For The Love of Jesse

This is the most difficult thing I have ever written in my life. The symbol above is of Pi. This is what my son Jesse had tattooed not that long ago. It held a great deal of meaning for him on a number of levels.

I will not be writing posts for some time, I have no idea how long. I send my apologies to those of you reading this who have expectations of posts. I fail you and for that I am sorry.
Last night I received a phone call from my daughter in Australia to tell me that my son had died. My brilliant, beautiful son is gone from this world. I will fly to Australia this week so my children and I may bury him with love. Chestnut Rau has written a loving tribute here which breaks my heart to read, but I read it over and over.

My mind is bubbling over with images of my son’s life: a series of frozen moments of time that refuse to stay buried, churned up to the surface by the sharpened knife of grief as it twists in my heart.

Below is a favourite piece of music, from a movie that we watched over and over so much when Jesse was a child that we wore out the video tape. The still photos are irrelevent, the music is not.

The Blur

The blur between sleep and awake, the little death

The realm of tattered remnants of dreams

The knowing of a moment

The Awakening

Credits

Skin: Valentina by Ugly Duck

Hair: Enix by Truth

Clothing: Her Ghost by Scribble at Blur

Photographed at Blur – A Mirror Installation

Artists

Allegory Malaprop
Apatia Hammerer
Bryn Oh
Daelia Dollinger
Jojorunoo Runo
Juliette Westerburg
Lyndyn Tzara
Miel Nirvana
Moo Money
Note Buaku
OMGWTF Barbecue
Radio Signals
Redd Columbia
Riki Yifu
Sanura Sakai
Selavy Oh
Serj Enoch
Sienia Trevellion
Stoic Ixchel
Surrealia Anatine
Vintage McMillain
And others.

About Emerald Today

Today, an odd message appeared on the emerald log in screen, thus:-

MOTD: We are now going to force a release that doesn’t work upon everyone. Enjoy being naked.

This is inaccurate and disruptive, and simply reflects the mood of a former dev on the team. This dev has now left, and the message removed.

As with any team, the Emerald dev team consists of a wide range of very diverse people. All are dedicated to seeing the best viewer possible presented to you, the user. Once in a while, team members leave for a range of reasons. It is rare for a tantrum to accompany their departure, however there is as you can see, a first time for everything.

A pleasant consequence of this is the return of a key member of the team, so you may look forward to a vibrant, productive and creative team once again.

A new Release Candidate will be available very soon, likely tomorrow SL Monday. Please be assured the Emerald Team is alive and thriving, and will continue in this way.

More information about the Emerald viewer can be found at The Emerald Blog

Touch of The Orient

A dress caught my eye, so I fitted this look around it

Noelle Tea Dress from Ibizarre

Of course I had to go to Kowloon sim to photograph

And was overcome by the pure mysticism to be found there!

Popped on my brand new specs from Deco, all the better to see with

My beautiful Opheliac skin from Ugly Duck

And by clicking my ruby slippers from Nardcotix 3 times, I arrived safely home in my own garden 🙂

Credits

Dress: Noelle Tea Dress from Ibizarre

Shoes: Gift from Nardcotix

Jewellery: All jewellery from Dark Mouse

Hair: Cina Temptation, new from Vanity Hair

Hair Base: from Miamai

Hair Accessory: from Miamai

Skin: Valentina Opheliac from Ugly Duck

Specs: Cat’s Meow from Deco

Poses: New! from Del May and last one by !Bang

Photographed at Kowloon

Sunday Shopping

Welcome to my latest weekend shopping excursion!

Mimikri has a number of new releases, perfect for whiling away balmy sunday afternoons.

Cool and breezy ‘5th Ave’ dress

and in pink

The ‘Starlet’ range consists of bikini and coordinating pareo. Available in a range of summer colours

My beautiful skin is the latest release of 3rd Gen Ugly Duck, Valentina’

Credits

All clothing from Mimikri

Short Hair: Sleepyhead from Lamb

Long hair: Alex II from Maitreya

Skin: Valentina from Ugly Duck

Poses: A Fine Line

Bubbles of Fun

Bubbles Clawtooth has released some superb new hair, worthy of my actually dressing up all elegant and stylish – Paper Couture no less!

Serene and jaunty all at once – Something TYo Say from PAper Couture combined with Onyx jewellery

The matching hat sits atop the new hair quite happily – Call The Lions hair

Loiuse Brooks also from Clawtooth

Credits

Clothing: Paper Couture as noted

Jewellery: Onyx jewellery from Paper Couture

Hair: All hair from Clawtooth by Clawtooth

Shoes: Chunky mary janes from Evoke

Glasses: Love glasses from Tonktastic

Skin: Milk series from Ugly Duck

In The Summertime..

The weather is high

you can stretch right up and touch the sky

When the weather’s fine we’re always happy

life’s for living, yeah, that’s our philosophy

Lyrics | Mungo Jerry – In The Summertime lyrics

Credits

All dresses and blouse from Kyoko Couture

Shorts: Aniel shorts from L’Abel

Shoes: Dianthus from Ingenue

Hair: Twinkle Toast from Clawtooth

Necklace: My beautiful necklace, Sasha, is from Anykey Munster for Lelutka

Poses: new from Everglow

Skin: Milk from Ugly Duck

Lyrics from ‘In The Summertime’ by Mungo Jerry

Equus Sale 50L!

Equus is having a 50L Rezz Day sale – begins today, so you’d better get there quick!

Dress on Sale

Dress and wings on sale – seperately

Dress on sale

Dress on Sale

All these and more on sale today at Equus!

Credits

All clothing from Equus

Skin: Milk from Ugly Duck

Hair: Twinkle Toast by Clawtooth

Poses: Leafy

Roses

Sachi Vixen of Adam n Eve has released a number of new gowns. The one I choose to show you today is the Rose Gown, in pink

Beautifully textured detail

Also available in a wide range of colours

Although not shown here, the back is also richly textured

My hair is from Soap, my skin from Inaya, my jewelley from Alamood

Credits

Dress: Rose Gown in pink from Adam n Eve

Skin: Roshina from Inaya

Hair: Pauly from Soap

Jewellery: Nightlife from Alamood

Poses: Geez

Photographed at Inis Caiseal

Summerhaze

More lazy summer days, this time courtesy of L’Abel by Ivalde.

The Nin dress comes in 4 summery colours, enough to cheer you on any day

For contrast, I have accessorised each dress with Wide Waist belt and coordinating Dream Booties from fri.day

Hair is newish from fri.day – Brande

And the shoes!

Credits

Skin: Milk by Ugly Duck

Nin dress from L’Abel by Ivalde

Shoes: Dream Booties from friday

Hair: Brande from friday

Belt: Wide Waist belt from friday

Jewellery: from Dark Mouse

Poses: A Fine Line