52 Crayola Crayons week four - Mountain Meadow

Week four   Mountain Meadow #30BA8F 48, 186, 143

Outfit	*katat0nik* (green) Bowie Dress (mesh)	SLURL
Jewelery	MG - Necklace - Butterfly - Jewelled - GOLD+SILVER	Marketplace
Hair	.:EMO-tions:. * FALLING *	SLURL
Pose	*~*HopScotch*~* The Water Bearer I	SLURL
Pose	Pose is from the Zodiac Aquarius event	SLURL
Sim	Steelhead St Helens	SLURL

  Next Week's Crayon!!

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252, 40, 71

Scarlet

I'm late in posting this as I was waiting on info on both my hardrive and trying to get a hold of Ambrose.  I'll explain that in a bit. For now ..the color!

Mountain Meadow, is yet another color only available in the big 120 pack and was introduced in 1998. I so did not do that on purpose, but the newer colors have such fun names!

Finding this shade was so tricky for me, its such a dusty shade of green. Everything I was finding was too yellow or too dark.  I did eventually track down this cute lil mesh number from katat0nik that worked!

I decided to go to Steelhead St Helens' for the photo, due to the color name, and when is saw the waterfalls on the mountain I knew the perfect pose was at the current round of Zodiac.

As for what Turlock is doing, his idea was that since it was a green, he'd be uh..coloring..my outfit, or somethings along those lines.


I still do not have my master color list. Ambrose up and moved on me into a new apartment, and does not have internet in it yet. I was getting so worried when he never responded I ended up calling him today and found this out! he said he'll try to get me it tomorrow when he goes to his moms house.  So for next weeks color I looked at the crayon list and picked one at random.

As for my hard drive's state. I'm in a holding pattern on information on it. Marsh says he thinks it got damaged in transit to him, as now it wont come on at all, when before it would boot up, just get stuck and not open windows.  He's got a few more tricks up his sleeves to try before he calls it a loss though. So cross your fingers everyone!

He's also already working on setting up the new computer for me, even has already installed both the official Sl viewer and firestorm!  

52 Crayola Crayons week three - Blue Bell

Week Three   Blue Bell #A2A2D0 162, 162, 208

Outfit  BC Hertfordshire Silk Blouse Marketplace Outfit  Graffitiwear Faded Dramatic Denime SLURL Jewelery ::: Krystal ::: Gift Box - Happy 2013! Pure Love group gift SLURL Hair .:EMO-tions:. * LISSI * SLURL Hair Caverna Obscura Bluebell Wreath box SLURL Pose Schadenfreude Posing Sparrows SLURL Sim My Home plot in Steelhead Nevermoor SLURL

Next Week's Crayon!!   Mountain Meadow #30BA8F 48, 186, 143

Ambrose is super lagging on getting me my color list! I dunno why I have only managed to catch him online once. But I looked at the master crayon color list on Wikipedea and remembered what one I used. Hopefully I;ll have the master list by Wednesday so I can make the post for the next color then.

 I'm able to go in world via Adar's computer. It's set up in the living room attached to the TV so using it is awkward for me, it works for him.  I am not comfortable enough using it to explore so till I get mine working again I'll just be doing a pose someplace around the Steelhead sims.  Adar's comp has no image editing or gallery making programs on it as well. I have to send the photo to Turlock for cropping and resizing so really, this is the easiest way all around.

When I'm not on Adar's comp for secondlife, I'm on Turlock's netbook, which is tiny but better then nothing!

On the state of my computer, the hard drive is on its way to Arizona to be recovered. My computer guru, a dear friend for well over a decade who works in IT professionally,  swears on everything he knows I hold dear he can recover all my information on it.  He'll have it in his hands on Tuesday so I am holding in a funk over loss of years worth of files till then.

When he returns it, no matter the state, it will be with an upgraded computer. The one I was supposed to get last May but we had some issues.  So...shadows! yay!  Also windows 8 so that's going to take some getting used to as I was working off of win xp. I hate that it took an event like this to get the upgrade, but also looking forwards to getting it back.  Granted I'll be paying Marsh money out of every paycheck for MONTHS now, but it will be nice to not be working off of a 5 year old computer badly in need of upgrading.  The only reason i managed second life as well as i was is I had a good graphics card!  My processor speed SUCKED.


Now, for info on this color! Blue Bell. I like the flower, its pretty and its a pretty color.  The crayon itself is, like Almond, another color only found in the big 120 box of crayons and was introduced in 1998. I really need to get myself one of those huge boxes for uh...research. Checking the screen color against the crayon!  Yes..thats why I need it *shifty look and hides her crayon hoard*

I wanted a fun outfit for the color, and found the jeans in my inventory, there is a band on the bell bottoms that change fabrics. The shirt I picked up for this color as I could find NOTHING that fit. And it was a tricky color as well..did i look in my blues or purples?

Turlock will be joining me for Mountain Meadow, hes got some silly idea planned for it.  But it should be cute.

Computer down computer down!

My computer has BSOD and we can not revive it just yet. All my crayon files are on it. I REALLY hope I haven't lost years worth of files on that harddrive.

This means till I can get ti fixed and access my files I'm going to have to put the challenge on hold. Feel free to post your bluebell though! Ambrose has my color chart so If I can get ahold of him I can post next weeks colors. I just can't post my own takes on them.

52 Crayola Crayons week two - Rose Dust

I made a mistake in last weeks post with the RGB of this weeks color. It was still the one for Almond, I've made sure to give the correct RGB for Rose Dust today and the correct codes for next weeks color. I did give the correct hex code both weeks. I am sorry about the mix up.

Week Two   Rose Dust #9e5e6f 158, 94, 111

Outfit  (Kunglers) Ingrid gown SLURL Jewelery EarthStones Vintage Romance Necklace - Lady SLURL Hair >TRUTH< Amelie SLURL Pose [LAP] Gown with the Wind SLURL Sim Brookes forest SLURL

Next Week's Crayon!!   Blue Bell #A2A2D0 162, 162, 208

Yesterday was my Birthday, so for this weeks color I wanted it to be something I LOVE, and so I chose Rose Dust. Roses are my second favorite flower, my first is Columbines. And my favorite color is pink. So I chose a rosy pink shade for this week.

The Rose Dust Crayon came out in 1990 as part of the Silver Swirls set. All these crayons have a silvery metallic sheen to them. I had/have a box and they where fun to work with. If you took a tissue or piece of fabric and buffed the crayon on the paper it made it shimmer even more.

I've had this stunning gown by Kunglers for a while and have been waiting for a good chance to wear it. I love how silky it looks. I added a lovely necklace by Earthstone to complete the look.

For the sim, I wanted a beautiful one to explore. I have said in the past how much I love and adore Andrek Lowell's forest builds. I found one I had not been to yet. Called Brookes Forest, It's on Linden land, not a full sim. But still lovely.

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After waiting on things to rez I set to exploring. I was not disappointed with his build at all. There are even two of Andrek's famous quests. I'm standing in front of one in the top photo. Sadly, I could not finish them as the land owner has it set to no build, meaning you can't rez the quest items to finish the quest. Pitty. The prizes are often very cute. When I noticed that it was no build I stopped looking for the items.

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The build has many snuggle and social areas scattered about to use. and some very lovely trees. Two caves and a gypsy wagon! And if you get bored of it, its between a water area with boats and an airport! Do go check it out!

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All of my photos are at this link.

I gave Ambrose my list of colors for the year and he's possibly going to start making an item with it for his bakery. I hope he does! It should be most interesting to see what he comes up with!

52 Crayola Crayons week one - Almond

Lets get this started fully!!

Week One   Almond #EFDECD 239, 222, 205

Outfit  *BOOM* Hye Tube Dress  SLURL Hair :EMO-tions:. * ANGEL SLURL Pose [LAP] Gown with the Wind SLURL Sim The Tower SLURL

Next Week's Crayon!!   Rose Dust #9e5e6f 239, 222, 205

I wish I could figure out how to get blogger to NOT add those white borders around photos! Argh!

The Color Almond is found only in the big 120 box of crayons. It was introduced in 1998 and can still be bought today. It is of course named for the Nut, which is my favorite nut..mm..almonds! Which is why I chose this one! And it's first as the list of crayons I found was alphabetical and I didn't see a reason to change this one from the starting color. PLUS, its a pale neutral which are always a challenge for me.

The outfit I found is a lovely mesh sheath dress by Boom. A brand that is new to me, but I liked the lace detail on the front quite a lot.

The sim I chose to explore in this color is a LEA art sim by Rebeca Bashly Called The Tower. I believe it will be taken down soon, if it has not already been. So go quickly to check it out! I found it very thought provoking and moving.

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All of my photos of the Tower can be found here.

Looking forwards to seeing if anyone is doing this challenge with me!! I'd still do it no matter what, Luna's challenge gave me a reason to blog every week and I want to keep that up.

Happy New Year!

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52 box of Crayons Color Challenge, the first color

Softpaw's 52 Box of Crayons Color Challenge info!!

I thought I'd release the first color a few days before I make my post with it on the 2nd when this officially starts. So anyone wanting to start on this can get a jump on it! So, with out further adieu .here it is!

Almond

#EFDECD
239, 222, 205

I'll be showing off my choice of outfit and reveling next weeks color on January 2nd! And each Wednesday after that! I can't wait to see what everyone does!

Don't forget I've created a Flicker group and anInworld group for it.

You'll be able to keep up with my Crayon posts as I'll Actually be tagging these ones as Crayon, there is a link in the sidebar to them!



And if you want to try your hand at a weekly color challenge a bit harder then mine, check out Sookie Triellis' Twisted Color Challenge! What makes it twisted? You have to use TWO colors!

My Color Challenge

As The wonderful Luna's two years worth of color challenges are over and she is justifiably not doing a third round, a few bloggers are starting their own. It was fun, gave us something to post each week and challenged us to step out of our color safety zones. We hated to see it go!

I would now be among those bloggers starting their own! I thought what I could do to make mine different. And settled on a favorite of mine. CRAYONS!

Every color I am going to use is a color of Crayola Crayons.

I'm calling it the 52 box of Crayons Color Challenge.

I've got a good, wide selection of colors picked out. Some I liked the color, some I liked the name of the color. There will be however, two colors that are NOT crayons, and I will explain why I changed and used those colors when I get to them. They are for specific dates and are special colors I wanted to use despite not being a crayon.

Unlike the other challenges, and Luna's own, mine will be posted on the Wednesday of each week. Why then and not Sunday? Due to my Renaissance Faire Schedule I have MANY weeks where I will not be HOME on Sunday to post. So, I figured Wednesday will work for me!

Which means my first color will be posted on January 2nd!

I've created a Flicker group and anInworld group for it.

I know its a long shot but if any designers want the colors, I have the whole year planned out so just ask and I'll shoot you them!

Join in if you want to! I hope some do!

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Another 52 weeks of color - Week 52

Week Fifty Two: Amazon

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Outfit Nomine Ameno Gown Apple - 4 SLURL
Hair !!Calico Creations!! Isis 2 SLURL
Pose *~*HopScotch*~* Sculpted Gown Poses SLURL
SimDescent of Christmas Spirit SLURL




So, here we have it, The last 52 weeks Of Color, not only of the year, but of the whole thing. Unless some one picks it up or I do it on my own! Which I am pondering. I just have no idea how to get the random color names and such.

I wanted something epic and amazing for this last color. And found it while searching for it. This dress by Nomine is a limited edition gown. I forget how many but there are not THAT many of them on the grid. So with that, plus its just a STUNNING show stopper of an outfit, I felt it was the perfect gown to end this on.

For the location, I pondered just using the same photo sphere and simple background I used on my epic catch up post when I started this. Then I went naaann..and found a unique sim with still a bit of a Christmas theme to it. I had planned to post this a LOT sooner then today! The sim build called Descent of Christmas Spirit in the destination guide fit the bill perfectly.

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A weirdly surreal sim, it has many nooks and crannies to explore. some only able to be accessed by the teleport pads located at each location. It was done up for the Holidays in a way that still fit with the sim. Very unique and beautiful in its way. It took me a lot longer to explore then I had anticipated so thusly this post coming so late!

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Click here to see all of my photos. I took a LOT.

Now to figure out what to do with myself with this challenge over!

And Thank you Luna. For hosting this Challenge, You made me break out of my comfort box in what to wear in SO many ways!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

IT'S CHRISTMAS DAY!!!!

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