Location : My maybealmostfinished (?) >Homestead< It's not really public, but it's not really private either, so yanno, nose around and shit!
You may or may not have noticed I took a little breather. It was unexpected and yes, only a couple of days so maybe you didn't notice, but I missed -this-!
I found out rather appropriately that January 2nd is considered "World Introvert Day". So I introverted... and again on the 3rd... because I can.
I hope you are well rested from the holidays, maybe a little heavier from all the delicious foods, but hopefully content.
Thank you all for your readership - I don't think I say that enough, but I'll try to more now that you have your very own nickname (Spoonies. I swear, it's gonna be a thing. Please. PLEAAASE!!)
Anywho. I've been awake for an extraordinarily long time and now I'm going to give you credits and pass out. Much love!
I used my AO and a tweak with the Lelutka Axis hud to make this pose work.. plus windlights on my platform, so there's no fancy info today!
I am having a very "monster" day today. A day where I woke up feeling pretty darn good, and then progressively started to internalize a bunch of insecurities until I end up blurting at some of my friends. Luckily, I have the BEST friends in the history of friends, and they soon turned my frown upside down.
For that reason, have some credits without some waffle! My poor Pickled brain cannot function beyond the very basics haha. Have a wonderful Friday!
Regardless of when Autumn/Fall actually begins, it's fairly obvious that Summer is drawing to a close and the time for cooler days, darker nights and crunching leaves underfoot is getting closer.
For that reason, today you'll find Pickle relishing in a few rays of sunshine as she relaxes on the back of a gorgeous fairground horse.
Happy Monday, guys. Here's hoping the start of your week is filled with love and light.
I've spoken very briefly about the Red Light District event currently going on, the new round opened on the 15th of June and once again they've bought a plethora of wonderful creators together to offer some amazing quality items all at the event.
I am going to drop the website >Here< , you can find a BUNCH of information (including my lovely picture on the blogger page - see if you can find my photo!) including designer details, pictures of products available at the event, and all the gossip about the winners of the coveted "featured designer" trophies so far! Seriously, don't miss out - I have absolutely adored covering RLD, it has been professional, original and quality since it started four rounds ago, and I'm excited to see how it develops along it's journey, and I genuinely believe that it adds realism to the over-saturated Event-Market that seems to be taking the SL world by storm. If you have a penchant for the adult side of SL, you WILL find something here for you, and regardless of my standing as a blogger for the event, I will stand by not only the management, but the quality too.
xoxo
Durex wears :
Body, Hands & Feet : [SIGNATURE] Gianni - Mesh Body
So I don't want to go too far into it, but there's a lot of changes happening for me in RL right now. I'm tentatively positive, but still far too nervous to divulge all the details.
However, this means that things on this blog might get a little less reliable. I've spent two years plus working towards what this blog has currently become, and while I am unwilling to scrimp on the kind of quality I have been producing lately, I'm more unwilling to stop the direction RL is going in.
I edited this picture on my new laptop - and i'm not entirely sure why but the colour seems a little off now I'm on my desktop. Annoying! I guess it's because my screen is smaller? Who knows! Regardless, the regular calWL pics are below for you to have a peek at, and hopefully i'll become more comfortable on my laptop over the coming weeks and it'll improve the quality of the edits again!
xoxo
All of the things :
Body Hands & Feet: Slink Physique Hourglass Mesh Body
Just a quick one today because taking the photo's & editing took a little longer than usual, I might have gotten somewhat distracted by the netflix show "How to get away with murder". Not sorry!
The skin I'm wearing is from Essences @ Pocket Gacha, and while there is a small amount of editing, it's just as stunning in world. I've included the full palette available below - the colours of the makeup are extra-ordinary, and I'm a little sad I didn't try the ginger brow version before choosing to take this picture!
I'm STILL running low on spoons, feeling kinda like I'm rushing around trying to gather up enough energy for general day-to-day things, including the whole blog thingy. Sometimes, it takes me a while to come up with ideas for posts, and today was one of those days. However, once I'd paired the Bueno Jas dress with this Noche fur, I kind of knew I needed to become a little starlet in the making. Luckily with these super fancy sunglasses from Shook and the paparazzi camera man hiding in the bushes from Astralia, I was able to pull off a semi-casual starlet!
I'm always glad to delve into my inventory and re-use items that have been around for a while. Sometimes I intentionally DON'T buy things, purely because they remind me of something I already have in my inventory, regardless of how much I feel like I want the item. This Action hair is possibly as much as two years old, but works wonderfully for this post, showing off the Saga earrings and Swallow ears... and seen below you can find a previously released pair of killer heels from the wonderful Empire brand.
I hope this postie reaches you all in good health, and spoons-a-plenty.
It's pretty easy to find quotes to relate to any moment in your life, such is the beauty of the interwebs. I'm guessing even if my opinion was different, I would be able to find an appropriate quote to fulfill that, too.
I do love me some Shakespeare though!
This is a very brief write-up today because my spoon count is low, but just remember kids, unless you've walked in the same shoes, the same footprints as someone, you don't know them.
Bodyfy opens today. For those who aren't aware of the event, it's a tattoo/body modification/scarification event, and it's been running for over a year now.
I'm always trying to find new ways to blog and photograph full tattoos. I feel like it's important to keep the creativity while showing as much of the body-art as possible. I'm not a fan of throwing my nips&bits out there willy nilly in photography, so hopefully what I've done here has managed to keep an element of class.
I'm really proud of my last few pictures. I'm not naturally talented, and often they take a lot of effort and a bit of wiggling. Today I added the ripples in the bathwater, and I got so ridiculously happy about it that I MAY have squee'd to myself!!
Eyelids : Slink Mesh eyelids (No longer available in store, but if you ask really nicely in a note, you MIGHT get them from slink customer service like I did on an alt *coughs*)
Music, and the poetry of words hits you right in the feels.
The song I'm using today is "Satellite" by Gabbie Hanna. Apparently, she's a semi-well known youtube vlogger, but honestly, I'm not entirely aware of her presence there.
Her song, however, hit me hard.
I've already described myself as slightly anxious, but I often have issues with social settings too. I'm convinced that as we start to rely more on the internet to socialize this is going to become a common problem. However, online I tend to be slightly more outgoing than that of the real me. Whether that's because i'm subconsciously masking the parts of me I don't like, or I have more confidence behind an avatar, I'm not entirely sure. What I do know, is that sometimes, I just CAN'T people.
I say the wrong things from the beginning. I forget new people don't know me, and don't understand my humor, so I backtrack and confuse myself and them.
Listen to the lyrics of this one, please. She might not be Beyonce, but give it a chance. Maybe you'll relate too.
Sometimes when I put an outfit together I get an "Oh no bb, what is you doing?" moment. Not gonna lie, I sorta had that with this one, but incorporating a story behind the outfit really helps for me.
See, in this picture I've been out all night. I've half undressed in a semi-drunken stupor, pulling on a comfortable pair of shorts and fallen into bed, exhausted from a night of dancing and drinking.
At some point in the early morning, I've woken up with cotton-mouth, and reached over for a glass of water. After sating my thirst, I've decided to sneak out of the window and hop up to the roof for a cheeky smoke, adorning my feet with the shoes I wore the night before in order to watch the sun rise and the stars dissipate before my eyes.
I've been accused of being pretty interchangeable, of not being the same person from one day to the next. Although I feel that -mostly- i'm the same, I can understand where this viewpoint comes from.
In terms of SL, I feel like every day I can be something new. I can be a neko, a human, a minotaur (i've not tried that yet, but now it's on my to-do list. Do they come in girl-form?), a goth, a babygirl etc etc, and generally when my clothing changes my mood does a bit too.
Where I believe my soul is ultimately the same daily, every interaction, every slice of information I learn *I* think shapes my view of the world. Sometimes I can come across as quite the pessimistic asshat, other times, I'm legit telling you how content I am with things exactly as they are, and in the next breath wishing I could do -this- better, or be -that- to someone.
We're complicated and sometimes, while we're busy trying to figure out ourselves, we lose pieces to situations, other people, and often our own selves in an attempt to fit in, or shelter ourselves from former hurt.
Over the last few years especially, I've been trying to understand myself.
My theory is - I'm not a label.
Much like the premise of the film "The Breakfast Club" back in the 80's, we're more than just the labels we attempt to define ourselves with, instead we're all just humans, peopleing.
I think we often forget that ideal. It's so easy to be "Hey, so you like Cats right? Guess that means you hate Dogs!" as though because you enjoy one aspect of a 'thing' you hate another 'thing' automatically. We're too quick to assume and judge for the most part, and in making those assumptions and judgments we're missing out on scenarios and other humans who could benefit our lives in ways we've never imagined.
I'm making myself a promise to attempt to be more open. I'm not afraid of being interchangeable, I'm not worried about enjoying different styles of dress, or having my opinions challenged (in an adult & constructive fashion of course).
We're multifaceted individuals, and our past has shaped us in ways we can't define. No one person has walked your path, in your shoes, except YOU.
It's time we started accepting the good parts, while being unafraid to voice the negatives in a forward-thinking and positive light. Someone's hurt your feelings? TALK to them. If we don't understand each other, how can we ever be at peace?
