The Laundry Room

Dutchie has put laundry on my mind. She released this remarkably detailed and beautiful period laundry room complete with appropriate (and inappropriate) animations for my washing up roleplay fantasies. It also makes me grateful for my washer and dryer. Laundry was hard work back in the day! But never fear, my Dolly maid is planning on some fun. The adult version of this table folds more than laundry!

Also adorably sexy is my mesh maid costume from Provocation. Now all I need is the butler!

 Credits:

Dutchie linen room cabinets with accessories (New Release)

Dutchie folding  table adult (New Release)

Dutchie wringer bench

Dutchie ironing board

Dutchie  drying rack and basket (New Release)

Dutchie scrub bucket adult

Provocation Maid costume
Slink Classic Pointed Pumps Black
Slink Female Feet (AvEnhance) - Mid
LeLutka - SERENA base and front(2) - AuburnHaze (New Release)
-Belleza- Leila Med 4 R

Mayfly - Deep Sky Mesh Eye (Deep Honey Hazel, w3)
Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands 

Cheeky Pea & Exposeur - Fancy Feathers poses and prop
 

Happy HallowMeme!

I'm ready for Halloween. I've been blogging possible Halloween costumes for several days, but for Strawberry Singh's HallowMeme I'm happy to do another picture and show off my awesome new Lelutka hair.

Meme Instructions: Share a picture of your Halloween Costume in Second Life and/or answer the following questions about Halloween. Don’t forget to share a link to your post in Berry's comments and if you share a picture, feel free to add it to the Blog Memes Flickr Group.

1. Did you go trick or treating as a child? Yes, I wrote about those mean scary cowboys in THIS POST.
2. What was the best Halloween costume you ever saw or wore yourself? I met a young woman right after college whose fiance dumped her almost at the altar. Rather than moping, she wore her wedding dress to a big block party on Halloween and won first prize!
3. What is your most vivid memory about Halloween? It's back to those nasty scary cowboys. But second to that was one of my friends who got so excited about getting dressed up to go trick or treating that she threw up before we even left the house. My tummy aches always came afterwards when I stuffed myself with candy.
4. What is the scariest movie you have ever seen? "The Birds" by Alfred Hitchcock. My sister and I saw it on TV when we were kids and were creeped out by birds for months and months.
5. Do you ever get nightmares after watching a scary movie? Not for years. However, when I started watching "The Walking Dead" on NetFlix this past spring I had nightmares after the first two episodes.
6. Are you superstitious? If so, name at least one superstition of yours. I'm not really, but I do get influenced by other people's superstitions. My mother-in-law, for example was constantly knocking on wood to ward off jinxes when she would say something hopeful. I find myself doing that at times and explaining my action to myself by thinking "it can't hurt."
7. What will you be doing for Halloween this year, if anything, in SL and RL? In my real life I'll probably be passing out candy and trying to keep my dog from being freaked out by excited children dressed like pumpkins and bumblebees. I'm not sure about what I'll do in Second Life.

Credits:

Tee*fy Dakota Corset Gown

Yummy Faceted Solitaire Earring
DECO - MESH Marilyn Pearls (Licorice)

LeLutka - SERENA Hair and Tiara - AuburnHaze (New Release)
Belleza - Leila Med R 2

Beetlebones Mesh Lashes V.01 (Dainty brown)

Mayfly - Deep Sky Mesh Eye (Deep Honey Hazel, w3)
Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands

!bang - masquerade mask and pose

Oh, the Horror!

I have a confession. On the first Halloween that I remember, my mother dressed me up as a witch and I went door to door getting candy. About three houses away from home there were three big boys of about six years old (they seemed big to me at the time) dressed as cowboys. They saw me and screamed, "It's a witch!" took out their toy six shooters and shot at me - pretend, of course. That terrified me, and ever since I've been a princess or a fairy or even a fairy princess at Halloween. No more scary costumes for me! Even my pumpkins have to wear a smile!

I did find a few Halloween themed items at Horror Fest that managed to be a little eerie if not horrific. The sugar skull tattoos from Ezura Xue are pretty! So is my webbed dress from Schadenfreude and the raven pose and props from Uncertain Smile Poses.

Credits:

Ezura Xue Dia De Los Muertos Face Tattoo *Black-Red (at Horror Fest)
Schadenfreude Widow Lost in the Woods Dress (at Horror Fest)
Maxi Gossamer - Rings - Dew Encrusted Teardrop - Small - R - SILVER
Pure Poison - Black Arachnide Earrings
Pure Poison - Black Arachnide Necklace
TRUTH HAIR Faye (New Release)
UNCERTAIN SMILE SORCERER 1 - RAVENS Pose prop (at Horror Fest)
-Belleza- Leila Med R 2

Mayfly - Liquid Light Mesh Eye (True Grey, w3) 

 Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands
Slink Female Feet (AvEnhance) - Flat

Thinking It Over

I'm not going to do Strawberry Singh's challenge questions this week, though I really admire her willingness to take on a controversial subject. She's trying to start an informed and rational dialog about the Terms of Service change that has Second Life creators rethinking their plans. Everyone should read her post and the links she has provided to several knowledgeable and thought provoking articles and presentations about the subject of intellectual property ownership in Second Life.

I have only one thing to say on the subject. The very best thing about Second Life is that it is a platform for creativity. Since this change to Terms of Service is causing talented artists to rethink using Second Life as a tool for artistic expression, it needs to be revised to be more creator friendly. I really don't understand why Linden Lab doesn't see that.

Credits:

MudHoney/Exposeur Wooden Leaf Chair - red (at Atelier Kreslo)

POST: Haarlem Deco Occasional Table

Keke Summer Bottles w/flowers

Fashionably Dead Hand Drawn Skinny Jeans - Dark Gray

Erratic / keira - shirt / birds (New Release)

Pure Poison - Coraline Necklace

Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands

Slink Female Feet (AvEnhance) - Flat

TRUTH HAIR Marleen (New Release)

-Belleza- Leila Med 3 R

-Belleza- Leila Freckles 1 MED

Beetlebones Mesh Lashes V.01 (Dainty brown)

Mayfly - Liquid Light Mesh Eye (True Grey, w2)

PARADISIS Brin de Folie : Bra Black

Come With Me

I got two unsolicited compliments yesterday on my Chemistry coat. When that happens I think "Blog it!" Then Truth released new hair, and the windswept look of the short style, Harley, made me think of David Tennant's wild hair in Dr. Who - except prettier and more girlie, of course! Then Clay told me on Plurk that I was sexier now that I was watching Dr. Who. That made me pull out of my inventory the big blue box from Hopscotch. So this blog post arose out of ALL those things!

I'm new to the Dr. Who party, but I'm catching up and already loving Donna (NO SPOILERS PLEASE!). I'm thinking the Doctor could regenerate into a woman just one time, don't you?

Credits:

TRUTH HAIR Harley (New Release)
Chemistry Military Coat (mid length / collar) - Grey
Fashionably Dead Hand Drawn Skinny Jeans - Dark Gray
DECO - MESH Classic Sneaks (black)
erratic / basics - racerback / dark red
Maxi Gossamer - Rings - Dew Encrusted Teardrop - Small - SILVER
Pure Poison - Gold - AnNi Earrings
Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands
-Belleza- Leila Med 3 R

-Belleza- Leila Freckles 1 MED

Mayfly - Liquid Light Mesh Eye (True Grey, w2)

Beetlebones Mesh Lashes V.01 (Dainty brown)

Creepy Crawlies That Shimmer - Fifty Linden Friday

I was so excited to see Pure Poison added to one of my favorite events - Fifty Linden Friday. The mesh jewelry there is fabulous! This quick blog post is to let everybody I know so they too can dangle jeweled spiders from their ears for Halloween. It's a definite contender for me to wear to the Halloween Ball.

Credits:
coldLogic dress - durling.soot
Mayfly - Liquid Light Mesh Eye (True Grey, w3)
Pure Poison - Black Arachnide Earrings
Pure Poison - Black Arachnide Necklace
TRUTH HAIR Charlize - Gingers02
-Belleza- Leila Med R 0

-Belleza- Leila Freckles 1 MED
Beetlebones Mesh Lashes V.01 (Dainty brown)

Perfect for Fall

I have great news for coldLogic fans! Two new casual dress styles were just released. They're perfect Fall dresses to accessorize with boots, leggings and scarves.

I get all excited by newness in my inventory. But there is definitely a place for the tried and true. When I did an inventory search for leggings to accessorize my look, I thought these cute lacy leggings from G Field gave my new classic styled sweater dress and belt a little style punch. And I've had them for a couple of years!

The second new dress is a little flirty and boho. I love it with my Ison boots and Ispachi scarf!

Credits:

top picture

coldLogic dress - zane.black Belt

coldLogic dress - zane.slate

G Field Rose Lace Leggings(Mid) -black-

G Field Rose Lace Leggings(Mid) ruffle cuffs

Clawtooth: Je t'aime - Strawberry cream

fri. - Allison.Boots (Regular) - Sock.tops

fri. - Allison.Boots (Slink) - Soot

Maxi Gossamer - Necklace - Royal Autumn Forest Acorn -Short

Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands

Slink Female Feet (AvEnhance) - Mid

Belleza- Leila Med R 0

Belleza - Leila Freckles 1 MED

Belleza - Leila Med Gloss Lips 7

Beetlebones Mesh Lashes V.01 (Dainty brown)

Mayfly - Liquid Light Mesh Eye (True Grey, w2)
 Del May Pose

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coldLogic dress - zach.rust
ISON - cult riding boots (tan)
ISPACHI [Heuston Scarf] F. Medium : Col
LeLutka - SEIKO hair - IrishRed

I Googled Myself for Strawberry Singh!

Strawberry Singh's meme/challenge for this week is a mash-up of questions she wrote and questions from the new-to-me and very entertaining blog called SLTimeWellWasted. My title for this blog is what the meme is about - Googling ourselves and seeing what happens. You know what? I'm old enough that "googling myself" still sounds vaguely naughty. ;-p

Meme instructions: Google your SL name and answer the following questions. Don’t forget to leave a comment [on Berry's post] with a link to your post so we can all drop by, read and be nosy. Optional: click over to Emily’s blog and do her Google challenge as well. Don’t forget to leave a comment in her post if you end up doing it, so she can come stalk you guys too!

Here are Berry's questions:

1. Google your Second Life name in “quotations” and share your results. About 10,100 results
2. What is the first link that comes up? My blog.
3. Which link were you surprised to see? Apparently I was the victim of a vampire in 2008. Funny, I never felt a thing! 
4. Click on the “Image” tab and tell us where the first 5 pictures listed are from. The first two pictures are my photos on Google+. The third and fourth pictures are from other blogs that mention me, and the fifth is a RL Dolly Baroque dress! 
5. Click on the “more” tab and then click “news” and share your results. Dolly's just not newsworthy, I guess.

Here are Emily's questions about comparing our SL and RL digital footprints:

1. How did the two digital footprints compare, and did that surprise you? Dolly is much more popular on the web than the real life me and that's just fine by me! I used to be a corporate spokesperson and most of my real life entries are just quotes in articles about boring business stuff.
2. Does anyone interesting share your name? Not my real name or my SL name either. I guess both of my names are rather uncommon.
3. Are you happy with the size of your digital footprint, or do you wish either one was larger/smaller? Oh I'm fine with the footprint I have in both worlds.
4. If you woke up/ logged in one morning to discover over night you had suddenly gained rock-star status, and everybody knew who you were and wanted to know what you were doing… what would you do? Hey, talking about shareholder meetings and quarterly earnings isn't rock star stuff? Dolly would be a much better rock star and she would love it for the first ten minutes. The other five minutes of fame would just be a pain.

Finally, back to our regularly scheduled program, PXL Creations has a specialty skin for its VIP group. A new version of the gorgeous skin called Jade in Halloween makeup inspired me to dye my hair to look like a very pretty witch.

Credit:

PXL Creations Skins JADE PA Halloween VIP DEB C2

Yummy Waxing Moon Enchantment Earring - Silver

Beetlebones Mesh Lashes V.01 (Dainty brown)

Mayfly - Liquid Light Mesh Eye (True Grey, w3)

Maxi Gossamer - Necklace - Dew Encrusted Teardrop - Short - SILVER

Tee*fy Dakota Corset Dress Black (at Collabor88)

TRUTH HAIR Anessa

Projector from Pretense Poses

Pose from Marukin

Witchy Woman at Collabor88

From Clawtooth's Windswept hair to Yummy's earrings and mask to Ison's lacy dress and gladiator boots/sandals for our SLink feet, the October Collabor88 is a winner yet again. I feel quite sexy and mysterious today! Hello Halloween, here I come!

Credits:

Yummy Up-To-No-Good Mask (at Collabor88)
Yummy Waxing Moon Enchantment Earrings (at Collabor88)
Clawtooth: Windswept - Strawberry cream (at Collabor88)
ISON - amelia lace gown (black) (at Collabor88)
ISON - lace-up gladiator sandals (black) (at Collabor88)
Mayfly - Liquid Light Mesh Eye (Aged Bronze, w3)
Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands
Slink Female Feet (AvEnhance) Mid
-Belleza- Leila Med 4 R
 BeetleBones Mesh Lashes V.01 (Dainty brown)

More Hat Hair from Truth!

 Two new gorgeous hat hairs from Truth in one week! I couldn't be happier. I have a real love for a good hat hair, both summer and winter. These two new styles, Dylan and Katya, give us lots of styling options for dressing up and down. Make sure to wear the alpha layer for Katya. It fits close to the head and without the alpha layer our ears stick out. As with all new Truth Hair, these styles come with a color change HUD for both hair and hats.

Credits:

(top picture)

TRUTH HAIR Dylan

coldLogic coat - palmieri.ruby
Maxi Gossamer - Earrings - Honey Diva
Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands
-Belleza- Leila Med 4 R
BeetleBones Mesh Lashes V.01 (Dainty brown)

Mayfly - Liquid Light Mesh Eye (Aged Bronze, w3)

(bottom picture)

TRUTH HAIR Katya
Mon Tissu Slouchy Sweatshirt ~ Sky
-Belleza- Leila Med 4 R
BeetleBones Mesh Lashes V.01 (Dainty brown)

Mayfly - Liquid Light Mesh Eye (Aged Bronze, w3)

After I Log Off the Fun Begins

Strawberry Singh has given us two ideas for this week's meme/challenge. The first one captured my imagination enough to ponder it for awhile so I had to peek in at Dolly's offline life. The second requires me to grab one of my friends for a picture, so I might try that later this week.

Meme Suggested by Mr. Winter Jefferson: “What does your avatar get up to after you log out?”
Don’t forget to leave a link to your post in [Berry's] comments and if you decide to do any pictures with this challenge, please share them in the Blog Memes flickr group.

To be totally honest, Dolly manages to go her own way at times even when I'm logged on, so I wasn't particularly surprised to catch her primping for her next day's photo shoots and role play. She is vain and at times overly dramatic so I expect some sulking over this picture. I caught her rocking out to Billy Joel's "You May Be Right," and singing into her hairbrush!

Credits:

Bliensen + MaiTai - Moonchild - Earrings - Dark Silver (at We Love Roleplay)
Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands
Slink Mesh eyelids (alpha) (photo prop)
Tee*fy Aurora  Nightdress Little Hearts (Gatcha Item)
Tiny Bird - Sodom South Georgia - Copper Brown (no longer available)
-Belleza- Leila Med 4 R
!bang - Hairbrush Microphone pose

Dutchie's bathroom sink

Sweater Weather at FaMeshed

It's October and several creators have great sweaters for our Autumn moods. I'm featuring two new-to-me stores today that are in the October round of FaMeshed. The great color change short sleeve sweater in the top picture is from Mutresse, a store to definitely watch for every new release. In the second picture is a beautifully textured cowl neck sweater from Coquet, so soft and comfortably casual looking that I couldn't resist!

Credits:

top

Mutresse  Jana Cardigan

Clawtooth: Merci beaucoup - Strawberry cream

DECO - MESH Classic Sneaks small (black)

Maxi Gossamer - Rings - Dew Encrusted Teardrop - Small

Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands

Mon Tissu Cotton Pants ~ Grey

-Belleza- Leila Med 4 R

Mayfly - Liquid Light Mesh Eye (Aged Bronze, w3)

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Coquet  Cowl Neck Sweater -2 tone Coal

coldLogic jeggings - seyfried.black 

Maxi Gossamer - Rings - Dew Encrusted Teardrop - Small

Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands

LeLutka -SEIKO hair - AuburnHaze

-Belleza- Leila Med 4 R

Beetlebones Mesh Lashes V.01 (Dainty brown)

Mayfly - Liquid Light Mesh Eye (Aged Bronze, w3)

Lacy Gloves for Our SLink Hands

I wasn't sure why I was updating my SLink hands at first. The biggest advantage I could see was that I was able to remove stuff from my inventory because in the update one pair of hands worked for both skin appliers and tint matching. Then I saw these lace glove appliers from Adam n Eve. A light bulb went off. The new hands have a tattoo layer!

There are three painless steps to slipping these gloves over your hands:

• First, in your SLink hands folder find the HUD titled "SLink AvEnhance Utilities - Hands." You can change the length of your nails, or even turn them off, which isn't important with lace gloves since they're see through. Under that you can turn on the tattoo layer. Your hands will turn white, but don't panic. 
• Second, open your AE Lace Gloves folder and find the HUD titled "AE - SLink Applier HUD (Gloves Lace)" and choose your color. If you turned off the fingernails on the SLink Utilities HUD then you're done, but I recommend saving that for gloves that are supposed to cover the skin. So there is one more step.
• Third, and last, find the AE HUD titled "AE - SLink Fingernail Applier HUD (Gloves Lace)" and choose your color. 

Voila! Pretty lacy gloves on pretty SLink hands.  A happy fashionista just got happier.

Other Credits:

Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands - Casual - L
Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands - Elegant1 - R
Baiastice_Aida dress-black
TRUTH HAIR Felicity (New Release)
Maxi Gossamer - Earrings - Baroque Teardrop - Silver
Maxi Gossamer - Rings - Dew Encrusted Teardrop - Small - SILVER
-Belleza- Leila Med 3 R

BeetleBones Mesh Lashes V.01 (Dainty brown)

Mayfly - Liquid Light Mesh Eye (Aged Bronze, w3)