Fanway Park

This one is short and sweet just to show off the cardigan. This is actually a picture I took for a challenge on the Fab Free flickr. (And if you're not reading the Fabulously Free in SL blog, you should be. Just about every freebie on the grid eventually ends up there.)

Last spring I was begging for cardigan sweaters and couldn't find any. This year they're everywhere. Since we're on the As in my inventory you get to see the Wonderland sweater from A-Bomb. This was originally a freebie but now you have to pay all of $50L to get one. I've paired it with the glitch pants from Baiastice's Grandma Glitter suit. The entire Grandma set is available for free at Baiastice. (The slurl below will hopefully take you directly to the freebie area.) Take a minute to browse the store, too. Sissy Pessoa is one of those designers really pushing the envelope of SL fasion.

The shoes I'm wearing are an old pair I picked up forever ago - I have no idea where. Sorry! The Hair is Miss B's Natalie hair - that store doesn't seem to be around any more. Geez, Lessa, what good are you?

The skin, on the other hand, is available and free. It's Cher's Rez Day Skin - designed by Cherlindrea Lamont, the founder of the Fabulously Free blog. They have a site in-world where you can pick up this skin and a bunch of other nice freebies.

The baseball stadium is a little place called Fanway Park. I go there surprisinly often to take pictures. It's small and usually empty. If you ever need a baseball backdrop, that's a good place to go.
Here ends this lame post. If nothing else, go grab the freebies at Baiastice and Fab Free!

Slurls:

Fanway Park: http://slurl.com/secondlife/fairchang%20vista%20ne/88/88/23

A-Bomb: http://slurl.com/secondlife/snatch%20city/97/30/29

Fabulously Free: http://slurl.com/secondlife/mc%20east%20river/95/39/30

Baiastice: http://slurl.com/secondlife/baiastice/46/176/35

The Magic of Oz

The first thing I'll say here is that if you haven't been to The Magic of Oz sim, you've got to go. If you have one tiny ounce of whimsey or fantasy or nostalgia in your body this is a place you don't want to miss. It's also a place I figured I'd never find a way to blog because I just don't have outfits in my inventory that scream "Magic of Oz."

The second thing I have to say is that the Aimee dress is totally not me. I just don't go for the "living doll" approach to dressing my avatar. But that dress has been haunting me ever since it first popped up on the blogs a while ago. "It's so beautiful!" "I'll never wear it." "But it's so beautiful!" "But I'll NEVER wear it."

Of course, when I was at A Piece of Candy last week prepping my Princeton post (alliteration alert!) there it was in all its glory, and I thought of the Oz sim, and next thing I knew my balance was down by $250L.

This really is a nice dress. Beautifully textured, totally affordable, great fishnet stockings included. And it works perfectly here in Oz. This post will be a bit more picture-heavy than in the past because there's so much to see in this great sim. You land at the crossroads and can follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City, the Witch's Castle, Munchkinland, the poppy field, the Scarecrow's cornfield; there's tons to explore. And it's full of nice little poseballs which I've already said I appreciate.

Here I am checking out an emerald fountain. The boots I'm wearing with this outfit are the very first shoes I ever bought in SL - they're the tapestry ankle boots from Lassitude & Ennui. These are the black, of course, and they also come in taupe. (Note to self - remember to take more close-ups!)

The Aimee dress definitely needs some fairy-tale hair and I found that in the Maiden style from Bewitched. Bewitched and its sister-store House of Heart have great sales and lots of freebies. If you're not in their group, you should be! And, oh God, bad blogger, only my 3rd post and I can't remember what skin I was wearing. And I can't find it. Ah well, nobody's perfect.

So I'll leave you with one of the coolest parts of the Oz sim - the witch's castle. Flying monkeys and all. (Clicking on the pictures, by the way, will bring up a larger version so you can see Oz in all it's glory.) And next time we'll be back to more of my normal style, I promise!

The Slurls!



The Magic of Oz: http://slurl.com/secondlife/magic%20of%20oz/138/125/24



A Piece of Candy: http://slurl.com/secondlife/jersey/215/93/24



Lassitude & Ennui: http://slurl.com/secondlife/nouveau/61/61/30



Bewitched: http://slurl.com/secondlife/tropical%20escape/181/77/22

Princeton

Ever since I first visited the Princeton Sim I've been telling people about it. I've never been to the real Princeton (totally not Ivy League material) so maybe someone who has can tell me if it's a good representation. In any case, it's a beautiful build with tons of information. The library alone (above) is packed with all kinds of interesting stuff that changes frequently. You can play a super-sized game of chess, browse wildlife illustrations, view various videos, listen to audio clips, you could really spend a whole day exploring everything.


The first non-numerical store in my inventory is A Piece of Candy. Sticklers for grammar will say that that belongs down with the "Ps," and you're right, but I'm blindly following the conventions of my inventory, grammar be damned.


I always forget how much I love this store between visits. Then I go there and remember what quality clothing Candy Enoch provides at seriously low prices. In fact, while visiting the store to prep for this post I got sucked into buying the Aimee dress, which in no way belongs on a college campus (unless they have a Masquers' Ball like my alma mater used to) and which will be the subject of my next post.

This is an outfit I paid money for as well, the Wray outfit. I actually really like the schoolgirl aspect of it. I love the brown turtleneck, the sweet houndstooth skirt, and the stockings, which come in two colors. The belt is on the glitch pants so no crazy fitting issues there. I've paired it with my most favorite boots - Slink's Angelina stilettos. I refuse to be a stick woman in SL and the Slink boots fit my apparently freakishly large calves with no adjustments at all.

The lovely earrings are the Agroglyphe earring in gold from Bliesen + Mai Tai. They are scripted so you can change the size and texture of the pendants. You also get an unscripted pair for those laggy sims. My skin, I have to admit, is something you can't get any more. I was lucky to just start figuring out skin at the time that Eloh Elliot gave away her skins and designers in SL came together to use them for a fundraiser. Every skin sold for $50L. This is from the line that Arikinui Adria of Nuclear Boutique fame did, and you'll be seeing a lot of them. They're my hands down favorite skin in SL.

The hair is a freebie - Icing's Miko Omegamu's Valedictorian hair. You can pick it up on the freebie shelf at Icing. It normally has two crossed pencils holding the mini-bun in the back but I edited them out.


The student union at the Princeton Sim is very cool and modern and currently houses a display of wildlife illustrations. The patio has these great chairs with poses built in - I'm not very savvy on this stuff so I love anything that will pose my avatar for me. In this picture I've added A Piece of Candy's Vintage Cardigan in yellow. You can't actually get the yellow in the store (it was a group gift, I think), but it is available in a lot of other great colors.

Here are the slurls:

Princeton: http://slurl.com/secondlife/princeton%20university/144/148/24

A Piece of Candy: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Jersey/194/61/24

Slink: http://slurl.com/secondlife/sanctum/63/128/34

Icing: http://slurl.com/secondlife/mischief/111/190/24

Bliesen + Mai Tai: http://slurl.com/secondlife/harshap/168/127/59

Capitol Hill

So at the very top of my inventory is Jacqueline Boehm's shop 1-800 Betties. I have two outfits from this shop - the Miz Secretary, which is shown, and the Jazz Suit which is a pantsuit version and does not seem to be available at this time. So you only get to see the skirt. Jacqueline's shop has a lot of great retro-inspired fashions, including some nice shoes and lingerie and a few things for the guys. The prices are very reasonable, too.




To photograph this fairly conservative suit I thought right away of the Capitol Hill sim. Actually two sims, Capitol Hill North and Capitol Hill South are dedicated to a greater understanding of the political process in the United States. There is information available all over the sims on all aspects of government.


For instance, click the little pink piggy bank to get a notecard detailing recent government spending. Near the pig is a note card you can click on to read the text of the recent stimulus package. Everything seems to be updated regularly. During big events (like elections and debates) they stream live news feeds and folks gather and discuss. The sims are technially non-partisan but discussions I've attended have a very liberal bent!

This suit is pretty severe, so I paired it with a really sexy hairstyle - Calla's Bellflower. My skin is Mela's Sakura Kawaii line in the Ahiru makup. (Mela's skins look great on my avatar and they are cheap, cheap, cheap!) My eyes, which I never change, are from E's Handpainted Fantasy Avatar. Lashes are Sin Skin's Vanity lashes. My shoes are the iconic (and free) Slinky Stilettos from Maitreya. Is there a better basic black pump in all of SL? And last, but not least, my shape is all my own - with system skirt hips, of course! :)

And here are the slurls:

1-800 Betties: http://slurl.com/secondlife/roosa/245/23/28

Capitol Hill: http://slurl.com/secondlife/capitol%20hill%202/127/233/30

Calla Hair: http://slurl.com/secondlife/calla/128/110/35

E's Handpainted Fantasy Avatar: http://slurl.com/secondlife/yeol/97/225/69

Mela's Shapes, Hair, Skin: http://slurl.com/secondlife/lo%20lo/34/69/28

Sin Skins: http://slurl.com/secondlife/port%20seraphine/184/155/267

Maitreya: http://slurl.com/secondlife/maitreya%20isle/175/213/23

Welcome to the Average Avatar!

Just what the metaverse needs, right? Another SL fashion/sightseeing blog. Well, it's what I need right now so I'm going to do it!

Hi! I'm Lessa Joubert and I've been in SL for about a year and a half now. In other words, forever. I'm just what the title suggests - an average girl with tens of thousands of items in her inventory and no place to wear them all. I've been wanting to do more with SL lately, and I'm so not a builder or designer. But I like taking pictures (although I confess up front to never having even seen Photoshop) and I love shopping. And I love reading SL fashion blogs. So I came up with this idea.

I'm challenging myself to go through my inventory alphabetically and create outfits and then find cool (and preferrably appropriate) sims in which to take pictures. Hopefully, if I ever have a reader or two, you'll get to see some nice clothes and a location you'd like to visit.

I'll try to keep things short and I'll try to only blog clothes you can actually acquire at this time.(Although I know I'll slip on that - who doesn't want to show off all those great Last Call outfits?) Some stuff will be freebies, some not, some designers will only take up one blog entry and some (hello Barerose!) will take up several. Some stuff will be new, some totally not. Who knows? It'll be fun for me even if nobody ever reads it!

So on with the show!