Black and White and Hasu

 A happy conjunction of black and white themed freebies.

And, OMG, this is right out of a Japanese print - a lotus mermaid outfit.

Cute asian-themed shorts and top (and bunny ears out of sympathy with Lludmila)

Every time I do a hunt I swear it's my last, but then I see something really cute (actually, it's not pictured here because Lludmila's condemned to bunnitude for another 3 weeks) and end up slogging from one store to another.  

This time we have some black and white pieces that just seemed to go together (although you probably have some doubts about the men's plaid dock shoes going with the ballet tutu), a mermaid fantasy in gold (I do have a mermaid AO, but I actually liked the model pose with this outfit better - and, besides, the AO knocked one of the armlets off and I was too lazy to attach it to another point), and a lucky red and black casual outfit that called out for a casual (if not slightly slutty) pose.

Hair: Toss Me Around, an old freebie from Bishwear

Skin in first picture: Fior di Perle for the Icon Hunt and good luck finding it because I had trouble even going back and checking the second time!

necklace: GaNKeD, of course

bangles: HOC Industries 

tutu: Silver Rose Design - chibi wafun hunt

mini bunny ears: The Black Canary - also the chibi wafun hunt on Roman

shoes: Duh Icon gift

Hasu_Meigetsu/lotus mermaid: Rose Princess from the chibi wafun hunt on Roman

skin: Illusion: Pure Morning from Heartsick yadda-yaddah

shorts n top: Kohiki Main Store - chibi wafun hunt that was all over the Roman sim.

big bunny ears: Deluxe Bunny set from Curio Obscura

More Hair!

 One old hair and three new ones ... 

Short styles ... and another old style below ...

Both Lludmila and Kathy love the SyDS hairs.  There are some new ones there right now, plus some amusingly colored ones in the lucky boards for Halloween.  My RL(tm) hair is never under any control, so I used to prefer the system hair, which was never flyaway or out of place.  Now I'm getting off on the very casual looks of combined hard and flexi-prims.  As much as I love my long hair, the short styles are  now appealing to me.  What I'm trying to achieve is a natural look, not perfection.  These hairs are perfect.

Of course, SyDS also has some sillier hairs and I love them, too.

Kathy in a high wind and zero G!

Skin: Illusion, Pure Morning from Heartsick

Top: courtesy of Kokihi in the chibi wafun hunt on Roman

Eyes: Gemstone G04 Umedama Holic 

Fashion Blog-togopher Caught In Slutty Outfit

Well, let me explain.  I hang out at Grizzy's Cafe and they raise money for charity there.  Lately I've been short some Ls, so when Grizzy mentioned that she doubted they would make their goal of 60,000L that week because they were 16,000L short, I asked if there was something I could do.

Essentially, I bet them that they couldn't raise that amount in the three days left.  If I was wrong, I would wear the bunny suit for a month.  This was announced to the Cafe Group and, to get the rabble inspired, I taunted them on Group IM.  [Grizzy also agreed to wear the outfit for a further 2 weeks.]  Well, it worked.  They raised the money in two days and I have to wear the sleazy men's club waitress outfit for four weeks.  Fortunately, it's September, and there are only 30 days.

To help me through this dark period of couture, I have been given some special uniforms to mix in with the plethora of colors I'm embarrassed to admit I already own, although I had to tailor my own ears by adding some fun textures to the Curio Oscura ears and coordinating the cuffs, collar, etc.).  This is the SL equivalent of being given a few yards of material and being told to get busy. If you want to see them, you'll just have to come by the Cafe some evening or check Grizzy's Flickr Group page.

Cross Posting

Grizzy has issued a statement on how she plans to commemorate 9/11 this year in SL, and I thought I would go along with it - I have put this picture and the following statement on my profile:

"To show solidarity with my Islamic brothers and sisters who have had their faith vilified as a result of the actions of extremists, I will be dressing my avatar in the traditional Islamic hijab for Tues - Sat this week."

It's Not All RFL

This is the thank-you gift for people who contributed to Skye Qi's medical mission (as mention in a previous post) - a traditional Honduran dress.  I'm loving it!

As worthy as Relay For Life is (and as much time as it seems to linger), there are other opportunities in-world to make a difference.  At Grizzy's Cafe there are several causes you can donate to if you miss RFL: the Pixel To Pixel Foundation, War Child, and Love 146.  They also have information on what the charities are all about.  If you haven't the money to spare, but don't mind being seen in sexy bunny costumes, you can also join the Bunny Army at that location, a group that uses fluffy ears and tails to raise money for various charities.  I promise to withhold judgment on the sluttiness of the costumes if you are doing it for such worthy causes.

Dress: Freebie at Vintage Apparel (home of the Lludmilla gown)
Hair: Sadie in Blonde Frost from Exile
Skin: Lludmila (!) zombie skin in the Twisted Hunt at Absentia
Shoes: Ummmm, drat! Forgot to put them on.  But you can't go wrong at Duh!
Flies: actually paid for them! at RC-Cluster where you can find lots of hilarious stuff

Ask and Ye Shall Receive

Once upon a time, llittle Lludmila heard on Plurk that a friend of hers had had an outfit named after her and she went to the store to look at it (and, of course, to snag the free copy of it in the chest).  She sighed wistfully.  We took a picture and posted it on the Flickr page.  Today, on her typist's mom's birthday (August 1), Skye Qi finally tracked Lludmila down (not that hard - she's the only double-L one in-world) and asked if she would like to have a gown named after her.  "Would I?!"

This will be a non-vintage gown (which is okay, because Lludmila swings both ways) for a new non-vintage line.  We are soooo excited!

Skye shows off an example of the forthcoming dress to The Eponymous Lludmila!  Skye looks The Eponymous Lludmila over and remarks, "You'll have to shorten the skirt."  

Both Skye and The Eponymous Lludmila are now trying to think of a way to get Llinden dollars named after them.

Three of the nine colors of the Lludmila dress which comes with matching evening bag.

Tee hee!  Lludmila is sooo proud to see her name on not just zombie skins, but gowns!

Update, September 4: Skye Qi now has the Lludmila gown as well as other outfits available in her shop Vintage Apparel.  There will be a 50L color available for each of the gowns in her new line, ~Glitz~, based on interesting textures.  Also, there is a free Honduran dress available in a nearby chest as a thank you for donations for medical mission for the needy there.  This fundraiser was very successful.  They saw 867 patients and filled over 3,000 prescriptions.  SL bought about 6,000 adult and kids' vitamins.  

Not Untouched by Dany

I had only logged on to SL to get some slurls to finish some unpublished posts and my September gift from the Dany French Touch group (which I was clever enough to join back when it was free - now it's 150L!).  There was this gorgeous gown and a suit for men, too!

Lludmila is pleased as punch with this! Now if she only had an occasion to wear it ...

If you didn't join the group, the dress and the men's outfit are dollarbies at Dany French Touch in New Toulouse.  

Cal Before the Mast

Lludmila

Hair: a former freebie from Waka & Yuki

Gown: the September Group Gift from Dany French Touch.

Cal 

Hair: old freebie, Hinder by Bryce 

Job Suit: Dollarbie from Dany French Touch (he's so relieved he didn't have to stalk the lucky chair again!)

Shoes: Men's leather dress shoes 20L or 10 colors for 100L - a huge bargain! at Duh!  Also, they have a comfy lucky armchair and Cal won a pair of camo men's boots just for showing up to check the slurl!

Hair So Pretty - I Could Just Cry!

I found some lovely hairs recently ...

Up-do with enormous flower from Waka & Yuki no longer free.

I often see hair on the freebie blogs and wish they came in Lludmila shades (white to grey to platinum blonde), but I go get them anyway because Kathy could wear them, or some other shape I have. This one had this humongous black flower thing on it and I wondered if you could change that ... and found out you could change the hair color as well! Well, hot damn!

Cap and side ponytail also from Waka & Yuki.

The same with this one: change the hair color and the cap color. Those are tears of joy! The color change leaves just a touch of contrasting color - nice!

Lludmila loves a cute short cut.

And then, one of my favorite places, !SyDS!, had some new hair (also dark) in the lucky boards. I decided I loved this short cut after I tried the dark, so I bought the "milk" shade. There is also a new hair with a tiny pigtail.

Bottle Bird

On the For the Love of Science Hunt, I found a stuffed prize box at this quirky shop called Bottle Bird, run by a friend.  I love that you can go either way with the tees:

Note the Team Dawkins shirt ... for us atheists ... and the fractal leggings.

Gasp! Don't tell my Humanist friends I'm wearing the Team God tee!  

Yipes!  I'll lose all my cred!  But it went so nicely with the high-waist skirt!