Palais Orleans Gallery

It’s always the nights where you just slap a few things on that you end up going out, right? So there I was between outfits (bald and barefoot doesn’t begin to cover it) when Morgana Nagorski sent me an invite to the opening of an exhibit at the Palais Orleans Gallery. It wasn’t just the exhibit that was opening — it was the first exhibit in the reborn gallery, and the first that Morgana is running as sole proprietress. So what could I do? I threw on the first folder I could find and went…

(More about the show behind the cut, including a teasing hint of artwork and a chat with the curator!)

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It’s the kind of Spring day where I feel like sipping a mint julep out on my veranda and just watching the clouds roll by. Who’s with me?! OK instead I’m at work, but my avatar is about to go party with the gators in this new mesh Rebel Hope gown. It moves really, really well, and it totally covers my bunny slippers.

Dress: Rebel Hope Lalani (mesh) dress in champagne
Poses: Lolapop
Eyes: ~bounce~ neko anime eyes – yellow
Ears: SLink Sachara elf ears
Hair: Lamb Baby’s on Fire – Ink
Tattoo: Aitui – With force we go
Gloves: Pig Glove mid Suspenders in steel, Starlust gatcha item
Makeup: Mock Masqued Rainia Makeover (red)
Skin: Pink Fuel Elly (milk) – tutu
Nails: Mandala female short nails
Shoes: fluffy bunny slippers

I had a surreal day. But I also got to be outside in the perfection that is an Orlando springtime, and because of that, I had to celebrate with a few springy photos in SL too. Here I am strutting around in my new Miel boots, enjoying a sakura-laden afternoon at the temporary Zacca & Nonino build. Mmm-achoooo! Ah, that sakura pollen!

Poses: Lolapop! Katat0nik poses
Sim: Zacca & Nonino
Skin: Milk Motion Therese in pale
Skirt: Honey Kitty (dot-yellow) half pleats skirt
Socks: Katat0nik from the Ruff Haus dress
Glasses: Hate Me and Eat Me – glasses – granny takes a trip
Freckles: L. Fauna serious freckles
Scarf: Miel fringe scarf – leafy
Boots: Miel timber boots, accidentally got the male version & resized down
Shirt: DP**yumyum Sweat T in yellow
Hair with bird: Look, sadly you can’t have this. It was by Clawtooth for an ancient Stumblebum. But I promise that if you go to Clawtooth you’ll find equally awesome hair.

I saw these boots from G*Field and immediately thought that they’d match everything I own from Honey Kitty. Indeed they do! In fact, the fat pack is so cheap I might have to get all of them simply to match my Honey Kitty addiction! I’m also clutching yet another of those goddamned Starlust gatcha items, more extreme cuteness from Katat0nik. I like clutching my milk, when it’s this cute.

Milk: Katat0nik (teal) heart milk doll, Starlust gatcha item
Necklace: Lolapop! tortured love choker
Poses: Lolapop! Katat0nik poses
Boots: G*Field (mesh) long cuff boots “will” in pink
Tattoos: ~silentsparrow~ vintage tattoos, Starlust gatcha item
Hair: Lamb Oleander – milkshake
Skin: Milk Motion skin Theresa in pale
Outfit: Honey Kitty museum onepiece
Horns: Schadenfreude kinder horns
Blush: Cheap makeup blush – pumpkin

I’m still in love with the Starlust Gatcha Festival. The latest batch of cool stuff includes these tattoos from ~silentsparrow~. If you spring for the whole thing, like I did, you get 50 tattoos in various places… or you can put money into the addictive little machine. :p I’m also wearing makeup and a garter and stockings from the Schadenfreude gatcha. Also, not from a gatcha, this awesome mesh hair from Lamb. I wear ridiculous amounts of Lamb hair, mostly because I love it to bits, and the mesh fixes the one issue that I had… the “oops my hair is sticking through my boob” issue. So yay!

Orange underpants: Schadenfreude Cirque lingerie set in orange, including stockings and a garter from the Starlust gatcha
Poses: Lolapop
Tattoos: various ~silentsparrow~ vintage tattoos from the gatcha
Makeup and nails: various versions from the Schadenfreude Sedusa gatcha
Hair: Lamb blush (mesh) in granny color
Skin: Milk Motion Theresa skin – pale
Glasses: Crie Style Felice glasses
Horns: Illusions Gazella horns
Eyes: Frick normalish eyes in diablo
Black thong: ~silentsparrow~ eventide thong

Have you been to the Starlust Gatcha Festival yet? It fills my melancholy longing for the Albero Gatcha festivals of yesteryear. In fact, while I was wandering around trying to find a location for a photo contest I was entering, I realized that all of AM Radio’s sims were gone now too. In a way, Second Life is like real life in a petrie dish, it reminds me that everything is mutable. I’ve gotta enjoy the awesome things while they last, because they will surely evaporate like The Quiet’s deep layers of snow. So I’m going to shower love upon this Gatcha festival (my poses, locket, and balloon come from there), because for now, Starlust endures!

Poses: Lolapop! Sucker poses, from the Starlust Gatcha Festival
Locket: ~silentsparrow~ owls chapiteau locket, from the Starlust Gatcha Festival
Balloon: Schadenfreude silver balloon from the Starlust Gatcha Festival
Outfit: League Organic Silk Dress in black, at Collabor88
Glasses: Crie Style Sprung
Boots: Lassitude & Ennui Wanderlust mesh boots in black
Hair: KiK kane in snow
Ears: SLink Sachara Elf Ears long, frogs
Skin: fashionably Dead vampire skin – 2
Eyes: Frick Normalish Eyes – Diablo
Tattoos: The Closet chain hart tattoo

It’s the end of a truly surreal week, and I’m wearing a bunch of pink. I think the surreality was in part due to Spring and that whole US timezone change. It’s rough for my body to get adjusted to it, and I don’t think I will until we Fall Back in October, damnit. Still. Here we go, heading toward the blistering heat of a July afternoon. I’m wearing a new outfit by Nylon Outfitters, currently at Collabor88, standing in new poses from Lolapop! (so cute!), and wearing a pair of super dangerous hooved shoes with gun heels by Hate Me And Eat Me. Seriously, those shoes have it all.

Poses: Lolapop!
Socks: Hanauta check socks in pink
Eyes: Frick normalish eyes – diablo
Headband: u.f.o. dongbow hairband
Outfit: Nylon Outfitters Rosey Outlook in pink/pink – at Collabor88
Glasses: Crie Style Garbo
Tattoo: Wicked Tattoos: born evil
Skin: Fashionably Dead bird skin in winter 6
Hair: Clawtooth pretty words in dusty black
Boots: Hate Me and Eat Me zorongo boots in greycoat

Did you miss us? I did. Actually, I missed Gidge and Cajsa and Kels and Hybie and Gala and the new girl Tristan and everybody! But now we’re back, and I’m sure that Cajsa and Gidge will talk more about why we were gone and thank those who need to be thanked.

I’m so happy to be posting again that I got up my most dapper look to do it! My pants are brand new from Plastik, and my monocle is an awesome one from Crie Style. These monocles have the time scripted onto one of the lenses, scripted for any timezone, amaaaazing! Thanks for the hard work this past weekend, It’sOnlyFashionistas, and I look forward to learning the details!

Pants: Plastik Stardust Pants in purple latex – mesh
Monocle: Crie Style KnightMare –
Earrings: Bliensen + MaiTai It’s Time earrings (FFL)
Necklace: Bliensen + MaiTai Tick Tock necklace (FFL)
Bracelet: Bliensen + MaiTai – Pompeii – bracelet
Shoes: Ingenue Organique flats in straw
Stash: Aitui Septum Stache
Sweater: The Sea Hole Persuasion sweater
Skin: Ugly Duck Emily – Bad Day 5
Hair: Kin – Eku – brown
Eyes: Frick (normalish) eyes – diablo
Tattoo: Kanival Tattoo 89. Paisley (possibly vintage?)
Cig: Sway’s Cigarette – hand

I love my boots and horns. Now I shall quote sad, cryptic lyrics:

Lave
Ma mémoire sale dans ce fleuve de boue,
Du bout de ta langue nettoie moi partout,
Et ne laisse pas la moindre trace
De tout
Ce qui me lie et qui me lasse
Hélas!

See my boots and horns beyond the click.

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For Cajsa’s lovely Donna Flora A to Z challenge, I picked the letter J. J stands for many things to me, but most of all my partner Jackal. Therefore I was happy to find a J outfit at Donna Flora (the Josie) that kind of reminded me of her. I styled myself in Jackal fashion, in a very stark color palate with an interesting skin and otherworldly elements, like these horns and eyes. Jackal is amazing at making her clothing look like natural extensions of herself, as if she’d sewn it all together for a good purpose, and these soft-looking Josie capris definitely suited this mood. Thanks again for the challenge, Cajsa! It was lovely to pay homage to two such lovely and whimsical creators.

Shoes: Lassitude & Ennui Arcanist shoes in grey
Outfit: Donna Flora Josie in black
Tattoo: Wicked Tattoos: born evil – dark ink
Hair: Lamb Mono in restaurant ketchup
Horns: Schadenfreude red swirling horns
Skin: (fd) Vampire Skin – 5