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Friday Fashion Finds from SL Style Maven Gidge Uirza

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The “Asian Pacific Heritage Festival” is a post from Gidge Uirza. If you didn’t know it by now, Gidge is my best and oldest friend in Second Life. We met when I got stuck underneath a stairway and couldn’t get out. She blogs at It’s Only Fashion, the blog we started back in 2008. She is still blogging strong. Old Guard, indeed. She went to the Asian-Pacific Heritage Festival today and wrote about. That’s what is so great about her blogging style. She does things and then writes about. It’s not just fashion, it’s lifestyle, SL lifestyle and it akes her blog great. 

Featured at the Asian Pacific Heritage Festival [teleport here]

• Snack: So Silly Japanese Dango Decor by Kiki Chaika
• Headpiece: =Zenith=Flower Headpiece by Miffyhoi Rosca

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SL Fashion Friday: Sisch Firecaster's Store & Style Blog, The Puppeteer

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The Puppeteer is Sisch Firecaster’s blog. It’s a dual purpose site that also features her store Kokolores. The home page, though, brings you to the blog, the store info requires a click on the store’s page. Her most recent post is this is not how I woke up

• Rosary. Eve . Pants Red Legacy on Marketplace by Kismet Chrome
• Rosary. Eve . Top Red Legacy on Marketplace
• Salvadori - Patent Leather 'Freya' Slingback Pumps at Cosmopolitan closes 5/14 by Salvadori Paris
• .: ryvolter :. Keva Triangle Shoulder Bag (lara) - Tan by Inna Bilavio on Marketplace

For a steaming hot dress, click here:

Fashion Friday Blog: Incredibly Kawaii Looks from Sparkly Fly

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Sparkly Fly or “A Dream in a Dream” is the cutest blog I cannot read. It’s a blog created by Andie {Andyylee] in Tumbler and is so very kawaii. Sadly for me, however, pale pink on white text is just not readable, but I do love the pictures. Anyway, with Playing with Fire, her avatar captured my attention so completely it was only on the third pass that I noticed the fire. I think it was the way she looks straight at me. Now if she only mentioned who makes that great hair. 

• Skin: ~Little Foxy B.~ TrIck Skin Blogger (LeL EvoX) @Hongdae
• Clothes: REKT_Fresh Outfit Fp @Hongdae
• Shoes: Deadly Pixels: Yuta Net Platforms [FATPACK] @Hongdae 
• Accessories: QUIXE - JKook Earring @Hongdae

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Virtual Decor & Interior Design Ideas from Pretty Things, Nice Life

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Pretty Things, Nice Life is a striking decor and fashion blog by Victoria K. James. I really like her most recent post Crane & Koi which she admits is a much more saturated color than her usual. I love that tub and the birds! 

• KOPFKINO  – Tranquility Water Garden Tub – Copper
• TLC Animals 
• TLC Gold fish pond with Waterfall Set
• TLC Goldfish
• TLC Red-crowned Crane

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Applications Open for Hair Fair, the SL Community's Annual Fundraiser Selling Amazing Virtual Hair to Benefit Real Kids -- Here's Some Previous Favorites!

Click here to apply as a booth participant at Hair Fair, the annual SL community fundraiser event that sells amazing virtual hair styles for avatars, with a portion of all sales donated to Wigs for Kids, a non-profit that creates real wigs for children experiencing hair loss due to chemotherapy, alopecia, and other issues. Launched in 2006, the annual event led by Sasy Scarborough is attended by a large percentage of the Second Life community, and has converted L$ sales into USD cash donations approaching $100,000.

Sasy tells me that roughly 50,000 SLers -- about 1 in 10 of the active user base! -- attend every year, with most of the donations made through hair sales. A labor of love run by her and her partner Mel Vanbeeck (pictured here), Sasy tells me it's the stories that attendees and donors tell her, which make it most meaningful.

"[T]hey often share something that happened to them, a family member or a friend, and I cry and then I share with my team and then I cry more," she tells me. "People stop me during the event and share information and how much it means to them that we do it, or that they also donate their hair to Wigs for Kids, or are going to now that they know about it from the event."

She and co-managers Vanbeeck and Whimsy Winx, are also in contact with the real life non-profit during the event: "[T]hey are so happy about what we do and genuinely think that Second Life and what it is and how it functions is amazing and over the years have even come in [the virtual world] to see the builds and the event, which is just awesome."

The booth application is here, with a deadline of April 24. As an inspiration lewk book for 2022's event, here's some favorites New World Notes has featured over the last 15+ years:

Friday Fashion Finds: Steampunk Alice in Wonderland & Cyberpunk Neko

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I was invested in covering the fantastic Second Life blog Sugarcoated Pixels before I noticed I had recommended it two years ago. That’s what happens when Flickr names change. “No Turning Back” features one of my favorite subjects, Alice in Wonderland. I love her wild picture filled with the paraphernalia of Wonderland. It’s so good. Those boots are wild. 

• Unisex Black Rabbit Steampunk Boots 2022 by Irrisistible Shop *NEW*
• Mad Alice cards. Decor by Tentacio
• Mad Alice: Headband, Clocks, and Key (earrings rezzed) by Torment

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Friday Fashion Blog: Beauty & Grace Covers Second Life Style With Descriptions Worthy of a Real Life Fashion Blog

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Beauty and Grace is Cheyenne Sadee’s fashion blog and it is gorgeous. Balada al Amanecer is her most recent post. She features a wedding dress which has a blush of pink on her skirt which explains its name, Ballad at Sunrise. The tiger is a nice touch, adding color to the subdued color palette. But rather than just post a nice picture, as most other SL blogs do, she also describes the dress so beautifully:

“This gown has a strapless dress beneath a gorgeous sheer overlay drape that fans out the back like a veil. The wrinkles and shadow detail are, of course, impeccable. This gown also has a headpiece that is a wide spread flower, much like an opened lily with incredible shadow detail on it as well.”

That is real fashion-quality blogging. It is currently at the Bloom Event. Details:

• Dress: POISON ROUGE Balada al Amanecer Wedding Dress – Bloom , Mainstore
• Headpiece: POISON ROUGE Balada al Amanecer Bridal Headdress – Bloom , Mainstore

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Friday Fashion Ideas from Kah Blaisdale’s Second Life Creativity

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Second Life Creativity is Kah Blaisdale’s blog. I love her picture in Post 982. The dress is cute and the moonlight and flowers make this a romantic picture which makes it nice that she includes a SLurl to the location The Forgotten Gardens.

• hair: TRUTH Trinket – Essential [FLF] // by truth hawks
• outfit: NEW! [Eternus] Aimi Dress Fatpack // by eternalshinenebula  

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SL Fashion Friday: List of Ukrainian Designers & a Pink Lewk from Blogger SunGlo Hijinks

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“Save Ukraine” is a thoughtful and informative post from SunGlo Hijinks for her blog Gacha Goodies. She provides a link to a document listing Ukrainian designers we can support. She provides links to a free face tattoo and tells people about the Flickr group for support for Ukraine. 

• Outfit: DarkFire Lenna set-MegaPack @ DarkFire
• DakFire Lenna Crop Top @ DarkFire
• DarkFire Lenna Leggings @ DarkFire
• Face Tattoo: #SaveUkraine  FREE @ InMotion Marketplace 
• Pin: :::ChicChica::: Pin Ukraine @ Marketplace

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This SL Fashion Blogger Shows Off Her Style Choices With Amazingly Detailed Scenes

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Aoi IChibara is a fashion microblogger who creates complete scenes with gorgeous style. I love her commitment to creating the full scenario, so there are the people you will find at a celebrity step and repeat. A police officer and paparazzo and the celebrities they photograph and protect. 

For a fun coffee shot pic, click here: