Happy Chinese New Year!

As it happens, today marks the celebration of the Chinese New Year, so the ideal opportunity to wear a couple of the new mesh cheongsams from The White Armory. As it features a dragon motif, it's called 'Year of the Dragon'

I've also managed to find a pair of killer heels hidden deep within my inventory, and they're actually free in world at the moment. Usually, I hate shoes. All that hud colour matching? I'm so useless at that! (I haven't gotten round to checking out Gos yet, but their new system sounds like a godsend to those of us who just aren't much good at editing!)

Tian Xia Hui - 60L weekend Ting outfit

I love checking Tian Xia Hui at the weekend to see what they've put out for the 60L sale.

This week, it's the adorable Ting outfit. I must confess, I like it so much, I couldn't bear to leave any of the photos out.

Tian Xia Hui - HuoDie Chinese outfit

What I love about Tian Xia Hu's roleplay oufits is that they're so much FUN.

Take the HuoDie outfit for instance -which is part the the 60L weekend sales today and tomorrow - it's super-sassy and ridiculously cute.

You've got fur and boots to keep you warm... and plenty of skin on show means everyone will feel the heat!

PixelDolls - Cheongsam (qipao) dresses

Wow, how difficult could this be? Set up a white background, change clothes
, ctrl ` a few times... and ta-dah, post done.

Unfortunately, Second Life didn't want to co-operate, and refused to rez my textures, leaving me all blurry. Multiple rebakes, tweaks to the graphics preferences and relogs didn't help.

(And of course, all those relogs didn't help with trying to keep consistent settings for the pics.)

After some googling, it turns out it might have a Phoenix Viewer setting - more info here if you're having a similar problem, such as vendors in shops staying grey when you're mad keen to shop. Since making hte change, all seems to be going smoothly

Anyway... the blog must go on.

When I was tping around to follow up on yesterday's sale silks post, I came across these beautiful cheongsam or qipao dresses. I love cheongsams... so elegant and romantic!

Tian Xia Hui - MengLi Chinese outfit

Something a little bit different today; I'd love to call this a wuxia outfit, but as the creator doesn't seem to, then perhaps I shouldn't either!

I found this colourful outfit in the 60L weekend list. The store is new to me, but I have a feeling I'll be back...