Exquisite

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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its lovliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

Can pixel dust be a joy forever? I think so. I think you will find moments of breathtaking beauty that can linger in memory forever. I had such a moment while on the swing at Humanoid, the installation on Gilmour sim. I jumped on the swing and when I zoomed in and out – the perspective change was dizzying. Zooming in, the flexis in my hair blew in the breeze and my skirt seemed to pool around me. It was hard to stop and actually take some photos.

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I knew I wanted to find some place extraordinary for this dress from Ephemera. The skirt textures are so beautiful and the entire dress just made me feel like a princess in a fairy tale. I needed a fairy tale setting and I found one. Funny story, I have seen photos that said they were taken at Humanoid and decided to go explore long ago. However, I went to Humanoid, the sim, not the installation. They are very different. The sim is the giant mo-cap store and is quite distinctive with its red-grid terrain, but it has a very utilitarian, modern mood without any of the soft, dreamlike romanticism of the installation.
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Valedictory

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Back in my infancy when I graduated from high school and thought I knew everything, I gave the valedictory speech at graduation. My title was “You get from life what you put into it.” How smug that sounds to me today. The lessons of time and experience have taught me that life is much more random that that. The course of your life is not determined by hard work and will alone, but by hard work, will combined with health, luck (good or bad) and sheer randomness. You can control some factors, but not all of them and even with the best of control of your own efforts, you can’t control others. We all like to take credit for our successes and blame outside forces for failures. That’s human nature. There is, however, one way that we still have control and it’s in how we react. Are we positive or negative? Do we try for more kindness in our actions and less bitterness? Our attitude to the randomness of life plays a major role in how we get along and move along in the world, so I guess that old speech wasn’t so bad after all.

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Sissy did it again!

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Sissy did it again!

I’m obviously talking about Sissy Pessoa, the talented mind behind Baiastice. And, yes, she did it again, she made mo go woohoo when i saw one of her latest releases, the fantastic Emi boots.
In the following pictures i’m wearing them along with an amazing outfit also from Baiastice, its name is Meriera and is part of the Fall Collection, seen on the Modavia Fashion Week 2011’s runway.

Sissy rocks!

Emi

These beautiful suede fringe boots are available in many colors: also, they come with two different height designs, the High Boots and the High Boots fold up, so you can switch from one style to another, according to your outfit or just your mood 😉
Don’t you just love them??? I’m sure Gidge does, as she blogged about them, too. That means the Emi boots rock! 😀
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Thursday Called For Boots

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I am in love with boots this year. It’s possibly because I don’t own any in RL. I also don’t own any socks in RL that aren’t like white athletic socks. I’m enamored of the idea of my feet being warm.

Thus, when the cold winter winds blew into my RL last night, my mind said “Socks. Boots. I want these things.”

Luckily, when I was dressing out of my Baiastice closet this morning I found these amazing boots which just did the trick.

There are only a few creators I can think of that I’m able to dress head to toe in their creations, Sachi Vixen of Adam N Eve – Monica Outlander from Miamai and Sissy Pessoa of Baiastice. Today’s a Baiastice day.

I left the gorgeous jewelry from MOOD on again today – because DUH it’s gorgeous.

Now I’m off, I’ll try not to freeze to death out in the RL.

Your Shopping List:

Suit: Baiastice_Bexley-
Boots: Baiastice_Emi boots
Manicure: sterling artistry:_manicure_CarminVogue
Lipstick: Baiastice_Milly lipstick- rose
Lashes: Amacci – Eyelash Tattoo 6
Jewelry: ::MOOD:: Desiderio Brillante INDULGENCE Cocktail Ring [L]
::MOOD:: Desiderio Brillante INDULGENCE Cocktail Ring [R]
::MOOD:: Desiderio Brillante INDULGENCE Earring [L]
::MOOD:: Desiderio Brillante INDULGENCE Earring [R]
Hair: Baiastice-Fujiko hair attachment-BLONDE (pale/porc)
Shape: Gidge ~Savoir Faire Shapes
Skin: Baiastice_Marina-peach-makeup 6 -BL+hair
Eyes: Poetic Colors: classic – rain at the beach (m) bright

POSES – STaTUS

Gretchen and Teddy

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Here I am heading out for a short foray of exploration. I brought along a tote bag in case I picked up some eggs, wheat or butterfly milk along the way. I noticed in the Destination Guide that there was a new exhibit from Bryn Oh and you know as well as I do that they are not to be missed. I wanted to look really chic since there’s usually a few people watchers so I tossed on this lovely outfit from Jador. It’s a gorgeous fall skirt suit and the work on it is really great. Look how beautifully the plaid matches up at the seam. The creator provided an alpha mask for the breasts so you needed spend a lot of time fitting if you don’t mind your breast size determined by the outfit – though with a jacket, the bust always seems flatter the more you layer in any world.

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Mid-Week MOOD Pick Me Up – Vampires Love New Jewelry

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MOOD has just released the DESIDERIO ensemble with cocktail rings, earrings and necklace. You can change the stones or the metal, so there’s endless looks available from casual to fancy pants.

I just finished eating so you know, I’m casual.

It’s a quickie today! I’m off

Your Shopping List:

  • Skin – Baiastice – Karin in Moonlight
  • Vampire Tattoo – cheLLe – Messy Eating WHAT A VAMP
  • Hair – EXILE – Jaela – in Chardonnay
  • Jewelry – MOOD – Desideria – NEW RELEASE!
  • Poses -STaTUS

Blogging Second Life

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I have begun a new project with Evelyn Hartshon, combining my effort to collect the world of Second Life® bloggers with her effort to catalog the stores and creators of Second Life all in a one-stop-shop resource for the community.  The site is called Blogging Second Life.

This is a community resource that can be made better with your help – help in adding blogs that are missing, stores that we have not listed and other missing info. You can also help by linking to it in your own blogs and store listings and using it as a resource for posts. The site’s listing for a store includes a link the creator’s profile rather than SLurls as the slurls may change, but the profile will not. From the profile, you should find links to their store. There’s also a link to their blog and marketplace. Suggestions are welcome.

There is also an in-world group connecting bloggers and creators. You can apply for an invite on the site.

 

The Flesh Game: My Road to Reality TV Victory

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I showed up a few minutes late for the first day of shooting of the new reality show, The Flesh Game. Clearly they have not been in the business for long because there were no paparazzi and no step and repeat for photos to introduce us to the soon-to-be adoring public. So my fashionably thirty minutes late was not right on time as it should have been and the studio lobby was empty except for disappointed hopefuls who did not get the lucky 7th and last opening in this game.
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1964

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Every once in a while social, cultural and political events converge in a year that changes everything. 1964 was one of those years. It was the year of the Civil Rights Act that prohibited race and gender discrimination. President Johnson said it would cost the Democratic Party the South for a generation. Seeing that it’s two generations since then and the Southern Strategy still dominates electoral politics, he gave people too much credit. 1964 was the year America began bombing in Vietnam. Contrary to the stereotypical Archie Bunker, the majority of the working class was opposed to the war which was most strongly supported by economic and cultural elites – a natural byproduct of the college exemption from the draft that placed the risks of war solidly on the poor and working class, just as they shoulder the majority of the risk today.

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