I Like It in the Cellar….it has Wine!

I Like It in the Cellar….it has Wine!

I'm not sure why a wine lover like me hasn't spent more time at Elysion's Distillery...because I can find it blindfolded apparently and there's stacks and stacks of booze everywhere! I do like a good glass of wine and depending on the day you can be told by the press and doctors that it's good [...]

Paint Your Nature

Paint Your Nature

I've had this picture in my mind for a well over a week now and was desperate for the time to 'paint' it. I was mulling over the scene in my mind when I came across this quote about art by Henry Ward Beecher: Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints [...]

My Name is…My Name is…My Name is…Kess Crystal

My Name is…My Name is…My Name is…Kess Crystal

Over the last week or so I've been researching the names of some male bloggers for a project I'm working on at MadPea. Many of them I knew already, or followed on facebook, or followed their blog. But I wanted to send them a notecard in world and therefore needed their SL name in order [...]

To Blog or Not to Blog…That is the Question

To Blog or Not to Blog…That is the Question

During the SL13B SL Blogger Support Meet the Community session an interesting topic of conversation came up about whether the 'traditional' SL blog has had it's day and whether Flickr is now the only way to blog. I'm going to address this a little today from my point of view as a blogger. I will [...]

That Was The Week That Was

That Was The Week That Was

Do you ever have one of those weeks that completely escapes you? Where so much happens that you literally feel like you are living from one minute to the next and before you know it 10,080 minutes have passed? The week has been a whirlwind of high points and, because you can't have yin without [...]

It’s Heating Up at Tres Chic for Summer

It’s Heating Up at Tres Chic for Summer

I'm generally not a summer person. In real life I am complaining every 5 mins about the heat, the bugs, the sweating  sorry, glowing! In Second Life though you don't get any of that you just get the real good stuff! No having to work out for a beach ready body...these pixels are beach ready [...]

No Time for Fairweather Friends

No Time for Fairweather Friends

I adore my close girl friends circle. Now, I've been in SL a long time...coming up on 10 years in November and SL friendships have come and gone for lots of different reasons. My close friends circle have all been round the block a few times too....none of us are newbies when it comes to [...]