Little Town

Today I pulled Little Town out of the hat. It's a store that no longer exists, but one that is near and dear to my heart so I decided to blog it anyhow. But I found a beautiful sim to share with you (thanks to Chestnut Rau's blog) so even though you can't go shop at Little Town you can visit the amazing build at the Monastery of St. Michael and St. Francis Church.

You don't have to be religious to appreciate this beautiful sim. The grounds are gorgeous and include an open-air chapel in a stand of trees and a full-size labyrinth. The church is huge, with colorful stained-glass windows, a massive pipe organ, and, my favorite of all, an underground crypt. There is also a cloister with individually decorated monks' cells and a garden and chapter house. Even the audio stream is lovely - a mixture of polyphonic chant and quiet, new-agey music.

Where'd this one go?

Is this thing on?

I have to say just a little about Little Town. This was one of the first stores I discovered in SL and I was so happy to find nice clothes that were cheap and didn't require any adjusting. I actually have both this skirt and sweater in three different colors. I know there are better sweater textures (I own most of them!) but I actually love this simple cable knit. The woolen tights are from Persona and the shoes are Tesla's high oxfords in chocolate. These are one of those shoes that I really wish I had in RL.

I have my usual default skin on - Julie from LAQ - but I've added the stained face tattoo from Ag that I think is still free at Kozmetika. It adds a nice light red layer to the cheeks and lips. My hair is the Saturday hair from Miel in red 4.

Back!

I ended up taking an unexpected and extended trip out of town this month. Now my blogging folder is massively over-packed and I have to hop to it! So starting right off:

I headed over to Modavia Fashion Week just at the last minute, which is good, since I only had time to buy three outfits. It's over now, but you can drop by Kunglers to pick up the Sophia dress, which is awesome. I don't really buy gowns in SL because I never wear them, but I could not resist this one.


Truth Hawks is really upsetting me these days. He will not stop making gorgeous hair! And then I have to buy it and then I don't have money for anything else. Seriously, will it ever end?! This is the most lovely Orchid (without the actual orchids) and I think it's my favorite updo ever. I'm also wearing the Cue jewelry set from Miel.

My skin is interesting. It's Mango, Mango!'s Honey Bee in pale. I almost tossed it out, actually, because I didn't like the black eyebrows and the eyes looked weird to me. But I LOVE really dark lipstick so I messed around with it. I added lashes from Sin Skins and my tattoo layer eyebrows from LAQ. The eyebrows add color to the forehead, so they won't work with every non-LAQ skin, but I think they work really well here. Voila! A skin I wasn't in love with becomes perfect. I do love that tattoo layer! Here are the pics, first the original skin and then my doctored version.





More (much more!) to come. I've got to catch up to my monster blogging folder!

At Home in Santana

At the moment I'm all about my new SL home - loving the location and the extra prims! So as I fight may way through my to-be-blogged folder you'll be seeing a lot of it, I expect.

You'll also be seeing a lot of those Everglow poses. Still loving those!


See how far behind I am? Of course, everyone has already blogged the Ginger Boots from Shiny Things, so I should just let them go to their designated folder (Clothing - Shoes - Shiny Things) unblogged. But I have just enough OCD in me to prevent that from ever happening. What's in my blog folder gets blogged. And besides, anything as cute as these deserves yet another mention.

Today I've paired the boots with the Flower Garden dress from Rily's $1L shop. You can find this dress in many colors and several others there, all for $1L.

I have to confess I've been going a little skin crazy lately. Maybe it has something to do with being homeless and not needing to pay rent. I've never paid real prices for skin because the Eloh Elliot templates happen to fit my shape really well, so freebie skins have always done me well. But I seem to be completely addicted to LAQ. Feeling a little flush I headed over there today and demo-ed everything. After much intense scrutiny I settled on two lines, of which this is one. This lovely skin is April in Milky, and she's another natural redhead so I don't get to show off my tattooed eyebrows just yet. The hair is from Miel, it's called Sat and this is red 4.