Seasons Greetings 2017

Another year has passed!  I forgot to mention that the blog is over two years old (it’s birthday is in late September)!

Here’s our greeting card photos for this year.  Aeon and I again took photos at the same time and without consulting each other.  We must be telepathic 🙂

Photo credit: Blue

Blue says: So many things have happened in SL this year!  I’ve mentioned before that I love to take this time of year to reflect on the good and what I could have done better.  Aeon and I went through a little crisis as I expect a lot of couples do, and looking back, that was mostly my fault for paying more attention to things like involvement with Eden and other various projects, and not enough attention to my lovely wife.  Thank you for my wakeup call, darling ♥♥♥

During the year, the owner of Eden appointed me a Head Angel.  Angels are a combination host/helper/security officer/builder and all around “do what needs to be done” people.  This was a huge honor, as I’ve always done whatever I could to help out with scripting or building or organizing around the club, without expecting anything other than the opportunity to have a good time.  Thank you Sabine!  I’m sure I’ll be working even more closely with our manageress Nandi that I was previously (she and I winterized the club together a couple of weeks ago.  Lots of snowy fun!)   Except of course when I need to pay attention to Aeon!

There are lots more stories I could tell you.  I relocated our in-world store, I had fun meeting new people from all over the world, I set myself building and scripting challenges (and mostly accomplished them), I had fun finding fashion, wearing fashion, and mostly photographing fashion, and I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing the things we found, and maybe you found them for yourselves!

But I better leave room for Aeon to write something so I’ll just wish you and your loved ones a wonderful holiday season, and may the new year bring you peace, prosperity, and love in abundance!

Photo credit: Aeon

Aeon says:

It’s important, this time of year in particular, to take advantage of every last moment to step aside and reflect, to breathe in the peace, to let go of stress.  It’s been quite a year of stress for some of us — the outside world of politics and civil unrest seems to wear heavily on many of us right now.  Let me tell you — all of you — that I appreciate this more than anything: to be able to talk to each of you, from around the world, to find common ground, to share laughter and stories and love.  To be able to hold our own against all the people who say “us first, beware the outsider, you should be very afraid” — to all of them, I say this — you are not stronger than love.  Your hatred and fear cannot surpass love.

I am so wonderfully grateful that my family has grown.  I have been honoured to have been adopted as daughter of the wonderful Ia and Jaz Silvermoon, who married last month, and are shining and bright.  Love shared grows, multiplies, exponentiates.  Tack mina mammor, jag älskar er så mycket!

And through all of this, my darling Blue has remained, my wonderful and infinitely understanding bride.  For all the grace and laughter and love, for all of the happiness, the new things to learn, the daily frustrations and joys shared.

Mahalo nui loa, all of you my friends. Thank you so much for being a part of my life.  I wish you all of the peace and joy and wonder of the Solstice, of the season, however you choose to celebrate.

God Jul! Mele Kalikimaka me ka Hau’oli Makahiki Hou!

-Aeon


Cranberry Snowflakes

Today I’m showing you a beautiful Christmassy blouse from Moonstar’s Advent Calendar!

It comes in classic mesh sizes plus fitmesh for classic, Freya, Isis, Venus, Lara, Osasin, eBody, Hourglass, Physique, Curvy, Fine, and TMP!  While the fit is great on Lara, the really long cuffs on the sleeves have some clipping issues with Slink hands, so I’ve retouched the pics a little 🙂

I also finally get a chance to show off my Christmas present to myself, these absolutely fantastic corset laced jeans from L&B Swear!  I saw them on a blog I follow and they instantly became a must-buy, and as it’s Christmas time, I got them for myself.  They come in a one-size-fits-all for classic, and specific fitmesh for Lara, Physique, Hourglass, Venus, Isis, and Freya.

They have a massive texturing HUD with 14 denims ranging from light stone wash though dry and blacks, plus a bonus black leather version!  You can change the metal rivets, button, and grommets to five different metals, and there are 26 different colors for the corset lacing!  Very versatile!  They are not cheap at L$699, but they are are fantastic jeans, and I’m a sucker for corset lacing 🙂

  • Top: Cranberry Snowflake Blouse by Moonstar
  • Jeans: Chloe Corset Pants V2 by L&B Swear
  • Body: Lara by Maitreya
  • Head: Jennifer by GA.EG
  • Hands: Slink Dynamic
  • Boots: Silver Seduction Ankle Boots by Bootgasm (marketplace link)
  • Hair: Zuyu by Monso
  • Necklace: Single Bead Cord Necklace by Ghee

Baby Monkey Advent

Baby Monkey have been running an Advent Calendar, but it hasn’t been advertised much outside the group, which is a shame as it’s open to everyone with no group required!

The dress and boots are from this year’s calendar, and the tights are from a couple of years ago.  Firstly, the dress is in fitmesh for Freya, Isis, Venus, eBody, Lara, Hourglass, Physique, Curvy, and Fine.  There are no classic sizes.  It comes with a three color HUD too.

The boots and socks are one item, and are non-rigged/no modify with a resize script.  They also come with a HUD that allows you to select the color of the boots and socks independently from three different colors.

A great little outfit for tramping though the snowy landscape!

  • Dress: Geena Dress Advent by Baby Monkey
  • Body: Lara by Maitreya
  • Head: Jennifer by GA.EG
  • Hands: Slink Dynamic
  • Boots: Denise Boot Advent by Baby Monkey
  • Tights: Tights Fall/Winter 2015-16 by Baby Monkey
  • Hair: Zuyu by Monso
  • Necklace: Single Bead Cord Necklace by Ghee

Peggy

A gift from Day 10 of Glitter’s Advent Calendar.

This nice knit dress is only available in standard sized fits, hence there are a couple of tiny clipping issues with Lara.  As it’s not fitmesh, a couple of tiny tweaks to your shape may be required. But the texturing nearly makes up for any issues!  It looks really nice, just the thing for a winter’s day!


Umiko

OK, since I’m in the Southern Hemisphere, and it’s summer, a Christmas themed swimsuit is fantastically appropriate!

This is the Day 13 Advent Calendar gift from Prism.

I’m so happy to see one piece swim suits making a comeback. I’ve always liked them more that bikinis 🙂

This one comes in sizes for classic smalls, classic larges, and specific fits for Lara, Physique, Hourglass, and Ebody.


Christmas Redemption

This is my entry in the Flawless Collective Christmas photo competition, which closed last Friday.  I just happened to have used a nice bodysuit by Entice to set up a fallen angel themed outfit for a contest recently, so I thought I’d use that to do an entry.  The rules were simple, take a photo on one of the three sims from the Collective (this was taken at the Entice sim) and be wearing a piece of clothing from one of the Collective’s stores.

There were two main categories for entries, SL snapshots and retouched photos.  Obviously mine is in the latter category as I like to take huge pics in SL (usually around 4200 x 2200 pixels) so I can get good detail, save them to disk, then crop and resize them in Gimp.  For this photo, I also used Darktable to do some color balance, some sharpening, and to get more control over background blur than SL would allow me.  I also added some hair with my meager drawing skills.  As usual, I’m using a projector light to get the lighting effects on the avatar and the ground.

In addition to the two main categories, if a photo doesn’t win the grand prize, it automatically get considered for three themed prizes: most creative, best showing of holiday spirit, and best display of product.  Strangely, by doing a photo of the redemption of a fallen angel at Christmas time wearing a bodysuit by Entice, I think I have all of those covered lol

I can’t wait to see the results, which should be announced on either the 18th of December or the following Friday, as “Friday December 18th” as stated on their web page doesn’t exist on my calendar, at least for this year!

Here’s what I’m wearing:


Nighty night

This is the Advent gift from Entice’s calendar for day 13!

The lace detailing is super nice.  There are fits for Freya, Isis, Hourglass, and Lara.  The bodice has visible mesh structure (you can see the individual triangles).  Looks like someone forgot to hit the “Smooth” button in Blender, but it’s OK as long as you don’t cam too close.

I took these photos in our house.  I just wanted to point out that the bit of “artwork” over the fireplace is actually a photograph of a section of the Veil Nebula from the Hubble space telescope!  The universe is truly a beautiful and fascinating place!  Both Aeon and I love astronomical things, hence the number of objects I’ve built around astronomy 🙂


Lace Chocolate

OK, why do I keep finding lingerie to blog?  It seems that I’ll have to run out and do a hunt or something for some winter wear!  This set of lace is from Day 12 of Entice’s Advent Calendar.  Not very seasonal, but I don’t mind 🙂

The set consists of fitmesh bodice, panties with garters, and a skirt that are all separates.  It comes in sizes for Lara, Freya, Isis, Venus, Hourglass, and Physique.  The stocking are applier for Maitreya and Omega.

And here’s the skirt mentioned above.


Ivy Sweater

I seem to have been coming across lingerie and swimsuits lately so I thought I better find something for the season, and who doesn’t love a cute little sweater dress, tights, and boots during the colder weather?

The sweater dress comes in classic mesh sizes, plus fit mesh for eBody, Freya, Venus, Isis, Lara, Hourglass, Physique, Curvy, Find, Ocacin, and TMP.  I paired it with some leggings from a few years back, and one of my favorite pairs of calf boots!

  • Dress: Ivy Sweater Dress Crystal by BlackRose
  • Tights: Tights Fall/Winter 2015 – 16 by Baby Monkey
  • Body: Lara by Maitreya
  • Hands: Slink Dynamic
  • Boots: Laced-Top Leather Boots, Nude by NYU
  • Hair: Zuyu by Monso

Martha

This amazing bodysuit is a group gift from Salt. The group is FREE to join and there are also a number of previous group gifts available.

This is fitmesh (bet you thought it was applier at first glance!)  It’s only available for Maitreya Lara, sorry everyone else 😉