SL Firsts - A meme from Strawberry Singh

Pic stolen from Wendy - See tomorrows post for a style card.

1. First SL Friend: Wil Dreadlow. I had an avatar before Tracy but never really called anybody a 'friend' as I barely logged in for more than a few weeks at a time. Wil and I rezzed at around the same time and had great fun running around being newbies together. We spent a ton of time at a sim called heaven above the clouds, and the rest of our time exploring. We did hang out once every few weeks until he left SL too. Got to admit I really miss the randomness he brought.

2. First SL Kiss: I don't actually remember one. My RL hubby used to be in-world a lot, and we're partnered, so I don't think I actually ever bothered. 

3. First SLex time/place/partner: See number 2. 

4. First SL Partner/Girlfriend/Boyfriend/Wife/Husband: My first SL partner was a guy called KC. It was early 2008 and my RL knew about it. It was pretty much a platonic friendship more than anything else, but we got partnered and "played house" for a while. 

5: First SL Job: My first job was as a dancer in a club. I cannot remember the name of the club, only that the uniform was a red flame dress. I stayed there for months whilst waiting for my 6 month rez day to arrive so that I could get a job at Galaxy. At the same time I had opened my first incarnation of Trubble.

6. First SL Creation: The least said the better, but it was a slider made dress with a looprez skirt made out of a freebie net texture. It was vile. I don't even have pictures.

7. First encounter with a Linden: I interviewed Glenn Linden and I forget the name of the other. It was for the SL business convention a few years ago, about the time viewer 2 launched. I can't remember that much about it, but basically it was on skype and over in twenty minutes. I also met some Linden's for a "storytime in the cornfield" a few years ago. This was before the cornfield was opened and it was unavailable so we ended up around a campfire. I think it was after an office hour of some description. 

8. First encounter with a SLebrity: Callie Cline came to a party in my store once. Does that count?

9. First SL sim you fell in love with: Midnight Reflections. It was just one amazing, huge garden. I'm not sure if it's still around but I absolutely loved exploring it. There were poseballs all over for photographs. Romantic picnic areas dotted clifftops over waterfalls. Wil and I found it in our first week and we'd find a spot there to relax and chat. 

10. First Blog Post: Other than a really boring "hello world" post - http://gforgirl.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/waiting-for-summer.html

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)

Update

There are never enough good excuses for an update. Doing things differently is always refreshing and always exciting. So, without further ado... I am going to update!

      New Blogger - We have a new blogger coming on-board. Ok, so she isn't exactly new. She is an alt of one of the other bloggers, but she has a different style that would fit perfectly with what we already have.
Wendy Densmith is a teen blogger. She will be styling suitable styles and funky stuff for the teens of SL. If you feel that your creations would be suitable for a fourteen to eighteen year old please contact Wendy in-world and she'll take a look. Also, if you have styling ideas for her, feel free to drop a notecard.

      New Look - I will be working on a new look and layout for the blog in the coming weeks. I want to make it look better, and be easier for you to read. Any ideas or suggestions are welcome in the comments, or directly to any of the bloggers.

      Updated Policies - I will be updating the policies today. The changes will be minor, but please check them before you drop notecards or review copies. I want to ensure that everything is going to the right place and that the bloggers aren't being inundated with things that they do not deal with. Do not worry if you do send something to the wrong place. We will either contact you, or we will do what we can internally.

      Open Blog Policy - This is an open forum. Feel free to comment, discuss and even submit posts if you want to. Want to try blogging? Contact Tracy Rubble or email tracyrubble@gmail.com with your post and any pictures. If it fits it will be posted. We are also looking for a couple more bloggers who would like to post regularly. This blog is all about the girls, but we would love to add people with different styles and even possibly a homes and furniture blogger. Get in touch if you would like to help.

      All of that said, welcome to the new era of G for Girl.

Tracy xx

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

Honey's I'm home!

A few months ago I made the hard decision to leave all of my friends, my business and everything I'd learned in Second Life behind. It wasn't a choice I made lightly, in fact it kind of crept up on me over a year or so.

The reasons for me leaving were complex and varied, but in general I had little spare time. What spare time I did have I wanted to spend with my RL family and getting RL happy. Months passed and RL got pretty amazing. Now things have changed.

My other half was forced to leave his job, so we're now both home all day long until he finds more work. Those who know my other half know that he's an amazing man who seems to spend his entire life doing things to show K and I how much he loves us. So it's no surprise that him being home all day means he's taken more than his fair share of the housework. He's also been decorating and catching up with the DIY and doing most of the school runs too! This has left me with big chunks of spare time that I can't fill up with studying or watching tv. So for the time being, I'm back!

This blog will be my main project within SL. I'll maybe do some small time designing for events and things where needed, but I don't have the L's behind me to run a store anymore (Sponsors welcome :p) <<< for those who feel the need, I AM JOKING.

So that's it. I'll be having a scan over the blog and making a few minor changes to the review policies and things over the next few days, but pretty much feel free to drag me into an IM if you want to talk.

It's lovely to be back.

Tracy x

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

Be-Unique

SL8B - Free Kitty for all!

KittyCats are possibly one of the cutest breedables on the grid right now.
With a huge following and many markets and sales, it's been impossible to avoid them since they arrived back in January.
Well now, there's even more excuse to jump right in.

The KittyCats team have exploded into the SL8B celebrations in style by giving every single resident a free special edition Kitty! Born from a magicians hat, I introduce Magic.

The kitty has a beautiful "Birthday Suit". It's fur is covered in stars, fitting the "Magic of Secondlife" theme of the celebrations. It also has those amazing Blacklight eyes I'm crazy about and lots of other traits. This is one pretty kitty and a perfect starter for anyone considering giving them a try, or a great addition to those with a cattery already.

Don't be fooled by this kitty's suit though. What this kitty will give it's babies is a mystery, and it could throw anything from the most common to the very rarest traits!

Also in the hat you get a little magicians outfit for kitty (not shown) plus 1 weeks food for your new feline friend in the form of this funky birthday cake.

Once that food runs out you can get more from the KittyCats mainstore and it's really cheap too! Your new kitty will cost you around 15L a week to feed if you set it to No Breeding, or if you choose to breed your kitty it will consume about twice that food.

The special edition kittycat is available at SL8B for the next two weeks and everybody can grab one absolutely FREE. You don't have to have owned a KittyCat either, so head on over and take a look, what have you got to lose?

I braved the lag to get mine just minutes after the team sent out a notice. Trust me, wear very little and be prepared to wait. It took about 30 minutes for mine to be delivered, but everyone waiting are in such high spirits it passes really fast.

Here's your Limo. 


Check back for more SL8B posts when I dare brave the sims again.

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.

One day my prince will come.

This post is a little late, I do apologise. 

When I saw these skyboxes on the marketplace a few days ago I instantly knew that I had to see them in world. I just had to know if they were really as amazing as they looked in the pictures. They did not dissapoint. 

The skyboxes, or skydomes are made by Paty Paule, who owns Cartoon Kid's a store for child avatars. 

She has a choice of 4 available, the following three, plus a night-time version of the garden which has been snapped up by many of my meeroo loving friends as it's the perfect habitat!

Personally, I think these are amazing spaces for photographs. If, like me you struggle to find a spot where you can rez, and won't get photobombed by a newbie with his primness hanging out, these are for you. 

They're low prim, the highest being 86 prims and they're quite large too, so you could easily hold a themed party inside. 

Really, the options are endless!

Enjoy, and if you want to see them in world head over to the Cartoon Kid's store. 

A Fairytale Skybox. Dress and mask by Nzuri, Hair by Clawtooth, Gloves by adam n eve.

A story Wonderland, See "90's child" post for style card.

My Halloween

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.