For a few minutes I was hugely excited by this news. I even started planning my shots and outfit choices in my head…and then I realised, I can’t possibly enter:(

I don’t own a Celestial skin.

Now, before you suggest the obvious, I did consider buying one but thought again, because if I did that, well-it just wouldn’t be ‘me’, Kitty, anymore would it?

Ok, at a base level Kitty is no more than a shape called Joellyn, and a skin called Paris. Add some Lapis Lazuli eyes by Wiccan Soujourner and you have, well, me:)

But there is so much more to her than that. I would go so far as to say like a lot of people in-world I really love my avatar. She/ me is more than just a collection of skin, shape, hair and clothes items. She has her own personality, friends…she’s an extension of myself.

I am so attached to her/my appearance now that If I changed it for a competition I’d almost feel like I was betraying the Kitty I’ve come to love.

And even though I’m sorely tempted to enter the competition ( anything for L$20000) I wouldn’t trade her for the world.

It’s just like Bagpuss…a saggy cloth cat, loose at the seams….but Emily loved him:)