An Avatar After Work

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I’m officially moved in. I picked up Sophie from Auntie Inventory. She’s been visiting there for a while, she really loves it – Auntie Inventory HAS EVERYTHING.  I decided that after a day full of being a fashion blogger and walking around looking pretty, there was nothing for it but to sit on the porch, gaze at the sea and have some wine.

That solves all life’s stresses, I’m pretty sure.

It seems like a big place to have all to myself, and making dinner just for me would be lonely, but Cajsa has moved in to be my neighbor! I’m SO excited that after all these years we’ll be within cup of sugar borrowing distance! Continue reading →

The Problem With Moving

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…is that I want everything perfect the moment I lay the house. Why isn’t everything where it goes? Oh wait, I have to DECIDE where it goes? New house, new floorplan? UGH. Decisions!

Baiastice’s contribution to THE ARCADE this month was the amazing set of Fairies and the shelf for them to sit on. I decided they were PERFECT above my fireplace. I won’t be told otherwise.

Barnesworth Anubis’ LAKESIDE COTTAGE will be the venue for my SL adventures, at least for a while. It’s so gorgeous, I still can’t get over all the windows looking out into the sea. I’m in love with this plot and the way the house works here.

My alcove loft I’ve converted into a study and whimsical family room area. It’s the closest to done in the house.

I can get used to this.

The amazing dress is DCNY. Shoes are LVLE. All else is also awesome, and in the credits.

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Gidge Is Wearing:
Lashes: Amacci – Eyelash Tattoo 6
Dress: DCNY_Boho Baby Dress_Daydream S
Hair: Exile::Whispers AON
Feet: Slink Mesh Feet (Av Enhance) Medium S
Hands: Slink Mesh Hands (av) Casual S Left
Slink Mesh Hands (av) Elegant S Right
Nail Color: FLAIR
Shoes: [LVLE] Olivia Strappy Heels – Sunrise
Shape: Gidge ~Savoir Faire Shapes~
Skin: [PXL] JADE PA Peach Lips MEB C2
Eyes: classic – coral reef (m) bright
Standing Poses: PRETENSE POSES

No 15: In The Garden

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Every church I attended when I was growing up had the Gospel Hymnal with all the songs numbered to help people find them quickly. We all knew Number 60 was The Old Rugged Cross. Dad’s favorite was No. 234, Children of the Heavenly Father, a traditional Swedish hymn that he preferred to sing in Swedish. For Mom, it was Higher Ground and for some reason I cannot remember its number for certain, though I think it was 117. Mine was number 15 – In the Garden.

I come to the garden alone while the dew is still on the roses
And the voice I hear, falling on my ear, the Son of God discloses.
And he walks with me and he talks with me
And he tells me I am his own
And the joy we share as we tarry there
None other has ever known.

That songs speaks to the ecstatic experience – which though associated with faith can be experienced by anyone in the presence of absolute beauty. I remember the first time I had such a moment. I was six and visiting my sister and her family. We were at the Falls and exploring this garden that had a floral clock and the mist rose up from the falls making everything and everyone fall away. It seemed I was a alone in a fog of flowers. I stopped still and remember wondering if it was real or if I were dreaming. It was a profound experience, a kind of joy born solely out of beauty. I remember feeling the same way when I was a senior in high school and sitting in the gardens of the Alhambra. I was resting alone in a gazebo made of bougainvillea, sketching the fountain in front of me and suddenly the sunlight struck the water drops in such a way they seemed like prisms, radiating color in the air. It took my breath away and I again felt that strange feeling of unreality, a sort of “pinch me, I must be dreaming” moment, except you would never want to pinch yourself out of such joy. Continue reading →

My Colors are Blush And Bashful

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I have moved to the sea, a nice change of pace from the government housing I where I was staying. But it seems that I’m doing too good of a job decorating, because every time I log in, there are people in my house. They seem to like it too.

I decided that perhaps if I showed up as a zombie with horns, the word would get out and I’d have less unexpected visitors. Continue reading →

Colors bleeding everywhere

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Oubliette at noon

I ponder that I am such a recluse in SL because the second I want to be somewhere, RL happens. For example, I would’ve really wanted to be at Squinternet’s gathering this morning at 9 SLT in order to listen to my friends talk about her, and honor her memory. Instead, I was driving my kid between violin and ballet, yep, the normal Saturday routine. It made me wonder how many SLers feel my pain — I suspect that many of us take up SL because it slides neatly around all of our other commitments. Health issues; work all day (at home or elsewhere); look after children/a child at night; head into SL to decompress…

Speaking of which, this pink jacket (fashionably Dead at C88) absolutely makes me decompress. It was brighter than the leaves of Oubliette, which is pretty amazing, considering. I’m still camped out in the sim, soaking in its beautiful glow. There’s a rumor that the sim might be looking to lease to few good vendors or residents — if you find the sim as lovely as I do and are looking for a place to call home (or sell your work), contact Elizabeth Tinsley in-world via notecard.

More photos and credits behind the cut. Also, look how cute Gidge looks in these stretchy pants!

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Linden Lab, Don’t Feel My Pain

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No pictures in this post. I don’t want to associate anyone’s lovely work with my complaining grumpy post about the clear evidence that Linden Lab’s left hand has no idea what its right hand it doing – and vice versa.

The newest update to the viewer broke something for us Mac users. I did all the usual steps to fix it, clean install, etc. Since it was a new update to the viewer, I headed to he JIRA and searched to see if someone else had already reported it. There was nothing, so I wrote a short report.

Shortly after, I was informed that it was a duplicate of BUG-3848 and the issue was closed. Unfortunately, the staff person did not provide a link to BUG-3848 so I could check if there was a work-around or see how much they were going to prioritize fixing it. I tried searching for it by number but that was forbidden. Browsing the 15,000 plus returns for the word snapshot also revealed nothing. Don’t worry, I am not insane, I sorted alphabetically so I did not actually look at every heading. I finally found a link to it via Google, but it turns out I did not have permission to see it. I bet you don’t either.
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Remembering Squinternet – 9.14.13 at 9am SLT

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This isn’t a fashion post today. It’s an announcement, a sharing of information. It’s an invitation to gather, to remember, maybe to mourn, maybe to celebrate a life.

On Saturday, September 14th everyone is warmly welcomed to come to Florencia where the Donna Flora main store is located and take the teleport down to the ground level. A memorial garden has been graciously constructed by the amazing Saiyge Lotus, for us all to gather at remember our friend.

At 9 am SLT we will hold a gathering and all are welcome to come, share stories, and feel the warmth and friendship of being with other people who also cared about Squintenet.

Saiyge has also created a special memorial tree, for everyone to take a copy of and plant at your own home, if you so wish.

The garden will remain open during the rest of September and anyone is welcome to use it for your own memorial or to come visit, at any time.

See you Saturday, Sept 14 at 9am SLT. 

 

I keep smelling something Rococo

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HMAEM nose ring

Hate Me and Eat Me came out with this awesome new nosering, such a cheeky take on the SRS BZNS rings that I had to wear it right away. It’s so Rococo, it’s mad. I’m wearing it with new boob bandaids from Plastik. They come in so many different colors that they’d suit ALL of your pastel boob bandaid needs (and I know that I personally have many). The outfit is entirely from Trinite, the Ryder outfit. I haven’t worn an over-boob shirt in a while, but I love that it’s cutified by the floppy gartered armwarmers. Nice balance between cute and hoe.  Oh and these eyes are still new, the chartreuse color from The Stringer Mausoleum.

My FLF item is that cool floaty cloud memory board from Sway. I’m so lame with textures lately that I only have me to populate the three photo spaces. Jackal, stop being so busy in your real life! I need more pretty photos of you!

Trinite outfit

Cloud: Sway’s Memory Board
Nose Ring: Hate Me and Eat Me – hita (nose ring)
Outfit, including shoes and armwarmers and skirt and shirt: Trinite Ryder outfit
Tape: Plastik BoobyBandaid in Blaze
Eyes: The Stringer Mausoleum Catscratch Eyes in Chartreuse
Hair: Wasabi Pills Cookie Mesh Hair in Vanilla Pudding
Horns: Plastik Druzi Horns in hades and zeus
Gloss: Mock Fruitilicious gloss
Wings: Schadenfreude group gift drawn wings
Skin: Belleza Leila Pale for C88
Hands: SLink Mesh Hands in Relax
Tattoos: ~silentsparrow~ crowjane tattoos
Eyebrows: Cupcakes violet eyebrows, vintage

Ojos mandarina

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Eyes from Helena!

I am not the IOF queen of extremely pretty enormous face shots, Hybie, Gidge, and Cajsa are. But I totally stole their style to show you these vivid eyes and playful web lashes. The eyes are from The Stringer Mausoleum, and Helena says they’ll be in a special edition pack of four colors for purchase by her group (tangerine, saffron, lime and chartreuse colors). There are other new colors of these eyes out from TSM too (not group-only), and Phire posted about the very cat-like yellow set over at her blog Style Genesis.

Also, I’m totally naked.

In my last post, I speak for the trees, I mentioned that dwindling profit to the vendors has cut short the life of the beautiful sim Oubliette. I’ve been camping my avatar there, trying to capture the beauty of the sim before it fades (and investing as much as I can into Balderdash trees!). These two photos of Rivendell-esque beauty are from the sim:

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Oubliette

Hair: Clawtooth Merci Beaucoup hair in Pumpkin – C88
Skin: Belleza Leila Pale 1 – C88
Eyes: The Stringer Mausoleum TSM Catscratch Eyes – Achariya’s Picks (Tangerine one) – Group Only Buy
Lashes: Miasnow Web Lashes
Sim: Oubliette