let’s get started. First, we’re gonna need to do some leg work. I would highly recommend a trip to ANIMAH Southern Paradise 50/16/2. I love their poses. The free stand poses are superb for every day use…less extreme and not all jerky compared to the usual fashion model poses. I’ve not been able to use one of the poses with my manicured nails :( but there are plenty of others to keep me happy. There are also free flying poses (I’m constantly impressing people with my graceful, wonderwoman landings…hehe).



Yadni’s Junkyard is another place for free animations…that’s where I got my walk animation from. Next stop is Winged Isle 5/163/147 for a free copy of ZHAO II.

Now for getting creative :D…you need to be somewhere you can build for this bit, so if you’re a free spirit like me and don’t have any land then you’ll have to go to a sandbox. Just put sandbox in search and you should get plenty of options.

First put the ZHAO II on the ground. It’s small so make sure you’re somewhere quiet.

Right click the ZHAO and select 'Edit' then go to ‘Contents’.

Drag your animations from your inventory into ‘Contents’.

Look for a note card in the ‘Contents’ that’s entitled ‘Default Anims’ and open. There will be a list of headings such as:

:: [ Walking ] ::

:: [ Standing ] ::

:: [ Flying Up ] ::

To the right of each heading type the EXACT name of your chosen animation. Do not leave a space between the heading and the name of the animation. Multiple animations can be separated by a vertical bar “|”. Again don’t leave a space between the name of the animation and “|”.

For Example:

:: [ Standing ] ::*MM* pose 1|*MM* pose 2

If you don’t put an animation next to a heading then the standard animation will be used.

You must then save the notecard e.g. ‘My Anims’

Take back the ZHAO II and attach to HUD. Then click the white menu button, when the menu appears click Load and select the name of the notecard you just saved. You have to do this after any amendments to the notecard. You can also select Stand Time to choose how long you want your individual stand animations to last.










My Wonder Woman landing in Koreshan :D









My outfit is the Mini Kimono at Bare Rose - love June Dion






Run, little snow babies, run









Have fun!

I would love to hear from you so leave your comments so I know I’m not talking to myself…lol…it wouldn’t be the first time, or IM me in-world.