Loads of Holiday Fun & A New Friend

1 December 2011
Hope that Belle can get in here soon and take this owl out.  I do love her, but she is hanging in the middle of the bedroom now and it is a little creepy.  For now I will just play her a little song.

9 December 2011

Belle got the Captain's Wench Dress from a Mini-Mania at Rag Dollz it is so perfect for her.  I dug out a Pirate Captain Outfit.  That is a match!  She can be my wench for a little while, that is generally my preferred status and I am good at it!
16 December 2011
Yasum is the BEST!
Gathering some Holiday Goodies.  Yasum not only gave away the awesome Christmas build but they also put out a Christmas Calendar where they gave away something everyday.  They had it set up in their skybox in a lovely build.

Did not know until I sat down just now that my boots do not match my outfit :(
17 December 2011
I am probably going to vanish for a while. My prep for the Holidays has been keeping me in RL and now it is time for a trip to the fam.  But before I left I got to meet Ender Atreides.  Well at the moment I am just hanging out with Blaze.  She made this avi for her best buddy for X-Mas and she came as him to hang out with me.  I am looking forward to meeting the real Ender.

I also scored a prettier skating rink. Yes!
27 December 2011

Feels good to be back but bummed I did not get to be here more.  Family is stressful.  So I filled the house with prezzies for our party.  They are mostly decorative, we did our exchanging already.  Blaze is bringing Ender as an alt, since she has still not had a chance to give him his present yet.  Pre-party prep in this fabulous Elf-Fit!

Finished my X-Mas breakfast a couple of days late.  Trying to milk the last out of my elf-fit. It rules.  December meant that I spent my RL consumed with gift making and giving.  I did not have much time to log in, except once to meet Ender. (While he was still Blaze so I do not know if that counts?)  Cannot wait to meet the real Ender, hope we get along, he means a lot to Blaze.

B&T some group clean up, last minute x-mas stuff gathering and general savoring of the season.
I am jealous of everyone's hunting projects, not sure where Blaze got the time for her own hunts  I know her and Belle split the Gothmas. But they both have gotten so much other stuff for xmas, and I did not .  It is interesting since I ham the biggest fan of the holiday out of the three of us.  Guess I am kind of pouting, but there is no room for it, I was taking care of my RL peeps. So maybe I will try to do one here now….
Still working the clean up gifts, scrub out groups, and take some holiday shots.  Not quite tired of it yet!


Bitter Bunnies gingerbread house...Love IT!
28 December 2011
Unpacking after yesterday's gifty round up.
When I went outside and looked around…I definitely put the most into the house and the space!  Glad I got to it just after turkey day, no time otherwise.  I am ready to put up another winter cabin though, after our party. 

Glitterati dress - group gift and I bought the shoes for 75% off.
Cannot get enough of the Mana Hair 25K Members Group Gift from D!VA

That night we got together at the bubble for a belated X-mas party, we thought it would not work out at all.  Blaze "brought" Ender who is not yet himself.  So we just used him as a prop for pix that would document this life that he has not lived yet. :)

 We exchanged prezzies.  Belle bought both of  us some AOs from Oracul.  She discovered them and loves them and we both had been complaining about being bored with ours.  Blaze gave me the latest fishing outfit from Sn@tch and I am not at liberty to discuss the rest of the gifts on this blog.

We snuck out for some couple time on the rink.

Wardrobe change and Ender could not get into this pose so he is pouting.  Belle and Blaze managed matching hats. Dorks! Merry X-Mas!
29 December 2011
Big day hanging InWorld!
 
What a luxury!  I get to have a whole day indulging in SL.  Started with some Inventory clean-up, seems like I was just doing that, it can get out of hand rather quick.  More Yasum goodies.  If I look delighted, I am.  She even gave us a piano….


LaVie Snowflake on Ice (Skates)!

Ms. Gingerbread Neko from Bitter Bunnies.  So I have been intrigued by the whole Neko thing, but it is not totally my scene, but when I put this on, I was in love!  I see the appeal of having a tail.

Blaze came by for a while showing off the latest fishing fit from Sn@tch.  I do not think she had to work as long as I did for my last one, But she gave me all her extras, though sadly a key piece or two was missing.
I am most excited about my patchwork boots, a Freeb from Lassitude and Ennui.  Looking at them in this picture I realize that I need to downsize them a little, but that will be easy.  They remind me of these ceramic cats that my mom painted with the same colors and patchwork theme.  The cats were also stylistic and smooth just like the boots.
Naptime prize camping with Blaze at Grumble.  We ran around for a little while before she had to go run an errand and I needed a nap.  So we camped for some new shoes.

Developing my list of camping chairs for weekend days like this when I could just wait around in-world, while taking care of concerns in RL.  Looking for other suggestions…anyone?

My SkyBubble as seen from space.

Blaze and I got to hang again later in the evening.  Belle is working in RL.  So we redecorated the bubble.  I was feeling like I wanted to move from X-Mas into a modern winter.  Blaze found an amazing skybox in her inventory, but it would not fit into my bubble, because it is too tall.  Maybe Belle will put it up.  So we settled for this little skybox that is just a bedroom and a closet.  We remodeled the closet to be a bathroom with a shower.  Maybe I will put a hot tub in there if I could find one that is the right size. Hell might as well put one outside, we have privacy, kind of not used to that.  Do not know what else to put in the closet, maybe just screen it off.  I am wearing the Alice Cullen I scored off the Twilight Saga Hunt.  I did not do the whole hunt, it was during my busy time, so this must have been in a store I went to for another reason.

There is plenty of room for our rehearsal stage.  Need to stop spending time hunting, and do some wardrobe and set building to prep for our first SL gigs (that have not been booked yet ;-)).

To end my day, I updated our Chateau Amazons group Picture.  It was from many months ago and we really have grown up!  Compared to:

They will kill me for re-posting this, it is like having you middle school picture put on Facebook!  The days of layering hair (I had three on and the others had 2) and low quality skins are over.  Belle wins the most improved award though!  As we slide out of the year it is important to remember the best of times and this slumber party, where we chatted into the wee hours of the morning was definitely a highlight of 2011.  Finding SL, connecting to my long-term RL partner in a new way, and meeting Blaze are in the top 3 of the Top 10 awesome things that happened for me in 2011.
Belle and I are off for RL New Year's fun.  See you next year!  May 2012 be prosperous and healthy for all!