Lyndsey enjoys her Somnia

As many of you might already know tomorrow is the big day when the “Skin & Shape Expo 2011″ will open. For this Expo Adam’n'Eve releases a sweet and pretty new Skin I’ll be showing you today.

Her name is Lyndsey and she’s a beaut. But not only that but she will come with tons of options on Tattoo layers you can combine yourself to the mix you like most over the basic skin (which comes with boob cleavage and without). Freckles, Blush, 4 pubic colors, 4 Hairbase colors, 3 Eyebrow colors, Pubic Hair & brow together, 4 Eye Shadows, 6 Lip colors, 6 Fingernail colors (on gloves and Tattoo layer) and 6 Toenail colors. Tons of combinations you can try out, thanks to Sachi for thinking of so many things and the great work on this skin.

The Outfit i am wearing is a combination of two new releases from Somnia and I love the colors and the job Sanura did with them. The lovely necklace and owl brooch are from undefined lilies and I can really say that I adore the work from Lilie and her cute little creations.

What did I use and where can you get it?
Shape: Mine
Eyes: Exodi – Tetra Eyes – Naturals (Willow)
Skin: Adam’n'Eve – Lyndsey Natural – Skin&Shape Expo Release
Hair: Picture 1: elikatira – Rush
Picture 2 & 3: elikatira – Play
Top: Somnia – Urban Queen (Lilac)
Skirt: Somnia – Tweed Skirt (Purple)
Boots: SLink – Whitney Boots Plum
Necklace: undefined lilies – teensy clutter (umbrella01)
Brooch: undefined lilies – tackered owl (Subscriber Gift)
Underwear Blacklace – Azura Blue Satin & Lace Cincher Set
Poses: Picture 1: agapee – free69
Picture 2: Del May – balletic stand
Picture 3: dollipops – Take it in Stride (No shop anymore)

Rocking the Hair Fair with ARC 1

So I had my brave day today. I am having a very hard time IMing people and being around people I don’t know, I think I mentioned panicking when i am close to strangers before… Well today I IMed strangers, saw strangers, listened to stranger’s discussions and I was among them. And I cannot believe it but … I am still alive

The biggest mass of people I think i faced today during the Hair Fair. I actually wanted to wait a bit longer until it is more quiet but since I had my brave day and was terribly bored I jumped into the flood of people tonight. And of course as expected it was pretty laggy. But that was not only because of the prims around or the amount of people. No, of course not.

But who the heck dresses in a million prim outfit, wears a million prim Hair with scripts all over the items to a fair that expectedly will by laggy as hell? Well I could have shown You a few hundred of them. I was happy for my Derendering feature and was happily making people invisible and pretending the fair was made only for me – Mwhaha. And I was there without a single prim myself and still looking dashing *lol*

Before I went i was even bold but then found those cool shaved hairbases from boon for free and had to throw it on. Looks much nicer that way. And I was really lucky that the lovely Kesseret Steeplechase let me test her brand new Scratcher HUD (yay finally scratching for prices in SL *dance*) because I won this cute Top

In case that you did never hear about ARC and stuff and wonder what the heck I am talking about here a short explanation. ARC is short for Avatar Rendering Cost. Each prim, flexi prim, script and what not you wear goes with some formula into that cost. And the higher the worse for laggy situations. Each prim you wear adds more to the lag, because it has to be rendered by everyone around, the textures have to be loaded, the sculpts have to be loaded etc. So when you go to a fair or a concert or anything where you know you will be caught in lag – strip off your prims, go bald, barefoot.. you do not have to be naked, your layer clothes are not going into that cost obviously – the outfit i am wearing has an ARC of 1 – and the 1 is the avatar itself.

Help the fair and the visitors, also yourself and go lag free, no matter how that looks you can enjoy the fair much better without rubberbanding and crashing all the time

What did I use and where can you get it?
Shape & Eyes: Mine
Skin: Exodi – Sienna Soleil – Pretty, Pretty Princess
Hairbase: booN – vine shaved hair base red (Hair Fair Freebie – Direct TP to their booth)
Top: MIAO – Katerina Tank – Yellow
Pants: WoE – Graecyn Capri
Background: GLITTERATI – Sci-fi hallway
Pose: Del May – Kiss my hand #2

The gem within

“The darkness, surrounding the fragile soul
blinding for anything but sorrow
deafening for anything but silence
numbing, to not feel the touches.

The sun splits in myriad of colors
outside’s eyes see the blinding light
the precious shine
the colorful, breathtaking brightness
of the hurting soul that forgot.

Only slowly the light reaches the wounds
lay its healing balm over them
mending the fearful soul,
to let it shine again,
the gem within.”

Today not many words, just a poem I wrote that inspired me to this picture.

What did I use and where can you get it?
Shape and Eyes: Mine
Skin: Nuuna’s Skins – Pink Stripe
Head Jewelry: GaNKeD – Space Vomit Hair (I removed the hair parts to just have the jewelry of it) -Crazy Ass Hair Hunt Prize
Necklace, Earrings, Bracelets: GaNKeD – Suri in Rose
Pose: Del May – Soul statue

Spectacular, Spectacular

“Spectacular, Spectacular
No words in the vernacular
Can’t describe this great event
You’ll be dumb with wonderment
Returns are fixed at ten percent
You must agree, that’s excellent
And on top of your fee
You’ll be involved artisticly….”

Today I was in the mood for a little challenge and did something that I knew would end in an attack of laughter: I asked my boyfriend for theme ideas. To share just a few with you, to see what I had to put up with, here a little bit of his mind. “Dolphins juggling with fir cones!” “…” “Not? then maybe pine cones.” “… *facepalm*” “How about Ice skating on the rings of Saturn?” *first fit of laughter* “If you don’t want juggling dolphins i don’t have to ask about otters?”

It might not be 100% the correct words, the laughter must have shaken out a lot of the memory but it was about that combined with a lot of ‘Darling…’, facepalms and ‘I should ask someone else’ from my side. *lol* BUT he had another idea and I tried to work with that: The Circus.

The lovely Evangeline Miles helped me a lot with finding a location and an outfit and I just found it perfect together. Thank you, doll. So i was wandering around at MadPea Circus and first I wanted to make the pic in the tent but then I saw this old carrousel and knew this is where I want to dance. Balancing on the horse was not easy but much better than using a living one

What did I use and where can you get it?
Shape and Eyes: Mine
Skin: Nomine – Mosaic Skin China – riding hood
Hair: DarkerSide – Daisy White Colorchange
Dress (including socks and shoes): Evie’s Closet – Whimsy – Black & White
Necklace and Bracelets: LOULOU&CO – NOSTALGIA Black
Pose: DEL MAY – Balletic stand