HAPPY NEW YEAR!

There are two sides of my mind right now... One says, "WOW 2024 has been a damn long year with lots of ups and downs and boy I'm glad it's over", the other says "Pfft where the heck did 2024 go and has Christmas come and gone already?"... There's a bigger part of me that's wondering how in the heck the Millennium was 25 years ago, and the fact that we're starting 2025 with a WTF week doesn't bode well... Last time we had a WTF week, we had the Corona outbreak... I know we don't need another one of those, but I will say it might be nice to be forced to stay at home for a while LOL... Now it's time to close our eyes and make a wish... 

Normally I wouldn't be sending my New year wishes and thoughts for prosperity so early. We stil have a few days of 2024 to go before we slip into the new year, but I won't be around and won't have access to the PC from tomorrow. HellBone and I are disappearing to the wilds of Wales, on a family visit with my parents and my sister in her new home... It's something I've been looking forward to for a long time, and no matter that it's not going to be a restful trip it will be a change, and a change is as good as anything... 
For now, I'll enjoy the sparkles, send out many wishes and much love and say Happy New Year everyone. May your evening and start of the new year be good to you, sending you hugs and hope you'll be here to see meand my rambling antics again when I'm back for some fun new adventures...  

What is she wearing;
Hat & Hair: Wasabi - Hot Cocoa Hair in Offbeat (Available until January 8th at ACCESS)
Skin: amara beauty - Freya in Ivory
Scarf: miss chelsea - Edie Scarf V2
Top: Mug - Holiday Plaid Top (Available until January 1st for the 12 Days of Mugmas)
Jeans: Mug - Christmas Jeans (Available until January 1st for the 12 Days of Mugmas)
Sparkler: Moon Rabbit - Party Sparklers
Pose & Lanterns: FOXCITY - Let Go Bento Pose Set
Fireworks: CELESTE - Animated Firework Lights in Fatpack
Sparkles: tarte - Star Lights in White
Backdrop: Synnergy - Open Fields [Night] Backdrop

Wrapping Stations Are Go!

This time next week we will have passed Christmas and be heading into the new year... How scary is that to think that we are so close to 2025, and that Christmas will be here in the blink of an eye?! 
Today I had to get a few things done around the house, and there will be more cleaning to do tomorrow, but there was one thing that I simply HAD to get done before Wednesday... I needed to get my wrapping done, and this little Christmas elf needed a bit of help... I headed to the one place on Earth I knew they could get it done... 

Santa's Workshop - a backdrop from Synnergy.Tavis - has been taken over by the beary merry teddies - from hive -and I've asked them to help me complete my Wrapping Day tasks... A LOT of packages to wrap...Not enough time to get them all done... So far it's making for a Stressful Xmas - like the accessory from Dots - even though I've gotten all dressed up and I'm looking the part of a pretty member of the Santa club... 

What is she wearing;
Hair Accessory: Astralia - Twinkle Antlers (Gift Available until January 2nd at Santa Inc)
Hair: Wasabi - Hot Cocoa Hair in Offbeat (Available until January 8th at ACCESS)
Earrings: STOIC - LUMINESCENCE EARRINGS
Skin: amara beauty - Freya in Ivory
Choker: [Krescendo] - Ho Ho Ho Bow in Priceless
Necklace: Kibitz - Noelle's Necklace in Onyx
Top: Mug - Eve Top in Red
Skirt: Mug - Eve Skirt in Red
Present & Smoke Accessory: Dots - Stressful Xmas in Green
Pose & Paper Prop: Secret Poses - Wrapping Day, Pose 2
Bears: hive - my beary merry teddies
Star Presents: NeverWish - Star Present Decor
Magical Wrapping Present: random.Matter - Magical Yule in Presents Self-Ribboning
Present Piles: MADRAS - Santa Gift Box Santa Gift Box (Gift Available until January 2nd at Santa Inc)
Throne: BackBone - Santa's Throne (Gift available in the MadPea Christmas Advent Calendar 2024)
Wrapping hanger: Katy's Kreations - GIFT WRAP STATION
Tinsel: dust bunny - Tinsel Garland in Gold
Backdrop: Synnergy.Tavis - Santa's Workshop {360} Backdrop

Making a Charcu-tree!

Some of you may know, others may not but I work in retail... To be exact I work in a family business Cheese Shop. The company is Henri Willig, and they ship internationally if you're interested to find out more, but mostly that's just background information for what I want to share with you today... 
Due to my experience in the shop, I am a MASTER at making a cheese board, or a fancy Charcuterie if you prefer the term, and spend all day giving advice for interesting parings that will impress any cheese - or even the odd non-cheese - lover... 

I LOVE to make a charcuterie and have to say I'm not too bad at it... Pretty good in fact, and I enjoy sharing my secrets with people while I'm talking about the great cheese I sell at work... 
So today I got home from work, armed with some delicious cheese and decided to put together a little something special for the Holidays. Today as I got inspired I had to create a Christmas Charcuterie Tree - like the one from Junk Food - or perhaps that should be a Charcutree?! With fresh honey glazed ham, sausage, olives, tomatoes and of course LOTS of different cheese... It's the perfect food for a party... 

What is she wearing;
Hair: everfaery - Starli Hair (Available until Jaunary 8th at ACCESS)
Skin: amara beauty - Freya in Ivory
Cardigan: miss chelsea - Kara Cardi
Top: miss chelsea - Kara Bralet
Shorts: miss chelsea - Kara Shorts
Pose: -Extra- - Homemade, Pose 5
Tree: Junk Food - Christmas Charcuterie Tree
Ham: (Lucas Lameth) - Glazed Ham
Olives: Katy's Kreations - Olive Bowl in Red
Cheese: dust bunny - Summer Picnic in Cheese Wheel
Tomatoes:  Nutmeg - Garden Nook Tomatoes
Sausage: [Ginger Line] - Salame on Cutting Board
Backdrop: Synnergy.Tavis - Festive Kitchen {360} Backdrop

Time for some Christmas Chaos

I've been making pretty festives lately, and I love the pretties that come with this time of year... I will admit that the darker and more twisted side of me is not happy though, and I'm fighting back the thoughts of not committing murder tomorrow as I work in retail for the next coupe of days... I feel like now I HAVE to let the demons out, I NEED to release a little festive chaos... 

The Holly Demon - a set from Faunus - is one of the Christmas Chaos Demons in her natural form... Normally they hide as lights amongst the holly bushes, but today she's heading out on a mission to cause all different kinds of chaos. Assisted by a couple of the Krampus Elves, and brandishing a GIANT Plastic Hammer - from Boutique #187 at the current round of MAN CAVE - they will definitely cause more than a few Christmas Nightmares... 

What is she wearing;
Hair: Doe - Avery
Skin: amara beauty - Freya in Ivory
Wounds & Snow Layers: The Rotting Lab - Skathi's Kiss (No Longer Available!), [POUT!] - Frost Bitten & Izzie's - Face Snow
Nose Piercing: Six Feet Under - Nocturnal Septum
Christmas Tree Wounds: Moon.Phase - ChristmasNightmare
Collar: Garmonbozia - Adriana Collar in Variety 1
Necklace: AsteroidBox - Festive Necklace (Current Group Gift)
Body Paint, Horns, Holly Accessories & Tail: [Faunus] - Holly Demon
Gloves: Quills & Curiosities - Clawed Halfgloves
Hammer: Boutique #187 - Plastic Hammer (Available until January 11th at MAN CAVE)
Wings: Quills & Curiosities - Infernal Wings
Pose: -Extra- - Eyes On Me, Pose 2
Minions: [Lost Junction] - Krampus Elf
Trees: Apple Fall - Heritage Christmas Tree in Spruce Green
Backdrop: PALETO.Backdrop - STOP77

Welcome to Gingerbread Town

 I want to find the Christmas magic... It still seems to be evading me a little bit, and I am more excited by the fact that a couple of days after Christmas I get to go home to see my parents and my sister and see her new house... I CANNOT WAIT!!! Maybe that's where my festive magic will be, maybe that's the time I am waiting for, and right now maybe once the big day will arrive I'll suddenly be feeling it... 
Still until then, I will do whatever I can to find that festive feeling... Even let my mind take me to far off, and maybe imaginary places... 

Some place like the magical little town of Gingerbread... Mostly everything here is gingerbread... There are chocolates and cake and Candy Canes too, if you're peckish please feel free to try the trees. The Candy Cane curly trees - from Simply Shelby for the Sugar Holiday Haul - are perfect examples of the deliciousness in this town... 

What is she wearing;
Hair: TRUTH & FAGA - Prelude in Redhead
Skin: amara beauty - Freya in Ivory
Outfit: Sakura - Christmas Kigurumi in Pudding
Plushie: dust bunny - Holiday Accent Pillows in Gingerbread Man
Pose: -Extra- - Brewed Bliss, Pose 1
Train, Carriages & Tracks: dust bunny - Gingerbread Train
Arch: Simply Shelby - Snowy Candy Cane Gate in Red & Green (Available until December 25th at the Holiday Shop & Hop)
Candy Cane Trees: Simply Shelby - Candy Cane Tree Set (Available until January 3rd for the Sugar SL Holiday Haul)
Orange House: {vespertine} - Gingerbread House (Available until January 5th at equal 10)
Town Houses: {vespertine} - Gingerbread Town
Carousel: dust bunny - Gingerbread Carrousel
Puff Trees: [Merak] - Douceur de Noel
Green Tree: Elm - Holly Decor in PomPom Tree Green
Chocolate Trees: MadPea - Chocolate Tree
Chocolates: MadPea - Chocolate Swirlie Truffle
Snow: [Since1975] - Mesh Falling Snow

Letters to Santa

Today has been an emotional rollercoaster, I was putting out some of our Christmas decorations and discovered my doggy's Christmas stocking in the boxes. I cried for a while and decided to skip the decorating. I got through the vast majority of my wrapping, and then remembered a task that I had to do and hope it wasn't too late... 

I almost forgot that I hadn't written a letter to Santa, I mean I've tried to be a good girl this year although some may say that's debatable... I read lots of books rather than getting into trouble for example, though those books were mostly smut and morally gray... I only mentally murdered annoying customers at work, and didn't actually stab anyone, even though I'm surrounded by real knives... I tried to keep the house clean, whilst I fought my own anxiety that I wasn't ever going to be good enough to do it... I NEEDED to make sure I got my letter in to the big man in red... 
The house was a little warm tonight, maybe because I was typing up a storm on the old type writer I had kept specially for writing these letters. Before I had the chance to put the letter in an envelope and put a stamp on it, a flurry of snowflakes and magic swept in through the window and stole my letter away on the breeze... Will my letter ever make it to Santa?

What is she wearing;
Hair Accessory: Sorumin - Christmas Lights (Gift Available until January 2nd at Santa Inc)
Hair: TRUTH & Wasabi - Parfait in Redhead
Skin: amara beauty - Freya in Ivory
Sweater: RIOT - Maeve Nordic Sweater (Gift Available until January 2nd at Santa Inc)
Pose: FOXCITY - Nightly, Pose 2
Bear: Lagom - A Very Beary Xmas in [ Ima Tree! ] Rare (Available until December 31st at The Arcade)
Snowflakes: Half-Deer - Floating Decor Snow
Sparkles: everfaery - Starfield Aura Wearable
Backdrop: K&S - // Midnight muse. Backdrop (Current Group Gift)

A Moment to Pause...

Today I wasn't working, technically you could say that it's the start of my weekend, and basically I found myself buried to my neck in a blogging slump. I KNOW that I have targets I need to work on and things I KNOW I want to do but for some reason, when it came to starting my blogging plans today I was stuck... 

Am I the only one that ever gets in a rut? I see so many people posting gorgeous things almost every day, but I find myself wondering, don't you ever get confused about what you wanna do with or without the things that you're given?! It was just brewing in my mind that I COULDN'T think what I wanted to do, but after all the decorating and the planning and the work, my mind was spinning, and it wasn't until a very wise friend told me to take a day to relax and let my mind rest, make a cuppa tea and read my book that things started to fall into place... I did exactly that,I found a cosy armchair by a fire in the Frostel Penthouse - which is a backdrop from Synnergy.Tavis - with my Cats in their Winter Sweaters - courtesy of Aardvark - to keep them extra toasty warm. Holding onto a mug of tea, which I used to help hold my book open like a bookmark - a pose from -Extra- by the way - it's time to clear my head and get lost in my book... 

What is she wearing;
Hair: TRUTH - Mellow in Redhead
Skin: amara beauty - Freya in Ivory
Glasses: Garmonbozia - Opium Glasses in Variety 3 (Available until December 18th at The Warehouse)
Top: Astralia - Naty Sweater in All colors (Gift available in the MadPea Christmas Advent Calendar 2024)
Jeans: Mug - Renata Jeans in Dark
Pose & Props: -Extra- - Bookmark
Cats: Aardvark - Winter Sweater Cat
Ball: DaD - Christmas Disco Ball
Backdrop: Synnergy.Tavis - Frostel Penthouse {360} Backdrop