#summer holiday

Summer Outfits From Bliss!

Floral Playsuit

Here is another playsuit from Bliss.co.uk, and it is the perfect essential for your summer holiday. Navy with pink floral pattern, button front and collar details. It is a lightweight material and sleeveless, so it’s perfect to put in your case for that trip abroad or a day at the beach in the UK! Many celebrities have been spotted out and about in navy and floral playsuits including the likes of Caroline Flack, Kelly Brooke, Frankie Sandford, Poppy Delevigne and many more!

Like any playsuit, you can dress it up and dress it down. Wear with sandals and minimal accessories for a perfect day time look, or dress it up with a belt and heels. I’ve styled mine up with a Moschino belt I recieved for christmas, it was from Net-a-porter for £190, I believe the new season belt is available online to buy. The playsuit is available from Bliss.com here for only £10! … 

http://www.blissclothing.co.uk/clothing/playsuits/roxy-floral-print-sleeveless-playsuit.html

Kelly xxx

Summer Outfits From Bliss!

Pinafore Playsuit - Get The Look

The pinafore is a new look for 2013 and has been seen on many celebrities, including Millie Mackintosh, Mollie King, Alexa Chung, Caroline Flack and many more! But instead of paying top range prices, you can get the look for less from Bliss.com!

Bliss.com is a new online fashion store with competative prices! This black polyester pinafore playsuit is complete with elasticated waist and silver button details which enable the adjustable straps. The perfect look for a summer night or a summer day, the best thing about the pinafore is that it can be dressed up or dressed down!

Dress it down with a colourful summer top and flat sandals, complete with bangle braclets. Or dress it up with an evening top - white and grey work perfect and complete with a chunky necklace and heels.

The pinafore is available at Bliss.com for only £10.00 right here…

http://www.blissclothing.co.uk/clothing/denim/nelly-stylish-elasticated-waist-black-dungaree.html

Kelly xxx

It’s Obon here in Kyoto, ancestors’ homecoming (or somewhat sober Halloween?). Obon is one of the two important events for Japanese in a year (the other is new year celebration), which often leads to family reunion for the living, too.

In Kyoto, people invite their ancestors’ spirits into home in the evening of August 12 with “muka'e'bi [moo-kah-eh-bee]” (literally meaning “inviting/welcoming fire”), and send ancestors back to the next world at the night of August 16 with “Gozan Okuribi [oh-coo-ree-bee]”, (“bonfires on five mountains for sending ancestors back”), according to lunar calendar. For Obon, people clean up their family graves beforehand, and confort and offer their hospitality to ancestors such as with foods and pray with monk’s sutras at home.

To invite ancestors, we do a little ritual “muka'e'bi” at home: burn dry hemp stems in front of the house, fire three stick incenses, and set it at the family’s Buddhist altar. Ancestors’ spirits are believed to “ride on” the special smoke of the incense, come into the house, and settle at the family’s Buddhist altar in a denser or more concrete form than usual (I’m not died and don’t know how it is actually, though).

We serve “omuka'e somen”, or “welcome somen noodle (angel-hair udon, so to speak)” for the first night. While Obon, vegetables and fruits, Chinese lantern plant, water on a lotus leaf with a sprig of Koya prodocarp (“Koya maki”/高野槙), mochi and/or dango (sweet dumplings), and sugar starch snacks (“rakugan”) are also displayed. Vegetarian dishes and steamed rice are served everyday until they leave. The dishes served are kept in the fridge and taken to the temple a family belongs to with other vegetables just when Obon ends (to send the foods with ancestors’ spirits precisely, or if you eat them, it’s believed you would get ill. Dishes and vegetables served during Obon are simply for the repose of the dead).

Since the Obon customs differ by region and denomination, I totally don’t know other styles. No “Bon dance” or “summer festival” is held in my neighborhood. No making horse and ox figures with vegetables and toothpicks. I’ve seen them only on TV. The case explained above is only of a certain family in Kyoto.

By the way, what about spirits who don’t have any descendants? …It’s said no home to go and loitering here and there. So people give a little service for the benefit of suffering spirits as well as avoid going to sea or river in fear of evil spirits during Obon.

Obon
http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2286.html
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bon_Festival

Gozan Okuribi (mountain bonfire)
https://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/spot/festival/gozanokuribi.html

お盆の迎え火におがらを炊く。京都では8月12日の夕暮れに家の外で迎え火を焚いて先祖を家へ招き入れ、16日の夜の五山送り火で送り返す。お盆の最初の夜はお迎え素麺でもてなす。ちなみに野菜と爪楊枝で馬や牛を作ったりしない。近所では盆踊りも夏祭りもない。TVでしか見たことがない。関東では同じ宗派でも仏壇に水塔婆を立てないと聞いた。色々土地によって違うらしい。

besties + eriwn

Appendix has some major summer plans. 

@samtheappendix is going to be busy hiking and traveling the world! Hope you got some awesome plans in the works too!

It’s my birthday! So it’s time for a download! This time it’s the BFFs, all of whom have had their own lookbook at some point. You can see Travis,LibertyandSummer’s individual posts by following the links :) 

They all have some new outfits that weren’t included before, so as always, you can see a little rundown of each look - I’ll leave it up to you to figure out which is which lol.

Also, a sincere apology to the anon who requested I put Summer up for download 5 months ago. Better late than never!

DOWNLOAD |DROPBOX

As well as their tray files, there is a full cc list that credits each cc creator. You don’t have to download everything, but the gallery will shout at you about missing items if you don’t :)

I made these with CAS in mind, so if you take them into game they may become borked in fun and unusual ways. 

Do whatever you like with them and their weird little love triangle. You don’t have to credit me for using them because I am but a humble hoarder of cc. I’d love to see what you do so don’t be shy to tag me! Just don’t nick this whole post because I’m the birthday girl

All credit to the excellent artists out there who make custom content for us to enjoy. I never know whether tagging them in this kind of post is courteous or looks like a cry for attention so, go look at the cc lists, get inspired, then go interact with all of these creators posts as they deserve…

SIMS SESSIONS // BEBE REXHA;

The headliner: Bebe Rexha. She was the only performer I knew from real life so the song was not a surprise for me. 

Overall, this was a fun experience! I just think it should be available for a little bit longer. 

SIMS SESSIONS // GLASS ANIMALS

Second performance was by Glass Animals. I liked the song but Joy Oladokun is still my favorite so far. There’s some new animations and sims are reacting accordingly, which is surprising!

SIMS SESSIONS //  JOY OLADOKUN

The first performer: Joy Oladokun! I think she did amazing and that little “sul sul” at the end was so cute.

SIMS SESSIONS

The BFF Household is attending the Sims Sessions Festival at the Magnolia Blossom Park!

Week 29: We then finished off the day by meeting.. A REAL LIFE NINJA! And also the park mascot :]

Week 29: So she would somehow ‘summon’ the water out and then transferred it from her flowers, to her jars, to her fans, and back again (even from out of that  man’s hat!). By the end of the show there was streams of water everywhere! It was super cool!

Week 29: We then went to see.. Yup, you guessed it! Another show! All my host dad would tell me, was that there would be water.. Which I kinda guessed from the sign..

Week 29: We also helped apprehend this thief! The authorities were super pleased with us!

Week 29: Meeting some locals.

Also, what my host brother’s holding is a kids’ activity that they’re given at the beginning of the day. Inside are lists of main characters in the park that you have to search for and find. Once you find one, they’ll give you a character card of theirs (kinda like Pokemon) and you have to see if you can find them all. The guy who has his fists up? He was the last character we had to find! So we got a photo with him and some of the other characters who were around.

Week 29: Then there was a parade that went through! Some of the actors from the show before were there, but the lady in the second picture was the most impressive by far! I have no idea how she was walking so gracefully! It kinda made me wonder if parades like this were actually happening back then.. I mean, there’s the odd fashion parade every now and again at my local shopping centre where they just kinda parade through?..

Week 29: Yes, yes this was necessary.

Week 29: We even got a photo with most of the actors afterwards!

Week 29: This is what the inside of that area looked like.

Week 29: Looking at it now, I think we spent most of the day exploring and watching shows. This was another show where a family from the Edo-era are accidentally ‘transported’ to modern day, and they have to try and get back somehow. It was pretty funny, and they got people from the audience to get up and be a part of it.

Week 29: This is what I got! Cold noodles tasted so good on the hot Summer day to was! :) (Plus the menu is written in a kind of ‘Old-Japanese’ style, I thought that was cool!)

Week 29: After all that exploring, walking around the place, just generally ninja-ing around, it was definitely time for lunch. This is the restaurant we stopped at.

Week 29: Exploring II

Week 29: Exploring I

Week 29: After we’d been looking around for a while, we stumbled across some of the staff members setting up something. They had heaps and heaps of bowls of water that they were preparing.. I had no idea what they were for until some of the guys like we saw back at the hotel came around the corner. The idea of this is that you throw water on these guys, not to be mean, but to encourage them! I felt a little bad at first, but they just smiled at me and beckoned for me to throw more water. It almost became a challenge to see if you could get them from a far, or how many times you could get them, but it was so much fun!

Week 29: This was something they got the kids to do, so my host brother is in that line. (Although I kinda wanted to do it!) They are basically ‘pulling’ that noble’s cart/carriage around! It looked really cute, and they had chants that they taught the kids to sing as they went along.

Week 29: This gives you a general idea of what the streets looked like :)

Week 29: We then watched a super cool ninja show! It was hard to know where to look, plus it was super dark at the beginning, so we didn’t know where the ninjas were going to enter from. It was one of the best parts of the day though!

Week 29: I did throw some darts though! These were heaps of fun! I didn’t do very well though.. So no prize was won. But that’s alright! I got to throw ninja darts!