Dark and Sexy :)

I finally got my outfit for a goth club put together. You can probably tell I don't dress like this much, since the best skin I have for it is a sweet-faced Curio! Oh well, no point in buying a skin I'll rarely wear, especially since I have expensive tastes in them! I thought about getting one from the Deviant Kitties sale but I didn't like how they looked on me, so dollfaced gothgirl it is. :)

Besides the skin, the rest of the outfit came together fairly easy. I managed to catch the very end of the Nomine sale and found this sexy Corvus dress for only L$100! It was pretty plain though, so I paired it with the corset from the Cocktails and Cigarettes dress from Sn@tch, which is very nice and very sexy itself! I almost just wore it but I like this combination. :)

I had trouble finding shoes to go with it. I love boots, but they tend to be more than I'm willing to spend! It was really hard not running out and grabbing some of the gorgeous boots that just came out in the past week or so, too. I was just going to wear some black heels, but then Fri.day put out their Journey boots in Eggplant for Fifty Linden Fridays and they went perfectly. Top it off with the Subscribo gift from Lamb, the Glow Deux hair in Ink, and voila!!

Something a little different, originally uploaded by Andria Meredith.

Booties!, originally uploaded by Andria Meredith.

Dress: Corvus Dress by Nomine, L$100 (during sale only)

Corset: Cocktails and Cigarettes by Sn@tch, L$275

Boots: Journey boots in Eggplant by Fri.day, L$50 (50L Fridays item)

Total: L$425

Remaining: L$782

This week I need to find a cute Easter outfit!

Uprooted

Between getting quite frustrated trying to decorate slanted walls and having a very obnoxious neighbor, I've decided to move on from my Linden Home. Just to another one for now... but I'm already looking at leasing a chunk of land for my own house once my little budgeting experiment is over.

For now though, I've just moved from Tahoe to Meadowbrook, into a classy little house on the Bela sim. I've already started moving in, but....

Meadowbrook, originally uploaded by Andria Meredith.

My furniture doesn't really match the interior. Or each other, for that matter.

Ah well. Eventually I'll either get some matching furniture or LL will put out shabby chic Linden homes.

Going Green (a few days late)

Sorry for my quietness! I've been lazy this week. All the better since I forgot to give myself a shopping challenge. So I'll just share all the nifty green stuff I picked up Wednesday at Phoenix Rising and Cupcakes. Green is my favorite color so I splurged a little at their respective St. Patty's day sales!!

Green_006, originally uploaded by Andria Meredith.

Green_010, originally uploaded by Andria Meredith.

Green_019, originally uploaded by Andria Meredith.

Green_024, originally uploaded by Andria Meredith.

Dresses and coat: from Pheonix Rising, $L100 each (St. Patrick's Day only)

Lingerie: from Cupcakes, L$35 (St. Patrick's Day only

Shoes: Previous gift from Baby Monkey

Total: L$ 335

Remaining: L$907 (after the sundress in the last post)

I've noticed though... my wardrobe could use a bit more edge. It's mostly fairly safe, classy pieces (and an exorbitant amount of lingerie.) So for this week's challenge, I need to put together an outfit for going to a goth club!

Feelin' Beachy

My budget has been thwarted again!!

I'm no fashion blogger, but I had to share this gorgeous Cabana dress I found at Surf Co. It's so bright and fun and makes me wish for summer!!

Garden_3, originally uploaded by Andria Meredith.

I love the skirt, it's prim perfect and so swishy looking!!

Unfortunately up here in the Pacific Northwest it's still threatening to snow. So I decided if I can't get some sunlight, at least Andria can! So we headed off to a pretty beach to snap some summery photos.

Garden_2, originally uploaded by Andria Meredith.

While I was there, I made a friend. :)

Go find the lovely Cabana Dress at Surf Co!!

Gardening!!

I finally got my gardening outfit together!! I had a little trouble with this, mostly because I wasn't quite sure where I wanted to go with it. When I garden I usually wear an old tee shirt and grubby jeans. It isn't a very cute look, really. I was torn between trying to make something cute and flowery, and something I would actually wear to garden. Then I found this adorable Karen Blouse at Lark and realized I could do both.

Garden, originally uploaded by Andria Meredith.

This is such a cute, spring-y look! I love this shirt because it's so cute but looks like it can take some wear and tear. And it'll hide dirt well. :)I paired with with the Genesis 10 capri's from Decoy (my favorite stop for jeans!) and Aphrodite Creations' Cheeries in RSH Flowers. (These were an old hunt gift I already had.)

IMHO, this is the perfect look for working (or not) in the garden. :)

Garden_1, originally uploaded by Andria Meredith.

I never did find a good pair of gardening gloves. At least there's no thistles in SL gardens!!

In these pictures:
Karen Blouse by Lark
Genesis 10 Capris by Decoy
Cheeries by Aphrodite Creations
Hair: Green II by Maitreya
Total: L$250
Remaining: L$1132

Immature

I am very much that.

This is probably old news to most everyone but it made me giggle when I saw it at *BOOM*.

silly_001, originally uploaded by Andria Meredith.

Now we know... all those girls walking around with their pants halfway down their arse aren't tramps, they're artists!!

It was a freebie so yes, I nabbed it. Wouldn't you?

Craving Beauty in Every World

What have I been up to lately? Learning, shopping and lagging.

My trial on AC3D is about to run out. Before it does, I made a vase. :) But I haven't figured out how to turn it into the texture that makes sculpties in SL, so I'll either have to figure out how to do that before it does expire or how to load it into another program.

However, once the trial expires I'm probably done with AC3D. I didn't see anything in it worth throwing $75 down for. After my post on Monday, I did go download Wings3D and I've been watching some tutorials on it since.

I've also been shopping on for my gardening outfit. You know what's hard to find in SL? Gardening gloves. If anyone knows where to find a good pair, let me know!!

I went to the ASA Fashion Show last night, and had every intention of taking pictures and blogging about it... but as always my SL was having a fit and before I could get any of the models to rez enough to make any pictures worthwhile, I crashed. I really, really need an upgrade. :P Still, it was fun watching the prancing gray blobs go by. The crowd was in good spirits and what I could see was stunning.

And, I've been spending far too much time on Sephora! Yes, I shop in the physical world too! Probably more than I should, haha. And I admit, I love make up!! I'm that girl who wants to do everyone's face when we have a girl's night. So, I've fallen in love with Tarina Tarantino and the Sparklicity Pure powder, so I ordered a couple other things to try. So much for all the money I'd have been saving by budgeting myself in SL!! I guess I'm bound to spend money either way, since I use SL to keep myself from going overboard on my own shopping.

I'm going to go watch more tutorials and tell myself I don't need to go to MAC now.