Marianne Little

Why do so many clothes fit only the clothes they are matched with from the designer? I have to show the tummy unless I wear the creators pants. And the pants have no option to be worn with boots. They also have a crap fit with Maitreya. Body poking through everywhere, have to alpha it all. Anf if I wear a knit sweater applier, there is an alpha sorting problem. Sigh.

And I need turtleneck appliers with not-rigged collar. I mean, it is so many appliers but it's not very winter-y stuff. So many jacket/coats is made with tops inside that are showing bare chest down to the top of the boobs. It's a nice look, but now I want a covered up look for the really cold weather.

Great ideas, and jeans like that is really what I need. I paid 150 L for a pair of jeans with just one leg option earlier, and that was a 50% sale. The Neve jeans is 300 L with different leg options. Layering is not easy, unless a coat or sweater is made like that. I need more bottom appliers, because jeans and pants often cut into the hem of sweaters. In my opinion, every pair of pants should include a beltless version, so many can't be worn because they stick trrough. I bought some Lapointe & Bastchild demos, but they aren't for me. They were the only brand I know of with different boot fits. Great stuff, but I am so short and their jeans makes my legs look thick. I am sure they look great on tall legs, or it is something for those who look for the opposite of skinny jeans.

Making my own thread for help! Since I put down snow on my land, I have been wandering there wearing 1 outfit, that I bought last year! I intend to remedy that. Alright; I have some in standard sizes, and jeans to wear, but I want fitted clothes (Maitreya), and something new. I was looking at the top events advertised in Seraphim, but nothing really caught my eye. I want sweaters, coats, mittens, all you can think of as winter clothes. Help me make a shopping list, please?

I know it's early, but I started to put down snow. It's the house builders fault. I thought roof snow was, well, roof snow.... I was wrong. The free snow set includes snow for the terrace, on top of the curved walls, even some snow for the front steps on the other side. So could I resist? No. Totally unedited.

Wasn't there a HUD that did it? Or was it one who scanned a sim lucky chairs with your letter when you came there? It was some Lucky Chair HUD I heard about.

I picked up some amazing front hair wisps. Well, amazing to me. It's a freebie. It could be better if it was modify, but it is 13 HUDs with 25 or 16 shades in each, so it should be possible to match the most hairs in SL. It is 4 differnt ones, I wear #3. They are resize with script and can be moved in place since it's unrigged. https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Sintiklia/127/46/22 I think it's a freebie, I am in the group and had group tag on, but it's not sorted under group gifts, just gifts. You can see the difference from my picture 4 posts up.

Pondering how to decorate this skybox. I bought the clothes in the Erratic sale yesterday. I am not sure if it's still on, sometimes storeowners let it go on a bit over the time they set. Erratic is too expensive for me, but with 50% it's acceptable. And I was deleting a few thousand demos from my inventory, and found these Avi-Glam eyes. I have no idea when I bought them, but I put them in a folder with favorite appliers, so I don't forget them again.

I edit stuff all the time, and know about no mod scripts. I should get up the colored or white boxes no matter. I am sure they didn't show up yesterday. But today they do? Could be many reasons. Maybe I had selected something alpha from another piece. Or I was tired from rezzing so much. Shows that mishaps happens, not matter how old and experienced I think I am. I still select and delete houses, ground elements and everything I should not delete... because I unlocked them to tint or texture, forget to lock it again and then oops. I never seem to foolproof myself there. ?

I unpacked a very nice console table yesterday, after I read that. From a pay to join group.... I paid it because the gifts looked so pretty. And it wasn't mod, so I could not shrink it. But it let me put in a resizer script, problem solved. One piece of furniture saved because of this, so it was very useful to know.

Ooh, where are your clothes from?

It was an Apple Fall sale last year, and I had not unpacked this Mercantile bookshelf set.

I think I will replace the walled garden with a frozen pond/ice skate rink and a snowy pergola for the winter. It will be much lower in LI, but I still have a lot of LI to use. I have developed a blind eye for things outside my parcel, so I am toying with the idea of going full winter on my parcel. The neighbor on the other sim has started with snowdrifts - full bright, nothing less. It is early to talk about winter, I know. But I will not have time for SL around Christmas, so what's not decorated 1-2 weeks before Christmas eve will not be decorated.

I had no idea that you could put scripts in No Modify objects. That the system allows it. This goes against all I learned in SL. Good to know, but... as you say yourself, the hair appearance is then coarse when you look at it close. That is the reason creators use alpha blending instead of alpha masking, of course. Fine strands and wisps of hair loose the delicate look in alpha masking. I have experimented on changing alpha in modify hairs, and tried various levels of cutoff. It is tricky. A few hairs can look almost as good with alpha masking. But it takes time and patience to go through hairs and edit them, to find some hairs that look acceptable in alpha masking. For now, it is easier to change to another hairstyle that don't hang over the clothes. I can't wait until we get BoM. At least we can wear skin tight clothes on the torso with BoM, and avoid the alpha sorting issues. Lingerie with lace is a typical example.

Have you seen Reid Parkin's free tropical plants? Most of these stretch a bit before the LI increase. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Tropical-Plants-Mega-Pack-Full-Perm-FREE/5237378

Speaking of my own experience, It is so seldom that cheap is better than expensive. I see you came too the same conclusion. Myself, I don't have enough time to make a head as Normie do the things Lelutka, Catwa or other heads in the middle/upper price range do. Especially if you want the cheap head do it. Some do it because they want to work with it instead of doing other things like shopping, dancing or working on the SL home. And they do a good job on it, but I prefer the "buy and wear".

I tossed flowers in the walled garden, and it's not looking bad. I like the whimsical things like the dutch windmill, sundial, and I also have a bird bath there. I pointed a light projector at the angel bench, since it's a bit dark. EDIT: I was asked about what I used, it is too much to write the list, but details here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/27764102@N02/44897931695/in/dateposted-public/ And here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/27764102@N02/43993703140/in/dateposted-public/

2 pictures of a better quality. The stone walls look much better here. I like the garage, even if it's using so much LI. I tectured the driveway from another house, it's 1 Linden. https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/JU-Tile-With-Grass-3D-Textures-Full-Perm/9215972 Should I build the picket fence to the garage? I will need an opening, or else it looks stupid to cut off walking around the builds. And then I must move the tree and expand the walkway.

I don't know, never been tempted to buy Normie. I see there is very little written about it in the Utilizator blog, it is no FAQ or walk through. It is clearly a head for those who are well versed in customizing, more than for those who buy a product and wear it. How about joining the Utilizator update group and ask for advice? https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/byron-york-as-world-moves-on-the-brett-kavanaugh-fight-continues

The best thing about BoM, is that the alpha sorting issue is gone for all that you wear directly on the body. When you wear an applier with alpha now, let us say a tattoo, and you have long hair hanging down? The alpha sorting issue makes the tattoo disappear under the hair and a big portion around. The only way to fix this now is to edit the hair, but that makes it look more coarse and fine wisps of hair suffer badly. I have to use a skin now that has freckles directly on the skin, because there is no way I can use freckles and tattoos together. And I can not use lingerie with alpha, like lace, over tattoos (or freckles). When we get BoM (Please LL, NOW, kthxbai) I can customize myself totally, pick a skin, any skin, add freckles. Not enough freckles? Add more from a different creator. Want my body hair to match my head hair? Wear a layer for red pubes. Want to add lines, like the ones Izzies has made, veins and cellulite? Go ahead. And tattoos. And lingerie on top of that. All on BoM. No alpha issue whatever. I can wear stockings under my dress with lace, as long as I have stockings as BoM. Makes me drool in happiness, I tell you. And the face. Have your eyemakeup disappeared under the lashes? No more. Not enough makeup slots? Only Catwa has enough makeup slots, not my LeLutka head, and now, I don't have to buy a head just to indulge in makeup No need to click, click in a HUD, top eyebrows, no, the lower hairbase is not there, the bottom eyebrows? Maybe the blush layers. Having turned off the old hairbase that was on a different layer set than the new, I wear the new eyebrows... shoot, I forgot that I had the slot closed. Push the slider... wrong slot. It was the other brow slot. Wearing eyemakeup, oh no, the top of it took off the brows. Using the first brow layer and apply again.... Applying the tattoo that goes up behind the ears. It is an Omega applier and the designer took the shortcut and it applies to all slots. Starting with the makeup again, clearing slots and applying once more. My everyday makeup is utilitarian since mesh heads, eyebrows, lipstick and sometimes eyemakeup. Sometimes only eyebrows, because I wear the same even when I change skin. I can go back to wearing layers and forget slots. Well, I will wear lipstick on an applier, because of the glossiness. And applier masks and special makeup that use materials.

Well, pictures coming up, but it's not finished. The walled garden will have flowers all around the inside walls, and the jury is still out on the green ground texture. I want it different from the other land, but it's not perfect. I didn't do much with the pictures, I took them on a windlight without shadows. Edit: And I had the graphics on middle, no wonder the pictures look bland. I forgot to set them up after I had several avatars logged on the same machine. The house is totally empty. I spent all the time putting together the ground.

I have lots of stuff too. I collected poses back when the LAP store was active. But I have no idea what I have anymore. I buy a new pose when I need one.... And don't tell me I should organize them in posestands labeled: "sitting, standing, lounging" . It is too much. I will never sort them. I tried to start a few times, and got frustrated. But thrashing them all? Noooo. I buy almost every house/garden thing when it is a sale. You should think it's easy to set up a walled garden because I have at least 4-5 garden wall systems. But they don't look "right" so now I buy a new set. Same with walkways. I have lots, Wood, stone, concrete, cobblestones.

Sometimes I think I spend too much on SL, but I see it as my hobby. It does cost RL money to have many prims to play with, and I am not sure how well I will deal with downsizing now that I'm used to all that land. I like to have my mainland much more than renting or "buying" a spot on an private sim. It was so easy in the past, to let those parcels go, and live as a hobo again. But that was before.

I was looking for land between protected water and protected road just so I could put down a garage and driveway. Plus that I dislike the default Mainland texture and will cover it totally. Not just grass fields and flowers, but with prims or mesh under, so it's absolutely nothing visible. Makes change a bit harder. I must try to get smooth edges and fit it together. I started this Sunday and think I have a good start, but I am not exited yet. Maybe if I can have the Victorian walled garden I have an idea about in my head. I think I have enough room for it, since I took away the pool I had. We shall see. Will post some in the Home and Garden thread, but must do a bit more. I does not feel like my dream house yet, but I really try to make it my dream house.

http://meshbodyaddicts.com/mesh-body-reviews/ http://meshbodyaddicts.com/mesh-head-reviews/bento-mesh-heads/ But in my opinion, get Maitreya mesh body and one of the Catwa heads that you like. Does not matter what, just make sure it is "Bento". It is other heads in that store, not all are Bento. And try demos first. Teleport to Maitreya mainstore, buy the free demo, teleport home and try it on. Get mesh heads demos from the marketplace, that is often more easy. Maitreya mainstore: https://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Maitreya isle/178/175/23/ Catwa demos: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/29673?search[category_id]=374&search[copy_permission]=0&search[keywords]=bento&search[layout]=gallery&search[maturity][]=General&search[maturity][]=Moderate&search[maturity][]=Adult&search[modify_permission]=0&search =1&search[per_page]=96&search[price_high]=10&search[price_low]=0&search[sort]=created_at_desc&search[store_id]=29673&search[transfer_permission]=0