MichaMi Style Blog

Hello everyone! I’m soooo sorry for this prolonged and unexplained silence of mine. The truth is I suddenly and unexpectedly hit a complete wall with the blogging — there was just not a single post left in me! I didn’t know if it was something that would pass in a couple of days or something more permanent — and as a matter of fact I still don’t know! So for now, and until further notice, I’m officially on a blogging break. Please don’t send me any review copies, thank you.

Anyhow, during this break I started to finally create my own clothes; this is something that I have been wanting to do for ages, for over a year to be precise. Only I kept getting frustrated at my own complete lack of skill so I would give it up time and time again. Now though, after a over a year of Photoshop tutorials, clothing tutorials, sculptie tutorials, pulling my hair, hating the whole process and and the same time loving it all, I have finally come to a point where I can actually produce something I would wear myself. Phew!!

Please come and see the MichaMi blog for my new releases.

Here is a preview of my first ever release.

It’s time for me to go on little vacation again and I’m so very pleased to have finally managed to get the beautiful and stylish Mariya Nesiote to cover for me while I’m gone.

Mariya is well-known in the Fashion community and she’s a very successful model. She has a gorgeous and original sense of style and I can’t wait to see what she has in store for the blog. Oh, and she’s Swedish! Yay!

A big HUGE THANK YOU to you Mariya, for helping me out!

I’ll be gone for about a week and I should be back to blogging by next weekend.

Ciao, ciao!

Here’s wishing you, my dear reader, the Happiest of Holidays and a Fabulous New Year!!!

As mentioned in my previous post, I will not be in-world again until January 4th, 2008 — I will however, be online and getting my daily SL fashion fix through the blogosphere. Please drop notecards on me if you should need anything (IM’s cap as you know) or e-mail me on milla.michinaga at gmail.

See you in 2008!! Ciao, ciao!!
-Milla

*Product details and credits below the cut*

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I’m leaving for my Christmas and New Year holiday today (yay!) and I will not be in-world again until January 4th, 2008.

To my great pleasure, the very lovely and beautiful Sofia Gray has agreed to post some of her stylish looks for you while I’m gone.

Sofia is a well-known model and fashionista, who also write the blog The Diary of a Second Life Socialite. Look out for her posts in the coming days!

Welcome to MichaMi Style Sofia!

Today, November 1st, I have been blogging for six months! I can’t believe how fast it has gone and how much fun I’ve had. I wanted to extend my most heart felt gratitude to all you great readers!

Granted, six months really isn’t that long, but I still feel it to be a little milestone, so:

Thank you for reading! Thank your for coming back! Thank you for commenting! Thank you for in-world IMs and e-mails with encouragement and tips! and Thank you for making this so much fun!

Love,
-Milla

PS. I also updated my About page as the old text was really outdated. I also added a few lines of review copy policy.

I’ve been fiddling with my Sidebar again.

First I’ve tweaked my My Top 10 Designers and thought I would give some detail into my rankings.  However, first off I wanted to make the following statement for the record and for the sake of transparency:

This blog (and this blogger) is in no shape or form supported or sponsored by any of these designers (or by anybody else for that matter). Also, none of the designers are on my Friends list and I don’t have any kind of personal relationship with any of them. My preference is purely and solely based on my personal admiration of the quality of their creations.

Phew! Ok, now we got that out of the way lets continue with the lists.

1. Last Call - Ginny Talamasca: remains the untouched queen of clothes design.  She is unrivaled in originality, execution and productivity.  This is where most of my Lindens are spent.

2. ETD: My hair maker of choice. The styles and the textures have got me hooked — and the frequent new releases make sure I keep coming back for more.

3. Celestial Studios: The best skins and make-ups for my shape.  The enormous choice of faces is also a huge factor in my preference for CS. 

4. Shiny Things: Shoe dealer of choice. I’m obsessed with the curve of the prim between heel and toe - and there is nobody who does that better than Fallingwater Cellardoor of Shiny Things.

5. Canimal: Funky clothes and brilliant textures.

6. X3D Apparel: Original and well-executed clothes and shoes, with a flavor of haute couture.

7. G.L.A.M. Fashions: Wonderful casual outfits that are great for the basics in your wardrobe.

8. Earthstones: Original and beautiful jewelry.

9. PixelDolls: Original designs and high-quality work.

10. Nyte’N'Day: Good quality clothes from jeans to club to underwear.

Then I added a new list of NewComers. These are smaller brands that I really like. Some of them have only a few items and others are already on their way to establishing themselves permanently. These are NOT in any kind of order of preference.

bossa nova
Maitreya
Truth Designs

Needless to say, I am always on the look out for new talents (what fashionista is not?), I love it when somebody comes along with a new and original style to add even more variation to our Second Lifes. I’m looking forward to adding more names to the NewComers list in the future.

I have moved my blog from Wordpress.com to our own and new MichaMi.net domain. I’m really sorry for making you update your bookmarks etc! Hosting our own website, however, will give us all the freedom we need for our future developments. The actual MichaMi.net pages are not yet up and running — and don’t expect them to be for a long time yet — but this blog will continue as usual.

So I’ve been blogging now for 10 days and I never expected to be having this much fun!  A big thank you for reading my posts! I’m figuring out the mechanics of it and I’ve started adding stuff to my Sidebar that I thought I would explain quickly .

In-Word Locations: in here you will find locations and coordinates for all the shops and places mentioned in my posts.

Categories: I decided to categorize my fashion posts by Look, as this is how I tend to think of my outfits.  Versatility is a tag I’ll use for posts with multiple looks from a single garment.

Blogs I Read: pretty self-explanatory!  Please click through and look at these most excellent blogs. 

My Top 9 Designers: these are the places where I spend the most lindens and/or who’s creations I wear the most.

That’s all for now