Love Thursday: silent sparrow

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I love silent sparrow.

I'm not even sure how I found it. I'd guess I was in search of a steampunky brown coat, became enthralled by pretties, and ... well, it's not that I never left, I do leave the shop, I just keep going back. In fact, any time I find myself in possession of a goodly amount of L$, chances are a chunk will be traded in for virtual brocade (or a shruggie sweater, nowadays) at the silent sparrow sim or one of the satellite shops. I've selected four of my current favorite ~ss~ ensembles to show off today.

Love Thursday ~ss~ creme nephilim

First up, two recent releases in a lovely color called creme that reminds me of orange sherbet and vanilla ice cream. I barely made a week before my resolve to get just one color of nephilim to start crumbled and crumbled and crumbled some more. The Relay for Life edition is a lovely vibrant pink, so if you love pink (and I do!), you can get the candy nephilim suite either at the ~ss~ fair booth or the main store. The shorts (and underpants you can't spot, but they're under there!) are from the cocoa toxine swim suite, a custom fishing prize available at the ~ss~ fishing spot (forced landing point at the sim, I think, so follow the beacon or touch the fishing area sign in the shop to tp).

Love Thursday ~ss~ lucky

This second outfit is several pieces of the lucky set from the Magic of Oz St Patrick's Day hunt, which runs through March 22nd. It includes a lovely golden yellow and green version of the nephilim shrug jacket I didn't show you in the previous picture because I'm too much in love with the shruggies. I admit it, I love the shruggies! I wanted the next set primarily to acquire another shruggie for my growing legion of arm-warming, chest-baring sweaters! Ahem. I loves them, okay?

Love Thursday ~ss~ sorrow suite

This set is one of two currently available in the group-only lucky bird. The other's a suit outfit, which I've not won yet, but both sets are available for purchase (vendor next to the lucky bird). The sorrow suite is a mashup of the following: shruggie, fond affections (bustier), nephilim (stockings, garters, system skirt I didn't wear here), fleur (panties). I shall inevitably pair the shruggie with some bits of Seelie to run around as a slightly-indecent fairything at some point... maybe tomorrow?

Love Thursday ~ss~ frost suzume lolita

And here, finally, is the look I started out with this morning. It's bits of the frost group gift from a couple months ago (suzume top, suzume shorties, suzume lolita skirt) with bonus lavendar shruggie from the spring cleaning sale at Fantasma Plaza. I'm not sure how long that sale is running, so if you want to snag shruggies for a great deal (100L gets you the color of your choice plus bonus lavender shruggie), bamf over there. (Stuff was still out when I checked midday SLT today.)

I can't go on and on about ~ss~ without recognizing my love for the shop has a lot to do with the respect and admiration I have for its proprietress, hyasynth Tiramisu. I'm in awe of her talent, of course, and love the things she creates that make me look so damn elegant as I run around the grid doing God-only-knows-what sort of random dorkwork, but what I love most about her is this: even with all the success of the shop, she's grounded. She knows who she is, she knows what she wants to do, she's unfraid to be her own person—or if there's any fear, it's not obvious. And the kicker? She doesn't seem to realize how amazing she is. I'm guilty of same, I doubt myself an awful lot, but I often let fear and perfectionism bully me into inaction. (Which is why I am a slacky, slacky blogger.)

She's often clad in some lovely mashup of recent ~ss~ releases, in blues or blacks, but on the day she released the frost group gift, she was a bird:

raven hya @ new ~ss~ build

The shop may be named for a sparrow, but ain't she just the cutest raven you ever did see?


#1 ~ creme nephilim
Skin: Infinity (Ava - pure honey - Look #6)
Hair: Maitreya (Piper II - Caramel)
Eyes: Miriel (Standard Eyes - Aquamarine)
Lashes: Sin Skins (Portia Lashes)
Shrug: silent sparrow (shruggie - creme)
Corset & Skirt: silent sparrow (nephilim suite - creme)
Shorts & Bikini Bottom: silent sparrow (toxine swim suite - cocoa) *fishing prize*
Necklace: Violet Voltaire (Kawaii Cameo Necklace - Skull)
Boots: ETD (Buckle Boots - Black)
Pose: Reel Expression (*Luth* Sex Sells 08)

#2 ~ lucky
Skin: Infinity (Ava - pure honey - Look #6)
Hair: Maitreya (Piper II - Caramel)
Eyes: Miriel (Standard Eyes - Aquamarine)
Lashes: Sin Skins (Portia Lashes)
Clothing: silent sparrow (lucky suite) *Magic of Oz hunt gift*
Shoes: Periquita (Fat Lulu Green)
Poses: Long Awkward Pose ([LAP] - Sexy Salute; [LAP] - Preg-Still Got It)

#3 ~ sorrow suite
Skin: Infinity (Ava - pure honey - Look #2)
Hair: Celestial Studios (Streamer II - Raven)
Eyes: Miriel (Standard Eyes - Aquamarine)
Lashes: Sin Skins (Portia Lashes)
Clothing: silent sparrow (sorrow suite) *group lucky bird set*
Earrings: Violet Voltaire (Harajuku Girls - Blue)
Shoes: (Breakneck pumps - black)
Pose: Long Awkward Pose ([LAP] - Pinup Girl)

#4 ~ frost suzume lolita
Skin: Infinity (Ava - pure honey - Look #2)
Hair: Maitreya (Piper II - Caramel)
Eyes: Miriel (Standard Eyes - Aquamarine)
Lashes: Sin Skins (Portia Lashes)
Shrug: silent sparrow (shruggie - lavendar) *Fantasma Plaza spring cleaning sale bonus gift w/ purchase of other color shruggies*
Top, Skirt, Shorties: silent sparrow (frost) *group gift*
Stockings: Sn@tch (Raggedy Socks - Purple)
Shoes: Shiny Things (Francoise flats - purpleswirl) *RFL 2008 item*
Pose: Maitreya (CCRunwayPose10)