We Love 22769

This blog post is dedicated to Manuel Ormidale & Paco Pooley the creative souls of the store & brand 22769, not only am I a fan of their designs & work (I especially love the textures used in their creations) but I adore them as people too! It's pretty hard not to actually as they are 2 of the most warm hearted, fun, down to earth people you're ever likely to have the privilege of coming into contact with.

My fellow adorable blogger Dagmar Haiku loves them so much that she decided to dedicate an exhibition to them at Lust4Art an art gallery which she succesfully manages. It is essentially  a collection of works from friends and bloggers dedicated to the designs of 22769. The exhibition will run from 22nd January - 29th February and you'll find it > HERE so come along and take a peek, If the boys are around I'm sure they will make you most welcome too!

Hair: 99L - Dori > Tameless
Outfit: 190L -  The outfir comprises of shirt, sweater & jeans by 22769@ > The Gallery gift shop
Shape: 200L - Cassandre > Lilau
Boots: 299L - Black/grey riding boots > WOot
Belt: 0L -  colour change belt, Part of a free outfit > Bukka

Stepping out of the frame

Pheweeee at last normal service has resumed! I can't wait to get my teeth back into blogging again and I have so much that I want to share.  I had this outfit ready to blog a few weeks ago but haven't really had the chance to get around to blogging it! As a result the dress which was a luckyboard item has now vanished and been replaced by a scarf, however a brown version of the dress is available to buy at a snip for 30L. I want to mention the bag which I picked up as a freebie at Septemb Essentia. There are other freebies available too. I love this store, it's totally dedicated to bags and there is quite a good range to suit any outfit.

Hair & hat: 250L - Victoria > Mina
Skin: 0L - > Mariko
Shape: 200L - Cassandre > Lilau
Dress: 30L - layered dress - >  ::humming::
Scarf: 100L - Ephemeral scarf > Chocolate atelier
Tights: 0L - Group gift - bow legs - gold > Le Poppycock
Shoes: 350L -  Baldini shoes > INDI Designs
Bag: 0L - D-Kilt colour change tote bag > Septem Essentia

Cassandre

I'm straying here from my usual look. Not necessarily too much style wise just with the shape. My regular shape is Lana from CS Shapes but when I was given Cassandre to try, I found that it gave me the opportunity to experiment with a different look. Cassandre is less realistically/idealistically proportioned and as such gives a more 'animated' look in my opinion which works perfectly with Fashionably dead skins which I've always admired. So decided to take advantage of the great range of skins currently available at Collabor88 to experiment with the look and was thrilled with the outcome.

The hair is a gift at the 'With love again ' hunt  from Sugarsmack whose designs never fails to please me. More details of the hunt can be found HERE it runs until the 6th January. Next I wanted to mention is a little store where I picked up the tights from and is only currently available on the marketplace. It has the most wonderful cute little vintage feel items at bargain prices so go take a peek!

Hair with bow: 10L - With Love Again Hunt item > Sugarsmack
Shape: 200L - cassandre > Lilau
Skin: 88L -  Morning Sun - Winter 6 by Fashionably dead @ > Collabor88
Top: 0L - Group gift > !1MM
Skirt: 0L - Kossori gift > Solita
Tights: 5L - Edenish floral tights > jOLIE
Boots: 175L - Leather&canvas flat boots - cream > Coco designs
Necklace: 0L - Feliz Navidad double strand necklace > Bliensen & Maitai