Today we are thankful for a future we are looking forward to and are ready for. We mentioned it yesterday, so today is a bit of an extension of that. When the grips of a bad depressive state are on us, the idea of a future is nearly non existent. We struggle to look forward to the next minute, the idea of the next year seems impossible. So, we are thankful that this year, we are in a place where the future we see, is a bright and happy one.
You can have a bright and happy trip to Unik where you can find these goodies !
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Today is the 7th of the month and that means it is time for a new round of Unik !
Two Moon Gardens brings you this spectacular Rambling Retreat complete with picnic table with basket and wine plus falling leaves to set the mood just right for your autumn picnics.
This adorable Citrouille pose set from PiXit includes 8 poses plus mirror versions, as well as pumpkins galore for holding as well as decor.
One of my favorite items to play with for this post, is one that you can not see itself in the above photo, but one that is very present. It is the Posejector 2 from Image Photography.
We all have our favorite photography tools and pose huds or stands, I know that I do, or did. The Posejector 2 is packed full of features including being a pose HUD and a lighting system all in one. It not only allows you to pose and light yourself, but others in the scene as well, all from one HUD. I have posed both Troy and myself in this photo using one HUD, as well as set the lighting.
As with any new tool, there is a learning curve. The basic use and setup is fairly straight forward if you are used to working with other pose or lighting systems, it just takes some fiddling and playing with it to get used to this HUD’s specific tools and locations of what you want to do. I will for sure be using it on many photos in the future and can not wait to see what else it is capable of.
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Nothing says GLAM, more than diamonds and glossy red lips.
As soon as I picked up the Grace Set from Second Nature Jewellery, I knew I was going to rock it like the Belle of the Ball. It has all the glamor of a red carpet event, but still holds the simplicity to wear for a nice dinner date. The set is available in Gold or Silver, and each set comes with a HUD for Gem change. It comes preset with 8 Gem colors, and also includes a color wheel to allow you to choose the exact shade and color to suit your occasion.
I chose to add the Athena Rose Ring, also by Second Nature Jewellery, to the mix for that little hint of added Beauty and the Beast Belle. The ring also comes with a HUD allowing you to choose between Gold or Silver for metal, and 16 gem color options.
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My dear, religion is like a penis. It’s a perfectly fine thing for one to have and take pride in, but when one takes it out and waves it in my face we have a problem.
Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham – Downton Abbey
Religion is one of those topics, that we tend to avoid talking about, but once we do, we ramble quite a bit. We fully support each and every single person on this planet’s right to choose their own belief system, and to practice that religion, provided that it does not involve doing harm to others. As the quote above says, you are perfectly welcome to be proud of your penis, but that does not give you the right to wag it in someone else’s face.
Personally, we are not fans of organized religion, as a whole. We consider ourselves spiritual but not religious. We believe that there is a higher power, and refer to it in general, as God, and male, because it is just easier. We believe that there was a man back in the day, named Jesus, who was that age’s version of a Mother Theresa, but not so much that he was the son of God in the way that the bible likes to tell it. We also generally believe that “God” is universal, and no matter what the religion, it all comes back to the same being, who just happens to get called different things based on cultural and geographic traditions.
We believe that God gave us all free will, and that he does not take that away when we die.
Want to hang out in heaven for a while and just chill? Sure !
Want to go back to earth and wander around? Great, ghost it is !
Want to go back to earth and live another life with different challenges to better understand something you haven’t quite figured out yet? BOOM, Reincarnation it is !
I won’t continue to ramble on about it, but if you are up for a respectful conversation about religious beliefs, you can figure out how to message in world I am sure.
With all that being said, have you seen this stunning cross necklace that I am showcasing with my Holy Cleavage ? This beauty is the Martha Cross Necklace and is a new Group Gift from Second Nature Jewellery. The earrings as well are another Group Gift Holo Earrings from the 10th Anniversary set ! There is no fee to join the group, and you can pick up both at the main store as well as a wall of other gifts !
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We have written before about the correlation between items or objects and people or memories. Sunflowers for us, are a Troy association, by proxy. Troy has a special link to sunflowers, and by sharing that emotional connection with us, they have become special to us, because they are special to him.
That is how love is supposed to work isn’t it ? You share yourself with another person so deeply, and you take in that other person so completely, that you share the joy of the other, even if it is not directed at or from you personally. You smile at sunflowers, because sunflowers make your partner smile.
This Sunflower Set from Second Nature Jewellery made us smile, because we thought of Troy, and he smiled seeing us wear it because of his own connection to them. And around and around it goes !
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We all know the saying ‘you can’t teach an old dog new tricks’ , but we are more kitty dragon unicorn than dog, so we love learning new things. Since we now have a system that can handle shadows, we have decided it was time to slay the Black Dragon and all of it’s bells, whistles and graphic sliders.
The lovely Pickle over at Kaleidoscope directed us to Swain’s BD Settings. You can find those and a plethora of tips, tricks and other helpful info from the Facebook group Photography Help Tips & Tricks SL Edition.
Even with the graphic presets there have still been headaches and frustration tears involved. A large part of it, is that we are so used to doing things ‘the old way’, that we are fighting our own natural instincts to adapt to new surroundings. We will get there. Today’s clique is the first taken with Black Dragon, and a little bit of post editing in Photoshop.
With new tricks come new releases! The stunning Luxor necklace and earrings from Second Nature Jewellry are worthy of any dragon’s horde, and you can pick your very own up at the main store or on marketplace !
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