The Beauty Event is on at the moment, and as it’s their 1st anniversary, there are lots of FREE gifts for all comers just by joining the FREE event group.
One of the nicest pieces I’ve opened so far is this gorgeous bra and panty set from LsR.
The bra and panties are separates. They’re sized to fit Lara and Legacy, with the addition of Petite and Perky sizes for the bra. There are two styles as well, the one I’m wearing here, and a plain yellow with a tighter weave.
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!
There’s something special about the holiday, it’s an excuse to cuddle up and be snuggly, to not have to leave the house — watching the snow fall outside, knowing how cold and dark it is out there… and how warm and bright it is in here.
I just stumbled across some wonderful things from a creator that’s new to me, and I just had to share them with you! This is the beautiful Andie Rib Knit top from Carpe Noctem. I’ll confess, that I don’t usually go for crop top — my tummy gets too cold! But this is SOOOO cute that I just fell in love with it.
Andie comes in 20 beautiful colours and 10 patterns. Here’s my favourite part: you can get all of them individually! None of this “you have to buy the fatpack to get these patterns/colours that you really want”… no, you just get what you want — or you get the lovely reasonable HUD-driven fatpack if you want them all! I just love the kittens, but there are a bunch of wonderful colours that I adore, too. It’s also available in Lara Petite (as well as other sizes), so YAY!
Aloha kākou! Perhaps we’re still a month off from the Solstice, from Christmas, from Hanukkah, from the Season of Light… but it’s been a difficult year, and the light and hope that that season brings can’t come too early for me.
Prima Donna comes in seven beautiful colours. I fell in love with several of them… but the holiday feeling hit me so strongly that I just had to share Emerald with you. The Holly crown from .AiShA. and the Pointsettia ‘n Bells necklace and earrings from EarthStones just matched too perfectly to miss!
And lastly… please stop by and visit the lovely Savor Serenity sim. My dear friend Gidgy is one of the most wonderful sim builders I know. Please stop by and enjoy the beauty there!
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?
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.
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”.
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!
Welina mai kākou! Hau‘oli Pō’akolu! Aloha my friends, Happy Wednesday!
Kerryth at Spyralle put a lovely new texture of her beautiful Sybil gown, the beautiful Plains. It has the wonderful warmth of a golden dawn, and I just love it.
I paired it with the beautiful Butterly necklace and earring set from EarthStones. They have a lovely little choice of metals and stone textures, and just felt right with Sybil.
A dream of nightlife… the neon, the crowded dance floor, the laughter, the irressistable beat of the music that you feel as much as hear. Perhaps now the dance floors are empty, the music hard to hear as our world staggers to handle the strain… but hold this dream, this light, this feeling. What we hold we can retain.
Welina mai kākou! Hau‘oli Pō’aono! Aloha my friends, Happy Saturday!
There is sometimes a disconnect between SL and RL, and perhaps now more than ever… but SL gives us the chance to maintain the social contacts that we might be starting to starve in RL right now. So, it’s the weekend, let’s dance, for there is life!
It’s no secret that I love sparkly and shiny, and a little bit of revealing is a happy joy — so Ally Adventure is always a big favourite of mine. This is the Cyra Deep Cutouts tunic dress from Ally★Adventure.
It’s all kinds of sparkly, and comes in 8 different colours, with somewhat varying degrees of… reveal. There’s also a free demo and a fatpack available.
Aloha Po’akolu! Happy Wednesday, everyone! I have another lovely gown from Spyralle to share with you here today, it’s a beautiful piece featured at Mystic Market this month. Sibyl Forest comes in both ‘plain’ and ‘glyph’ versions, and is just a perfect colour for me.
I had fun shooting, so I’ll just the pics speak for me.
Nature’s Splendor by EarthStones is a beautiful necklace-and-earring set that features a beautiful little texture-change HUD. There are three sets of leaves here, so you can colour them individually or all together if you prefer.
The glyphs version of the dress features patterns that remind me of the ki‘i pohaku, the petroglyphs on the Hawaiian islands. I definitely love the look, although if you prefer it without them, “un-glyphed” versions are also included!
This edition of Mystic Market ends soon, so you might want to stop by sooner than later! Kerryth has a good record of bringing her event clothing into the main store, so if you miss it, you’ll have another chance. And stop by The Lost Unicorn for a magical little visit. There have been some recent updates, and the sim just keeps getting better and better.
I found this very simple black romper at Un!q, as a FREE group gift for members of Fab Free. I’m wearing it today to show off two lovely gifts that Aeon got for me over the holiday period. The romper is sized for Lara, Freya, Venus, Isis, Physique, and Hourglass.
Aeon wanted to get me something for my cheetah, but she realized she didn’t know kemono well enough, so I picked out some things which she got for me. One of them was this hairstyle, which is not only a perfect match for the cheetah in auburn, but it also works really well in human form too in my more usual red.
The other gift Aeon got me was this absolutely gorgeous necklace! It’s from EarthStones, whom we both like as jewelry makers. I found our eternity rings there too.
As promised yesterday, here’s the third FREE group gift I picked up while at Mangula the other day, this one for members of teleporthub.com.
But before I show you that in full, it was Aeon’s and my fifth wedding anniversary the other day! Five years of marriage in SL is a long time, or so I’m told. I wanted to get us something special to mark a pretty big milestone. In real life, eternity rings are usually given after a seriously long marriage, but who knows if SL will still be around in 45 more years 🙂
I hunted around and the only ring I could find that actually looked like what my concept of an eternity ring should look like (a plain platinum band encircled all the way around by diamonds), I found at Earthstones as of all things the men’s half of an engagement set.
Here you can see our wedding ring that Aeon made for our first wedding anniversary to the right, and the eternity ring to the left. I was seriously concerned that a men’s ring wouldn’t size down to fit Slink and Maitreya hands (I favor Slink, while Aeon likes Lara). So I contacted the owner of Earthstones who assured me that it would, and yay, it did!
Please note we got two of these, one each. You cannot buy the separate rings on marketplace, you can only buy the His and Hers set. You must visit the in-world store to be able to buy each ring individually, so take heed if you’re in a similar situation to us!
Also, you’re getting a way too close up view of the top for the day with that photo, so let’s cam back… 🙂
This is a really nice fitting bralette and the lace work is superb. Just like the gifts I showed you yesterday, it’s sized for Lara, Curvy, Freya, Hourglass, and this time, Isis as well. Wear it under a loose-fitting shirt or jacket, it’s certainly well fitted enough to work if you search something out that’s a good fit, or just wear it by itself over jeans!
With those serious closeups, I’ll give you a full rundown of everything I’m wearing too, which I don’t usually bother with as you can easily find a previous post like this that lists everything. So, here’s the latest list, which hasn’t changed since the last time I did this:
