This month Zodiac focuses their attention on Aries. Aries is symbolized by the ram. The ram has come to represent attitude and courage. Aries natives are said to be leaders and are thought to approach life head-on. You can check out the Seraphim blog to see all that’s available at Zodiac this month.

I’m wearing the gorgeous Aries skin by Essences and the fairest of them all necklace by House of London. And my personal favorite, I’m using the confident Aries poses from Exposeur. I adore that these are so full of attitude and the best part is, they are only L$75! So take the slurl and head on down to Zodiac now.

(click here for a raw shot)

The shoes I’m wearing are a new release from Maitreya. There is a special offer on these shoes right now if you are in the Maitreya VIP Group. When you go to the footwear/mesh section in Maitreya, you’ll notice the VIP shoes on the top shelf along with the rest of them, but they will be at a reduced price. Just make sure to enable your tag and you’ll get them at the reduced price. This promo only lasts one month, so teleport now to pick them up.

I decided to complete my outfit with my sexy leather pants from Erratic. Erratic has recently moved their mainstore location and are having a 50% off sale on everything in the store. If you’ve never been to Erratic, you must go now and check out all their gorgeous mesh items.

I wanted to go with a heavy eyelash with this look, but the hair I’m wearing was messing with my mesh lashes. So I decided to wear my tattoo lashes that I recently put up in my marketplace store. About two years ago I was goofing around in photoshop and created some tattoo lashes which I sent to my group inworld. Since then, from time to time, people would IM and ask me for them. I have long since deleted those ones now (I didn’t really like them). However I still kept getting requests so I made up five new ones for fun and put them up last week. You’ll find them at this link. I wear them underneath my mesh lashes for a fuller look sometimes as well. If you try them out, let me know what you think!

Finally, I wanted to bring up something that happened recently to a content creator, which I was pretty shocked to hear. Lilith Heart was recently banned from SL for 24 hours with no explanation whatsoever. I asked my friends on plurk if anything like that ever happened to them and they all responded with more of their own horror stories about being banned with no explanations. This whole thing has kind of freaked me out and I wonder how often does this happen to people? Has it ever happened to you? It’s never happened to me, but the thought of it is kind of scary.

Credits:
*Skin: Essences Aries 03 *sunkissed* brown by Inka Mexicola (@ Zodiac Aries)
Eyes: Mayfly – Deep Sky Mesh Eye (Desert Dawn, w4) by Arkesh Baral
Eyelashes: StrawberrySingh.com – Eyelash – 4 by Strawberry Singh
*Hair: >TRUTH< Teddy – chocolate by Truth Hawks
*Nose Piercing: +ROZOREGALIA+*Gemma*Nose Piercing1/C by ROZOREGALIA Braveheart
*Top: Maitreya Dakota Top * Khaki Tiger S by Onyx LeShelle
*Pants: erratic / zoey – leather pants / black (S) by Erratic Rain (50% off sale)
*Shoes: Maitreya August Ankle Boots * Oil XXS-XS by Onyx LeShelle
*Watch: GizzA – Asia Watch&Bracelet [Black-Silver] Watch&Bracelet by Giz Seorn
Nails: Candy Nail #P024 Magic of Witch Black by peche Bury
*Necklace: House of London – {Cherry} Fairest Necklace – onyx by London Dailey (@ Zodiac Aries)
*Poses: {.:exposeur:.} Call The Shots by RubyStarlight Writer (@ Zodiac Aries)
Location: Innsmouth

So I was really excited to have found this beautiful sim on Honour McMillan’s blog and I couldn’t wait to shoot there. I even liked the way the pictures were turning out but while I was processing them I was chatting with my friend, Anubis Darkwatch, and I asked him his opinion on something in the picture and he said, and I quote, “Looks like Mars, I’m waiting for Curiosity to stroll by.” RUINED! He’s RUINED my pictures cuz now I will forever think that I was on Mars. Thanks Anubis! :P

Anyhow, I’m really excited about this post for several reasons and the first one is my new, amazingly awesome mesh hair. I had never been to Alice Project before but then I saw this awesome picture of Mr. Jefferson on his flickr and heard there was a sale going on so I had to make some time to head on over there. All of the hair (and there’s lots of mesh goodies) is 50% off! You really HAVE to go take advantage of this sale because the styles are quite amazing. I think out of all the hair I picked up today, this is my fav! The sale ends on the 15th (which is today) so take the slurl and go now!

The other exciting news is one of my other favorite stores, Wishbox, is also having a sale right now! I really love their silks and in fact one of my most fav pics I’ve taken is in one of their silks, you can check it out on my flickr here. The sale at Wishbox ends on Monday the 17th so take the slurl now and get shopping!

While I was processing these images I was thinking about this old bollywood song that I used to love, still do. It’s kind of a sad song and went with my sad mood today. Here’s a modern version of the song with english subtitles, but I must warn you that these subtitles are really horrible and take a lot away from the poetry but at least it’ll give you a little idea of the song in case you were wondering.

Credits:
*Skin: [PXL] FAITH OL NE MEB C1 by Hart Larsson
Hair: *Alice Project* Hyori [L] – Infinity by Alice Demonia
*Outfit: [Wishbox] Wanderlust (Indigo) by Wisp Jinn
*Necklace: MG – Necklace – AngelWings – Long – S Pendant – SILVER by Maxi Gossamer
*Bangles: Zaara : Nizam Bangles *purple* by Zaara Kohime
Nails: Candy Nail #FP006 Clear Glitter French 3color change by Peche Bury
*Poses: Adorkable Poses by Adorkable Peapod
Location: The Edge of the World

It’s been a week since the start of the month of Ramadan and I have been really enjoying waking up with the family and all the activities that pertain to this month. I did get sick however and had to miss a few fasts but I’m hoping to be back fasting real soon. I thought it would be fun to have an Eid sale on my advertising rates this month. So from now till August 25th, you can get my two month rate at a discounted price. Check out my advertising page for all the rates, information and also links to my site statistics at the bottom. If you already have an ad with me, you can of course also add two months to your current campaign for that price.

The skin I’m wearing in this post is the latest release from Essences and it’s my fav of theirs yet. Indy comes in a variety of tones and eyebrow options. Check out her flickr for all the details. I also love the dark tone, but decided to go with the medium tone for this post.

raw shot from SL

Finally, today I have been having serious issues with SL viewers. I cannot seem to stay online longer than about 5 mins at a time with firestorm or exodus. I was able to stay on a bit longer with the official viewer but then that also started crashing again. This also happens with my Alt that has less than 5K inventory and also on 3 different regions. I plurked about it earlier and apparently I wasn’t the only one having issues today, here’s the plurk: http://www.plurk.com/p/gy5v7s

While I was on the official viewer I decided to play with depth of field again and then I remembered why I never usually do. It doesn’t really work for me when I hit the snapshot button. I know others that have the same issue and they always IM me and ask and I never have an answer for them. Does anyone know why depth of field does that?

This is a picture I took by hitting the snapshot button and the depth of field just disappeared: https://my.secondlife.com/strawberry.singh/snapshots/50145ea390f79b3315000001
This is a picture I took with the depth of field on by hitting “ctrl~” this is the only way I can capture the depth of field.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/strawberrysingh/7664571180

So why doesn’t depth of field work when I hit the snapshot button? Anyone have a solution for this?

Credits:
*Skin: {.essences.} INDY – Medium (brunette) by Inka Mexicola
Eyes: Mayfly – Deep Sky Mesh (Deep Honey Hazel, w4)) by Arkesh Baral
*Hair: >TRUTH< Kara – clove by Truth Hawks
Mesh Feet: Slink Barefeet Mesh Medium by Siddean Munro
*Hammock: :Cheeky Pea: Lilith Hammock by Isla Gealach

Before I start talking about what I’m wearing and stuff, can I just get you guys to please follow this link for me? https://twitter.com/strawberrysingh/status/222812045203095552
Perfect, thank you, now that I’ve trolled all my readers I can continue. Sorry! :P

After revealing how I’ve made myself a lot smaller in my “What’s your Digits? – Take 2” post, I had some people complain that I made myself too thin. A certain someone even said I wasn’t trophy wife material. Not that I really WANT to be a trophy wife but I figured I’d take on the challenge of changing myself into a trophy wife, just for fun.

So I googled “What does a trophy wife look like?” and after reading about 50 different weird sites, blogs and even how-to pages I found out that all trophy wives usually have three B’s: Blonde hair, big boobs and big butts. Not sure how accurate that is but I thought, alright lets go for it.

So this is my new trophy wife shape. It was actually kind of fun making her. I made her a lot taller so she’s 7’2″ according to the Avatar Ruler, her boobs are more than double the size of my original shape and her ass is just perfectly plump. I boosted up her body fat quite a bit too.

However, after doing all this I realized I didn’t even fit into the large standard size for mesh. I did however find that I fit into the size C from Hucci because she makes two curvier shapes for her mesh. I actually kind of like this shape a lot and might break it out once in a while.

So what do y’all think of my trophy wife shape compared to my regular shape?

Credits:
*Skin: -Glam Affair- Leah Light – 01 BL by Aida Ewing (50% off Summer Sale going on right now)
Eyes: Mayfly – Deep Sky Mesh (Desert Dawn, w4) by Arkesh Baral
*Hair: >TRUTH< Savina (Mesh) – swedish by Truth Hawks
*Tank: ::HH:: Hucci Penelope Tank C – Soft Apricot by Eboni Khan @ Collabor88 for July
*Pants: Maitreya Leather Legging * M Olive by Onyx LeShelle
Nails: Candy Nail #FP006 Clear Glitter French 3color change by Peche Bury
Ring: Paper Couture: p.c; Diamonds and Pearl Ring by Cora Lu
*Necklace: [ glow ] studio – Crystal Necklace (gold-black) by Jocelyn Anatine
*Poses: Diesel Works by Rogan Diesel (50% off Annual Sale going on right now)
Location: New York City SL

Chic has turned two and is having a fantastic birthday bash from June 3rd till the 24th. 150 designers are participating, each with their own exclusive item for this event. The skin I’m wearing is Mia by Glam Affair and is available at CHIC². The Serphim blog has done a great job of covering this Chic event, check it out at this link.

FaMESHed has also started again this month, this time with even more designers participating with their unique mesh items. The dress, jewels and chair you see in the pictures are all from FaMESHed. I love the adorable babydoll dress from Pixel Mode which is available in six different patterns and colors. Also a favorite is this chair from Mudhoney which comes with ten couples animations and 23 singles animations. I had a lot of fun playing around with the poses in this. Seraphim blog has covered FaMESHed as well.

Finally, the leggings I’m wearing are from {Zaara} and Zaara is currently having her annual sale, so everything in the {Zaara} store is 50% off till June 9th (which incidently is Ms. Zaara Kohime’s birthday). Zaara has also gone ahead and reduced the prices in her marketplace store as well to 50% off. So now you can shop to your heart’s content right from the comfort of your skybox. :P

Credits:
*Skin: -Glam Affair- Mia Natural 02 by Aida Ewing (Available at CHIC²)
*Eyes: FATEeyes by Damien Fate
*Hair: ::Exile:: London Rain:Stefani by Kavar Cleanslate
*Dress: [PM]Pixel Mode – Babydoll – Black by Tya Fallingbridge (Available at FaMESHed)
*Leggings: Zaara : Nishar leggings *white* by Zaara Kohime (Annual Sale)
*Shoes: [Gos] Desire Ankle Boot by Gospel Voom
*Jewels: Maxi Gossamer Jewelry for FaMESHed (Available at FaMESHed)
*Furniture + Poses: MudHoney Laura Oversize Chair by Ravyn Hynes (Available at FaMESHed)