lotd241016 - Time travel and Laziness

This blog post has been weeks in the making! Because I'm lazy, that is, though. I haven't been in SL much and every time I log in I see this outfit I'm wearing and go "gosh I look cute, I should blog that" and then....I don't. So I've been wearing this for like 3 weeks now. I stink. (I am so procrastinating that I wrote this post yesterday and didn't actually finish, so now the dates are wrong, IT'S LIKE TIME TRAVEL)

So lets do the rundown!

I generally avoid applier clothing unless it's for layering, it just feels like a step backwards a lot of the time but it actually does have a lot of advantages, for instance, fit will always be perfect. And this incredibly pretty cami by Nylon Outfitters, the lace on it is so delicate, I feel like it would be difficult to get that feeling of lightness on full mesh clothing. PLUS wearing it, I don't have to worry about what fits underneath my coat.

My Thessaly coat came out last year, by Schadenfreude, but at the time I was a Toddleedoo, and so I wasn't able to take full advantage of its awesomeness. It has a big hood, which you can wear up or down with a click, and comes in several eye-soothing shades with Allegory's wonderful swirls on them, and looks even better if you're a little more statuesque than I am.

My pants are by Blueberry and what I love about them is that they're not ultra low-cut (no bum crack here) but they're also not soooo high-waisted that you can't find a shirt that works with them. I fatpacked the colourful leather option, but there's also a denim pack. I like how the orange here is a sort of creamsicle shade, it's like a more soft autumn look.

The shades of green in my fri.day shoes mirror the greens in my jacket so nicely, and I've accesorized with a ribbon choked from an old Junbug gacha - I played that thing so much, I've got about a million of these, and GDit's new Fishing for Compliments set, comprising of the bag and the matching colorful fishscale nails.

I didn't capture it too well in the pictures, but this hair by Doe is actually an updo, the lush curls at the front are in fact the bangs of the style, it's really very pretty.

Now I feel like I need to wear something spookier, the creepytime approacheth and here's me all pumpkin-spice-latte fallwear!

Credits:

Hair: Doe - Opal

Top: Nylon Outfitters - Silky Cami Belly Shirt (Maitreya applier)

Coat: Schadenfreude - Thessaly Hooded Jacket - Forest

Pants: Blueberry - Tali Leather Fall Pants

Shoes: fri.day - Zoe Heels - Olive

Choker: Junbug - Highland Ribbon Necklace - white (gacha)

Bag: GDit - Fishing for Compliments purse

Makeup:

Eyes: Veechi - Diva Smoke Eyeshadow - Copper

Lips: Pink Fuel - Harley - Lipstick - Beestung

Nails: GDit - Fishing For Compliments

Poses:

Image 1: Bang - Homme20

Image 2: CW Poses - Wet S3

The Basics:

Skin: Pink Fuel -  Harley V2 - Porcelain

Eyes: Buzzeri -  Glacier Eyes- Jade

Mesh Body: Maitreya - Lara

Hands: Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands - Flat (R) and Casual (L)

Feet: Slink Avatar Enhancement Feet - Deluxe

Ears: Mandala - Steking Ears - Season 5

Hairbase: Just Magnetized - Natural Hairbase - set 03

Freckles: Pekka - Dark Freckles + Star Upper Cheek

Mudskin - Face Mole 6

Lashes: FATEwear - FATElashes

Brows: Buzzeri - Nikohl Eyebrow - Lighter Tintable

Various tattoo layers:

Nova - Eyebags - Light / 50%/Hard

Okkbye - The Button Nose

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It's been an exciting week for me! I've joined the team of Seraphim, those lovely angels who cover the events, now one of them is me, go figure! So that's been a lot of work, getting familiar with how things are done and so on. It's fun though, and rewarding. And I've ordered a new PC for my birthday, which is very yaysy! Also, we got a hosepipe in RL. It's the little things that delight me. Sorry, I'm lame. And my blog got a new layout and now it looks less ungood! Which you can see, unless you're reading this via a feed, in which case, click through, my blog got a new layout, now it looks less ungood! :D

You know what isn't lame? The Arcade. Which you might have heard of maybe. Anyway nearly everything in this post is from the June round of The Arcade, there's so much lovely and I've barely even scratched the surface - I've trawled the early yardsales, that's it. 

So you might notice I'm looking a little on the tan side. Pink Fuel's skin in Arcade, Elsie, is GORGEOUS, so fresh and cute. But it only comes in a new tone, Biscuit, which is something like 5 shades darker than my beloved Porcelain. But it's sooo pretty. So so pretty. So we'll pretend I've been out in the sun. In my swimsuit, from Flowey! The Betty swimsuit comes in 12 colours but I like this one best because the colours remind me of the first Malibu Barbie, which I saw in a book about collectible Barbies which I used to be obsessed with. It's actually not at all similar, but it's what it triggers in my head and I like that!

I have two friends with me, from Schadenfreude and silentsparrow. When I first saw Schadenfreude's Kiwis, I screamed at Allegory "KIWIFRUIT BEARS" and then felt stupid because I hadn't meant to say bears. I had meant to say kiwifruit though because sometimes it's fun to be dumb. So I compromised and now shall call them kiwifruit bear birds. It's okay. They're adorable, they can take it. 

Silentsparrow's ridiculously loveable Catkins have some of the friendliest faces I have ever seen, and the majority of them are based on in some way the real cats of various people in SL and Plurk who hyasynth knows. I don't have a cat in RL, so I don't get that honour. It's sad. But not these guys! Except the Grumpy Rare. I assume he's sometimes sad.

Ooh and guys look at my haiiiirrr. It's from the Olive gacha, which isn't just hair this round but a whole sleepy set of furnitures, but this is the most perfect bedhead, look at it, loooook at iiiiit, and that little wisp at the top. It's so very nice. 

And my shoes! YumYums is closing and having a big sale, and as part of that, their gachas are all 25L, and so I got the shoes and here they are and I love them. 

Credits:

Hair: Olive - The Sweetpea Hair - Reds pack (gacha @ The Arcade)

Swimsuit: Stories & Co by Flowey - Betty Swimsuit - Pale Stripes (gacha @ The Arcade)

Shoes: YumYums - CutiePie Flats - Sunny Dot (gacha)

Frisbee: Consignment - Frisbee Thrower (gacha @ The Arcade)

Cat friend: silentsparrow - Catkins - Claire (gacha @ The Arcade)

Bird friend; Schadenfreude - Kiwi - RARE Royal (gacha @ The Arcade)

Lamp: Tarte - Hanging Twig Light - Silver (gacha @ The Arcade)

Makeup: 

Tattoo: Things - Porsenna Tattoo (Omega applier)

Nails: Nylon Outfitters - Art Nails - Fresh and Light (@ Collabor88)

Poses:

Image 1: Dream Print - Blogging One '15 7

Image 2: Bang - stand 481

The Basics:

Skin: Pink Fuel - Elsie - Biscuit - Lid 1, Auburn Brows (gacha @ The Arcade)

Eyes: Buzzeri - Lillian Eyes - Jade

Mesh Body: Maitreya - Lara 3.3

Ears: Ears: Mandala - Steking Ears - Season 5

Hands: Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands - Flat (R) and Casual (L)

Feet: Slink Avatar Enhancement Feet - flat

Hairbase: LeLutka Hairbase - Jessica

Freckles: Pekka - Dark Freckles + Star Upper Cheek

Brows: Buzzeri - Nikohl Eyebrow - Light Warm Brown

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As I was writing this post last night, we received the heartbreaking news that Amy (Scarlet Chandrayaan in SL, owner of Alouette) lost her battle with cancer. It was for Amy that the Leaf on the Wind fundraiser was held (which I covered a little here), though she never was well enough to visit London. Amy and I were not close friends, but she touched my life and the lives of hundreds of others in SL, and on Plurk, with her kindness and strength, with her good humour and talent, with her grace and just being really, genuinely, truly good. I cannot pay enough tribute to her. She was an incredibly beloved young woman who was taken too soon and will be missed and remembered by everyone who knew her.

Tributes far more beautiful than mine can be found here: http://shewasourleafonthewind.tumblr.com/

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A couple weeks back there was crazy mad excitement on Plurk when Redd Columbia announced she would be bringing back her store, RC Cluster, and with all the old faves remade in mesh, to boot! After an initial exciting Fifty Linden Friday release of some fun and delicious glue and an awesome karaoke machine, the next wave of products is out and I'm starting with the crutches and cast set! 

These beautifully detailed crutches have a built-in AO for all your hopping needs, which includes some rather daring moves like the swinging I'm displaying in the top picture to take the strain off your good foot, as well as some more conventional keeping-the-cast-raised sort of standing. The cast you can wear comes in a Large or Small size and is signed or unsigned - here I'm wearing the unsigned because I'm a bit of a loner. A pro-tip - Even though my cutie shoes by Ingenue are rigged mesh, and so they cover both feet, I hid the one on my cast foot by editing with Select Face checked, and set the textures only on the left foot to 100% transparency. Just remember to set it back to 0 when you're done! The crutch and cast set is fantastic for RP purposes or if you just feel like you don't hop enough. 

My skirt is by Sn@tch and I love the little worn scuffy patch on it, makes me feel like perhaps I was wearing it when my unspecified leg accident befell me. My sweater is part of Bubble's new Pastel Goth release at Suicide Dollz, my grey one is covered in scaredy cats, but there are all sorts of light colours with designs like crosses, spiderwebs, bats and um...bows with eyeballs. 

I'm wearing a parted lips alpha by Kibitz, since I have finally figured out how to wear these things without looking completely derp. At least from the front. The is the new Vampy version from the summer round of Cosmetic Fair, the shading tattoo layer really sets them apart from a lot which are just an alpha, but between that and my hairbase, freckles, eyebrows and beautiful eye makeup by La Boheme, I NEED MORE TATTOO LAYERS. 

Behind me, on the wall, Atooly's Neon Heart Angel is available at The Fantasy Collective and is available in 3 colours and is going straight into my house after this! 

Credits:

Hair: Little Bones - Chachki

Top:  Bubble - Pastel Goth Collared Sweater (@ Suicide Dollz)

Skirt: Sn@tch - Winnie Jean Mini - Red

Shoe(s): Ingenue - Lacy Flats - Coffee (@ Collabor88)

Necklace:  Sweet Thing - Violet Melty Moon Necklace - Starshine (gacha)

Crutches and Cast: RC Cluster- Mesh Crutches 

Wall Art: Atooly - Neon Heart Angel - Red (@ The Fantasy Collective)

Makeup:

Eyes: La Boheme - Glamour Eyes - Babarella S1 - 5

Lips and teeth: Kibitz Teeth System - Vampy (@ Cosmetic Fair)

Nails: Nylon Outfitters - Art Nails - Fresh and Light (@ Collabor88)

Poses: 

Image 1: in the crutches

Image 2: oOo Studio - Moody_five

The Basics:

Skin: Pink Fuel - Harley - Porcelain

Eyes: Buzzeri - Lillian Eyes - Jade

Mesh Body: Maitreya - Lara 3.3

Ears: Ears: Mandala - Steking Ears - Season 5

Hands: Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands - Flat (R) and Casual (L)

Feet: Slink Avatar Enhancement Feet - flat

Hairbase: LeLutka Hairbase - Jessica

Freckles: Pekka - Dark Freckles + Star Upper Cheek

Lashes: Alaskametro - PrimLashes - Diva

Brows: Buzzeri - Nikohl Eyebrow - Light Warm Brown

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Lately I've been hanging out in Blithe a lot. It's a stunning pair of sims with lots of little areas for hanging out in and taking pictures and so on. Some of the pictures I've taken there are on my Flickr, directly from the SL viewer with no editing, that's how gorgeous the place is. A few days ago a new area opened up there, a bar in an old chapel, and I hurried on over, pausing only to throw together a suitable outfit, since it was an all-too-rare occasion for socializing. See I needed to be a bit casual, but also a bit shabby-chic elegant. I may be guilty of overthinking things a little.

So here's a thing I threw together or a refinement of same.

My lace shirt is something I've worn here before, in a different colour some months ago. It's by Nylon Outfitters and is an awesome little coverup, I'm a sucker for lace overlays and what have you. Underneath it is the supercute Jonquil chemise by Sn@tch, which has a lovely chintzy pattern in various colours. It's one of the things I've changed from my outfit since originally I was wearing the same undershirt as in my last post. But this one is lovely. I'm trying to accumulate long shirts on appliers for layering, it's sort of my bag.

My jeans are newly released from 20.Five and have previously been part of an SLX outfit bearing the same name, Tessa. These are a full version though, and come with a colour-change HUD with 5 different denim shades. I really like the fit of them and the highly defined wrinkles in them.

If you look really really close at my necklace you can see that the litttle tiiiny heart on it has a N on it. It's by Noodles at FaMESHed, and is so adorably dainty. Also, it has a HUD to change the letter, if for some reason you don't want an N on it...

My hair is part of a new set of released by Elikatira. I'm always excited when she puts out new stuff, even though it's so sporadically. There'll always be a part of me back in 2007 trying to bounce into the full region containing the big sales she'd sometimes hold with her old brand, ETD.

I've just realized as I'm typing this that I forgot to include any home/garden items or props in this post. This is because I suck. Please carry on as normal.

Credits:

Hair: Elikatira - Adeline

Shirt: Nylon Outfitters - Lace Crop Top - Black

Undershirt: Sn@tch - Jonquil Chemise (Slink Physique applier)

Pants: 20.five - Tessa Jeans

Shoes: Fri.day - Xela Platforms - Antique (gacha RARE)

Necklace: Noodles - Amore Initial Necklace - Single - Rose Gold (@ faMESHed)

Wristbands: katat0nik - Bow Wrist Straps - White

Earrings: Fetch - Sigrun Earrings - Rose Wood

Makeup:

Eyes: Wicked Peach - Passion 8

Lips: Angelica - Mellow Lipstick - Wine - Light (gacha)

Nails: La Boheme - Spring Beaded White (hunt prize)

Eye detail: Pekka - Eye Wrinkles and Bags - Light

Poses:

Image 1: EverGlow - Model 420

Image 2: Marukin - Breathe

The Basics:

Skin: Pink Fuel - Doll v2 - Vamp

Eyes: Buzzeri - Lillian Eyes - Jade

Mesh Body: Slink - Physique 2.3

Ears: Ears: Mandala - Steking Ears - Season 5

Hands: Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands - Flat (R) and Casual (L)

Feet: Slink Avatar Enhancement Feet - Med

Hairbase: LeLutka Hairbase - Jessica

Freckles: Pekka - Dark Freckles + Star Upper Cheek

Lashes: Alaskametro - PrimLashes - Classic

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Yay I'm away from home and on my laptop and so all my pictures are jaggedy like this! Woo! Sorry, this is how it's gonna be for the next couple of months. 

Here I'm doing a joint post with Persephone Paine from Dressing in Pixels because I'm sitting next to her right now in real life! So here we are, in our finery from Collabor88. A really nice cozy downbeat theme this month with some nice alternatives to February's usual red-and-pink-and-hearts overdose. I think the colour palate is designed around this year's Pantone color of the year, Marsala.

I'm wearing the new skin from Lara Hurley, this is the first of her skins I've tried and it's a bit less pale than I've become accustomed to but it's really so very pretty in the face. 

So here we are both wearing the Plaid Heart dress by Katat0nik at Collabor88, and the two beautiful hairs Clawtooth has out, on me Yvette, and on Persephone, Erica, which has bangs. Perse is also rocking the full set of silentsparrow's Forest Love barettes which I gave a preview of a few posts ago. We're also wearing the Yummy's Best Friends necklaces because we're secretly in middle school.

I've also got on the knee socks by Atomic, which are system or appliers, with mesh tops, and Fri.day's Marsali flats, while Perse is wearing Ingenue's Cecily flats. 

Behind us is a couple of silentsparrow's Hunter's Kiss artworks, which are also available as stunning necklaces by Schadenfreude at Collabor88. It's been a good haul.

Credits: 

On Nivaya:

Hair: Clawtooth - Yvette - Outrageous (@ Collabor88)

Dress: Katat0nik - Plaid Heart Dress - Greige (@ Collabor88)

Socks: Atomic - Slouchy Knee Socks - Taupe (@ Collabor88)

Shoes: Fri.day - Marsali Flats - Olive (@ Collabor88)

Necklace: Yummy - Best Friends 1 (@ Collabor88)

Pictures: silentsparrow - Hunter's Kiss Deer/Hedgepig (@ Collabor88)

Makeup:

Nails: Flair - Maitreya Nails 3

Poses:

Image 1: Bang - Sweets

Image 2: Niv: oOo Studio - Cheesecake 1 Perse: Adorkable Poses - Handbag5

The Basics:

Skin: Lara Hurley - Heidi - Milky - Natural

Eyes: Buzzeri - Lillian Eyes - Jade

Mesh Body: Maitreya - Lara

Ears: Ears: Mandala - Steking Ears - Season 5

Hands: Maitreya - Lara

Feet: Maitreya - Lara

Hairbase: Ploom- Curly Hairbase Red 1

Freckles: Pekka - Dark Freckles + Star Upper Cheek

On Persephone:

Hair: Clawtooth - Erica (@ Collabor88)

Dress: Katat0nik - Plaid Hearts Dress - Dk Berry (@ Collabor88)

Shoes: Ingenue - Cecily Flats - Merlot (@ Collabor88)

Necklace: Yummy - Best Friends 2 (@ Collabor88)

Barettes: silentsparrow - Forest Love Barettes - Heart/Arrows/Blue Bird/Shroom (@ Collabor88)

Makeup: 

Lips: Pink Fuel - Harley - Crystal - Orange

Nails: Nylon Outfitters - Be My Valentine Nails (@ Collabor88)

The Basics:

Skin: Izzie's - Olive - Pale

Eyes: Mayfly - Luminous - Twilight Steel

Mesh Body: Maitreya - Lara