She’s So Unusual Fairy
I stepped a little outside my box and went with a fantasy-style picture…all because of the shoes! As I posted a couple of days ago, I recently won a $300 Gift Certificate to She’s So Unusual Shoes because of a photo Flickr contest that Rowan was holding. One of the shoes that I chose was the Pink Butterfly Flats. These shoes are absolutely adorable with little butterflies on the tips of the toes.
I had already decided that I would submit more photos for June’s Flickr contest, therefore these shoes alone inspired the entire picture below. However, with almost everything in my life (both Real and Second), there’s a story behind everything that I do! I guess that’s why I love blogging so much.
As I have mentioned in previous blogs, I am not as new to SL as my AV suggests. I returned in early May after leaving SL behind for a bit to take care of some things in RL. Honestly, I wasn’t even sure I would make it back….but that’s not the point of my story. The point is that when I was thinking of what I was going to wear with the shoes for a picture, I knew I wanted to do a fairy-style picture. I looked all over for the perfect outfit. I searched in-world and in SL Exchange for ‘fairy’, for ‘pixie’ and even for ‘ballet’ and ‘ballerina’ and just couldn’t find what I was picturing in my head. I pride myself in having Google-Fu skills, but sometimes my SL searches are lacking. However, I remembered a Fab Free blog post from WAY BACK that had the dress that I was picturing. Sometimes my memory is just enough to be dangerous, and this case was no exception. I was pretty sure that I remember it being in November because of some events around that time that were popping into my memory along with the dress. I clicked on the Costumes tag in the Fab Free blog and went ALLLLLL the way back to November….couldn’t find it. Finally I just went to November and eventually found THE DRESS! The blog said that the dress was available for a limited time, so I was pretty sure that it was no longer free. I figured I’d check to see if it was Not Free, anyway. Low and behold, it was still free and still on the table as you enter DG Innovations! YAY!
I’ll spare you the details in searching for the perfect location for the picture, because you got it….there’s a story behind that, too! I settled on the Straylight sim and found the perfect spot near the landing point.
There’s still more to the story. Sometime during the massive perfect dress search or while taking the pictures in Straylight, Ashia Tomsen posted in the Free Style blog….featuring the dress that I spent at least an hour (possibly two) looking for! *HEAD.DESK* Now let it be known that I read MANY, MANY blogs throughout the day during my RL job, then at night when I am home in SL, so it’s just Murphy’s Law enough for Ashia to post sometime right after I found the dress. Since there’s no time stamp on the post, I can’t be certain, but I’m pretty sure that I would have seen it before my search began. But anyway, the picture is complete, and I’m happy….isn’t that all that matters?
Finally, here’s a closeup of the adorable Pink Butterfly Flats that inspired it all.
Shoes: SSUS! Pink Butterfly Flats
Skin: Tuli – S6 elf rose (group freebie)
Eyes: Sin Skins – Intense Sage/Gold
Hair: Frangipani Zoey – Fairyfloss
Outfit: **DG* Innovations – Mana
Wings: Neural Blankes (N) Wings ~ for Pink Butterfly Flats (found in the SSUS store)
