If you’ve been following my photostream on Flickr, you’ll know I’ve been snapping like a turtle on acid. ( Now there’s a vision!) I love taking photographs. I love posing, I love clothing, I love flouncing around in front and behind the camera. Unlike a lot of peeps in I don’t have Photoshop (yet) so I use my photo studio when taking shots, and a lot of imagination! I started off with the Picture Perfect studio, and now I have the N30 Modelling Studio. Both are absolutely excellent, and I switch between the two frequently. I also have a few pose stands that I use, as well as the ones that came with both studios I’ve managed to accrue a couple extra. To enhance the photos I take, I also use a range of facial expressions. You can get some great shots by combining poses and expressions. There is a really straightforward Mood Hud that you can use, and the Mysti-Tool Hud also includes a variety of great emotes ( available from SL Exchange) Many people have set themselves up as photographers in-world as a business. It’s something I’ve considered, but I don’t yet think I’ve reached that kind of standard, and besides I like taking piccies for my own enjoyment more than anything else. The pictures I’m taking at the moment are serving as a visual record of some of my favourite outfits and hairstyles and I’m blogging them over to the Linden Lifestyles photo stream like mad! If anything, I hope Kitty can gain some modelling work as a way of financing my hobby ( so if you’re reading this and fancy giving her some work please do so!! Beg, plead etc….)

Well, after a decidedly average Tuesday, what better way to cheer yourself up than go for a boogy, so I did.  I met DJ Jenns at the weekend at Secondfest and was so impressed by his set that I’ve become a bit of a convert!  I like his style- an eclectic choice of tunes and very competent mixing ability.So tonight I turned up at the Haven’s Paradise sim to hear Jenns.  It’s a FABBO sim, really really beautiful (Still a few spaces to rent here as well, I heartily recommend it!) Jenns performed a quality set, tunes such as ‘Relax’and ‘Papua New Guinea’ blasted out onto the dancefloor…GET IN!!

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However, Jenns-mate…..’Doop’ is not a worthy choon to boogie to.  Drop that from the set-list pronto you nutter!

In other news, I’ve done some more modelling and have been photoing myself in fancy frocks.  There’s method in this madness btw..I need a visual record of all the hair that I own as I’m losing track, lol!

As always, all photos will be up on my Flickr shortly ;P

So as a way of cheering myself up after last nights’ disappointments ( MORE ON THAT VERY SOON!)  I decided to go SHOPPING.  I admit it, I’m a shopaholic, but I care not a jot.  Unlike RL, I can afford to be a clothes-whore in my SL! Anyhoo, my recommendation to anyone who fancies a quality shopping trip is to always check out what the Linden Lifestyles ladies have blogged.  I don’t have enough time to wander the shops and root out the best finds, so I leave it to these lovely ladies to blog the very best of SL fashion.  It’s not very often that I disagree with their choices either to be honest, and if It hadn’t been for these ladies, I wouldn’t have discovered places like Last Call, Frangipani, Calla….the list is endless.
Anyway, at the moment the updates aren’t as frequent as usual, as Salome and Sabrina have to focus on their real lives at the mo, but a regular weekly update is being provided by Daisyblue, and she’s blogged some corkers!  I didn’t realise that Canimal was having a clear out-sooo, I treated myself to the outfit you can see me wearing whilst bopping at the 3 Lions in below:

We have such fun there.  I really cannot recommend the place enough..DJ Forever Delaid dropped a great set, and played me ‘The Floral dance’ by the one and only Terry Wogan, lol.  How can you feel sad after that?  After a few hours of shenanigans I mooched back home, changed my t-shirt and took some pictures for my Flickr, which you can see my hitting the Flickr bar:)

One of the reasons I love ‘Second Life’ so much is the complete eccentricity of it. There is no better way of exorcising your mad thoughts and tendencies than by turning yourself into one of the myriad of creatures that you can be-online. I’ve seen so many in my 6 months in world that it is impossible to list them all. I’ve seen smelly tramps raiding dumpsters, spider monkeys flinging bananas off the roof of the pub and countless Pandas, Valkyries, Giant snails, singing frogs..the list is endless! Everyday people become something different. And I’ve no doubt that this is what makes SL so utterly unique, it truly is a living work of art and long may this originality continue…An example of the madness, by way of illustration is my local, ‘The Three Lions’ in Bourton. It’s Sunday morning, the Sabbath, a day of rest and relaxation Therefore 3L is packed out with assorted characters having a boogie as Prad plays the choons, and on the stage, in a replica military uniform (rather an excellent one as well) is Simon, busily building a WW2 bunker complete with sandbags and barbed wire.