The Arcade - unless you have been completely oblivious and have no idea what I am talking about, you may have noticed - is well underway... Up and running for the entire month of March... As always, it seems pretty brilliant and an understandable reason why people get so excited about it each and every time! It's like a feeding frenzy in a shark tank! It could have been handy for people looking to get interesting birthday gifts for me too - just sayin' lol - if I hadn't already been in and raided the place myself!
I LOVED collecting things for my little play house... This place takes me away to somewhere peaceful, somewhere fun and somewhere that I can just escape to play! So while I was setting out my new toys, I had a feeling that made me giggle, it was something akin to Dorothy's feelings as she arrived in Oz... I spend most of my time surrounded by bikers, this was a bit of "you're setting out cute toys, this seems totally opposite to normal" moment LOL...
As you can see though the entrance to my garden follows a wooden stump path - thanks to Alchemy by the way - that directs you towards my toy house! My garden has now been decorated with some awesome Lego style plastic looking flowers too. I know these aren't to everyone's taste but I couldn't resist the [tea.s] Block-ee Flowers. The inhabitants of this adorable place are plushie animals! They float in the breeze attached to balloons - such as the Fly Away Bear from Boogers - and are Petal Pals to the flowers - available from Intrigue Co at The Arcade - each smiling and giving a warm welcome to anyone who visits!
Whilst on my trip to this strange land, something rather weird happened to my dog! What started out as a perfectly normal looking Weenie Dog - bought just a few days ago from the SilentSparrow Pet Store, found at The Arcade - in our travel to this new found land he somehow became a Weenie Weenie Dog!
On my feet were a Rudhish style pair of "Ruby Slippers" - they'd be better described as Tropicano Heels in a bright magenta colour - from Bens Beauty, now off to skip down the wooden stump road!
So to the rest of my awesome "Not Kansas Anymore" outfit... Some of it is new, some old but I think the combination is just the right amount of kookie!
The dress I am wearing is one of the older things, but it's been stored neatly away until I can find it for a moment like this. It's a Somnia release called City Scape - in a Day pattern, there is also a Night version to match, and it comes with cloudy leggings.
Then I went to town with my accessories... The horns on my head were made of Pinkberry Ice Cream - that are available from Riske at the Luck of the Irish Gacha Fair - my lips are slicked with green lipstick and dusted with sprinkles, I knew I shouldn´t have made out with that donut - but thanks to Babysteps for letting cover their Skin Fair Release, the Baby Butter Lips! There is yet MORE yummies in the form of my (Yummy) Spec-tacular Edible Specs...
The only other thing that I took with me is a basket that I found when I landed, you never know when things like that might come in useful... You see it did with me, I found two Wonderland Pixicat Kittens that needed my help, I couldn't have taken them with me without the basket...
What is she wearing;
Horns: Riske - My Summer Horns in Pinkberry (Available Now at Depraved Nation's Luck of the Irish Gacha)
Hair: Olive - the Daisy Hair in J Rabbit (Available Now at The Arcade)
Glasses: (Yummy) - Spec-tacular Edibles! in Sugar Rush
Skin: Glam Affair - Lauren in America 07 (Past Collabor88 Item)
Face Wounds: (Under the Eyes) Utopiah - Excessive Pain Makeup, AND, (Cheek) Fallen Doll - WickedFaceScar
Nose Piercing: DirtyStories - Heart Nose Piercing (Past Suicide Dollz Item)
Lipstick: {Babysteps} - Butter Baby Lips (Available Now at Skin Fair 2015)
Necklace: Pure Poison - Rainbow Necklace
Dress: Somnia - City Scape Day Set (Past Event Release)
Kittens: Pixicat - Wonderland BasketCat RARE (Available Now at The Arcade)
Glove: Amerie - Burger Glove (Past Men's Department Item)
Knee Wounds: A*S - Bloody Knees in V2 (Past CarnEvil Items)
Shoes: Bens Beauty - Tropicano High Heels in Magenta Mix (Past Event Release)
Pathway: Alchemy - Little Log pathway (Past Gift)
Dog: SilentSparrow - Weenie in Weenie RARE (Available Now at The Arcade)
Flowers: [tea.s] - Block-ee Flowers (Past Event Release)
Flower & Bugs: Intrigue Co - Plushie Pals in Petal Pals (Available Now at The Arcade)
Bear: Boogers - Fly Away Bear (Past Arcade Release)
Pose: aDORKable Poses - Klutz 1 (No Longer Available!)
Close-Up Pose: Signature Pose - Adam 1
Sometimes you get inspired to take a different kind of photo... Some people stop taking pictures of themselves to take photos of furniture and decor, others do landscapes - neither of which I am very good at by the way! - but when I start taking pics that are a little different, I somehow cannot get past the vanity of taking pictures of myself LOL...
Though shot in a different way, I seem to shoot myself more than anyone else, and granted sometimes that can get a little boring - it does stop me worrying quite so much about whether people will like it or not LOL - but I try to mix it up, and sometimes find that the back view is better than the front LOL...
This was one of those outfits.
The back was what caught my attention most, due to the fact that from the front, this looks like a fairly basic simple black sweater, it's only when you turn around you can see that it's far from basic. The {dollle*} Open Shoulder Crop Sweaters are available for the latest round of The Candy Shop - normally this is an event I will glance through on Seraphim, but pay no real attention to as it's not my style... Just goes to show that sometimes things we'd normally avoid are just what we want?!
I dressed it fairly casual, wearing some oldie-but-goodie ripped shorts from SAKIDE and ripped AMERIE socks with my new FLite Military Aviator Boots, and stomped around in the Urban Setting of Virtual Decay, until I found a store I just had to visit hehe...
What is she wearing;
Hair: Ploom - Pepper
Skin: Glam Affair - Candy Skin in America 09 (Past Arcade Item)
Collar: ginchi - Jingle Bell Collar in Watermelon (Past Event Release)
Top: {dollle*} - Open Shoulder Crop Sweater in Black (Available Now at The Candy Shop)
Shorts: SAKIDE - Hallow's Shorts
Socks: AMERIE - Garter Socks in Black Sheer
Boots: FLite - Military Aviators Boots in Black (Available Now at UBER)
Pose: PRETENSE - LINES 5
It's AUTUMN!!!! I love this time of year, it's the season that Halloween calls home, but it's also one of the times of year when nature feels golden! I love that still slightly warm sun, the radiant glow of the light in the reddening trees and even love the rain!
Even in SL things are heading in a much more Autumnal direction - which must be weird for people in the southern hemisphere... Must ask Jimmy - well they are, everywhere except the Gators MC Sim... HellBone wants to keep it swampy, and gator infested swamps don't have seasonal change much do they?
I did find a little corner of Autumn... Somewhere the leaves needed raking up and the dead grass could be turned into a hay bale for all the cute little animals that live near my house this winter!
While I was doing that I needed something a little more comfy to wear... Thank heavens for my new shirt dress! I saw these dresses advertised at Collabor88 from Atomic, all of the designs were cute but this one with it's "No Good, Very Bad, Always Evil" Design really fitted with the way I live my SL hehe - least I try to but others might well disagree!
I kept the rest of my look simple, as I was working in the garden, everything except for my hair and horns that is! The Hair and it's Horns accessory is called Neria, and it can be found at the Mystic Realms Fair in the Truth Booth. I know I've said it before sometimes Truth hair for me is take it or leave it... In the right outfit it can be perfect, but it can also look wrong... I know so many people who say Truth hair is their favourite and I will give it to you I love the textures and styles... This one was just what I wanted, and as they say sometimes you win but sometimes you lose hehe...
What is she wearing;
Hair: Truth - Neria (Available now at Mystic Realms Fair)
Skin: Glam Affair - Candy Skin in America 09 (Past Arcade Item)
Face Wounds: (Under the Eyes) Utopiah - Excessive Pain Makeup, AND, (Forehead) REPULSE - Lobotomy Stitches Face Tattoo
Collar: ginchi - Jingle Bell Collar in Worn Leather Black (Available now at The SLGBTA Halloween Gacha Spooktacular Event)
Dress: Atomic - {NOIR} Motel Grime in Set 4 (Available now at Collabor88)
Socks: AMERIE - Garter Socks in Black (Past Event Release)
Boots: J's - Studded Long Boots in Black
Pose: Juxtapose - Indian Summer (Past Hunt Item)
I know I've said this a fair few times already this month, and in the past few years but HALLOWEEN IS MY FAVOURITE HOLIDAY!
I've been playing dress up like crazy so far this month, and loving every minute of it too! There are so many fun and macabre things to buy out there that this living dead dolly simply doesn't have enough time to get to them all!!!
One thing that always seems to remind people of Halloween is the Black Cat. Often seen as a familiar for a witch, the black cats can be regarded as bad luck... Personally, I WANT ONE Lol!
HellBone won't let me have one, SO I made my own LOL... ME! He can't tell me no lol...
The reason I decided that I wanted to be a black kitty cat, aside from the fact that Hell can't tell me no this way, was that I wanted to wear this cute hoodie hehe... The hoodie was one that I bought a while ago from AMERIE, at a past event, and I LOVE the cute ears and large hood which you can fit lots of different hair styles into! I kept the kitty theme by wearing my favourite new collar from ginchi, but I realised that I had a bit of an issue as the hoodie was so open hehe... Pulling on a noldie but classic from Crazy, I was missing just one thing! SOCKS! Unfortunately as I pulled socks up - also from AMERIE by the way - my huge claws slipped through the thin fabric... BUGGER but hey cool enough to wear right hehe...
What is she wearing;
Hair: Magika - Such
Skin: Glam Affair - Candy Skin in America 09 (Past Arcade Item)
Face Wounds: (Under the Eyes) Utopiah - Excessive Pain Makeup, AND, (Forehead) REPULSE - Lobotomy Stitches Face Tattoo
Collar: ginchi - Jingle Bell Collar in Watermelon (Available now at The SLGBTA Halloween Gacha Spooktacular Event)
Hoodie: AMERIE - Long Hoodie in KITTY (Past Event Release)
Top: Crazy - Thin Shirt in Black
Socks: AMERIE - Garter Socks in Black (Past Event Release)
Boots: J's - Studded Long Boots in Black
Pose: PRETENSE - Lines 5
