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Ohai, remember when I used to blog? Yeah, me either, but here I am, smaller than ever! Various changes have occurred, various busy-ness and family-ness and other excuses, which have led me to decide to switch my the focus of my blog to kids stuff, since I've been a grownup, idk, 5 times since I last posted back in August. So if you were here for the occasional sideboob I'd throw out there, soz, you're out of luck, I'm cute now.

So yesterday I went to a party, which isn't as rare an occurrence as it used to be, and it was a Dia de los Muertos party and seriously, any excuse to dress for that (see: last year). Added to that, the single biggest thing I miss now that I'm mostly a kid, is wearing makeup, and this is ideal. The millions of layers we can now wear really helps with this - my sugar skull makeup is from La Boheme and actually comprises 3 individually tintable layers, which are available in various transparencies too, for a whole lot of color customization options. With it, in my face pic, you can see this amazing gold under-eye liner made by takagigraves, owner of Oleander, some years ago, and isn't actually available to buy. He mentioned it on Plurk as I was writing this and Iwaslike "OMGYAAAASSS" and politely demanded it and retook the one pic. I love the extra dimension it adds. 

My flower headbands are by Cosmic Dust and I completely love. My earrings are from Schadenfreude, from the Pearl Mori set. The top of my dress is from a halloween costume I was wearing, Ariel Day Dress by tinyOwl, but I thought it went well for the look I was going for here. The skirt is by Ugly Ducking, and is in two pieces, I ran into a friend wearing it and instantly hurried out to get it myself, in several colors. I have no shame. The tights are by Turducken, bought in a flurry of tights-excitement as the weather got colder, and my boots, oh man, I hope they release more of. They're by Dappers and Darlings at Limited 50, and are all Halloween-themed but they're so nicely made, I love them. The Materials on them is great. 

I didn't suddenly become good at decorating, my pictures were taken on-location where the party was, most of the stuff here is from New Trails and sadly no longer available. 

Credits: 

Hair: Lamb - True Love Waits 

Top: tinyOwl - Ariel Day Dress (TD applier)

Skirt: Ugly Duckling - Kitten Skirt - Night

Tights: Turducken - Skeletights - Black (TD applier)

Boots: Dappers and Darlings - Doc Halloween Boots - Swirls (@ Limited 50)

Headbands: Cosmic Dust - The Daisy Headband - Fireworks, Cosmic Dust - The Radiant Sun Headband - Lemon/Mango RARE (gacha)

Earrings: Schadenfreude - Pearl Mori earrings

Necklace: tinyOwl - Fairytale Necklace - Ariel 

Makeup:

Sugar skull makeup: La Boheme - Face Paint - Sugar Skull Blossoms 

Eyeliner: Oleander Cosmetics - Golden Underliner

Nails: AlaskaMetro - Metallic Pack Nail Polish - Classics/Gold (Omega applier)

Poses: 

Image 1: oOo Studio - 1920s two

Image 2: oOo Studio - 1940s Adrien 2 

(Basics credits to follow some time when I look more normal and actually write them up yay changes)

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Today I'm like.....little yellow....walking hood....with a dragon, and a pork bun. It's cool. Um I'm sleepy, so I'm not even going to try to explain. I like these things, they're cool. Lots of love, Niv

Credits:

Hair: Fashionably Dead - Matilda (@ Collabor88)

Shirt: Tee*fy - Kelly Knotted Tank - Nope (@ Collabor88)

Skirt: Goth1c0 - Pitchfork Plaid Skirt - Purple (@ Suicide Dollz)

Cape: Ur Favorite One - My Favorite Saurus - Yellow Cape (gacha @ The Arcade)

Shoes: Boom - Melody Flats - Lemon (@ Collabor88)

Panties: Bubble - Circus Carnival Underwears (Maitreya appliers)

Purse: Zenith - Rattan Bag with Scarf - Orange (gacha @ The Arcade)

Dragon: Half Deer - Solstice Dragon - Smolder (gacha @ The Arcade)

Pork Bun: BluPrintz - Steamed Bun - Cute (@ Multicultural Menu)

Rings: ieQED - Persephone Rings

Rug: silentsparrow - A Forest Rug 

Makeup:

Eyes: s0ng - Glitter Mood Makeup - Silver Line

Lips: Angelica - Milky Lip - Honey

Nails: Wicked Peach - Offbeat

Poses: 

Image 1: oOo Studio - Rainy Two

Image 2: Sari-Sari - Cute01

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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My crowning achievement over the last few days is getting all of the Tres Blah and Second Spaces sets from this round of Arcade (barring the Rares, because I don't need that noise) and cramming them all together on my dressing table (actually some of it is scattered around the rest of my bedroom, but there's quite enough to cram). So proud that I've taken my life into my hands and gathered it all up to take to my photo studio because my bedroom is a little too chaotic for photography. I really don't like moving No Copy things in a big pile like this. So wish me luck when it's time to put it back.

The vanity table itself is actually an edited version of one I got from Wimey a while ago and doesn't seem to be available anymore, I dragged it around to make it deeper and wider, tinted it a bit and re-angled the mirror, to accommodate all my goodies. What I love about it is its proper shabby chic look all scuffed up and a bit grubby in a believable way like as if I use it all the time. 

Now, while I was scouring the yardsale for my cosmetics haul, I wore this satin kimono by Oaken, I side-brand of Noodles. Um, when I say I wore it, turns out I wore only it. I didn't discover this until the next day when I logged in. So oops. Anyone at those yardsales, you're welcome. Still it was a good look, I love the texture of this, so sensual and touchable and nice. It's available in four packs, each with six textures at FaMESHed. 

So as not to be obscene, I've paired it with these flower lace leggings by Insanya, another of their excellent applier conversions, which I really appreciate. It's great to be able to wear these old favourites on the Maitreya body like this. So as to be more sexy, I've worn these wonderful shoes by Ducknipple for Slink High feet. The Lissa heels come with 12 colours options in the HUD, I've gone with a nice dark purple here to contrast the eyemakeup I did a really poor job of capturing in my pics. 

If I sucked less and you could see it: it's an awesome black kohl eyeliner with big gold wings, by Weaponized Sugar at one of the events I'm excited to be covering for Seraphim, The Makeover Room. 

Oh also, I want to talk about this necklace for a minute! Everyone's going crazy wanting the bikini from Zaara's arcade machine, but nobody is talking about how amazingly this necklace fits! Yeah, I set my ambitions low, it's true, but srsly. For some reason usually I have to move and rotate necklaces, I have no idea why. But this? Look how it drapes on my boobs. It's perfect! Yay!

Credits:

Hair: Ploom - Josefine

Top; Oaken - Bliss Kimono - Pack 1 (@ FaMESHed)

Leggings: Insanya - Lace Leggins - Style 2 - flowers

Shoes: Ducknipple - Lissa Heels 

Necklace: Zaara - Rudraksh necklace (gacha @ The Arcade)

Dresser: Wimey - Shabby Chickie Vanity

Clutter: Tres Blah - Jolie - Makeup Tower, Eye Makeup, Golden Hand, Nail Polishes, Nail Polish Collection, Makeup Clutter, Hair Products(gacha @ The Arcade)

Second Spaces - Makeup Junkie - Clean Up, Foundation, Contour, Lips, Brushes, Palletes (gacha @ The Arcade)

Tres Blah -Vanity - Plate of Treasures, Toiletries, Nail Polishes, Mirror (gacha)

Stool: Lisp Bazaar - Sunshine Side Table

Makeup:

Eyes: Weaponized Sugar - Super Kohl - 24k (@ The Makeover Room)

Lips: Nox - Shade Lips - Garnet

Nails: La Boheme - Mainframe Gold

Poses:

Image 1: oOo Studio - Sabrina_three

Image 2: Ma Vie - Jewel 09

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 - high

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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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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I've spent like, 5eva yesterday looking for a particular gacha item and completely failing to find it and man it was a drag. In the end I got something similar and technically better but which made me feel like a big sell-out because it wasn't the thing I was looking foooorrr. I was running around ALL THE YARDSALES dressed like this, which made me feel mildly scandalous, since the Charlotte top and shorts by Flowey at this months round of Collabor88 feels very much like loose satin underwear. Or pyjamas. And it very well might be! The point is, pairing it with these boots made it feel like something a lot more disreputable than it is, and I like it! I'm wearing a soft grey version here but the one I've been wearing most is the Hologram colour which is a watercoloury mix and so very pretty.

The boots themselves are by HOC Industries, an old favourite of mine which has been on a bit of a break of late but are back now yay! They're fantastic value (as HOC Industries always has been), coming with a HUD of 12 colours which can be applied to the main portion of the boot, the heel, the edging and the laces, making thousands of possible combinations!

The other day I took a snap of myself and I was under a projector light and it made the join of my neck here look all shadowed and weird. It reminded me of those rad 90s tattoo chokers that are coming back into style and I got all up on the Marketplace and found this cool one by XYZ for a cool 50L$.

Yesterday being a thoroughly gacha-based day, I dropped a ton at the new round of Fantasy Gacha Carnival. Two bits of my haul I'm wearing here are the tattoo by Identity, and my sexy scary claw by Kibbitz, which I'm wearing on the Slink Gesture hand.

My hair by Pr!tty makes me feel like a classy broad, I like the effect it has on the shape of my face. My eye makeup is by Wicked Peach at the new round of Cosmetics Fair which opens today! The theme is 90s, happily, and so I've paired it with #Adored's wonderfully understated Vague lips, all chilled out desaturated shades of grey. And I'm on a total septum piercing kick right now. Sorry, not sorry.

Credits:

Hair: Pr!tty - Genia - Bun - Reds (@ The Dressing Room Fusion)

Top and shorts: Stories & Co by Flowey - Charlotte Top/Shorts - Grey (@ Collabor88)

Boots: HOC Industries - Wedgie Boots

Claws: Kibitz - Acantha claws {L} - citrus (gacha @ Fantasy Gacha Carnival)

Nose piercing: MONS - Septum Ring (style22) black

Choker: XYZ - Tattoo Choker - Black 

Curtain: Balaclava! - Camden Room Divider - Chiffon White (gacha @ 6th Republic)

Makeup:

Eyes: The Wicked Peach - Grunge 4 (@ Cosmetics Fair)

Lips: #adored - vague lips - warm gray

Nails: Figure - Dreamy Nails

Tattoo: .Identity - Last Sip (Omega applier - gacha @ Fantasy Gacha Carnival)

Poses: 

Image 1: Ma Vie - Melody 03

Image 2: oOo Studio - Margarethe two

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 - Vida

Brows: NOX - Nyx Brows [Tintable]

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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