Stepping Into New Waters -- Featuring Liv-Glam, [[Masoom]] and Hairoin

Life changes and that's a good thing. It makes get out of the ruts of familiarity and comforts we design for ourselves. This week, Eve Express at Face Paint announced that Face Paint was closing at the end of this month. My entire model career has occurred with Eve as a mentor, friend, boss and sometimes 'mom'.

Featuring [[Masoom]] Sheela Top - Devil

Featuring Hairoin: Kenzie

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Pulcino: Reyukken

3. Noya: Chrystal Platinum Female

4. [Mirror's Enigma]: Megumi Skinny Jeans

5. Viviane Fashion: No4 Pink

6. Face Paint: Copper Bangles

7. Cute Poison: End of the World Necklace

8. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Divina

So it's time to seek out new territory to explore and learn something new. My passion for a while has been photography in Second Life. I had a very old laptop for a long time, and about a month ago, I got an Alienware. It does graphics and shadows and things I never knew were even on the screen in Second Life.

Featuring [[Masoom]] Sheela Top - Devil

Featuring Hairoin: Kenzie

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Pulcino: Reyukken

3. Noya: Chrystal Platinum Female

4. [Mirror's Enigma]: Megumi Skinny Jeans

5. Viviane Fashion: No4 Pink

6. Face Paint: Copper Bangles

7. Cute Poison: End of the World Necklace

8. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Divina

I scroll back to photos I took previous to my new computer and I realize how little I had to work with considering all the fascinating props and tools Second Life gives us. I take photos with several different windlight settings, like this one and the one under this sentence.

Featuring [[Masoom]] Sheela Top - Devil

Featuring Hairoin: Kenzie

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Pulcino: Reyukken

3. Noya: Chrystal Platinum Female

4. [Mirror's Enigma]: Megumi Skinny Jeans

5. Viviane Fashion: No4 Pink

6. Face Paint: Copper Bangles

7. Cute Poison: End of the World Necklace

8. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Divina

I do this just to see what happens. It's like looking for the prize at the bottom of a Cracker Jack box. I never quite know what will happen when I push <this> button. Eventually I imagine I'll get used to some of the settings and it won't be such a huge surprise, but I know it will still be a joy.

Featuring Liv-Glam Gone To California

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Sexy Mama's Sculpted Nails

3. [Mirror's Enigma]: Sapphire Tan Skintone

4. Bird Next Door: Ethnik Bangles

5. Moonshadow: Flower Season

6. Hairoin: Insidious

I've begun to take photos of friends. I'd like to take more photos as time passes, and work with a number of subjects so I can learn as I go. If you're interested in posing and letting me play, I won't charge anything. I would just treasure your time. If you had interest in the photos, you can have them for the price of the upload or I can send them to you via Email so you upload them yourself.

Featuring Liv-Glam Gone To California

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Sexy Mama's Sculpted Nails

3. [Mirror's Enigma]: Sapphire Tan Skintone

4. Bird Next Door: Ethnik Bangles

5. Moonshadow: Flower Season

6. Hairoin: Insidious

I only caution you to realize that I'm not a professional photographer. I want to expand my abilities as a photographer, but that takes time and practice. If you're looking for something special, there are countless amazing SL photographers whom I'd recommend you to hire. If you're content to work with a novice, please contact me. Add me. I have a caryn Ashdene blog, flickr, SL and Facebook account.

Touch Me, Take Me to That Other Place

Do you have that someone special who can make you calm or in another setting make your head spin or your heart soar? Those kinds of friends are priceless. They're real. They're not wearing a mask and only saying the pretty things.

The greatest gift we have to give others is self. Selfless giving means putting other's needs ahead of our own and this type of giving can be the most exhilarating and the frustrating at the same time. There are those out there who will soak up all you have to share and then want more. In other cases, you know those who rarely ask for anything and if they ever do ask you for support, you'd do absolutely anything they ask if it were in your power.

I consider my life blessed with a rich abundance of people around me who see past themselves and give of themselves in so many different ways. I've joined with a variety of lifestyle groups, role-play groups and serious business groups and found a little smattering of healthy and unhealthy humanity in each of those settings. The joy comes from the fact that the good and goodness in others far outweighs any negatives I've faced.

My heart hopes that you too find those who can touch you and take you to that other place that U2 is singing about in this song I reference. If it's raining cats and dogs or if the sun is shining, if there's an early unexpected spring snow on the ground or you're sunbathing on the beach somewhere with fancy drinks, it's a beautiful day. I pray you don't let it slip away, but find some way to share the beauty of your day with someone else.


Featured Demise of Flight Kristen Lace Cami
Featured Demise of Flight Leather Mini
Featured Demise of Flight Mesh Ballet Flats
Featured Face Paint Gems: Spring Gems 2
Featured Face Paint: Jessica Purple (coming soon)
1. Custom Shape
2. [ME]: Superbia Peach Skintone
3. EMO-tions: Celie
4. WoW: Diva Lashes
5. Noya: French Tips
6. Baubles by Phe: Square Diamond Bangle
7. Cute Poison: Deathstone Necklace
8. Manifeste Poses

Dream a Little Dream of Me

One of the things I changed this year regarding my approach to blogging had to do with taking my show on the road. I did 90% of my shots in a studio environment last year and I got used to the clicks and the whirls and the buttons.

Needless to say, some of the places in Second Life are more open minded than others, and have all sorts of purposes. When I visit a place like I did this morning, and take snapshots quite close to those who are there for other delights, I often find myself in their heads and grin, asking myself unspoken questions, "What's she doing here?" I'm exploring!

So many things to learn, so many things to process and my thoughts get jumbly at times. That's okay. I say to this day that boredom is a sin and I have yet to be bored. This outfit was part of what I put together for a casting that required 'Urban' wear. When I wanted to photograph it, I sought out urban titles of locations. I love the adventure.

Thank you to Euridice Qork and all the people at Canary Models! I had fun preparing for the casting and happened to wear one of Dot-Be Fashion's outfits. I had no idea it was for a Dot-Be Fashion show! I had to shoot Boniefacio, one of the sweetest guys and great urbanwear designer, and tell him about the experience. I keep dreaming my little dreams, and walking through my Second Life with abundant fun. Isn't that ultimately why we're here?

Me gustó mucho conocer a todos en Canarias Fashion Model. Gracias por la gran oportunidad que la paciencia y la diversión!


Featured Dot-Be Fashion Annika Camo Pink with White Tank
1. Custom Shape
2. Glam Affair Skin: Amerly
3. Poetic Eyes: Autumn Moon
4. Gauged Fedora with Ombre Hair
5. Face Paint: Grace Purple
6. Cute Poison: Stone Necklace
7. FuLo: Silver and Rhinestone Bangles
8. Lassitude & Ennui: Nostalgia Mesh Purple Boots

9. Poses by Avante Pose and Demise of Flight

Deeleys, .Anatomy., Badazzle and Cute Poison at the EOTW

Several businesses collaborated together to create this fantastic themed idea of the End of the World based on all the hype about the world ending on December 21. Tongue in cheek, some of the designs then are as cute as a kitten and silly, but we all need to have a little fun, and as the sign below from Deeley's says, "Give Peas a Chance."

I think I'm the most stylishly prepared gal for the world's end, but if you gotta go, go out in style, right? My gas mask from .Anatomy. actually comes in several color options, so I could be incredibly en vogue and wear the right color match any old day I might need a gas mask.

I'm fairly sure the necklace from Cute Poison holds magical powers and I'll be able to ward off the evil lurking around every corner with this necklace, and like the gas mask, I found it also came in several colors so I could be magical and stylin!

And if those stompin boots don't help me in some fashion, at least they're fashionable, right? The whole outfit has been pulled together by Badazzle and with this design, I'm ready for whatever 21 December throws my way.



EOTW Featured Deeley's Sign Give Peas a Chance 
EOTW Featured .ANATOMY. Gas Mask 
EOTW Featured Badazzle End of the World Outfit 
EOTW Featured Cute Poison Deathstone Necklace 
1. Custom Shape 
2. Glam Affair Skin: Jadis 
3. Poetic Eyes: Oriental Pearl 
4. Emotions: Anna 
5. Natural Beauty Lashes
6. [LAP] Bashful