THE MECHANIC

I held on to this Miel dress for a while, because I wasn't sure how I wanted to use it. Finally the other day, I received a group gift from Deco, which included these grungy goggles by Gutterblood Spoonhammer. (Love em! They remind me of Dad's welding goggles.) Before Mr. Spoonhammer started selling wares upstairs at Deco, I used to visit his shop at ROT dev (gone dammit). The rough goggles inspired me to grunge up the Miel dress. I toughened her look combining the booN topknot with a buzzcut hairbase, and the gauged and pierced ears. The gauges are actually timepieces. I love that kind of details!

In case you still had any doubts whether this chick is someone you want to mess with, she is sporting a garter with a rusty old pistol tucked in.

Dress: Miel “Raider Dress” (group gift in several lovely colors)
Undershirt: Pieces from the Pink Outfitters “Rocket Girl Jacket” (VERY modified collar)
Leggings: Ducknipple “Zwaffel 03: Majo (black)”
Goggles: Decompose “Roughneck Goggles – red” (from Deco group gift)
Garter: LouLou & Co. “Garter Pistolero”
Arm warmers: DeLa “Arm warmers Black” (old gift) … I tinted the metal studs
Leg warmers: DeLa “Leg warmers Black” (old gift)
Shoes: Gos “Docs 8 Hole” (with optional old finish)
Hairpiece: booN “MKT012” (love love love!)
Tattoo with Hairbase: Aitui “Biomech Web w/Hair Base” (old gift)
Skin: dekade “Claire”
Ears: Mynerva “Chrono-plug II Elven Ears”
Eyes: Poetic Color “Night Rain”
Poses: by Long Awkward Pose
Photostudio: by N30

Love,
Serene

BACK AT THE SUBWAY

That boy is late again. I feel like I spend my life waiting.

Maybe ... he isn't coming.

Glasses: Glow Studio “Shutter Shades” (unavailable)
Skin: Glam Affair “Sofia Tan Skin” (at The Dressing Room 70L)
Jewelry: Garage “Coins”
Jacket: DeLa “Short Jacket Bette”
Shirt: Cupcakes “Lacy Tank Top”
Pants: Coco “Shiny Leggings” (group gift in store)
Boots: J’s “Ankle Boots Square”
Hair: Cake “Dakota”
Eyes: Poetic Color “Night Rain”
Poses: Long Awkward Pose
Location: Trilogy at Combeynot

Love,
Serene

THE HALLOWEEN SPIRIT 4/4: best laid plans

Well you know what they say about the best laid plans. I had Halloween laid out: On Friday October 30, finish up the halloween decorating, carve pumpkin with my daughter, last touches to costumes. In the evening, I would attend the Illusions Ball in costume, then swing by the Loco Pocos Trick or Treating and a couple of haunted houses after she went to sleep. I saved them for the end of the month because for me, it's more fun that way. On Halloween it would be all RL cause, well, I do have a Life.

Here's what really happened: on Thursday my Dad dropped by in the afternoon, and we had fun with my daughter a while. This put a pinch in my shopping plans, but I figured I could make it up later. Walmart is open 24 hours. He stayed till about 7:30 and got up to go home before dark. He doesn't see very well in the dark for driving. A minute later he came back with a bloody hanky at his face. He's been having bad nosebleeds that won't stop, and had a couple visits to the Emergency Room already that week. It was getting dark and I figured he shouldn't drive with one hand pinching his nose with the other, so I took him to the hospital. Carrying sleeping toddler, bag of baby essentials, coats etc., we wait there for forty-five minutes to see the doctor. By then the gushing blood miraculously stopped, so I took him home. The next day he had early surgery, and I picked him up afterward because he couldn't drive home after the anesthesia. Took him back to my house to keep an eye on him for a couple of hours but he looked OK, so I ran around trying to do Halloween decorations. Forget about carving a jack-o-lantern or pumpkin pies. I made Dad and daughter lunch instead. Run through the day and evening like a madwoman, no time for the Illusions Ball.

On Halloween Sara and I had so much fun getting ready and in the afternoon she went trick-or-treating with her Daddy while I stayed home to terrorize all the kids in the neighborhood in my witch costume. Finally late at night, after they came home she slipped into a sugar coma, and my husband was vegetating in front of the television. I turned on the computer and tried to salvage a few of my Second Life plans. I had two hours, so I ran over to Loco Pocos and Bloodmoon Manor.

Well, I had planned to wear the Loco Pocos Skeleton Avatar and the Orange KatatOnik Dollie Dress. It was late and I was the only one there.

I really did like this haunted house. This one was, well, the grossest. The Art Maze Haunted House was great fun too: it had puzzles and pieces you had to find, and some very nice treat bags all over the house to find too. I intended to show you some of their prizes too but, you know what they say about plans ... :)

This was the one place in the house that made me jump. There were all kinds of gross abbatoir sights, bloodspatter etc. that doesn't rattle me, but this guy startled me as he suddenly popped out of the wall. Sweet.

Oh, yeah I was wearing (still):
Skin: The Plastik (from their Halloween Gift)
Hair: Calico Ingmann Creations "Luna"
Jacket: DeLa “Short Jacket Bette”
Corset/Shorts: from Cupcakes "Brocade Dress Halloween" (i think 75L?)
Pants: Adam and Eve "Catwalk Leather Pants" (0n underwear layer)
Skirt: Silentsparrow "Gutter Glitter"
Socks: Miel "Lo Refurbished Socks" (100L at the Dock)
Shoes: Ducknipple "Harry"

Love,
Serene

IN THE WASTELANDS

A pretty ordinary evening in the Wastelands. Really. Just try to stay away from Reavers.

Only a fool would walk around here after dark without equipment. I have plenty up my sleeves. If you don't like it dark you can burn something. But I wouldn't waste any ordnance on that If I were you.

This belt comes with medical supplies as well as weapons in case anything goes wrong. The medic kit doesn't show in the pictures but I figured two shots of the bag is already overkill ... so to speak.

This Grenade bag has such amazing detail in the textures ... the craftsmanship is really fabulous. For instance, if you look under the flaps on the pouches he baked on shadows. The color of the fabric parts toggles on touch between khaki and black but the detail shows better on the khaki color. (touch pics to see more detail)

Bag: TonkTastic “Stielhandgranaten bag” (colorchange)
Jacket: DeLa “Bette”
Shirt: Schadenfreude “Black Ghost Skelebeater”
Pants: WoE GRJ-M3E Men’s Lucas Jeans”
Boots: House of Curios “Leather Laced Boots” (colorchange)
Hair: Miau Haus “Valen”
Eyes: Poetic Color “Night Rain”
Skin: Rockberry “Character Skin Lily”
Poses: Long Awkward Pose and Animazoo
Location: Wastelands

Love,
Serene

SOME SASSY PINK

The whole outfit isn't pink, but a little cotton candy goes a long way.

The pink necklace is Kunstkammer's RFL item, available at the Fashion Expo. The pink MichaMi corset dropped on me like manna from DSN, and its seams are subtle but they whisper "vintage". Finally pink clogs from Duh! ... (I bought them all, but that's not as expensive as it sounds.)


The black leather balances out the sweetness nicely. I love this little jacket ... the prim bits fit over a jacket-layer piece, but if you need the jacket layer for something else, the prims work well all by themselves.

I wear the Hat/Hair with lots of things cause the hat changes texture on touch.


Necklace: Kunstkammer “Poppy Necklace for RFL”
Jacket: DeLa “Short Jacket Bette”
Corset: MichaMi Carmela Bustier Top in Blush” (DSN sample)
Pants: Indi “Hunter Pants Black” (Make Him Over Hunt gift)
Shoes: Duh! “Slip-on Clogs” (L$20 a pair)
Hair/Hat: Argrace “Hunting - Chiffon Curl”
Skin: Curio “:GP: Acorn [Dark] Breeze-Sepia 1”
Eyes: Poetic Color “Night Rain”

Poses:
[LA] Glam *male/unisex* “You Can Leave your Hat On”
[LA] Insolence *female* Badass

Love,
Serene