Black Jack in the Orchard

Join me in The Night Circus or playing cards in the Blues Bayou Orchard. Plenty of apples to munch.

Kuraeyo Playing Cards 

Lammas Wagon by Jazz Cognito

Apple Dream Box

Box of Rain Earthstones Grateful Earrings

Angel Blue (colour customised) Destiny Hair

Bindi Hearts

The Kuraeyo shop on BCI, Blues Bayou has some nice items in it. Do visit. Maybe soon I will celebrate the first purchase. Chroma is in charge of quality control and so deserved this beautiful cool sari with sjaal and bindi, M!RAMODE's August Group Gift.

AAA pose by Ella Bremer

EMO-tions hair 'Yasmin'

Miramode August Group Gift, sari + 50 l'z matching bracelets and ring

Lammas Apples

Chroma contemplating that apple in Blues Bayou's pretty orchard. Behind the wall lies a vacant, seaward-facing plot. What door does the key on her purse open? Do come and explore. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Blues%20Bayou/182/118/23 

Butterfly Girl

A view of the shop (no name yet) with the newest doll, 나비 Butterfly Girl, in the centre.

Paste slurl to visit: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Blues%20Bayou/231/243/28

Cosy by the Kakelugn

The surface of this antique Kakelugn or space heater is texture patterned, with additional circlets of neat tile trim. As it is copy/mod one can be set up outside to make early summer nights cosy.

Antique Kakelugn by Dancer Glimmer
Deck furniture by Southie Allen
Sim location - Blues Bayou, where western sea-facing parcels are presently available

My Russian Countess

My copy of Tolstoy's War and Peace still falls open at the Christmas Troyka ride. The young people in their fancy dress, laughing and calling to one another, spill out into the midnight frost and get into four sledges.
 'I think this used to be Natasha,' thought Nicholas, 'and that was Madame Schoss, but perhaps it's not, and this Circassian with the moustache I don't know, but I love her.'
So, when Chroma chose Mirja Mills' Raven hair, the hunt was on to complete the outfit for my Russian countess.

Olivia Winterwolf's new Brain Circuit shop on the Blues Bayou sim, with its creeper clad Secret Garden walls, has a range of cruelly tempting clothing. Moreover it caters with equal panache for men and women. Upstairs I found the Lady Eerie Gown, featuring a delicate and swishy fall of layered back petticoats.  The generous Lady Eerie package includes gloves, undies, stockings, a jaunty angled hat and a choker. Chroma teamed this with a Miramode Dentelle shirt, not exactly for extra warmth, nor for modesty but because, well, black lace is Black Lace.

Brain Circuit provided a pair of very tasty heels: Stardust Pumps in Night. Chroma's favourite skin is by another talented Blues Bayou artist, Belladonna Mureaux, whose shop, Nightshade Designs, now lies just across the bridge to Blues Island. Continuing the winter theme, eyes are by Wynter Snow but  hint at hopes of a warmer season in Spring Bouquet.

All that remained was to visit Julia Hathor's Winter Meadow at Creative Fantasy where I found my winter troika dreams from Tolstoy truly matched and shared.
 'But here was a fairy forest with black moving shadows, and a glitter of diamonds and a flight of marble steps and the silver roofs of fairy buildings and the shrill yells of some animals.'