When it rains, look for rainbows.

When I was going through a tough time after my mother died, a very dear friend once said to me -

"When it rains, 

look for rainbows, 

when its dark, 

look for stars"

It is something I try to do.

I haven't been on SL a lot due to my three busy jobs at moment, but I will turn up every now and then!

Wearing PU Lace Time Red & Dafffodils leg tattoo both free gifts at L'Elite Event.  There are other gifts and offers here.

Roc lace up high boots 99L$.

La Forgia Love tribe necklace 10L$.

Home Sweet Home!

So I did move into Acoustic Gardens and had fun decorating my new home!  I think its a challenge making a small space functional and cosy, I liked how this turned out.

Decor:
What Next window seat and shelves 50L$.
Bazar Crete door 59L$.
Dreamland Designs Atlantic City Vintage Picture frame and birdhouse from my inventory.
Apple Fall slipcover chair gacha and roses jug.
Knick Knacks flying curtains on display and in various packs at shop.
Chimia log burner stove and laptop.
Lunaria magnolia rug 10L$.
Scarlet Creative distressed lace table free gift.
Unkindness Grandmas vintage mirror.
Follow us retro desk chair part of a set for 10 L$.
Kalopsia Hanging stars 85L$.
Tia Junebug teaset.

Outside decor:

The house is What Next Marin summerhouse 50L$, with What Next under the stars porch and What Next Mallorca firepit.

HPMD colour lights.

Climbing rose and flowers all from various free items at Two Moon Gardens.

Yet another completely free outfit!

My what a busy day!  In between work, snapping a few SL photos and gathering some goodies on a hunt, I had a wander around this lovely sim at The Trace.  So many awesome photos I could shoot!

I just love how this outfit all goes together, there are some very nice items on the Peace by Peace Hunt, all items are listed here.

From the hunt I am wearing a dress from Ghee and shoes from Luziefee - all hints and surls are listed on the blog listed above.

I am also wearing a necklace that is a free group gift from Maxi Gossamer that comes in many colours.

Yet another completely free outfit!

Acoustic Toscano Village Café

I have fallen in love with this lovely sim, Acoustic Garden, village and cafe has so much going on.  I think I may move in soon!

A foggy morning in second life

Wearing S&B denim dress from the shopping centre at Sunset Mist Town Square 99L$ comes with 6 colours.

Photo taken at Acoustic Garden.

You don't have to be pretty like her. You can be pretty like you.

We aim to create these beautiful avatars in second life, but you don't have to be pretty like her.  You can be pretty like you.

There’s no body the same – I’ve got scars, they’re good memories. We’re all imperfect, all bodies tell a story. I don’t regret any of it.  Everyone should embrace who they are.  At the end of the day you should be loved for who you are.

Wearing:

Top - KVH primavera crop top free on the marketplace, it's lovely for summer.

Necklace - Love tribe necklace 10L$ on marketplace with a colour changing hud.

Bracelet - Zuri group gift.

Shorts - Kiana by Badoura Design Part of a lovely set on the marketplace

Shoes - Slipper originals April peeptoe gift on marketplace.

Lazy Sunday Morning

It's a lazy Sunday morning for me, chilling in my snuggies!  Maybe a little bit of crafting, internet surfing, relaxing with the family.  Hope wherever you are, you are having a relaxing day too.

Wearing:

Dress: Wicked Rory Ombre dress - free group gift.

Hair: Olive Melody hair on a no group MM board, it comes with huds for a fabulous range of colours.

Taken at the lovely Neverfar sim.

Galaxy Girl

Wearing:
Stargazer Galaxy suit on a free MM board.

Purple lipstick free on marketplace.

Hair free gift on marketplace Littlebones Scope

Earrings Heartsdale Jewelry SFLO free gift

She walks in beauty, like the night 

Of cloudless climes and starry skies; 

And all that’s best of dark and bright 

Meet in her aspect and her eyes; 

Thus mellowed to that tender light 

Which heaven to gaudy day denies. 

One shade the more, one ray the less, 

Had half impaired the nameless grace 

Which waves in every raven tress, 

Or softly lightens o’er her face; 

Where thoughts serenely sweet express, 

How pure, how dear their dwelling-place. 

And on that cheek, and o’er that brow, 

So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, 

The smiles that win, the tints that glow, 

But tell of days in goodness spent, 

A mind at peace with all below, 

A heart whose love is innocent!

Easter Bunny Hunt

Lisan store has an Easter Bunny hunt on, the items are 15L$ each and you can have a black or white outfit at the end for about 90L$ each full outfit.

A Taste of Spring

Another sunny day here where I live, a taste of spring and a promise of things to come.  Just right for a wander around a lovely sim in SL too, mystical fae forest is just lovely and ethereal and you meet all sorts of interesting characters.  💗

Wearing :

Dress : Fifi fitmesh free group gift from Les Fees Endormies.

Cardigan: Black open cardigan 5L$ from M.O.W.

Shoes : Apple May Design ballerina high lace heels free on a group lucky board.  I waited a while to get these beauties!

Necklace & Earrings : Group gift set from Venus Shoes.

Nails : Livia sparkle & shine nails free gift.

Easter bunny

I joined my friends for a gossip wearing this cute little rabbit avatar that is free at Coco.  There are two different rabbits and some clothes too all free, so get ready for Easter and hop along and grab them now!

(I am the 2nd on the right!)

Starry, starry night.

A starry ,starry night at Luane's World.

Wearing items from The Wash Sale by Entice, Daisy Dress & Daisy pantyhose 10L$ each.

The watch & bracelet and earrings are group gifts at Heartsdale Jewelry.  

Starry, Starry night

Paint your palette blue and grey

Look out on a summer's day

With eyes that know the

Darkness in my soul.

Shadows on the hills

Sketch the trees and the daffodils

Catch the breeze and the winter chills

In colors on the snowy linen land.

And now I understand what you tried to say to me

How you suffered for your sanity

How you tried to set them free.

They would not listen

They did not know how

Perhaps they'll listen now.

Starry

Starry night

Flaming flo'rs that brightly blaze

Swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in

Vincent's eyes of China blue.

Colors changing hue

Morning fields of amber grain

Weathered faces lined in pain

Are soothed beneath the artist's

Loving hand.

And now I understand what you tried to say to me

How you suffered for your sanity

How you tried to set them free.

Perhaps they'll listen now.

For they could not love you

But still your love was true

And when no hope was left in sight on that starry

Starry night.

You took your life

As lovers often do;

But I could have told you

Vincent

This world was never

Meant for one

As beautiful as you.

Starry

Starry night

Portraits hung in empty halls

Frameless heads on nameless walls

With eyes

That watch the world and can't forget.

Like the stranger that you've met

The ragged men in ragged clothes

The silver thorn of bloody rose

Lie crushed and broken

On the virgin snow.

And now I think I know what you tried to say to me

How you suffered for your sanity

How you tried to set them free.

They would not listen

They're not

List'ning still

Perhaps they never will.

Piaggio Spring Hunt

Piaggio has a spring hunt on for the items below, 5L$ each item and easy to find, putting together the look I have above.  I particularly like the cut out on the jeans and the platform sandals.  Just one question, does my bum look big in this?!  😊

Raven Queen

By the twitching of my thumbs, something evil this way comes.

This is for Luane's photo competition and I am sorry but I brought my wicked Raven Queen to her beautiful realm!  Hope she doesn't mind.  :)

Wearing:

Corset: Angel Free group gift from Glitter.

Earring & Wand :  free gifts at Kaleidoscope shopping mall.

Boots as seen below : part of a free group gift at Ninette creations.  Only 14 left when I was there!

Why can't we give Peace a chance?

With so many dreadful things happening in the world today with the latest in my country, you feel helpless against such hate.  Why can't we give peace a chance?  One world, one.


    Taken at Luane's World:-
    http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Slice%20of%20Heaven/83/230/26
    http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Morning%20Glow/146/78/23

Wearing a free gift from Neve at the Liaison Collaborative.

Fa la la la la Spring is here!

I am full of the joys of spring and glad I am alive today.  Isn't it nice to see a bit of daylight and the hint of the sun that's to come!

I love my free items too from the lovely designers.  This outfit is mint and purple, such a nice colour combination.

Head : Bauhaus Movement Spring Headpiece free group gift in purple (comes in three colours).

Hair : Emo-tions Ulrika free gift at the Liaison Collaborative.

Outfit : Machka Design Santa Rosa free Outfit March Group gift includes boots and tied shirt.

Dragonfly on nose : Cute Lotus purple dragonfly Liaison Collaborative.

Nails : Wicked pastel nails in mint.

Also wearing Ama spring cheek piercing from the Liaison Collaborative.

A Picture Tells A Thousand Stories.

This post has had a few different titles, sometimes its hard to think what your image is about.  But this one changed as it went along.  I put the knife in her hand and what did she become?  An assassin?   She has a fearful look in her eye, what is she afraid of?  But then I added the blood, what was she now?  A murderess?  For the answer - see below!

Wearing:-

Dress : free group gift from Amazing Creations it has a colour changing hud so can be many colours.
Rings & Bracelets: Millenaire Black bracelet and rings 10L$ on MP
Earrings were a past free gift from Chain

She is of course a butcher!

She said she could, so she did.

I thought I had better get changed as I had been wearing the same dress for a week, it was just too nice to take off!

I am not sure what these words say, but I read they are words of love.  So I am going to say they say the following (writers licence!)

She said she could, so she did.

Wearing:

A free FabFree group gift from Nala Design Chinese outfit.

Astralia Love me earrings free group gift - they come with a hud for different colors.

The mermaid sticks in my hair are pretty and the marketplace shop deserves a little mention I think.  The clothes aren't all mesh but some are, and the lovely designer is selling over 1000 items at a dollarbie.  It truly is Poundland arrived in Secondlife!  It's called the Sea Hole Outlet.

I break my heart to please ... Eloise.

More of a creative photo, but the free items are blogged here.

I love my Eloise, she's so pretty and I am inspired by all the creative posts I see from some wonderful digital artists.  So I enjoyed creating this image.  I break my heart to please....   Eloise.

Inspired by a song from The Damned.

Butterflies in her stomach

She loved him because he had brought her back to life.  She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon and he had drawn her out.  Every time she thought of him, she got butterflies in her stomach.


Wearing :

Dress: Sweet Dreams Spring dress 50% off sale 50L$ at Kultivate spring event
Face mask : RC Gold facemask free from the rose hunt also at Kultivate.  There are many items to find in this hunt.
Earrings: Astralia SFLO group gift Love me earrings
Headpiece: Astralia the perfect gift headpiece subscriber free gift

I heard an old song today ...

I heard an old song today.  

It was a favorite of yours and for a moment I was back there.

It's true, love doesn't end.  

I think it just scatters itself among everyday things.

JM Storm.

Wearing:

Hat & hair: Ronsem Christmas group gift 2013

Hipster Jacket & Mesh tube from Nous Vous gift at Hipster Fair.

Furtacor dark jeans skirt also a gift from Hipster fair.

Slipping away...

I feel you slipping away like sand in an hourglass.  So gradually, that one day you'll be gone and I'll be all out of time.

This outfit is practically free, I am wearing:

MMC Brittany romper free group gift
Earrings: Zuri hearts of fire free group gift
Headband: Luas cute and creepy band free gift at the Gacha Garden
Necklace: Lybra shinobi necklace free gift also at the Gacha Garden
Henna tattoo: Firefly back and arms henna tattoo free gift at the Vintage Gacha Fair
Nails free gift: Petit Chambre
Tears : Covert moon face tattoo 1L$ on marketplace
Pose: Crazy cats 2L$ pose on marketplace

Ode to Winter

I skipped along to the Vintage Gacha yesterday and found loads of free goodies!

From the Vintage Gacha :
Edie lavender dress by Belle Epoque
Ersch hieroglyph earrings
Fallen Gods Ode to winter face tattoo
Luas Kawaii ear muffs
Junbug Dragonfly choker
Mushilu fur leg warmers

Tattoo: AS-Bileya-Tattoo-Pink-Free-Gift

Nails free gift: Petit Chambre

Taken at : TheOuterGarden

The cold earth slept below; 

         Above the cold sky shone; 

                And all around, 

                With a chilling sound, 

From caves of ice and fields of snow 

The breath of night like death did flow 

                Beneath the sinking moon. 

The wintry hedge was black; 

         The green grass was not seen; 

                The birds did rest 

                On the bare thorn’s breast, 

Whose roots, beside the pathway track, 

Had bound their folds o’er many a crack 

                Which the frost had made between. 

Thine eyes glow’d in the glare 

         Of the moon’s dying light; 

                As a fen-fire’s beam 

                On a sluggish stream 

Gleams dimly—so the moon shone there, 

And it yellow’d the strings of thy tangled hair, 

                That shook in the wind of night. 

The moon made thy lips pale, beloved; 

         The wind made thy bosom chill; 

                The night did shed 

                On thy dear head 

Its frozen dew, and thou didst lie 

Where the bitter breath of the naked sky 

                Might visit thee at will. 

Sentinus

Sentinus store has many gifts including these boots, hair, outfits.  Its definitely worth a visit!

Corset with pocket watch : Cler-Corset-With-Pocket
Boots free group gift : Sentinus Mesh Lola high heel boots.  Many gifts here!

The Last Christmas Bauble

So it's that time of year, Christmas has been and gone.  Back to work next week, so let's take down the Christmas decorations.  How sad and bare it will look and there is always one last Christmas bauble that I forget to take down!

But here's to a new and exciting New Year, I hope it brings us all happiness.

Taken at : The Winter Forest

Outfit: Nilla Dragonfly silk in 4 colours.  There are six free outfits here in total at Nilla and Just Ordinary.

Earrings: Chain Crucifix earrings free!