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Still alive! I'm sure nobody was actually concerned but here's a reassurance anyway, I live, and if my outfit is anything to go by, so does grunge.

First off though, I am so very excited about the newest version of Firestorm, which includes all sorts of good things, but particularly the new Layer Limits which allows you instead of, 5 jackets, 5 alphas, 5 socks, and so on, a total of 60 of any combination of system clothing layer. For us mesh body wearers, what this means is, ALL THE MAKEUP, since we're basically otherwise just wearing like, an alpha or two. Sooo the effect is a bit subtle but I have PILED on the auxiliary face tattoos. I've got extra moles, and a thing that makes my nose more buttony, and TWOOOOO eyemakeups, and a lipstick AND a shader to make my open mouth look more natural. AND THAT'S JUST THE BEGINNING. Seriously I am mad excited about this.

I ended up dressing like a moody teen from getting dressed around my SL mom, Christa Echos. This put me in an understandably rebellious mood, and then we went to Kustom9, which, idk if this was official or planned, but seemed to have a nice 90s grunge motif going on, and that's where I got the plaid shirt and cropped top combo by Amitomo, the tank includes a color-change HUD too. My hair by Olive and shorts by Monso are from where we went next, Shiny Shabby, and were serious must-have items.

My boots I have actually featured before, by Bubble, and are appropriately called My Fav Boots.

Credits:

Hair: Olive - The Late Hair (@ Shiny Shabby)

Shirt: Amitomo - Crop Top + Loose Shirt - #6 (@ Kustom9)

Shorts: Monso - My Patch Denim Shorts - Vintage Blue (@ Shiny Shabby)

Boots: Bubble - My Fav Boots - Flowers

Necklace: Random Matter - Vira Necklace

Rings: IeQED - Dream Ring Set 

Nose ring: Atooly - Emma Star Nose Hoop

Skateboard: Everglow - Skateboard 1

Drainpipe: Twice Baked - Grocery Store drainpipe M0219

Trash can: Grimes Central Design - Public Trash Can  GREEN

Makeup:

Eyes 1: Tres Blah - Indie Liner 5

Eyes 2: Nox - Toxic Shadow - Night

Lips: Angelica - Milky Lip chop - Apple

Openmouth alpha/Lip shading: Okkbye - Parted Lippy V2 - Shading Pink Base

Teeth: PXL - Openmouth Pro Teeth

Nails: La Boheme - Arclight Silver 

Poses: 

Image 1: Everglow - Skateboard 1 - Pose 8

Image 2: Snaphappy - Aria 6

The Basics:

Skin: Pink Fuel - Harley - Porcelain (with button nose tattoo)

Eyes: Buzzeri - Lillian Eyes - Jade

Mesh Body: Slink - Physique 2.4

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/ Mudskin - Face Mole6

Lashes: Izzie's - Mesh Alpha Lashes

Brows: Buzzeri - Nikohl Eyebrow - Light Warm Brown

Eyebags: Pekka - Eye Wrinkles - Light

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So yesterday, June 26th 2015, the Supreme Court in America ruled that same-sex marriages are legal and allowed and good all over the USA! You might have heard of this little newslet. Now, if you think this is a bad thing, I need to ask you now to go away and come back another day, because I'm sure you have your reasons but we are not going to agree on this matter and I don't want to fight you. Anyway, I am overjoyed. I am a bisexual woman married to a man and same-sex marriage has been legal in my country for some years now, but for all my friends who this directly affects, and for everyone I don't know who finally have the rights to live the life with their loved ones that they deserve, and just for what it represents for America overall - I am so so happy with this decision. Love is Love. 

I am also happy because on a completely un-sociological standpoint, I really really like rainbows a whole lot. Yay!

Most of my outfit here is in one piece, the shorts, tank and vest are the Clarce set, by Ducknipple. Each part of the outfit is color change via a HUD, so it can be mixed up in all sorts of ways. Under this, I have the Ripped Lace Leggings by Insanya, newly available on appliers and AMAZING for creating layered looks, with lots of options concerning the existence of underwear and color combinations and all sorts of good things. 

My shoes are from Katat0nik's machine at this round of The Arcade, which you have like 2 more days to check out, if you've been under a rock or something. These are the hyasynth version, which according to appearances earlier, I stole off her very feet. My hair is new by Olive at N21 and the flowers that go with it are so pretty and so color change <3 

Oh you can't really see it well but in the first picture there I'm holding a rainbow notepad - this is a group gift to celebrate from RC Cluster, you should go get it, it's lovely and when you click on it you can write in it, and writing stuff down is awesome! 

Credits:

Hair: Olive - The Sparkle Hair (@ N21)

Outfit: Ducknipple - Clarce Set

Leggings: Insanya - Lace Leggings - Ripped (Maitreya applier)

Shoes: Katat0nik - Art Shoes - hyasynth (gacha @ The Arcade)

Necklace: Earthstones - Gypsy Necklace - Multi/Gold

Piercing: Ellabella - Ballad of Stars - Rainbow

Flower Clips: Olive - The Precious clips (@ N21)

Notepad and pencil: RC Cluster - Notebook - Rainbow

Makeup: 

Eyes: Nox - Pearl Liners - Purple

Lips: AlaskaMetropolitan - Dark Matte - Swoon

Nails: A:S:S - Rainbow / Bella Elephante - Over the Rainbow (on thumbs)

Openmouth/Teeth: PXL - OpenMouth Pro V2

Poses: 

Image 1: Marukin - Peony 03

Image 2: Kirin - May Pose 6

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 - Classic

Brows: Buzzeri - Nikohl Eyebrow - Light Warm Brown

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A few weeks back, before this round of Arcade started, I was hitting up all the yardsales because I'd just discovered D-Lab's incredible Piccoli set from March's Arcade round. Don't judge, I was on vay-cay throughout March. Anyway I'd seen them on hya's platform and was like :O when I saw they little dude interact with two things, and I resolved to get LOTS OF THEM. Which I did. And they're all set up in a hidden location at the bottom of my garden and are lovely. Then this round happened, and the D-lab's Pippip birds. I am doomed. My little red friend here flies from tree to ladder and all points between, and there so many points between in my inventory waiting for me to set them up.

You might notice my hair is looking unusually natural today, that is because I bought the wrong pack of Olive's Powder hair at Uber, and the streaks are more reds, but ugh LOOK how beautifully it blends in, it's like, really really natural, I love it, and the shape of this hair at the back - it just falls like natural long hair, into wispy wavy bits, it's really really well done. It makes me miss my RL really long hair but then mine never looked as good at this. 

The theme of this round's Uber event is India, and my tattoos by Identity are not from Uber, but I'm pretty sure I bought them directly after being at Uber, so it's like a indirect influencing thing I guess. I actually bought them while I was on my search for cute tattoos that I mentioned in my last post, and there are matching versions for the legs too which I'm not wearing right now. 

My dress is by Oaken for Collabor88, I adore the neckline of it and the tightness of the top versus the open-sided skirt, it's got a certain timelessness to it and seems very comfy and casual to wear, I almost didn't wear shoes with it, But then I did, these are by Livalle and I've had them for a while but they're a nice classic shoe. 

Credits:

Hair: Olive - the Powder hair (@ Uber)

Dress: Oaken - Liberty Dress - Pack 1 (@ Collabor88)

Shoes: Livalle - Platform Heels - Cherry 

Piercing: Yummy - Cleopatra Septum and Medusa - Gold

Tree: D-Lab + Lizail - Pippip Apple Tree 01 (gacha @ The Arcade)

Ladder and Bird: D-Lab + Lizail - Pippip Set 5 (gacha @ The Arcade)

Makeup:

Eyes: Nox - Raze Liner - Blue (@ The Dressing Room Fusion)

Lips: Enfant - Molly's Liptint 11

Nails: La Boheme - Flora 

Tattoos: Identity - Taj - Hands (Maitreya Applier)

Poses: 

Image 1: Le Poppycock - High Horse

Image 2: Atooly Poses - 032

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 - med

Hairbase: LeLutka Hairbase - Jessica

Freckles: Pekka - Dark Freckles + Star Upper Cheek

Brows: Buzzeri - Nikohl Eyebrow - Light Warm Brown

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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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Since yesterday I've been working on my Second Life house. It's something I do every few years - line up the walls, update the textures, replace fixtures. My house started out life as a fullperm freebie from like, 2004, which, over the years, my friends and I have added to and remodeled and generally made completely unrecognisable. Also completely unlinked and with different walls owned by different people... My big project this time around has been to replace all the textures with with new ones with various Materials stuff. That.....was not as easy as it should be, given the makeshift nature of the house, everything being at different rotations and, shock horror, SL being buggy as hell. But with some help from the very patient Allegory Malaprop, I have eventually triumphed. All the walls, interior and exterior are done, and I'm taking a little break from that.

Pink Fuel just released a huge update, with new bodies for several of the older skins, and appliers up-to-date to go with, in all the tones. This is very exciting for me because it gives me an excuse to dig out an old friend of a skin, Harley, in Porcelain, which has always been the most "me" tone from Pink Fuel. Not quite as healthy as Crystal and not quite as unhealthy as Vamp. The timing of all this is excellent too, because the alpha cuts on the Slink Physique weren't doing it for me for this classic Tres Blah blouse, so I switched to the Maitreya Lara body for this post, just in time for the release of Pink Fuel's extended line of Maitreya appliers!

I'm dabbling with tattoo eyebrows again, these are by Nox, and I really like that the texture of them isn't too dense or too skinny, but I think I still need to play around with the shape of them a little bit to get them to where I love them. 

My hair is by Olive from the recent TAG gacha event, and I really love the way the curls of it fall and the length of it, it frames the face so prettily. The skirt I'm wearing here is a new release from Goth1c0, which happens to be one of the non-freebie stores I ever owned something from in SL. The Purple Velvet Weirdo skirt is one of the tame options of this skirt from the Dark Style Fair, the majority of them having awesome brain or eye patterns on them!

If you hurry you can still pick up my fishy friend for 50L at silentsparrow, where it's out for Fifty Linden Fridays. There's a version who swims all around you, a version you can snuggle, and a version you can set out and just look at how pretty he is. 

Lately Bubble has been updating their older stuff to include current appliers (Omega, Slink Physique) etc, which means I get to play with another old love, these corset-laced armwarmers. I have some like these in real life too. Lots of them.

Credits:

Hair: Olive - The Tumble (gacha)

Shirt: Tres Blah - Short Sleeve Blouse - Two Tone

Skirt: Goth1c0 - Weirdo Skirt - Purple Velvet (@ Dark Style Fair)

Socks: Izzie's - Unisex Socks (Maitreya applier)

Armwarmers: Bubble - Corset Laced Gloves (Maitreya applier)

Shoes: 20.five - Starry Chucks - Light

Undershirt (just visible): Sn@tch - Butch Tanks (Omega applier)

Fishy friend: silentsparrow - The Betta Fish Plush - Magic! (50L Fridays)

Windmill: D-Lab - Windmill Yellow

Makeup:

Eyes: Nova - Sagan 1

Lips: Pink Fuel - Harley Cosmetics - Lipstick - Stained Pink 

Eyebrows: Nox - Nyx Eyebrows - Tintable

Nails: Alaskametro - Diva - Gold

Poses: 

Image 1: Kirin - Dreamer Pose 1

Image 2: Le Poppycock - A single day (plus built-in fish-hugging pose)

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 - Classic