Alley Oop.

Imegica just released the very pretty planter, the Round Jardiniere, for the District69 Sale event. 2 vases and 2 plant textures (via touch menu). Available in the Imegica mainstore.

You can find the glamorous “BasketBall Fancy” set from DaD over at EQUAL10 until May 5th. This set consists of the backboard in white or black, with beautiful candles, beads, and jewels. You also get a very bling decorative basketball. BUT THIS IS NOT ALL! The backboard also comes in a version with poses made by K&S! 2 couple poses, 4 female and 4 male poses, including basketball prop.

You can find the very pretty Kayla Fireplace, and Kayla Candles, at the Aine mainstore. The fireplace is available in 3 colors, and the candles have 4 metal options.

  • .imegica. Round Jardiniere – 69L$ for District69 Sale (until May 1st 2024)
  • DaD “BasketBall Fancy” @ EQUAL10 (until May 5th 2024)
  • DaD “Les Memoires Secret Corner Set:
    • DaD “Les Memoires – Bust of Girl”
  • Aine – Kayla Fireplace
  • Aine – Kayla Candles

Orchidaceae.

As I dig for wild orchids in the autumn fields, it is the deeply-bedded root that I desire, not the flower.
– IZUMI SHIKIBU

New from Wicca’s Originals for The Warehouse Sale, the beautiful and highly customizable Orchid Necklace. Unisex necklace, rigged for MaitreyaX (Lara+Petite), Legacy[F] (Clasic+Perky), Reborn, Belleza GenX (Classic+Curvy), Legacy[M], Jake, Gianni + unrigged version. Hide/show options for different parts on the HUD), as well as numerous color combinations available. The necklace is mod-copy-no trans.

There Tilcott Arms has received a sizes update, as they now also fit Maitreya Lara X. And if you didn’t already know, they are Bento hands, and they fit the male Meshbody Legacy, and Signature Gianni, as well! There’s a hide option for the upper arm, in case you want to wear a shirt, or a jacket over them.

  • RAKE Facial Hair -The Ringmaster- Evo X
  • RAKE Makeup -The Ringmaster- Tears Evo X
  • RAKE Makeup -The Ringmaster- HD Eyeshadow
  • -[CL]- Lelutka HD Eyebrows #029
  • Volkstone Howard Chest Hair
  • [NC] – Commander Harness

The morning air.

The very comfortable Dean outfit from AGATA is a two-piece sweat pants and jacket outfit. You can wear jacket with or without inner t-shirt. The outfit comes in 6 different colors + a fatpack bonus color, and it’s fitted for Belleza Jake, and Meshbody Legacy (m) and Athletic male mesh bodies.

For your al fresco dining, CHEZ MOI has released the romatic Zevy Bistro Set consisting of a table with two chairs, cake decor that dispenses temporary attachment cake with bento animation. The table and chairs unit contains lots of single animations, plus couples animations PG and Adult. Extra chair included, containing single animations, for you to place wherever you like. The Zevy Bistro Set is available at ACCESS until May 8th.

Give me life.

La Petite Vie is at Anthology this round with the Dove skybox and furniture set. The Dove skybox offers a spacious living- and kitchen area, with hallway, 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, and a balcony accessible from both the living room and the master bedroom. Features built-in shelves, a textured accent wall, recessed ceiling spotlights, and LED strips. Skylight above the kitchen area, and above the bed in the master. Sliding doors opens up to a nice and roomy balcony.

The Dove furniture set contains modern design chairs, table, rug, hanging lamp, planter with trees, and fabric frame. The chairs, rug and fabric frame are all dove grey out of the box, but they are modify so you can tint them any color you like, via right click – Edit – tick Edit linked and Select face, touch (left click) the face you want to tint, go to the Texture tab, and in the Color box select the color you want. This goes for the skybox interior walls also, they are made so that tinting them doesn’t harm any of the original design.

Dove skybox details: 67 Li – 25 x 34 m – Copy/Modify – Tintable – Materials enabled.

  • La Petite Vie – Dove Set @ Anthology (until May 17th 2024)
    • La Petite Vie – Dove Chair
    • La Petite Vie – Dove Low Table
    • La Petite Vie – Dove Rug
    • La Petite Vie – Dove Ceiling lamp
    • La Petite Vie – Dove Plants
    • La Petite Vie – Dove Fabric frame

I lived for art. I lived for love.

Vissi D’Arte is one of the most beautiful soprano arias ever written. It’s from the opera Tosca by Puccini, which premiered in Rome’s Teatro Costanzi on January 14, 1900. I want to share with you the moment when Leontyne Price visits the Ed Sullivan Show back in 1965, and performs the aria in such a magnificent way it brings tears to my eyes, it’s so beautiful. Leontyne Price turned 97 this year, in February.

Another beautiful aria… (how’s that for a transition) is a living room set from SQUARE. The Aria set contains sofa, available in PG and Adult versions, marble coffee table, and side table, area rug, hanging lights, table lamp, two decorative vases, two candles, and magazine. Choose between 15 colors for the sofa, and several texture options for the decor. The SQUARE Aria set is available at this round of the Anthology event.

I’m also showing the Proxima TV-wall which is available in the SQUARE mainstore. It comes in 4 different versions. Media TV, decorative vase, calendar, and books are included.

  • Build: Onsu – Hollywood house

I lived for my art, I lived for love,
I never did harm to a living soul!
With a secret hand
I relieved as many misfortunes as I knew of.
Always with true faith
my prayer
rose to the holy shrines.
Always with true faith
I gave flowers to the altar.
In the hour of grief
why, why, o Lord,
why do you reward me thus?
I gave jewels for the Madonna’s mantle,
and I gave my song to the stars, to heaven,
which smiled with more beauty.
In the hour of grief
why, why, o Lord,
ah, why do you reward me thus?

Fairies and Fireflies.

Raindale is at the Fantasy Faire with a big collection of wonderful fantasy creations. This scene is made up of only some of the items that are on sale at the faire, and the exclusive new creations where 100% of the sales revenue goes to the Relay for Life fundraiser for the American Cancer Society. The rest are in 50% donation vendors, so if you’ve been saving up L$ for a big shopping spree, this would be where you spend them AND support a great cause at the same time.

The new Aprilwisp collection from Raindale contains the tiny pond, with extra water lilies, the Aprilwisp Flowers, with giant flowers in 5 colors, puddle, and optional plants, and extra sparkles.

I’m late posting the Sweetdew bench teal promo for this Wanderlust Weekend, but it was still available today when I stopped by to have a look 😉

  • Raindale – Sweetdew bench – promo (teal) (for Wanderlust Weekend, April 20-21)
  • Scafall – Duva / Stepping Stones (for District69 Flash Sales! until April 21st 2024)
  • Konoha – Fluffy Natoma Grass
  • Konoha – “Jest” Bushes

Contumacious.

contumacious adjective
con·​tu·​ma·​cious

: stubbornly disobedient : REBELLIOUS

AGATA is participating in this round of ACCESS with the Jerry outfit. This is a suit for the cool and contumacious. It’s a smart casual suit, but with a lot of punk. A pants, shirt and jacket outfit in one piece. Available in 6 colors, and a fatpack bonus. Compatible with Meshbody Legacy (m), shown on me, Athletic and Belleza Jake.

  • RAKE Hairbase -Brage- EVOX Bleached
  • RAKE Facial Hair -Brage- EVOX Black
  • L&B Swear Gage Monk Strap Shoes
  • [NikotiN] Cigarette Bento – Classic – v2.1
  • K&S – // SLC. Backdrop.

Mellow Sunset.

I’ve always been a big fan of rocks. I’ve been collecting pretty samples for as long as I can remember. Now most of them have been returned to their original habitat lol as I’ve moved around quite a lot, but a couple of them I’ve kept because they are special to me. Like the melted rock I picked up outside a copper mine in my mom’s home town, for instance. Why am I talking about rocks all of a sudden? Well just take a look at the Duva Stepping Stones from Scafall, in the foreground of this picture! This is what they look like in a PBR viewer (I’m using Alchemy here). They also look good in non-PBR Firestorm viewer, but the ultimate level of rockiness is reached with PBR. See how the light from the Duva Lamp is reflected off the stone, as well as the soft orange light from the sun.

Still not sure what PBR is, or what the deal is? PBR is a way to render objects materials, making them look more realistic. Reflective surfaces are now possible, such as metal or glass. Overall PBR which is a standard in the gaming industry brings better visual quality. To be able to see PBR material, you will need a PBR compatible viewer. The official LL viewer is already compatible. Third party viewers such as Megapahit, Alchemy, Firestorm, or cool VL for instance are in a beta state for now. Want to know more? This Second Life wiki page is extremely helpful, especially if you’re a creator just starting to work with PBR materials.

So I’ve already mentioned the Scafall Duva Lamp and Stepping Stones. They are on sale right now in the Scafall mainstore for District69; 69L each!

DaD is participating in this round of ACCESS with the BellaVista Gazebo Set. This gazebo is made up of a worn green metal frame, wooden floor and beautifully detailed design of swirls and leafs in a garden-gate like look, along with long white drapes on each side. The BellaVista sofa accommodates up to 4 avatars with loads of animations for singles, MF, FF and MM. Animations includes activities that come with props. Try the guitar and by touch you can select a song to play. Wanna dance with friends? It has that too and much more.

For this picture I’m using the JuicyBomb – Fable Skies [Mellow Sunset] EEP, where I’ve slightly edited the haze density and distance multiplier for a clearer shot. The sun flare is added in post edit.

  • Scafall – Duva / Lamp @ mainstore (for District69 Flash Sales! until April 21st 2024)
  • Scafall – Duva / Stepping Stones @ mainstore (for District69 Flash Sales! until April 21st 2024)
  • DaD “BellaVista Gazebo Set” @ ACCESS (until May 8th 2024)
  • Konoha – Calla lilies – Zantedeschia kimika
  • Konoha – “Jest” Bushes

Good Mood Recipe.

There’s something about this quaint little shop that reminds me of my student days in Tromsø, I don’t know what exactly, but it’s there. Also, entering a shop that sells bath bombs and handmade soaps always brightens my mood. So. It’s almost Friday in Norway, we have bath bombs in a quaint shop in Tromsø, and the most popular singer hailing from Tromsø right now with a song that’s somewhat of a guilty pleasure (scroll down). This is my good mood recipe for this weekend. I hope you enjoy it too!

The LORE Quaint Shop Collection is available at Flourish until April 30th. Hutch, counter, and bistro set for cute vintage-y boutiques and home decor. Counter and hutch are available in 5 colors, new and distressed versions, and for the bistro stool cushion you get to choose between 15 colors no less!

For all your bathroom wellness needs, LORE got you on that too, with the new collections of body butter, bath bomb baskets and handmade soap displays. The body butter comes in several different versions too; on a tray, stacked, singles, and holdable. You’re gonna smell so good 😁

The cute colored succulent display is from BTW, and you can find it in the BTW mainstore.

Exciting times ahead for Bloom! as they are going through changes and rebrand to become Aine. I love the name, and I love the new logo. I’m excited to be part of this journey! At this point the new inworld group is free to join: secondlife:///app/group/48685e20-45cb-d35f-78af-dde990e315a0/about
Oh, check out the Boho Photo Frames I hung up in my little shop! They are beautiful. Mind, they are originally grouped together, but for them all to fit in this scene I had to edit linked and move two of them over on the other wall.

  • LORE Quaint Shop Collection @ Flourish (until April 30th 2024)
    • LORE Quaint Hutch
    • LORE Quaint Counter
    • LORE Quaint Bistro Set
  • LORE Body Butter
  • LORE Bath Bomb Baskets
  • LORE Handmade Soap Displays
  • BTW – Suckit Display
  • Bloom! (soon Aine) originals – Boho Photo frames
  • Bloom! (soon Aine) originals – Potted Tulips
  • Yugen.// incense.// anais
  • Yugen.// hanging beads B
  • {wn} Chloe Sheer Curtains (lights)
  • crate Boho Porch Set – 8 Cactus

A Cosmic Celebration.

There is a birthday party going on over at the Cosmopolitan event. 2nd birthday round in fact, as this is a continuation from the early April round. Gifts are to be had, and lots of goodies to be purchased! Should you be looking for a party theme idea, here’s one from Raindale; the Cosmicflair collection. This collection consists of 2 backdrop types (with/without heart), with 5 color options via HUD. Assorted decor and balloons, 10 items in total. Be sure to grab the gift too, you get the cake (decor), a blue balloons trio, and a small table, just for being in the Cosmopolitan vip group! It’s free!

  • Backdrop: Diamond Screen – Some More – The Bearded Guy

(Lens flare, and bokeh along the top of the picture is added in post edit. Everything else is Second Life graphics with Alchemy viewer.)