QUEEN ELEANOR

Lovely Calico Ingmann Hair I found at Hair Fair! Calico was the first place I went to buy hair, the first time I bought virtual currency. I love to see a few dog-years-old-time designers still hanging in there. The Freya hair is fab for role-play. You can texture change hair color, the leather headband and the metallic medallions. Like many other hair makers, there are still a few transparency issues if I stand in front of tree leaves and that kind of thing. I wonder if the Lab will ever figure out how to make that work?



The gown is a mixture of mesh (the lower gown and chainmail cape), system clothing (the mail shirt, glitch pieces and socks), and sculpted attachments (the collar and arm pieces). I appreciate the flexibility I have to customize the outfit.



Outfit: The Muses "Rainha" (mixed mesh, sculpt and system pieces)
Jewels: Lassitude and Ennui "Dewdrop"
Shoes: Lassitude and Ennui "Mojari"
Hands: SLink "Mesh Hands" (texture change HUDs)
Hair: Calico "Freya" (texture change HUDs)
Skin: Essences "Cho" (@ The Dressing Room)
Eyes: Ikon "Ardent"
Lashes: LeLutka "Photoshoot II"
Poses: by Label Motion

Love,
Serene

VIVIAN RIDES AGAIN

Vigorous application of your crop will push your steed to a speed that you would not have found credible. However a mortal rider may not be able to keep their seat.

Sit tall in the saddle and do not fear your mount. He will know it.

How did I miss this outfit? Silentsparrow's Loathing Summer Sale is only on until the first of August in the "Not So Secret" Sale room. (I did modify the coattails quite a bit to fit astride my horse.)

Suit: Silentsparrow “(blood) nightmare” Riding Suit (includes crop and hat)
Boots: Lassitude and Ennui “Imogene ankle boots” (texture change HUD)
Hair: Calico Ingmann “Luna” (texture change hair ornaments)
Skin: Imabee “Vivian Came Back To Life” (Zombie Popcorn Hunt gift, unavailable)
Eyes: Poetic Color “Night Rain”
Horse: AKK “AKK08 Legend ESD Black Clyde”
Poses: Long Awkward Pose
Photostudio: N30

Love,
Serene

THE HALLOWEEN SPIRIT 4/4: best laid plans

Well you know what they say about the best laid plans. I had Halloween laid out: On Friday October 30, finish up the halloween decorating, carve pumpkin with my daughter, last touches to costumes. In the evening, I would attend the Illusions Ball in costume, then swing by the Loco Pocos Trick or Treating and a couple of haunted houses after she went to sleep. I saved them for the end of the month because for me, it's more fun that way. On Halloween it would be all RL cause, well, I do have a Life.

Here's what really happened: on Thursday my Dad dropped by in the afternoon, and we had fun with my daughter a while. This put a pinch in my shopping plans, but I figured I could make it up later. Walmart is open 24 hours. He stayed till about 7:30 and got up to go home before dark. He doesn't see very well in the dark for driving. A minute later he came back with a bloody hanky at his face. He's been having bad nosebleeds that won't stop, and had a couple visits to the Emergency Room already that week. It was getting dark and I figured he shouldn't drive with one hand pinching his nose with the other, so I took him to the hospital. Carrying sleeping toddler, bag of baby essentials, coats etc., we wait there for forty-five minutes to see the doctor. By then the gushing blood miraculously stopped, so I took him home. The next day he had early surgery, and I picked him up afterward because he couldn't drive home after the anesthesia. Took him back to my house to keep an eye on him for a couple of hours but he looked OK, so I ran around trying to do Halloween decorations. Forget about carving a jack-o-lantern or pumpkin pies. I made Dad and daughter lunch instead. Run through the day and evening like a madwoman, no time for the Illusions Ball.

On Halloween Sara and I had so much fun getting ready and in the afternoon she went trick-or-treating with her Daddy while I stayed home to terrorize all the kids in the neighborhood in my witch costume. Finally late at night, after they came home she slipped into a sugar coma, and my husband was vegetating in front of the television. I turned on the computer and tried to salvage a few of my Second Life plans. I had two hours, so I ran over to Loco Pocos and Bloodmoon Manor.

Well, I had planned to wear the Loco Pocos Skeleton Avatar and the Orange KatatOnik Dollie Dress. It was late and I was the only one there.

I really did like this haunted house. This one was, well, the grossest. The Art Maze Haunted House was great fun too: it had puzzles and pieces you had to find, and some very nice treat bags all over the house to find too. I intended to show you some of their prizes too but, you know what they say about plans ... :)

This was the one place in the house that made me jump. There were all kinds of gross abbatoir sights, bloodspatter etc. that doesn't rattle me, but this guy startled me as he suddenly popped out of the wall. Sweet.

Oh, yeah I was wearing (still):
Skin: The Plastik (from their Halloween Gift)
Hair: Calico Ingmann Creations "Luna"
Jacket: DeLa “Short Jacket Bette”
Corset/Shorts: from Cupcakes "Brocade Dress Halloween" (i think 75L?)
Pants: Adam and Eve "Catwalk Leather Pants" (0n underwear layer)
Skirt: Silentsparrow "Gutter Glitter"
Socks: Miel "Lo Refurbished Socks" (100L at the Dock)
Shoes: Ducknipple "Harry"

Love,
Serene

THE HALLOWEEN SPIRIT 2/4

Okey this snap shows several seriously sweet goodies! Calico Ingmann is having a Pumpkin Hunt including LOTS of Halloween-tinted hair and a few skins .. this one is called Mania .. The skin is from Plastik's fabulous Halloween gift box, and the Schadenfreude Electro-Kitty Earrings were out for the last 50L Friday. If you visit her shop and buy the Electro-Cute Jewelry Fatpack, it now includes this Electokitty Jewelry and two more Halloween inspired new jewelry sets. You'll have to go see those yourself :)

This is another Halloween color of a new Calico Ingmann Hair called Tori. I admit I bought it in black too.

The corset and skirt are treats from Silentsparrow. The corset is her picks reward gift, and the skirt is a Hunt Prize in the Wretched Hollow Pumpkin Hunt. If you want more pieces to match the skirt, you can get matching shirt and pants in exchange for Bat Tokens from the Deader Than You Tour. (Information available in her store.)

Love,
Serene

WITCH'S MISANTHROPIC MUMBLES

I keep a watch from the castle at Kiamo Ko during daylight, but the night is all mine. Time to fly.

Under moonlight I am part of the land of the living, rather than tombed in a tower with no one except those damned monkeys.

Odd isn't it that I feel compelled to visit these graves and keep the company of the dead? They don't trouble me. After all the Horrors I've seen, the Tiktoks, Politicians and Educators-with-Agendas, what is frightening about a quiet pile of bones?

What bothers me are the ones whose bones lie somewhere unknown. Was the noble Goat sold over a butcher's counter? and Where is my Fiyero?

Dress/Hat: Second Wave Apparel “Wicked Witch” (also includes cape not shown)
Shoes: Dilly Dolls “Plain Janes”
Broom: Creative Insanity (from Witch AO set)
Skin: The Plastik “Halloween Skin Lagoona Scales” (part of a FABULOUS gift package)
Hair: Calico Ingmann Creations “Emily”
Eyes: Poetic Color “Night Rain”
Poses: by Animazoo
Location: Magic of Oz

Love,
Serene

p.s. Chistery and I had a little training incident. He wouldn't put me down until I threatened to make Split Pea and Monkey Soup.

THE DEAD DON'T CRY

Go while you can.

I read the news that several of my favorite Rezzable sims are closing soon, including Crimson Shadow and Carnival of Doom. I ran off to see them again before they vanish ...

Before they go please also buy anything from the shops that you love. Many items are marked down to $50L. Someday we will look back at these items with the nostalgia that I hear when people talk about "Last Call" today.


Coat/Hat: Crimson Shadows “CS Black Latex n Top Hat Set”
Shirt: from the Crimson Shadows “CS Dynasty Dress”
Pants: Leezu “BritPants”
Boots: Illusions “Beau Cavalier Boots”
Skin: The Stringer Mausoleum “Strangled Love”
Eyes: May Girl “DeepPink (Light)”
Hair: Calico Ingmann Creations “Vanessa”

Love,
Serene

TWILIGHT BELLA GONE HUNTING

Somehow I managed not to make a mess of Edward's favorite gown. Still, this deer is lucky I'm full.


Now from this vantage I look simply like a pretty girl lost in the woods ... well maybe a pretty girl, very inappropriately dressed for hiking, lost in the woods.

Deer hunted in the Eiliach Eilid Sim.

(When I saw the notice about PixelDolls' new "Bella" Gown I knew right away I would have to take these pictures. Of course I picked Edward's favorite blue, but the gown comes in several other colors.)

Eyes: Poetic Color “Liquid Amber” eyes (gift)
Hair: Calico Ingmann Creations “Vanessa” (Dark Chocolate)
Skin: JM:Mai “Skin_w Tiara11”
Dress: Pixel Dolls “Bella Dress” (ocean)

Love,
Serene