Monthly Archives: July 2013

What if you made an entire avatar look from just one sim?

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One day, peeking down from Jackal’s sky platform, I realized that Nouveau has somehow cornered lots of awesome shops. It made me realize that without much trouble, I could put together an entire avatar from just one sim. I made a pretty Nouveau princess, and it was fun. And then I thought, wouldn’t it be neat to see what other people do?

So here’s my challenge: What if you made an entire avatar look (skin, hair, eyes, outfit, everything) from just one sim?

It can be any sim you like, and you can do this challenge as many times as you like using a different sim each time. Why not?

Here’s my look. I tried to fit in all the shops, although I’m waiting for Miss Roslin to finish making the new Luxuria!

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The Grid Needs More Green Shoes

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Siddean Munro asked me if I thought making her mules in the colors of the Italian flag for Love Donna Flora would be cheesy. I said of course not, because after all, the grid needs more green shoes. What luscious shoes these are, too. Available in Italian Red, Green and White at Love Donna Flora.

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Green it is! My favorite color, I love the rich, bold green in this top from Milk Motion for Collabor88. I could play with the colors of the flowers, but I loved it just plain green.
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Ladies and Gentlemen I Bring You Gacha

I am also bringing you the most popular pictures I’ve ever taken, according to FLICKR stats. Sure, my views went up weirdly when they changed the way they count them, but they’ve normalized. These however, are now a set of insanely popular FLICK pics, at least on my photostream. So, I think you should go buy all these things.

Let’s talk GACHA. Gogo caught my eye with this adorable bunny phone at VCO and now I have three. Continue reading

Love Donna Flora in Dots

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There’s a fun little polka dot dress with a balloon skirt at Les Petits Details cart at Love Donna Flora. I love how the top is gathered, creating a mirror of the bottom in shape, though not in size.  Continue reading

Can’t put it aside any longer!

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Hi, I’m Helena Stringer. I was invited to blog on here by Gidge, way back in march, fully intending to start posting. Many thing got on the way. That is what happens when you run a business in sl, everything else comes second. I also had wanted to do this awesome intro, and kept scraping outfits.

I decided not to put it off any longer, and while this may not be the outfit I would have chosen for my first, I do feel it goes well with some of the more recent posts here on Its only Fashion.

This was what I wore for Bandana day yesterday. I know, I should have posted it yesterday, but alas, it was not to be. I feel it is still fitting, as I am also wearing a dress from Donna Flora. Anyone following this blog knows that there is a Charity Event going on right now for Squinternet Larnia, Designer/Owner of Donna Flora. You can read more about that HERE. I’m also wearing a bracelet from Lazuri, which is discounted at the event, with 100% of the purchase going to the charity.

I will be doing my own very special post for Squinternet at a later date, so I will offer no deeply moving words at this point in time. What I will say is that there are price ranges for everyone at the event, so if you have a few L$ to spare, please stop on by.

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Credits

Bandana – SySy’s – Flowers in Beige – N/A
Skin – Plastik – Aquamer Skinline/Cohau Tone/2012 Makeup
Eyes – IM Capped – Ika Roa in Hippocampus – on Sale @ Total Anarchy
Eye Darkeners – Wee Ones – Eye Prim Shadows
Lashes – Maitreya – Mesh Lashes – Group Gift
Lipgloss – Mock Cosmetics – Fruitilicious Gloss in Flame Pea Jelly – Store Promo
Bracelet – Lazuri – Maysoon Bracelet – Discounted and 100% Charity Item
Dress – Donna Flora – Candy Dress in Lime
Footwear – House of Hucci – Lavan Wedge in Vibrant Orange – Past Arcade Gacha Item

Poses – KS2Kool

It means that Nicki Minaj has no trouble making money

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It’s all my fault, really. I let them talk me into feeding the cat in the morning again. I knew full well that I’d be in for nightly wake-ups — 2 AM, 4 AM, 5 AM… 5:30 AM… the damned thing can’t actually read a clock to know when 6 AM is. She keeps waking me up until I shut her into the living room so that she stops stepping on my bladder and meowing into my ear. It’s a sad business, hungry morning cats. The result is that I’ve had interrupted sleep for four months now, and I admit that I’m a little exhausted.

How exhausted? So exhausted that I have Nicki Minaj’s Beez in the Trap stuck on autorepeat in my brain. My brain is inordinately proud that I went and looked up every single lyric, too. Do you know what Beez in the Trap means? I DO. I could expound upon it, but I won’t.

Instead, my avatar took a little trip to the cutely surreal surroundings of the lovely Honey Kitty sim of Quartet. It looks like the maker scaled back lately. No longer is the build a full-sized crazy themepark full of elephants and broken toys and magic; only about half of it is. The rest seems to be houses. Well and good, I’m glad designers are keeping afloat somehow in this fallen world of ours.

So yeah. Quartet — go see the giant cat and the pig in the tractor and the plethora of giraffe, and support Honey Kitty too. [SLURL]

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Purse: Katat0nik dark pink Woody purse
Eyes: Shine Lustrous Azure eyes
Hair: Lamb The Big Doll House in My Little Pony color
Outfit: Hate Me And Eat Me Selvaggia sky jumpsuit
Bow: Katat0nik Dolly Vine hair bow in purple/teal
Skin: Pink Fuel Harley (Porcelain) with lid 2, dark brows, and pink blush
Sim: Quartet, headquarters of Honey Kitty

Annie Lennox Approved

A quick look of the day post. I’m not really a pant suit kind of gal but I think this rayon suit from Cashmere&Keane is super cute and I happily added it to my chaotic inventory. Adding a bit of feminine spice back to it with some red pumps from LaRoo and topped it off with this sexy hat from Ink. I think it’s an outfit Annie Lennox would approve of.

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Hybie Is Wearing:

Outfit: Cashmere&Keane – Rayon Suit (navy)
Hat: INK – Newold – coal
Shoes: LaRoo – Lizzy T-strap pumps
Skin: Essences – CHO – light rose 01
Eyes: Ikon – Ardent – Evening

It’s Never Just Hair

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Today is the last day of Hair Fair, so that means it is Bandana Day. Today we take off our hair and wear a bandana in solidarity with all those who have lost their hair in their struggles to live with illness whether from cancer or alopecia or whatever. Hair Fair exists to provide hair for young people who have lost theirs and the proceeds go to Wigs For Kids. Think about how stressful it is to go out on a bad hair day, now how many more times more difficult would it be with no hair? Supporting Wigs for Kids will help them put an end to bad/no hair days.

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The floral bandana from Lelutka sent me on a mission to mix florals, but in such a way that they worked together. The dress from Decoy for Collabor88 has such a soft tone on tone pattern that is almost seems like a solid in contrast to the bold scarf.

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Determination is beautiful

Hair Fair 2013

My NHL (Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma) was diagnosed on October 13, 2011. It’s not a date that anyone easily forgets. I treated it with a month of intensive Rituximab chemotherapy, and it went away for a while. Then it returned (I found out in October 2012), and I realized that once you have cancer, you have to face the fact that it’s with you, in one way or another, for a long time.

It’s a sticky business. I go in for maintenance chemotherapy every two months now, more Rituximab. I have the luck of the easiest and gentlest of chemotherapy medications. In fact, before making this post, I pondered to myself that I feel like a total poseur wearing a bandana: I never lost my hair.

Still, sitting in the chemotherapy room every other month (my fourteenth treatment is coming up next month), I meet the humans who wear the bandanas, and the ones who don’t bother, and allow their bald heads to show as a sign of their constant battle within.

I have so much respect for the people whose chemotherapy medicines enter their bodies through a port instead of an IV, for people who kill every single dividing cell in their bodies day after day, month after month, until their lives are lived through pure determination.

For their bravery and endurance, and for the stories I hear when I sit by their side in my own chemotherapy chair, I wear this bandana today.

(Many thanks to Sasy Scarborough for helping me purchase the bandana, my poor old laptop was not up for Hair Fair, and I could not pry my husband off SkyRim to use his PC!)

Bandana: [Stellar] silver sequin bandana 2013
Necklace and bracelet: Lassitude & Ennui Lion’s Paw torque in black for Zodiac
Corset: Plastik Mechanika Corset in Bordello
Eyes: MIASNOW eyes in SHINE grey
Skin: MIASNOW skin in ALIEN GREY
Jeans: ~silentsparrow~ (ash) batty leather pants
Face tattoo: HUZ Duality in full black
Horns: Illusions Ibex Horns
Nails: vintage from SiniStyle
Earrings: vintage from FlipSide