In the meadow

Summer hasn't quite arrived yet. For some reason the sky seems determined to stay gray and moody; keeping me away from the beach and that cute swimsuit I've begged my dad for.

Even though it's dull, it's not too cold for a pretty summer dress. This one from Somnia is perfect. It's short, flowing and any of the colours in the fatpack would brighten up anybody's day. I chose pink because it's my favourite, but you can choose from a generous selection.

I changed my hair too. Like it?
I've been blonde for so long that I really fancied a change, so I chose this warm brown from Wasabi Pills. I love the casual, soft look and I just adore the bangs.

I took a little day trip to a gorgeous little sim called Eternity which is a gorgeous country themed sim which feels very retro and summery. I found it through Asthenia Pinnazo's blog and fell in love. If you get a chance please go and see it for yourself. Hidden in the long grass around the lake are tons of spots to sit and relax or to take photographs.

Here's hoping summer is here soon.

Wendy x

♥Style Card♥

Skin - Al Vulo - Alyss - Wonderland Blonde Fair

Shape - Own 

Hair - Wasabi Pills - Kumi Mesh Hair - Wild Honey

Necklace - LVS Kids - Gatcha Cord Necklace - Voodoo Buddy

Dress - Somnia Velvet Shimmer Dress - Pink 

Pose - From Tuty's shy girl ao

Release your inner child

♥Style Card♥

Skin - al vulo - Alyss - Wonderland Fairy

Shape - my own 

Hair - Truth - Lavinia - Pearl

Sweater - The Sea Hole - Braid Front sweatshirt - Barbiecar

Shorts - The Sea Hole - Pika Denim Shorts - Azteca Blue 

Socks - Pink Princess - Striped Socks - Pink 

Shoes - Footworks - Pippa patent flats - Black
Necklace - LVS kids - Gatcha Cord Necklace - Voodoo Buddy

♥Playground♥

Monkeybars - Artilleri Playground 

Seesaw - Artilleri Playground 

Sway's Playground

Where the waters flow

By the sacred grove, where the waters flow

We will come and go, in the forest.

- Van Morrison

◘Style Card◘

Skin - Al Vulo - Georgie - Custard

Shape - My own

Hair - Alice Project - Heather - Autumn Red (Shop Free*style)

Top - Sassy - Casual Chic Top - pink (Shop Free*style)

Pants - SYSY's - Pinstripe Rayures Pant - Rose (R)

Shoes - F*S Studded Flats (Shop Free*style)

Swimming in the sea hole

Hey Girls! 

This is my first post on GforGirl and I am really excited to be here. 

I'm Wendy Riaxik (Wendy Densmith in search) and I'm sixteen years old. I am blogging here to represent the roleplayed teens of second life, and I will be hunting down all of the funky and fun stuff that is suitable for teenagers. I'll also be telling you all about some really brilliant places targeted at teens. If you have any ideas you can comment on any of my posts, IM me in-world or email me wendydensmith@gmail.com

So... 

Don't you just hate it when you find a new store to love, and then learn that it is closing for good. 

Yeah, it happened to me today. 

I was scanning through some feeds and blogs looking for somewhere to shop for some cute summer clothes that my Dad would approve of. It's heating up and I really wanted something cute and casual to wear whilst I hang out with my friends.  

I'm sixteen and I really don't think dad would let me out of the house in a short skirt or low cut tank. So, when I found this post on Seraphim about The Sea Hole's closing sale I decided to go and see if they had anything on offer that would work. 

I am really glad that I did because I managed to pick up these shorts and the gorgeous retro blouse for just 50 L each! I also picked up a few other things that I will try to show you before the weekend. 

The pieces are amazing quality with fab textures. I especially love the texturing on the shorts and the fact that there are so many styles and choices in the store. The blouse is mesh and comes with a variety of sizes. I usually wear a medium and this one fits perfectly. 

If you haven't checked out The Sea Hole before now then please do go and take a look before it closes. I wish I had found it sooner and I just know that I'll be spending a lot of time and Lindens there before it goes forever. 

♥♥ Love Wendy ♥♥

►Style Card◄

Skin - Al Vulo - Alyss Wonderland blonde brow fairy. 

Shape - My own

Lashes - M - Lashes tattoo

Hair - Truth - Lavinia Pearl

Eyes - By Snow - Fresh Eyes Aster

Blouse - The Sea Hole - Davenport Blouse - Antifreeze

Shorts - The Sea Hole - Pika Shorts Azteka - Blue

Necklace - LVS Kids - Gatcha Cord Necklace - voodoo buddy

Pose - Tuty's SHY GIRL AO

Hair Fair 2012 - Discord Designs

My favourite thing about SL is the creativity. I love seeing creators who stretch the limits of the tools, simply to see what they can do. I love to see somebody find a workaround to ensure that they can create the item that they envisioned. I also love to see the detail that comes from somebody working so hard to make their idea a reality.

One person who has always awed me with her determination to break the mould and do something different is Kallisti Burns of Discord Designs. In the time that I have known Kallisti and her store I have seen her break many of the rules, designing hairstyles that I have never seen elsewhere and brining us some of the most realistic braids on the Grid. 

For this years hair fair Kallisti has gone one step further, uploading some fantastic mesh hairstyles.

The two styles above are just a selection of the goodies available a Discord Designs' Hair Fair location. The first is my solid favourite, Dhilon. I adore the ruggedness of the style. It's messiness adds the the realism. 

The second is Bouncer. A style that I was lucky enough to see some of the creation process. Bounder is a mohican style, created to resemble a close cut with many individual spikes. Again I love the realism. 

All of the styles on offer come complete with hair-bases that are designed to follow the design from the mesh onto the avatar. The braids have a base resembling the natural pulls of a scalp with tightly braided hair. Bouncer has a shaved scalp. 

Kallisti never lets a detail go, which guarantees you quality hair.

Style Card

Skin - Al Vulo - Georgie - Pink Blonde Cleavage Custard. R

Shape - My Own

Top - Angelred - Mesh Dani Sweater - Beige R

Hair 1 - Discord Designs - Dhilon - Natural Ginger (For Hair Fair) R

Hair 2 - Discord Designs  - Bouncer - Baby Blonde (For Hair Fair) R

One Voice - Standing together.

All Items available at One Voice.

Copyright issues affect all of us within SL. 

Designers and content creators watch as their hard work is stolen. Those thieves then go on to resell the creations under their own names, also stealing the credit. Or they might give it away for free and full perms. Either way the original designers are then hit with a loss in sales.

Honest shoppers are then stung. They find their favourite stores closing. They find prices rising whilst designers struggle to cover the costs of their losses. Those costs ranging from legal action to simply having to retire stolen stock. 

Eventually we will all be affected. We will lose the fresh content we all need to keep this world interesting. 

Recently Gala Phoenix of Curio was affected in a way we could never have foreseen. The DMCA process, designed to protect her intellectual property has failed her and now she is facing an expensive RL court battle to prove her rights and get her store back. 

More information here. 

Designers from across SL have come together to form One Voice. We're standing together to help Gala and to take a stand against theft. We're saying "this isn't okay." 

Come and join us. Head on over to the One Voice fair and pick up a few creations from your favourite designers. Every donation helps towards giving Gala a chance to defend her business. 

Every donation makes One Voice louder.

You know what to do.

- Style Card - 

Pose – Fatcat – Falbala 1 – R

Skin – Al Vulo – Georgie *Peacock Blonde Custard – R

Shape – My Own

Lashes Al Vulo – MEsh Lashes – R

Hair – Mina Hair – Charlize R (Comes with colour change hud)

Jewellery – Sax Shepherd Designs – Pitanga Jewellery Set – Mixed Cherry – R

Dress – SHUSH – Floral Dress White (Mesh) R

Shoes – N-Core – Shark 2 One Voice Edition - R

One Bad Pixel

Myself wearing Cherry Cheong dress in Pink and Cigarette pants in Red. 

BEFORE I SAY ANY MORE... GO THERE NOW!

I totally should have waited until I could boost up to ultra and take a picture but I have to share this with you all right now! I'm a mesh convert and it's the fault of a bunch of ladies at the launch party for new mesh brand One Bad Pixel.

As of this time we have no idea who the designers are behind the brand (See the store for a little "guess who" contest.)

I don't usually like mesh. I've never gotten my head around what size I am, and I hate tweaking to make my curvy figure fit. With these I didn't have to tweak a thing... and I'm a medium! Bonus!

I'll post more pictures when I can boost up graphics. But here's a few of the store (Which is so gorgeous it deserves some spotlight), the party and the pretties!

The exterior and Garden

The Interior

Glomesh Halter and Crop Jeans worn by RachelleMcmillan Resident

Lazy Days

One red balloon floats to the moon

Just let it fly away

I only know that I'm longing to go

Back to my lazy day.

(Enya - Lazy Day)

Too Lazy for words, so straight to the style card

Shape - My own

Skin - Ys & Ys Cara Etoile (for The Dressing Room)

Hair - Exile Paige in Beach (For The Dressing Room)

Earrings - Glow Studio Her Longest Earrings (For the Dressing Room)

Dress - Baiastice Gygi Mesh Dress (For the Dressing Room)

Location - Fotoscope

Gimme Some Skin

Live It All Out, Live It All In
Gotta Come Here Honey Gimme Some Skin

(Iggy Pop - Gimme Some Skin)

I always know what to expect when an Adam n Eve product lands in my inventory. I know that I'm going to get quality.
These three skins arrived yesterday and they're certainly no exception. Sachi has delivered yet again with smooth skin textures, kissable lips and realistic soft shadings.

(Style Card) 

Skins as labelled - All Adam n Eve  (R)

Shape - My Own

Hair - LeLutka Addison in Jessica

Eyes - Sterling Artistry Peaceful Eyes in Tranquillity

Lashes - Crissy Designs Irresistible Look Eyelashes

Pose - Exposeur Top Model - Anslee

Forever - RIP 12 years.

Twelve years ago this week I lost my best friend. 

I won't say how. 

I was almost 15 years old, he was 16. I never thought he wouldn't be there forever. 

We never took photographs, that wasn't really in our nature. I didn't think we needed to document memories. I never thought he wouldn't be there forever. 

Then he left. He chose to leave. I was left with the forever. 

Missing somebody never gets easier. It never goes away. Questions never get answered, and and what if's never get realised. 

Forever is a long time. 

Style Card 

Hair - LeLutka Addison Dark Red

Skin - Skintimate Vegas

Shape - My Own

Dress - Pink Box Sweater Dress -Black

Pose - Olive Juice Sit 2 

Location - Peaches Memorial Ground/Graveyard.

Bubblegum weekends

Look out on a summer's day,
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.

(Don Mclean, Starry Starry night)

-Style Card-

Hair - Exile Buffy - Roots Lapis (Platinum hunt 2011 gift)

Lashes - LeLutka Seductress volume sculpted lashes

Skin - Rockberry - Apple G Natural BLD Clv

Shape - My own

Dress - L'Abel Country Chic - Savanna Maxidress green

Glasses - Epic Kyoot nerdy glasses - teal (Gatcha Festival running now until 31August)

Sugar Dummy - Nzuri (shameless self promotion I know)

Sofa - What Next 

Plant pots - My own 

House - nordari - mint.apartment

B.Unique is now open

B.Unique is open. You've probably seen the teasers over the last few weeks, well here it is....for the opening each of the founders have created items for you that are unique.  These items will be available until the 28th July or until 50 of that item is sold after which they will no longer be available.

The founding members are Ayla Verity of Ayla's, Tracy Rubble of Nzuri, Sysy Chapman of Sysy, Sway Dench of Sway's and myself Ephedra Loon of DCD.

For more information and a closer look at the vendors please see the B.Unique blog or the Flikr

Bubblegum Weekends week 1

Gogo over at JuicyBomb has set us bloggers the challenge of wearing unnatural hair colours!

I too love the shades in hair packs that don't get much of an outing. Those pinks, teals and purples that look too cartoony for most looks, but absolutely amazing if you can pull it off.

So here's my first attempt, helped along by todays new Exile release Nomi in Passion.. a gorgeous purple.

Enjoy, and if you have a blog and want to take part in Bubblegum weekends - Info here!

See yesterdays post for outfit styling. I'm way too lazy to change. 

Turn me on,

"Like a flower waiting to bloom

Like a lightbulb in a dark room. 

I'm just sitting here

waiting for you to come home... 

and turn me on." 

Song - Norah Jones Turn me on. 

Lingerie - Phoenix Rising

Skin - Rockberry Apple

Hair - Magika

Jewellery - League (for 50L friday 17/6/2011)

Bed - Popart.

90's Child

I grew up in the 90's and I loved it.
I adored the fads like the tamagotchi's, trolls and smurfs, and I adored the fashion.

The 90's was an era of mismatch and randomness when it came to dressing. It was a decade of expressing yourself by breaking all of the rules.

Bring back the 90's!

I put this look together by rummaging around my inventory for bits and pieces I already had. The dress is from Celestial Studio's which I think is now closed down. The shoes are Duh! from about a year ago. The hair is from Exile and is free right now!!! It's called Jane and I love this colour. It reminds me of hair mascara.

The skin is Adam N Eve's Laurel, chosen for its neutral browns on the makeup.

So what era do you want to bring back?

Lady in Red

I'm not exactly a dress sort of person in RL, yet in SL I always find myself gravitating towards the pretty, and this dress is no exception.

From A-bomb, Time After Time is the picture of beauty, with the added bonus of being in a totally awesome shade of red. The dress conjures images of the 1940's or 1950's and gives just enough class alongside the bucket full of sass.

Until Next time
Tracy xxx

style card -

Hair - Magika Jess (roots)
Dress - Abomb time after time (R)
Skin  - TBS Mena (R)

Magika "ROOTS"

When Sabina Gully plurked her new "roots" editions of her hairstyles about 30 minutes ago, I literally fell out of my skybox trying to get to Magika to get them.

I've been a fan of Magika hair for a long time, and I've watched as Sabina has developed more and more amazing ways to deliver her unique, recognisable styles. This time is no exception to her amazing talent. 

As is usual for newer hairs from Magika, the hair comes with the option to wear the style mirrored. Meaning you get to decide which side the parting falls, which is amazing flexibility when it comes to pairing a style with makeups or accessories. 

They also come with a hud including colour options and a really easy resizer. I love having the colours on a hud, saving me from having to resize 7 different hairs. I can resize once, get it perfect, then just one click and I've got a new dye. 

The roots textures themselves are amazingly realistic and really give that "wow" factor. 

I grabbed "Jess" because I loved the short funky style. But Sabina has already managed to add roots packs to a few of her current styles. They're available in store and on the marketplace, and I know I'll be getting more.

Until Next time xxx

L'abel steps into spring.

There's an extra special treat for you this  time, since my laptop decided it was a good idea to completely crash out on me and require a full format to get it to boot again. So now I'm left without photoshop until I have a chance to reinstall it.

So here goes, a sneak peak at L'abel's amazing new spring collection, where flowers and bloomers seem to be the order of the season.

L'abel Country Chic - summer brown catsuit

L'abel country chic - Enna Tan set

L'abel country chic - Savannah green maxi dress

L'abel country chic - Farmer Girl Pink Set.

Living Doll

I was trying my hardest to avoid them, but who can stop themselves when there’s something so adorable all over plurk.
Emma Gilmour released her Bloom dolls last week and they became an instant sensation, with hundreds of gorgeous pictures taken and edited in all styles. Every other plurk had a doll picture and each one made me “awww” even more, so it was only a matter of time before I ended up donning my own big head.
Emma mentioned that these doll’s weren’t exactly planned as a huge release, they were more of a personal project. Which just goes to prove that doing something just because you want to can result in something absolutely amazing.
Each doll comes with a head, shape, skin and poses and it’s so easy to dress them up. You can choose an eye color, lids, eyelashes and makeup and then take your favourite modifiable hair and fit it around the head for even more personalisation. If your hair is resize scripted, you can literally hit +10 about 6 times and it’ll only need minor adjustments to finish it off.
I also modded a tongue so my bloom could be just a little big cheekier.
Thankyou so much to some of my best girlies Sway, Sysy and Beulah for modelling these, and hopefully soon we’ll get Ephe in too!! Check back for more bloom shots.
Bloom Dolls are available from Surf Co.
Until next time
Tracy xx

p.s No style card this time because I have no idea what the girlies are wearing haha.

So Boho

I love skin, but omg can it get expensive. So I always find myself on the hunt for high quality, low cost skins.
Todays lazy sunday offer from CandyDoll, Tamara, fits that description exactly. It’s only 50L today only and it’s cute!
I love the shade of the tan and the soft summery makeup. It’s perfect for the beach or a nice summer day by the lake.
I’ve paired it with the “So Boho” blouse from Mon Tissu, a store I’ve not really paid much attention to. I’ve seen them on the feeds and I’ll admit, I thought the photosourcing on some of the clothes would make them bad quality. I was so unbelievably wrong. Mon Tissu clothes are amazing. I’m officially converted!
The shorts are from Pink Outfitters, a firm favourite of mine. They’re the Military shorts and I think I must have worn them so much they should fall apart soon. Thank god sl seams don’t wear out.

The hair is from Lamb and it’s just 30L a pack on the discount shelf at Lula! Gotta love a bargain.

In other news, I have a new addiction and I blame my plurk buddies. I have KittyCatS!!! But more on those later.