In the Sweet By and By -- Featuring Dot-Be Fashion, [[Masoom]], Hairoin and {{BSD Design Studio}}

No matter where you go on this little blue ball we all live on, there you will discover some new or wonderful or awe inspiring thing. Even the dark and gritty sandstorms of the desert literally stir up their world for the length of time they bluster.

Featuring [[Masoom]] Abigail

Featuring Hairoin Sparrow

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Mysteria

3. Face Paint: Spring Pop

4. Candy Nail: Marble Strawberry

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

6. [[Masoom]] Poses and [LAP]

I must admit, I have the travel bug in a bad way. I want to visit so many places in the world, but I have a top two on my list. If I could go anywhere at all, and expense wasn't figured in to my decision, I would travel to Ireland and live in a cottage by the sea in a tiny little town.

Featuring [[Masoom]] Abigail

Featuring Hairoin Sparrow

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Mysteria

3. Face Paint: Spring Pop

4. Candy Nail: Marble Strawberry

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

6. [[Masoom]] Poses and [LAP]

Just the word - Ireland - conjures up many reactions in me. I think of ancient people who believed in white energy, white light, beings of white light... and I think of what our age teaches us about angels. If it's an ancient world, does that mean more of those creatures of light live there?

Featuring [[Masoom]] Abigail

Featuring Hairoin Sparrow

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Mysteria

3. Face Paint: Spring Pop

4. Candy Nail: Marble Strawberry

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

6. [[Masoom]] Poses and [LAP]

I think of haunting music played on old violins and flutes, the giant drum and the dancing that always accompanies this music. I think of pubs, little places really, just a hole in the wall, but in that hole, happy people share a pint and the stories of their day and bygone days.

Featuring [[Masoom]] Abigail

Featuring Hairoin Sparrow

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Mysteria

3. Face Paint: Spring Pop

4. Candy Nail: Marble Strawberry

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

6. [[Masoom]] Poses and [LAP]

I think of fierce proud people who were willing to defend themselves against all odds and the bravery they showed when they did so. It's a culture rife with riddles and rhyme and so much beauty. I could just sit there for a long long while and soak it up and then sit some more.

Featuring Dot-Be September Maru Special Blue

Featuring {{BSD Design Studio}} Supermodel Shoe Collector

Featuring Hairoin Dawn

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Fantasia

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

4. Finesmith: Aqua Necklace and Earrings

5. FuLo: Bangles and Watch Set

6. Sexy Mama Sculpted Nails

7. InPose!

When I look at the second place on my list, it also evokes a number of images in my head and memories from History classes I took. I even took two years of the language so I could go there one day and have a clue what I was reading in the original language. The place - St. Petersburg.

Featuring Dot-Be September Maru Special Blue

Featuring {{BSD Design Studio}} Supermodel Shoe Collector

Featuring Hairoin Dawn

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Fantasia

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

4. Finesmith: Aqua Necklace and Earrings

5. FuLo: Bangles and Watch Set

6. Sexy Mama Sculpted Nails

7. InPose!

Peter the Great, for whom the city is named, overwhelmed most when they first met him. He was extremely tall for people from his region, and that alone made him a bit fearsome though he was said to have a fair and kind spirit. He also had a great deal of power, first as a Tsarevitch and later as Tsar.

Featuring Dot-Be September Maru Special Blue

Featuring {{BSD Design Studio}} Supermodel Shoe Collector

Featuring Hairoin Dawn

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Fantasia

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

4. Finesmith: Aqua Necklace and Earrings

5. FuLo: Bangles and Watch Set

6. Sexy Mama Sculpted Nails

7. InPose!

He knew that though Russia had great lands and people reaching across more miles than they could have ever counted, the people beyond their borders would make the difference in his beloved Russia. He traveled and later in life sent emissaries to reach out to that world, learn their customs, and so much more.

Featuring Dot-Be September Maru Special Blue

Featuring {{BSD Design Studio}} Supermodel Shoe Collector

Featuring Hairoin Dawn

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Fantasia

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

4. Finesmith: Aqua Necklace and Earrings

5. FuLo: Bangles and Watch Set

6. Sexy Mama Sculpted Nails

7. InPose!

I know I get very different feelings as I stop a while and think of these two places. I realize the possibility that I may never get to visit either. That's why it's even more special when I get to visit an array of beautiful places in our Second Life. Tonight, I visited Tokyo for one of the special BOSL events and I loved it.

Whether you travel earnestly, or cross the world with it at your fingertips like I do, I hope you find the chance to do so something very special. I need to meet people from everywhere, learn other languages, explore other cultures and I try to do so with an open mind. I hope our path crosses some day, too.

I Wanna Be... Featuring Evolve, Hairoin, Zanze and Zibska

When I was young, probably about 4th grade and about 9 years old, I attended some sort of after school program while my mother worked. She was a teacher 30+ years of her life and in her early years she got bus duty and all the 'ick' jobs that seniority avoids. I attended the school where she worked, so I'd wait in this program while she did the last of the day duties.

Featuring Evolve I Wanna Be

Featuring Hairoin Machine

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue

2. Gaeline: Divina

3. Face Paint: Classic Prim Nails

4. [Mirror's Enigma]: Croix Tan Skintone

5. N-Core: Triumph

6. Demise of Flight: Luck Be a Lady Series of Poses

Most days, this after school program included having a television playing in one corner of the room, with the educational programming that was for elementary age students. First Sesame Street, which has gone on to be aired in so many languages in so many countries since it's inception, took the little children's focus.

Featuring Evolve I Wanna Be

Featuring Hairoin Machine

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue

2. Gaeline: Divina

3. Face Paint: Classic Prim Nails

4. [Mirror's Enigma]: Croix Tan Skintone

5. N-Core: Triumph

6. Demise of Flight: Luck Be a Lady Series of Poses

I always thought I was older than I really was, so I didn't sit around with those 'children' to watch the first program, but I did make time to sit still when Electric Company came on after it. Morgan Freeman, all those years ago, got his big acting break with a regular character he did on Electric Company.

Featuring Evolve I Wanna Be

Featuring Hairoin Machine

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue

2. Gaeline: Divina

3. Face Paint: Classic Prim Nails

4. [Mirror's Enigma]: Croix Tan Skintone

5. N-Core: Triumph

6. Demise of Flight: Luck Be a Lady Series of Poses

One Electric Company, they'd take topics that were more complex than Sesame Street and address them at a level that children could understand. One of the topics, even back in the 70s, was the concept of taking care of our home, our land, and being thankful for it, not taking it for granted and never littering. You never know when the litterbug is watching.

Featuring Evolve I Wanna Be

Featuring Hairoin Machine

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue

2. Gaeline: Divina

3. Face Paint: Classic Prim Nails

4. [Mirror's Enigma]: Croix Tan Skintone

5. N-Core: Triumph

6. Demise of Flight: Luck Be a Lady Series of Poses

When I saw the name of the special outfit on sale this weekend at Evolve, I Wanna Be, a very old song from Electric Company came to mind. "Free to Be You and Me". I think they were hopeful in helping a very segregated world learn to accept one another. I think this song could apply to racial differences as well as religious, sexual preference and so many other things in our current world.

Featuring Zanze Reese

Featuring Zibska Maata Earrings

Featuring Hairoin Que Bella

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Gaeline: Mysteria

3. [S H O C K]: Glitter Nails

4. [Mirror's Enigma]: Croix Light Skintone

5. Indyra Originals: Coquette Kelsi Pumps Noir

6. InPose!

Bruce Heart penned the lyrics, and rather than writing them out here for you to read, I'll just put a link in if you're interested, to look up this song. He died about 6 years ago and has been lovingly mourned by a generation who was impacted by him. Free To Be You and Me.

Featuring Zanze Reese

Featuring Zibska Maata Earrings

Featuring Hairoin Que Bella

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Gaeline: Mysteria

3. [S H O C K]: Glitter Nails

4. [Mirror's Enigma]: Croix Light Skintone

5. Indyra Originals: Coquette Kelsi Pumps Noir

6. InPose!

Thirty years later, I still think of the things in that song. And when I consider the world of Second Life, and all the many options it offers, far beyond any structured reality we knew as children, I really can apply that song liberally. I do want to live in a land where... anything can happen and if you set your heart to it, it usually does.

Featuring Zanze Reese

Featuring Zibska Maata Earrings

Featuring Hairoin Que Bella

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Gaeline: Mysteria

3. [S H O C K]: Glitter Nails

4. [Mirror's Enigma]: Croix Light Skintone

5. Indyra Originals: Coquette Kelsi Pumps Noir

6. InPose!

I Wanna Be... healthy... happy... needed... never alone. My list could go on incessantly. It's a good thing to really look at what we really need from life and what we really want from life on a regular basis, so we can reevaluate, adjust and repair based on life's uncertain curve balls. But at the heart of all of it, those simple things in that beautiful little song says it all.

Featuring Zanze Reese

Featuring Zibska Maata Earrings

Featuring Hairoin Que Bella

1. IKON: Sunrise Eyes Steel Blue Pale

2. Gaeline: Mysteria

3. [S H O C K]: Glitter Nails

4. [Mirror's Enigma]: Croix Light Skintone

5. Indyra Originals: Coquette Kelsi Pumps Noir

6. InPose!

Whether I'm in a fantasy world, of pink fairies wearing a gorgeous dress, Reese from Zanze, and beautiful new earrings, Zibska Maata, or I'm in a surreal future world that someone's imagined, I'm imagining a world where all those things can be true, and I'm authoring my own dreams. You can see the future in that wild white 'Machine' hair from Hairoin, and you can feel the element of fantasy when you look at Que Bella also from Hairoin.

"...And you and me are free to be you and me." -lyrics by Bruce Heart

Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous -- Featuring Evolve, Glam Dreams and Banger Islands

Every so often, a show comes on television that celebrates someone rich and famous, fantasy or reality, it really doesn't mind. The ideas entice us to dream, and think of those worlds that feel so far out of reach. I don't know if everyone comes into this world with the yearning for such a life, but many of us seem enamored with it.

Evolve: Capture

Featuring Evolve Capture

1. Face Paint: Barbie

2. Wasabi Pills: Lory

3. Mirror's Enigma: Iona Native Skintone

4. Baboom: Diamond Red Shoe

5. Chop Zuey: Black Ice Set

6. Candy Nail: Resort Sunset

7. Poetic Color: Oriental Pearl

When we play hard in our Second Life, we have the opportunity to grasp those fantasy worlds, pretend to be rich or famous, and in some cases, become rich and famous. I remember Ansche Chung's first million making national news, and it was a million US Dollars! out of Second Life.

Glam Dreams Antonelli Gown

Featuring Glam Dreams Antonelli

Featuring Chop Zuey Feu Foliet Clutch Purse

1. Poetic Color: Oriental Pearl

2. [elika]: Abbey

3. Face Paint: Sophisticates

4. Candy Nail: Rose Garden Classics

5. Mirror's Enigma: Sapphire

6. Jewelry by Jake: Valencia Set

I think it would be incredibly difficult in this age of Second Life to repeat such a success, but there are still dreams. Meanwhile, we really do have the chance to visit stunning worlds of fantasy and wearing glamorous clothing; fantastic gowns and gems, pants suits and fun clothes we might otherwise never wear in our lives off line.

Banger Island Creations Tube Top

Featuring Banger Island Creations Gift Mesh Tube Top

1. ::B::u::B:: Jeans

2. Exquisite Abigail Ring - Unknown

3. Chinese Dreams Necklace - Unknown

4. Baubles! by Phe: Square Diamond Bangle

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

6. Face Paint: Smoke

7. Face Paint: Gem Square Prim Nails

8. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Starlia

9. Poetic Color: Oriental Pearl

10. EMO-tions: Lavina

Even when I dress it down, look around, and the world around me makes you go ooh... ahh... and more. A casual tube top fits closely and enhances that sculpted body. She (me?) must work out often to have those curves and the flat tummy. Maybe there's a secret plastic surgeon down the lane that keeps everyone's secrets in this lifestyle.

Evolve Dream Love in Green

Featuring Evolve Dream Love in Green

Featuring Poetic Color Rain Tree

1. [elika]: Breathe

2. Face Paint: Doe

3. Candy Nail: Rain Drop Green

4. Mirror's Enigma: Iona Bronze

5. Angel Necklace - Unknown

6. InPose

If I were truly a part of this strata of people in my world off line, I would pour my effort and time into the lives of those who were not as fortunate. People all around this great world struggle, with health issues beyond our imagination, lack of food, lack of shelter, worn out, used up and forgotten. I would make sure someone remembered them.

Evolve Dream Love in Green (2)

Featuring Evolve Dream Love in Green

Featuring Poetic Color Rain Tree

1. [elika]: Breathe

2. Face Paint: Doe

3. Candy Nail: Rain Drop Green

4. Mirror's Enigma: Iona Bronze

5. Angel Necklace - Unknown

6. InPose

I know it's unlikely I will attain this lifestyle. That's alright. I feel rich and rewarded simply by having family and friends. Wealth comes in many forms, and though it would be wonderful to have no financial conflicts, the ability to buy everything including hot looks, I would honestly rate those things of the heart far above those things bought and paid for in any world.

I can play at anything I want to play in Second Life. Famous or flirtatious. Playful or playgirl. There's a little something for everyone. I enjoy the dreams. I even enjoy those shows I mentioned that let us glimpse that world out of my reach. I focus on those things of no monetary value and personally know that focus would be the same if I did have a huge bank account. I feel whole only when I pour out of myself and into other's lives. I can do that in any lifestyle, at any financial strata. We all can.

You Never Know Who's Listening... -- Featuring Ms. Darcy and Luziefee

Social media has broadened my internet horizon a lot in these recent days. I'm one of those old people who don't try new things so quickly. I know there's use in each new fad that comes along, but I also get comfortable in what I do and how programs run (until they change it completely like Flickr recently did!!)...

Facebook then to me was just another MySpace, and I had one of those, though no one ever used it. I had it. It was 'cool' at the time I created the account, but eventually everything becomes uncool. I just wasn't as quick to hop on the Facebook wagon. Now I have, and I meet new people, people who have nothing to do with SL, by linking with friends friends friends. I even have people who type to me in letters from languages that are so unique I don't even know what they are!

When they take time to look at my blog, they see an array of topics, whatever happens to be in my heart on any given day, and stories related to SL, but they have no real reference point on which to start. But they stay and remain commentors, followers, and eventually friends. It's a unique thing to me. I often realize that I don't know who's reading me and in essence who's listening.

I've also realized recently that many groups I'm in have countless members who are primarily silent. Occasionally a topic arises and they speak up and share something and their voice makes a difference. I happened to comment on a gown the other day and I ended up showing you this gown today as a result of who was chatting, and who was listening. I like building my world on relationships and enjoying the fashion as I go. When I get old and grey (wait I am!!), I will still have priceless treasures in all the friendships I've made. Life can't get any better than that.

Featuring Ms. Darcy Dar's Dragon
1. EMO-tions: Sessie
2. Poetic Color: Oriental Pearl
3. Mirror's Enigma: Croix Light Skintone
4. Face Paint: Perfect Lip & Liner
5. Face Paint: French Manicure

Featuring Luziefee Shania Blue Day
Featuring Luziefee Leni Onyx
1. Poetic Color: Oriental Pearl
2. Amacci Hair: Celine
3. Mirror's Enigma: Sapphire Tan Skintone
4. !InPose