SNOWBIRD

It's quiet here ...

The snow crunching faintly while I climb up to get a good look round.

After her vacation this summer, Ms. Tiramisu came back with this lovely jacket. It looks for all the world as if she had painted its suede in watercolor and gouache. *love love*

Hat: Silentsparrow “(sea) Strange Bird Hat” (group gift) (slightly tinted)
Jacket: Silentsparrow “(Robin) Puca Jacket”
Skirt: Snatch “Nightmare Skirt” (fully sculpted)
Hair: Truth “Diana”
Skin: Curio “:GP: Petal [Dark] Lovely-Pure 2”
Makeup: TikTok “Makeup 2” (tattoo layer eyeshadow)
Eyes: Poetic Color “Night Rain”
Poses: by Animazoo and Long Awkward Pose
Location: Silentsparrow

Love,
Serene

BURNING

Lady Thera's Workshop specializes in gowns that are inspired by artworks. This one was inspired by the famous portrait of Empress Theodora, but wandering through her shop is a wonderland of Van Gogh, Dali, Magritte, Monet, Klimt ... even a few arty suits upstairs for the men.

I couldn't help myself. I went back to the Conflagration to dance. Have you been there yet? The builders wanted you to imagine what it would look like if you could go inside your inventory and look around at the digital art inside. This place burns with blue and golden fire, with lines and binary codes, symbols and sculpture and music. Somewhere beneath I even found a little club.

Not to be missed!

Dress: Lady Thera’s “Theodora” (includes several skirt lengths, gloves, undergarments, shirt and jacket for flexibility; the skirt layers are translucent but can all be worn together)
Jewelry: GaNKeD “Broadway Lights”
Shoes: Yabusaka “Simple Gem Sandals”
Hair: Dernier Cri “Zero Gravity” (Project Themeory)
Skin: Glance “Frieda”
Makeup: TikTok “Makeup 8”
Eyes: Poetic Color “Night Rain”
Eyelashes: Glow Studio “Innocent. eyelashes – pure”
Poses: by Long Awkward Pose
Location: the Conflagration at Cetus

Love,
Serene

EVERLASTING

This field of flowers goes on, year after year.

The flower fields go on, but individual flowers do not.

This week I got to thinking about all the people places and things that I miss. People come and go as their priorities change, lovely and inspiring designers suddenly pack up shop and disappear, whole worlds vanish overnight and I wish I had visited them more often. Right now Ashoka Eales is having a closing sale for a few more days, and Phoenix Rising will vanish. I went poking through my inventory and stumbled over Kunstkammer, Armidi, Pacadi Jasha, ... The Nameless Isle, Templum Obscurum, Cu Mara, Nagare Island, and on and on. But I am not exactly sad ... People are going their own way, but I miss their art. Let me enjoy it while I can.

Bodysuit: Vita’s Boudoir “Lace Bodice V2” (it’s transparent so I added an undershirt)
Skirt: Phoenix Rising “Flora” (everything L$100 at the Closing Sale)
Leggings: Tee*fy “Lacey Duotone Leggings” (Albero gacha festival)
Jewelry: Kunstkammer “Black Forest” (unavailable)
Shoes: Slink “Aveela Stiletto Herringbone” (with texture change HUD)(at the Dressing Room)
Hair: booN “XFE275”
Skin: Imabee “Apical – Serene – Tanzanite”
Eye Makeup: TikTok “Makeup 1” (on the tattoo layer for Viewer 2)
Eyes: Poetic Color “Night Rain”
Chair: Reek “Saddle Stool” (with six sitting poses)
Poses: by Long Awkward Pose
Location: Ode

Love,
Serene

THE HANDMAID

Leaving the kitchen hearth to fetch some water from the well ...

Forgot my clogs, but I'll be more surefooted on the path.

I ran across the yoke back when Knickknack had a little cart at the Roleplay Market. I heard they opened a larger mainstore so I stopped by for a peek, and not only have they added some cute medieval-RP clothes, but more props next to the yoke .. a sweeping broom and a very nice animated washstand on which to wash your lord's tunics.

Knickknack “Mechthild Tunic and Corset” (50% off at 150L for Mainstore Opening)
Knickknack “animated water yoke”
Eyes: Poetic Color “Night Rain”
Skin: Tiktok “Sabrina-medium-promo-blue” (at the Black and Blue Fair)
Hair: Uncleweb Studio “Rigel-Hair”
Photostudio: N30

Love,
Serene

PICK-A-NICK

I ran across this sweet little picnic basket and stopped to think what a great idea that was. So I put down my book and hung my glasses on my necklace.

Hmm today is Saturday maybe I should dig the picnic basket out of my garage. The basket got me back in the mood for floaty spring clothes and a dose of cuteness.


Shirt: Atomic “Frilled – Dirt” (hmm wouldn’t this color sell better if they called it chocolate?)
Skirt: MNK*Shop Nikukyu “Chiffon_dotskirt(beige)”
Necklace/Glasses: SiSSi “Where are my Glasses” (colorchange everything)
Bag: Picnic “Picnic Basket”
Earrings: Donna Flora “Poison Drops” (old gift)
Shoes: Scribble “Candy Flats Butterscotch”
Hair: booN “BIC128” (L$80 on sale)
Skin: TikTok “Lola Tan Blush”
Eyelashes: Glow Studio “Innocent.eyelashes – pure”
Eyes: Poetic Color “Night Rain”
Poses: by Long Awkward Pose
Photo Studio: by N30

About this hair: it's fabulous for photos but the long bits cut into my shoulders in a lot of poses. But hey I am a can-do kind of girl, so I made another copy of the hair and modified it to make all those long bits on the shoulders shorter, for everyday wear. Love it. <3

Love,
Serene

PERSPECTIVE

I went to the Alternative Fair expecting a romp through latex, tattoos and schtomper boots. But ... Frankly, I went to the Alternative Fair expecting less than Art. In my heart of snobby hearts, I don't call it Art unless it makes me think.

Take a long look at these glasses. ... (and imagine that my right lens is animated with the static of an off-the-air television screen) ...

Our ability to perceive distance, and understand three dimensional spatial perspective, relies mostly on binocular vision. Art can imitate depth of field using linear perspective, focus, by putting a grey haze in the distance of a landscape, but with only one point of view, our vision becomes flat. With one eye covered, does it matter how many windows or lenses I place in front of the other eye? Should I filter half of my vision through the static of a video screen or media opinions? Or should I give myself permission to see what I see?

Some people don't want to know what I see. I could make them happy by removing my head. I wouldn't see or think a thing. I couldn't speak. Would that work for you? ...

Me neither.

Glasses: Cobrahive “Fawk Glasses” (Alternative Fair Item benefits Nothing but Nets)
Jacket: Arai “Nylon Parka_glay” (no that’s not a typo)
Shirt: hate this “t-shirt meh. F”
Pants: LG Concept “Tattoo capri yellow” (exclusive at The Dressing Room)
Shoes: Kookie “Athena Silver”
Hair: lamb “Ambrosia”
Underpants: Cupcakes “Sporty Panties”
Skin: Tiktok “Lola Imagination tan-summer sky”
Eyes: Poetic Color “Night Rain”
Poses: by Dismorph, Long Awkward Pose and Pididdle
Photostudio: by N30

Love,
Serene