Happy 20th Birthday SL!

Hard to believe, SL is getting 20. While scrolling through the fantastic magazine LL has made (https://issuu.com/secondlifeofficial/docs/sl20bguide) my own thoughts came up…
SL had such an enormous impact on my real life. Starting in 2007 I have made wonderful friends in SL and I have found my RL partner whilst I thought I would never find a matching RL partner anymore in this life….lol. After 13 years we still love each other and we have just built a brand new house.
It also had a wonderful impact on my work life, sometimes painful, but actually I somehow found my own way to proceed to work as a fashion designer (I love designing patterns and clothing), but without the terrible pressure and side effects from real fashion industry.
So after 16 years in SL with a long pause due to private life I am still creating my colorful SL fashion and I do not care what people actually want and what I should do to do the perfect marketing. I just create what I love and what I want to wear in my own slow speed.

I am very thankful that SL is that stable due to constant busy people, who love SL just like I do. I am happy, that our avis are looking that gorgeous with getting older.
And thank you, that I have the wonderful chance to show my newest summer collection at the Shop & Hop Event again. Please come by, click the big cake for your own slice, grab the freebie and some demos and have fun!

My SL20B freebie is a strawberry outfit, that just streamed out of my fingers one night.
I hope you like it!

With love, Freda
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Golden/207/48/53

Done with this horrible winter weather

I am so done with this cold wet winter weather, that I updated some of my bikinis to the new Belleza Gen.X body sizes to divert. And there we go, Antonia and me, to the beach to make photos!!!

It is just so relaxing to watch your avi drift in the water showing a lot of naked skin. You can almost feel the warmth of the sun…

Antonia (left) wearing Belleza Gen.X Curvy with Lelutka Evo X Head.
Freda (right) wearing Belleza Gen.X Classic with Genus Head.

Both skins The Skinnery
Bikinis by Freda
Shades by Deep Static

Love, Freda

Welcome 2023

I am wishing all my readers and followers a wonderful, happy and healthy new year!
May all your wishes come true…

See you soon with a lot more fashion and stories from my second life.

Enjoy winter, keep yourself and each other warm and happy,

Much Love, Freda

I know its been a while…

I was so busy making new clothes and serving events, that blogging totally went into the background.
But here is my new mix and match collection, colorful as always and it is so much fun to find new combinations again and again.

You can find all those pieces at my shop at the Christmas Shop and Hop Event with a 30% discount.

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Snapdragon/99/228/53

Have fun and have a wonderful weekend!

Love, Freda

The Brand New Rebirth Genesis Mesh Head

About half year ago Rebirth released their most versatile mesh body in SL. With just one body you can change your avi from a little kid, teen and grown-up, female and male – all-in-one.

Now they hit the grid again with a lovely mesh head, so easy to use, with endless options and with actually NO SEAMLINE at the neck!
All previous buyers of the body get the full set with a Redelivery in Rebirths store.

My review is by far not complete, but just a little overview. Best you go and get your DEMO.

Out of the box you just wear the head and the HUD.
A great set of skins and modifyable shapes are included.

Skins:
You can wear any system skin or BOM skin. This saves you a lot of money. You just use the skins you already own.
Right on the top of the HUD you’ll find 4 morph options, which are changing the head slightly. This way you can adjust the head to the skin and choose the best looking option with just one click. Fantastic!

EYES:
You can use the in-built eyes or any system or BOM eyes if you have BOM activated in the HUD. There are a lot of material settings and of course you can adjust size and position of your eyes.

Lashes:
The length of the lashes you adjust via the HUD.
For density and style you use the BOM appliers that come with the head.
Tip: You can combine the layers to design your own lashes style with just some clicks.

I have a lot of fun with the face AO, that is integrated in the main HUD.
The expressions are sliding into each other nice and smooth. The expressions are super cute.
There are several predefined sequences from happy to sad, tired to neutral, angry and more.

This avi comes to life with its lovely eye twinkle and small movements.

As with every mesh head the outcome highly depends on skin and shape.
With the Rebirth Genesis mesh head you get the morphs in addition.

This first mesh head from Rebirth is optimized for kids and teens and cute young male and females. They promised to come with more mesh heads soon. I am excited! And I will go on providing you with clothes for this great brand.

The mesh body and head you’ll get here:
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/229597

and some lovely examples, shapes with style cards you’ll find here:
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/221932

A pretty choice of clothes for Rebirth bodies you’ll find in my shop: https://marketplace.secondlife.com/stores/16065

Enjoy your Sunday and have much fun!

Love, Freda

Race Cars in SL (and pretty Hood Ornaments)

Cool race cars at the SLB18 Shop & Hop event. Pity, they were locked, but we are also looking good as hood ornaments 🙂

Have a great Friday!

Love, Freda

Do not forget the old places

Of course it is great to find new places, but I sadly saw so many fantastic sims go from the grid within 14 years of SL, that I am always happy to see a great place stay like Tempura Island, for me the most beautiful enchanted forest. So this is the place I made pics to showcase my contribution for the FabFree Enchanted Forest Hunt. 5 items for lovers of Green.

For more information go here:

https://fabfree.wordpress.com/fabfree-hunts/

The wonderful string necklace is also from the hunt btw and available at Chop Zuey.

Have a wonderful shopping and hunting weekend!

Love, Freda

Diving is dangerous

Gladly it is only some scratches in the face and the glibbery guy on my head is a friendly creature.

Body: SLink Physique Original
Head: Genus Strong Face
Skin: The Skinnery Tzuyu Genus Applier
Shape and Face Shape: my own
Band aids: -MUSU- Bandaids Female
Sandy Legs: Izzie’s – Sandy Feet and Legs BoM
Eye Shadow: Ottilie Daily Eyeshadow – Smokey Applier
Hair: Analog Dog – AD-Terceira
Octopus: bonbon – yua hair octopus (can be worn separatly)
Bikini: “Freda” Enya Bikini Seagreen
Coat: “Freda” Enya Fisher Net Coat natural rope
Bracelet: [ WoO ] Octopus Bracelet (Old Bronze Patina)

So be careful, stay safe, practice social distancing
and have a relaxing weekend!

Love, Freda

 

Small changes – big effects

It is Friday morning – no people. Everybody is doing groceries, my feet still sandy from swimming in the morning and I decided to do some quick improvements in my main store.

I saw these beautiful simple poster clips lately, so I replaced all the heavy thick image displays with light and loose hanging paper prints. I LOVE these so much more!

Next I replaced all those shiny golden clothing rails to almost invisible dark silver metal rails. What an improvement. Maybe nobody will notice it, but the overall look is just so much better.

The new rails are eating some more Li’s, but thanks to a wonderful Linden employer, who answered to my ticket super fast I could buy another piece of abandoned land to enlarge my shop area.

After all that hard work I took a little rest in my mermaid rest area in the center of the store. Sputnik, my store robot is still flying in circles greetings customers since beginning of last year without any issues. He may stay!

Sand is spread allover the floor anyway, so it was more than ok to walk on my bare and sandy feet feeling comfy while working (waving to the cleaning woman…kiss!!!).

Now you and me, lets enjoy our weekend!
Stay safe and healthy,

Love, Freda

 

Beach Chic

What a fun I had today to do the beach chic! Almost accidentally I landed at Baja Norte, a wonderful beach front, and found this killer car parked, unlocked and deserted – mine!

Have a wonderful day and stay safe,
Love, Freda

Location: Baja Norte (181,178,23) a wonderful beach sim
The killer car: Retro Beach Car by Nil McCallen created by Fin with all the fantastic poses fully adjustable for everybody!

Hair: Analog Dog – AD 42 Light Browns
Lipstick: [KoKoLoReS] Daring Lipsticks – Genus
Eye Shadow: Ottilie – Daily Eyeshadow – Smokey
Sandy Legs: Izzie’s – Sandy Feet & Legs (I LOVE these BoM layers, wearing them since I have them!)
Killer Dress: Inworld and on Marketplace:  “Freda” Lilo Tassel Dress Leopard
Sun Glasses: 1313 Mockingbird Lane – Dark Days Sunglasses – group gift
Necklace: (Kunglers) Melita necklace – Silver jade
Earrings:Izzie’s – Angular Earrings – Clearout Package (do not miss these 10 L$ Packs!!!)
Bangles: Izzie’s – *A* Wood Bangles brown Clearout Package
Sneakers: “Freda” Jacky Sneakers