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Fukmi makes my Friday feel all ‘Sproingy!’

Fukmi makes my Friday feel all ‘Sproingy!’

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I’m a tired wee Kitster. I’m busy in real life, and now I’m busy in Second Life developing my shapes ready for launch. It’s an exciting time, but hasn’t left me much room for blogging new releases. Fortunately Fukmi Sideways dropped a couple of boxes of happiness upon me and this gorgeous top and trousers combo was in one of them. Isn’t it lush? It’s called the ‘Sproingy’ set and includes jewellery and shoes ( not shown) and is great quality with nice textures and very easy to adjust prim attachments. I’m all for the easy life me:) Fukmi really does create some great clothing, but what I love most of all is the fact that you can really see her continued development as a designer shining through her latest releases. I always ask myself the question, “Would I wear that in real life?” and the answer here is an unequivocal YES! What’s not to love? This is such a great outfit for summer for starters, plus all the additional elements make it, as always, superb value for money. Fukmi as you’re probably aware has an amazing range of items in her store and features a concept called ‘Dress Me Separates’; items specially created and selected for their mix and matchability. This is a prime example of that . For this look I’ve added a scarf from Callie Cline, (something that I’ve barely taken off since Callie gave it to us during Blogger Appreciation week), tatts from Sn@tch, hair from The Abyss and specs from Insolence ( these are my fave, they’re called ‘Danielle’ and I really love them) and voila! A rather snazzy girl about town look. I genuinely adore this and although I don’t want to keep bleating on about but it’s so immensely satisfying to see a designer who you’ve observed from the beginning go from strength to strength. Well done Fukmi, the ‘Sproingy’ set has indeed made my Friday just that little bit more…well, sproingy!
Check out Fukmi’s great blog by clicking here.
Outfit Details:
  • Top + Trousers from Fukmi Clothing
  • Scarf by Callie Cline
  • Skin by Redgrave
  • Hair by The Abyss
  • Tatts from Sn@tch
  • Glasses by Insolence
  • Eyes by Miriel
  • SHAPE FROM KITTYLICIOUS! ‘Selina’
  • Pose is from the Female Blogger’s Set by LAP
It’s not easy being green…

It’s not easy being green…

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..No, scrap that, contrary to popular belief, it is very easy being green! I’ve really enjoyed wearing this skin which was sent out as part of Blogger Appreciation Week. It’s called ‘Half Dragon Green Avatar’ and is by IEVL. I told you I would be trying out a load of new things and this is a bit of a starter for ten, don’t ya think? If I’m honest I wasn’t anticipating that much from this at all, but thought it would be only polite to give it a whirl seeing as the skin was a gift. I’m happy to say that I was pleasantly surprised by this look, in fact, I quite like it! As regular readers will no doubt be aware apart from my occasional Neko-play I don’t ever really try anything ‘alternative’ so I didn’t really know what to expect… I thought at best I’d look like the ‘Jolly Green Giant’, and at worst Zelda from Terrahawks, so imagine my delight when I saw how pretty this is! It’s a fetching shade of pale green and features a scale surface pattern (I’ve brightened it up a tad for the picture) It wears well, but I would have preferred to see smaller scales and a tad more shading on the body area. Those criticisms aside, I think that the face is especially lovely, butI didn’t rate the contacts that came as part of the package, fussy mare that I am – so I opted instead for my Miriel eyes in ‘Sunlit Tree’ and I think it all matches beautifully. The hair that I’m wearing was also a freebie, this time from Magika. It’s called ‘Curl’ and as you would expect from this brand it’s a stunning style, featuring excellent movement and shape. I love the hair-pin detailing and the shabbiness of this style..I’ve opted for black for this photo as I particularly liked the contrast with the skin.For my outfit I’m wearing a scarf that Callie Cline provided and I’m completely in love with it. It fits perfectly, the bow shape looks tidy yet fashionably loose, and I love the texture choice; I opted to wear this with a the group gift from CKSD, ‘Essential T-Shirt Dress’ in Teal. This is a great frock and the kind of inventory item that you can dress up, down and create utterly squillions of looks with. (I know some people need to dress their avs in office chic and I think this dress lends itself very well to that particular look) The dress is tidily finished with prim sleeves and skirt attachments that require minimal fiddling to fit. Finally to finish off the look are some amazing ‘Slip-on clogs -Jewels’ from Duh! Again, a brand that I had no previous experience of but are now firmly embedded in my mental ‘Kitty must shop there’ list. ( You can see those in my other green picture in my Flickr to the right of this post..see it? Good!) The shoes are utterly scrumptious and really complete the outfit. They look amazingly chunky with a fabulous texture on the heel and a lovely glossy finish to the main shoe. They’ve obviously been built with incredible care, and feature embellishment in the shape of either a gold or silver hoop that hangs loosely from the main body of the shoe and breaks up the chunkiness of the style. This takes the shoes into smart-casual territory, but that’s not to say that you can’t dress them down; obviously they work brilliantly with this dress but they would also look just as good with jeans or trousers. The final touch is this enormous chunky green ring, again a Blogger Week gift from Callie, that features a colour change fgem  so that I can match ‘The Rock’ to any outfit I choose

 I think this entire look works surprisingly well and I just love this photo..I hope you agree and are up for the challenge of giving an unusual skin a try-out. Go on, be brave..if I can do it so can you!

(Oh and if you think this is impressive..wait until you see what is up next!)

I’ve been to a marvellous party!

I’ve been to a marvellous party!

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Yesterday saw the culmination of the ‘Blogger Week’ celebrations. Callie Cline arranged a swish party that was held in a wonderful garden setting, festooned with flowers and large white blossoms containing even more gifts for us to snaffle and enjoy! I can honestly say the party was great fun. I met loads of my blogging peers and was in absolute awe at some of the names in attendance. Callie asked us all to wear a white vest and jeans, with no shoes, and minimal prims to allow as many avatars to attend as possible without causing undue lag. This was a cracking idea and it allowed for some great photo opportunities and this is pure speculation on my part but I’m sure that many new friends were made during the event. I know I had the pleasure of expanding my friends list and met some utterly lovely people. There was no drama and no hassle, just a lovely party atmosphere and a shedload of rampant bloggers sharing their love and occasionally pouncing upon the only men in attendance. I can only apologise profusely to Ben Vanguard, but he does have such a lovely bottom…. 

I’m going to be blogging about some of the designers who participated, and feature their gifts over the forthcoming days and weeks. If the aim of the event was to get bloggers writing about a wider variety of designers than usual then I think that it’s worked a treat because I’ve certainly been exposed to many new content creators that I wouldn’t normally have had the pleasure of visiting before. As you can imagine this has given me lots of food for thought and allowed me to try out some new styles, skins and looks that I would never have previously attempted.

There really aren’t enough hours in the day at the moment for me to be able to blog it all, but I’ll endeavour to try!

(PS I took LOADS of pictures, and then Flickr borked and I lost the majority of them..which is PANTS)

Kitty feels the love- THANK YOU!

Kitty feels the love- THANK YOU!

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Callie Cline is actively promoting an event that she has organised with her esteemed peers called ‘Blogger Appreciation Week’.   As the name would suggest it allows for content creators to share their  loving with us bloggy types, and to ‘thank us’ for all our hard work promoting items and generally writing the nonsense that we manage to get away with on a daily basis. I think it’s a lovely idea, and I confess was very touched by the concept, but to be honest, I feel appreciated each time someone drops me a note, some items for review or just spots me lurking in a corner and comes across to say “Hi” and tell me that that they read my blog:)

Nothing makes me happier than that actually. I always wanted to be a professional writer but like most things in life it didn’t quite pan out like that for me. Discovering Second life was a real turn on for me, because here was something I could fully immerse myself in, and to discover that people were blogging about in-world content made me realise that I could do the same for shiz and giggles too. I continually aspire to attain the heights of blogging greatness that uber blogs like Linden Lifestyles, my favourite fashion blog ever, reached. I’ve not scaled those dizzy heights by a long shot, but it’s good to have ambition and a goal to strive towards dontcha think?  I know I’m not the only one that feels that way too, just look at the blogs in my ever-expanding sidebar; they are all seriously good at what they do and I feel a real sense of priviledge to be included amongst their ranks:)

I didn’t actually ever expect Kittywitchin to become as successful as it is, because it was first and foremost purely a vanity project written for my own enjoyment and just as a way of improving my writing skills and getting published…but this blog has opened a lot of doors for me, make no mistake about that. I think my greatest achievement by far was writing for The Avastar, and I was actually earning from that too, which was a real bonus.

I can’t say it was uber-Linden, but it was more than enough to get me some frocks to review! Like some bloggers out there I don’t get actually get drowned with freebies for review and nor do I expect to. It’s always a pleasure when they arrive of course, but the rest of the time is spent hunting down the latest releases and shelling out a few Lindens so that I can go home, pose away in my photo studio and share the results with you, dear reader. But let’s be starigh- no one forced me to do this, it was entirely of my own volition, so don’t feel sorry for me, no siree-because regardless of whether I have any Lindens or not I should always have enough brain cells to be able to track something down in world that I can write about….lol!

But back to the subject at hand, ‘Blogger Appreciation Week’. Thanks so much for organising this!  I’m looking forward to it with much excitement and I’m very curious to see what you have in store for all of us bloggettes.

That said, I think it should also be ‘Reader Appreciation Week’, because without you guys bothering to  frequent  this blog from time to time there really wouldn’t be much point at all would there?

So here, have a Kitty hug (((hug))) and my heartfelt thanks, and feel free to give me one (ooer missus!) should you see me in world!