UrbanizeD

I just got back from a hunt at the great furniture store UrbanizeD. Actually, I bought more than I hunted, and I made a discovery about this furniture!

I already have several of Pitsch Parx's creations but I didn't have any chairs or sofas. I'm small as avatars go in SL - no Amazon woman here. And so generally furniture dwarfs me and any built-in poses or animations leave me sitting somewhere in the stuffing. But Pitsch's sofas and chairs are sort of normal-sized and the poses and animations are perfectly designed for my tiny body. (On a side note - can anybody explain how I can simultaneously be too small for furniture and too big for clothes?)

The things I bought today are from the new Masai line. The textures are really nice and everything's changeable, although I'd never change them. Look how no part of my body sinks into the cushions! That never happens.

Each piece is loaded with several animated sitting and laying down poses and they all fit my little body perfectly.

To show off this great furniture I'm wearing Maitreya's Bastille top in cool mint and jean shorts in regular. I'm also sporting Maitreya hair (Lila in ginger), white espadrilles from Gos, and bangles from Petunia.

I may just have a new favorite skin. This is the Dahlia skin from CheerNo Femme and while it does come with a variety of makeups, I'm in love with the bare version. It looks great on my shape and seems to work with all of my makeup. Here I've added Sin Skin's Vanity lashes, my LAQ redhead eyebrows and hair base, and the Irina lipstick in natural from Amacci. Here's the bare version of the skin:

The hunt at UrbanizeD is still on, by the way, and you can collect a complete living room set. I've been too busy enjoying my new purchases to even open the gifts, but I'm sure they're fantastic too! ;)

Riddle

I am in serious trouble. My linden balance is dangerously low, it's two more weeks before I give myself my allowance, and yet still I shop! My next blogging stop is Riddle, a store that I had no memory of ever visiting. But there in my inventory was a cute sweater with little skulls on it that sent me right over to check out the other offerings.


Riddle is a very nice store with some fantastic items. Somehow I managed to find a coat I absolutely needed to buy. Never mind that I have about 50 other coats, 25 of them bought this fall. This pretty red one is part of the Winter Blues set that comes with a sweater dress as well, but I've paired it with a different Riddle sweater, Skully, in pink. I especially like that I can wear the coat hood at the same time as my sweater neck.


The sweater is also a dress, but I like a little more coverage so I threw on the Essential Jeans from Nyte & Day in stone wash. The shoes are are just something I found tucked in my inventory - I have no clue where they came from. The hair is Maitreya's Lila in ginger. And no, I still haven't taken off my Julie skin from LAQ. I don't see that happening any time soon!

Reale

Today I pulled Reale from my randomizer, which made me very happy. I haven't been over there in a while so the first thing I did was visit the store. And then I bought a few things. And then I tore myself away to concentrate on my blog post.

Reale is one of my favorite SL stores. Maxi dresses have been big for a while in world and I think the ones at Reale are standouts. I love the Floratta dress (here shown in Pansy). It's romantic and pretty but not over the top for a non-gown girl like me. I've put it together with the April skin from LAQ (worn, of course, with their red eyebrow tattoo) and hair that's also from Reale, Francesca in dark red.


For my shopping trip I went with the polka dot bolero top and tank (which is possibly the only cropped top in my inventory) and paired them with Zaara's Mitya shorts in blue and the Ginger boots from Shiny Things. When in doubt, always go with Zaara and Shiny Things! I'm also wearing my Julie skin from LAQ and Maitreya's Dylan hair.

Ibizarre and My Navel

I know I swore in the beginning that I wouldn't be showing my navel, but you guys knew that wouldn't apply to swimsuits, right? And I'm calling this a swimsuit.

This is the Volant dress from Ibizarre. They call it a dress, but it looks like a bikini to me! And since I don't ever, ever succumb to EMS but I really like the "dress," I'm going with it. The hair I'm wearing is Malou in ginger from Maitreya. The pose is built into the fire and log set, which is from Dench Designs.


The shoes I'm wearing with this are the Venus sandals from The Hub. I know everyone is making prim toes now, but I still don't like them. I can never get them to fit right or match my skin. So call me a grumpy old luddite, but I'm sticking with my ugly SL toes for now! And I do like these sandals.

And of course I'm showing off my other new skin from LAQ. This is Pearl in milky and I'm wearing the LAQ cleavage pack as well. Also, since Pearl is a blonde, I can show off the eyebrows LAQ sells on the tattoo layer. On the left you see Pearl with the original eyebrows and on the right I'm wearing the red eyebrows in the eyebrow pack. The eyebrows are meant to go with only LAQ skins, but I'm going to try them on other skins and see what happens.