Celebrating New Gifts and Talents -- Featuring Baboom Couture (Including New Items from WEIB Sale Room), Also Featuring October's 4Seasons 55L Thursday Debut

It's back to business as usual at my house after a 5 day weekend that culminated with Veteran's Day. I'm not sure what the lettering is exactly of the new family day status, but local bases have the privilege at the top I imagine, perhaps the CO/XO, to decide on a certain number of family days for those who are stationed stateside. It helps balance the many extra hours that are served while deployed, traveling, at schools, etc. and gives the family special time to share as a result. Often the Friday after Thanksgiving is declared one of these days. Other holidays that come randomly through the year might tack on an extra day or half day, and this year, since Veteran's Day was on a Tuesday, they were able to extend the weekend by an extra day by giving Monday off too. Usually, I'm about ready to growl by the time Mr. goes back to work, but this weekend was really great. I was sorry to see him go. Now we settle into the weird pace of the holidays, all the things that need attention, long distance family, and all that jazz. I feel better in November than I have in years. Today I do. So today I will embrace the day with all that I am and share a bit of all that I am with you, my extended family and friends whom I love with gentleness and passion.

I received a note from Kyra Camel, the designer at Baboom! that announced her first mesh creations were ready for sale at Baboom! and would I consider blogging a few items for her. I rejoice in the success of new things learned, how they influence the designer, their store, and our fashion world in turn. I told her I would cheer loudly and tell the world how I shared her joy and excitement for this big new hurdle to be jumped successfully and now I look forward to seeing what she comes up with next. There are a selection of tops and skirts with different patterns. I chose one of the skirts, Original Mesh Flower Skirt Brown, to show off her newly learned talent. I pulled one of Snowpaws tops in to complete the basic outfit because I had to leave the back exposed. I've shown you one view of the special edition Giselle that comes out tomorrow for 55L Thursday, but you hadn't seen the back of this sensual skin, and thus you did not know that a henna tattoo was part of the skin. My shoes come also from Baboom Couture, Dolores for High SLink feet are at the WEIB special sale room this month and they accessorize the new mesh items at Baboom! very well.

It's a great way to begin the day, feeling alive, alert, and able to enjoy the very simple things and celebrate the complicated things. I TRIED to teach myself blender. I taught myself HTML and a few other computer tricks, can create actual house floor plans with CAD, and a church bulletin with software I cannot remember. When I'm curious about new things that come along, and mesh has been around a while now, I attack it with gusto, and don't believe that I might not be able to figure it out. I always start on the premise that I will learn it, given time. I just haven't learned mesh yet, and I admire those who have! I'd love to take a class on it, like at the local community college, but I won't hold my breath. When I have a 'feeling better' week or two, I have this inner voice telling me to take on the world. Me and my Despicable Me Minions could do it, take over the world, but today I think I'll just play with great designs, style, photograph and enjoy you and me and this world. I paused to read Mr. Frolic Juan Delgado's latest news regarding his new book and that too excited me. Even if you don't have a clue who he is, he's writing a book about his experience in Second Life fashion and modeling and all he's accomplished in the past years, as memoirs. I'm not sure how many virtual world memoirs have been published, or how many I would find interesting if they've been done before, but this is a man who's changed the world, and someone I respect. I'll keep you posted, and let you know the book's name and it's publisher, where to find it etc. as soon as he announces it.

Featuring October's 4Seasons 55L Thursday Special Edition Giselle in Cinnamon - New Skin Tone

Featuring Baboom! NEW Original Mesh Skirt Flower Brown Long 003

Featuring Baboom! Dolores SLink High Black from WEIB Special Sale Room

1. [AMARELO MANGA] Necklace Aurora [Onix]

2. Tres Beau Belled Earrings

3. Snowpaws Adele Halter Black

4. SLink Female Feet High

-- Elegant 1 Hands

5. Maxi Gossamer Wild Full Thick Lashes

6. Analog Dog Joan

7. Muse Poses

8. KMADD/Moda Mesh Eyes

Say Something.. Featuring ::Sweet Intoxication:: and .:JUMO:. from .PENUMBRA. Fashion Week

"Say Something" by a Great Big World

Say something, I'm giving up on you
I'll be the one, if you want me to
Anywhere I would've followed you
Say something, I'm giving up on you

And I am feeling so small
It was over my head
I know nothing at all

And I will stumble and fall I'm still learning to love Just starting to crawl

Say something, I'm giving up on you
I'm sorry that I couldn't get to you
Anywhere I would've followed you
Say something, I'm giving up on you

And I will swallow my pride
You're the one that I love
And I'm saying goodbye

Say something, I'm giving up on you
And I'm sorry that I couldn't get to you
And anywhere I would've followed you (Oh-oh-oh-oh)
Say something, I'm giving up on you

Say something, I'm giving up on you
Say something...

~Meaning (1 interpretation):

When your having trouble in a relationship and you know that things are coming to an end but you want so badly to hang and make it work. You want to be "the one" for them but only if they want to accept you as theirs. You will do anything for them, follow them wherever they go but they wont do the same. You feel like you're the only one in the relationship trying to make it work. It seems like the other person has no hope but you want them to say something, anything to make you stay and keep on fighting. All these overwhelming feelings make you feel so small. Going into the relationship you didn't know what you were getting your self into. You have never loved like this before, there are going to be obstacles, you will stumble and fall but you will learn and keep going. After all the pleading and asking them to stay you just cant keep going, you are finally giving up, you are sorry that you couldn't get them to stay. I love you but I need to swallow my pride, accept defeat, and say goodbye.

How often do you experience this? It seems to me that it happens more often online then in my life off line, but maybe that's because I'm almost house bound and so I'm more likely to seek out friends online than someone who lives out beyond their front door. It's a maudlin song, but it's so deeply meaningful, intense, and something I can easily access personally because I've been through it. I've heard it sung on The Voice. I've seen it danced on So You Think You Can Dance. I heard it on two different music awards shows, once when it was just A Great Big World singing it and then again, when Cristina Aguilara sang it with them. It's personal. It's emotional. It speaks to me.

I don't know why it's been in my heart and head all day but it has. Even as I set up for photos and styled and had my personal time on my little work dais high in the sky over Second Life, I hummed it. There's a link on my wall that I found earlier on Facebook of an older gentleman sitting at a piano and he's playing and singing, on a street corner in somewhere USA.

What am I wearing? It looks so different from the photos I often take of Caryn. ::Sweet Intoxication:: (a great name for a store I think!) created the urban outfit for .PENUMBRA. Fashion Week. And because it had a mini skirt, I got to wear heels to show you too, Riyadh heels in red from .:JUMO:. I don't know where I found the sim with the dragon painting on the wall. I went to a sim that came up when I typed in the word Urban, but dragons don't really feel urban to me, yet it felt like a great place to take the photos. I hope you enjoy the styling, and the reminiscing sort of emotion accompanying them this morning. Say something...

::Sweet Intoxication:: Female Urban Outfit 1 from .PENUMBRA. Fashion Week

.:JUMO:. Riyadh Red Heels from .PENUMBRA. Fashion Week

1. Tres Beau: Belled Necklace and Earrings Set

2. Chop Zuey: Hana-Shobu Belly Ring

3. SLink: Elegant 1 Hands

-- Female Feet High

4. OB4S: Chocolate Cosmose

5. KMADD/Moda: Mesh Eyes

6. Face Paint: Avante Liner

-- Couture Design 1

-- LipGloss Brites Electric Purple

-- Nail Appliers Spill

7. Gaeline: Felicia

8. Hairoin: Incognito

9. [LAP]

Just to See You Smile

I'd do anything, that you wanted me to... lyrics from one of my favorite country music artists Tim McGraw... defines the core of my personality. It takes a long time for me to really get comfortable around people, but once I am, I'd do anything just to see them smile.

Featured Face Paint Jane (Coming soon)

Featured EMO-tions Falbala

Featured Tres Beau Belled Earrings and Necklace

Featured [Mirror's Enigma] Skinny Jeans and Spring Top

1. Custom Shape

2. Poetic Eyes: Autumn Moon

3. Gaeline: Mesh Lashes Divina

4. Sexy Mama Valentine Manicure

5. Kennedy's Dani Tennish Shoes

6. ::SAAL:: Pose Gift March

Whether I'm styling an outfit or putting notes together for Face Paint, in the back of my head, I'm constantly thinking, what can I do here that will best reach the most people with a positive message and how well do I represent the designer?

Featured EMO-tions Sessie

Featured Demise of Flight Black Denim Jeans

Featured Demise of Flight Wild Tank

1. Custom Shape

2. Poetic Eyes: Autumn

3. Gaeline: Mesh Lashes Starlia

4. Face Paint: Jessica Blue

5. Candy Nail: Rainbow

6. [Mirror's Enigma]: Vanity Tan Skintone

7. Chop Zuey: Tiger Lilly

8. Candy Nail: Bare Feet

Do I always succeed? No. I like to think I get better with time, and the development touches every facet, but some days will always be better than others and some things just never will fit. I have a few friends who shake their head and say, "Um... no Caryn" and I smile and agree, and go back to the drawing board... just to see you smile.

Featured Diamond Style Chantal Green
Featured Tyger Burning Bright Hair Ornament
Featured [Mirror's Enigma] Victoria Brown Skintone
Feaured EMO-tions Legend (no roots-new)
1. Custom Shape
2. Poetic Eyes: Autumn Moon
3. WoW: Diva Lashes
4. [S H O C K]: Starshine Glitter Nails
5. N-Core: Slingback

This cross section of designers and styles shown on one blog shows some of the diversity of the people and places with whom I work and each represents different artistic points of view. Tres Beau jewelry, EMO-tions hair, Demise of Flight pants and top, Mirror's Enigma set and the gorgeous club wear or lingerie from *Diamond  Style* definitely paint different brush strokes and being blessed to work with all of them gives me a chance to try different things, show different sides of my  own creative ways, and in all ways, portray this art we call Second Life. I probably don't say thank you often enough, to everyone who's made an impact in my Second Life and helped me get to where I am, and all those steadfast friends who hold on, not quite sure at times where I am going, but still there, still encouraging me. ~THANK YOU!!

Sex Is Always the Answer

Since I began to rethink my blog, I've been really studying the blog spaces of some of my favorite people and watching how they do what they do so well. I want to always reach for more and stretch myself in everything and that includes the blogging I do.

There is very little I could say about the garment that the picture itself doesn't capture, and with photos from several angles, it's even easier to display the outfit. So then what do you write about if not the clothes. I treated the blog as a catalog of sorts for a long time.

The only problem was, it didn't really represent me. I love to write. I love to share personal insight, special things that happen in my world, and encouragement to a group of people who grow in my estimation regularly. The designer of Tres Beau offers a perfect analogy. I have found myself in her company a few times, and she's beyond amazing, professional, a leader, a gentle voice, a fierce competitor, and someone I admire more the more I know her, Kimmera Madison Fall.

I've used songs or song lyrics or both to name my various posts recently, and the meaning behind those choices of lyrics explained in the blog. Recently, I was jesting with one of my favorite employers about the notion that sex sells. I told her she should name her spring/summer line all sorts of things that include sex in some way. I have more random hits from all over the net on my blog when I use the word sex or relevant terms. Sex is relevant in all things, I guess, and sex does sell.

Here's to sex. It's always the answer.


Featured Tres Beau Sabyn in Red Outfiit
Featured Tres Beau Sabyn Jewely
Featured .::MADesigns HAIR::. Brady
Featured Trendy Dolls St Patricks Day Nails
1. Custom Shape
2. Glam Affair Skin: Amerly
3. Poetic Eyes: Autumn Moon
4. Gaeline Mesh Lashes: Devina
5. Face Paint: Naomi Smoke
6. [nn] (No Name): Beaded Flat Sandals
7. Demise of Flight Poses - for standing pose in photo 3