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.

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

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

From the sustaining air

from the sustaining air

fresh air

There is the clarity of a shore
And shadow, mostly, brilliance

summer
the billows of August

When, wandering, I look from my page

I say nothing

when asked

I am, finally, an incompetent, after all

From the Sustaining Air by Larry Eigner

Details:

Shoes: Empire: Solidago, color change hud, Fifty Linden Fridays
Hair: Exile: Early Rise 5 Color Fade Pack, FLF
Skin: Belleza: FLF Mila catwa Applier FLF
Dress: Luas: Lehna,  Rose, The Avenue
Rings: Day Dreamer: Stacked Rings, Rose Gold, The Gacha Garden Gift
Eyes: Inkheart: April, Illusions, Advent calendar (Thanks Inkheart!)
Scarf: ASS: Dekades: Malika, We<3RP gift
Headband: Rebel Hope: Kitty ears, pink, Kittycats calendar
Nails: Livia: Natural Gold, Slink/Omega/Maitreya, Color Me Project
Head: Catwa: Bibi
Body: Maitreya: Mesh Body, Lara

Pose: oOo Studio: Silent night 4, FLF

Location: Summer Trace (Flickr Group)
Windlight: region

The robin makes a laughing sound

The robin makes a laughing sound.
It makes me stop and look around
to see just what the robin sees—
fresh new leaves on twigs of trees,
a strong, high branch on which to rest,
a safe dry ledge to hold its nest.
The robin makes a laughing sound.
I stop. I always look around.

(- The robin makes a laughing sound by Sallie Wolf)
Details:

Skin: 7 Deadly Skins: Candie, applier, Kittycats calendar
Choker: Purple Moon: Frozen, On9
Hair: No Match: No Sleep: Holiday edition, blonde-pink, On9 gift
Hairbase: No Match: Mesh head appliers
Shoes: Ingenue: Natala Heels, Creme, Arcade gacha
Ring: Yummy: Snowflake Rings: Star Burst, Arcade gacha
Nails: On A Lark: Nails 001, all (all=75L.. there are three 25L sets) 25L Tuesday
Dress: Luas: Noemi, Roses, 25L Tuesday
Eyes: Raindale: Lovise, 2nd Level
Head: Catwa: Bibi
Body: Maitreya: Mesh Body, Lara

Pose: Adorkable: Nippy 2
Close up pose: Luanes World: A Memory, 2nd Level gift

Pet: MishMish: Robins in the snow, C88

Location: Gallery of Pavlovas Art by Donna Pavlova, my niece
Windlight: Gwen's Light

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

Yesh Well for gacha yardsale and Katskis for KittyCats

As you may have heard, I live on a new sim owned by Leather Aeon. The sim is called Whispering Hearts and it has a lot of nice little shops for rent at a low price, if you are interested. There is going to be a club there soon, too.

Leather is the official representative of Free2Luv.org in Second Life. We have donation kiosks all over the sim, there will be events to their benefit, and 10% of the proceeds from the sim is going to them.

I of course have my gallery Galleria Kakku and the Cake Fox mainstore there, as well as the non profit I started called Rainbow Tinies, which has events every Friday at SL noon.

I thought I would tell you about a couple of new things I am doing.

Yesh Well is my gacha yardsale store. Most items are pull price or even less and they are all pretty new. I may have a gacha shopping issue, lol.

Make sure to also visit Katskis, our KittyCatS store. We have priced the cats cheap according to market value. There are quite a few special features to be found. Leather is telling me to not get any more cats, but they are SO CUTE! Which means we will have more kittycat boxes to sell in no time.

You can get pillows for your cats there, too. Just place your cat on the pillow, click the cat for "Set Home" and "Set range" and you are done. Pillows are not scripted but the cats will prefer to sleep on them.