The Day After the Day We All Missed the Sweetheart's Dance

Word is there were many sticken, sad faces across the grid when the Sweetheart's Dance at Lula went down in a big crash.  But fear not, faithful shoppers, much goodness and exclusivity remains available today.  My keen nose for freebies rarely fails me and pointed me immediately in the direction of Ooh Lala! Funky Hearts Lingerie and Pin by Nylon Pinkney.   Many items at the sales event can be described as "messy" so it leaves me to wonder if the dark shading on the panties is the "funky" used in naming the set.  All you girls know what I mean.  Anyways, I like them and anything where I can wear a sculpted heart on my head always makes me happy.

I love lingerie but sadly don't tend to wear it during my two main passions: shopping and sorting my mess of an inventory, but I could not resist also the fetching Crystal Canyon Set from my favorite valentine, Ms. Apatia Hammerer from Pig.  Appy has an amazing eye for funny details which I adore.  Even the back of the bra has amazing clasps but cooking dinner for my eating machine 13 year old took precedence over more shots.  I paired it with the lovely Journey set from Aluinn as I thought it drew out the bow on the bra!

There are so many exclusive items from many of your favorite, trendy and insanely popular designers.  So hurry on by!

Credits:
Hair: lamb.: Mess: available at the Sweetheart event
Skin: tres blah: Blessa: Fair: Hot Mess: available at the Sweetheart event
Lingerie 1: Ooh Lala!: Funky Hearts & Heart Pin: FREE: available at Sweetheart event
Lingerie 2: Pig: Crystal Canyon: Pink Pink: available at Sweetheart event
Jewelry: Aluinn: Journey set (earrings also available)
Stockings: Thimbles: Pink Heart Stockings: quite ancient
Boots: DECOmpose: Roughneck Boots

Pididdle's Little Black Sweater Dress

Hi! Long time, no blog!  I've been completely overwhelmed with creating and event planning lately and am thrilled to be caught up enough to take a breather and show you Pididdle's darling little sweater dress that is her offering for The Fashion Circus at LeCirque sim that begins on November 18.  It's a perfect dress to wear simply, as I am doing so you can see the dress, or layered with a coat or heavy scarf.  The top comes in both a jacket and shirt layer, which I really appreciate because I do love wearing jackets.  It has nice sculpted shoulder pads and the belt is resizable as well as color change.  I paired it up with new stockings from SD Wears that I love, love, love!  I can hardly bear to walk away from new stockings in SL and the pair I am wearing are from a fantastic set of blacks in geometric patterns.

Credits:
Dress: Pididdle: Black Sweater Dress @ The Fashion Circus
Stockings: SD Wears: Mind Bender Stockings - Chaos
Necklace: Deco: Pearls in a Rush
Boots: Armidi: Kyoto Boots (these were at the Warehouse sale and may no longer be available)
Skin: Cupcakes: London - November: only 50 L today at the Sunday Bake Sale
Hair: 69: Cass 01: Group Gift

Jewelry Fair: Ellabella

Jewelry Fair ends tomorrow so don't let it end without a visit.  I hope to get a few more photo sets done because there is such a wide range of great work featured.  Ellabella does my favorite piercing work, particularly because the designer, ellantha Larsson, takes extra care with such details as shadowing.  That her work is very reasonably priced is an additional bonus.  Ellabella is located on Sim 1.

Benediction is my favorite of her new pieces, not because I am a particularly religious person but growing up the as one of the few WASP-y girls in a Catholic neighborhood, I've always had a fascination with religious iconography and occurrences such as stigmata.

Going Batty is perfect for your inner ghoul that comes out during this month for us in the States and Beauty's Captivity, shown below is quite unique with its subtle use of pinks, blues and greens instead of the sliver makes it very special indeed.  The charm is the tiniest, tiniest rose.

Thank you, my darling ellantha, for sharing your talents with us.  Your prims make me very happy!

Jewelry Fair: Ripe

Hempy Weezles of Ripe is one of my dearest friends in SL and I am beyond excited to show her offerings for this year's Jewelry Fair.  Hempy is developing into an extremely talented jewelry creator and it's been my honor to watch her talent bloom over time.  In my opinion, Ripe's designs are some of the freshest items at Jewelry Fair and are very reasonably priced to boot.  I could fangirl all day but will desist and get on with the pictures.

The Elegant Raven Skull items scream drama!  I've worn these over and over and they never fail to draw attention.  The skull pin is her amazing dollarbie offering for the fair.  The skulls are offered with 3 different color options and are a steal.

I was with Hempy when she was working on the Beautiful Macabre Set and I am thrilled with how they turned out.  She offers this set in more colors than a candy store.  I am wearing the crimson set that if Ripe's offering for Oxfam.  There are also some fantastic petite top hats to accompany this set but I forgot to show them as I was digging this look with Helena Stringer's hair. <3

Hempy also does more "traditional" work as featured in the Old School Romance set.  This set is available in 4 different metal textures.  It also features bracelets, which I didn't show here.

Ripe is located at The Jewelry Fair on Sim 1.  Everyone enters at a central landing point, but if memory serves me correctly if you head left and snake your way counterclockwise you should be able to find it. Thank you, dear Hempy, for sharing your talents with us!

Jewelry Fair: U&R Dogs

I hope my computer isn't frying because this post literally taken me 2 days to do.  I'm the latest to fall victim to constant crashes, particularly when I am taking photos.  There is nothing as joy inducing as getting your settings correct, adjusting prims and crashing!

The Jewelry Fair runs until October 17th and is housed on 4 sims.  It is very easy to navigate and are themed from Beauty & the Beast.  The charity selected to benefit from this year's event is Oxfam, which is a collective of organizations that works towards ending poverty and injustice. Many venders have offered an exclusive item or a portion of all sales to benefit Oxfam. When I first TPed into Jewelry Fair the first booth I saw was U&R Dogs so it's only fitting they be my first Jewelry Fair post.

I've always loved U&R Dogs, particularly because they offer unique, high quality goods to people in all price ranges.  Dedication to all strata of purchasing continues with the new products available at the Fair.

I want to talk about the Smiley Set first because it requires a bit of legwork.  The Smiley singlet is available for only 50 L at the Fair.  There are matching earrings that are free and available at the mainstore.  U&R Dogs has a point system based on purchases, product camping, and joining the subscriber.  The earrings are available for 1 point.  If you've never joined their subscriber you get a point just for doing that.  This adorable set has all the features of higher priced products, including color options, brightness, etc.

I love the amazing textures of U&R's jewelry.  They have a luster that is unmistakable.  The Candide earrings an epic work of scripting with each element having its own placement and sizing script that is very intuitively organized on a touch menu.  The Zemphira nails include all the rings I'm modeling and the gloves are tintable to match your skin tone.  Amazingly the Villeneuve bracelet it only 1 L (!) and as you see there is no skimping on quality for their fair gift.

I'm not one to wear a ton of jewelry at once so I wanted to show you the Westphalia Lovelet in a separate shot.  Like the Candide earrings, it is also a scripting masterpiece.  Though it is difficult to see the tiny prims below my lips, this items has a musical theme that is one of the prevalent themes in U&R's work.