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Sporadic blogger here! Actually it's been less than a month since my last post, I'll pretend that's pretty good going. It's not, really. But, pretending is fun. 

So first of all this dress I am wearing, Krakken, by Vicarious Youth. It's at the Big Dreams For Big Kids event,  and uh, I'm not really supposed to be wearing it (it's sized for Regular Kids), but I squeezed my grownup-size bulk into it because I like it so much. So long as I alpha out my boobs and butt, it more or less works. YMMV, tho, because I don't have so much in the way of boobs and butt in the first place, if you're a curvy curvy lady, you might look a little odd with a completely flat chest. But it's an completely awesome dress, and comes in 4 color options AND also includes matching headband and sneakers, which I am not wearing here. 

Note that if you're reading this right now, RIGHT NOW, on the day of posting, Saturday September 3rd until 8PM SLT, it is the RL birthday of Violet Steamweaver, the owner of Vicarious Youth, and she's having a sale where everything in store is priced to her RL age, which as she has put it, is over 25 but under 50! (it's 37, everything is 37L) The store has stuff to fit Toddleedoo and Big Kid, and some stuff for adults too, so gogo fast and get some fantastic bargains! 

Also gogo fast because the shoes I'm wearing are from yesterday's 50L Friday at Ingenue and you might might still be able to grab them now, if you're reading this in the "now" timeframe mentioned in the previous paragraph. My hair, which helps cover the few places the dress doesn't look right with my Maitreya body, is the most recent from Magika and is called Five Minutes. 

Oh oh and, my tentacle baby who I'm taking for a little walkies here is from the Silentsparrow machine at The Arcade, full of various spookycute things, tentacle plants, mandrakes, little demons, spellbooks, all sorts of goodies, so do be sure to check those out. But first! Sale and shoes! Hurry!

Credits: 

Dress: Vicarious Youth - Krakken - Blue and Green (@ Big Dreams for Big Kids)

Shoes: Ingenue - Maisie Sandals - Midnight Blue

Hair: Magika - Five Minutes

Plant Stand: Alouette - Metal Flower Cart

Plant: Silentsparrow - Something Wicked - Plant - Tentacles! (gacha @ The Arcade)

Grass: Adjunct - Beach Grass

Makeup:

Eyes: Veechi - Glitter Liners - Aqua 

Lips: Angelica - Mellow Lipstick - Wine

Tattoo: silentsparrow - Eclipse Tattoo - Simple (omega applier)

Nails: idon'trememberI'msorry D:

Pose: 

Image 1: Kirin - Maki Pose 6 (edited with Anypose)

Image 2: Verocity - Hermione 1 (edited with Anypose)

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: Izzies - Mesh Alpha Lashes

Brows: Buzzeri - Nikohl Eyebrow - Lighter Tintable

Various tattoo layers:

Nova - Eyebags - Light / 50%/Hard

Okkbye - The Button Nose

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Not going to Pixel Prom tonight. But I wanted to be pretty anyway. So here I am, being pretty. It's nice of me, and pretty. 

Credits:

Hair: Lamb - Need You

Dress: Goth1c0 - Lysana Gown - Forest (@ Illusion Point)

Shoes: Reign - Break-up Pumps 

Necklace: Yummy - Repurposed Charms Necklace - Eclectic (@ N21)

Wings: DRD - Fairy Wings Monotone (gacha)

Gates: Windsong - Leila's Garden Gates - Dark Rainbow

Makeup:

Eyes: Angelica - Summer Makeup Eyeshadow - Secret (gacha)

Lips: Nova - Hayden oo7

Tattoo: silentsparrow - Eclipse Tattoo - Ornate (Slink Physique applier - arms and hands worn only - for Mix)

Nails: The Plastik - Fairy Dust

Poses: 

Image 1: Imeka - Chaconee - Pose 2

Image 2: Bang - Stand 487M

The Basics:

Skin: Pink Fuel - Harley - Porcelain

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

Lashes: Izzie's - Mesh Alpha Lashes

Brows: Buzzeri - Nikohl Eyebrow - Light Warm Brown

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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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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

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Various hunts and things going on right now, in all the excitement over the Wayward Hunt (which is actually officially properly started now, and I eventually finished - I am very easily distracted) I forgot to mention the other hunt that I look forward to quite frequently - the Unknown Hunt. As the name would suggest, it focuses only on stores which have been open for a year or less. The item I'm featuring in this post, the awesome flamingo dresser I'm sitting on, is from a store I know well, not unknown at all, Little Llama, the owner of which, the delightful Percey Garcia, I know from Plurk and am so proud of how her brand;s been growing over the past several months. 

My dress is by Miseria on the Wayward Hunt, and coordinates perfectly with the colours I'd already chosen for the luna moths on my adorable little antlers by silentsparrow at IDK. You can tell they're moths not butterflies because they've got these fuzzy antennae and then they are at rest their wings are out flat like that instead of together and sticking up. That's like - the only thing I know about anything.

Conversely, a store I didn't know about that I'm wearing in this post, I first encountered on the Wayward Hunt, the store "Things", which is very hard to find in any kind of search! My tattoos today are from there, though they are not the hunt prize (that's some awesome henna hand tattoos). Anyway, I just totally adored the various shapes and patterns of these tattoos, they're what I often find myself looking for and the prices are great too. If you can find the place, that is. 

I bought PXL's Sweet Lips mesh mouth several months ago when it was first released, but never really had a chance to play with it until now. Of course there was the perennial issue of a lack of appliers, but recently Mochi Milena updated a her appliers for the Doll skin in Vamp with a massive amount of new options, I can't imagine how much work it was, and now I have a perfect skin match and can overlook any minor flaws and I think it looks really fantastic and I'm happy to add it to my pile of mouths. 

Credits:

Hair: Chemistry - Hera

Dress: Miseria - Orchid Dress - Sherbet (Wayward Hunt prize)

Shoes: Ingenue - Laura heels - Sand 

Bracelets: Atooly - Rosie's Star Bracelets - Mint/Pink, Mint/White

Antlers: silentsparrow - Luna Antlers - Natural (@ IDK)

Dresser: Little Llama - Flamingo Cabinet (2015 Unknown Hunt prize)

Makeup: 

Eyes: Nova - June - oo2

Lips: Pink Fuel Vamp (Sweetlips Applier)

Mesh Mouth: PXL - Sweet Lips 1.4

Nails: Hello Dave - Big Love

Tattoo (top): Things - Mucius Tattoo - Faded (Slink Physique Applier)

Tattoo (legs): Things - Maita Tattoo - Faded (Slink Physique Applier)

Poses:

Image 1: Double Take - Calm Confidence

Image 2: Elephante Poses - Feel the Release #1 (@ Pose Fair)

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 - Prim Lashes - Classic