Simple look tonight because I have a new skin, Egoisme’s Evian – Marlon. It comes with ears, eyes, teeth, and hair. All the options were overwhelming yet nicely packaged in a handy 1K box. Go see it yourself, if you want.

Boots: Grasp layered leather boots in black
Pants: Grasp Leather pants (mesh) black
Nails: Mandala short nails
Skin: Evian – Marlon medium skin / ears / eyes
Vest: Joint Male shawl collar cut vest in black
Hair: Lamb blush (mesh) in Ink
Piercing: No Mercy, vintage
Tattoos: vintage from I heart Rien and EtchD

Brains brains brains… It’s tough to remember where I put them after a day of chemotherapy, but luckily Acha’s Animus (boy soul, Jungian term) seems to have ’em for me. He’s in my newest acquisition from Lassitude & Ennui (for the challenge). OK, Jackal might have handed me something even newer, but (to tease you) I can’t blog it until next week. These boots totally suit my Animus’ incarnation as a Deer-shifter. Right? “Come. Run with me and my reindeer this Christmas.” Lol.

Boots: Lassitude & Ennui suede boots in latte
Antlers: Illusions Reindeer Antlers
Staff: Spell Fire Wooden Combat Staff with battle HUD
Eyes: Poetic Colors Autumn – Oak
Hair: Maitreya Natalie – Almond
Skin: Redgrave Tyler – Tan / 05 fullbeard
Outfit: Chaospire Druid outfit
Tattoos: HUZ henna fusion, henna reborn, and rosary neck

hyasynth Tiramisu of ~silentsparrow~ in L&E’s Thecla boots

My oldest friend in Second Life is hyasynth Tiramisu, and she was kind enough to model one of her oldest pairs of Lassitude & Ennui shoes for the Seven years of Lassitude & Ennui challenge. Actually… hyasynth originally put on shoes that came in two parts, but the prims never un-chunked for me, poor old shoes! So we settled on the Thecla boots, which are not all that old (a few years?), and still very beautiful.

My own oldest pair of L&E shoes are probably a little pair of Victorian heels that I got during my year of living in Caledon. Jackal lived there too, and I met her for the first time at a small concert that someone threw. I fangirled all over her, and she handed me a pair of sculpted flats (the Chloe flats), her first sculpties. “You seem to really have a purpose in SL,” I told her with great envy. “I don’t have that purpose yet!” Then Jackal disappeared into WoW for a year, and I slowly began to blog more and more, setting myself the goal of one blog post a day on my modest little blog (www.achariya.net) so that my blogging skills would improve. I wore many more of Jackal’s shoes…and many more of hyasynth’s clothes. And by the time Jackal returned, she had a whole new series of skills to apply to her creations.

It’s funny how sometimes stuff, and certain outfits, can bring on a whole slew of memories. hyasynth in those boots reminds me of the days when I blogged a lot, and hya had the time away from a 9-5 day job to create a lot of beautiful things, and Jackal had just returned to SL…

Boots: Lassitude & Ennui Thecla boots in Sea
horns lassitude & ennui – Slightly monstrous horns light / sorbet
necklace lassitude & ennui Psyche – Silver & blue topaz
Hybrid Jeans – Black
Skin Schadenfreude Moonlight Langwidere [f-b-d] Blush
Nails Schadenfreude Azure Glitter Manicure
Head Crow (Sparrow) Corbie Plush Crow – Happy! Perched on Your Head <3
Socks (quail)(3A) Tweet Over the Knee Socks ~silentparrow~
Shirt (women’s) Cranky Owl Tee ~silentsparrow~
Hair – Magika Tomorrow
Schadenfreude Sparrow Pose 6 (sitting)
Tattoos – tenebrae tendrils tattoos ~silentsparrow~ 😉

Saiyge Lotus of Balderdash in L&E’s Wanderlust boots

Tonight I thought about my favorite boots by Lassitude & Ennui. They are the Wanderlust boots, and they come hand in hand with my favorite people and activities in Second Life. What I’ve always loved most about blogging was not taking pictures of myself, but instead collaborating with other people. I decided that for the “my favorite item” part of the Seven years of Lassitude & Ennui challenge, I’d do my favorite thing — photograph someone else. I love the Wanderlust boots because of the shape and construction. They look like a pair of boots that can kick some ass while being perfectly in place at a Babbage banquet, elegantly flexible!

The avatar that I felt perfectly embodies the Wanderlust boots is Saiyge Lotus. There’s something rakishly fey about her avatar and all of her creations that puts me in mind of far journeyings in magical realms. Could it be the vardos, or the rest of her creations? Or perhaps her personal style, a fine magical realist mix of contemporary and fairy? Maybe all of it. Saiyge was kind enough to pause in her creation of Yuletide fare and lean against a vardo for me.

These boots of Jackal’s walk a magical path, and so does Saiyge!

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Saiyge’s credits:

Hair: [LeLutka] -LIVELY hair – IronHotcake
Skin: -Glam Affair- Amberly – Europa -9 D
Eyes: Mayfly – Liquid Light Eyes (Green Tourmaline)
Sensations Mesh Horns – Old Ram
Izzie’s – Delusional Eyeshadow plum

Coat: coldLogic coat – palmieri.ebony
Pants: *League* Merino Leggings – Long Black
Boots: lassitude & ennui – Wanderlust – black duotone

Balderdash – Winter Waldgeist (unreleased)
Balderdash – Draoi – Winter- Headpiece (unreleased)
Balderdash – Bit of Christmas Necklace

Location: Oubliette – Balderdash *Sparrow* Wagon

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Today while pondering that a few thousand people were trying to get into an area that can comfortably fit 32, I decided to put on my Petite avatar again. I love the one by Mynerva (so happy that I can change the skin any odd color that I want), and soon I was off hunting Petite stuff. I was so happy to find that Balderdash has a line of headpieces for Petites! Wasabi Pills hair, too. And *fingersnap* used up all my Gatcha moneys!

Boots: Moonstruck petite brocade shoes in black
Hair: Wasabi Pills Amandine Petite Mesh Hair – deep ocean
Headpiece: Balderdash Waldgeist petite headpiece
Outfit: Blue Blood Diana petite outfit
Avatar: Mynerva petite light drow

While I stood around this morning hitting the “teleport” button for the Arcade, I put on Katat0nik’s Bowie dress. It’s so very pretty! I do love how it’s amazingly hard to break the line of mesh. The only poses that made the skirt distort were ones that basically did the splits. Hope you enjoy your first weekend of December! And nope, I haven’t gotten into the Arcade yet…

Dress: Katat0nik green bowie dress (mesh)
Shoes: Ingenue Alair in berry (for yesterday’s FLF)
Ears: Plastik the Arkenea ears – cute
Necklace: Lassitude & Ennui Ophelia Bow & Pearl Choker
Tattoo: Vestigium Lady Muerta
Eyes: NP Lunar eyes in scarlett & clover
Horns: Schadenfreude Kinder Horns
Nails: Mandala female short nails
Hair: Lamb Soma in Milk
Skin: Fashionably Dead vampire skin – 5
Poses: Diesel Works

Miss Cajsa was kind enough to talk me through using her Status Dual Projector Box 1.0, and indeed, using projectors is fun! The basic box comes with a few very easy-to-blog-with poses, and editing the texture into the light is very easy. I’m still fiddling with my day setting (I think I used one that washed me out a bit here), but it’s nothing but fun!

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Once again my avatar is having a much better November than I’ve had, but I took a nice long break from reality tonight and spent time dressing for the season. I headed straight to Saiyge Lotus’s sim and was happily unsurprised to find it covered in ice. Yay! The only thing new about my outfit are the amazing boots from Schadenfreude. The great vest is no longer 50L, but it’s from So Many Styles, and I’ve layered it over a lovely vest in a similar color from ~silentsparrow~. I hope you all have a lovely beginning of Yule!

Boots: Schadenfreude Amargosa Boots with awesome hud
Vest: So Many Styles Fur PomPom vest in midnight pool for last friday’s FLF
Tattoos: Vintage
Pants: MichaMi Pia Leggings in gold
Horn: MiaSnow Accessory – horn in silver
Vest: ~silentsparrow~ Ursala Fenris Leather Vest
Crown: Balderdash crown of twigs
Ears: Plastik Lionheart Elven Ears
Face jewelry: Ellabella Benediction
Nails: Mandala takara nails
Hair: Lamb Brand New Lover in butterfinger (mesh)