Once a year~

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Today is Pink Shirt Day, also known as Anti-Bullying Day. I admit that I hadn’t heard about this before, but I fully support the idea. Who wouldn’t? There’s an excellent post about this in FabFree blog and a list of designers who have created and give out pink things for this day in Schnappi’s blog.

So, for one day and one day only: Sonya voluntarily wearing something pink!

Latte wanted to pose for the Pink Shirt Day since she’s certain that if she had to live as a human, she’d get bullied because she’s so tiny. Bunnies are very much anti-bullying, thank you very much.

The nifty pink coat is from SD Wears (subscribo gift), bracelets from Violet Voltaire, hair Sky Everett, skin Djinn & Tonic and the pose in the lower picture from Long Awkward Pose. They have a whole set of bunny poses, which is every possible kind of awesome. Background in the lower picture has mainly mushrooms from New Trails and in the upper one the cottage from Zacca and a couple of couches from Kusshon. Oh, and my mp3-player from Hermes has an iTuTu frame~

Now remember, kids (and adults behaving like kids), if you have an actual healthy self-esteem, you don’t have to make others feel bad just to try and feel better about yourself. It won’t work.

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La Vie Kawaii~

Also called ‘how we moved from a gothic manor into a garden cottage and squeed~’. Now, I’m going to try to pretend that this isn’t a completely self-indulgent post about home and hearth and bunnies, and all the avatars who run around in the said home, but… yeah. But hey. I am filling a gaping hole in the blog-verse by blogging about garden and yard items! There is so much awesome out there on the grid and no one ever blogs about it. I shall! Oh so reluctantly, yes. *coughs*

So let us start with the girl trio running amok on the grounds, here comfortably posing on top of the bubble chairs from Happy Mood~

The background scenery you see in every picture is this awesome megaprim with windy moors on it. It’s from Two Moon Studios and keeps up our immersion of not at all being situated near random shops or other people. Noes, we live in solitude (and cuteness) somewhere far, far away. The hills with big trees on them are also from Happy Mood. As for what we’re wearing… on the left is Sonya with Rotten Toe dress, Grim Bros shoes, C&D Benelli tights, Nightshade neck ribbon, Curious Kitties hair, Bastchild wrist corsage, Djinn & Tonic skin and an umbrella from Weather! or Not?. In the middle is Loki in Frick skin, Vixen hair, Brocade Tiger pants, Grendel tattoos, Phoenix Designs boots, Rag Dollz leg pistol & strap, CatniP bracers, Haven Designs top, Manna belt, Belle Belle goggles properly on her eyes and other pair of goggles from Hat Mechanic around her neck, because you can’t have too many goggles! Athelia on the right has Trap skin, Magika hair, Manticorp goggles, Rotten Toe dress & socks, Manna belt, Katat0nik shoes, Violet Voltaire necklace and Sweetest Good-bye armwarmers.

The yard is wonderful place for lounging about and having picnics. Who needs a kitchen table when you can do this?

That’s Loki and Sonya and a poor SL-bugged Happy Mood bunny. That or he’s getting into the Ozimals-mood and has decided he’s a mutant with black ears. <.< I’ll get into what we’re noming in just a moment, but first look at the scenery. How pretty is that? There’s mushrooms from New Trails, trees from Fox Labs, sparkly bubble chairs from Happy Mood, elven light tree branch thing from Forest Floor and of course the magically lit ground which is a mix from the products of Happy Mood and iTuTu. Sonya’s pose is from Ana_mations and Loki’s from Niqotine.

Here’s a close-up that drove us all into nom-craving. @.@

The lovely Japanese lunchbox setting is from Love Soul. It has two different caterings that you pick by touching it. The sushi roll mats (one open, one rolled) are from Sanu, the cookie jar is from Magic Nook and gives cookies when you click it, the tray is from Kinema no Tsuki, the coffee pot on it from Oblonski and the apple pie slices and cups on it from Falln. Sonya is wearing frilly shorts by LeeZu, top by Sn@tch, Waka & Yuki hair, Yabusaka sandals, Djinn & Tonic skin and a nom in her mouth is from Sanu. Loki is noming on a mousie mouth cupcake by Sanu and is wearing Maschienenwerk skin, Discord Designs hair, Peppermint Blue top, DV8 capris, Truth shoes, Ginza necklace and her practically trademark tattoos from Grendel’s Children.

Not everyone is happy with all this sparkly cuteness, of course. It is not, how shall we say this… very manly. *grins* Here we have Janos sulking at the fence, refusing to go to the guuuuuuurly area. Obviously the bubbles might give him cooties.

This from a guy with a panda cupcake on his shoulder… anyways! He’s sulking behind a fence from iTuTu, the inviting lanterns are from Zacca and they frame the path from Fox Labs. The flowers are from iTuTu and the trees in the distance are from Fox Labs. You all know by now that the bubbles are Happy Mood. ^_^ Janos is wearing an awesome sad panda tee from Before Sleep, panda cuppycake on his shoulder from Sanu, GQ Fashions pants, Discord boots, Kosh belt, Nosotr@s tattoos on his arms and Sassy Kitty Designs gloves. His skin is from Corrupted Innocence, pose from Snooky’s Poses and hair from Black Maria.

Even Aleksander, who has reluctantly set all this cuteness down for us, more or less escaped to the roof when requested to pose within it. Eventually he agreed to do sort of royal pose, especially after Vanis said he’d help the impression with a bodyguard pose! He’s obviously an elven assassin protecting the Black King. <.<

They’re on the roof of the cottage from Zacca, the background showing some Happy Mood birds, summer festival decorations from Nonino and flowers from MiaSofia. Aleksander is wearing The Abyss skin, Sadistic Hacker hair, Illusions ears, KWZ suit and Treads boots. Vanis is wearing Excess skin, Sadistic Hacker hair, Buried ears, LNL suit, pocket watch & gun and hoorenbeek boots.

Now, the only exception to the rule is of course Vanis. He doesn’t object to the sparkles, he thinks they accentuate him! This is why when Aleksander turns his back, Vanis sneaks off to woo his protegee. Or some such. Yesyes, we have way too much with all of this. *grins*

Athelia called this combination of looks ‘seducing angels down from heaven’. It was pretty appropriate, I must say. Athelia is all ethereal in a gown from Evie’s Closet, wearing Trap skin, ETD hair and Illusions ears. Vanis, on the other hand, is very much flesh and blood in his Excess skin, Calico Ingmann hair, Buried ears and DeLa armwarmers. He’s also wearing RFyre pants, Blitzed belt and tattoos. The snake one around his neck is from Demise, the arm ones are from Crimson Shadow.

Here’s the inevitable result of the dancing, of course. Athelia’s gown might have turned red, but it is still from Evie’s Closet! Not that we love Evie’s gowns or anything, noes. <.< Her now-black hair is from Sky Everett, but otherwise she’s the same. Vanis returned to his demented colour palette with the Excess hat hair and League gloves. The summer festival decorations are from Nonino, the tree and hill are from Happy Mood, lantern from Zacca, white flowers from iTuTu and red flowers from MiaSnow.

It’s needless to say that I’m of course having a blast with the surroundings and enjoying the looks, no matter what the boy avis say. Who knows, we might get some sort of steampunk gear factory or scifi ship the next time Aleksander rips the whole sim apart and builds anew, so better enjoy it while we can!

Butterfly on the nose (with the pose) from LAP (I adore it <3). LeeZu dress, Dark Eden wrist roses, Exxess Designs hair, Djinn & Tonic skin. Happy Mood treestump, bunny and birdies~

And why the title? Because most of the sim is a mix of Happy Mood, iTuTu, Zacca and Nonino — all Japanese designers. If you haven’t visited them, please do. It’ll make you squee, I promise~

Blogged to be Wild~

It’s about time the concept behind Creator’s Stamp Rally started spreading! It is an awesome one, and guarantees that the traffic in the shops actually pays attention to the products that are for sale instead of just wireframing through them. Not that I ever do that, noes. *coughs* Anyways, I’m talking about Wild Released. If you’re blinking cluelessly at the screen, please to be clicking that link and reading more from there~

I absolutely had to have three of the prizes. This meant I had to find three things with the card to buy! Onoes, I was forced to shop in my favorite stores, how shall I ever recover from this? Woe is me and so forth. Aand then to the things I bought! ^_^

I’ve been wanting to buy this dress from FlipSide for quite a while. It came with several colours, but this blue was so stunning that it became the theme for the whole picture. The dress comes with modesty bra whatnot, but seriously — who buys this dress to be modest? Not me. The picture is taken in the skybox by C&D Designs, I absolutely adore that blue wall in it. Speaking of things I adore: Mandala bracelets. The usual get-up of Djinn & Tonic skin, Sky Everett hair, EarthStones eyes otherwise.

I’ve always loved well-made pencil-skirts and high-waisted skirts (and pants) and generally all of that type of vintage look. It also fits perfectly for the character Sonya was originally created to portrait and roleplay. The outfit is from Silent Sparrow — so much squee for being forced to shop there, alas, alas! *grins* The skybox with the raven painting is from Coco’s Cottages, the desk is from Princess Gear. The necklace is from Kosh and I’ve been wearing it a lot lately with different looks, I might have to buy more from that set one of these days. The bob from lamb. is still awesome and the rest is the default look like in the FlipSide’s picture.

It’s PG, honest! *coughs* All the bits that matter are covered and I just couldn’t ruin the perfection of these tattoos with clothes. Fallen Gods Inc has always created breathtaking things, but these tattoos were a must-have. And since I generally tend to be in a drow or other dark fantasy skin when wearing this much of tattoos, I bought them in white. Drow ears with jewelry are from Illusions, the hair is from Exxess Designs, eyes from Absentia and the drow skin is from Realms of Aledar newbie packet. The picture is taken in the Voodoo Child skybox from Not Too Shabby and it’s one of my all-time favorite skyboxes for taking screenies in.

So, what did I pick as the rewards for my shopping spree? Here, I managed to put two of the prizes in one picture and yes, it’s still somewhere within the realm of strategically covered… but like above, this skin will not tolerate clothes to ruin the perfection!

The skin is the prize by Fallen Gods Inc and it is absolutely ridiculously gorgeous. The tone is slightly too approaching pink tones for me, but when I put the demo on I just knew I had to have it, regardless. So I did, right after I picked my jaw from the floor. The horns from Trap were another such prize… the textures were simply whimper-worthy. Combine the two and you have a lazy snake sunning in our garden~ Eyes are from Gothic Dreams and the hair from BeReal. The log is from iTuTu. ^_^

Yes, you can look again, I put clothes back on. *grins* Although I blog it last, this prize is what I picked first. I mean… seriously, Silent Sparrow making a steampunk dress? Gimme! I’m not that big a fan of brown usually, but for steampunk I make an exception and wander into the brown-brass areas, and these browns are simply -delicious- in tone. The picture is taken in a steampunk cottage from Builders Brewery. It was a Steam Hunt prize, as were also the hat from Illusions and the clockwork squirrel from Myrtil’s Mess. The armchair is from Ambiance, a part of the ongoing Second Style promotion. Hair from Vixen, choker from CatniP. Usual Djinn & Tonic skin and EarthStones eyes combo as the base.

All I need to do now is resist the temptation to buy something else to get more of the Wild exclusive prizes… <.<