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52 Colours: Tangelo

I did not even know this is an actual fruit, thought it was just a mesh-up name for the colour, but apparently it is! I had to do something silly for Miss Tangelo, so somehow that translated into an anything-but-realistic sailor costume. With a cutesy hat. The First and Last and Always necklace by House of Rain is available in the gachas at Unhinged Festival. It was just the right amount of sweet to go with the look. The Reema hairstyle is by Alice Project, who keeps saving my colours with the HUDs that allow exactly that: colour change. The sailor costume is by *BOOM* and if you are new to this outfit, be warned: the skirt is really really short from the back. Really. As for the surroundings, I wanted both a hint of orchards and sea, so I went to visit Selidor. Plenty of both there for silly sailors to pose with.

Scene: Selidor

Body: Skin: Pink Fuel – Ember Milk New Blood | Eyes: Poetic Colors – Summer Wheat | Lashes: Redgrave – 39 – Luscious | Makeup: M.O.C.K. Cosmetics – SuperSweet Shadow One Ai Shui | Hair: Alice Project – Reema* 

Outfit: Costume & Hat: *BOOM* – A Day on the Yacht Tangerine | Necklace: House of Rain – First and Last and Always Pearl* | Rings: Sweet Leonard & Needful Things – SummerBreeze Rings

Poses: Amato – Pose Play 02 | !bang – Stand 137

Crowbar Engineer

If everything else fails, get a bigger hammer. Or a crowbar. Perfect engineering rule! This particular character started with the steampunk bandana by Calico Ingmann Creations, available in Hair Fair. Remember that Bandana Day is on Sunday! There’s a bandana booth in every sim for easy shopping.

The tweed capris and Marching Orders corset are both by Sn@tch, perfect for a tomboy with a feminine twist. I love Ivey’s corsets and the buttons and patterns in this one mixed military order with an extremely cleavage-friendly cut, making it perfect for both posing and ass-kicking.

The Nostalgia-boots are a new release by lassitude & ennui, a more romantic take on the Wanderlust-boots. Girly tomboy to boot. Excuse the pun. The boathouse by Greeny Beetle is from The Rebel’s Playground Hunt, same with the eyes by Rozena, poses by Amato and handwraps by Mulholland.

Now to find out who or what exactly left the door open…

Credits – Scene: Greeny Beetle. – Raven’s Boathouse (TRPH)

Credits – Body: Skin: Glam Affair – Roza Natural 03 D | Eyes: ROZENA – Real Black Eye (TRPH) | Lashes: Redgrave – 39 – Luscious | Makeup: La Malvada Mujer – Mechanical and Reasoned 

Credits – Outfit: Top: Sn@tch – Marching Orders Corset Brown* | Pants: Sn@tch – Tweed Capris Brown* | Boots: lassitude & ennui – Nostalgia Boots Sepia* | Bandana: Calico Ingmann Creations – Bandana 2012 Womens (Hair Fair) | Scarf: *Connors* – Scarf and Oops Bob is! | Earrings & Armlet: KOSH – Rapture | Handwraps: Mulholland – Rebel Bandages (TRPH) | Belt: Sweet Leonard & Needful Things – Bloody Skull Belt (Old ZPH) | Crowbar: ^Re.Birth^(from earlier hunts)

Credits – Poses: *.amato.* – pose play 04, 05, 01 (TRPH)

 

 

 

TV Break

I’ve lately been just squinting at evil twisting cubes all over the grid while doing the Twisted Hunt, but I managed to tear myself away from the camming madness to blog today! Huzzah and such things! I’m not quite sure if this character is taking a break watching tv or breaking the tv itself, but either way: something completely different!

This is very far from Sonya’s usual style choices, but I rather like the end result. I somehow zebra-themed all over the place, even added a zebra skin to the projector! The animalistic corset by Somnia was admittedly the starting point and inspiration for all the stripes. Otherwise I tried to keep to grey side of monochrome with sort of grungy feel to the background.

I do have a soft spot for rocker jackets and so I absolutely had to get this python one by Mimikri from the Dressing Room Blue. Mockie’s zebra make-up fit the look perfectly and I added one of Somnia’s tattoos instead of a necklace. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

The skybox is by Spessart and it seemed to echo the Lassitude & Ennui boots — Jackal described these Wanderlust stompers with “steampunk or just plain punk, you decide” – and the skybox seems to work for either as well. This time I didn’t go with steampunk, though. Le gasp. Psst, you can get the boots from the March Mesh Madness at the moment. As for the TV? You can still get it from Collabor88 if you hurry!

March Mesh Madness: Boots: Lassitude & Ennui – Wanderlust Boots Black Duotone*

The Dressing Room Blue: Jacket: Mimikri – Python Jacket Luca

Collabor88: TV: LISP Bazaar – Vintage TV 

Skybox: Spessart – Skybox IV* | Skin: League – Sia Fair Bloom | Hair: LeLutka – Inverted (Pitch) | Eyes: Poetic Colors - classic – frozen silver (m) bright | Lashes: Redgrave – 39- Luscious | Make-up: M.O.C.K. Cosmetics - Sepia Zebra Mocha Opal [eye/lip 2] | Tattoo: Somnia – Become* | Corset: Somnia – Animalistic Corset {ZEBRA}* | Pants: Somnia - Tweed Waders {Gray}* | Belt: Sweet Leonard & Needful Things – Bloody Skull Belt (ZPH) | Poses: Olive Juice – Standing Erect is Hard | (tv-pose) | CCJ – cutesit

*complimentary copies

Outside Whose Norm, Exactly?

I spotted this challenge in Plurk and first it made me cheer, then it made me confused.

“I was thinking that it would be a fun challenge for you to do something out of the norm for a day. Do something that is uncharacteristically you! Try sci-fi, steampunk, grunge, burlesque, etc. Step outside your comfort zone and show us what you can do!” – Adorkable Peapod

I’m all for seeing everyone doing sci-fi and steampunk and burlesque and and… waitaminute, I blog those things all the time! Obviously I can’t do those for this challenge if it’s what I mostly do. So, after  a moment of pondering I realized I will have to blog casuals. Not just Sonya’s usual hang-out clothes which are sort of… near-vintage with a dash of couture, but like… jeans, tee-shirts, hoodies, shoes without heels! End of the world as we know it!

To complete the opposite factor, I took the pictures in a studio instead of in the world. Without props. I had to do -something- besides just stand there, though, so I played with projectors for fun extra shadows! I couldn’t bring myself to spend lindens for this, but fortunately I’m half-hamster and I had enough stuff in my inventory. I had to try and add something of my own taste into it, so tadah: bunny and coffee!

Most of the things are either not available anymore or old hunt gifts, but do take note of the skin. It’s the latest group gift by Mynerva, and it’s absolutely adorable. (I felt like I was borging Ely, though. Clone all the friends!) The format of the lower picture is one of my favourite versions to -read- when I’m browsing fashion blogs. I blog for the joy of character creation and the challenge of story-and-mood-expressing pictures myself, but for the actual shopping ‘lookit-awesome-new-things-on-grid’ blogs this is awesome. Shows the details. My most favourite version is of course the pictures that blur the line between screenshot and art and promise a story, but if we all blogged the same way, the feeds would be very dull. Hurray for personality differences!

After this challenge I can really tip my invisible hat to all those people who shoot in studio and still make pictures interesting. It’s truly a challenge!

 

Skin: ~Mynerva~Group Gift~Sara Pure | Eyes: Poetic Colors - classic – frozen silver (m) bright | Make-up: M.O.C.K. Cosmetics - Shadow Brown Winterberry 1 [eyeshadow only] | Hair: Dark Mouse – Sydney/Red4 | Hoodie: Acid & Mala – Bunny Hoodie | Jeans: Ducknipple – Faded Blue | Boots: COCO Designs – Flat Ankle Boots Black | Ring: .( bewildebeest ). – Good Morning! Ring | Bag: Sweet Leonard & Needful Things - Lonely Bird Bag | Poses: Croire – Shy Geek 1 | Glitterati – Long Hair 3-9

Obligatory Elves Are Obligatory~

They’re everywhere! Santa hats, reindeer horns, candy canes, red lingerie, shiny lights… the grid turns into red and green for December. There’s a lot of hunts, events and just straightforward wonderful gifts by designers to make sure your avatar is appropriately dressed. I swear, you could make full 24 looks out of everything that is out at the moment, but here’s just three random yule girls~

And then Santa Roo will appear in the night and bring lots of noms to all the good little roolings…  Of course I had to take pictures with roos, too! I got height-appropriate lil table tree for them from LISP Bazaar, as well as the rug, gingerbread cookies and the couch. There’s a big xmas market going on for all your decorating needs. The house is by Kukuvaya from Project Themeory. I couldn’t resist its multitude of wonderfully decorated and shadowplay-workable windows. <3

who apparently refuse to go to bed and insist waiting up for the mythical Santa Roo, of course. The adorable hood with the lil horns and birdy and whatnot is from DP Yumyum. It’s so not Sonya, but it was so adorable that I just had to have it. For the roos! Or something. It comes with a blonde hair or without a hair, so of course I added one of my black bobs (this one by LOQ Hair) to it and just modded it to fit. So much love for modable things, resizers really do not cut it for things like this. The pants are by League from the Four Corners Event. Shoes by Lassitude & Ennui, ring by .( bewildebeest )., face tattoo by White Widow (With Love, Again Hunt).

Checking who has been naughty or ohwait. This is SL. Do we -have- anyone who is anything but that? Definitely not in this Gothmasbread House by Urban Forge! It’s a prize in Gothmas by Gaslight Hunt and very fitting for anyone with a sweet tooth and a dark sense of humour. The outdoorsy elf has a hat & hair combo by Zeus (group gift), a mesh sweater by Loulou&Co (Christmas Hunt prize), skirt from the pile of presents in Sn@tch, tights by Aoharu and boots by MiaSnow.

The make-up is by M.O.C.K. Cosmetics, their prize in Gothmas by Gaslight Hunt. The coffee mug that the elfy is sharing with a squirrel is by Sweet Leonard & Needful Things, as is the sheep she is hiding behind her back in the first outdoorsy picture. The rings and the horns are also hunt prizes by them from  Where is… Hunt and Save the Animals Hunt. First outdoorsy pose by Striking Poses, the second by TeaSoup.

Anyone who makes a bad pun about tarts and Santa will get it in their face. The tart, I mean. The one on the bed. With strawberries.  This look is dedicated to Ely in defeat. She challenged me to find a sexy santa outfit of awesome and in the end I just put together things that weren’t really meant to be santa-ish at all. The body suit by {bilo} is awesome, though. It’s their Gothmas by Gaslight Hunt prize and I used it with the roos above as well, since it works perfectly as a modest top when need be! The foxy is by Ohmai from Collabor88. It’s gorgeous, it’s wonderfully textured, it looks like fur. Why, oh why are 90% of the fur-trimmed santa outfits in the grid still fullbright glowing time capsuled from 2006 style creations? Someone -please- make a current santa girl of awesome!

Fine, so it is a mistletoe on the bed, sue me. Now to wait for the Santa to arrive…  The bed is a gift from { Mole End } and the stocking and tart are from LISP Bazaar. You can catch a glimpse of stockings by Sn@tch and socks by Paradisis if you squint thataway. The hair is by Love Soul and the horniness is provided by Schadenfreude, one of their old gifts I had hoarded away. I kept Sonya’s default League-skin on in all the pictures, as well as the Redgrave lashes. I changed eye colour sometimes, but all the eyes are from Poetic Colors. (Psst, they have a sale going on at the moment, go shop!) The eye make-up is by Sorry.Asia and the luscious lipstick on the tart and the roo girl is by M.O.C.K. Cosmetics. First tart pose by Ploom, the second by Glitterati.

Enjoy your holidays, virtual and otherwise! <3

Still Falling~

More cute autumn things! I thought I’d wait a little, but then Chandra Masala of {bilo} dropped cute shirts on me and there I went again, building looks and squeeing my way through the settings. Have you ever noticed how in real life autumn goes from still-sort-of-summer into yey-pretty-colours-for-two-days and then into dark-cold-rainy-misery-for-months? Fortunately in SL the pretty-colours-phase stays all the way until the pretty pixel snow settles in.

See, cutesy shirt is cute! It went perfectly together with my new favorite autumn boots from Lassitude & Ennui and I had to continue the patchwork from the boots to the heart-patched tweed pants by Concrete Flowers. The golden face tattoo is by White Widow and the hair is the latest subscribo-gift by Exile. I love how mesh makes it finally possible to wear long hairs without them clipping through the body. <3 Speaking of hearts, why yes, yes I’m wearing more of Coyo’s shinies in both pictures, .( bewildebeest ). is responsible for all the shinies! The scene is made of a harvest skybox by Umwelt, bed by Art Dummy!, bee bag by Tokidoki (all three from Seasons Hunt) and a pygmy puff by Ohmai Emporium. …yes, I finally had to get one. Too adorable!

There’s a Chestnut Hunt going on in SwayLand and one of the prizes is this adorable garden harvest house by Zacca. I’m standing on the stairs in front of it and added an old stove by Kari (Seasons Hunt) on it to get something warm to drink. The coffee is by Sweet Leonard & Needful Things, though. The scarf by Duboo and the laced top by Kyoot are also from the Seasons Hunt. I matched a skirt by Kyoot to them and then decided to go mostly monochrome with the look, mostly to show off these quirky ghost-tights by {Bingo} that I got from a lucky board. Shoes by G Field, hair by Waka & Yuki and pose by TeaSoup. Both pictures have the default-sonya League-skin, Poetic Colors-eyes and Redgrave-lashes.

Chimera Sisters

This all began when I realized I had three pairs of faun legs I wanted to blog. So for a while the title was Three Little Fauns. Then I started dressing up the said fauns and realized I had no natural faun-appropriate modesty layers… but I did have scales. At this point the sisters turned into dragon-faun-chimeras. …shush, it’s SL, they can exist!

Here we have a pretty normal faun girl, despite the scales on her skin. They’re from a goldfish outfit by Fallen Gods Inc. The legs are in a lucky board in Violent Seduction and they’re mesh, so the usual mesh-disclaimers of needing a viewer that can see them applies. Sassy pose by Striking Poses.

The butterfly ring and necklace are group gifts by Sweet Leonard & Needful Things. The adorable curly horns are by Illusions and the hair is by Exile. Tattoo layer lashes by Miamai and the green eyeshadow (& pumpkins) from Elymode’s prize for Witch Hunt. Skin is by The Plastik, from Plundering Villages Hunt. Eyes by Poetic Colors and the blushing pose by Ploom.

This little chimera lives in a magical mushroom forest by Angelic Designs (from Twisted Hunt) and likes to practise her balance by walking on a barrel… tricksy if you have hooves, that’s all I say. The barrel is one of the Twisted extras by Epic Toys.

To balance the sweetness there of course needed to be the darker side and an evil chimera girl, like so~

I love these fiddler props by PRIME Furniture. They’re from Twisted Hunt, just like the mushroom scene by Lemons & Cream. I pretty much sign the idea that violins can be so tempting that wicked creatures might well use them in their deeds. This particular chimera’s faun legs, top and horns are by Deviant Designs, from Twisted Hunt.

But how to lure a dark chimera girl, then? Easy. Tea and noms! …of course it will work, stop looking at me like that. The tea tray is especially made for this, it’s the Twisted gift by The Fooding, after all. The bloody skin is by The Plastik, from the Macabre Hunt. The hair is another squee-do by Wasabi Pills. Both this pose and the one below are by No Strings Attached — from their zombie poses, actually.

See? Entranced by noms! The beholder jewelry set is by Amaranthus, the tattoo is by Imperio Designs — I love how the skeletal hands are reaching down on the front. Both are from the Twisted Hunt. As for the tattoo layers, I’m using Dragonet by Adam n Eve (Witch Hunt), but I’ve darkened the eye shadows with one of the layers that came with the skin. Eyes by Poetic Colors.

And then I got to indulge in my blatant favoritism toward silvery-white looks, yesyes.

The gorgeous faun legs and the strange hair are by Gilded (Twisted Hunt) and the hair looks almost like a collection of horns on its own, so I didn’t add any to it. The skin is also by The Plastik, but it’s from the Platinum Hunt that’s ended already. I just liked the idea of having all three chimeras be all Plastiky, so I used it anyway. The tree, tea setting and the grass are all by Zoe’s Garden (Twisted Hunt). Pose by KS2Cool.

As for make-up there’s silver eyeshadow by Sorry.Asia, lashes by Miamai and silvery crystal decorations by White Widow. The shaved stripes hair base is by DeeTaleZ and also a tattoo layer. The jewelry is by .( bewildebeest ). and they’re review copy gifties from Coyo. <3 I’m especially fond of this Naiad’s Tears bracelet, it worked so perfectly for the silver chimera. Pose by TeaSoup.

Lookit, I has hooves! This pose by TeaSoup was too funny to resist. The bloodless glowy eyes are by The Plastik and the silvery scales are from a freebie mermaid avatar by Lost in Starnight.

So there. Consider yourselves spammed with hooves~

52 Colours: Melon

Melon was an interesting thing to put together. Not only did it need to be funny and quirky and even silly, it was way too pastellish for me to have much anything in it. All ‘melon’ searches brought up bright watermelon entertainment. Fortunately Curious Kitties had their summer festival going on with plenty of freebies, including this skin. The blush on the cheeks was pretty much perfect for this.

I also realized that this dress by The Plastik had melon tones in it and so I had to use it again. The watermelon noming otter is by Risusipo. Hair by Lo*momo, eyes by Umedama Holic, earrings by Sweet Leonard & Needful Things and necklace by .( bewildebeest ).

The watermelon kitty vehicle in the background is also by Curious Kitties and the watermelon noming bat by Pink Fuel. Pose is by Olive Juice and as for all the honey things, they’re by Saturnine Dreams. The hangout is a prize in Waffle Fox Hunt and the bigger hive was dropped on me by Maddy just because I thought it was nifty. <3 They worked pretty much perfectly for Miss Melon, who insisted on being Miss Honey Melon, thank you very much.

I felt bad because I had blogged so many of these things before that I madeds you a bonus picture out of the watermelon things. Nothing to do with melon as a colour, but plenty to do with the word!

The Torley-skin by The Plastik was absolutely perfect for this fun. It’s from the subscribo-gift. The outfit is by Sassy Kitty Designs (old hunt gift, originally a dress), the hair is a freebie by Curious Kitties and the fun waffle-shooting guns are by KUE!, from Waffle Fox Hunt as well. The little watermelon shooting chipmunk pirate is by Risusipo and the escape boat is by Kusshon (Seasons Hunt). The gun-toting pose is by Niqotine Poses, my go-to for combat posing.

The sisters Melon are obviously strange, but sweet, living in a honey house and performing waffle-abuse-robberies. With their minions. Of chipmunkish, battish and otterish variety.

52 Colours: Lemon

Did I mention already that this has been a lazy week? I did? Oh. Well. Miss Lemon got to suffer take advantage of it and just lounge about in the sun with her namesake fruit. As obvious and easy as you can get, ‘m afraid, but at least she seems to be enjoying herself.

The fruit fetish pose setting is a freebie by (*chanimations and it comes with various lemon-lime pieces attached to the skin. Miss Lemon is noming a lime by Nordari, though.

The yellow-orange beach outfit is an old hunt prize by DG Innovations. The shoes are an old subscribo-gift by Shiny Things. The fruit hat was a freebie by Enigma Hair from Hair Fair. Bracelet is a freebie from .( bewildebeest ). and the ring is an old hunt prize by Sweet Leonard & Needful Things. Skin is by Pink Fuel, eyes by Poetic Colors, lashes by Redgrave and hair by Elikatira. The teacup with lemon is by Rusalka Writer and the pretty flittering butterflies are a part of the group gift from Alirium Gardens. Otherwise there’s pretty shrooms by New Trail and garden flowers by Happy Mood in the background.

Let’s hope the lemons keep her awake, dozing off in the sun can be so very unhealthy.

Pirate’s Greed

I’ve been feeling all summer-lazy and meeroo-snuggly lately and even managed to wage war versus inventory to get it under some semblance of order. I cleared all the old stuff from my sort-folder and left only things that I knew I’d wanna blog there, waiting for both inspiration and the missing pieces to complete a look. When the inspiration arrived it certainly made me giggle. It also made me combine Skull-n-Bones Hunt and Greedy Hunt. Even when one is about the pirates and the other is about noms.

Here’s some delicious loots! Donut necklace by Virtual Insanity, sammich mouthie by Atypical and the telltale marks of pillaging in the form of whipped cream and berries on her nose by Sweet Leonard & Needful Things. All of that and the eyes by Shiva are from Greedy Hunt. Hair is the LeLutka freebie from Hair Fair and although I don’t usually much like curls on Sonya, this was just so… crazy-wild-cute that it worked for the nom-raiding pirate girl. The flirty pose by .ploom. is also a Hair Fair freebie. Skin by League, lashes by Redgrave, make-up by Mynerva.

The coat is the latest group gift by S H I N E, but obviously the real stars of the picture are the socks by KOSH (retiring items sent through their subscribo) and the shoes by R2 Fashion (old hunt gift). The old barrel home in the background is by United InshCon and the rest of the furniture is by Dreamscapes Art Gallery. Those and the awesome pirate hat by LNL are from the Skull-n-Bones Hunt. If you view the pictures in full size, you might catch a glimpse of the earrings by Zaara and ring by Bewildebeest, too. Can’t have a pirate girl without jewelry, after all~