New Year, New house.

Hello Everybody! 

It's me, the absent blogger! I can't believe I'm on my third post in two months! I'm kinda liking this blogging thing.  Forgive me if I play around a bit with the settings. 

I mentioned in my last post that I was decorating the Onsu Princeton House that was a group gift recently. It's amazing how such a tiny house took a month to decorate, even with several days off my RL work. Then again, I've spent months decorating houses not much bigger, so it's all in the feel of time passing.

So, here's the pretty little cottage. It comes with a hud to change the colors & tints of the shutters, front door, floors, bedroom rugs, the little roof over the front door, and one wall in a bedroom and the window ledge in the other bedroom. It's a very cute looking house and I feel like I could live it in RL after I retire or win the lottery, whichever comes first.

And now for the tour, inside first. There's an entryway flanked by a kitchen/dinning area with a lovely bay window and a livingroom with a nice fireplace. Not that I needed a fireplace in my lovely SL spring weather, but it's nice on those cold SL winter nights that don't happen on my little piece of SL ground level. 

I had to sit at my desk for awhile and ponder what I was going to write, plus I found this poem stuffed in the back of the desk and I was wondering how to reply to the sender. Answering mail is hard! 

In RL it's a cold and gray day with a possibility of rain/snow mix later tonight, so that makes me want to have a nice warm bowl of soup for dinner. Mmmmmm, smells good! 

Another thing that I love in SL is that plants don't need watering. I love having houseplants, but in RL I am terrible at keeping them alive. I think I had a philodendron that I kept alive for about 4 years before the cat knocked it off the top shelf of my bookcase and managed to kill it for good. In SL, I have plants everywhere and nothing kills them, not even cats! The bay window of this house is the perfect place for a whole slew of plants. 

One thing I'm weird about in SL is that I put a bathroom in my houses, whether they have a room for them or not. I know we don't need  bathrooms or even kitchens in SL, but I like having them. Lately I've been combining bathrooms and laundry rooms in my homes because I keep finding cute laundry sets. At least my SL life is clean and tidy with the laundry done, even if my RL isn't! 

This bathroom is fairly basic, but it's nice that there was a small room with a tile looking floor that I could use. You could probably make it an office or whatever suits you best.

I decided to go two different ways with the two bedrooms; one is a bit tropical and one is very classical. It was so classical that I had to go out and find an empire waisted gown and put my hair up. Maybe I've been watching to much Pride & Prejudice or Bridgerton ... nah, there's never too much of those!

When I'm not feeling all prim and proper I can go across the hall to my bright and cheerful bedroom. I could have a roommate but then I'd have to share all my stuff. 

This blogging is hard work! I think I need to go out to my back yard and enjoy the scenery and relax with a nice drink and a soak in the hot tub. Feel free to stop by and enjoy yourself. 

Raynee is wearing a couple of different outfits, so I'll try to get them listed:

Maitreya Mesh Body - Lara V5.3

Logo Chelsea v.1.0 Teeth

Wen - LIZ SKIN (GENUS) - WINTER - EYEBROWS (this is a BOM tattoo layer skin)

Wen - BOM body - Winter -Natural (tattoo layer body skin)

Izzie's - Chin Shadow Concealer 04

              Everyday Blush apricot

              BOM Hands Fix

L.Fauna EXTRA FRECKLES (pale) - another tattoo layer item

 

 LIST FOR ONSU PRINCETON HOUSE BLOG:

 

Magika - Hair - Midnight (this is the updo)

Magika - Bangs - December (yes, I mix and match the bangs, it's so cool)

 

 Other hair seen:

 Magika - Hair - Amy

 

 Outfits & Jewelry:

 neve pant - rolled cords - Lara

 neve top - dear dots - Lara

 REIGN - Mini Slips (Maitreya-Flat) Normal Set

 Cae ::Riviera :: Ring

 Cae :: Cherry :: Necklace

 Earthstones Leather Wheal Bracelet - Carnelian

 

 Schadenfreude Hibiscus Tali Strap Bikini (Maitraya Lara Experimental)

 

 Neve gift - sleepover Lara

 

 neve pant - rolled cords - Lara

 [ SAKIDE ] Week-end Sweater S

 {Luxuria} Kelly Knee Socks - iced coffee brown socks - maitreya applier

 Ingenue :: Jones Bootie ::Putty 

 

 *LBD*  Maitreya Seafoam Austen Regency Inspired Gown 

 REIGN - BALLET FLATS ANKLE (mAITREYA FLAT)

[MAGIC NOOK] Sweet Thing Necklace

A Girl & Her Goats

 Happy New  Year, everyone! I decided that this year I wouldn't make resolutions, because I never keep them, but that I could make a few small goals; small enough that I have a better chance of keeping them. That takes losing weight right off the table, but I can at least try to get out of my office chair more often. 

One of my small goals is to try to blog my SL activity more often, which since I only have two blog posts in eight years shouldn't be too hard of a goal to meet. LOL 

So, onward we blog! 

Since I managed to finish up my SL house for Christmas and blog about it, it meant I could move on to a new house in the new year. Onsu gave a nice group gift in December(?) of a pretty little cottage(Princeton House) with 2 bedrooms and it's my next project! I moved down from the wintery sky platform to the ever green landscape below. This blog isn't actually about that house, because I just started it, but I felt the urge to blog about something 

This photo is what the blog is about, which explains the title. 

So, there I was, looking for some inspiration over at L2 Studio, which is one of my all time favorite places to buy houses. They don't release a lot of houses but I have almost every single one they have released over the years; from pre-mesh days until today. They have a new one that seems like it's building on the new Linden stilt home fad; it's a nice stilt home with a dock. Anyway... I like to go see how they've decorated their display homes because they do it so well. They whole sim is beautiful and each house looks like someone lives there and just stepped out for a minute, including clutter here and there. Plus the landscaping is amazing! 

As I was perusing the newest home I saw a cute little ceramic Christmas tree and I checked it to see where I could go get one. It was from *Hextraordinairy* so I hopped over to find it. As soon as I landed I saw the most adorable little pygmy goat in pajamas hopping around the landing space and all thoughts of Christmas trees went out of my head.

 I HAD TO HAVE ONE!!!! 

I found the gacha and played it three times. I got a companion and two wanderers. I didn't get the one in the pajamas,but they're still adorable all on their own. I gave one to my friend Gidge and then put my two out in the new front yard. I mean, how can I not have cute pygmy goats hopping and gamboling around my front yard?

I also managed to get some FLF shopping in and picked up this cute t-shirt dress and boots from Friday. I found some old system layer tights and accidentally put on some goth looking make-up, which seemed to work with the stompy looking boots. Stompy boots and goth make-up calls for some cool purple hair, so I did that too. Looking at my front door and flowers I seem to be in a purple kind of mood today, so we're going with it. 

You may have noticed that I'm a bit of a chatty blogger and my story wanders around a lot. I talk like this too, but lucky for those who love me and have to put up with me, I am usually pretty quiet in RL. Otherwise they'd end up listening to me ramble forever. 

I'll try to do a style card for my outfit if I remember, but the houses are still just random things that you can IM me and ask questions about and I'll try to answer if I can. 

I never did find that little ceramic Christmas tree, but I'm gonna go chase the goats around my yard for now and enjoy the new year.


Raynee is wearing:

Maitreya Mesh Body Lara V5.3

LOGO Chelsea Anniversary Edition Head

SKIN: Wen- Ster Skin BOM - Winter - Natural

Make-up: *{Kiko Life}* BMK 3.0 - Dark Romance - Face- Light 

Izzie's Heavy Freckles

Hair: Magika Apple Pie

Eyes: [Buzz] Celestial Eyes - Hazel

friday- Abby Tee (Not Today) Maitreya

friday - Sayo Boots (Storm) Maitreya 

Leggings: *Linc* Wool Panty Dark Gray

8 *HEXtraordinary* Pygmy Goat Companion - Black Pinto