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Home Is Where The Heart Is

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I’m queuing up the next post for the Home & Garden Expo. I need to get back to finding hair and shooting photos for my next Single Frame Stories post, so I’m going to be running through SL like a woman possessed tomorrow! Oh, and I’ve signed on for Avatar Blogger Month at irez.me – thirty posts in thirty days, starting June 1! I try to post every day, anyway, but occasionally I miss one here and there. But in June, there will be no rest for the wicked, so I’m planning on using my post queue to try to get a head start. Please hop on over to this post to check out the Avatar Blogger Month – and I hope to see you’re up to the challenge, too!

Now, back to the subject of this post! If you’ve been around Second Life for any time at all, you’ve most likely heard of Heart Botanicals. They’re one of the older and best established gardening shops in SL. This year, at the H&G Expo, they have a stunning display of a mesh garden, which is “coming soon.” Yes, we all love a tease! It’s a gorgeous build, and I was content to let my avatar wander, checking out the detail and finding the right locations to shoot my photographs. I have said before, I’m a portrait photographer, not a landscape photographer, so I haven’t really done this location justice. Just wander over to Sim 5 of the Home & Garden Expo and check it out in person!

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I encourage you to play with your lighting – Windlight, preferably, but at least adjust your standard environment settings while you’re in this wooded glen. The difference in lighting can change it from an open, sunny glen to an eerily spooky forest! Loads of fun and so beautiful 🙂

Shaken, Not Stirred

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1 Dry Martini

I had a lot of things planned for my day in Second Life. I needed to find a hat for an outfit I’m putting together, I needed to take photos for a blog challenge later this week, and I wanted to grab some demos of the new t-shirts out from Erratic. I had the best of intentions, and actually found a hat (hugs to my lil Cao for steering me in the right direction)! But that’s when things started to unravel…

You see, the hat didn’t really work with the hair I had planned to wear. And although I have an obscene amount of hair, I couldn’t find a style to match. So, off I went in search of something that did work. I found myself at Vanity Hair, a place I don’t usually go, but I was looking for a rather high-fashion style and I thought that would be a good place to start.

I didn’t find what I was looking for, but I found…a Dry Martini. Yep, that’s the name of the hairstyle. Not my usual style, but there was just something about it – the sleek, pulled up sides, the full top and the sweet wrap of the hair to secure the ponytail. I had to have it.

And then, of course, I had to take photos.

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I still don’t have a hairstyle to wear with the outfit I’m putting together, I really don’t know what I’m going to do for my challenge photo, and I forgot to grab the demos. Sighs…but I have kick-ass hair and no hangover…guaranteed!

Credits:

Hair: Vanity Hair:Dry Martini-Passion
Hairbase: Vanity hair base Passion
Dress: coldLogic dress – holly.slate
Jewelry: EarthStones Butterfly Necklace & Earrings – Whisper
Skin: [:T:] Helena / powder (red) :: 09
Lips: [:T:] Helena / powder :: Lips :: Deviant Misfit (gloss)
Eyes: Mayfly – Liquid Light Mesh Eye (Glacial River, w3)
Lashes: Eyelashes -41- Hollywood *REDGRAVE*

My Communications Meme – Hello?

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Oh, I blushed a bit when I read Strawberry Singh’s meme today. I have been one of those folks bitching noting that the memes have been tough! However, that hasn’t stopped me from participating. I really look forward each week to see what kind of challenge Berry has set for us. I’ve made some new friends with the bloggers who regularly participate and I’ve learned a lot. My moaning is really just a way of teasing – bring it on, Miss Berry!

This week, she has gone easy on us and asked us to tell about our communications in Second Life.

Meme instructions: Copy and paste the following questions and answers into your post, delete my answers and input your own. All of your answers should reflect your activity within Second Life. Remember to leave your link in this meme’s comments so others can come by and read your answers as well!

Who did you speak to last inworld today? I didn’t actually speak to anyone today. I was in only long enough to shoot the photo for this post. But yesterday, the last person I spoke to was my sister, Maddie.

Who has taught you most about SL? Initially, my friend, Cindy, who helped me learn to navigate SL.

Who do you turn to for help? I really hate asking for help, but when I need a sounding board or a shoulder to cry on, that would be my cherished, Tylar Revestal.

Who is the most entertaining person on your friend list? This is tough, because I have so many entertaining friends. But if I have to pick one, it would be my sister, Abbie 🙂

Do you speak to your SL friends outside of SL? Oh, yeah. My Facebook messages run hot! I also occasionally use skype, but FB is my constant companion.

Are you part of a community or family inworld? I was adopted by Echo & Ryker Darkward and I have, at last count, 11 sisters and three brothers! I’m also a part of a close-knit group of staff at Breaking The Rules.

Are you usually around a lot of people or do you spend most of your time alone inworld? This has changed in the last few months. I used to be rarely seen outside of the club where I work, unless I was shopping or changing clothes. Now, I tend to spend more time alone…playing with poses, shooting photographs at my studio or various locations around Second Life, or (re)decorating our home.

I had to shoot this photo from this particular angle because most of the others showed that I was using a “fruity” phone. Being a ‘droid girl, I couldn’t have that! Someone *cough* would never let me hear the end of it if I showed the logo 😉