Strange Pixels

Many cool things to show you today.

Firstly, a super-closeup of my mug to show off the new peepers.  Poetic Colors has released a series of fairy-tale inspired eyes, all in luminescent, ethereal colors.  I am in freakin’ love with this set.  All available with or without a glowing golden ring around the iris, a light or dark outer eyeball, and a matching glow prim to attach to each eye.  They’re gorgeous and hypnotic.

I went a little curly crazy today, but Silent Sparrow’s amazing new(ish) Gloomy line just inspired me.  There are so many pieces available: suits, jeans, different skirt styles, jackets, corsets.  All sporting lovely Burton-esque gothic curls in Hya’s usual compliment of rich, deep colors.  In this post I’m wearing the shrug jacket and the kilt-style skirt.

The hair and necklace I’m wearing today were picked up on 50L Friday.  I adore the idea of 50L Fridays, but unfortunately my schedule rarely allows me to take part. :\ Happily, I was able to sneak inworld for  a bit last Friday night, and I see now that I’m going to have to try every week.  Such an awesome haul!  I feel a little bad blogging some of those things now, but everything is still available in a different color and/or at regular price.  And honestly, I would have paid full price for any of these things.

More fantastic new boots from Lazy Places, available at the 2009 Footwear Expo. I love love love these boots!  They give you all the coolness of the animal-leg style boot, but with a sleeker, sexy, feminine shape.  Lazy Places continues to push forward in their niche, and put out some really awesome, innovative footwear.   I’m always excited to see what they have to offer.

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Categories: Accessories, Boots, Eyes, Fantasy Clothing, Goth, Hair, Jewelry, Mourna Biziou, Skins, Women's Clothing

Two more new hair fair acquisitions, and two older Silent Sparrow releases to remind you about hyasynth’s stupendous half-off sale!  If you haven’t availed yourself to this bargain yet, you’ll have to hurry.  Sale ends tonight at midnight.

Edit:  Apparently the sale ends tomorrow.  Wednesday, 6/24/09.  Whoops!

The “Cog Mistress” hair from The Stringer Mausoleum was just too perfect a match for Silent Sparrow’s “Toxine” suit.  And the cog hair ornaments are a separate attachment, so you can wear the hair without them.

Mourna a blonde!? That might just be one of the signs of the apocalypse.

I always have the most difficult time choosing my colors at Silent Sparrow. They’re all so beautiful and rich, I stand there in a muttering little flutter of indecision for what seems like an eternity.  Then I usually default to my standard red or black for easier mix-and-matching.  But this great sale as afforded me the opportunity to pick up some different colors than my norm, as seen above.

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Categories: Accessories, Boots, Eyewear, Fantasy Clothing, Hair, Mourna Biziou, SL Locations of Note, Steampunk, Women's Clothing

Sometimes

in winter

I go up to a high place

to see the sun

of spring

appear.

Details follow.

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Categories: Eyes, Eyewear, Grady Echegaray, Hair, Skins, Women's Clothing

Hats with feathers.  The upcoming July 4th.  There is a yankee-doodly play on words to be made there, but I just don’t have the cheese in me to do it it.  Consider yourself unamused, and let’s move on…

Wandering aimlessly last night, I ran across two, that’s right TWO befeathered top hats with hair attached.  My relationship with hats is usually a one-way affair.  I love hats… they just don’t love me back.

Yes, I know they’re similar.  Yes, I still had to have them both.  Don’t give me that look.  Come on, just LOOK at them.  You’d have done the same.  Don’t tell me you wouldn’t.

The first is the Thursday Hat from Gritty Kitty, and has some really nice scripting options for changing the hat, hatband, and feather colors.  The attached hair is long and wavy, with a loose knot in the back.

The next is Noah, from Philotic Energy.  No scripting, but the feathers can be easily tinted since the hat is mod.  The hair is short, messy, and kind of frantic.

And while we’re on the subject of feathery hats, I would be absolutely remiss if I didn’t mention one of the new piratey hats to come from the talented little fingers of Siyu Suen of Illusions.

They’re all covet-worthy, but my favorite of the bunch is the Bard’s Hat:

Once again, Siyu shows off her unholy talent with sculpted prims.  The hat shape is smooth and perfect. The feathers cascade down the center in a clever mixture of sculpted and flexi prims.  Both the hat and feathers are scripted with a beautiful selection of textures and colors.

I don’t know if any feathered fowl were harmed in the making of this post, but I don’t really care.

SLurls after the cut.

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Categories: Hats, Mourna Biziou, Women's Clothing