We had a BALL!

Yesterday was The Spring Ball held in a glorious ballroom, built by Fleur's master of prims, CJ Carnot. The ballroom hovered elegantly over the sims of Nicky Ree Designs and Fleur skins -- why you might ask? To celebrate a major collaboration between the two content creators [and several others] which resulted in 6 beautiful new skins and 6 fabulous new gowns.

In order to reduce the lag for me my settings were at "runway resolution", so I didn't get any pictures there. But fortunately others did. For pictures of the skins, gowns and build take a look at the Modavia Supermodels blog and for pictures of Achariya and hyasinth Tiramisu dancing with several of their partmers, including yours truly, please take a look at achariya.net. Ach and hya thoughtfully came dressed as boys to help make sure the ladies had partners. I must say that Ach dances divinely!

Wearing Fleur Shoujo Florence in Lily and Nicky Ree's Florence in pink. Hair is ETD Aiiyanna white tinted to match the gown. Jewelry is the Vine set in silver from DK Innovations. Shoes are Sasy Chic from Aphrodite Creations in Rose.

What matters to me...

The grid is down and I leave for the airport in 3 hours so I am taking the opportunity to talk about something very close to my heart, The SL(tm) Relay for Life. My family has been fortunate so far in not having any major brushes with the terrible disease of cancer, but in Phil's Place, one of my dearest friends is. Her name is Artistic Fimicoloud. I don't remember how I met her exactly, but we were friends by the time of last year's relay.

A thoughtful Fimi at the ACS sim opening -->

Last year I did a lap at Relay on my own, taking my time to grab some pictures. This year we are both members of the Passionate Redheads team.

Whatever you can do, please do it. Join a team, contribute at a Relay Kiosk, or run a lap by yourself and contribute, as I did last year, for the distance you run. Do it for everyone affected by cancer as I will be, but in my case it is especially for Fimi.

Here is a shot from last year's Relay. The sims are varied and fascinating -- it's actually hard to keep running LOL.

At least drop by the Passionate Redheads campsite and cheer us on! GO RELAY!

Zdravo od Skopje!

I'm still in Macedonia with some time on my hands and good internet access. So with the grid down I thought I would share some images that have been lurking in my Flickr waiting for their chance.

The first is of two outfits from Nyte'n'Day-- both with wonderful skirts. I will add more later, but I particularly like the hem detail on the right-hand one. But I can say that I see these skirts on my friends in Skopje -- they call them "Gypsy skirts." My hair is ETD Natasha in auburn, skin is Fleur of course! My shoes are by Kimberley Casanova -- the Samantha in wood.


The second is a mixed group- the yellow dress is Devilish Cupcake I think -- the color is dandelion -- very springy. I originally meant this post for Easter time but you can see I am a bit late LOL. Tights are from Corduroy. On the right is the Boing Fromage Folklore dress, which I have had for a while. The pink leggings from Aoharu. Hair is still Natasha etc... Shoes also Samantha in wood.


So that's it until I get home next week and take some new photos.
Prijatno!

Bad avi ... gets worse!

After a wowser RezDay party I've been very neglectful here -- and it's going to get worse!

I will be on hiatus until mid-May as I will be out of the country visiting friends in Hungary and Macedonia.

Until then here's one shot of the party.

The theme was Wild West -- the DJ Aron McBride -- we are having fun line dancing! Thanks to everyone who came, including the dancing horse LOL

See you next month!

It's MY RezDay and I can wear what I want today :)

So I did:)

I can hardly believe it's been a year from my first log on date-- it feels like a lifetime full of wonderful friends and experiences. And a few bumps LOL

I celebrated by working at ETD with my colleague and friend, Jaydie, who wore her bunny slippers too. I'm wearing the Pixels in Pink staff polo shirt as it matches:) We have been given them to wear during the Relay for Life fund raising at Phil's Place. While I am actually on another team than Elika's, it seemed a good shirt to wear with the bunnies :)

The *ICING* on the Cake!

Awhile back my dear friend, Fury Stapleton, asked if I would take some pictures of her in her new dresses from *ICING* -- what an honor! Fury is a fabulous photographer in her own right as evidenced on her Flickr. She even did a shoot of me! So this was a BIG DEAL for me. Fury trusting me with presenting her well! I hope I did okay LOL

The first dress is the very popular, Miss Hathaway, in which Miss Fury looks smashingly elegant. I particularly like it with the carefree hairstyle she is wearing. Not ETD [tsk tsk], but [Aden] Tuli (Black)


Fury wanted to show the Holiday Party dress with and without the lovely light fur wrap. Her wish is my command! Her shoes are SKGShoes Black Stiletto Slingback Pumps.

A second shot shows a closeup of the always fine textures in Miko Omegamu's work.


Thanks Fury -- even in my less than professional hands you look simply wonderful :)

Other details:
Shape Custom, self made (FuriousDesigns)
Skin MM-Light SkinGloss-North
Eyes (Miriel) Eyes - Blue Opal (Big)

Are we there yet?

The plaintive cry of the child in the back seat of the car while on a family road trip is beginning to be the mantra of the residents of Phil's Place. Transaction glitches that mess us all up, merchant and customer alike, network woes that close down access at irregular, but fairly predictable intervals [Can we say "weekend"?], required viewer updates that make The Mothership more and more the playpen of those who can afford the latest in graphics cards -- SOME of us are there, but many of us, this avi included, are being left behind. At some point it will stop being fun.

On the other hand I've been woefully neglectful of this blog:( It started out being the end of term crunch, then the blahs as described above. I owe you [and myself] better than that, so this weekend I will post my backlog and look forward, hopefully, to a better world, possibly still involving our imagination.