Gonna use one skin this week and take it several different places for you.

100: A Tribute to Boxxi by Pandorra (aka KittyMalone)

This is a beautifully worked skin that showcases the talents of two skinners in such a stylish way.

Boxxi's work has always leaned toward the flowing lines of Art Deco , giving his works a look of something you'd see in the home of a 1920's flapper.  Combining that style with Kitty's breathtaking artwork is a real winner here. The two styles compliment each other so well, it's like a pairing that' was meant to be.

The blind itself is easy on the eye, keeps it's coloration to a minimum so you can use any color you like with it and it still looks sharp and stylish, and is a fast load , easy to work with no matter how many windows you have open.

Since there isn't a CursorFX set yet for this blind, I found Eclipse by J. Aroche worked nicely with the whole concept.

I love this wall and just had to use it.It's by Pandorra (we're gonna miss you  KittyMalone!) 100 A Tribute to BoXXi ( I am so  thankful she uploaded this! you would have been missing out if you couldn't download it!) The irreverent pixielike girl swinging on the moon's beams , looks so free and happy I had to use her. And since she created a wall for this suite, I felt I should include it.

I used Slider by Skinhit twice this week. Because at the time I am putting these themes together, there is yet no Iconpackage nor as I mentioned earlier CursorFX theme.

I love the DesktopX theme created by PuterDudeJim for this suite. 100- A Tribute to BoXXi has everything you need in a desktopX theme all wrapped into one control panel. I like that feature makes things so easy to decide and I can pick and choose which items I want to display when.

100 A Tribute to BoXXi by Xiandi is a sharp little  RainLendar skin.

for the second look:

I looked at several walls, and found that BoXXiLoGiX by BoXXi was the logical path to take here. I liked one other (Existence by D8abyte) ,but it became too busy and I had to change. I will save that wall for a screenie with nothing but blind, as It is so intricate you really can't add to it without ruining the flowing lines that make up that wall.

I mentioned I was going to take one skin and show several versions of how it can be put together, this is my second look for the 100  A Tribute to BoXXi skin suite.

For the Iconpackage, I used Slider by Skinhit. I tried to recolor it, by inverting the colors , and while it looked exactly as I had hoped on my configuration screen, Iconpackager has some issues with recoloring still and it didn't make it to recoloring on my desktop. Too bad, while it looks good as it is, it would have been spectacular recolored with this skin theme.

I wanted to incorporate BoXXi's work into this theme and found a great CursorFX theme that works perfectly with the grouping I've created here. Allante by BoXXi (now renamed to BoXX) has the points and lines that flow nicely with the rest of the group. The pointer is sharp and easy to maneuver which is important when you are trying to highlight text and point to minute objects in whatever window you are using. I enlarged the cursor as well, to make it stand out more.

I chose to use just an Object Dock theme for the desktop this time. I didn't want to go so busy your eyes hurt! BoXXi has a great theme for ObjectDock that I felt really spoke to this setup . The BlackBoXX  is the perfect accent here and I had a hard time choosing which of the images I wanted to use for the icons, there are so many and they are all great. I stuck with the images that mimic'd the tribal tatoos I have seen. Tribal tats have that pointed fading line style that is rapidly becoming the theme of this grouping.

CarbonRC by Nimbin worked the best here. It's simple, black and has a graphic with the same flow the rest of the theme seems to be taking.

Now for my third setup, I am going to add a bit of color to this blind.

Saturnesque2 by BoXXi is the wall I chose. I wanted to keep within the theme of highlighting BoXXi's work and when I saw this wall, I knew it would provide the color I needed to point out my idea of bringing out the beauty of this blind.

I did a bit of recoloring to the blind itself as well. There is a subtle purple hue to the  parts of the blind that take color. I will be showing a window for you to see that coloring ,in the screenie.

Win3D DuskXP Was a most colorful Iconpackage , all the Win3D packages are colorful and well done, but the lavender hue of this package worked perfectly with BoXXi's wall and the recolorization I did with the blind. I only wish there had been a firefox icon in the pack.

The cursorFX theme is kurio cxp suite by HAPTORK. I chose the kurio color duo subtheme here. I liked that it was already lavender and I didn't have to colorize.

I only used one desktop addition here ,as I wanted it to really show off the blind and wall. DesktopX object Glass Menu by Themer Boy had the right shade of blue and just the right amount of backlighting to work with the wall I chose.

All in all I would have to say the 100 tribute is very versatile and highly usable. I haven't even touched on all the accessories available to compliment this theme. I am glad that they chose to pay tribute to BoXXi, as he's been a hard working highly talented member of this community for a very long time. He is missed.

Unfortunately, this has become a small tribute to KittyMalone who has recently left the community as well. I will miss her as will many other community members.

Thanks for reading, all!

Wulfie