I got into this nasty habit when I log into SL, I go and check on bunnies (don't judge me!) and then I log out and into my working av. Thats it. Thats what I've been doing. I have things to blogged just filling a folder, an inventory that has been neglected and an av that would really like to change her clothing. However, this is what I've been living in. I love this dress, by Mischief, lets me be sassy the little bit of time I get to be on as me!

Something else I mentioned on my plurk page, location location location! I got really lazy for a while and stayed in my studio for all of my pics. I like to explore, so I will try and get some time in for that too. This was taken at the Pixel Mode sim. Its awesome, go visit.

Dina's Style Card:
Dress: Mischief
Shoes: MooShooz (Unfindable, oh noes)
Jewls: +U&R DOGS+
Pose: Tuli
Skin: Belleza
Hair: Truth

Dina's Style Card:
Dress: shirohato
Hair: Truth
Skin: Belleza
Feet: SLink
Pose 1: Storin
Pose 2: Tuli

This was the humpday special over at Sn@tch and I absolutely couldn't resist it. I have a massive folder of Sn@tch items that I need to go through as it is, so I have no idea why I TPd on in over there but I happily walked away with this and a couple other items. The shoes are also a recent Sn@tch release and sum up the look perfectly. No idea how long this will be up so sneak over and get it fast!

Style Card:
Lingerie & Shoes: Sn@tch
Skin: Belleza
Hair: Fri.day
Pose 1: Tuli
Pose 2: Storin

I think I have said it about a gabillion times the last few weeks, but I still don't like orange on me that much. Hence the lack of Halloween or Harvest type looks! This, however, works well enough for me. The Moon is a piece you can actually wear form Random Kitten (found in the gatcha machine) and it attaches perfectly. After taking off your old ao it will have you floating around on it all day swinging and kicking your legs, so cute! The top was picked up from Malt and as harvesty colored as I am going to get me thinks. The pants are from the 50L Friday selections from Fishy Strawberry. Shoes by Dilly Dolls, an old time favorite of mine from right about the time the grid went crazy with flats.

I was able to sneak some time in world tonight and visit a new shop that I saw from a posting on plurk. .hc&co. is an absolutely adorable little shop that is bursting at the seams with potential. I was lucky enough to run into the owner and got to stand and talk to her while I did a bit of shopping. If you ever really wonder if posting your creations on plurk pays off, I am here as living proof that yes indeed it does!

My initial reasoning for dropping by was the breast cancer awareness top (seen below) that Heather had plurked about. I hope that more people saw it and take a few minutes to get it, if nothing else. Even better would be if you just took a few minutes to wander around this delightful shop and picked up a few more things. Trust me, your essentials can all be found here and they are wonderful additions to your wardrobe. A couple of my favorite pieces are the shoes you see. I am the biggest sucker for flat shoes and these are so darn cute! I got them in both green and pink. The green pair are shown with a pair of ripped jeans and a green sweater that comes with a sweet little scarft. (See above, obviously)

The pink shoes are shown here with the same jeans, unripped, and the breast cancer shirt that is set out for free right now. Also seen with this outfit is a very well done set of bangles on my wrist, everything findable in the same shop. This is another one of those stores that has good quality and very afordable prices! I spent my last couple hundred lindens here getting these pieces to share with you guys tonight. Mainly in the hopes of seeing more people visit .hc&co.! There is also a section with skins inside and to the right, be sure to try them! I will be doing skin reviews soon and may sneak back for a demo or two.

Last here is the prize that will be handed out during the Dubloon Hunt which starts on October 1st and runs through the 22. This is a gridwide hunt for pirate-themed prizes so you really dont want to miss out. Shown, of course, is the gift for women but there is also a male gift included here for you guys that are being dragged around on grid wide hunts this month. You know you love getting gifts as much as we girls do, its ok to admit it! The dress (which you guys could also wear, we won't judge you, honest) comes with an top, glitch pants and skirt as well as the fantastic belt. Best of all, its pink! I've such a fondness for pink....couldn't you tell?

I wasn't actually paying as much attention to the poses I used tonight as I normally do, but I am pretty darn sure these are all poses by Tuli. One of the poses came with the picnic table, but the rest can be found at Tuli's shop. Be sure to sneak by and get them too.

I am off to bed at an insanely early hour tonight. Partly because its just been a long day. Partly because I haven't anything left that I want to do online tonight. Last, and certainly not least, partly because I don't like being online without my persons and its a really quiet night. I'm missing Sands far too much so sleep...yes, sleep is a good idea.

For tomorrow: I will have an awesome skin review by the designer of [42]! I just got all of her items from the skin fair and will be taking a few really detailed pictures to share with you all. Be on the look out for it you wont want to miss this one. Have a great night all, and hope you end your hump day well!

Dina's Duds:
Clothing, Shoes, Jewlery: .hc&co.
Hair: fri.day and Magika
Skin: Belleza
Pose: Tuli

There was a mini-expansion in EQ2 a couple of days ago that left me in PvP heaven, so I didn't have a lot of time to work on my inventory. I did manage to unpack and locate a few great pieces, even better when paired up with others that were already lingering, unused, in my inventory. My favorite pieces from this is the belt from Tuli and the scarves from fairy tail. Absolute essentials, don't you think? The scarves came from one of the gumball machines at the GATCHA event. The pants are a pair of really really old jeans by Nyte N Day, and a piece I put on just to show people that old items are not out of date or just plain out useless. There are still some fabulousness left in them, and I love using them with the new items like the sweater from Mischief and the top by PACADI. We all know where the shoes are from by now, right? Say it with me...Shiny Things. Oh I heart thee.

Nothing else much to update today, I know imagine that...a blog post where I don't ramble for too long! Heading out to handle errands and get a lil man a haircut, I need to see his adorable face again. Will be meeting up with Kerra for lunch and then a bit of shopping, always the best time with her! Just finished up a great 'weekend' with Sands and that massive PvPing. From gear to titles to achievements and a ton of laughter, its been an awesome couple of days. I hope everyone has an amazing weekend coming up. I will have a couple more posts, of course, as I tackle that inventory again. Someone...save me?

I normally have this really, horrible bad habit in SL. When I come in and know that I intend to make a blog post, I will go out and shop for an outfit instead of just hunting through, mixing and matching, and reworking the things I already have. When I do that, I not only buy one or two things for a blog post, but a handful of others that ultimately will just sit in my inventory, never to be worn or seen again. The problem seems to be so many amazing designers, and so many new releases that it takes a lot of shopping to keep up. When I was newer, and I am talking 2005, 2006, and the like, it was so much easier. There were only a few designers that I was completely in love with and they weren't doing new releases every single week so I had time to save my money, or earn more.

I don't have the time, or the inventory space, to shop like I used to. That doesn't seem to stop me most days! This week I kept control and dug deep into my inventory. I came up with this absolutely adorable dress by eLDee that had been sitting in my inventory for a while. I didn't exactly like the thin straps and started looking for a shrug and found this fantastic, partially off the shoulder cardigan, sweater by Coco. It was a great look for the amazingly sweet hair by Truth and one of my favorite shoes (owned in many colors, thank you so much) by Shiny Things. Shiny Things is another of my loves, the shoes make me squeel, footless as they are.

Again, in a world where you can be anonymous in so many ways, its easy to put yourself out there as one personality: Perfectly kind, never says a harsh word to a soul, and surrounded by friends and a successful business. All while using an anonymous alt to: Rip the same people apart, ruin their businesses and let out all the aggression you withhold on your 'perfect' avatar. I have to wonder what kind of real life a person might have, what might be causing them such discontentment to have multiple alternate accounts on networking sites or within SL. So many accounts that no matter how many times they are banned, they can turn around the next day and begin their assault again. Yes, I do indeed see this type of behavior as assault. Verbal assault, hands down. Especially if they have to use account after account to come in and slam a person down that has one, nothing to do with them any more nor even mentioned them and are two, actually sharing how happy they are. If someone sharing that they are happy causes you enough grief that you feel the need use an anonymous account to poke at them, then I would highly suggest a new hobby or form of entertainment because you are then taking this one far too seriously. This entire rambling post stems from my being attacked on a plurk by Sands, simply to get to him. I find that low, and only a coward with no life would come out and attack a person someone loves in order to get a reaction out of them. Sadly for the troll, I don't take it personally. Some people cant help their issues, and I won't take offense for them, especially since its blatantly obvious how clueless people, and their alts, really are. The best part is every attack just brings us closer, strengthens our bond and phases us less and less with each wave. Thick skin, and all that jazz.

Granted, there are other uses for alts, I wont deny that. Business alts, alts for pleasure, alts for fun, alts for....ok lets just leave it at: there are other reasons for alts. I just wish that however someone might choose to play your alt, you take care of how your behavior and actions affect other people. As for me, myself and I, we are all going to stay on one avatar from here on out, just as I have since I let go of my first Second Life. Who has time for anything else? As it is it took me all day to write out this blog post, between RL and spending some time with Sands on his weekend, I hardly have enough time for everything I want to do as me. Though, that reminds me, I have had a fabulous last couple of days. The only reason I am not looking forward to Friday is because Sands has to work. Nasty habit, that. I'm still sitting in skype with him, get a bit more time too, and I miss him already. Lucky for me I get to wake him up in the morning!

Have a great Friday everyone, and your alts too!

Another very simple post today, been extremely busy as we prepare to send little people back to school. Ahh, summer is almost over, I'm so looking forward to Autumn! This beautiful dress is a the current group gift for Ingenue. Wearing a new hair from Truth and fabulous shoes from Shiny Things (who is, by far, my favorite shoe store to date) this is me sneaking even closer to fall. I've never been fond of summer, too hot, I love the cooler seasons and I thought this reflected that perfectly. The image is a little dark, but I was just playing with a few new things this afternoon. For a better view be sure to stop by Ingenue.

Dina's Duds
Dress: Group gift by Ingenue
Hair: Truth
Shoes: Shiny Things
Skin: Redgrave
Pose: Tuli

Summer is heading towards its end here, even though we never really did get a lot of heat its been beautiful out lately and called for a lot of picnics and outside time. Because I live right off of a lake in RL, I get to be waterside as often as we would like so I adore taking pictures like these in SL where it so closely matches what I see around me. I believe I've used this table and bench in the past, it is by D-Lab and they have a bunch of pieces I plan to return and pick up soon too.

The table and the benches each come with a few poses, as well as the picnic items shown here. Its one of my favorite outside sets and I have so many now! The outfit, this is something I would so wear in RL and its adorable!! Since this summer wasn't nearly as hot as I am used to, I could seriously see myself sitting by the lake in this, the question really is...whats on the lunch menu?!

I still spend a little bit of time each day wandering through the fashion feeds, even on days I don't get to log into SL at all. I chanced upon a blog post about ::EmJay:: and actually logged in to go do some shopping! I was lucky enough to land with the designer on site, I always love getting to talk to designers. The design line is relatively new to SL, and she has fast been added to my favorite designer list!

The dresses and tunics also have a fabulous variety of patterns and colors, I always have such a hard time picking out one thing that of course the fat packs quickly found their way into my inventory. I officially lay the blame on ::EmJay:: for pushing my inventory over the 40k amount! Someone should get to cleaning that out *looks around*

At the moment ::EmJay:: only has the one small location, but I have no doubt at all that the designer will be expanding or moving to a larger shop soon. She is working on a selection of mens and womens T's, I got a little sneak peek and they are fantastic!! Will be sharing those as soon as I have them in my hot little ::EmJay:: folder, that's for sure. The separates are great for mixing and matching, the below shorts are some of my favorite!

I also snagged a few eyes, but didn't get a chance to take any pictures with them yet. The images here is just a handful of the things I purchased, every single clothing piece is from ::EmJay:: of course, so be sure to take some time to visit and shop until your inventory hits 40k too! What, I can't be the only one that shops so much that she has to go buy more because she can't find anything, right? Er...right?!

When shopping just doesn't do it for me anymore, I tend to tear down whatever house I am living in and start over. I was missing my garden home for some time and decided today was a good day to take everything down (again) and start over, building in my small corner what I once had on a quarter of a sim with my friend Kerra. I split our new corner in half, just like before, and the afternoon was spent gardening. This is just one of the new spots in my 'new home' but over time you will surely see more. Because of this day of gardening, I failed to even look at the clothing area of my inventory, imagine that! So, a fast post with what I was gardening in. Who says you cant look good while digging around in the SL dirt?

Dina's Duds
Dress & Shoes: LeLutka
Hair: Zero Style
Skin: Redgrave
Pose: Tuli

Lelutka has recently put out a nice sized release, this is just one of the many fabulously sweet outfits. Unfortunetly for me, my shape doesn't make outfits like this every day wear, but for pictures, you cant beat a beautiful scuplted dress like this one. Coupled with a pose by Tuli, I am delicate, sweet, and look almost innocent. Hey, who is laughing? I do!

Dina's Duds
Dress & Shoes: LeLutka
Hair: Zero Style
Skin: Redgrave
Pose: Tuli