More Than Meets the Eye

When Kira Paderborn sent me her first skins for testing and reviewing, I saw a nice one, but with still a lot of issues to work out. So instead of blogging them I drafted a notecard with my feed back, asked Kira if she’d appreciate receiving it and sent her my comments. And then I heard nothing, and thought I maybe had come across too harsh with my critiques. Until earlier today,  when Kira contacted me, telling that she had been working like 18 hours per day since her first one came out on a new skin, and that she thought she had pretty much adressed all the feed back that I had sent her… and OMG, the skin which for now goes by the name of Eva is so much better than the previous one! No more smudgy body parts, everything well blended, a mouth that is well defined and oh so kissable, just a few minor seams to smoothen out in the process of finishing the skin. I just had to take a photo of it to share on the blog. It is post processed, but not heavily photoshopped.

Big kudos for you, Kira… this one is going to be a stunner!!

NB: skin is not released yet, it is a beta and may change before its release.

UPDATE: I should have posted this before I went to sleep last night, but I was too tired. I have no idea what has happened, but   about 30 hours after I first discovered my inventory missing, it started to load, and load, and load… and as far as I can see, everything is back now. I have not yet received a response on my second ticket filed with LL, so I have no clue if it is something they have done, or that my SL has just been SEVERELY f*ckd up over the last day or two.

Anyway, I’m insanely happy that it’s all back. I did get myself a Bright Inventory back up system which  Miskat recommended to me and will be boxing and storing stuff over the next few days (both in world and in inventory)

As for my incredible sweet and supportive friends and others who cared enough to IM me or contact me otherwise with kind words, good advice or just a listening ear… you guys really rock my socks. Thank you so much for your support!

LOTD090724, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.

Yup, that’s right… all my folders are empty. All but a few. There are no clothes (bye bye LE Dazzles, LE Last Call and well, really almost everything), no animations (all Sinewave dances, my 1000+ modeling poses except for the ones I had in a stand in world), no skins (including several customs) no scripts, no objects (not even the boxes I have been meticulously saving in case SL would eat an outfit or so)….Basically, anything that was not directly put into a system folder (including sub folders in system folders) has disappeared.

Yes, I’ve cleared my cache, both in world, and from my HD. Yes, I went to beta grid and tried loading my inventory there, yes, I’ve tried tp-ing to an empty sim, and then tried clearing cache again… and again. So I have filed a ticket with LL and hopefully… miraculously, they will be able to retrieve it. I’m sceptic though. I’ve suffered inventory loss before, when I was still pretty new in SL, and nothing ever was retrieved that time as well. Cross your fingers for me that this time is different.

So what does a fashionista do when her stuff is gone.. right… you are, for once in a SL, really happy with busineses like Armidi and *coughs* Stiletto Moody.  ”But… Graz… why?” Will you be saying you saying, since it’s known that I’m not particularly fond of either one of them. Well, people, as much as I like hanging around in my Blowpop undies (that’s what I was wearing at the time I discovered that my stuff was gone) I don’t like to go out in them… and both Armidi and Stiletto Moody have *drumroll* RE-DELIVERY systems!!!

I own(ed) a few of SM’s earlier shoes and got them redelivered after I went there and clicked on the items that I knew were supposed to be in my inventory. And Shoparmidi.com has a history of items that you bought from Armidi, both in world and via the site and so I got some decent clothes back to put on. I wish more creators would invest in a system like that. I bet it will save them a lot of CS time, too, when  clients can just come and retrieve from the vendor the stuff that they bought and got lost (or misplaced and went missing).

Stylenotes: The hair is Truth’s Kristin (I know it almost sound like a conspiracy, but my Truth and Exile hair is stil all there), The skin is Dune Cocoa Natural from Dutch Touch (<3 Iki for resending it), The blouse is the Aufren white from Armidi. The belt is a group gift from Coco that I went back to pick up, and while I was there, I could not resist these black pinstripe slacks, which I never owned before (you know… no doubles in case LL for once DOES work a miracle and finds my stuff back). Not visible, but very happy with right now, are the black Mary Jane sandals from Stiletto Moody.

Cupcakes Enchanted make ups 1, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.

Mimi and Rosemary of Cupcakes have made another skin, Enchanted. She’s gorgeous. For now there are 10 make ups and a natural face and knowing them, more additions are in the making.

Unfortunately SL decided to eat my entire inventory but for a few items today, and Enchanted is gone… *cries*.

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Dune, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.

Well, ofcourse I could write again what a great skin creator Iki Ikarus of Dutch Touch is, but I’d so be parroting myself by now. However, every skin Iki has made lately made me squee with joy. Dune is no different… look at those brows.. it gives such an intense look. Not to mention the rest of the gorgeous face, the shading of the nose and the suberb pouty lips. On the risk of boring you with my superlatives, I think you really should go and demo Dune.

(I know I’m all about the face this time, but that’s just because Iki’s bodies are ALWAYS flawless).

Good Morning, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.

OK, guys… here’s your wake up call… do you really think we dress up in lacy lingerie for your pleasure? To be your bonbon? You’re wrong! We like to wear the cute sexy stuff, even if you won’t see it, because, you know… even when worn under the simplest of tees and our old trusted jeans and sneakers, that frilly, lacy thing will make us feel good!

Of course we like it to see you swallow when, while leaning in, making conversation over supper, you’ll see that promising trim of lace; that your jaw drops when we undress, or that your eyes sparkle at the idea of peeling the lingerie off later… but we are also perfectly girly happy wearing it while laying idly on our beds, reading magazines, or the latest best seller and listening to our favourite tunes. Mine lately being the good old “you’re so vain”… You probably think this post is about you… Well it’s not…. it’s about my favourite lingerie from Blowpop, Yvette. Currently Annyka Bekkers has 2 sets out, Jolene and Yvette and a 3rd on the way, but Yvette is my favourite. I love lace, and I also love panties that actually cover some of my bum. I’m just not much of a thong fan I suppose.

For a long time Camilla from Insolence was my undisputed queen of lingerie, but it looks like Annyka is up to give her serious competition. Thumbs up Annyka, people like you and Camilla raise the bar!!

Other need to knows: I’m wearing Tiny Bird’s Love Letter to Japan in wheat, 5th & Oxford’s Audrey medion fresh 4 and Icon’s BM bracelet. The furniture in the pic is from Miabella foxely, and the poses in the collage are from Dove Swanson’s latest Wonder Girls pose set.

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LOTD090719, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.

The geometrical dress from Couverture and the Mugiwara hair and hat from Kurotsubaki make the perfect look for a country girl. Wear this outfit with some nice boots, like the old laced boots from Shiny Things and you’re good for a day at the farm… well… for sitting on the fence at the farm…I’m also wearing Maitreya’s coin necklace and Curio’s april 2 skin with freckles.

LOTD090718, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.

I’d never wear a tutu in RL, if not on stage during a ballet performance (and the last one was over 22 years ago), but hey… this one from &Bean is totally cute (I did however disable the glow on the underskirt). It matches perfectly with the Peggy tanktop from Dela and Pig’s Ladies Like Flowers cardigan (mud). I’m also wearing the thigh high dark chocolate socks from Dela and J’s 3-way engineer boots in beige. The necklace is from Pdiddle.

I’m wearing 5th & Oxford’s Audrey medium Fresh 1 and SLink’s Frederique in medium ash.

LOTD090717, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.

“A girl should be two things, classy and fabulous” – Coco Chanel.

La mademoiselle was so right, and this Dela Chanel Soire dress is absolutely both. It’s totally classy in it’s simplicity, and it looks fabulous! I’m wearing it with some antique pearls… I guess you might call these antique… they are from Shiny Things, and I have had them forever. The sunglasses are also from Dela, btw. I picked a classic make up, the new 5th & Avenue Audey medium in smokey 4 (tintable brows, so you will not have to look like Cicciolina with your blonde hair and dark eyebrows… that’s not classy, right?) and I’m wearing Clawtooth’s Timeless Glamour in starlet blonde. The manicure is from Adam ‘n Eve.

LOTD090515, originally uploaded by Grazia Horwitz.

I decided to do a quick look today because a) I’m running late for work, and b) I came upon this field of sunflowers, and it’s sunflower time in RL and i’ve decided to go buy a bunch of them after work and put my house full of them. I simply LOVE sunflowers. So here we go… I felt green today, so I’m wearing the yellow green capris from Aoharu, with the alabaster Hykova buttoned tank top from Whippet & Buck and Decoy’s white/lime Izzy Cardigan. To go with that I’m wearing Armidi’s Sasche fl\ts.

Today’s skin is my fave PXL Creations’ of the moment: Kim tan, dark eyes & pale lips, and I’m wearing Exile’s Susan in sambuca