HELP!

Emerald Wynn is ghosted on the porch of Mynerva!

And with no hair!!!!



There is nothing freakier than seeing your AV ghosted somewhere - and moving around with an AO!

UGH. The owners are offline. I tried to eject her using God Tools, but it didn't work. FML. Maybe my alt could buy some kind of a griefer weapon and shoot her? A guy hit me with a giant penis once and it booted me offline. Where can I get one of those?

On another note, I didn't realize how luscious and sexy my curvy alt was until I put her next to the apparently freakishly proportioned, 12-foot-tall, spindly Emerald Wynn. If I ever get Emerald Wynn off the porch of Mynerva, I'm going to Frankenstein her and give her my alt's body, but keep Emerald's face.

And on that note . . . Happy Halloween?

Stop by and say hi — I'll probably be hanging there all night. :(

It doesn't have to end

Normally if you were to say, "Hey Emerald, why don't you dress all burlesque today?" I would probably reply, "Why don't you kiss my non-burlesque arse?"

Kidding. I don't passionately dislike that style, but it's just not me at the moment. However, living a rich, fulfilling life sometimes requires stepping out of our comfort zones, kids. So when Ezura Xue of the awesome store + ezura + passed me her new Burlesque Victorian Vampiress set for review, I said, "What the hell?" and donned it. (And now you too must use the verb "don" in a sentence this weekend. I insist.)

And you know what? It's hot!

What I really love about it is that on Nov. 1 you don't have to pack it up in a "Halloween 2010" inventory box where it will crumble and rot as you forget all about it in 2011. You can go from rocking a bloody mouth and posing next to a chair with a big damn pumpkin in it . . .



. . . to just looking hot and gothy whenever you feel like it.

The cool bat-winged hat is included, and those are bat wing attachments on the arms too. Awesome.

Stockings also are included with the outfit, but I switched them out for my Stiletto Moody Lucky Lingerie Stockings because last year I paid a fortune for those things and BY GOD I'm gonna wear them whenever I can until my AV drops dead. (Laughing because that was the longest sentence ever.)

Hair: Nadine 2 in Auburn by Truth

Let's look at a big picture of my face for a second:



As I mentioned in the previous post, every Friday a male and a female skin are marked down to 50L at Skinthesis. I love the fantasy skins there, so my Skinthesis folder is getting FAT. I've been wearing this Mindi, Carnival of Souls skin in Powder for a while. The fangs and blood are a tattoo layer from Olive Juice.

I'm wearing Goldblooded Earrings in Iced Onyx by Ganked because they're cool and I like yelling, "GANKED!" And you're going to have to pry those Booty Bay boots by Adam n Eve off me because I want to marry them.

Last but not least, don't get me started on the eyes because I'll get UNBEARABLY GIDDY! They're Moonstone eyes from the NEW Gems in Your Eyes collection at A:S:S. See the whole lineup on the A:S:S blog HERE or keep watching this one.

The Burlesque Victorian Vampiress set is 498L, or 249L for ezura VIP group members for a limited time. See (much much much much much much much better) professional pics of it on ezura's blog HERE.

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I won't let it go to my head

I noticed nobody's been writing any blog posts about Halloween, so I thought I'd be a trailblazer.



Welcome to another episode of "Hey, look at this stuff I like!" (Ewwwwww! Look at my weird, puffy man hand!! What the hell??)

Several people have asked me about this outfit, as in, "Hey, where'd you get that dress?" It makes me feel a little triumphant because during my past two years here, the only thing I've really mastered is the fine art of being a total SL Fashion Fail. *takes a bow* So wearing something that actually inspires strangers to IM me about it, well hell, that's like [insert your own triumphant metaphor here].

Here's the thing about this look:



(Let's pretend the necklace rezzed all the way. :-\ )

It's actually not a dress; it's a mix-and-match — something else I usually screw up royally. So YAYYY ME! (sorry) And the skin! Did you know every Friday, Skinthesis sets one female and one male skin to 50L? (Follow the blue arrows.) And Cane Sutter is so generous, she usually leaves them out all weekend. This weekend she has some ghastly skeleton skins out. I got this Mindi - Carnival of Souls skin two weekends ago.

OK, back to the "Hey, where'd you get that?" outfit: The skirt is from Ribbon, a groovy little Japanese store that I really think you'd like — everything there is insanely affordable. For a whopping 20L you can grab the Limited Halloween Lace Dress, which includes a hat, net top, glitch pants, this skirt and some fluffy, um, boob pom poms that there's no way in hell I'm ever wearing. And if the whole black-and-orange thing is starting to make you nauseous, you can grab a black version and/or a white version for the same price.

For your reference, here's what the whole thing looks like:



("Did your pasties explode or are you just really happy to see me?")

As for the top:



(Yeah, you've seen this pic before. Sorry.)

I have Celebrity Trollop to thank for it. One day I got an IM from her that said, "You need to go grab this PixelDolls outfit." So I did. I buy everything Celebrity tells me to buy because who could ask for a better fashion mentor?

It's from the PD outfit Madiera in Black. It's tough for me to help you find it because I can't remember at which PD location I bought it. However, there are some great 10L tops that have the same texture and intricate laser-cut detailing at the current 10L Clearance Sale at the PixelDolls <3 Lobby (see SLURL below.)

Let's wrap this up with a hat. I'll take your ho-hum witch hat and raise you the Most Awesome Witch Hat Ever:



OK, maybe not "ever," but definitely this year. It's the Glamora Witch Hat from Couture Chapeau. For 199L, you get two versions: black and gold (shown) and all black. (We'll get to that fabulous outfit in the next post.)

I have a couple more Halloween posts in the works. I'm SKATING IN WITH THEM at the last minute, as always.

But right now I have to go dress up like a fairy (in RL) for a (RL) Halloween pub crawl. Woo hoo!

Love and Halloween hugs!!
Em

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Everything's better with bacon

Yes, you can see many amazing displays of creativity at Burn 2 (ends Oct. 24).

You can also get this awesome, full-perm flying bacon sandwich:



It's in one of the two boxes of free gifts at the landing point.

It sent me an email today too:

"The object 'bacon sammach plane' has sent you a message from Second Life:
Locator beacon: Your vehicle is located at Bluebonnet(90,41) at an altitude of 30 meters."

Laughter. And more laughter. Thank you for your thoughtful email, bacon sammach. You're the only one who really understands me.

When I read the news about Philip Rosedale today, I actually started writing a long, pondering thing about what SLife will be like if Microsoft really does buy Linden Lab and converts all our lindens into Microsoft Points and whether it would be a good thing or bad thing if Emerald Wynn was forcibly removed from my life and would they at least let us have little AV funerals first and blah blah blah blah blah.

But I'm trying to think only of happy things these days. And flying bacon makes me happy.

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I laughed so hard, I cried

So, this is a picture of the I Love Tim Burton Hunt (Oct. 4 - Nov. 4) prize from Cute Bytes:



And here's a picture of one of those trees in my yard:



Oh my gawd, oops.

Shoot, that is totally gonna make my house stand out from the rest of the neighborhood!

(I was wondering why a tree needed a rezzer.)

Beetle Juice, Beetle Juice, Beetle Juice!

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That darn cat

When I was a kid, my two brothers and I would fight over the cat on this T-shirt. He came in a pack of cardboard Halloween decorations, and NONE OF US wanted him taped on our bedroom windows because there's nothing scary about him. In fact, we thought he was damn lame. Even as little kids, we grasped the concept of "WTF is this thing doing in a pack of Halloween decorations?" I mean, they gave it a shot with the fangs and all . . . but he's wearing a monocle, for God's sake.

And we won't even get into his stupid bow tie. He gives a bad rap to black cats everywhere.

Finally, one of us got mad one Halloween and ripped him up. *cough*

Three decades later (gulp), I'm now delighted to see him on one of several free Halloween T-shirts at terri.tees. He reminds me of a really innocent time, when life's greatest tragedy was getting stuck with this thing as a bedroom Halloween decoration while everyone else had a witch, a ghost or Frankenstein. Back then we didn't know far scarier things existed, like my current MasterCard balance. (Ha ha ha! That was stupid, sorry. But true.)

Get this Sophisticat tee (also comes in a tank top) for 0L at terri.tees and give your inner child a big Halloween hug. Bravo, Terri!

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Oops?? (and last Jewelry Fair post)

Um, iheartSL used to only run a pic and a couple of paragraphs from each of these posts and then link to the rest of it here.

Unfortunately, I just realized that a BUTTLOAD of past posts have been running in their entirety over there, which must be agony for the people reading that feed. WOW and LOL because oh LORDY, these posts can get long! (No, really?) The good news is, I just figured out how to insert page breaks in them. So hopefully that fixed it? Maybe not. :-\



I've been kissing many lindens goodbye at Bliensen + MaiTai ever since I discovered that store more than a year ago. As usual, they didn't disappoint at this year's Jewelry Fair (which ends in a few hours *sniff*). I'm wearing the Beauty + The Beast necklace and earrings here, and I particularly love this set because the colors are perfect for the season. (Wow, that sentence sounds like my grandmother wrote it. Sorry.)

Vivrant thing

Hey, it's the last day of Jewelry Fair, so let's crank out some jewelry posts. I'm aiming to post a plethora today, but I'll be lucky if I make it through two. If you're over jewelry, there's a cool free skin in this post. Scroll down toward the end.



I noticed that whenever anyone blogs about Violator, they go out of their way to make their pictures dark and edgy. "I'm not doing that," I told a friend of mine. "I'm going to shoot it with unicorns and rainbows!"



Oops.

This necklace and earrings set is called All the Forbidden Things (in Antique Gold) by Violator (Soraya Vaher and Minx Glaz). It's 1500L and it can bring a whole sim to its knees. I know because I crashed several times when I was taking these pictures. Finally when I logged in, I got a script error message that said, "Unable to create the item that is causing problems in this region." And the necklace was gone! IT WAS GONE!! (Fortunately not from my life -- just from my neck.)

So wear it and feel genuinely rich and powerful.