Gentle readers, if you have some extra lindens in your pockets, I’ve heard of a fellow avatar in need.
Sinnocent Mirabeau, the owner of Sinsation Hair in Hairspray, sent out a notecard with good news and bad news. Since the note is public (she has a dispenser in her store), I reproduce it here to let her tell it in her own words:
Hi everyone.
It is with a heavy heart that I write this, but I figure my crisis and personal heartache can maybe have something good come out of it. Hopefully for myself and for all the people in SL who like my hair or skins and want to get 2 for the price of one.
Anyways, here’s the deal. I normally hold sales like this every few months just for kicks and as a fun way to get people even more hair than they’d normally be able to purchase on their own. However, this sale is of great importance to me for other reasons.
A week ago my 9 month old baby puppy, Eris, (even tho she’s not so little anymore) started to have a mass growing in her ear. I thought she had just gotten bitten by something outside and it would clear up in a few days. Well that didn’t happen. In fact, the mass got about 8x bigger. So I took her to the vet yesterday and got the worst possible news. 
She didn’t get bitten; she has a tumor and a hematoma forming in her ear and she needs surgery to remove it. Otherwise it will just get bigger and bigger and will either.. rupture… get badly infected…. and most likely both will happen.. and the infection the doc said will eventually kill her.. sooner rather than later.
The even worse news is exactly how much it’s going to cost to save her… Which is $1447.00 US. I was in shock when given that figure because it is just not a price I can even close to afford. I’m getting married in RL in September to my sl hubby and I’ve had to put most of my money towards that for deposits and all the other wedding junk that I need.
The irony is that she was my engagement present, and now… my wedding is the thing that has taken up all my money and put me in this spot. Blah…
So at any rate I’ll get right to the point.. I have a very little window of time in order to raise the money to save her.. so I decided I would do a buy one get one free sale in order to try and help to get some of the money for her surgery.
Everything in my shop is eligible for the sale, nothing at all is excluded. The basic idea is whatever you buy.. you get something of equal or lesser value.. free.
So if you buy a skin you can get a skin free or a couple hairs, doesnt matter. Anything goes.
All you have to do is purchase what you want, then send me a notecard with what you purchased and which items you would like to receive free. I will send them on out to you after that.
I suspect anyone who likes outrageous hair knows of Sinsation. If you’ve seen some of my Flickr photos, you’ve seen me sporting Sinnocent’s work. It’s good, and I want to throw my support behind her. I’ve already done so materially; I purchased a fatpack for £5,000, and I’ve requested a £3,500 fatpack as my freebie. Drop yourself into Hairspray region, step over to the pink palace you’ll see when you materialize, and let’s help out a fellow traveler and good designer.
I tried to go there and purchase a few things (gift cards, etc) but every single transaction failed, I couldn’t even get the free bald wig :(
I tried a direct donation of $L via her profile, which finally worked, though.
Hmph; it was working fine a few hours ago. Transactions must be freaking out or something….
(checking the Big Blog)
Yeah,they were having performance problems as of about 10 minutes ago. I’m glad you were able to send a donation, though, and thanks for Sinnocent.
Harper please feel free to cross post this on Vicious ! VERY good stuff and hey, I’m not even a fan of her hair but am SO going over to buy something…..
Consider it done.
Hi, I just wanted to say thank you to everyone and I really appreciate all the help and support notecards I have received.
Thank you also for posting this Harper, I honestly apprecaite it tons.
-Sinnocent
Gladly, Sinnocent. I’ve had a few pets with medical problems in my time (though, thankfully, none with tumors), and I understand what you’re feeling. Anything we can do to ease at least some of the multiple worries you have, we’ll be glad to do.
/me sends warm hugs.
I may have purchased the least whacky hair in the place. But I’ve spread the word across Vicious Land and that translates into 7 languages – so let’s hope the momentum is what it needs to be!
and i think i may be a new convert to liking her whacky stuff, the things i got are just too much fun……
heehee!
Aww, I’m glad I might be ‘mildly’ converting some to the wild side of the sl spectrum. To be honest, I’m just not very good at all at doing ‘normal’ everyday hair. Believe me, I’ve tried.
However, my Grandfather told me something when I was younger that has always stuck in my mind. Even when I was younger I’d request dolls with long hair as presents so that I could do weirdo things to their hair. I taught myself to braid and weave by the age of seven.. something about doing stuff that maybe no one else on earth has ever thought of to hair is so thrilling to me….
And my grandfather told me to never bother trying to fit in, because I was born to stand out. So I think that suits my SL hair doings perfectly.
I’ll never be as popular as the ETD’s and Naughty’s of the grid, but that’s okay. I never really started making hair and other things for the sole purpose of making lots of money, even tho it is an attractive bonus. I do it for the fun of it, and even tho I’ve been doing it for 2 years I still get so excited when I’m out wandering around the grid and happen by someone wearing my hair. That’s really what matters, atleast to me.
But, now that I’m done rambling I wanted to let the readers of this blog know that Eris’ surgery is scheduled for this Wed. I dont have enough money to cover it yet, I’m about 300 short, but I had to schedule it and hey I believe in miracles. So maybe, just maybe I’ll make it.
Thanks again to everyone, I am really grateful for everything everyone has done, said and how much help I’ve received both monetarily and mentally.
-Sincerely,
Sinnocent Mirabeau