Trends and lifestyles...

Objects of Desire

Maddie Camus is a very creative and industrious SL builder. She has partnered with Callie Cline this summer for her ::Home:: line. Some stylish prefab homes like The Villa and Love Shacks and eco & prim friendly, functional, modifiable "menu driven", and tintable furnitures and home decoration objects are displayed at the mainstore in Calliefornia. Maddie is also the owner of a small shop called Elysium, where you will find furniture like beach chairs, decks, pots, plants, wrought iron fences, couches, lamps, art works and art deco objects. Even pre-fab shops/cafes!

::HOME:: by caLLie cLine-The Villa and Love Shacks
Calliefornia 225, 193, 22

Elysium, Rue dAlliez 130, 222, 21

RL Files
Designer Bike. Chanel stands out with its splendid custom-made bike offering travel in comfort without giving up on elegance. With signature quilted leather coverings and even a makeup case, riding a bike has never been so glamorous. www.chanel.com

TV shows and fashion

I just finished watching the first series of Heroes. When I logged in SL tonight I had to slip into Claire's outfit by Refuge. I fell in love with this outfit when it was released but now, after watching the episodes, I love it even more.
For the guys, there's also Peter's jacket, Sylar's jacket and Peter's hair at Sinistyle.
Btw, there was an outfit worn by Nikki/Jessica in last episode that is awesome...

Refuge SLurl
SiniStyle SLurl

This Week's AvaStar Style Hotline

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Carnival of Doom, Last Ride of Your Life!

A new sim created by Rezzable, Carnival of Doom, opened in SL on 31st October, Wednesday. Having suffered lag and low connection pains on the opening night, I revisited the sim the second day. And in the morning 6673 people already had dropped by.
Rezzable, as you may know, has been developing SL entertainment zones in one of the largest continuous public areas in SL (30 sims) and is the creator of Greenies Home, Toxic Garden, Surfline SL Experience, at the Cannery, Crimson Shadow and legendary Stratos Home of the all Metaverse Sportscar.
When you get to the sim of Carnival of Doom, you have to click on the poster at the front or side of the ticket booth and get a ticket. First you receive a HUD which you have to wear, for the HUD is used to communicate with rides and other interactive elements of the region. After attaching the HUD your ticket appears on upper right corner of your screen and acts as a “health/life” status monitor. It starts at 100, if your health hits 0, you die! And when you "die", you are transported to a special area and held there until you "regenerate" and get back to 100! The time and amount of regeneration is not fast. Any attempts to leave the regeneration area results in you being pulled back. So there is no way out! No TP’ying home!
Well, I first got on the Carousel, went through Hell, passed through the Hall of Mirrors and escaped from Hell! Lost 6 points off my health but there was no real damage… And there are many ways to receive damage here! In order not to spoil the fun, I will not give you any information but I did go through fits of vomiting with my health decreasing to 40’s… Walked on the grounds. Tried my hand at the Strength Hammer where the night before I had witnessed Callie Cline hit 200 and win a “tortured bear.” No hope… So I went to the Misfortune Teller. Guess what! All the cards I clicked heralded the misfortunes on my way… Nevertheless, I had loads of fun at Carnival of Doom! Ebuddy Rezzable 184, 69, 26

The Ticket Booth

Carousel

Hell

Jumpy Castle

Me, vomiting!

Strength Hammer

Misfortune Teller

shopping in Cotton Candy

Cotton Candy

Cotton Candy is a cute mall where you can find the cutest stores: MG fashion, ICING, Chapeau Tres Mignon, Queen Couture, Savvy?, BP, Kimberly Casanova, SugarCube, <3 Cupcakes, Corduroy and Turnstyle, illuminare, Veschi, Tres Blah, Kid Asia Boutique, Sand Shack Surf Co., Decollage, Sh*t happens, miw, Hiccup, Fashonably Dead, Hnoey kitty, Tree of SL, CRAP and Kitsch*en*Couture.
These stores are all together in one spot. It's so cool when we don't have to TP around the grid to buy the cutest things.

A Dutch Touch...

So I had this great idea that I wanted to have 2 quick change folders, a casual and a dressy outfit placed for easy access in my inventory. You know for those times when you log in wearing who knows what from the day before and you want to run a quick errand.

This happens to me a lot and I’m tired of either wasting time changing for a 5 min shopping trip, or wearing my formal gown out the next morning. Talk about a walk of shame. Anyhows, I thought I’d love to have a cute sweat-suit outfit all ready. So I sent out an IM to Fashion Emergency hoping for some hints on where to start my search. In the list of recommendations, someone said try Dutch Touch.

Now this is where I go off course, which actually happens to me a lot, but that is neither here nor there…I go over to Dutch Touch and start to ogle the designs of Iki Ikarus. Since Iki has been in SL coming up on a year, I’m sure many if not most of you have been to Iki’s store and have seen and wear her work. In fact I was there this past summer.

But OMGoodness…I just kept buying and buying…I love the urban look and it is my first choice for loafing around in. Long story short, I still don’t have the stuff for my quick change folders…but look at the goodies I have now!

Ari Outfit

AlleyCat Outfit

Top from the Sil Outfit

Jelly Outfit

PinKi Outfit

Fancy Outfit

:: DUTCH TOUCH MAINSTORE :: Willow Beach (30, 216, 32)

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To see caLLie's weekly column plus more great fashion tips and finds, download the AvaStar at http://www.the-avastar.com/