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Sketch: My heart belongs to Old Spice Guy.

Published on July 16, 2010 in Digital, Interesting Links, Sanu Stuff, Sketch and second life. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , .
Kat Johnston Sketch: My heart belongs to Old Spice Guy.

Ok, I’ll admit it… I still think that it is beyond awesome that my tweet got picked to get a personalized response by the Old Spice Guy on youtube. From the surely thousands of questions that would have been propelled towards the Old Spice team, it feels really great to be one of the ordinary people who got a personal reply. This was my tweet:

“@OldSpice If Old Spice was originally for the ladies (as Wiki states), are you certain these new scents are quite manly enough?”

I was informed that Old Spice was originally for the ladies (this is the wiki article I was referring to), but its many very manly side-effects made it more suitable for the menfolk. He even did air-quotes around the ‘as Wiki states’ bit!

That video has now racked up over 76,000 views. How awesome is that?

Annnnnyhow, onto other things!

For those of you who would have picked up the Hootie Set last weekend at Sanu in Second Life, you might recognize the picture today! It is a similar blue heart, and a bit of a sneak peek at a new little product which will be out soon. I’ve been so flat-out with things lately that I haven’t had time to finish them up yet though, so it might take a few days before they’re out. Right this second I am so flat out with real life thingies and the Blur exhibition in Second Life that I just haven’t had time to finalize them yet. Doh!

That’s all for now, in any case. The Blur exhibition opens up tomorrow, and once I am finished with everything for that, I will be sure to post pictures of my contributions. I’m really exciting to be taking part in it!

Sanu in SL and Photography: Tastes of Summer.

Published on June 27, 2010 in Digital, Interesting Links, Photos, Sanu Stuff and second life. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , .
Kat Johnston Photography: A photograph of plump, juicy strawberries, with one dipped in home-made white chocolate ganache.

Let’s start with a nice little photo I took last night! I really need to get a better camera, better lighting and some reflectors if I plan on doing this all that often – but I still think they turned out pretty great. For a post-baking snack I had some plump, juicy strawberries dipped in some left-over white chocolate ganache which I had made up to top some very tasty cupcakes.

If you’d like a recipe for the ganache, I’ve posted one with this picture on flickr. Ganache is really rather simple to make, is very versatile and tends to impress, too! You can also find the rest of the strawberry pictures there in the set ‘sweet treats’!

Sanu in Second Life: A peapod lounge, bringing together the awesomeness that is peas and lounging!

And here’s the Sanu update for today. There’s actually three colours of the peapod lounges available – all nice, fresh shades of green. This lounge has been in the works for a little while, actually – they were built soon after the yummy peapods were made. I just had to wait a little while to get the perfect system for adding the animations.

Rather than having to rely on pose-balls, these lounges use low-lag scripts which have a menu, allowing anyone who sits on it to adjust their position perfectly using movements in all directions and rotation where needed. That means that it can fit almost any avatar every time! Certainly an improvement on needing to have the owner around to adjust it for you if needed, don’t you think?

Sanu in SL: Yummy peapods, summer flats, and some other cute things!

Published on June 24, 2010 in Digital, Sanu Stuff and second life. 3 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , .
Sanu in Second Life: Tasty, delicious, yummy peapods! I absolutely love fresh peas, don't you?

It’s a day for a Sanu update, because I’ve been neglect in anything on this blog for a couple of weeks due to my tonsillitis and flu. Urgh… being sick just sucks.

First up, as you can see above, are some yummy little peapods!

Sanu in Second Life: Nothing screams summer fun like some cute flats in pastel shades, don't you think?

Next up… some fun summer flats. It is actually winter here in Australia, but in the states everything is sun and sand at the height of Summer! Therefore, I just had to do some summery releases.

Sanu in Second Life: Who can stop at just one pair of flats? Are you rediculous? Here's some more, with flowers!

Annnnd I couldn’t just stop at one style.

Sanu in Second Life: Actually... I couldn't even stop at two styles of these cute, summery shoes. They're just so cute and fun!

I couldn’t even stop at two. I mean, who can say no to cute summer footwear? A girl can never have enough shoes in Second Life.

Sanu in Second Life: A second series of tiny butterflies... because you can never have too many butterflies at stunningly small proportions!

Moving on, I had to do up a second series of tiny butterflies. Fun colours, a variety of attachment points, and just as cute as can be, the second series are a great addition to the first. Each series comes with fifteen butterflies, so there are now thirty that can be collected!

Sanu in Second Life: And for the final Sanu update today: Tiny dragonflies. I felt I just had to extend my tiny insects range!

For the final Sanu product update for today: tiny dragonflies. I think I want to go through and do up a whole range of tiny insects. I know a lot of people think that they are gross, but at the very least, butterflies and dragonflies are a sure favourite with a variety of people. I’m thinking that ladybugs might be next, or even (although I realize they are not insects) snails. I’ll just have to see how I am inspired when the time comes!

That’s all for the Sanu update today – some of these items are not yet at the mainstore, but are at Summer Bazaar. They’ll all be appearing at the mainstore within a couple of days, however.

Sketch and Sanu: Masks… and Spring.

Published on May 30, 2010 in 'The Hubby', Digital, Plain Paper, Portraits, Sanu Stuff, Sketch and second life. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , .
Kat Johnston Sketch: All masked up... but where to go? I'm not sure that a masquerade ball is an every-day occurance.

Phew! It has been a rather long day, really… running around, buying obscure Japanese and other Asian candy, finding melon mochi, and getting scolded for (yet again) buying something where the package doesn’t explicitly state what I’ll find inside (it had grapes on the packaging, somewhere… surely whatever is inside is somewhat grape flavoured, one would hope). The hubby has come up with this silly rule that I’m not meant to buy something when I don’t actually know what it is.

I, for one, think it makes life interesting.

Ok, so you might end up throwing away bits and pieces. Basil Seed Drink, for example, is not for everyone (it said on the package what it was, so I was allowed to get it… I still haven’t gotten up the courage to try it though). Isn’t that the point though? You try something… you see how it is… and even if you throw it away, you’re that much more experienced because of it.

At the very least, you have a great story to tell somebody in how absolutely weird and not-so-wonderful this random food item was. Worth the investment? Provided you’re not blowing a fortune on food whose packages can only be interpreted in another language… I think so.

Sanu in Second Life: As if a summer skybox wasn't enough... here's one to celebrate Spring. It even comes with flowers, because we all know that flowers are fun!

And now for the Sanu update! I thought that there was really no point in doing two separate posts, so I’m rolling them both into one today.

This is my latest skybox – a Spring themed piece designed to match nicely to the Summer Daydreams Skybox I released a while back. You know that I’m going to have to do Autumn and Winter now that I’ve done both a Spring and a Summer – it just makes sense! That may have to wait for another day though.

That’s all for today!

Sanu In SL: Crayons are made for fun.

Published on May 29, 2010 in Digital, Sanu Stuff and second life. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .
Kat Johnston as Sanu: Crayons! You shouldn't stick them up your nose, and any drawing is given a 20% bonus cute factor just by using them. In short... they're awesome.

Crayons… they’re cute, they’re quirky, and any drawing is instantly made a trillion times cuter and comes with added whimsy when drawn with the humble crayon. These are no ordinary crayons though… when someone gives one a click, it gives them an especially cute hand-drawn picture! Awww… can anyone say adorable? There’s twelve colours to collect!

To name them, I jumped into my Sanu system group (which is made of much awesome and win when I need some ideas, by the way) and asked them for some suggestions! Soooo, all of the names have been offered by my very own groupies.

Don’t you love the names of crayons? I had to look up some of the current crayon colour names (just because they’re so awesome), and you’ve just got to love the imagination-evoking titles that are given… like ‘Razzle Dazzle Rose’, ‘Mountain Meadow’ or ‘Tumbleweed’. But of course, not everyone wants those cookie-cutter politically correct PG rated names, do they? Of course not. Rejected crayon colour names are so enticing that someone’s even formed a Facebook group to celebrate how awesome they are.

Anyhow, all this talk about crayons makes me seriously want to go out and buy a set right now… and if it weren’t after 6pm on a Saturday night, I think I would actually do so. I might have to wait for Monday! Is anyone interested in seeing me scribble with some crayons?