A Second Life Fashion Blog by Elisaokkbye
they’re dragons, khaleesi, they cannot be tamed – not even by their mother
this shit is bananas, b-a-n-a-n-a
Pose by Focus Poses
Thought it would be time to change things up a bit with my blog layout! I really like the gradient backdrops that people usually do, but it was mostly too dark for my taste. I like soft, simple and light. Although this is maybe still a bit too dark for my taste, I’ll try it out for now and maybe see if there’s something else I can change it to. Shadows usually make light backdrops even lighter, to the point where you only see white – and that’s too light for me. But we’ll see, who knows what I come up with.
I went for a simple look today. I haven’t been blogging much, not after Skin Fair. Mostly because I have a ton of events to do for my own store, and of course because I’ve been switching between all the skins I’ve recently purchased. I had a hard time deciding which skin I was going to stick with, but after editing my shape a little, I decided to stick with Glance’s “Aina”. I initially liked the “Tian” skin more, simply because of the gorgeous lips. But because I like to wear my parted lip alpha’s, I thought this would be a better fit. My lip alpha’s cut off the little part of Tian’s lips which I so much adore. Aina’s nose and eyes are much more to my preference, and the brows are gorgeous and bushy. I’ve been liking this skin a lot, and think that it’s starting to grow on me more and more. I think it has even topped my Pink Fuel “Harley” addiction. But who knows… Mochi still has to release Sora!
Skin Fair 2014
Pose by Label Motion
So, Arcade! Are we all loving it? I certainly am. I would be lying if I said that I wasn’t a wee bit disappointed with the lack of clothing and/or kid items but yeah I mean, furniture is great too! I love furniture. I’m patiently waiting to change lands maybe and to get a new house, so I can re-decorate and try out some of the new furniture items that I have gained at this round of The Arcade!
These gorgeous little animal sculptures from ISPACHI store my heart. I love them all, and need to go collect all of them! I want to put them in my garden, in my house, in my room – literally everywhere. They are adorable! Another thing that I loved were the paintings of Nylon Outfitters. This is honestly one of my favourite machines! The cat paintings I mean… I love cats. And I love fun, quircky and cute paintings. I’m pretty sure she drew them herself too, so talented – I can just feel how much fun she must’ve had making these!
Nowww I also went tho Whore Couture, which opened yesterday. I got these amazing shoes. I love them. You can change the top part: it including 22 colors, 2 sole colors, and lots of other colors and patterns for the laces too! I got this sweater at Whore Couture too, it’s from Gawk. I think they were already selling it before the Whore Couture and I kept forgetting to get it, but this was as good of an opportunity as ever! What I love about them is that they come with Lola (Tango & Mirage) appliers. So yup, that was it for now – let’s get to the credits!
Furniture (everything can be found at The Arcade!)
ISPACHI – The Arrival – Frolicking Foxes
Pose by .click. at The Arcade, opens March 1st
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Poses by Label Motion
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So today I decided that I wanted to have a try at starting an SL blogger challenge. It isn’t exactly a “challenge” in the exact sense of the word, but I thought that for some people it might be a challenge to share these kinds of things with an audience. I know that for some people it can be a sensitive topic. Both for people who are in the Second Life family community as well as for people who aren’t. People who aren’t, however, tend to have quite a closed and maybe even negative perspective on SL families, or SL children in particular. This is definitely one of the reasons that I decided to do this challenge. I want to share my view on it, and I would love to read other people’s experiences and opinions on it as well.
The rules are very easy: take a picture with a member (or multiple members) of your SL family, and answer the questions below. Take my answers out, and put in your own. Then, when you publish your blogpost leave a comment (either here on my blog, or on the picture on my Flickr) and provide a link so I, as well as others, can read it! I do want to state that if you have a negative view or expierence with SL families, to not leave negative comments. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, and opinions may not always be voluntarily – but you always have a choice between spreading negativity or not. I certainly hope this enlightens people, and who knows, maybe even gets some people to try out the SL family community themselves! Because I can tell you, there certainly are a few amazing people you can meet, and a lot of love to be given and received.
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1. What is your SL family surname?
Grey-King. Grey from my mom, King from my dad.
2. What is the make-up of your family? (Parents, kids, siblings etc)
Mom & dad, one twin sister, one baby sister, one forever sister. Then there’s my two kids, my grandmother, and my aunts. I have some nieces too, and I even have a grandchild!
3. How long have you been in the SL family community?
Err, I would say almost two years now
4. When did you first hear about the SL family community and what was your view on it before you were in it?
Hmm, I think I first heard about it from an SL and RL friend of mine. I think she told me about these age-play sims that had been in the news, and that there were perverts playing as kids and well… doing innapropriate stuff. I guess you could say that my first impression wasn’t very good. From that moment on I thought SL kids were creepy, simply because I thought all of them were perverted. Later on, whenever I came across people who had stuff about their SL families in their picks (since I was at Hogwarts: Your Story and Mischief Managed a lot, I quite often ran into SL teenagers who had families) I thought “ew…” I thought that these people had some serious psychological issues. I thought maybe they had mommy- and daddy issues.
5. How did you join your (first) SL family?
My mom kind of forced me into it. Honestly, that’s how it went. I thought SL families were creepy, but I lived on the homestead of my mom back then with my now forever sister Rose and my mom. I think Rose was talking about her SL mom, and then, Anna just asked me: “Elisa do you have SL parents!?” and I said no, so she immediately responded with “Well then now you’re my daughter.” And I’ve been her daughter ever since.
6. Do you have a kid avatar?
Yes, both on my alt as well as on my main account! Sometimes I get lazy and don’t want to log into my alt to, for example, test a rig or simply when I want to annoy my mom or want to take a picture with her.
7. Do you have an adult avatar?
Yep, my main avatar.
8. When did you first decide to make a child avatar?
At some point I had identified myself as a teen avatar. I was always roleplaying at Mischief Managed as a teenager. The age-range in Mischief Managed (or Hogwarts: Your Story back then) is 11 to 17, so naturally, I looked young. I also wore my IC avatar while I was OOC, and therefore just started calling myself a teen avatar. Sometimes my mom had friends with SL children, and they would be amazingly adorable. They acted so cute, looked adorable, and I realized that really not every child avatar was a perverted creep. I had also previously thought that they looked weird – but due to some kid avatars on Flickr, Plurk and SL facebook I started to see that they could look very adorable! So at some point, my mom asked me if I wanted to make a kid avatar, and we went shopping together. At first I had a big kid avatar, and later on I bought a ToddleeDoo mesh avatar as well, since that’s easier to buy clothes for.
9. Why do you play a child avatar?
I choose to play a child avatar because it’s a lot of fun. It’s fun to take pictures and look cute, it’s fun to annoy my mom, it’s fun to run around and be silly and adorable. It’s fun to hit other kids, whine about wanting a unicorn for your birthday – and to ask your mommy for ice cream. It’s a lot of fun, and from the very beginning I have enjoyed being and acting like a child. It’s completely innocent, and I just love it.
10. What do you like about being a parent in SL?
I love having children in SL. I’ve been an SL mom for about… well, maybe 6 months now. The first few months were a bit weird (that’s when I first started trying to start my own SL family, since my mom had left SL temporarily) and in the beginning it didn’t really work out. I thought that maybe I wasn’t cut out to be a mom in SL and that I should stop trying. But my first real daughter Niki or Sticky came as a little blessing and I love her so much for making my family expierence in SL so much better. Later on we looked for a sibling for her, and found my son Henry. I would be lying if I would say that the fact that I would love to have children irl in the future wouldn’t be a contributing factor to why I love being a mom in SL. It definitely is, but the thing that I enjoy most about being a mom is just that besides having two children, I have two amazing friends that I love.
11. Do you do family roleplay? If so, what kind of roleplay? Paragraphs, emoting – or just “acting like”?
I don’t really do family roleplay in the sense of paragraph roleplaying or just roleplaying how I normally do in roleplay sims. We don’t post paragraphs of text and sit down and have a meal together. I do, however, act like a mother with my kids. I do act like a kid when I am in my kid avatar. I, for example, emote that I throw food at my sister or hit her. Or I ground my kids for doing those things to their siblings. I haven’t really done intensive family paragraph roleplay yet – maybe have a dinner and actually sit down and roleplay it out – but that’s definitely something I want to try.
12. Do you have any special family-related activities? (Dinners, camp etc.)
We don’t really have dinners but I think I might ask my family to do this with me! I remember I had one dinner with my sister, nieces and kid once and that was pretty funny. My sister pretended to cook spaghetti and eventually called for a pizza and we just sat there and had fun. Beside that I did go to camp Hardknock last week, and that was soo much fun. I loved it. It gave me kind of an idea how other SL families work – since mine is crazy.
13. What is the thing you love most about your SL family?
I love that my family is crazy. I love that we have an enormous mansion with a stable in front of it and even had a pool in the back – and love that we pretend to be all rich and stuff. I love it when my mom threatens to cut my creditcard in half, or when I make a mess and tell her that the maid will clean it. I like to tell my mom I’m having an affair with our imaginary poolboy, or that I stole her ex boyfriends from her. I love taking pictures with them, or just talking. But most of all, I love that my family isn’t just my family, but first of all just my tight group of friends that I have a lot of fun with.
So yeah, feel free to join in whenever you want! If you see this blogpost three months after it has been published; don’t feel weird about doing it. I for one will enjoy reading it. Maybe you don’t have a blog but want to share? Maybe answer the questions under a Flickr picture. I would just love to see how other people’s SL families are. Most of all, have fun! ♥
Cigar poses by Label Motion
Pose by Label Motion
Pose by Label Motion @ The Dressing Room
Pose by Label Motion
Pose by MODEL POSES
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Today I decided to do a little blogpost with my mummeh. Some might know her as the owner of the store Whatever, and events SL Fashion Week and Silicone. (I inherit everything and my sister gets nothing! D:< loll.) She’s been on a break but she’s back and ready to drop a shapeline somewhere in the next few weeks. She’s wearing one of them in the picture right here! I decided to be little in this picture, although I don’t normally blog Toddleedoo fashion. The seasons story is opening tomorrow, and my forever sister and owner of Olive has made this really cute scarf! It’s a gatcha, so prepare your lindens. Other than that I’m wearing this hair from LeLutka – of which I didn’t know that it was there! It’s a holiday freebie and you can get it by clicking on one of the gifts under the Christmas tree at LeLutka’s hair section. Hurry though, because holiday season is over and I don’t know how much longer they are keeping it there! Also, happy new year you guys (hadn’t said that yet!) – I hope you’ve all surrounded yourself with loved ones and had a great time. Let’s make it a great 2014.
Pose by :>Inner Peace<: at Heritage Gatcha Garden
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So my blogpost looks different! Welp. Yus. If you didn’t notice yet, I got a new computer and I am going craaaazy taking pictures with my new shadows. It’s amazing I love it. Anyway, now I can finally blog some furniture! I love love love decorating, but without shadows everything looks a bit… meh. At least on pictures, imo. So yeah, Arcade and Collabor88 goodies. Loooove the chair in the background, which is from Collab. It has this really cute pose where you can hide under a blanket and it looks so cozy. This sweater is from *BOOM* at Collabor88, something I adore as well. And I just can’t take this hair off my head. Nope nope nope. Anyway, expect more furniture blogs!
Furni
Pose by Imeka @ Collabor88
As many of you know, Collabor88 has opened once again with another round. This month’s theme is very fitting to the month December, and is all about being cozy and warm: Hibernate! I love the theme, especially because I love wearing things that look cozy. Every Lamb release astounds me, as does this one. The trapper hat is amazing and comes with a HUD, which allows you to change the color of the hat. Maitreya, I think, is a guest designer this round and has made these uh-may-zing leggings. Love em! [Pumpkin] made something cozy-looking as well, something which I paired easily with the earlier mentioned hat. I love this fur vest/leather jacket combo, and as always the textures are looking great. These boots were a gatcha from *COCO* at The Chapter Four last month but they have started another round as well, so you’ll have to go to the mainstore and see if they’re still available! Happy shopping ♥
Pose by [Meisu]
Hello my luvs. C: I’m so excited about Collabor88 this month, and about this new blog template of mine! I didn’t change much… or erh, I didn’t add much. I added a little spot with details, something I’ve been wanting to do for a while now but had NO IDEA how I was going to do that. Anyway, it’s there, and I’m not sure if I’m going to keep it this way, but we’ll see! Now on to Collabor88, again. The hair from D!va is amazing, I love it so much. Just like the tops from U.F.O, which also come in a dress version! Two for the price of one! Also, new pants @ Pumpkin and sneakers from [whatever] at SL Fashion Week! They are so so awesome, check them out.
Pose by MODEL POSES.
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Okaaai. I don’t really have a lot to say on this one. I just felt like dressing up my mini Elisa, and was hanging out wif my bf, who has a kid avi as well. Sooo I thought we looked cute, and suggested that we’d do a post. So we did, and here it is. Planning on doing another post like this, wit him, for The Arcade. The Arcade is in only a few weeks! Eep! I can’t waaaait. That post will be even cuter than this one, I promise you :3
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Another little Strawberry Singh meme. I can’t remember the last one I did (maybe I’ve kept to doing them every week but I really can’t remember) soooo I thought it was time to do one again. This weeks is ‘My SL Guilty Confessions’ and I have no idea what I’m going to write here, but I best just get started and see what I come up with.
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Another post, and this time I’m rocking some cargo shorts from *Ninia*. It’s a great store, I love every single thing that there is – but right now, theres only a marketplace store! You should definitely browse it for a few seconds and have a look, because I adored it and I do also love these shorts. I also dug up these headphones from Standby Inc. from one of the earlier The Arcade rounds because I just remembered today, or more so: I was told, that the upcoming round of The Arcade is in only three weeks!
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Hiiii guys Vive Nine has brought out new stuff! *_* I’m so excited to show you every single one of them, and if I had the time I would even show you all the colours, but- um, yes, let’s get to them. Vive Nine’s old line holds a pair of pretty, chunky little bootie heels that I adored, and now, they brought them out in mesh as well. They come in sooooo many options and with a HUD that functions perfectly! The top above, that I used to display this new line of skins from CandyDoll, is from the new line as well. It’s basic and cute, and fits in almost every outfit. Now, CandyDoll released this new skin, Layla! She has a very pretty face, and the tones are very warm. Go pass by her store and get yourself a demo!
Poses by Imeka~ for The Box and .[ pose+ivity ].
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Hiiiiya! I had the pictures for this post taken a few days ago, but since my bae went afk to make homework, I went ahead and edited these pics. When I was done I thought, well, might as well post ’em now too. So this is my second post of today, and if I keep going at this speed I will be reaching my 100th post in about a few days, no? : D I’m excited, really. My 100th posttttt <3 I can’t wait. Now umm, Goucci has brought out some cute new items that you gotta check out. They are chique, posh, divaaish aaand, yuh, you just need to check ’em out.
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Hiii! Today I’m doing a post mainly around the cute poses I’ve gotten throughout the week. I got some from pose+ivity and Purple Poses, which are both amazing pose stores that I adore. I was planning on showing yall four of them, well actually, my first intention was doing 6 – but hell, that’s just too much editing for me. So I did two, one from pose+ivity and the other from Purple Poses for SL Fashion Week this week. Theres some awesome goodies there btw, so you should definitely have a look!
Poses by .[ pose+ivity ]. and Purple Poses @ SL Fashion Week.
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Hiya guyyys! Another post today, and again, I’m using this beautiful hair from ICONIC. I do have to say that I DID edit it more than just a little bit this time, I went a little crazy on that. Mostly I just go around the edges and add some strands here and there, and really, just do the minimal editing to a hair so you guys aren’t dissapointed when you buy it inworld. But this time I just thought “whatever idc” and went full-on editing mode on this hair. I was really annoyed by flexi just a couple weeks ago, and I still kinda am. However, how other would you be able to make a hair like this? I actually have hair like this irl (curly, not red tho lmao) and the day that someone invents how to make a hair like this in mesh… I will cry! But, as long as curls aren’t on the market in mesh yet, I will enjoy them in flexi prim. <333 bai
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So today I’m doing another Strawberry Singh meme. I think I read something on her blog about ‘Meme Monday’, but it’s possible that I read it on her Plurk as well, so I’m planning on doing them every week. They are fun to do, so why not? Let’s just start, and look at the original post here.
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OKKBYE 