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

Wild

Details:

Shoes: Empire: Lunaria, Luxebox
Hair: Moon: Tessellate, Luxe Box
Dress: Scandalize: Labins,Yellow, Tres Chic
Eyes: Song: Nash, The Kawaii Project
Nails: Alaskametro: Tropics/Gold, Chrome French
Skin: Imabee: Stigma, Danae, Skin Fair
Body: Maitreya: Mesh Body - Lara
Head: Catwa: Kimberly
Shape: my own

Pose: Verocity: Into the Woods 2, ITW Hunt #24
Location: MetaLES ..O.. ArT Virtual Space: Wild Lost Line by Morlita Quan
Windlight: region

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

Queen Of Hearts

Details:

Necklace: Pillows: Free Heart Necklace (your own image), The Gacha Garden
Bracelet: Devious Mind: Queen Of Hearts, all colors, particle hearts, The Gacha Garden
Dress: Belle Epoque: Saint Valentine Dress, 25L Tuesday
Shoes: G&D: Patty, Red, Hello Tuesday
Hair: Doe: Amoria, twotone, Browns
Eyes: Inkheart: Loving, Chocolat, Valentine's gift until the weekend (Thanks InkHeart!)
Headpiece: Zenith: Hibiscus Flower, Cherry, gacha
Nails: Alaskametro: Rouge Hearts, Free Dove Hunt #6
Skin: Alaskametro: Serenity, Free Dove freebie
Head: Catwa: Kimberly, Bento
Body: Maitreya: Lara Mesh body
Shape: my own
Pet: Hextraordinary: Zebra Finch, previous Epiphany
Pose: String Me Up: Casual Set 08, Roulette
Location: One Billion Rising in Second Life. Website.
Second Life Artists Rising
Windlight: Annyka's Soft Lavender Day

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

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

Cake Fox is participating in the Love Hunt

Cake Fox is participating in the Love Hunt, 1L$, 1-28th of February.

Prize:

Hint:  "I gacha under my skin"

The Arrow and the Song

I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.

The Arrow and the Song by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Details:

Dress: Eveline In The Box: Xavienne, Plaid Purple, 25LTuesdays
Collar: On A Lark: Collar 01, 25LT
Boots: G&D: Ankle Gio Black, Hello Tuesday
Eyes: HSH: Wolf 01, purple, Cosmopolitan
Hair: Ayashi: Shiro, Brown set, Sanarae
Skin: Birth: Emi TC4, Catwa, Tone 02, RARE, The Chapter Four gacha
Nails: Nail Me: MmmCoffee, Ball of Yarn Hunt
Head: Catwa: Bibi
Body: Maitreya: Mesh Body, Lara

Pose: Belle Poses: Joss 6, 2nd Level gift

Location: Archimedes Public Library, Babbage Palisade

Windlight: region

Cake Fox is participating in Love Me or Hate Me Hunt

Cake Fox is participating in Love Me or Hate Me Hunt. Each prize is 1L$.

The Cake Fox prize for Love me or Hate me hunt

Hint:  "I love you but can we do something about the furniture?"

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

Absurdly charming elements

Unfortunately happiness
Depends a little more than less
On undependable, and hence
Absurdly charming elements.
- Here Today and Gone Tomorrow by Margaret Fishback

Details:

Skin: Atomic: Elf Catwa Applier, Honey 2, Arcade
Hair: Clawtooth: Winter Song, Essentials, FLF
Heels: Breathe: Camshaft, Antique Ruby, The Chapter Four
Shorts: The Secret Store: Audra Linen, Red Polka, C88
Cardigan & top: TBO: Lupe, boho fringe
Eyes: Dulce Secrets: Desirous Garden Eyes
Necklace: Astralia: Sweet Bee, old Kustom9 gift
Nails: Livia: Harvest, old TJTH6
Head: Catwa: Bibi
Body: Maitreya: Mesh Body, Lara

Pose: Ilaya: Sophia, Pack 1, 6, Shiny Shabby
Location: Christmas @ StoryBrooke Gardens

Before The Dawn

Before The Dawn
But like love
the archers
are blind

Upon the green night,
the piercing saetas
leave traces of warm
lily.

The keel of the moon
breaks through purple clouds
and their quivers
fill with dew.

Ay, but like love
the archers
are blind!

- Federico Garcia Lorca

Details:

Eyes: Inkheart: Eternal, Honey (Thanks InkHeart!)
Dress: Hilly Haalan: Sloane Sweater & Skirt (Dress)
Headband: CandyDoll: Bunny Collection Ears, Cherry, gacha, The Epiphany
Hair: Oleander: Skye, Cinnamon, gacha, The Epiphany
Skin: Glam Affair, Mina, America 02, The Epiphany
Shoe: Ingenue:: Bettine Heels, Rouge, C88
Bracelet and Ring: Oxide: Mara Set
Nails: Livia: Envy, Slink/Omega, old hunt (they are still available for low price)
Head: Catwa: Bibi
Body: Maitreya: Mesh Body, Lara

Pose: Marukin: Tulip, Touch, C88

Pet: MishMish: Bunny Fluffz, Brown Dutchie, gacha

Location: Chouchou

Windlight: Wastelands

I am The Wild Card

Green-eyed Fairy is one of my favorite, if not the favorite, bars in Second Life. They are participating in this awesome hunt on the sim they are on, New Toulouse. If you like historic sims with their own wonderful athmosphere, you will love this sim, and the hunt.

Wild Cards
A Tarot Hunt
November 16 to December 7
New Toulouse

Madame Celestina can't tell you what's in the cards, because she's missing some of them! Collect your HUD at the starting point. Wearing your HUD, follow the clues and find all twenty cards. When your HUD is completely filled, return to hunt HQ to collect your rewards.
Hunt Start & HQ: Madame Celestina's

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

Speak the word that sets me free

Laden Autumn here I stand
Worn of heart, and weak of hand:
Nought but rest seems good to me,
Speak the word that sets me free.

- William Morris

Details:

Eyes: Inkheart: Insipya, Sand, Dirty Little Secret Hunt 7 (Thanks InkHeart!)
Dress: Purple Moon: Agnes, black, Designer Showcase (I really love this dress.)
Hair: Mina: Farah, Light brown, Fameshed
Nails: ZOZ: Lynn Bold Polish, Cosmopolitan
Shoes: ChicChica: Felicity Night, The Crossroads
Accessory: Astralia: Lace Arm Warmers, The Coven
Headband: AvaWay: Cat Ears #1, The Gacha Garden
Head: Catwa: Bibi
Body: Maitreya: Mesh Body, Lara
Pose: An Lar: The Citrine Series - Five, We<3RP

Location: ~Nouvelles Aventures~ (SLurl)

Windlight: Tor: Brilliant Sunrise

Cuteness among the scary

The apples are thumping, winter is coming.
The lips of the pumpkin soon will be humming.
By the caw of the crow on the first of the year,
Something will die, something appear.

(from A Rhyme for Halloween by Maurice Kilwein Guevara)

Details:

Cup: MishMish: Hedgehog in Autumn, C88 (Thanks Aime!)
Eyes: Inkheart: Insipya, Fantasy, Twisted Tale Hunt 2 (Thanks InkHeart!)
Heels: Ingenue: Tabatha, Maize, C88
Blouse: Zaara : Anisha ruffle blouse, canary, C88
Hair: Monso: My Hair, Hayeong, Brown, C88
Skirt: Blueberry: Blaire, Tan, C88
Choker: M.I.X.: Ribbon choker
Skin: Amara: Jade 07 amber Catwa Applier, We<3RP
Nail Appliers: PAP.: Vintageflower, Maitreya
Head: Catwa: Bibi
Body: Maitreya: Mesh Body, Lara
Pose: Katink: Sayah 7

Companion: Jian: Red Fox Collection, Fameshed

Location: Foggy Swamp sim

BMI Gezellig Hackey Sack Hanging Chairs

Gezellig by Black Magnolia Imports has these great chairs for biggies and tinies/dinkies up for sale this weekend. I am sorry for the late notice, I have been swamped all week and then fell asleep very early. But I love the chairs. I had to put all of them out at Rainbow Tinies! SO cute!

Gezellig Hackey Sack Hanging Chairs

If you know BMI, you know that Miss Mattie sells great textures there. But did you know there are fashions and home decor, too? And the furniture has lookalike sets for biggies and tinies! Welcome all your friends for a visit, no need to swap between avatars.

The BMI/Gezellig/AUTOMAT Mainstore has a lot of sales, especially during weekends. They also have a midnight mania board and hunt gifts. Make sure to look around the whole place!

Oh and make sure you are following the blog, too, I really love what Miss Mattie is doing with it!