Planners have been planning for months. Creators have been working. Builders have been making the most amazing sims for you to explore. There are sims for shopping, sims for dancing, sims for sitting and just being.
I’m not going to review anything here today. I’m not going to show off any products. I just want to show you a few snapshots of some of my favourite places in the Faire so far without comment. Take a look… then come and see for yourself. Tell me your favourite places!
Aloha kākou! Today is the second of my series on Fantasy Faire 2021, and one more taken at the Realm of Light sim before the Fairegrounds actually open tomorrow. I have a few more beautiful little landscaping deco pieces for you today!
The first is the Fairy Wishing Tree (Rainbow Edition)from Simply Shelby. It’s a beautifully detailed heart-shaped tree, with lovely glowing faerie lights in the branches!
The sign at the bottom has a beautiful little wish for your dreams.
The Fairy Wishing Tree comes with two versions included: the tree, flowers, stones and sign (as shown), as well as the tree by itself.
The other lovely item here is the Spring & Summer Tree of Love & Poetry from *Thus Magic*. It too is beautifully detailed, with some lovely birds and nice single and couples poses.
A year of sadness, a year of stress, a year of trials.
It’s been a year of struggle for… all of us.
And here we are… one year later.. .and we have survived, many of us. We have grown… we have found strength that we didn’t know we had.
On April 22, Fantasy Faire 2021 opens for just a few short days — two weeks of adventure, of shopping, of laughter, of stories, of sharing. Two weeks of old friends and new ones.
Two weeks to raise as much money as we can for Relay for Life’s fight against cancer.
There are so many treasures to find at the Faire that will help this fight. I’m going to start with some landscaping/deco items for you today.
The centrepiece of this little vignette is In Our Darkest Hour, from The Olde Attic. This piece is beautifully detailed, with the most amazing little birds perched on the branches. And of course, for those of us who love the Faire and carry its flame in our hearts all year long, the Faire logo will find a perfect place in a grotto or clearing on your sim.
I really love the Glowbell Flowers from 3rd Eye Perceptions. They come in three different colours (melon, lavender, and peach) and have a lovely glow to them in the dark that’s surprising. They’re perfect for a little fantasy scene, and you’ll see them in a few other shots of mine in the days to come.
The other fun plants here are Grey’s Strange Eggs from Grey’s Mind Maze Cocteau. They come in four elemental shades — Earth is shown on the left, and Air and Water are on the right/centre. They’re strange and beautiful and a lovely little accent.
Last year was amazing. Last year raised over eighteen million lindens — a bit over seventy-five thousand US dollars for the cause. We will do even better than that this year, for all those who face cancer, who live with it, who fight against it, who support those who do, who are touched by cancer. This is a fight we are all in together.
I’ll be sharing lots of wonderful joys with you here over the next two weeks. Come to the Faire… shop, share, enjoy. And give… give because we can make a difference.
Alika is a new offering from The Forge, and I fell in love with it right away. I’ve paired it with the jacket from ….. Alika’s bare arms are definitely sexy, but I like the more utilitarian look with the jacket. Okay, yes, before you say anything, I know that the cutouts at the flanks and groin are … probably not the most utilitarian. What can I say? I believe in a sexy utilitarian aesthetic! I’m really happy that The Forge is supporting the Maitreya Petite add-on in addition to Lara and Legacy and Legacy Perky. A&Y’s Thrasher jacket is Lara and Legacy only, no petite, but since it’s open, it doesn’t really matter — it works great here.
I really love wearing exotic skins, and I completely love to put together outfits that make the best use of them. Here I’m wearing Psy Astrolight (cerulean)from Fallen Gods. I really love blues and purples, and it just seemed to work perfectly with the “oil” texture on Alika. Again, I’m featuring the Dext hair from A&Y and the beautiful Celestial face tatto from .::Nefekalum::... Does reusing elements get old? Perhaps, but I really love this hair, and the face tattoo makes a wonderful statement.
That’s it for me from the Cyber Faire. I feel like I got away easy… but I am so grateful to my friends for my rez-day spree. Mahalo nui to you both!
There’s still time for you to go throw all your lindens at the Cyber Faire — it closes on March 24th, so hurry hurry!
I mentioned that I had found some wonderful goodies at the CYBER Faire (open from March 4 to March 24, 2021). I have to share another with you. The Atomy bodysuit from A&Y Bunker CyberShop is a sexy sleek little number. I really love the combination of covered shoulders/arms… and a high french-cut at the legs. There’s just something really appealing to me about that combination! Atomy is available in a number of base colours for the Maitreya and Legacy bodies, and has a HUD to change detail colours and glow levels. There’s also a fatpack available.
The bodysuit looks great in high boots or completely bare legs. I tried with some little ankle boots from GRAVES, but the outfit felt too unbalanced. I finally found this wonderful set of leggings from A&Y. If you know me, you know I like bare feet, so this really just kinda felt perfect — giving some pleasant balance to the bodysuit, but without the thigh-high boots (that I personally am not so fond of wearing, even though I think that they look great). The Electra legwarmers don’t have glow elements like bodysuit does, but they otherwise seem to match and complement the bodysuit quite well.
Her skin is one of my favourites — Expanding Universe (Chaos)from Fallen Gods. This is the perfect kind of outfit to show it off, and you can see that I’ve added some specular shinies from Stargazer and the beautiful Celestial face tattoo from .::Nefekalum::.., which I featured previously.
Completing our look is the Synchronicity helmet from .:Bison:. in purple and the Vyper Katanafrom The Forge. I really love the look of the Synchronicity helmet de-rezzed/retracted here.
I hope you get the chance to get out and enjoy the Faire. It closes soon, so if you haven’t been, please visit! I’ll have one more outfit to show you next time!
Right now, we know of almost 5000 planets in 3500 planetary systems… gas giants, burning rocks, frozen worlds… and perhaps some ocean worlds, with waters gently lapping at alien shores. What life basks in the glow of those distant suns?
I recently picked up a wonderful new swim cossie to share with you. The Kioke one-piece suit from Belzebubble is a beautiful one-piece despite being labelled as a “bikini”. It’s a beautifully rigged mesh suit in fitmesh for Maitreya Lara, Maitreya Petite, Legacy, and Legacy Perky. Each body has two versions, depending on how much nipplage you want to show.
The cossie has a nice HUD with colour choices for the pain suit, back, and trim. It’s a standard Belzebubble HUD, which I personally feel could be improved by a wider variety in colour choices: there’s only two each blue and green options, while nearly one-third of the HUD is pink and coral options. That said, there’s sure to be choices here that you’ll love, and a suit rigged for Lara Petite is a great option!
One of the things I’m most excited about is finding a look that works well with some of my exotic skins from Fallen Gods. FG has a number of mer-inspired skins, and this is Oceanica Indian Argentum. It’s one of my favourites, but one I don’t wear too frequently — I’m glad to have a new suit to show it off!
I was taken out on a shopping spree for my rez-day at the CYBER Faire (open from March 4 to March 24, 2021), and OMG it was so much fun. I’ve been wanting to improve my cyber/sci fi/futuristic outfit/costume situation for a long time, and have had a lot of disappointment at sci-fi/cyber type events (just bad luck?) but the current cyber faire is just FULL of goodies that I couldn’t pass up.
Let’s start off with the G647 Control BOM/applier bodysuit from GRAVES Fetish and Cyberpunk. GRAVES has long been creating some of the sleekest and sexiest body suits for your sci-fi/cyberpunk needs, and as the capabilities and appearance of clothing in SL has improved, so has theirs. Yes, it’s still appliers, but now BOM is added, and they make good use of materials — texture and specular layers. I’m a big fan of BOM here: it’s supposed to be skin-tight, but the texture adds just enough pop that it looks right. The big advantage of BOM, of course, is low complexity impact, and a really big favourite is its ability to be worn on any body shape. I love the Lara Petite chest, but the available clothing items for it are still few. No problem with BOM! Control includes an unrigged mesh collar, because you just need that three-dimensionality there. I added an older pair of G322 combat boots that I had on hand — also from GRAVES — to go with the outfit. The gloves are included as part of the Control BOM.
And OMG, I just love the new Synchronicity helmet from .:Bison:.. It’s sold in individual base colours, and also available in a fatpack. Several lighting effects and colours are available. The helmet visor has an opaque/transparent option, and a lovely little animation (with gestures and sound effects) for opening/closing the helmet. You have GOT to pick up a demo of this, but be warned — to pick up a demo is to doom yourself to purchasing at least one. I found it really easy to fit over the Dext hair from A&Y Bunker CyberShop
One last goodie — the beautiful Celestial tattoo from .::Nefekalum::... This one didn’t come from CYBER Faire, but rather from the March edition of We Love Role Play. But wow it fits in so well, I love the whole look together here. It’s busy, but I feel like it just makes my face pop (in a good way!)
I hope you get the chance to get out and enjoy the Faire. There’s more to come that I have to share with you! This is definitely my favourite Cyber event!
I’ve had these pics for a month or so now, sometimes I get some pics taken but don’t get the time to post them. This is a beautiful dress that I picked up at an event a month or two back.
I love the combination of the short hem and the high neck. It’s just perfect for wearing with leggings… or a lovely racy feeling with bare legs! For these pics, though, I paired it up with a couple different pairs of tights from Alaska Metro <3
The right shoulder is a tinted opaque panel. Colours are sold separately, but I kinda just had to pick up a few of the available colours. I really love the purple and the black here! Each version is available in two options: with and without stars on the opaque (coloured) portion of the dress.
The mist swallows up every trace of sound… the ranger watching over her woods like a careful guardian, knowing every path, every glade, every copse. These are her woods, and you walk here at her grace.
Daughter of Olaf is a four-piece outfit: tunic, shift, leggings and girdle for Maitreya Lara only. It comes in eight beautiful colours. I wanted to share the brown with you — it felt just perfect for my huntress. Boots are not included, but I added Silvan Boots (Winter Magic)from [QE], and the look just right. Top it off with a few pieces of jewelry, and I’m all set.
Well, almost all set — a huntress needs her tools, and a few happy pieces make up my arsenal. First and foremost is the beautiful Bow of Galadhrim from from TS Creations. I saw it at the 2020 Fantasy Faire, and just fell in love with it right away. It’s a fully functional combat bow, but I haven’t actually used it for combat, only for costumes.
I’ve got a small hand axe that I also picked up at Enchanted. The Raider Hatchettfrom [mizu] is a beautifully detailed little piece that caught my eye. It’s the perfect detail to hang on my belt!
There’s something wonderful about putting together costumes, whether you role-play, have a costume contest at a club, or just like trying something different out. Enchantment will be open until March 8, so you have a bit of time to get over and look around. Please do, and have fun!
There’s something right and beautiful about celebrating the turning of the year with lights…. our memories of the past light our today, the hope of the future lights the path ahead.
Aloha kākou! Mele Kalikimaka a Hau’oli Makahiki Hou!
I recently discovered Carpe Noctem, and have another wonderful little warm snuggly outfit to share with you. This is the lovely Iby cable-knit sweater dress, and it’s individually available in twenty different colours and ten different patterns. Like the Andie top, you can get each of the patterns separately — no colours/textures are reserved for the fatpack!
Iby is available in Legacy, Legacy Perky, Lara, and Lara Petite fitmesh. Lara Petite! I’m over the moon! The patterning here is just really perfect, the snowflakes look just wonderful.
I added my Snow Flurry necklace and earrings from EarthStones, as well as some lovely gold tights from Alaska Metro <3. They’re the perfect complement to the gold and silver snowflake motif of the dress.
It’s been a long year… and 2021 will definitely have its share of challenges — but I wish you a wonderful new year filled with light and peace and love. Hau’oli Makahiki Hou!
