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Yay...I joined the Blog club! Today is the start of Hair Fair in SL and OMG...I stopped by last night after midnight and almost went into hair shock! I wanted to BUY BUY BUY and I know before it's over I'll have spent oodles of money and need 10 heads to wear all the hair I'm gonna buy. LOL They've done the shoe wars and now we have Hair Fair....we need a Fashion Expo! Damn, why don't I have an island?? Annnyway....I think lately in SL, as a designer, I've been very frustrated! I read Torrid Midnight's blog today and I am totally with her on the idea that, as a designer you come out with an outfit you absolutely LOVE and you swear it's going to be a HUGE hit and then "dum dum dum" nobody buys it It leaves you thinking, am I that out of touch with what people want in here? I know that we all have a different style and in SL there is everything from Goth to Vamp to Casual to Sexy to Trashy to BOHO to Elegant and the list goes on and on but DANG! am I THAT off on my own clientele? Sometimes it's just frustratin'! YA KNOW! Another thing that has been buggin me is the whole Photosource issue.... Yes, I do photosource...I take a picture of a dress, shirt, skirt, pants that I'm loving and then I warp it, tweak it, change it up, move parts of it here or there, add shading, lines, other elements and make it MINE. Some say that I should be able to take a piece of fabric and turn it into that outfit I saw, and at times, I have done that, BUT I'm never as happy with the end result as I am when I start with that original picture. Maybe some designers in SL don't respect my work because of it but I feel like that's being an elitist and a snob. OK, enough rambling for today, I'm going to get back to working on my newest creation and hoping that someone out there loves what I do as much as I do :)