Another Challenge is afoot? Blog Hero?

I was feeling more than a little bored, for some reason I had a massive boost of energy today and rather than slumping down on a comfy sofa I found myself thinking "I wanna blog!", but WHAT? I looked at clothes and thought "nah this isn't a fashion blog", I looked at locations, I looked at the random fun stuff I keep stashed away in my inventory, but nothing was getting my creative juices flowing!

Then whilst perusing blogs, I noticed that the crazily busy Miss Shayariel Teardrop, had created what looked to be another rather amusing challenge?! 

This challenge is named "Blog Hero", apparently after guitar hero but personally this idea sounds WAY more appealing than clicking coloured keys on a plastic guitar! Shay will pick lyrics from a song and the idea is to create a picture that fits the lyrics but is essentially still within your style! Check out her blog... The idea is set up there... 

Week One's song... A-Ha - Crying in the Rain... 

"I'll never let you see

The way my broken heart is hurting me

I got my pride and I know how to hide

All my sorrow and pain

I do my crying in the rain"

So I took those lyrics, and this is my photo for them... 

Week 1: Crying in the Rain!

Just so you know I tried to play with Photoshop and wind-light and stuff... It's not the world's best ever SL photo, but I like the way it turned out

52 Weeks of Colour - WEEK 37!

Well things seemed to have gotten easier this week, I am back home and on my usual computer and the colour put up seems to have been somewhat easier than last week's "HUH? WHAT THE HECK COLOUR IS THAT?" This colour screams Summer! I also got lucky enough to find some of this colour stashed away in my inventory warehouse... though when I pulled it on I was a little worried as to why I had lingerie in this colour?! But anyway, this week is my first and possibly my last lingerie post, hehe, I've seen some people in the most gorgeous lingerie though out this challenge and I have never been brave enough, yet this colour and finding this set hidden away, it's kinda serendipitous? Maybe? 

Week 37...

LEMON

Week 37: BUGGER I DROPPED MY LEMON AND LIMES!

What is she wearing;

Hair: >TRUTH< - Hazel
Necklace: .+*aya V*+. -  Lemmon Necklace
Lingerie: *Reasonable Desires*- Sophie Fruity Lingerie
Shoes: [Pixel Mode] - Baby T (past gift)

Lemon and Limes: Frooti - Frooti Freebies (past store freebie) 

I was planning a sexy shot of the lingerie, but when I found this pose I just couldn't help myself... showing off my klutzy side, knocking over the bowl of fruit... Yay go me!
Next Week - Patriarch... Isn't that just Purple with a funny name? Such a regal colour!

The Questions and Pictures Thingie

I was looking around on the various blogs and people's flickrs this morning and stumbled upon the challenge or game or whatever it is that appeared on the flickrs of both Laila Laperriere and Laura18 Streeter, two fabulous ladies who simply amaze me every week with their colour challenge posts, and it caught my attention... So OK,problem, I don't use flickr so I would have to use Google for it and try to stick the rest of the rules as closely as I could!

The game seems to be as follows; (all this info was taken from the flickr of Miss Laila and Miss Laura, make sure you check them out)... It has definitely let me get to know them just a teeny bit better!!! 

There are 12 questions that you are supposed to search for your answers to in flickr search - I had to use Google, please forgive me - and then from the first page of pictures that came up you pick your favourite! Then, copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into this mosaic maker bighugelabs.com/flickr/mosaic.php, to come up with the picture... Here's mine; 

 1. What is your first name? Emily
2. What is your favorite food? Sunday Roast Dinner (preferably cooked by my mum!)
3. What high school did you go to? Winston Churchill Secondary School, Surrey
4. What is your favorite color? Red
5. Who is your celebrity crush? Jared Padalecki (Sexy Sam in Supernatural... Mmmmmm)
6. Favorite drink? Coffee, in all its forms, bog-standard-at-home, cappuccino, frappucino... Someone make me a coffee??
7. Dream vacation? Damn this is too hard... there are lots of places... China, America both North and South, Lapland... OH I KNOW... DISNEYLAND!!!
8. Favorite dessert? Ooh this one is hard too... ummm Apple Crumble (made by mum too!)
9. What you want to be when you grow up? TALLER... No wait...I want to be an Archaeologist

10. What do you love most in life? The Rollercoaster Ride, it can be pretty exhilerating!
11. One Word to describe you = Smiles
12. Your SL Name = Rudhmellowen Laguna

It was FREAKING HARD... but I did it, the first answer is RL and the last one SL as I couldn't use a flickr name, and LOL at the Old School Hell who also features in that last picture, he doesn't look like that anymore hehe! I wanna see yours if you do one, so post me a link, and to Laila and Laura... THANK YOU lol that was fun!

I'M BACCCKKKKKKKKKKK!

Hello, I'm back from my little trip to England and ready to rock and roll again... Feels like I need another holiday already though, I mean seriously all that seeing people that I haven't seen in a while and all those trips out, really tires a girl out! PLUS, on my first day back at work at the hotel, two of the most experienced ladies decided to quit due to a dispute on the one day of the year so far that we have had a full hotel to clean - Total nightmare!!!

Yet, it was lovely to just come home and sleep in my own bed - as for my return to SL, it was quiet without much ceremony which was AWESOME as it meant that I could sort through my veritable deluge of stuff that had been delivered and I had only had minimal time to accept... The avalanche of note cards was incredible, I never realised that I got that many each week. Though I was blown away by the amount of pretties... there was so much pretty that I simply couldn't afford it all, and that was without even looking at hair demos! I was inspired to make a photo hehe... 

As you might have guessed, I went to hair fair. I'm wearing the Magika Luna style, which I fell in love with on sight from the photo alone... The top is the latest release from Paradisis, called Dolce Vita, and its gorgeous lacework that screams summer, and to top it all off the latest jewellery release from KOSH, the Olen Necklace and Ring, which is another set to add to my favourite jewellery pieces (a folder that seems to be stuffed full of KOSH stuff at the moment, if you haven't been to the store YOU SHOULD... GO NOW!!!) 
Plus this photo was point and click in my box... I'm kinda pleased with how it turned out lol...

52 Weeks of Colour Challenge - WEEK 36!

This week has been the hardest for me so far.When I looked at the swatch, everytime I looked at the swatch, it seemed to be blueish greyish greenish bleh in tone, I had NEVER even heard of it as a colour. I ummed and I awwed and still found myself getting no where, so then I decided to deviate from the colour swatch marginally as after looking in google it appeared to be more of a greenish tone... 

Upon discovering the colour, I stumbled on another problem... The laptop that I have been using is NOT good enough for a mammoth shopping crawl through SL, I crashed more than I tpped, and was close to pulling out my hair... I had NO idea in which direction I wanted to take this photo anyway and then being stuck on a build platform 4,000m in the air as it was the only place I could be without crashing, things were getting more than a little desperate, so I called in the Big Guns!!! My awesome friend Lynnie, became my personal shopper. She darted around SL taking photos of outfits that may fit the colour scheme, discussing each one with me as I searched in vain through Marketplace, till suddenly she had the most monumental brainwave EVER!!! 

Week 36...

CELADON

Week 36: I went all nymph-like and tried to lure men into the attic... I failed lol!

What is she wearing;

Hair: Exile - Elena (modified so that the bow on the braid has been removed)
Make-up: KOSH - Metallic Eyeshadow
Outfit: Evie's Closet - Lumina Nymph (includes bracelets and head jewel)
Feet: SLink- Jolie Pied

I love the way that this look turned out, in fact it was better than I could have hoped for as to begin with I was really not motivated by the colour... Isn't that always the way though, the colours we are most perturbed by tend to be the looks we love most?! 

Next week - Lemon... This one should be fun!!!

52 Weeks of Colour Challenge - WEEK 35!

Little did I think that I would make it this week, creating an outfit and using a computer that I wasn't used to for running Secondlife seemed at the start of the week something similar to a nightmare situation... I couldn't get the controls to do exactly what I wanted, as I am so used to my PC at home being set up just the way I like it... BUT I was damn sure that I would persevere and come up with something for the colour, even if I had to redo it again. The colour was one that I seemed to be kinda prepared for luckily, as I had a dress that had been put aside for "IF" this colour ever came up... It was just a matter of putting the look together and then realising that it was missing something to give it a Rudh-crazy-lady type touch. I handed that bit over to HellBone and said in a whimpery voice "help me?" After passing the photos to him for a final pick of the one he liked best and asking him to make it seem a bit more special, as the outfit didn't seem up to much, I crossed my fingers and actually when the result came back he had added that little bit of pazazz that it had been lacking, I was pleased, he's a good boy, sometimes!

Week 35...

Electric Blue

Week 35: It would seem that spiked shoes act a little bit like mini Lightning Rods... You have been warned lol!

What is she wearing;
Hair: Cortes 'n' Rossini - Crazy Hawk
Make-Up: *BOOM* Truely Outrageous Eye Paints
Jewellery: Schadenfreude - Blue Lightning (past gift)
Dress: .Magoa. - Risque Rossini Dress
Shoes: [LWL] - Tonight Pumps

Don't I look Shocking hehe... So punny it kills me lol!
Next Week - Celadon... It seems to be a kinda weird very pale blueish grey? I dont quite know where to go with this one?!

52 Weeks of Colour - WEEK 34!

Another week rushes past and since last week's post my feet have barely touched the ground, caught up as I have been in the craziness of RL - dealing with traveling and getting used to being in my old home again, fighting with the cat about who gets the most space on the bed, worrying about Hell being home alone and wondering if there will actually be a house for me to come back to lol... Yet I have decided that I can not let myself get behind on the colour challenge, I've seen how hard it has been for people to try and catch up, and after coming this far I will not let myself get behind! BUT I will be honest and admit that this week's colour gave me a REALLY big problem, I was stuck, I couldn't think of anything very creative, I couldn't find anything in my inventory that I felt matched the colour very well and I wasn't about to go out and buy something in this colour! Then as always, like a lightning bolt, it came to me, I put together a Rudh-ish version of the Cheshire Cat, does it work?!

Week 34...

MAUVE

Week 34: OH MY GOD I WENT NEKO... WHAT THE HECK??

What is she wearing;
Ears and Tail: Twisted & Spoiled - TTLG Cheshire Cat
Hair: Magika - Diamond
Piercing: [Acide!] - Mike (past hunt prize)
Lipstick: KOSH - Sweet Lips
Necklace: KOSH - Nebula Necklace
Dress: -paper.doll- -  Blair (past hunt prize)
Leggings: Miu' - Legging NewAge (past hunt prize)
Boots: :)(: Pixel Fashion - Miss Arch Boots

I have to add here, the necklace isn't really clear in the pic but it is my new favourite jewellery set... From KOSH it is the Nebula Necklace, there is also a ring and a bracelet available... and its GORGEOUS (thank you miss Lynnie! <3 Luff Ya!) 

Next Week - Electric Blue...