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

Sea of Dreams

Over the edge of the purple down,
   Where the single lamplight gleams,
Know ye the road to the Merciful Town
   That is hard by the Sea of Dreams – 
Where the poor may lay their wrongs away,
   And the sick may forget to weep?
But we – pity us! Oh, pity us!
   We wakeful; ah, pity us! –
We must go back with Policeman Day – 
   Back from the City of Sleep!

Weary they turn from the scroll and crown,
   Fetter and prayer and plough – 
They that go up to the Merciful Town,
   For her gates are closing now.
It is their right in the Baths of Night
   Body and soul to steep,
But we – pity us! ah, pity us!
   We wakeful; oh, pity us! –
We must go back with Policeman Day –
   Back from the City of Sleep!

Over the edge of the purple down,
   Ere the tender dreams begin,
Look – we may look – at the Merciful Town,
   But we may not enter in!
Outcasts all, from her guarded wall
   Back to our watch we creep:
We – pity us! ah, pity us!
   We wakeful; ah, pity us! –
We that go back with Policeman Day –
   Back from the City of Sleep!

(The City of Sleep by Rudyard Kipling 1865–1936)

Details:

Hair: No Match: No Other, Hello Tuesday
Shoes: Hilly Haalan: Lila Pumps, Hello Tuesday
Shirt: Ricielli: Anika, Hello Tuesday
Lipstick: Glam Affair: Medison, Catwa, SET 4, Kustom9 gacha
Eyebrows: Oo Yuki: Vor Brows 04, Catwa, Kustom9 gacha
Skirt: Entice: My Happy Ending, Black, Tres Chic
Earrings: Slackgirl: Viper, Designer Circle gift
Skin: 7 Deadly Skins: Tessie, chestnut, omega, Designer Circle gift
Eyes: Inkheart: Soul, Mandala Blue, World Tour 2017 hunt
Nails: La Boheme: Imbolc, Skin Fair gift
Body: Maitreya: Mesh Body - Lara
Head: Catwa: Kimberly
Shape: my own

Pose: IOS: Aishka Pose 2 R, old Color Me
Location: Ocho Tango Place
Windlight: region

Odette

Details:

Hair: Ayashi: Nobuko, Black set, Men Only Monthly
Skirt and belt: Avale: Odette, Tres Chic
Top: Apple Heart Inc.: Lara C. Outfit, 2nd Level Exclusive
Boots: E-Clipse Design: Narcotic Dope Combats, Maitreya, Black, Shiny Shabby
Skin: Pumec: May #14, gacha, Shiny Shabby
Crown: NeverWish: Crown, Black, Vintage Gacha gift

Headdress: Bite&Claw: Ionna Circlet, Black, Vintage Gacha gift

Choker: Junbug: Dragonfly, Beryl, Vintage Gacha gift
Nails: Alme: Glam Winter, Gold, On9

Eyes: Song: Miau, Earth Eye, The Kawaii Project

Pose: Serendipity: Cute doll pose pack 1/3, 2nd Level Gift

Location: Theda Tammas installation at Art Project / Blue Orange (Closed door from the metro station)

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

Feline

“The smallest feline is a masterpiece.” 
- Leonardo da Vinci

Details:

Earrings, glasses: Plastik: The Bina Flourish Collection, FLF
Hair: Exile: On the Go, 5 Color Naturals, FLF
Skin: Belleza: Sara, FLF
Dress: Valentina E.: Velvet Angel, Rose, FLF
Nails: FDD: Black French, Maitreya, old The Fantasy Collective SL13B gift
Eyes: Inkheart: April, Deep Brown, Advend 2016
Shoes: Fri: Rowena, Coal, old FLF
Head: Catwa: Bibi
Body: Maitreya: Mesh Body, Lara

Pose: Serendipity: Cute doll pose pack 3, 2nd Level Gift
Location: A Tale of Two Kitties. This city looks so good and they have some great KittyCatS shops there. You know how Im a shopaholic? It is even worse when it is something cute like this. I know Katskis set up just recently and has already had several sales.

The kindest use a knife

Some kill their love when they are young,
And some when they are old;
Some strangle with the hands of Lust,
Some with the hands of Gold:
The kindest use a knife, because
The dead so soon grow cold.

from The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

Details:

Skin: Pumec: Albino, group gift (group join 99L)
Eyes: Sintiklia: Frozen, Gift
Dress: Kaithleen's: T-Shirt, Blue, Hello Tuesday
Hair: Analog dog: Charlotte, The Gacha Gardians Gift
Nails: Livia: Crescent-Glitter Free Demo [Slink/Omega/Maitreya]
Scarf : Orquidea: Snowflake, gift
Shoes: LRD: October 2014 Females Short Boots, group gift
Ring: Zenith: Boho , Tear, group gift
Tights: E&O: color Tight turqoise, Maitreya, Color Me Project gift
Head: Catwa: Bibi
Body: Maitreya: Mesh Body, Lara

Pose: Atooly: Atoji 004, The Gacha Guardians
Location: Blue Orange Club and Art Project (artwork in the backround by in inaka and Gitu Aura)
Windlight: region

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

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

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