I got to wondering, over my breakfast, what my SL friends are like in their other worlds? I don’t play a LOT of video games, but I do play World of Warcraft and I’ve created a cast of characters that, despite the lack of customization in that world, all have a BIT of Gidginess to them. I thought I’d show you mine, and hope that maybe for fun, you’d show me yours. Continue reading
I’m not actually an elf. I’m pretending to be one. I’m an elf who had plastic surgery to get her ears fixed. Now I regret it, and I’ve returned to the forest in search of my pointy eared brethren. I decided if I was going to pretend to be an elf who had plastic surgery and now was returning to the forest in search of my pointy eared brethren, I’d need a forest. And that’s a funny story. Continue reading
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.
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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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
The Plastik has released a new top which put me in a disco state of mind. You could totally have worn this to Studio 54. If you could get in, that is. Continue reading
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.
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
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.
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
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
There were so many beautiful bandanas this year that I struggled only buying four. I kept thinking, four is plenty. You don’t NEED more than four. But, they are so pretty, I rather love them this year. I might have more than four. Continue reading
I wanted to go shopping somewhere new, so I put in SHOPPING MALL into SEARCH.
After wading through a bunch of places that had keywords shopping, shopping mall, big shopping mall, best shopping mall, shopping mall of the shopping, etc etc etc I found someplace that looked interested, said it was anime themed and I didn’t have anything better to do so I popped over. Continue reading