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Artis Natur indeed

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His house is in the village though

I’ve become addicted to the Destination Guide. My modus operandi is to open it up and click on the first listing that I see for each category, and I end up in some lovely and picturesque places. This one is called Artis Natur. Apparently (according to Helena Stringer) this sim was closed to the public and “invite-only” for a while. They must’ve opened it up, because some random dude tried to hit on me as soon as I got to the sim’s teleport hub. At least, I think he was hitting on me, it was something like “Heeeey [Russian characters]”. Maybe he was simply asking the time?

Anyway Artis Natur is a fine place to sport my new sundress from GATO (at The Dressing Room) and antlers form Schadenfreude. Happy exploring!  You can go visit the sim here.

Whose woods these are

I do not know

Antlers: Schadenfreude Ceryn Flora Antlers
Tattoo: Garden of Ku tattoo dragon
Eyes: Plastik Frozen Soul-Candy
Skin: Plastik Astrali (Basic) Summer Heat
Makeup: Plastik Soul Ink Reloaded in Jana tint
Hair: Lamb Ruby in left-brained color
Dress: GATO Loro Dress for The Dressing Room
Shoes: Lassitude & Ennui Boudoir Mules in silver

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

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The Ayoun dress and clutch from Baiastice for the July round of Collabor88 is a delicately feminine little frock with a dropped blouson top and a gently gathered flounce skirt. With spaghetti straps and a deep cleavage, it bares a lot for the summer sun. It comes in ten solids and five prints. What is so exciting is that the five prints are all different, not just recolors.It seems the essence of summer. The lovely clutch purse has a subtle nod to summer with the fabric rose on the flap. 

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.

My mother wanted to be an English teacher when she was growing up. Many of her older siblings went to college, but when she was still a child, my grandfather’s bank manager ran off with all the money in his bank. This was before FDIC, so people could have lost everything. Instead, my grandfather sold his mill, electric company, his farm and his house and made all the depositors whole even though he was not obligated to do so since it was a corporation. This left him impoverished and having to start over from scratch in his late sixties. He began again as a dairy farmer on contract to a local creamery, paying $1.00 per acre, but obligated to sell his produce only to that creamery for 30 years, a northern form of share-cropping.  This ended any chance my mom had of going to college.

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Griefers Want To Stop You From Joining Hair Fair Demo Group

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Well, I was going to go toss up the Hair Fair Demo Group at our blog HQ today, so folks could run over and join ASAP but it seems like someone has griefed us! This giant red structure is rotating and flashing, it’s super awesome. I’d like to thank DOCTORCHAD Resident for that! Charming sir!

Until that’s fixed, it’s HERE

You can hop a ride and touch the board to get all the demos delivered to the comfort of your own SL home!

** Update you can now click and go HERE to get the group joiner!

I Hired a Personal Assistant Fairy

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I decided that it was high time I too acknowledged how fancy and important I was by getting myself a personal assistant in SL. However, I didn’t want one I would pay a pittance and then would be responsible for answering customer NCs if they came in, and for reminding me to make items for events.

No, I wanted on that would be at my beck and call 24/7 and who would make things appear that I wanted, for no other reason than because I was dreaming of them in RL. I wanted someone with MAGIC.

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Several Shoots Later

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I shot this outfit five times. Five different times. This is a grand departure from my old self, wherein I would say TO HELL WITH THIS OUTFIT and delete it all and you’d never see it.

I used to feel like, it just wasn’t meant to be, if the pics were all shite. But that’s more Presbyterian than I care to be, so I kept going back and back and back to the studio, or that studio, or this location, or at my house, until eventually I even made myself a projector and played with it until I came up with these pics. Continue reading →

Donna Flora Main Store Has Moved

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Donna Flora has moved from the big sprawling romantic store with its secret rooms on Bonin to a more contemporary, streamlined store on Florencia. With Squinternet’s health keeping her from producing new items on a regular basis, she really needed to cut back, so she downsized from a full sim to a homestead. Her newest clothing has migrated to the new store and all of her jewelry is there as well. The old store will remain on Bonin for one last week and most of the older clothing that is there will be retired. While helping her move, I saw this dress, one of her early mesh pieces. I don’t remember seeing it before but I really liked the combination of a sleek sheath with the full sleeves.

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Meanwhile at MiaMai, Monica Outlander made room for a satellite store for Donna Flora jewelry on her sim! This will allow people to continue to discover Donna Flora while shopping. She will also be producing some special designs in the near future, MiaMai for Donna Flora, with the sales all for Squinternet.

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Peace, love, and purple skins

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Sometimes Second Life is Shakespearean stuff, but when it’s best, it allows me to have a peaceful and meditative place inside of myself. I love walking around on beautiful-interesting-evocative sims and soaking up the mood of the person who created it. I love looking like a purple spotted demon because of someone else’s vision. SLife’s good, even when you find out that half the men are women and vice-versa.

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Jeans: (milk motion) boyfriend jeans in dark blue with patches
Horns: Cuttles Tentacle Horns ~silentsparrow~
Skin: Plastik FLF Asaia skin with soul ink makeup
Shoes: (milk motion) My loafers -leopard
Jewelry: Schadenfreude Pagoda Uncaged earrings/necklace
Sweater: The Sea Hole persuasion sweater – violette
Hair: Lamb Ruby (mesh) in Moss color
Sim: Tuatha de Danann

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing

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I’ve been exploring SL a lot more lately (as I might’ve mentioned). I’m still in SL very lightly, and sometimes I feel like I’m in an insular bubble in which I’m floating through the world but not engaging with it, much like being a ghost. Wandering in a ghost-like manner, I stumbled across the sim of Hazardous in the Destination Guide’s editor’s picks. It was beautiful! Two pictures of the sim are below the cut.

This bubble was penetrated just a little recently when I accidentally left Apatia Hammerer stranded far up in the stratosphere (Allegory had to rescue her), and also when I gossiped all afternoon with Miss Gidge. Well, up until the poop happened.

Oh the stories that us Oldbies can tell. We both concluded that we miss the merry revelry of diving deep into SL and getting all messy with it, but along with stepping back comes a certain amount of healthy wariness. Such is slife. Anyway, I dig my shirt-dress! It’s new from Trinite. Check them out, if you like!

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When Two Moms Collide

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Acha and I are doomed. Whenever we try to take a picture together, RL rains down on us like fire and brimstone from a past life catching up for old sins.  Like yesterday, we tried to have a quiet Fourth of July picnic when suddenly.

 

[18:27] Gidge (gidge.uriza): ok I have a poop incident…..
[18:27] Gidge (gidge.uriza): not mine
[18:27] Gidge (gidge.uriza): but i have to go

You see, the RL, there is poop.  Continue reading →