The best intentions…

I had planned to do all 24 days of the Advent calendars I told you about… Unfortunately my PC didn’t get the message and decided to have a major software conniption on Friday.  I’ve just spent the entire weekend reinstalling the operating system and restoring from backup.  This was not only frustrating because I couldn’t get to SL to get the calendar gifties, but the weekend happened to be one of the nicest we’ve seen for a while weather-wise, and I was stuck inside 🙁


DRG

I’ve always been a redhead.  I am in real life (although not as outrageously red as I’ve been in SL) and I’ve always been one in SL except for when I was only a few days old.  Oh, and of course I’ve dyed my hair for fashion shoots 🙂

In the first life tab of my profile, I have a photo captioned “Blondes get noticed but redheads are remembered” and the outfit is this logo t-shirt.

Having noticed this, Donia, a friend of mine, decided that I needed the logo on a top in-world, so she made one for me.  Big hugs thanks to her!  As far as I know, Donia doesn’t sell her outfits, so no outfit details today, just a little tribute to friendship and generosity <3


The Autumn Queen

By many reckonings autumn has not yet begun, but for many of us the feeling of change is in the air, and we start looking forward to the turn of summer to fall.  The Sisters of Eden appointed our new queen this past weekend, and our newly-crowned Sister was gracious enough to let me take an hour of her time for photographs.

Ladies and gentlemen, with your permission, let me present to you the Autumn Queen, her royal floofiness, Kie Dagger!

Queen Kie is wearing the Fall edition of the Demeter Gown from Evie’s Closet.  Demeter is rigged mesh in four sizes with add-on flexis to create the gown.  While rigged mesh is a bit old-school these days, flexis are the best way to create a gown that’s good for something other than standing still for a photograph in.  Evie certainly has created some amazing gowns, and this look is absolutely gorgeous.

Queen Kie is the perfect neko.  Her tail and ears from Fluffy Bushy appear to be no longer available, but the whole ensemble (skin, gown, tail & ears and hair) work beautifully to create her elegant look.

There are stressful times as a photographer and there are easy times.  I was very glad that Luane of Luane’s World Poses had already converted her sim to autumn.  Luane’s World is a beautifully decorated group of sims, and it’s the perfect backdrop to many of my photo shoots.

Believe it or not, autumn is one of my favourite times of the year.  There is a special beauty — beyond the brightly coloured leaves, beyond the pumpkin spice everything.    Our lovely Queen embodies that peace and quiet grace.   I wish you all a wonderful Autumn!

Mahalo!  A hui hou kākou!

Pictures were taken at Luane’s World.

Queen Kie is wearing:


1500 posts!

That’s right, since September 25th 2015 when we put up Aeon’s article Getting started in Second Life that began its history as a notecard to hand to new girls at Eden, right up to this post number 1500!  We may have been slow some days getting a post up, and other days we’ve doubled up on posts as one of us got the scheduling wrong, but we’re pretty proud of the fact that here we are nearly four years after the start of the blog, and we haven’t missed a day!

So, happy 1500th post to us!  I picked out some of my favorite photos looking back at all the ones we’ve done.  I hope this takes you on a little journey back through time, just like it did me when I put it together.


Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from Jaz!

Technically speaking this is another installment in the Mix and Match series, as this outfit is a total mishmash of pieces and parts… but as half of them are not even sold anymore, we’ll just run with it 🙂

I must have things from about eight or nine different outfits… but it was fun coming up with a unique (and, um, yeah maybe little bit sexy) holiday outfit. The lights even blink!

And just to show you that it’s really Ms. Claus who is running the show, me and the elves are gonna take a little break here from all the gift delivering! Oh, but thanks for the cookies and the milk!

Thank you all for reading the blog, and I hope everyone has a most wonderful holiday time, and a happy year to come, full of love and joy!

Oh, and, pssst, Santa…

Just go ahead and put me on that naughty list, it’s okay. Save everyone a lot of time!

Cheers my sweet friends! <3


A Murder of Crows

November is drawing to a close, but We Love Role Play yet has nearly a week left.  Silvan Moon Designs offers A Murder of Crows this month, a beautiful bustled gown that might be just as at home in Victorian England or in a frontier town in the American Wild West.

The remarkable hat is included in A Murder of Crows.  I don’t know that I’d dance in it, but it’s perfect finery for the era.

Wow what a bustle to this gown.  Baby got back?

I really love this outfit, I think it might well serve as a fantastic base for a great steampunk outfit.  I’ll have to get back to you on that one!

Run over to We Love Role Play before time runs out!  Mahalo!  A hui hou kākou!


Throwback Thursday

Okay, let’s start by saying I am NOT promoting anything that I’m wearing today.  🙂

I was going on a bit of an inventory cleaning binge, and threw this out as I was getting rid of lots of old and unworn stuff… but then went back and retrieved it.  It’s sort of perfect timing — I’ve been in SL for four years now… and it’s rather amazing.  I know, many of you might have been here much longer than that, and that’s all right — I know you’ve seen more.

From the progress we’ve made, four years is a apparently a long time in SL.  It feels like forever, and no time at all.

  • Iffyta — Purple Butterflies Jeans Outfit (marketplace link)
  • [L.Warwick] — Savannah Ankle Strapped Heels (Grape Leather)
  • :: envi :: — Sabra Ear Pierceing – Venus
  • Kalina’s Design — Lesbian Symbol Diamond Belly Piercing (marketplace link)
  • Luanes World — Try to Forget You #2 pose

So I was cleaning out my inventory, and stumbled on this purple butterflies outfit.  It’s the oldest outfit I have, not quite four years old, but probably only a couple months shy of it.  Standard layers, with mesh bits for the sleeve cuffs.  Even the shirt collar is just textured on the standard layer.  For the record, I have those heels in three different colours and they’re still my favourite style of heels in SL!

We probably all have these hiding in our inventories, in our wardrobes… and we put it on and go “EEEEK DON’T LOOK, I’M HIDEOUS!”

I know I did.  I’m mostly embarrassed with how… grumpy… I feel that I looked!

But on second thought, I stopped…  you know, this was me.  I was so proud and happy of this.  I splurged on SLink feet shortly after getting into SL, and some nice mid shoes, and if I recall correctly, the hair.  WOW, does that hair not play well with background alphas!  But I still love this outfit… I would die for it in fitmesh!

It’s amazing, right now, to think “I was so proud of how I looked”… and to think how far we’ve come, even in just four years.

There are a lot of times we look at SL and say “dammit, SL, why can’t you fix this problem, or that problem”… but it’s important, too, to look and say “Thanks, SL, for adding this… for expanding this… for creating this”.

Thanks, SL, for giving me four happy years.  Thanks, my friends, for walking with me through this little venture.

Mahalo!  A hui hou!

 


50 Cats

Cica Ghost is an artist and resident of SL.  She does regular art exhibitions and sometimes they are really really wonderful!  Case in point was 50 Cats.  Unfortunately I found out about it on the last day of the exhibition, and it’s now closed.  I hope you all got to see it days before I did.  Here are two pics I took, and you can see more on Cica’s Flickr page.

I love the mice drawn on the wall 🙂