I do love an excuse to get naked and new skins from PXL are a very good excuse indeed. The latest offering for us ladies is Dafne and she’s a pouty, pretty thing. I also ended up spending a hefty chunk of time sorting out a pair of prim feet to wear with the new anklets from Studio Sidhe.

Rather different from the things I usually dive into, but when this outfit (from elymode) and this hair (from Dernier Cri) showed up on the same day, they really seemed to want to be put together.

The Abyss has gone through a couple of changes of late: a name change for its chief designer, slashed pricing on previous skins (Scorpio line down to L$1000, I believe, and the Steve Law-Dave Gears-Adam Crius set are down to L$1300), and ... brand new male skins! The first release in what I suppose may be called the Identity series, Identity 2043, was too ethnic for my purposes—I always want a skin to fit some particular character from my roleplaying or (on occasion) from literature, and nothing came to mind at the time. But then 1208 came out, and I have to say I fairly leapt on it. Find out why below (and beware—pixellated bits!)

I can’t say I am a big fan of lingerie in RL. Or rather, I like how it looks but I often find it terribly uncomfortable. Fortunately, that is not an issue in SL, allowing me to indulge in such lovely sets as the latest releases from Insolence and Zaara. My skin is also a new release, yet another beautiful creation from Tuli, and I’ve picked out two recent hairs from Exile to go with it all.

When it comes to prim hair, my taste is sometimes a bit particular, and up until recently it has not been easily satisfied in SL. You see, I don’t care for bangs. Last time I wore them in RL was ... a very long time ago and it was followed by a frustrated period of growing them out. But in SL bangs are found on the majority of hairs, in part because it has been very difficult to create a neat hairline using prims. However, now that we have tattoo layers that can be worn on the head (even multiple tattoo layers in 2.1, though I am not touching that one with a ten-foot pole), no-bang hairs can be combined with hairbases and produce very nice results. Such as with the latest three hairs from Amacci of which I will be featuring my favourite today.

I am also showing one of the latest gowns from Wunderlich’s, a versatile dress that can be both modern and more period depending on how it is worn.

Elysium Eilde’s elymode has just turned 1 year old and the anniversary has been marked by a remodeling of the store as well as several new releases. With their airy, tiered skirts, the Pacifica sets instantly demanded my attention. They also persuaded me to finally get that fat pack of sandals from G Field that I had been eyeing at Shoe Fair for about a week.

This “blogging on vacation” thing has definitely proven rather tricky. My schedule’s been all out of whack or indeed non-existent (and I suppose that’s the point of a vacation), and the days have just slipped away. So fast that, alas, we’re going home tomorrow. So I am in the middle of getting things sorted out for the trip, but a bit of posting seemed like a good break from that. Plus a chance to chip away at the pile of things in my “to blog” folder, which wasn’t exactly helped along by the opening of the Shoe Fair.

Lost Angel has just released the Allure Retro collection of pose props and I just had to have the Music Lounger. I am definitely becoming a bit of a prop addict, not the least since they go so well with other weaknesses of mine, such as skins. So, you’ll be getting a good look at the two new and the two upcoming skin lines from Adam n Eve as I decided to play around on my new lounger wearing only the lovely Karin jewelery from Earthstones.

The outfit from the Summer of Love fair that I am featuring today is perhaps not all that summery, but then again, neither is the weather we continue to have on our vacation. And given all the mist and rain I’ve seen of late (though, to be fair, we’ve been spared the worst of the rain), the lovely Empress & Hierophant sim felt just like home. Plus, it provided a perfect setting to shoot the Madeleine gown from Evie’s Closet in.

Here in Sweden we’re having a typical Swedish summer. Which today included a rather impressive fog which made for some cool scenery down at the beach but didn’t exactly invite to subathing and swimming. So, it seemed like an excellent day for a post featuring a Summer of Love item: the Mosaic Summer skins from Nomine.

The Summer of Love is an event designed to raise awareness about mental health issues. It features exclusive content by a wealth of designers and the idea is that shoppers will be able to browse through what is on offer at the fair location and at the same time learn about mental health issues. The fair is not a charity event, though designers can choose to donate to Hopeline if they so wish.

I hadn’t expected quite such an interruption to regular blogging just from a little vacation, but there you go. Before we left I had a pile of work to wrap up and now that we’re here (here being halfway up the Baltic coast) even typical Swedish summer weather isn’t leaving me with much time for blogging. But, I do want to catch up on covering at least part of the pile of new things in my inventory (including lots and lots of skins!), so I hope that blogging well past midnight won’t produce anything too strange.

Of course, a little strangeness might go well with the two fabulous outfits from Deviance that I’ll be featuring today, together with sneak previews of two upcoming Adam n Eve skins.

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to beta test Candy from PXL and when the skin was released Hart Larsson very kindly sent me some review copies. As far as I can tell, the feedback he got during the beta period (not just from myself) was applied very well to make a good skin even better. With each new release, PXL skins continue to improve and Candy is certainly no exception.

It’s not often that I buy boots with a modern flair to them, but a new entry from Lucy in Disguise (run by the delightfully-named myvegancookbook Bolissima, who also owns the Adjunct store for men) broke my willpower.

It has been a while since I featured something from Tekeli-li. In part this is due to Tekeli Tantalus having been kept busy changing many of his releases to take advantage of the scripting improvements introduced some months ago. This means that although still fully colour change, the updated sets of jewelry, hair, weapons, etc now use much less memory and won’t be a problem when script limits are introduced.

With all the updated of old sets finally taken care of (some older sets were retired, and some of these will be remade and rereleased at a later date), yesterday saw the release of a new full set of full-prim goodness: Flora.

It was a gown that first brought me to Adam n Eve soon after I started out in SL. I saw the Venetia gown on a blog and knew I had to save up for that. Lately, sachi has been busy with skins, store rebuilds and various other projects, so it has been some time since she last released a gown. This week, however, she’s rectified that with no less than three new gowns, each with multiple skirt options and some great sculpted details.