I have a cold... I feel like I'm not on the planet as everything feels muted, dull and full of fluff! I could be floating around in space - which would be alright if I wasn't terrified by the thought - or trapped in a bubble at least. Being in space is the last place I'd ever want to be I have to say, but when I was sent a lovely gift from a friend and had just bought an outfit that seemed to work perfectly with it, I had to just be brave and go exploring!
Aggie McTavish of Stargazer Creations was kind enough to send me a copy of her "Iced" Skin - that has been released for the latest round of We <3 RP which runs until November 30th. Now admitedly with a name like Iced, I could have gone with something frozen and wintery feeling, but it was the addition of this adorable PVC Koharu Outfit Set - from r2 at Collabor88 - which took me from ice demon to space babe!
A space babe that is trying to use her new brocante walkie-talkie from the INSPIRE Space Park no less... If only she could get a signal up here...
What is she wearing;
Hair: Truth - Deja (Current Group Gift)
Skin: [Stargazer Creations] - Iced (Available until November 30th at We <3 RP)
Eyebrows: {PSYCHO:Byts} - Mitsuko Glitter Eyebrows
Lipstick: {PSYCHO:Byts} - Momotaro Lipsticks
Outfit: r2 - Koharu Set (Available until December 6th at Collabor88)
Radio: brocante - Walkie-Talkie in Geometric RARE (Available until November 15th at The Epiphany)
Pose: Signature Pose - Portrait Pose 4
Monday Morning comes again... It's a time of the week that sounds dreadful but isn't actually that bad - least I'm beginning to think that way - Tuesday morning always seems worse somehow?! Yet I am not denying that it is always a struggle to get myself up in the morning on a Monday morning.
There is just one thing that brightens up my Mondays at the moment and that's the fact that it is Walking Dead Night tonight. I am not a fan of the show, but HellBone is, which means that Monday Nights are awesome because I get a full hour of alone in bed time!!
In homage to The Walking Dead - yes I have no idea what I'm really doing here because I have no idea about the show at all, but you know me I enjoy being dead lol...
The pose I am using is perfect for that... It's a Come Soon Swag Bag Pose Prop - from last month's Swag Bag - called End of Line. If I'm going to be taken out, then I am taking out everyone else with me!
The outfit was one of the real reasons that I wanted to use this pose - for some reason they just seemed to fit together so well! The body suit and matching collar is a Salt & Pepper creation called Cyberized that you can win from a gacha machine in various colours and combinations at The Gacha Garden. It seemed perfectly accessorised with this Chained Mask and the Survivor Holster - both from The Little Bat that I found during the Pulse Games Event this year!
Bring on the Walking Dead... I'm ready to go to bed!
What is she wearing;
Hair: Besom - Glam Kitty
Skin: Glam Affair - Seya in Europa 2
Face Cuts: {PSYCHO:Byts} - Badass Fighter Wounds
Eye Bruise: The Horror! - Fighter Scars & Bruises in Punched
Mask: The Little Bat - Chained Mask
Outfit & Collar: Salt & Pepper - Cyberized Outfit in Sand (Available until November 30th at The Gacha Garden)
Blood: Ama - Blood Splatter
Bruises: antielle - Appetizer - Bites & Hickeys (No Longer Available!)
Leg Band: The Little Bat - Survivor Holster
Pose & Props: Come Soon - End of Line 01 (Past Swag Bag Release)
It's nearly dinner time on Sunday Night here in Holland, and for that I can say I am really greatful... Not only does it mean that it is nearly bed time, but it is in fact time to eat and I am STARVING!
Now that it's nearly dinner time and HellBone is finally cooking something really yummy smelling in the kitchen, my taste buds will not stop watering!
Dutch food was something that took me a long time to get used to, I mean of course we eat everything in Holland that we'd normally eat in England, but for some reason certain things were harder to understand than others...
Recently, the 6 Republic event opened featuring Amsterdam as one of it's locations...
I don't understand why it is Amsterdam and Australia, I mean shouldn't it be Holland and Australia or Amsterdam and Sydney? Not that I am complaining... Some of the designer in the Dutch part of the event went to town on creating perfect Dutch things, there were windmills and more shops offering drugs than I can count - although there was a lack of clogs, cheese and hookers I feel - but one of the designers, the store C L A Vv made some yummy looking Dutch foods... So for dinner in SL tonight I am going to have a bowl of Snert - that's Pea Soup to any non-Dutch speakers out there - followed by Stamppot - which is a traditional Dutch meal of something mashed into potatoes served with smoke sausage - and a tompouce for dessert, all washed down with a cup of tea and a naughty stroopwafel - caramel cookie!
OH AND while I am here, for those of you that are looking at it thinking "Oh that's cute" - my outfit is an upcoming release from Cosmic Dust for the new round of Kustom9, which starts on the 15th. It's in a Gacha, and the skirts and tops are separates which come in a range of different colours! So cute, and I love that they are mix-n-match pieces!!
OH YAY, I'm being called for Dinner!! Grubs Up!! As they say in Holland "Eet Smakelijk!"
What is she wearing;
Hair: Truth - Sunday Hair in Reds
Skin: Glam Affair - Seya in Europa 2
Top: [Cosmic Dust] - The Autumn Sweater in Olive (Coming Soon to Kustom9)
Skirt: [Cosmic Dust] - The November Skirt in Brown (Coming Soon to Kustom9)
Food: C L A Vv - Dutch Cuisine Gacha Items (Available until November 20th at 6 Republic)
It's November 11th... Today for the British it's a Remembrance Day. A day of peace, respect and thought in which people all over the country stop for a moment or two and think back on all of the people that have lost their lives to protect our little island nation.
Remembered on November 11th at 11.11AM, the exact time that WWI was declared over in 1918, I always take a moment or two to stop and to think and although I'm not religious, offer a silent thank you to those people. Other places in the world do this on different days - the Dutch for example have remembrance day on May 4th to mark the close of WWII - but right now, I sit back and wonder what those men and women who have lost their lives fighting for Britain throughout history would make of Ol'Blighty now...
Traditionally in the UK, Remembrance Day is marked with Poppies, as they were the blood red flowers which bloom over the battle fields in France, and I did just buy some lovely poppies in SL which would have been perfect to memorialise things, but then I found this pose prop from Come Soon - called Lady Autumn - and the white roses just seemed like poignant hints at peace... The world could do with a little more peace nowadays, don't you think?!
As always with Come Soon Poses, the pose comes with a full scene and just the option to use the pose alone - here I was a little naughty and used the chair and roses along with the pose - but by having the tank and the sandbags - available from H&C Wheels by the way - I brought the memorial to life a little!
Let's make today, and all the days following, a day of peace! I know that it's a lot to ask but isn't it about the time world was allowed that?
What is she wearing;
Hair: Magika - Friday in 02
Skin: Glam Affair - Seya in Europa 2
Necklace: DECO - Shells of War Necklace
Outfit: katat0nik - Button Up Romper in Army 1
Boots: N-Core - Rogue in Black (Available until November 27th at FaMESHed)
Pose: Come Soon - Lady Autumn (Available until November 26th at Sad November)
Tank: H&C Wheels - Tanked
Sandbags: H&C - Sandbags
I LOVE this time of year... It's a bit bloody cold but hey I freaking love that! I've never been a fan of the hot weather and always find myself jumping for joy a little when the cold seasons start.
I love being able to snuggle down, wrap up warm and cuddle a cup of tea. Nothing makes me happier than curling up with a cuppa when it's quiet and I'm under a blanket with a few candles and the fairy lights that I use in my living room twinkling away.
I think though, recently I found my new favourite sofa to do just that on... I just wish I had one in RL lol... It's never a Sad November when you can have a sofa like this!!!
My "Sad November" Sofa is actually my new happy place... A cosy Sweater Couch - from the great mind behind a very versatile store, Violetility, which if you haven't been to yet I will tell you now is a rising star in the shopping world! - that just calls for you to snuggle up with a cup of tea and in my case some knitting! I have a knitting pattern from tres blah that I am trying out, and my tea always tastes better in my IMBUE brand mug LOL, but that's just crazy talk!
Anyone want to curl up with me?! Bring me a cuppa tea??
What is she wearing;
Hair: TRUTH - Deja in Reds (November Group Gift)
Skin: Glam Affair - Seya in Europa 2
Top: tres blah - Olsen Sweatshirt in Hallow
Jeans: KITJA - Tessa Jeans in Navy
Sofa: Violetility - Sweater Couch (Available until November 26th at Sad November)
Mug: IMBUE - My Mug in Is it tea you're looking for?
Knitting: tres blah - Cozy Winter in Knit Fix RARE
Desk: [Deadwool] - Secretaire RARE
Stool: [nefarious.inventions] - Turn.And.Cough in Stool
Box: (fashionably dead) - Herb Box
Irons: The Loft - Vintage Laundry in Antique Iron Collection
Frame: Cute Poison - DIY Frame in Brown
Sign: {Against the Wall} - Enchantment Chalkboard in Goodbye
On a night when the world seems to be holding it's breath and watching what is going on in America, it seems like the perfect night for the monsters to come out to play again. Yes Halloween is over but while the world waits on tenderhooks for a result that most of us have no power to influence, it really does feel like the monstrous could take control... You never know that may actually really happen that the monsters do?!
So me being me, I decided why not be a monster myself... Something with a little kick-butt, feisty side...
A modern Miss Frankenstein! The kind that rebels against her creator and rocks out with the demons of Heavy Metal! Luckily her room - or in this case a photo location at WHOLE WHEAT - is easy to slip out of so she can dance the night away!
With her hair freshly styled by RunAway and her new jacket - from *X*Plosion fitting perfectly with her new glasses - from Atomic at No.21 - this little monster has grown up and moved on from her Monster High school and is now hanging with the big monsters...
What is she wearing;
Hair: [RunAway] - Shelley Hair in Essentials
Skin: Glam Affair - Seya in Europa 2
Glasses: [Atomic] - Night Creature Shades in Set 1 (Available until November 12th at No.21)
Choker: Suicidal Unborn - Lynexia Collar
Jacket: *X*Plosion - RockDust Jacket
Top: ma.line - Aria Top in Black
Pose: Image Essentials - Fresh 3
Officially it's Autumn but this morning there are definite touches of the coming winter in the air this morning. As I waited at the bus stop for the bus into Amsterdam, I could see my breath in the air and the sparkle of the frosted windows of the parked cars nearby. I was glad to get a warm seat on the bus this morning!
Luckily Autumn in Secondlife is beautiful but a LOT less cold! I'm not a lover of the summer - it's far too hot and I don't handle heat well - but Autumn and Winter really make me smile, Autumn especially. In Secondlife you can wear short shorts all year and still get into the Autumn mood, there are so many gorgeous places to explore, so how can you not... One of my favourite places, happens to be the Fall Trace - but for today at least I'm not wearing short shorts LOL...
The wind blows through the reeds at the Fall Trace Wetlands and the setting is just stunning. I loved spending a good hour or so wandering around the footpaths and taking in the scenery.
Whilst there I couldn't help taking a few minutes to snap a picture of the super pretty new Nora Dress and Cable Knit Scarf that you can get from Petite Mort at Sad November. Only problem was the wind, it was so difficult to get shot without my hair in my face - hehe I love this new hair from Argrace - but I think that the result is kinda magical anyway!!
Check out Fall Trace, and remember to stick to the pathways, unless you fancy a swim in the cold Autumn water!
What is she wearing;
Hair: Argrace - KOHAKU in Reds
Skin: Glam Affair - Seya in Europa 2
Scarf: Petite Mort - Cable Knit Scarf (Available until November 26th at Sad November)
Dress: Petite Mort - Nora Dress in Olive (Available until November 26th at Sad November)
Boots: REIGN - Anaiya Boots (Current Group Gift)
Pose: Image Essentials - Swag 6
