Enjoying the breeze

Details:

These shoes are awesome, they come with a hud full of options!
Shoes: Pure Poison: Illy Sandals, C88
Skin: Lotus: Amelia, Pure, (00) #4, TCF gacha
Top: Coco: Lace Up Crop Top, Lace, Fameshed
Skirt: NYU: Laced Tube Skirt, White, Fameshed
Bag: Belle Epoque: White Clutch, Se7en gift
Hair: Besom: Spray, Browns, N21 Event!
Eyes: Song: Yasu, Hale, Sanarae
Head Accessory: Lode: Bleeding Hearts, white hearts, Enchantment
Nails: Entice: Little Snowflake, old Cosmo
Head: Catwa: Kimberly, Bento
Body: Maitreya: Lara Mesh body
Shape: my own

Pose: Marukin: Camellia, enjoying the breeze in the fields, C88

Pet: MishMish: My Little Lamb / Companion, Luxebox
(MishMish has cool grass at C88 this round)

Location: Follow Your Bliss
Windlight: region

Rain

Details:

Hair: Entwined: Ashley / Dark Browns, Fameshed
Eyes: Inkheart: Uran, Fame & Fortune Hunt 2 (Thanks InkHeart!)
Pants: Gizza: Mira / Sequin Jean, Black, Kinky
Top: Teefy: Emma, Luxebox March
Earrings: Supernatural: Gift, Se7en
Necklace: Mato: Bird's nest collar, green, gacha
Shoes: E-Clipse: Coquette, Black, On9
Nails: Plastik: Blush Flakes, old We<3RP
Head: Catwa: Kimberly, Bento
Body: Maitreya: Lara Mesh body
Shape: my own

Pose: IOS: Persefona, 2
Location: Maru kado

Windlight: Canimod

Amira

Details:

Eyes Makep: Glam Affair: Amira, SET 2, gacha, Lootbox
Hair: Ayashi: Perla, Black, Kinky fair
Eyes: Demicorn: Holo, Jem, Gacha Guardians Gift
Nails: Snatch: Fishnet Manicure (freebie and cheapie table)
Dress: Posh Pixels: Tule and leather dress, Designer Circle gift
Shoes: Semller: Worker Boots, N21
Skin: Imabee: Stigma, Danae, Skin Fair

Lipstick: Pumec: #8, gacha, Skin fair
Body: Maitreya: Mesh Body - Lara
Head: Catwa: Kimberly
Shape: my own

Pose: Verocity: Fairytale 3, Finding the Fairytale hunt (old hunts shelf)
Location: Orcadi Island

High mountains are a feeling

I live not in myself, but I become
Portion of that around me; and to me,
High mountains are a feeling....

- Lord Byron (George Gordon) 1788–1824

Details:

Skin: Pumec: May, 8, Skin fair
Shoes: Ingenue: Madison Booties, Rose, Two-Tone, FLF
Hair: Wasabi Pills: Viola, FLF Exclusive
Top: Foxes: Teddy Bear Hoodie, Luxebox
Skirt: Tres Blah: Juniper Mini Skirt, Luxe Box
Eyes: Inkheart: Loving, Safire (Thanks InkHeart!)
Body: Maitreya: Mesh Body - Lara
Head: Catwa: Kimberly
Shape: my own

Pose: IOS: Persefona, 3

Location: Hazardous
Windlight: region

This is a tribute

Details:

Dress and bag: Zenith: Shopping day dress with Bag, Black, gacha, Kustom9
Eyes: Song: Reira, Grey Eye, Kustom9
Necklace: Kibitz: Cutie, Fox, gacha, Kustom9
Hair: Lamb: Little Wild, Variety/Ombre/Eccentric, Arcade gacha
Skin: Alaskametro: Kismet, Cacao, Catwa, Skin Fair
Legwarmers: Fri: Tillie Warmers, Coal, C88
Nails: Livia: Aztec Chic Nails, old Hipster Fair, now on MP
Body: Maitreya: Mesh Body - Lara
Head: Catwa: Kimberly
Shape: my own

Pose: Marukin: Plain, For slouchy sweaters mm, C88
Location: Daphne Arts, Edgar Allan Poe Tribute
Windlight: region

Rain on my face

Details:

Skin: Pumec: #12 January, Catwa, Tres Chic
Wings: Lassitude & Ennui: Seraphim wings, storm, The Gacha Garden
Jewellery Set: Bee: Morningstar, silver, Broken Heart Fair
Armlets: The Forge: Bandit Wraps, Black, We <3 Role-Play
Shoes: The Forge: Diva Boots, Whimsical
Dress: ElvenElder: Fit Mesh v9 with HUD, Cosmo
Hair: Fabia: Ada: Multicolored Tones, Cosmo
Eyes: Song: Ells, Lilac, Sanarae
Nails: Alme: Latex, dollarbie
Body: Maitreya: Mesh Body - Lara
Head: Catwa: Kimberly
Shape: my own

Location: An Uncertain Destiny
Windlight: Places: Abracadabra

Love thou art best of Human Joys

Love, thou art best of Human Joys,
Our chiefest Happiness below;
All other Pleasures are but Toys,
Musick without Thee is but Noise,
And Beauty but an empty show.

Heav’n , who knew best what Man wou’d move,
And raise his Thoughts above the Brute;
Said, Let him Be, and Let him Love;
That must alone his Soul improve,
Howe’er Philosophers dispute. 

A Song by Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea

Details:

Eyes: Avi-Glam: Elf, Green
Hair: Exxess: Margarita
Necklace: Lorien: To be continued, Broken Heart Fair
Dress: Broken Style: Nora, special valentine, Broken Heart Fair
Skin: Plastik: Constus UNI, Caramel, Tarus, last FLF
Head: Catwa: Bibi
Body: Maitreya: Mesh Body, Lara
Pose: An Lar: The Citrine Series - Three, old We<3RP
Windlight: Sailor's Delight

Also recommending:

Kultivate Spring 17 Fashion Event Feb. 11-26, 2017

(Feed A Smile /  Live and Learn in Kenya )
The Rose Hunt

When I do count the clock that tells the time

When I do count the clock that tells the time, 
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; 
When I behold the violet past prime, 
And sable curls all silver’d o’er with white;
When lofty trees I see barren of leaves 
Which erst from heat did canopy the herd,
And summer’s green all girded up in sheaves 
Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard, 
Then of thy beauty do I question make, 
That thou among the wastes of time must go,
Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake
And die as fast as they see others grow; 
   And nothing ‘gainst Time’s scythe can make defence
   Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence. 

Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time by William Shakespeare

Details:

Skin: Pumec: Lucky Letter 1, group lucky board
Hair: Elua: Micah, Black pack, The Mens Dept
Earrings: Doe: Heartbeat, The Gacha Garden
Eyes: Song: Mao: Brown, The Gacha Garden
Shoes: G&D: Hart to Hart, Suede, pink, Hello Tuesday
Pants: Vision: S&F Jeans, Beatrice, Dark Gray, Hello Tuesday
Nails: Livia: Valentine, Truth or Dare 2
Sweater: KC: Cassie
Head: Catwa: Kimberly, Bento
Body: Maitreya: Lara Mesh body
Shape: my own

Pose: IOS: Aishka Pose 2 R, old Color Me

Location: Exhibit by River Eden at Vision of Beauty Art Complex
Windlight: Bryn Oh's Bluniverse

A lovely mile

Details:

My own heart let me more have pity on; let
Me live to my sad self hereafter kind,
Charitable; not live this tormented mind
With this tormented mind tormenting yet.
I cast for comfort I can no more get
By groping round my comfortless, than blind
Eyes in their dark can day or thirst can find
Thirst's all-in-all in all a world of wet.

Soul, self; come, poor Jackself, I do advise
You, jaded, let be; call off thoughts awhile
Elsewhere; leave comfort root-room; let joy size
At God knows when to God knows what; whose smile
's not wrung, see you; unforeseen times rather — as skies
Betweenpie mountains — lights a lovely mile.

My own heart let me more have pity on by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Skin: Essences: CorrieD02, #10, gacha
Eyes: Inkheart: Soul, Brown Sugar (Thanks InkHeart!)
Jacket: L&B Swear: Zipp Leather Jacket, Womens, Oxblood
Shoes: ChicChica: Laurinda Noir, The Gacha Garden
Jewellery: Bubble: Crystal Amulet Set, The Gacha Garden
Pants: Paper Arrow: Cuffed Cordyroy pants, FLF
Hair: Clawtooth: Up and Away Essentials Pack, FLF
Nails: Nail Me: Mmm Coffee, Ball of Yarn Hunt

Pose: Icons Of Style: Persefona #1

Windlight: Annan Adored Light Explosion II
Location: Elin Egoyan exhibit at Paris Metro Art Gallery

Loving Freedom

Details:

Jacket and scarf: Gizza: Vixie Leather Jacket Set, Black
Pants: Pixicat: Linn Cargo, Black
Shoes: Essenz: Florence, Black
Eyes: Inkheart (NEW SLurl!): Loving, Freedom, The Loving Kind Hunt 2 (Thanks InkHeart!)
Hair: Monso: My Hair, Jeonso, Black&White, C88
Skin: DOPE Designs: Sofia, Catwa, Latte Macchiato, Cosmopolitan
Nails: Mad: Chic Party, On9
Head: Catwa: Kimberly, Bento
Body: Maitreya: Lara Mesh body
Shape: my own

Pose: Highway65: Model Collection 3Location: Arts & letters literary salon
Windlight: AnaLu: Outdoor city

The sky is cloudy

The sky is cloudy, yellowed by the smoke.
For view there are the houses opposite
Cutting the sky with one long line of wall
Like solid fog: far as the eye can stretch
Monotony of surface & of form
Without a break to hang a guess upon.
No bird can make a shadow as it flies,
For all is shadow, as in ways o'erhung
By thickest canvass, where the golden rays
Are clothed in hemp. No figure lingering
Pauses to feed the hunger of the eye
Or rest a little on the lap of life.
All hurry on & look upon the ground,
Or glance unmarking at the passers by
The wheels are hurrying too, cabs, carriages
All closed, in multiplied identity.
The world seems one huge prison-house & court
Where men are punished at the slightest cost,
With lowest rate of colour, warmth & joy.

In a London Drawingroom by George Eliot

I got the Kimberly head from Catwa. I am liking it ok so far. Here is a great review by Strawberry Singh with all you need to know. It was the first time for me making a Bento shape, but I think it turned out ok. Btw I have to say Pumec keeps making me happy with their skins!

Details:

Skin: Pumec: May, rare, gacha, The Chapter Four
Sweater: Semller: Sweater 5, Ski Resort Gacha, Cosmopolitan

Scarf: Semller: Scarf 4, Ski Resort Gacha, Cosmopolitan
Hair: Calico: Kadri, Browns (unpacked)
Eyes: Buzz: Okina, Avada, Epiphany
Pants: Tiar: skinny jeans
Shoes: Lindy Modern: Casey, Poe9
Nails: Livia: Xmas Glitz, MCH (check old hunt gifts)
Head: Catwa: Kimberly, Bento
Body: Maitreya: Lara Mesh body
Shape: my own

Pose: Verocity: ITW Hunt #24
Location: London City North
Windlight: London2050

Brr It's Cold

I saw Butter post this awesome picture of herself wearing one of the versions of the new Peeps knit outfits, on Facebook. I got her permission to post it here, thanks so much, Butter!

Both our avatars are modified versions of dinkies by Tiny Inc. The heads are from tiny avatars by CABS. I wrote a guide to becoming a tiny or a dinkie recently. Dinkies are mesh and use mainly rigged mesh outfits, so the fashion is avatar specific. Original dinkies come as cats or bunnies, and the Peeps outfits will work on both of those.

These outfits are so great!
Here is a regular dinkie cat wearing each piece with different colors, so you can see how much variety just one outfit has. But you can of course mix and match between sets too. (Have plain boots with ribbed sweater for example)

Pose: Black Cats: Balance 3, Pose Lovers & Friends Event

Peeps Dinkies Brr It's Cold Knit Outfits:

An outfit comes with boots, pants, sweater and hat (with or without a pompom).
There is a hud for each clothing piece with different color options:
- Three pant options
- Eight sweater options
- Eight boot options
- Eight hat options

There are several sets to choose from: Plain, Striped, Rib, Mixed, Argyle

I hear Jennylynn is going to be doing more outfits like these, which I am very happy about!

Petite Village

Details:

Outfit: Dinkie Boutique: Dinkies roll neck sweater and pants, blush (thanks Lycia!)
Shoes: Dinkie Boutique: Dinkies knit booties, pink
Hat: Dinkie Boutique: Hipster beanie, pink
Avatar: Tiny Inc: Dinkies black kitty mesh avatar v1.2

Pose: Rust Republic: Static poses, 1, 2n Level gift

Location: Petite Village, where Dinkie Boutique is located, is a really beautiful place for dinkie fashion shopping and hanging out. Remember to check out all the buildings, and the upstairs, because there are several departments already. The picturesque village has a cafe down the hill and a lovely spot for relaxing by the water. (Can you spot the cat? She was not super keen on posing with me, lol).

Windlight: TOR, Midday, Cheery cyan

I Broke the Spell

I broke the spell that held me long,
The dear, dear witchery of song.
I said, the poet’s idle lore
Shall waste my prime of years no more,
For Poetry, though heavenly born,
Consorts with poverty and scorn.

I broke the spell–nor deemed its power
Could fetter me another hour.
Ah, thoughtless! how could I forget
Its causes were around me yet?
For wheresoe’er I looked, the while,
Was Nature’s everlasting smile.

Still came and lingered on my sight
Of flowers and streams the bloom and light,
And glory of the stars and sun; –
And these and poetry are one.
They, ere the world had held me long,
Recalled me to the love of song.

“I Broke the Spell That Held Me Long” by William Cullen Bryant

Details:

Shoes: Empire: Alchemic, Luxe box January
Hair: Lamb: Widowspeak, Luxe box January
Top: Foxes: Luxe box outfit, January
Tattoo: Nanika: Mehendi henna tattoo, Cosmetic Faire gift
Nails: Kokolores: Light Nude Nails, Omega, Cosmetic Faire
Pants: MayCreations: mesh laced pants, black leather (older mesh, try demo!)
Skin: Pumec: Exclusive skin gift, Catwa applier, The Crossroads
Eyes: Lotus: Starry eyes, Brown, The Chapter Four gift

Pose: Highway65: Model Collection 9

Location: Maymay Matova's Art Island
Maymay has a Special Exhibit at Galleria Kakku currently, until end of February. She also has a shop at Whispering Hearts, near the exhibit, and a regular booth  at the gallery.

Windlight: Annyka's Soft Lavender Day

Can't quite see in the mist.

I love these raw moist dawns with
a thousand birds you hear but can't
quite see in the mist.
My old alien body is a foreigner
struggling to get into another country.
The loon call makes me shiver.
Back at the cabin I see a book
and am not quite sure what that is.

Another Country by Jim Harrison

Details:

Dress: Velvet Whip: Charlotte, Plum, 30LS
Shoes: ChicChica: Kendra, The Gacha Guardians group gift
Bangles: Secrets: Morrocos, Gold, TGG group gift
Skin: Birth: Willow, Catwa, Tone 06 - 1, TGG gacha
Nails: Alaskametro: Gala, Champagne, On9
Hair: Amacci: Prudence, Brown Pack
Necklace: Black Bantam: Gold Moon Drop Choker, Polar Bear Tangled Lights Gacha
Eyes: Lotus: Emotivi 23 RARE, Dreamful Event
Head: Catwa: Bibi
Body: Maitreya: Mesh Body, Lara

Pose: IOS: Aishka, 1 L
Location: Avalon Celtic Harbor
Windlight: Bristol

A frost of cares

My prime of youth is but a frost of cares,
My feast of joy is but a dish of pain,
My crop of corn is but a field of tares,
And all my good is but vain hope of gain.
The day is gone and yet I saw no sun,
And now I live, and now my life is done.

The spring is past, and yet it hath not sprung,
The fruit is dead, and yet the leaves are green,
My youth is gone, and yet I am but young,
I saw the world, and yet I was not seen,
My thread is cut, and yet it was not spun,
And now I live, and now my life is done.

I sought my death and found it in my womb,
I lookt for life and saw it was a shade,
I trode the earth and knew it was my tomb,
And now I die, and now I am but made.
The glass is full, and now the glass is run,
And now I live, and now my life is done.

My prime of youth is but a frost of cares by Chidiock Tichborne

Details:

Hair: Calico: Brooklee, Reds, 25L$ Tuesdays
Necklace: On A Lark: Elemental, Moonstone, 25LT
Dress, earrings: Footpaw Ind.: Diantha Pink, size M, 25LT
Eyes: Arise: Freya, green, old Lost and Found
Skin: Glam Affair: Tara Catwa, Europa
Nails: Livia: Ombre flakes, gift
Head: Catwa: Bibi
Body: Maitreya: Mesh Body, Lara

Pose: oOo Studio: My Life, gift
Location: Lakeside
Windlight: Daytime shadows

Duty

"Jam non consilio bonus, sed more eo perductus, ut non tantum recte facere possim, sed nisi recte facere non possim"

"I am no longer good through deliberate intent, but by long habit have reached a point where I am not only able to do right, but am unable to do anything but what is right."
(Seneca, Letters 120.10)

Details:

Dress: Caboodle: Fae, Fifty Linden Fridays
Hair: Elikatira: Polly 1, FLF
Socks: C'est La Vie: Jody Rib Socks, FLF

Hat: Meva: Captains Hat, Curls, Black, Silver, The Crossroads

Shoes: Sabbia: Lace up short boots, old Creators Collection Box

Choker: Bauhaus Movement: Anouk, Roulett3 gift
Eyes: Song: Fae, Light Brown, The Project Se7en gacha
Nails: Livia: Snowy Night, Christmasfy Hunt
Bracelet, ring, watch: Heartsdale: Nova Ladies Set, Kittycats calendar
Skin: Glam Affair: Lilo, Catwa / Bibi, Artic 01, old The Gacha Garden
Head: Catwa: Bibi
Body: Maitreya: Mesh Body, Lara

Pose: Poseidon: Free Running 1
(I may have gotten a bit over excited. I doubt Coastguard and such forces have time for random parkour moments).

Location: Tsurington Aerodrome SLTS
Windlight: TOR Sunset Camp Champ

December

Details:

Dress: Dulce Secrets: Yukimi, POE 9 hunt (Globe #070)
Skin: Essences: Catwa, Lynn M01, Kittycats calendar
Necklace: L&B: Swear Holiday DogTag, Kittycats calendar
Boots: Mooh: Nikita, white
Makeup: Slackgirl: Liner & Gems, On9 Gift
Hair: E-motions: Karma, diamonds, On9 Gift
Eyes: Inkheart: Seth, Sky (Thanks InkHeart!)
Nails: Out of Orbit: Cresent, Be Beauty XMAS Gift
Head: Catwa: Bibi
Body: Maitreya: Mesh Body, Lara

Pose: Opulence: Female, 2nd Level gift

Location: Christmas Winter Holiday Village

Snow Fall

Details:

Dress: B.C.C: Baby Love, Maitreya 6, Arcade gacha
Hair: Exile: Snow Fall 19, Wild Fusion, Arcade gacha
Boots: Apple Heart Inc.: Knee High Boots, black, Be Beauty XMAS Gift
Eyes: Song: Desi, Aqua, Kustom9
Skin: Glam Affair: Milu, Catwa, India 01, The Gacha Garden
Pants: Tiffany Designs: Minna Appliers, Black, Designer Circle, gift

Location: Avalon Harbor (I will feature this awesome sim some more for sure!)
Windlight: Fairy Blue Paulina

No Warning

Everyone in the room is cheering.
This is what you do for a painting you love!
We climb up on one another’s shoulders,
wave pom-poms that match the palette.
We want to buy the season tickets to the train
that huffs through this landscape. We want
to climb the towers of this steely sculpture
and hang the flag. Victory is ours! We have
seen something to love here. Outside the gallery,
there is an alley full of garbage. Beauty stops
at the door. A scraggly tree is coming out
of the pavement where the people are lined
up, cigarettes and cell phones, waiting
for a chance to look. They keep their
giant fingers in their bags. Wear T-shirts
of their favorite teams of artist assistants.
On the alley wall, someone has drawn
a hillside and a horse. A young man sits
on a crate and peels the glue from under
his nails. He nods. And looks. And soon,
pulls out the chalk and adds a saddle
and a man, who looks back and shouts
as if he has found his enemy again.

How to Judge a Picture by Rebecca Morgan Frank

Details:

Shoes: Empire: Honesty, Luxebox December
Skin: Wow: Persia, omega appliers, Kittycats calendar
Nails: Alaskametro: Gala, Berry, On9
Eyes: Inkheart: Tender, Xmas Gacha Maze gift (Thanks Inkheart!)
Hair: No Match: No Warning
Bag: G&D: Gussie
Skirt: Hilly Haalan, Juline
Top: Ec Cloth: Mara, Cosmo gift
Head: Catwa: Bibi
Body: Maitreya: Mesh Body, Lara

Pose: An Lar: The Citrine Series - One, old We<3RP
Location: Holly Kai Park - hollykaiart.wordpress.com

Artist: Kayly Iali
etsy.com/shop/PaintingsbyMarlene
dailypaintworks.com/Artists/marlene-lee-3458
marleneleeart.com

Windlight: Bree's Appleblossom