Kat Johnston

Tag: insects

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

    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/Sanu: I just finished a spider.

    Kat Johnston – this is an ice-cream spider. No ice-cream float… that’s not wicked enough!

    As is the way, names for things often differ from place to place. When I mention that I’m going to go drink a spider, when I say it to someone who isn’t from Australia, I’m likely to get a few raised brows. Understandably so, I suppose. Anyhow, that is why I drew this picture today. Its my own awesome concoction! Skully spider with whipped cream! Actually, the one I had was a raspberry ripple vanilla ice-cream in raspberry soda… it was delicious.

    Alrighty… onto the Sanu stuff for today.

    Sanu Stuff: bunny and ant, spliced into one. Mad scientist? I think not. Genius? Yes!

    In case you haven’t had the chance to see, the Sanu store has had a reworking out the front. A friend of mine went ‘Oh no! I’m going to get giant ants!’ when I dropped a giant gummy bear at her home… and thus the giant bunny-ants were born. This, however, is a far smaller shoulder-pet sized one… with a bow!

    Sanu Stuff: bunny-ants as pets… who’da thunk it?

    And there’s the signage for it. Not overly inspired, I know… but they’re a bit hard to photo. They look freakin’ awesome though, promise! I’m thinking of trying my hand at bunny butterflies too. How cute would they be, huh?

    Anyhow, that’s it for today, I think… I have some ice-cream monocles to finish up, and then some lollipops to photograph, and, and and… it never ends!

  • Invading space monkeys from the planet Mars.

    Kat Johnston Sketch – When all else fails, find one note-pad of pink paper, one blue biro, apply flies liberally.

    Its a Sunday afternoon and despite the fact that I was spending a nice amount of time sitting down and watching Numbers with the husband, I have cut into that to make some time to do today’s post before it gets too late. How’s that for dedication for you? I’m not even letting it go on a Sunday.

    Sorry for the random post title, but I didn’t think that ‘More freakin’ flies on a piece of pink paper’ was going to capture anyone’s attention. Next time, I might even draw some invading space monkeys from the planet Mars… I think that would be fun.

    Anyhow… this is really a nothing post today… flies were drawn because I needed to put something up, and they are easy to sketch out while watching Numbers… and suitably more significant for the fact that Numbers often talks about the non-existence of randomness, while I am ‘randomly’ putting flies down on a piece of paper. I know it isn’t random – I think of where to put each, because of how it will link up here, or generate space around there, or how putting one in this location gives more room for me to put one over there later… but it is still drawn with a desire to appear ‘random’, even though it really isn’t.

    I wonder if someone with an incredibly mathematical mind could sit down and actually plot out where I would place things dependent upon the first few lines I draw when it comes to positioning flies… I think it would be interesting to see.

    Ok… that’s enough of my randomness today… I’m off to watch another episode of Numbers! Tomorrow: Something with a touch more substance… I hope.

  • Announcement: All A-twitter and now on Flickr.

    Kat Johnston - Flies are flies and they fly most flyfully... that makes no sense.

    Three pictures of flies in a row, and I can tell that it is starting to become a mini-obsession… but that is generally the way it is, when I find something that tweaks my interest enough. It will grab me for a few days straight, then become a ‘regular’ obsession, to join all the rest. I don’t think that this picture is done… but I need to throw up something today, so this is it.

    Just an update on the site and on me: I’ve added a twitter feed to the sidebar, so if you pop by throughout the day, you can see what I’m up to! Either that, or you can follow me on twitter itself – my username is KatJohnston, or just click here to see my current profile page.

    I have also set up a Flickr account, and have uploaded two sets of photos taken of my wonderful city. You can find them here and here. I will be periodically adding to the Flickr photos and will update you as they become available.

  • Lady of the Flies.

    Kat Johnston - Lord of the flies move over, there is a new Lady in town.

    There we go, I have put up a picture drawn today after all. How’s that for commitment for you? Today’s subject: Lady of the Flies. Complete with antennae.

    Just as an interesting side-note, they can not be true flies in my picture. According to Wiki’s page on flies, true flies only have two wings. Although there are other insects that might have fly in the name, such as mayflies or fireflies, they are not, in fact, true flies as they have more than one set of wings. Hows that for some interesting trivia for you? Oh, and, uhhhh, yes… I did just go and look that up.