Hello Everybody. My name is Rudhmellowen and I am addicted to Gatcha Machines!
It's not my fault... There are jsut so many awesome things that can be found in a gatcha machine and then you think oh I want it in this colour or this style and you just keep putting money in till you get it... I was worst with the Pygmy Puffs from Ohmai Emporium, but then the Gatcha Events always seem to draw my attention...
This one happened to me just now...
The Seasons Gatcha Event for WINTER has started. There were at the time of posting around 80 plus gatcha machines, varying in price from 10L to 100L and as I was allowed in early to cover the event for Seraphim I got to scoop up and bankrupt myself in the process kinda early!
There is so much on offer at the event though, I have four items on in this picture; Concrete Flowers Ring and Necklace, Illusory's Scarf and Lark's Top, but if you like a little game of chance this is one of the places that you NEED to visit... I'll even be helpful and put up a URL - here!. OH and because I am so lovely, and because it took me flippin ages to get done, and because I am a lazy shopper really I'll give you the direct Seraphim link where you can see all the event pics - here!
It's sad when a great hunt stops but this event made up for it in my eyes... I LOVE a game of chance!! hehe.
There are lots of fashions in SL that I love. Here I can fully explore my inner skanky, gothic, grunge and rainbow clothing styles that I wouldn't be able to pull of in the real world, without getting some weird looks or having trouble finding clothes that fit me, but there are a few trends that still totally allude me!
THE TONGUE THING! I don't get the tongue thing AT ALL!! Why do people wanna walk around with their tongue hanging out all the time? OK I can understand having a tongue in certain photos is great but I've seen people walking around shopping with their tongue out. It's even lead to a mass of stores dedicating sections to tongues, and at certain events you can be sure to find a tongue or two. They are available with masses of different things on them too, for example my teddy bear, but what I don't get is why people would wanna walk around with their tongue hanging out? I tried it once in RL, I had been watching people in SL with the tongue thing and thought how would that work in RL... first it makes your jaw hurt from keeping your mouth in this position and then your tongue gets all dry and starts to hurt...
I'm OK with them as modelling props, but why walk around wearing one all the time? what is with that? Can someone tell me please?
Counting down the number of people I actually wanted to ask for this personal challenge of mine, I got to the bottom of the list and ugh the last person that was on it is my "amazing" big brother Zakora... Dammit I knew having him on the list would be a bad idea as he is totally lame but oh well beggars can't be choosers!
LOL - only kidding (or am I Zak, am I?)
Zakora and I seem to have been adoptive brother and sister for what seems like forever now. We met way back in a club that shall not be named here - but it is in fact what could be described as drama central - and after spending some time as a ranking officer in the Brit Army of said club, Zak and I just kinda seemed to adopt one another (though he may tell you otherwise!)
So, when he was asked he didn't need to think for a second, though to be honest I should have guessed this was coming as he has had the lyrics in his profile for a long, long, long time;
GREENDAY - BOULEVARD OF BROKEN DREAMS
Greenday was a band I loved growing up, I used to love dancing round to "Holiday" on my first day off from school. Boulevard of Broken Dreams is definitely a modern classic, a song that will be known for many years - least that's my opinion! Plus Billie Joe Armstrong is really rather yummy in this video, I don't always feel that way about him but there is something about him here!! Typically Zak wasn't around when I wanted to ask him why he likes this song, but to me it feels a lot like a pick-me-up, when I am down I listen to the song and it seems to have the power to boost my spirits and tell me that I am strong enough to do anything - I moved to another country where English isn't the first language, if that isn't strong I don't know what it would take?!
So the picture might need some explaining, it's a walk of broken dreams. Not Rudh's, but my RL dreams... In SL there would be no broken dreams for me, all my dreams come true here because they can! I can have the dream job, the money, the house, the man I want but in RL that is a different story, although I still have the man. The first no-through sign is about an archaeological job, I don't have one of those. Then follow the piles of money (which seems strange considering that there is no real money for archaeologists!) and the big house, but the question mark leads to the future. I am only 26 in March, so I have a LONG way to go yet, at least I hope to have a long way to go.
Who knows what the future may hold for anyone? I know I'll be rocking out to this tune for a long time to come, but like I tried to capture in this imagery, life is full of mystery. One of the biggest mysteries should be, WHO WILL I ASK NEXT?
Yay another week, another colour and this time a collaboration. Maya may or may not be chipping in and out of this challenge, I wonder if I can poke her into participating in the 10th weeks or something, but for this week I have created a collaboration with the one person who helped me so much last year with ideas for outfits and has since decided to try to participate in the challenge herself this year - Fledhyris Proudhon... My Big Sissypoo!
Fledge and I have been sisters in SL almost as long as we have been friends, we have over the years woven a complex family history, involving a shape-shifting mother with a penchant for men of all different races - my father being the human conquest. Fledge got all the shape-shifting attributes so you never know what she will wear on any given occasion, whilst I seem to have taken on more of my fathers likeness hehe... Told you it was complicated hehe - one day I may get to writing it all down, but I may leave that to Fledge as she is the better writer hehe...
WEEK 2 - CORAL
Week 2: Weird that I'm wearing tentacles and Fledge isn't (you might need to click to see it better!)
What is she wearing;
Hair: Magika - Kyoko Tentacles: Panda Express - Tentacle Hair Mouthie: Evie's Closet - Catch of the Day Mermaid (from Gatcha Machine) Necklace: Bedlam - Fish Charm Necklace Pasties: My Pixel Puppet - Starfish Pasties (5L on marketplace) Tail: Taliesins Tails - Chakras Lotus Special Edition (FREEBIE!)
Posing with Fledge was fun... I couldn't get the idea of mermaid out of my head as soon as I realised that the colour was coral. I kept thinking what do I think of when I think of coral and it was mermaid all the time, don't ask me why!
People have been asking so I thought OK I better put up something about Izzy!
For those of you that don't know what I am talking about, I have recently been able to pick up my adorable 4 month old puppy from my parents and sister in England. I wrote a LONG post about her when she was just born back in August, and pretty soon she will be 5 months old and NOW I HAVE HER WITH ME! But if you want to see the original post you can check that out here...
Stealing the Bed!
Izzy is a cheeky lil thing, with a love of squeaky toys, sticks and pigs ear snippets (doggie treats), and who has a mission in life to get under the duvet of our bed whenever it's cold and then attack the feet that are hidden within. Her dislikes include; being in the car, being alone anywhere and when she is made to leave the kitchen as I am cooking! But she is settling in well, she hasn't had any accidents in the house (YET - touch wood that she doesn't!) and she loves her new playmates in the garden! Hell and I have three chickens too, they are in their pen but Izzy likes to try to get them to play with her... We haven't let her meet one without the fence in the way yet but I get the feeling that if one of the old girls got too close all that would remain of Izzy would be a dust trail! She is SUPER FAST, she ran round our allotment garden for an hour at full speed yesterday and wasn't even tired - still she's part greyhound so what did we expect really?
Ok so I got my head down and did some serious blogging this week, the 52 Weeks of Colour Challenge is back with it's part deux and as that is a favourite of mine I think that it will be getting fairly high priority when it comes to blogging. Blog Hero is back, and I will be trying to join in in some of that too as I really enjoy putting the song lyrics into pictures, it was kinda why I started running my own personal challenge that is Your Tunes. Not sure as yet whether I will be continuing with my personal challenge or blog hero, I may try to do both?! Maybe though that would be expecting too much of myself? At the moment I am undecided, however I have been working on a picture for Your Tunes as it was a song that was given up over a week ago now by my boss Vix from Seraphim, as it is my boss I can't really say no I am not gonna do it, or can I?
RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS - SIR PSYCHO SEXY
The Red Hot Chilli Peppers are a band that I am not very keen on AT ALL... For me they rank with other bands that create songs that ALL sound the same, such as Coldplay (who have the funniest joke song about this ever, if you haven't seen it you need to lol) or Radiohead! In the past these bands have created great stuff, it's just now the songs all seem to sound the same to me! Argue if you will, lol, it's my blog and my opinion so *blows raspberries at you*. Still Vix chose the song "Sir Psycho Sexy" by RHCP, the lyrics for this song if you don't know it are VERY Explicit and I personally think that Vix likes this song because it allows her to show off her inner kinky girl!
I had to be very careful when making the picture and it did take me a LOT of thinking about, I didn't want something too porno on my blog, but then Fledge suggested that I just went hot sexy cop, so...
I went Hot Sexy Cop... and did some shameless promotion of HellBone's store when I tell everyone that the police bike was a special item created for Hogs and Carts Wheels for a mere 1000$L! LOL!
Who will I ask next? Will there even be a next? Stay tuned campers hehe!!!
OH MY GADDDDDD THE MOMENT WE'VE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR IS HERE... Move over New Year Celebrations, this is much more important... LUNA IS BACK WITH THE COLOUR CHALLENGE.
There have been a lot of challenges that I have participated in, but this one beats them all hands down as my favourite! I have been so excited about this one I'm like a kid at Christmas! I just hope that I can actually find something in this round that will rival the house from last time? It is possible, least I hope it's possible!
WEEK 1 - CHAMPAGNE
Week 1: Popping My Cork! hehe!
What is she wearing;
Hair: Griddie - 89 in blonde Outfit: Simply - Pop My Top Outfit including dress, bubble collar and cork hat Body Bubbles: GLITTERATI - from the bath pose prop freebie on marketplace Shoes: Adoring Charms - Bondar Pumps
Oh my GAH - YAY LUNA thank you so much for doing another round of Colour Challenge, it has really started 2012 off with a bang, or should that be a champagne cork pop? I can't wait to get started on next week's colour I am gonna do it NOW!!!
