Monday, August 31, 2009

10 Red and White Living Rooms Interior Design Ideas



Whether your living room is a 21 foot length with a large picture window at one end or you live in a tiny apartment and the living room is bijou to say the least, there are living room décor ideas to suit you and your budget. You can go for cozy chic and warm up your living space or go for open-plan with vaulted ceilings and an expanse of herringbone hardwood floor. At the end of your project you will have ended up with a space that you can live in comfortably, decorated according to the space you have available. Are you aiming for a peaceful retreat, full of serenity and harmony or a more user-friendly, basic living space where you feel comfortable slipping your shoes off and putting your feet up.

If I was choosing a color scheme for my living room I would go to the cooler colors on my color wheel chart - the blues and greens which can be used in different shades to achieve a 'joined-up' look of cool elegance. I always make sure that, when I paint my ceiling, I use a light shade of the room's main color on my ceiling so, if my color scheme was blue, I would use the lightest eggshell blue I could find for my ceiling and then a slightly deeper shade of blue for my walls. If you have mouldings you could paint those completely white, or go for a darker shade of blue to both the walls and the ceiling. I would use matt paint on my walls and a paint with some kind of sheen on the mouldings.

For windows, to add height, place the curtain pole as high as possible near to the ceiling. This will give your curtains plenty of drop to achieve an elegant drape. Modern décor arrangements always suggest that the fabric should be allowed to pool on the floor - never in my house. To me, artistic though it evidently is, this 'pooling' idea for the fabric is just a dust collector and, if you have dogs like I do, is just asking them to make a bed out of the fabric! Why did I mention this? Find out what the trends are, but that does not mean you have to follow the trends slavishly. Adapt styles to suit you and your lifestyle.

You would think, wouldn't you, that a large picture placed on the wall in a small room would be overpowering. Surprisingly, it isn't. I have the tiniest lounge you can imagine and, on the wall above the fireplace I have a really large picture of the Defence of Rourke's Drift, depicting the British soldiers of 'B' Company, South Wales Borderers. This picture is very loud, very busy, with plenty going on in it. However, it looks absolutely fantastic in that room, almost as if the room was made to fit the picture!






Silly Wabbits

Dali 1

Dali 2_3


HAIR: All hairs from Elv'an - previously blogged, hairs are between $3-$5 - items in store $0-5 clothes, eyes, hairs, tattoo, boots, lots of variety & good for rp- http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cutie%20Land/11/85/22

Dali 4 copy

Dali 5

SKIN: August 30 - September 1 find 15 small satchels priced from $1-5 - [PACADI HUNT] - Bag A013 - $5 - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Altobello/67/151/22
Pacadi blog

Myabi 1_2

Myabi 3


CLOTHING: Carrot hunt - find 10 carrots you can buy on this sim - clothes for guys & girls - *MIYABI*~Rabbit InThe Moon~ & *Salvador Dali* are the participating stores - $0 - hunt ends 4 September JP - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Astraia/123/197/24
Miyabi blog
Salvador Dali blog

Myabi 4

Myabi 5

LOCATION: Astraia Sim

Have A Fabulous Week!

Just wishin' everybody a great start to their week! Hope it's light n breezy... Follow the butterfly and the music in your heart!



So Flute by St. Germain - Video via Vafredoi on You Tube

Boy Meets Girl

How cute is this editorial? Yet at the same time it's not overly too girly pretty, I love the masculine touches to the outfits.



These are my takes on the Boy Meets Girl theme...


{all from Net-a-porter.com}

(editorial images from Elle Girl Korea via Oh? )

Sunday, August 30, 2009

The Bubble Gum Hunt @ Urban Shopper - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dubya%20City/27/115/25
Start Date - Saturday, August 29th
End Date - Sunday, September 13th
Total wads of gum to find: 16
Urban Shopper blog

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Hair- Tiny Bird hunt prize from the Festivale sim poop hunt lasting ending 4 September - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Festivale/144/169/27

Skin- .::Mother Goose's:: mary Pale_02 LB - Lucky Board - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Turpentine/225/141/21

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Douchetastic

Ever have that not so fresh feeling?? Me too! If so this is the perfect hunt for you! Pulse and Sn@tch City present the Summer Freshness Hunt (aka the Douche Hunt) Dozens of stores on both sims are participating and you can't ask for more neat stuff in one place. No running around and searching under tables and flying in the sky to find the landmark to the next place, no business in a box crappy freebies. This is the good stuff made by our original creators. Just wander both sims and search for the colored douche bottles. Most are free and some are severely discounted stuff! I can personally promise you at least 20 free gifts from Sn@tch so come by this weekend Friday through Monday and get FRESH! Get all the details and a list of stores participating at http://snatch-sl.blogspot.com/
slurl - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Snatch%20City/129/129/30
Items are between $0-100

Here's the $0 items I picked up. As you can see there are a lot of items for guys too! I only picked up a fraction of the $0 items, so there are a ton not pictured and don't forget you can pick up some super deals while hunting for these great freebies.

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Sn@tch City - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Snatch%20City/123/212/30
Pulse - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Pulse/156/147/35

Sale/hunt ends Monday!

Participating vendors:
[Gauze], A-Bomb, iRen, Harlot, HOocHiEs, Moonshine, !ReToX!, Sable Rose, Sn@tch, Souzou Eien, Virus, World Wide Industries, =forsaken=

Friday, August 28, 2009

A Truck in the Transformer

1_SeldomBlue

HAIR: .:[ Tiny Bird ]:. The Art Teacher II - Spun Sugar - $0 - From the poop hunt lasting ending 4 September - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Festivale/144/169/27
Tiny Bird blog
SKIN: .::Mother Goose's::. Emma SkiNE(1L$) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Turpentine/225/141/21

EYES: :::Sn@tch Soulful Eyes (Fire Opal)::: - $0 - Sn@tch Douche Hunt only Until 31 August - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Snatch%20City/118/213/30 Sn@tch blog

CLOTHING: (SELDOM BLUE) FRANCESCA SPECIAL OFFER - $1 - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Angelheart/96/21/28
Seldom Blue blog

SHOES: magi take high heels with foot [ green ] - (group gift displayed upstairs in store) $0- http://slurl.com/secondlife/Magi%20Island/128/161/23
Magi Take blog

JEWELRY: Earring(Incense) - Three Hearts - $1 - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Symmetry/23/98/76

POSE: Tiny Awkward Bird - Pose 1, 2, & 3 - $0 - From the poop hunt lasting ending 4 September - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Festivale/144/169/27
Tiny Bird blog


2_Slanted Fox

HAIR: Tiny Bird Poop Hunt '09 - Kissy Kissy Pack (7/9) - $0 - Tiny Bird poop hunt prize

SKIN: .::Mother Goose's::. DoNNa skiNe_00 - $1

EYES: :::Sn@tch Soulful Eyes (Grey Blue)::: - $0 - Sn@tch Douche prize

CLOTHING & SHOES: **SF** COCKTAIL WAITRESS, **SF** MAD HATTER'S BALL, **SF** PANDA STOMPERS, **SF** YUMMY YUKATA - COMPLETE - $1/each - Slanted Fox store closing - male clothes and shoes also - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Harajukubox/122/116/22
Harajuku Box & Slanted Fox blog

POSE: POOP HUNT 09 - [LAP] 02 - Bowel Buddy - [LAP] - Chub-Aw Cheese, [LAP] - Chub-Cool Kid, & [LAP] - Chub-Timid Girl - $0 - Long Awkward Pose poop prize - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Festivale/97/90/29
LAP blog

3_Yesod'sDesigns

HAIR: Diversity - Jess - Tootsie Brown - $1 0r $0 - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Addictive/85/197/294
Diversity blog

SKIN: KEI - Skin - summer - $1 - http://slurl.com/secondlife/KAWASAKI/201/244/23

EYES: Hearts in Her Eyes by Sinful Temptations - Starlust Panty Raid Item - Friday, August 14th- Sunday, August 30th -Lloyd: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Lloyd/93/71/23
Floyd: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Floyd/35/59/25
Herman Melville: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Herman%20Melville/171/62/59
Horst: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Horst/219/212/46
Harold: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Harold/173/65/23
Eugene: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eugene/168/74/25
Bill: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bill/131/195/43

Elliott: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Elliott/56/72/21
Check out The Starlust Motel blog for additional prize pictures and information.

CLOTHING: "The Orangetail Bikini and Swallowtail Bikini are both incredible "dollarbie" values. The Heliconius Bikini and Dark Buckeye Bikini are both new designs and an amazing price of 10L each." - $1-10 - Yesod's Designs - TY Serena - http://slurl.com/secondlife/twilight/125/117/25

4_SickMaskHunt

HAIR: PE Birthday Box of goodies (4 male hairs, 4 female hairs + choker & 2 bags)- Philotic Energy grab it before Monday! - $50 - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Imogen/225/58/256
PE blog

SKIN: D:A*Alice in Nightmare SKIN - Dreaming Alice - $10 - http://slurl.com/secondlife/japan%20canvas/40/24/2
Dreaming Alice blog

CLOTHING: S.I.C. mask hunt items 1-10 - Search sims Sick, Sick2, and Sick 3 for 10 masks. This hunt is for the more experienced hunter. Items are dispersed from masks which you touch.
Sick (4 masks) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/sick/128/128/2
Sick2 (3 masks)- http://slurl.com/secondlife/sick2/128/128/2
Sick3 (3 masks) - http://slurl.com/secondlife/sick3/128/128/2
S.I.C. blog post about hunt. (JP)

POSES: POOP HUNT 09 - [LAP] 01 - THE BIG SHIT - [LAP] - Freebie-Two Thumbs Up & [LAP] - Freebie-Longo Challenge
Unholstered Weapon Pose included in S.I.C. hunt weapon hud

5_Fierce

HAIR: PE Birthday Box of goodies - Jessica - $50

SKIN: Estela skin *Rielle Skins* Megaspecial price $10 - Sinuous Shapes - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Celebration/190/128/22


CLOTHING: FIERCE**ZANG 10 DOLLARBIE BIRTHDAY X - $10 - Happy anniversary to Fierce! - This dress may only be up until the end of this month so hurry if you want it. - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fierce%20Island/133/95/32

SHOES: :=:RW:=: Simple Pumps Fruit - :=:Ryouta Works:=: - $???? not free, but cheap - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Fanghammer/75/115/22

POSE: *Vago* (not free)

6_PoopHunt Part 1
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7_PoopHunt Part 2
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All items pictured above from the Festivale sim poop hunt lasting ending 4 September - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Festivale/144/169/27

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Ok, so I picked up random things at the Sn@tch hunt. I'm not going to post them until later. But, since the hunt is only for a couple of days here's the info..............

Ever have that not so fresh feeling?? Me too! If so this is the perfect hunt for you! Pulse and Sn@tch City present the Summer Freshness Hunt (aka the Douche Hunt) Dozens of stores on both sims are participating and you can't ask for more neat stuff in one place. No running around and searching under tables and flying in the sky to find the landmark to the next place, no business in a box crappy freebies. This is the good stuff made by our original creators. Just wander both sims and search for the colored douche bottles. Most are free and some are severely discounted stuff! I can personally promise you at least 20 free gifts from Sn@tch so come by this weekend Friday through Monday and get FRESH! Get all the details and a list of stores participating at http://snatch-sl.blogspot.com/
slurl - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Snatch%20City/129/129/30
Items were between $0-100

ETA ... Oh hai Schnaeppchen did part of the douche hunt. Go check her blog. ^^
http://sl-schnaeppchen.de/

zzzzzzzzzzzz

Flashback - Photoshoot by Roger Erickson







{Weekly Giveaway}: Cute Ability


This week's giveaway is from the amazing Etsy shop Cute Ability, I've written about Cute Ability before, and fell in love with the cute cupcake and teapot/teacup necklaces. I'm amazed to see how much new stuff the shop has just months after!

The winner will get a $25 voucher to spend towards any one item in the shop!



go now to check out the full range of choices (all 14 pages of it)!



Sorry to bore you with the conditions again, only read if you're new here!

How to Enter? Anyone who leaves a comment on any post during the next 14 days is automatically entered in the draw, starting with this post and ending Saturday the 12th of Sept at 10am GMT. The winner will be revealed later that day.

Rules: only leave one comment per post please, meaningless comments will also be discarded. To pick the winner, I will first use randome.org to generate a number between 1 to 7, and then pick a randome comment within that post. So to maximise your chances you can reply to every post, don't want to miss a post? follow this blog via Blogger, Reader or Bloglovin & these technology will remind you!

Now to last week's winner... Congratulation to Post 6 Comment 16, that's you Darrah!! I will contact you shortly for delivery address :)

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I'm off to do some packing as my plane for China leaves in 7 hours!! xxx

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Delicate Things

I have a busy day in front of me after only 5hrs of sleep, lots of accounts to sort out, training someone to do the P&P for {luphia} while I'm away and packing again! This time only for two weeks, I'm off to China to see some distant family members and childhood friends...

I'm never good with busy days, I'd rather much spend my day around these delicate things.

Blogging will slightly be affected too as I'll be moving around quite a lot, but I've written some posts ready & my bf has kindly agreed to post them for me through Blogger. But posts will be shortened to 3 a week for the next two weeks...

(lovely photos by Lillyan Lilac)

The Innumerable Inaudible

Done by request, Sci-Fi and Fantasy Hunt ending September 1. The hunt group has no information in it at the time of posting, so I've included the relocation of some stores to help in facilitating the hunts completion.
Starting location- http://slurl.com/secondlife/SpaceJunky%20Island/131/99/2778

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The landmark in object 24 brings you to a desolate piece of land. The number 25 store is in the process of relocating and may be found @ Izzy Cole Photography. ( http://slurl.com/secondlife/SpaceJunky%20Island/104/43/125 )

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The number 37 store has also changed location SB Designs. (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Chronos/130/48/22)

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Item 77 not pictured is a collection of several gestures.

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This hunt ends 1 September. Hurry before it's gone.