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a path is for straying

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A path… is like lines on a colouring page. To some, it may represent the way to a destination… to others, it simply marks the boundary between the known… and what is waiting to be discovered.


Aeon’s pose is Winter Spirit 02 from *Eternal Dream*

Aloha kākou my wonderful friends! It’s been a very busy few weeks, but I finally have some new pics to share with you. But first some good news — the wonderful Kerryth at Spyralle is recuperating after surgery according to a note sent out last week to her group. I finally get around to showing one of her latest creations, the Living Stepping Stones.


Aeon’s pose is Furimuki #2 (mirror) from Snow White and the Seven Kitties

The stones come in six different palettes to suit your building needs, and each colour has one-stone, two-stone, and three-stone settings. They’re resizeable and copyable, and 1 LI each in the default size (mine here are downsized about 20%) so you can create the perfect path in the woods without breaking your parcel limit! I laid these out at my friend Gidgy’s lovely sim. While you won’t find the stones still there, you should certainly find yourself there… and you will surely find a little piece of serenity to fill you.


Aeon’s pose is Loveliness #1 from K&S poses

I hope that your day is as beautiful as you are! Keep shining brightly my friends! A hui hou kākou!

Pictures were taken Savor Serenity
The sim windlight was used!

I am wearing:
•Spyralle — Thornweaver (Twig & Leaf) skirt (Flexi skirt in two lengths plus BoM/Omega appliers)
•[Gauze & Trap] — Cernunnos Horns
•Fallen Gods — Wood Nymph Spring skin
•Fallen Gods — Fleurs tattoo
•Fallen Gods — Fleurs face tattoo
•Sassy AF — SBPC Sibyline Arm and leg vines (store no longer available)
•Fantavatar & Moonstruck — Flowering Wreath (WLRP Gift)
•[BMS] —BMAH03 Hair Fair 2013 gift
•Mayfly — Luminous Twilight Forest eyes
•.:Soul:. — Blix Uni Ears [v2]
•[GA.EG] — Barbara mesh face
•[GA.EG] — Glamour Lashes
•Maitreya — Lara mesh body, hands and feet

Seraphim

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Recently at Eden, we had a best in wings event.  I really love my Atomic Angel Wings, but I thought it was time for something new, so I splurged 🙂

These wings from Aii are really three pairs of wings in one!  And you can wear each set (or even one wing from a pair) so you can actually have all six on at once if you really want to show off.  The three photos show each pair, middle, lower, and top.

There are also three styles of textures to choose from, “Standard”, “Phoenix”, and “Hawk”, and again I’m showing you those on each of the three photos.  If that’s not enough, you can individually set each wing to a range of colors.  The normal style has fifteen choices, the phoenix ten, and the hawk style has eleven.  The wings are also materials enabled so they have a nice level of gloss to the feathers, and the phoenix style adds just a touch of glow.

But wait!  There’s more 🙂  You can accessorize each wing individually with ribbons, spikes, or armor.  I’m showing you all three options in the top photo.

Of course, these are Bento, and they come with three idle animations, a sit, walk, turn, and falling animation, and of course a flying animation, which is rather spectacular.  The flight mode also includes a really nice synchronized flapping sound.

And because these are Bento, you can’t resize them, so the creator supplies them in six sizes.  Don’t forget to try the free demo!

These are certainly not cheap at L$1350, but if you’re looking for a set of really fabulous wings and your budget is not a problem, these would be hard to pass up.

A Masque for Life

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A mask protects, a mask hides… and a masque tantalises….


Aeon’s pose is Winter Spirit 02 from *Eternal Dream*

Aloha kākou!

I have a wonderful little couple of things to share with you today, a beautiful mask from Kerryth at Spyralle and a beautiful new updo from Magika.

The Masque of Summer is a wonderful mask, perfect for a midsummer’s… masque — for the ball, beautiful gowns swaying under the stars as the orchestra plays. Kerryth’s Masque of Summer is unrigged mesh: it can be resized and positioned for your face, and comes in six different lovely patterns. Each one has a HUD for choosing gem and metal colour to tailor it to your look. You can find it at We Love Role Play this month for another few days!


Aeon’s pose is Summer Breeze 5 (rev) from Stardust

I also get to share this quick pick-up — the Midnight updo from Magika. Magika is coming out with some new hairstyles with some very life-like texturing. I really love this one. I don’t have really close-up shots of it to share: Firestorm on a linux system has a known but that causes some triangular rendering errors in some meshes with alphas. I’ve got it on great authority (my assistant today who held the lights for me) that the triangles that I could see were completely invisible to her on her windows machine. It looks really wonderful, and I’m really excited for new styles from Magika soon!


Aeon’s pose is The Mirror Pose from Shi.S Poses

One last note, my wonderful friends. My friend, the beautiful and talented Kerryth, owner and creative force of Spyralle announced to her group that she is facing some rather serious health issues. Please keep her in your thoughts, your prayers if you have them. She has not shared prognosis, but keep her and her loved ones in your thoughts.

Mahalo nui kākou! A hui hou!

The Hyborian Age – Water E – morning windlight was used.

Pictures were taken in a custom-created skybox at Realm of Light

I am wearing:

•Spyralle – Masque of Summer currently at We Love Role Play
•Magika — Midnight hair
•Paris METRO Couture — Wild Bunch Flower mesh gown
•Luminesse — Mokolea (Lekika) Necklace and earrings set
•Spyralle – Summer Leaf  bracelets
•Barerose — Glass Fairy B-Wings (Green)
•DS’ELLES — Clemence (Ambre) skin
•Mayfly — Luminous Twilight Forest eyes
•[GA.EG] — Barbara mesh face
•[GA.EG] — Glamour Lashes
•Maitreya — Lara mesh body, hands and feet

Waters of life

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Water is life, water is rebirth, water is creation, and water is destruction. Is it any wonder that water features so prominently in our rituals, in our dreams?


Aeon’s pose is Flight 14 from Poseidon Poses

Welina mai kākou! Hau’oli Pō’akolu!

Flitting through a dark forest, a forgotten ruin that nature is reclaiming… and a shining basin held by the very branches themselves, a shower of sparkling stars falling like wishes from the rim.


Aeon’s pose is Flight 14 from Poseidon Poses

Spyralle has introduced the beautiful Litha Water Offering pedestal basin at the June edition of We Love Role Play, and tardy Aeon FINALLY gets to share some pics I took with it. I decided to visit it with my petite fae, it felt the perfect complement to the mystical foresty nature that Litha embodies.


Aeon’s pose is Natsumi 1 from ZIPI Poses

Kerryth has incorporated a few nice tricks in the bowl. You can turn the falling stars on or off, and there are two different versions, one featuring the coloured stars shown here, the other featuring white stars — for whichever is most appropriate for your use!


Aeon’s pose is Model Pose Twenty Five, created by Michael Firefly

However you might incorporate it into your parcel or sim, Litha is a wonderful treasure! The June edition of We Love Role Play is over very shortly, but Litha is already available at the Spyralle main store at Mauna Waipio. Stop by and take a look!

A hui hou kākou!

The Phototools- Moon Light 08 windlight was used.

Pictures were taken in a custom-created skybox at Realm of Light

I am wearing:

•Fallen Gods — Wood Nymph Spring skin
•Oceane Body Design — Leafy (Summer) hair
•Aii — Fae wings
•(Market place link) — Petite 3 Female Mesh Avatar

Curiosities

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A little gallery of treasures… works of art, collected pieces from travels…. mysterious curious that must be more than they seem. The trinkets we treasure are the smallest reminders of epic stories.


*PosESioN* — Women Hunt #4 pose

Welina mai kākou! Hau’oli Pō’akahi!

Something a little different and a lot fun, I hope! Kerryth at Spyralle is offering the Victorian Museum Cabinet as a special at the Vintage Fair, open now!


Aeon’s pose is Kimono F7 from Happy Dispatch Animation

The Cabinet is build in beautiful mahogany, and features a “removable” glass shelf. Detailing is exquisite, from the cabinet hinges to the shelf cleats! This is perfect for those little treasures that we accumulate and don’t know what to do with. How many of my little treasures do you recognise? The beautiful Raven mask on the upper shelf centre was Kerryth’s offering for the 2020 Fantasy Faire, and is still on sale at the Spyralle main store at Mauna Waipio. All proceeds for the mask go to the American Cancer Society’s fight to cure cancer! It’s a wonderful piece, and can be worn in a closed position as a mask or displayed opened (as you see here).


TuTy’s Mocap Animations — Blowup! 25 pose

The case represents a tilt-open case, where the front glass panel would swing upward. The case itself is non-operable, but you can carefully remove the glass shelf to display taller artifacts. This requires just a little bit of editing/modding experience, and Kerryth explains how in a nc included with the piece.

Stop by The Vintage Fair and take a look. It’s an amazing piece at 2 LI — I really am impressed with the glass in the case, it has just the right colour and reflectivity. I think I may have left fingerprints!

A hui hou kākou!

A modified version of the [Euphoria] natural high windlight was used.

Pictures were taken in a custom-created skybox at Realm of Light

I am wearing:

•Silvan Moon Designs — Princess Buttercup Gown (Lara/Physique Fitmesh) featured at Enchantment now!
•Empyrean Forge — Springleaf necklace and earrings
•*ARGRACE* — Karin hair
•DS’ELLES — Clemence (Ambre) skin
•Mayfly — Luminous Twilight Forest eyes
•[GA.EG] — Barbara mesh face
•[GA.EG] — Glamour Lashes
•Maitreya — Lara mesh body, hands and feet

Gaia

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Yesterday in Eden, we elected our Summer Queen for the year.  I’ve always favored fantasy outfits for these events, I’ve even been elected Winter Queen one year dressed as a frost fae, which was a fantastic honor.  This year, for summer, I chose to wear this fabulously pretty satyr outfit by Melon Bunny, which I saw someone wearing on a fantasy RP sim and just had to have immediately.  That was, until I discovered the cost and had to save up 🙂

The full outfit is made up of three parts, each sold separately: the legs (which come with the Bento ears and tail), the antlers, and a top (or a chest fluff for the guys.  Yes, this is available in both male and female styles, and also available for Kemono, so be careful to select the right thing if you purchase).  I’m not wearing the top, but it matches the moss colors and the flowers.

Female sizes for the legs include Lara, Freya, Isis, Venus, TMP, Physique, Hourglass, LuLu, and a one-size-fits all for classic avatars.

There is a HUD for the legs, ears, and tail offering thirteen choices of base coloring, from the “Fallow Summer” scheme I’m showing you here, to “Snow”, “Pepper”, “White Tail”, “Dusky Rose”, and more.  For each color scheme, you can select a level of moss, from “None” to “Forest” (shown), “Golden”, “Withered” and more.

Another HUD for the antlers allows you to select from the same moss levels as the legs HUD, and to show or hide the vines entwined in the points.  The antlers are separates, left and right, and are modify if you need to resize or reposition them.

And finally, there is a HUD to control the visibility and flower selections.  Again, you can hide the flowers, or select from “Caribbean”, “Red”, “Black”, “Summer Cluster” (shown), and fifteen more.

This is a very pretty outfit, with fantastic furred leg realism (there are at least five layers of texture providing a very furred look) and wearing it, you are sure to turn heads.   Like me, you may have to save up for it, but it’s surely worth it if being a faun appeals to you.  The costs are L$799 for the legs, L$450 for the antlers, and L$450 for the top.  The outfit is only available in-world.

Esmeralda

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While the world may sometimes look dark, take a moment and listen — the birds sing, the flowers bloom. The breeze blows in the trees. The Planet, in all Her majesty, dances on. How can we not pause to hear the piper?


Aeon’s pose is 99 Luftballoons 5 (rev) from {NanTra}

Welina mai kākou!

We’re just over half-way through June, and the June edition of We Love Role Play is going strong! Bee and Solas at Silvan Moon Designs bring you Esmeralda. It has a wonderful care-free feel to it. While it’s a longer mesh, it’s flared up about calf-length, so it doesn’t pose the kind of problems that you often see in movement for a longer mesh dress. Esmeralda comes in six lovely colours, and is sized for Maitreya only.

The outfit features separate skirt and top, so you can mix-and-match. The beautiful boots are included, and totally complement the dress. I’m already thinking about other outfits that I can pair these with. I’ve added the beautiful bangles from @rOrO and a necklace and earrings from EarthStones. It must have been fate, for the Esmeralda hair and scarf from Fantavatar & Moonstruck [Oblivion] just matches perfectly, completing the look.


Aeon’s pose is Summer Breeze 5 (rev) from Stardust

I… feel I’ve got to say one more bit here, though, because I love the jewelry from Earthstones and rOrO, but… we really should stop using the term ‘gypsy’. Yes, I know, there’s a lot of debate about this — many ethnic Roma say “please don’t use the word, it’s hurtful”, and others say that they don’t care. There’s a nice discussion of the term and its history and usage here. I think the long and the short of it to me is, why say it if it makes people feel bad? Political correctness isn’t a bad thing, it’s simply a different phrase that means “polite”.

So, you know, be kind. Let the word go.


Aeon’s pose is Summer Breeze 3 (rev) from Stardust

Let’s close on a happy — we’re on location outside of Silvan Moon Designs. My favourite sim designer, Gidgy, decorated the sim beyond the store for Bee and Solace. Queensgarden lives on, in our hearts and all over the Grid!

I wish you all a wonderfully happy weekend. May you have peace and serenity, and stay healthy. Aloha kākou!

A hui hou kākou!

Pictures were taken at Silvan Moon Designs at Emerald

I am wearing:
•Silvan Moon Designs — Esmeralda dress (Maitreya Lara size only!)
•@rOrO — Golden Gypsy Stack bracelets
•EarthStones — Gypsy Necklace and earrings
•Fantavatar & Moonstruck [Oblivion] — Esmeralda hair with scarf
•DS’ELLES — Clemence (Ambre) skin
•Mayfly — Luminous Twilight Forest eyes
•[GA.EG] — Barbara mesh face
•[GA.EG] — Glamour Lashes
•Maitreya — Lara mesh body, hands and feet

Fantasy Faire 2020: An intruder in the shadows

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an intruder in the quiet, making less sound than the soft sounds of water droplets from the leaves in the fog


Aeon’s pose is The Fox 4 from Poseidon Poses
The Shadowset windlight was used.

Welina mai kākou! Hau‘oli Pō’aono! Aloha my friends, Happy Saturday!

My heart is a little heavy with the closing of The 2020 Fantasy Faire this weekend. The Faire… is many things to many people, but to me it is a coming-together of friends, of not-yet friends, of spirits in a common goal to create, to share, to try to make the world a better, brighter place.

I had one last set of products from the Faire to share with you. This is Ninja from Sakka’s Studio. Sakka has an amazing number of beautiful Japanese-inspired outfits, and her Ninja is perhaps the most amazing I’ve seen in-world. It contains the suit, hood and mask (you can drop the mask by HUD control), gauntlets and shoes. The katana was my own addition! The outfit has a seven-colour hud that allows you to get exactly your own look.

If you haven’t gotten the chance to see the wonderful little vignettes/diaramas at the Fairlands Junction, you really really need to try to stop by and see them. I had to share the amazing work “A Chinese Proverb” by Fiona Fei. I just.. I can’t even begin to do it justice. I hope that she does not mind me slipping into it to be a part of the view… but I left my katana out of this one: I could not bear to bring violence into such a serene scene.


Aeon’s pose is The Raven 4 from Poseidon Poses
The Nacon’s Ghost windlight was used.

The Faire closes on Sunday, swallowed by the Mists for another year. Take heart, though, my friends… for Faire 2021 will open in under a year’s time… and I am quite sure that the builders and creators will begin long before then in preparation. In the meantime, come and share and enjoy and shop and give for one more day… and live in hope and peace for all the days that follow.

We keep the Faire in our hearts all the year long.

I wish you peace and joy and love! Aloha! A hui hou kākou!

I am wearing:
•Sakka’s Studio — Ninja outfit (Lara/Physique/Freya) (katana not included!)
•DS’ELLES — Clemence (Ambre) skin
•Mayfly — Luminous Twilight Forest eyes
•[GA.EG] — Barbara mesh face
•[GA.EG] — Glamour Lashes
•Maitreya — Lara mesh body, hands and feet

Fantasy Faire 2020: The Song of the Moon

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A dark pass under a glittering sky, a totem to the heavens raised in wonder at the beauty above.

Welina mai kākou! Hau‘oli Pō’ahā! Aloha my friends, Happy Thursday!

The 2020 Fantasy Faire may be drawing to its conclusion this coming Sunday, but there is still time left to wander, to explore, to buy, and to support the fight against cancer.

I wanted to share the other lovely treasure from Spyralle with you… this is The Song of the Moon, the companion piece to the The Song of the Sun that I shared with you a couple days ago. It’s dark and bright and fills me with hope.

Can’t explain that, and I won’t try. But it’s a beautiful piece for your sim, a little sparkle of starlight, of moonlight in an unexpected hollow, perhaps.

There is so much magic at the faire. The people, the common mission, it really is one of my favourite times of the year, and my favourite event in all of SL. I hope that you’ve had the chance to stop by and take a look!

I wish you peace and joy and love! Aloha! A hui hou kākou!

Aeon’s pose is Aquarius M from Astalianda

The [AnaLu] outdoor night windlight was used.

Pictures were taken at Queensgarden at Fantasy Faire 2020

I am wearing:
•Fallen Gods — Expanding Universe (Chaos) skin
•Sasheba’s Closet — Night Fae Body wrap and wings
•Petrichor — Verosh Horns (RFL Dark)
•Analog Dog — Annie Hair
•Mayfly —Deep Sky (Midnight Purple) eyes
•[GA.EG] — Barbara mesh face
•[GA.EG] — Glamour Lashes
•Maitreya — Lara mesh body, hands and feet

Fantasy Faire 2020: A Song of the Sun

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Aeon’s pose is I Stand for Peace from Luanes World

With dawn comes the Sun, comes light, comes hope. Sing of the light, of hope for a brighter day.

Welina mai kākou! Hau‘oli Pō’alua! Aloha my friends, Happy Tuesday!

Fantasy Faire is into its final week, but there are still wonderful treasures to find before it closes on Sunday, May 10.

I have some lovely treasures to share with you. My beautiful little skirt and top combo is The Bard Queen from MALified. This one is available as one of the Faire Quest gifts!

Behind me is a fun totem for your sim or parcel — The Song of the Sun from Spyralle. It’s part of a two-piece set: you’ll see The Song of the Moon in a few days.


Aeon’s pose is Let the Light Guide You from Luanes World

There is so much magic at the faire. The people, the common mission, it really is one of my favourite times of the year, and my favourite event in all of SL. I hope that you’ve had the chance to stop by and take a look!

I wish you peace and joy and love! Aloha! A hui hou kākou!

The Nacon’s Sweet Dawn windlight was used.

Pictures were taken at Queensgarden at Fantasy Faire 2020

I am wearing:
•MALified — The Bard Queen Skirt and top
•Fancy Fairy —Nimue Twilight Blue Iridescent wings
•{Limerence}  — Soffi hair
•DS’ELLES — Clemence (Ambre) skin
•Mayfly — Luminous Twilight Forest eyes
•[GA.EG] — Barbara mesh face
•[GA.EG] — Glamour Lashes
•Maitreya — Lara mesh body, hands and feet