What do you do on a day that a great man dies? When you wake up and the world is less one artist, one incredible voice and talent?
You get up and do the things you were supposed to do that day, because despite the gaping hole in the universe that is suddenly left you aren’t the one who left and you have things to do. Continue reading
It was way past midnight
And she still couldn’t fall asleep
The night the dream was leaving
she tried so hard to keep Continue reading
Even the Grinch would have a nice ass in Blueberry shorts or jeans. .
Some of us are dipped in flat,
some in satin,
some in glass,
but every once in a while,
you find someone who’s
iridescent,
And once you do,
nothing will ever compare.
Wendelin Van Dramen, Flipped
Collabor88 opened at midnight with an exciting and fun new theme–Holographic! So their catalog is filled with opalescence, iridescence, and opulent fabrics. Blueberry released a top and belted shorts. They come with HUDs to offer an amazing range of options.
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Having a bit of a work day today with these new chair props from Purple Poses at COLLABOR88 this month. They’re fun, a great blogging accessory so bloggers, put these on your MUST HAVE list. Continue reading
Sometimes it’s fun to be someone else. Today for instance I’m a different girl. People will sometimes blather on about mesh heads and how they don’t want to wear them because they don’t want to be someone else. Well, today I’m wearing a different one just in order to BE someone else. This is a different girl, a different Gidge. She has a different story. Continue reading
Things are already different. I’ve remodeled my kitchen. That’s a start, right? I wasn’t going to remodel but then I got a good look at this one and I love Trompe Loeil and well here we are. New Kitchen. Continue reading
I stopped by Eternal Flame, a sim with a spare, ascetic ambiance of bitter winter, because it will be closed to the public soon. It made me think of T.S. Eliot’s Little Gidding, part of his Four Quartets that secured for him the Nobel Prize in Literature. He wrote this after his conversation and the poem itself is very much a religious poem, but much of it still speaks to me.
When the short day is brightest, with frost and fire,
The brief sun flames the ice, on pond and ditches,
In windless cold that is the heart’s heat,
Reflecting in a watery mirror
A glare that is blindness in the early afternoon.
And glow more intense than blaze of branch, or brazier,
Stirs the dumb spirit: no wind, but pentecostal fire
In the dark time of the year. Between melting and freezing
The soul’s sap quivers. There is no earth smell
Or smell of living thing. This is the spring time
But not in time’s covenant. Now the hedgerow
Is blanched for an hour with transitory blossom
Of snow, a bloom more sudden
Than that of summer, neither budding nor fading,
Not in the scheme of generation.
Where is the summer, the unimaginable Zero summer?
The poem seems apt for this bright and sunny New Year’s Day, especially the lines from the second section of the poem, “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.” Do I have a new language for this new year? I wonder…
This blog has existed now for 8 years. That’s a long time in SL blogger world, probably even longer in SL Fashion Blogger world. I forget sometimes why we’re considered part of the old guard, until I look through the feeds and don’t know who the hell anyone is.
I’m glad we’re still here, and I’m glad you are too. I don’t know what we’ll be doing in the next year, but I suspect shoes, hair, earrings and clothes will be part of it. And skins, don’t forget skins.
Thanks for reading us all these years.
That bear is strategically placed because I’m not wearing panties and HEY- YO yeah, vagina.
Gidge is Wearing:
Rings: (Yummy) Birthstone Ring – October – Opal (Blogger Copy)
(Yummy) True Fate Ring – Gold – Opal
Head: .LeLutka.Mesh Head-ARIA v1.3
Skin: Deetalez – Susannah
Earrings: Donna FloraALIENA earrings L
ALIENA earrings R
Necklace: ALIENA necklace
Dress: Baiastice_Ellie Dress-Brocade Vanilla-Slink Physique
Wedding Rings: EarthStones Destiny Bridal Set – Gold
Eyes: Mayfly – Luminous – Mesh Eye (London Fog, w4) L
Mayfly – Luminous – Mesh Eye (London Fog, w4) R
Feet: Slink Avatar Enhancement Feet Flat Left V2.0
Slink Avatar Enhancement Feet Flat Right V2.0
Hands: Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands V2.1 – L – Elegant
Slink Avatar Enhancement Hands V2.1 – R – Casual
Shoes: Slink Illona Flats L – Cream
Slink Illona Flats R – Cream
Body: Slink Physique Mesh Body V2.3.1
Hair: Tableau Vivant \ Cristal [S] – FP Collabor8l8
[gi inc] Auto Focus 2.1
Decor: MudHoney Open Magazine by Rayvn Hynes. Lark – Handmade Soaps – 8 by Sienia Trevellion. THE ARCADE Lark – Flower Press Open – 1 RARE by Sienia Trevellion. Prim: THE ARCADE -tres blah- Cozy Winter – Space Heater (Rose) by Julliette Westerburg. THE ARCADE Lark – Wall Art – 4 by Sienia Trevellion. THE ARCADE Second Spaces – Nordic Winter Lounge seat – light by Elle Kirshner. COLLABOR88 Ariskea [ Petite Paris] Mais Putain Frame by Aris (diaxm).THE ARCADE [monso] My Kitty Bangle for C88 by Morphine Janick. COLLABOR88 {vespertine} – wooden fireplace 3 by m o c h i. (amelie.knelstrom). -tres blah- Cozy Winter – Tea Tray RARE by Julliette Westerburg. THE ARCADE LipSeat kitty couch – pink by Barnesworth Anubis. -tres blah- Eclectic Collection – Sofa Chair by Julliette Westerburg. -tres blah- Eclectic Collection – Charmed Books by Julliette Westerburg. -tres blah- Hodgepodge – Cup of Joe by Julliette Westerburg. :Cheeky Pea: Los Robles Coffee Table by Isla Gealach. MudHoney Magazine Basket by Rayvn Hynes. dust bunny . acorn treehouse . RARE by Noel Melody (lxlnoel). Previous Arcade
I’m counting on 2016 to be a better place for me than 2015 was. Continue reading
Furnishings: -tres blah- Cozy Winter – Space Heater (Rose) by Julliette Westerburg.-tres blah- Cozy Winter – Big Pillow by Julliette Westerburg. -tres blah- Cozy Winter – Coat Rack by Julliette Westerburg. dust bunny . round end table by Noel Melody (lxlnoel). :Cheeky Pea: Winter Warmer Chaise (PG) Princess by Isla Gealach. House:dust bunny . acorn treehouse . RARE by Noel Melody (lxlnoel). Prim: Gnome – Godmother -Mustresse Rare, Tree – Tree Blah, Cozy Winter Sapling, tres blah – Cozy Winter – Snowman Trinket box
One of the things it’s easy to forget as the frenzy dies down, is that the ARCADE is open all month. Those must have items you wanted, well they are still there. Didn’t want to pay 10X the price for a rare at some yardsale? Well, you might just get lucky with a full pulls at the mothership and after all there are still a few very good days left for Arcade shopping. Continue reading