AUTUMN

AUTUMN OUTFIT

As the rays go weaker and the chilliness sets in, it's getting time to check the closet for warmer clothes.....Winter will get here sooner than we wish. Yuck!!

Hope you like!

STYLECARD:

Coat: V.e. Sienna City Coat~Valentin Aevangelista

Boots: Cult riding boots~ISON

Scarf: V'1- Arabic PaliScarf~Redgrave

Hair: Elaine~Truth

Make-up: Fallinlove~MONS

Lipgloss:  D.A.

Ring: Mother's Big Pearl~LaGyo

Glasses: Mabelle Mesh Glasses~Pure Poison

Yeaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was there at Avenue Fashion week....................

Stylecard:

Outfit:

    Jeans coat~Ricielli

    Highwaisted Riding Leather Pants~Ricielli

Shoes: Pais Peeptoe~GOS

Jewellery:

    OKAKI Dog Tag neckless~MANDALA 

    Okaki Bracelet~MANDALA

    Anutta ring~MANDALA

Make-up: Pearlina~Madrid Solo

Hair:*BROOKLINE*~EMO-tions

Look of the day

GizzA’s Dirty Leather Outfit.

Stylecard:

OUTFIT:

    Leather Jacket, vintage dirty~GizzA

    Leather cargo, dirty~GizzA

    T-Shirt: Rich~GizzA

Hair: Rocky~TRUTH

Ears: gold _ piercing~MANDALA

Nails: SINRA Gold~MANDALA

Boots: Rider Boots~REDGRAVE

Make-up: SAVAGE Wild~MONS

Tattoo: Faith~ZENTRO

Hope you like!

Look of the day

GizzA’s RICH Blue

Stylecard:

Outfit:     Rich blue~GizzA Outfit comes complete with boots.

Hair:       NICOLE~EMO-tions

Nails:       ILLUSION Blue~Finesmith

Make-up:   Hippie~MONS

Necklace:   Skull gold~LaGyo

Hope you like!

The Big Boat

The Big Boat

I was born in a place relatively far from the sea. Relatively I say, because I’ m Dutch so, to American standards, how far from the coast could that possibly be.....LOL Anyway, we’re not used to long travel distances (I can hear Seppe roaring with laughter...), so, well...eh....let’s just say it’ s different for us Dutch. We are weird that way.

Anyway, in my childhood, the sea, the beach and boats always held some sort of fascination for me. But there always was a sense of awe as well; my folks weren’t very well off moneywise and the kind of  boats I liked were definitely items from the world of the Rich and possibly Famous. Rendering them alien almost....

So when I was on the gorgeous Italian island of Agrippa with Seppe last Sunday, I spotted this sweet sailing yaught. I wanted to get on board, but on the other hand, the old sense of it being unreachable for me, not right for me ot whatever, held me back somehow. Seppe, sharp and sensitive as he always is, got that right away and he urged me on........lol. When that didn’ t do the job he grabbed his guitar – he’s always carrying that old raggedy thing around – and started singing for me.....

“The big boat is at the landing,

and my baby is waiting to step on board....

The big boat is at the landing,

and my baby is waiting to step on board.

Yes, I know the little girl is leavin’...........

but the reason why, I just don’t know.”

http://youtu.be/ThsT9dA2ECE

Now, I’ m not leaving...hahahaha!!!! not for all the gold in China or anywhere else...

But it got me on the yaught. He joined me – just made it at the very last second – and we sailed out into the sunset and had a won-der-ful time together.

Have we made any snapshots? Eh.....yah, we have...........Not going to put them up here though.........LOL

Check out the island - and the stylecard if the outfit appeals to you.

Hope you like!

Stylecard:

Outfit:         Cotton Jacket Peache, GizzA

Cotton Shorts Ocean, GizzA

Cotton Tank Ocean, GizzA

Shoes:         Siracusa Croc shoes white, Sim I Lar footwear

Jewelery:    DNA black, MANDALA

Hair:           Colbie, TRUTH HAIR

Nails:       Cute pearl, Gabriel
Glasses:   Peacock sunglasses, Finesmith

Remembering Poe

Remembering Poe

Isn’ t it creepy how RL creeps into SL with us sometimes, in the form of our moods, anxieties, fears or dreams.... Obvious and inevitable, I know, but still.........

I was pondering on this just the other day, when I found myself in the beautiful Bamboo Gardens of China. Beautiful, but very eerie as well. My mood gloomy and down, I felt a little worried with RL issues of a definite nightmarish nature. How appropriate this place seemed......with this mysterious, Dark and overwhelming force of light, wind and energy pushing me on and on, so powerful I could lean into it.It rendered me feeling utterly helpless and insignificant.

How vulnerable are we! Not at all in what we own but the more so in what we love and cherish. I felt eyes and throat filling up as I remembered the words of Edgar Allen Poe. How he described our hopeless inabillity to grasp and hold on to all and everything we keep close to our heart. No matter how fiercely we clench our fist, it all eludes us like grains of sand slipping through our failing fingers. 

Leaves me wondering; was Poe right? Is our Life, Real or Otherwise, just

A Dream Within A Dream

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow-
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand-
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep- while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

E.A.Poe

Stylecard:

Blouse:                   Folded Blouse [Floral Blue], GizzA

Shorts:                   Cotton Shorts [Pastel Ocean], GizzA

Hair:                       Colbie, Truth

Shoes:                   Ursula Wedge, [GOS]

Jewellery:              BANGBANG set, Finesmith

Nails:                     Lilac, Finesmith.

Back in Business.

Back in Business.

It happens to all of us, we all know and hate it: RL interfering with our SL. This time it happened to me, so it has been a while since my last blog.

Finally this weekend, I found the time and the right frame of mind to go out shopping and come up with a blogpost. First time in weeks......

The weather was great, the sun was out and everything blooming and flowering filled the air with that special smell of summer. What an atmosphere to pack a big bag with Lindens and a good mood and head out for a merciless spree, with no intention at all to take any prisoners whatsoever... OMG, how I love this !!

I was surprised by the amount of new shops of all kinds that have emerged lately. I had my wicked way with a whole score of them; I’d been saving notecards from shops I knew I just had to visit.

Behold the result:

At the . L I M I T E D . B A Z A A R . I found this colourful, summery FLORA outfit by GIZZA.

Scrounging around at L’ASSESSOIRES I came across this fab KUNGLERS jewellery.

The DONNA’s I rustled up at REDGRAVES’ shoe department. These offer lots of colour options, so adapting them to my outfit was real easy. Great stuff.

I found this gorgeous giant pergola and thought it would make a wonderful summery backdrop for a couple of pictures.

Hope you like!

Stylecard:

Dress:               Flora outfit, GizzA

Shoes:               Donna, Redgrave

Necklace:          Yara, Kunglers

Hair:                  "Sayaka3", ""D!va""

Nails:                 SOlid Red, Finesmith.