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

The ode & elegy

The poppies start as aliens
end as husbands, a pause
of light, a dull scatter.
Transports dandelion clouds.
Venus passes between sun &
earth. Exceedingly rare, Transit,
have you noticed how close
the ode & elegy are?
(In the United States someone
dies every sixteen seconds!)
Husband, Supermoon, Venus
come & go. Death says there
is no you at the end of weather.
"Among the rarest of all predictable
astronomical . . ." Husband
presented me. The weatherman
says we are locked in the clouds.

The Transit of Venus by Susan Firer

Details:

Dress: Elegance Boutique: Mesh Gown Magie, Fushia, Hello Tuesday
Hair: Moon: The Caterpillar, Luxebox December
Skin: Glam Affair: Alba Applier ( Catwa ), Asia 01, Kustom9
Nails: La Boheme: Mohini, gold, The Wash
Eyes: Sinful Curves: Introspect, Moonstone
Choker: Fame Femme: Milana, Cosmopolitan
Lips: Lakshmi: Catwa Lipstick, Cosmopolitan Xmas Group Gift
Shoes: Sabbia: Lace up short boots, Creators Collection Box
Head: Catwa: Bibi
Body: Maitreya: Mesh Body, Lara

Poses: Highway65: Model Collection 6 and 12

Location: Skye Neist Point
Windlight: my own

You’re all in the white of the snow

From a ways, the sky and your hands
come to my eyes, from some distant part of you;
it’s snowing out, you’re all in the white of the snow
every track in the candor a wound
and the field beyond the window is a body
a glance that becomes a pronouncement,
the heat of breath, your head adrift in sleeplessness;

that’s where it returns, in a word translated into silence
where the sparrows tie loose knots
your palms on your eyes, chest on your knees
forehead in the snow.

by: Pierluigi Cappello (translated by: Todd Portnowitz)

Details:

Skin: Pumec: Anita, January, The Chapter Four gift
Headpiece: E-Motions: Martha, We<3RP gift
Eyes: Astrae: Gaze, Dusk, Frostfell, We<3RP gift
Jewellery: Devious Mind: Snowflake choker and earrings, We<3RP gift
Dress: Tiffany Designs: Ice Mini Dress with Appliers, The Frozen Event
Hair: Tram: F1124
Flats: Breathe: Emmy, The Forest Event
Eyebrows: Alaskametro: Glimmer, KittyCatS gift
Watch: Glint: Womens Snowflake diamond watch

Pose 1: Stardust: Snowy, TCF Gift
Pose 2: An lar: The Pixie Series, Five, TCF

Location: Winterfell Absinthe
Windlight: Fairy dark blue Paulina

We carry all the power we need inside ourselves

We do not need magic to transform our world.
We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already.
We have the power to imagine better.

- J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008

Details:

Eyes: Inkheart: Master, Grey, Masters of Style Hunt (Thanks InkHeart!)
Tattoo: Facade: Tears, Sad November, free gift
Dress: Cute Poison x Kenvie: Nu-Coven #1, RARE, The Coven
Hair: Wasabi Pills: Nahia, Browns, The Crossroads
Skin: E. Vary: Nadia, India, The Old Fair
Shoes: Vale Koer: Special Force, black, The Mens Dept
Nails: Meva: Claws Dark, We<3RP
Head: Catwa: Bibi
Body: Maitreya: Mesh Body, Lara
Pose: Awkward: stray dog, set one, set then, old FLF

Location: Build by Stranger Nightfire

Windlight: Annan adored dark red sky

Also I want to recommend these texture sets by Miss Mattie of Black Magnolia Imports, which are up for My 60L Secret Sale this week.
**BMI** Metallic Bead Stud Textures BOXED
**BMI** Round Metallic Bead Fabrics BOXED

Raglan Shire Dark and Stormy Night!

 Make sure to get a copy of the free scary story collection at Raglan Shire Library!

 The library is in the second floor of the Welcome Center

 They have free books and things, so be sure to visit

(Big thanks to Francesca Alva for modeling with me!)