This dress just screams out red carpet glamor, doesn't it?
Daring, sexy, coquettish...if anything will make you feel like a silver screen goddess, brimming with confidence and style, it would have to be the stunning Chrysalis dress from Casa Del Shai. It really is one of the most delicate, feminine creations I have seen in a while - exquisite diaphanous hand painted silks and light matte satins wrap around your body, covering up the right bits and revealing enough skin to totally mesmerize. Chrysalis is really just one of those dresses that will definitely turn every head in the room and have all eyes fixed on you; taking in the beauty, grace and utterly heart stopping sexiness of your form. It's not only a feast for the eyes, however, this dress, no, it's much, much more.

New Year's resolutions is something 'atomics' are bound to do. We might not always write them down, but at the beginning of each year, we say "this is what I'm going to do different", or "this is what I want to achieve". No miracle that this reflects on our avatar behaviours. So what did your avatar plan for 2009? Click here to vote in our poll.

Cleaning out the inventory & keeping it organised. You're a practical person, liking everything tidy & neat. But you're always busy in-world, and 'inventory management' is something you don't always have the time for. This year, from start to end, you're going to be tidy. Every notecard will go in the correct folder, every 'object' prim that's no use will be deleted. "Keep it under 10,000!!!" is your motto. Until the 1st of March when you'll start to slack off again.

+++Blue Blood+++ designer Ghanima Uriza's fabulous contribution to the Winter Magic at Black Swan event is so very special for quite a few reasons. She has brilliantly pulled off a design that is rather different from her usual work, yet made it undeniably recognizable as her own. The "Florencia" outfit was actually inspired by and named after Uriza's sister who wears funky, colorful and beautifully patterned coats. "Originally, I had a plain color coat in mind, but then I took a look at my sister and just wanted to combine her fun character and style into my design...I wanted to create something she would wear!" giggled Uriza.

I'd like to see you in a really fancy evening gown with a huge wide skirt (like 'I could be hiding 10 guys under my skirt and you wouldn't notice' kinda huge). The kinda dresses you find at Sparkle Skye :) Either that or the dark rose faerie princess gown from Sparkle Skye :) Jewellery by Alienbear or Illusions :) You can pick a skin or hair and try to give an unique touch to the look.

**DP**yumyum is one of those stores that can literally have you squealing, and overdosing on the cuteness of the designs of just about everything it carries from clothes, to hair and their absolutely irresistible muffin seats and wearables. When I found out they were participating in the Winter Magic event at the Black Swan, I just couldn't wait to see what sort of adorable awesomeness designer Toraji Voom was going to come up with.
When the model strut down the catwalk in **DP**yumyumminess during the fashion show, the outfit was not what I was expecting. It was better! It was so cute, girly, simple, and so totally wearable.

Dress me up challenge is going slowly but nicely for me while Achariya is reaching number 19 I am still at number 3. Last time I was a Giraffe riding fetish queen and this time I am an Elf Princess. Winter Jefferson has asked me to get a long gown from Avilion, elf ears from Body Politik, and jewellery by Alienbear.

I thought I have to have long hair to be a princess so I digged into my inventory and found the only decent long hair I have which is from Cake. This is actually the only one that fits perfectly and I love the way it moves. So next is ears. Well, that I must say was not so easy... I went to Body Politik and found the Elf Ears. Changing the skin colour was not easy. I clicked many times for the menu but it wouldn't come out. It did once and I have changed the colour but it was not the right one. So being practical, I had to find a skin to match my ears. :D

Hmmmm...Nomine goth white skin, Deviant Kitties hair, Hugo's Designs latex, Dari's Haus arm binder and gag....and any kind of boots you wish. Sunshine Kukulcan gave me a real challenge. I have been to Hugo's Design and I must say that they have got the best Latex i have ever seen . Since I  am not so in to fetish look in my day to day SL life I digged into my Inventory and found something similar which is really good in quality. G42 V suit that is. I have put on a great goth white skin from Crimson Shadow created by Draconic Lioncourt. I went out and looked for an armbinder. Errr was not so keen on that I need my arms free. I think .... but for some could be useful and comes in 600Lindens with loads of different animations sets.

I have paired my white skin with a wonderful animal tattoo that is part of the ensemble called Blood Batpunk suit by Hyasynth Tiramisu that's available in Crimson Shadow.

Although few things reached ultimate perfection yet on what is OpenSim and thus our Rezzable Private Grid Alpha - the question is, can that ever, with constantly evolving technology and knowledge - 'the view' is definitely as stunning as 'elsewhere' when the right content has arrived. Take for example this lovely scenery, with Snowy Hoobinoo's  'out of the ordinary' virtual foliage and Evad Babii's beautiful lighthouse in the back. Shot at Sandbox #3. Now you can argue that WindLight will make everything beautiful, but this was definitely a stunning sight.

Happy rezday to You,
Happy rezday to You,
Happy 2nd rezday, dear Pavig,
Happy rezday to You!!!

We have written before on how just fanatic WoW players can get - check out the WoWpod -, but this is a new one: two WoW fans decided to race across the Azeroth area on Real Life Foot. How did they do that? They hooked up two threadmills to their PC's and using the WoW scripting engine for input devices, they track the speed of their threadmills and convert that to in-world movement. Keep in mind: where the WoW character runs 12 miles/hour (20km/h), their humans only need to run 6 miles/hour (10km/h).