Second Life

My Inspiration?

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zoe connolly started this meme about our avatar’s inspiration, and i figure hey, i could use some prompts for writing, so i’m jumping on board.

(picture stolen from jessyka cause she made it cute :p)

my avatar has always had an odd personal style.. not to mention the fact that she is a shape-shifter, which leaves me with endless possibilities.

my main style is mostly influenced by anime. i have always loved the style of japanese cartoons, the way people look, with their oddly styled, and coloured hair, and their crazy clothing.

my avatar’s look also comes from the harajuku street style of dress seen in japan, as well as many J-Rock musicians. i am heavily influenced by their outlandish style of dress and the fact that even with so many people in their country, they tend to all be so very unique in style.

yes i am a little bit of a japan-nerd…

my body shape is inspired by my rl shape.. from a few years ago. i’m not going to lie, i’m no a thin girl, and i have gained a bit of weight, but the body shape you see on nimil now, is the body i had in high school more or less, only with smaller boobs lol. my face is a merging of my real life self and more of that anime stylization which i find personally aesthetically pleasing.

some of my looks are also inspired by musicians and actors… my more dressy looks tend to lean towards pinup girl style. but i cannot pinpoint a single musician or actor that i am inspired by… i suppose its more the style they wear but not them specifically, if that makes sense? i’m also inspired by fantasy and scifi stories full of elves and hybrid people.

anyway, that’s me sorta.. to the best i can explain anyway.

Nimil’s Hair Fair Report

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i had a wonderful time at the hair fair preview thing! even though a few booths were still empty or half open i was able to grab most of the stuff i wanted on preview day!
this year’s hair fair was themed after candy land, and i was dying of sugar shock at every turn. giant cup cakes! candy! and of course hair (now thinking about it.. getting candy in your hair or hair in your candy is kinda gross)
there were some great booths, and some interesting hair this year, and of course there was lag… even though they asked us to keep the arc down i saw plenty of people there in friggin ball gowns and arc’s well over 2k. i myself chose a very low arc outfit, no shoes, and hair from etd which kept me in the green and somewhere around 400 i think.
see this sign? if you can’t figure out what to wear for hair fair or you show up in something lagtastic and start bitching about the lag, click this sign and get the low arc outfit and hair provided! it will help you and the people around you enjoy the hair fair!
congrats to this year’s flickr contest winners! i was lazy and didn’t enter this year (oops) but i was very blown away with those who did! everyone should go check them out!
i know i showed up in different hair but my friend autumn gave me her awesome new hair called gattina and i decided i had to wear it for the rest of the day! it worked well with my outfit as well!
here’s a closeup of this awesome hair!
great isn’t it? make sure you stop by the tiny bird booth and check out all of autumn’s awesome newness!
there was alot of great crazy hair at the hair fair, here’s a couple that i didn’t actually buy but i did admire alot.
this one is by curio obscura (i hope i got that right, i’m not on sl at the moment to check!) and it’s called “let them eat cake off of your head” and it features some crazy doll hair style curls and mountains of cake 😮 perfect for the hair fair theme this year! just please don’t wear it at the hair fair please!
this one is by toast bard and i am stupid and forgot to note down the name of it but it made me laugh since you could pretty much call yourself a pot head when you wear it :p. i might actually go back and get this one.
while roaming around, i bumped into the owner of calico creations and she tossed me a blogger pack of hair 😀 she was actually the only hair designer at the preview who actually did that, and i will be blogging that in another post later on! she is also wearing a cute style that i ended up buying a black pack of because i can never have too many pig tails. anyway i wanted to take a photo of her because she was very nice 🙂
the last photo of the hair fair that i got is my favourite booth at the fair (not to mention a favourite store of mine)
the hair at house of munster is awesome and really fits my punk/goth moods. i will be going back for more of her hair fair hair because she didn’t have the black pack vendor set out for one of the hairs i wanted, but i did grab another from her booth that i will have in my hair fair haul blog later on.
and that’s all i have for this report. stay tuned for more after i can properly log into sl and take photos of everything i got.
hair fair outfit credits:
hair: gattina – tiny bird|HF location
(pigtails at the start of the blog: paula II – ETD)
skin: (DN) Vogue Skin – Pure (Last Call – Fishnet) – celestial studios
eyes: eye typeB red2 – Fantajecca (store is gone)
tanktop: Easy Street Tank (white) – TorridWear
boxers: Spooky Boxers – Civvies (prize from their halloween hunt last year)
socks: Mismatched old socks (stripes White/Grey) – Canimal

it’s hair fair time!

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and once again i get to go see it before the crowd gets in! and i’ll be posting a double edition of my hair fair report here and on forced midnight!

i am so excited to go again this year! last year’s haul was awesome and i got a ton of great hair.. anyone that knows me knows that my inventory is 80% hair lol so this should be another haul of awesome!

i am not sure if i will be at the pj party but i will definitely be lurking around the sims at some point so please feel free to pounce on me if you wish :p i don’t bite, but i do scurry away from big crowds and big names >_>

if you have any hair that you would like to have showcased on forced midnight (must meet the requirements of the blog please) let me know! i’d love to have your stuff on there 😀

the laziest girl on the internet

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that should be my new title. all the junk that i could be doing, all the stuff i could write about, take pictures for, etc… i am just too lazy to bother D:

my rezday was almost a week ago, and i didn’t write a blog about it! i should really write one up about all the amazing presents lucas bought me even though i told him i really didn’t need/want anything for my rezday, just him <3 he bought me a ton of clothing at the fashion expo.

i did my poppins rezday jump which the lovely moggs had come up with sometime last year. she says lucas and i were her inspiration because we used to naked skydive off our skybox XD and the rest of the rezday was spent with cuddles and trying on my new outfits.

the tasteful butt meme gallery opening went off without a hitch and was quite fun. there were alot of people i didn’t know there but i reigned in my anti-social fear and hung around for the duration. got to dance on a ledge with jaeck and near the end crap mariner tried to chainsaw me! evil robots… *grumbles* the gallery is open from now until the end of the month and you can get there by clicking here.

in sorta rl meets sl news, moggs sent me NINE packages of tim tams! i am in biscuit heaven and if you see me somewhere laying in a puddle of melted chocolate near death please blame her :p

and that’s all i’ve got…

our asses will be hung

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in a gallery that is :p

Tymmerie Thorne has organized a gallery showing of as many photos from the butt meme that she could get permission for. so with lucas’ permission i submitted the picture i took 😀 so from the 13th to the 30th of this month, our asses will be hanging in a gallery with some other asses from all over second life XD. this will be the third time one of my photos has been in some sort of gallery showing. yay!

my rez day is 2 days away! time has totally flown by and i still haven’t decided if i want to do anything, and if i do want to do something, what i want to do, and/or where i want to do said thing. *sighs* 3 years in sl and i still wander around like a chicken with my head cut off.

i don’t know what else to talk about, haven’t been up to much lately. been lazy D:

ramblings

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i haven’t written in a while and i’m tired of apologizing for that.. so i’m not gonna. the previously mentioned carrie tribute dress is now available inworld at our store if you are interested in getting it. i’m kinda disappointed in its lack of sales, but instead of being hard on myself i’m just going to say that it was probably just not something the normal crowd would go for, not to mention its my first real attempt at making a dress. but i’m not going to let it stop me. no… i’m going to keep trying and learn, and do better stuff. i know i’ll never be some super fashionista clothing designer, and who are we kidding, i’d never want to be that to begin with. but i do want to make things i am proud of, and even though i am proud of my carrie dress, i can do better.

next week is my 3rd rezday. i have no idea if i am going to party for it, or if i am going to just silently let it slip past. haven’t decided yet.

i totally stopped doing my 365 sl thing and i feel bad now.. its been several days without a photo and i know i need to catch back up and keep going but i just feel very uninspired to do any photos lately…

i do want to get back into photography though and i have been trying to come up with a way to extend my abilities to the public. recently i took some lovely shots of my sl brother and his new wife ava.

caile & avacaile & ava

caile & avacaile & ava

they are adorable together <3 but i want to do more of these and perhaps for paying customers :p (no i do not charge family..) as well as maybe do some creepier work for people who are interested in that sort of thing. i know i keep talking about it and never do it but i just can’t seem to figure out what to charge for stuff. that’s mainly what stops me.

oh speaking of photos there’s a butt meme going around the bloggers and plurkers of sl, so lucas and i decided to make ours a double 😀

i dunno if that will show up for everyone, i had to flag it moderate because last time i left a butt photo flagged safe flickr had a hissy fit. we have cute butts, flickr should be glad i put our asses on there at all.

and so my blogging for today ends. i dunno what else to say.

the continuing adventures of clothing making

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so to my delight, so far everyone loves the jeans i’ve made, either that or they are just kissing my butt :p but at any rate i’m really happy and i can’t wait to get these things out for the general public to buy! i sent a group notice with a special pair of the jeans last weekend and the response was good.

to continue my new found clothing skillz i made a tank top. pretty basic stuff but it looks great, and its next on the list to go out in the store.

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its really amazing to me how much better i’ve gotten. i have no idea where i’m suddenly getting this burst of awesome but i hope it continues at least for a while! i’m actually PROUD to wear something that i made all by myself! and that’s really a first.

i’ve been shopping a lot lately which is always fun! but i haven’t been coming up with any cool outfits for forced midnight, so my friend mali and i made ANOTHER (yes another..) blog where we are going to do some look of the day’s that aren’t forced midnight related. and we even talked lucas into joining so hopefully he’ll do some posts for the guys (if he ever posts). mali will also be ranting about ugly things, and giving some tips and advice. i’m going to stay out of the mud slinging i promise.

i’ve also been clubbing a bit! yes that’s right.. i’ve actually been leaving my house 😮 (who is this woman and what has she done with nimil?) started wandering over to GOL 8 early in the morning when i can’t find anything to do and i’ve been having so much fun! mali comes with me and we sit on skype laughing about some of the crap people wear there and stuff… last night we forced lucas to come with us and he decided to wear a dress! it was great and mali even convinced the dj to play goodbye horses for me, which is a very old and obscure song that you might recognize from silence of the lambs. yes i am weird and i love that song D: it was very appropriate since lucas was in a dress..

at least he makes a pretty man in a dress <3

so last night was all giggles. i need more of that. i forget how to laugh sometimes, and i really thank you guys who have stuck with me even when i fall off the fun boat.

i can’t believe i didn’t post about april fools! see how much i suck lately? well last year and the year before lucas and i dressed as eachother for april 1st but this year we decided to blingtard out. i didn’t get many photos but i did get a great one of me and mali on a street corner being hookers.

makin dat money

it was pretty hilarious. we went to a bunch of blingtard places and all in all, i don’t make a bad latina hooker.

i’ve been pretty uninspired photography wise so not much coming off the flickr stream lately. but here’s what i’ve done recently to round out the blog tonight.

 

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fear me! for i have made pants!

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so the on-going clothing making quest has continued and i’ve finally made a pair of jeans! i am so excited because they are actually good enough to sell!

behold! a preview of things to come 😀 (the jeans anyway…) they aren’t super amazing or anything but for me its a giant step forward. so yay perhaps i will finally tackle the art of making clothes.

in other sl news, i’m thinking of offering my services as a photographer/photo-manipulator to the grid. but i’m not sure what to charge. the packages would include photos by me in either studio or out in the field, and then i will take them into photoshop and turn them into something awful unique in my style. customers would have options of letting me go nuts (which means you’ll probably end up being a dead thing) or they can tell me exactly what to do to the photos, which of course would probably end up in less death. also customers would be able to order things like large mounted prints complete with frame, modeling portfolio books, profile photos, contest photos, ect.

my only limits are that i won’t photograph you in places i dislike (don’t worry that list is small i promise) and i won’t photograph anything against the tos.

anyway i’ll probably write up a big old page for this site about it once i figure out how much i should charge for this kind of thing. any ideas?

last thing before i close this window and attempt sleep. it seems my blog is number 87 on the second effects : list of sl blogs 2009. pretty crazy to begin with that people would spend that much time compiling a list.. but also crazy because i’m on it. :p this blog is just day to day garbage lol i have nothing important to say here. but thanks to those of you who do read my blog, and i hope you enjoy it.

thats all for me.

End of the year roundup

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so tonight, 2008 comes to a close and i figured i would celebrate it by doing a little round up of some of the exciting things i did this year.

in march we really started stepping up production for LuNi Designs. i started learning to make skins using the great Eloh Elloit templates

in june i tried my hand at making an art installation at brooklyn is watching. i felt it was very awesome but they didn’t seem to get it sadly, but i expected that.

june was also my 2 year rez day and i celebrated it by changing up my avatar’s look a little bit.

july brought more new work for the store.. i made my first tattoo, graphophilia. lucas turned 2 years on july 4th and we celebrated with a crazy party under the arthole gallery.

august brought some very cool changes. first i was accepted as a guest artist for the opening show of the artist park. then my rl birthday happened with a really kick ass party, which lead to the grand opening of our inworld store in tainted hearth. i was also an honorable mention in the hair fair photos contest and got to get a sneek peak at the hair fair the day before it opened!

in september i was asked to be a part of the “REJECTED!” show and had 2 of my pieces in that show.

october brought the vain ghost hunt which netted us a ton of new fans as well as some new friends 😀 the ghost hunt was great fun and we can’t wait to be a part of the valentines’ hunt!

october also brought the 1 year birthday of the island we call home. isle of shadows had an all out full day party with some really great live musicians and dj’s including me :p

sadly october also brought about the beginning of the end for tainted hearth. LL announced that they would be upping the fees for open sims.

the end of october saw our massive halloween party which almost didn’t work due to some sim complications, but in the end we had a great time! oh yes and i got partnered 🙂

in november we gave out turkey hats to our group and left a vendor in the store. keiko morgi loved them so much that she used them on her models during her runway show at the hotel dare!

and december… we were asked to be in post 6, and we dedicate it to the memory of tainted hearth, as the photos were shot there.

sadly the sim will be deleted tonight or probably in the morning. and with it, a part of us will go too. but we have wonderful memories of it and always will.

anyway that is my little round up of the year. i hope that 2009 will be a happy one for everyone who reads this, as well as for myself, and my partner lucas.

my new years resolution is to change, for the better, in some ways.. but not others :p cause somethings will never change *puts on a rude shirt and prepares to party*

in your memory

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this is a post that i was dreading to write because i am not very good at dealing with death stuff.

2 years ago on this day, i lost a very important person in my life. i knew her as minx, and as fauna, but her real name was tanya

i woke up that afternoon with the intention to completely avoid second life, as i just tend to get to breaking point around december… but i recieved an email saying that i needed to log in immediately, that something bad had happened…

minx… tanya… had died of a heart attack that morning, just hours after having a long conversation with arahan… we were all crushed, in shock, unable to really comprehend what had happened. she was so young! only in her early 30’s.. and such a wonderful person…

to me minx was like a mother figure. she was always kind and gentle towards me and never had an ill word to say. she helped me deal with crap i was going though and never turned her back on me when i did my usual basket case bullshit that always ends up losing me more friends than i can count. she was always there and suddenly she was gone…

i regretted avoiding second life, i regretted not getting to spend more time with her, getting to know her better, i felt like such a horrible person, and a horrible friend, and i still do, to this day, regret that i only knew her for that short time.

my last memories of her are happy ones. i’d gone to her and her partner jorus’ christmas party days earlier, she even gave me the sweetest gift. a snow globe that i still put out every year as soon as december arrives.

i met minx earlier that year though her partner lupus (later known as jorus), who had been a friend from the angry ant. when the angry ant closed, a bunch of us found a new hang out in minx’s club “the minx den” and i had my first second life job. it was though her that i met arahan, who i still concider one of my best friends.

2 years have passed since she was laid to rest and i still feel a part of me is missing from her absence. it also reminds me glaringly, to cherish those who are still a part of my life. i am horrible at doing that sort of thing, and i apologize to those who have to deal with me on a day to day basis.

i don’t think i will ever find another person like minx. she was one of a kind. the world is less without her here.

today i went to her memorial site, i left a copy of the freeview tv she gave me when the minx den closed, full of photos from when we were all together. i miss that time and place in my life… i miss that family… i miss you minx…

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