Warm Winter Nights

After all the Christmas goodies is time to go for a stroll to burn all those extra calories. I saw this gorgeous picture of my good friend Looker on Flickr and just had to visit Athan and explore the beauty you could foresee on his pictures.

The island is simply chin dropping. From the cathedral to the small medieval village, lots of nice corners to discover and even the shops are so well blended into the whole landscape and atmosphere, that shopping takes a new meaning.

Leave you with some of the pictures and you can see the rest of it on my Flickr set in high resolution.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did. And be sure to check under the sea at the bay… you’ll find some great surprises there.

A view of an alley in the medieval village

View of the chapel

View from the landing point

Like I posted here, Koinup launched the Avatar Art Contest in late October. The contest closed on December 3rd and the results were published on saturday.

I rarely check my feeds during the weekends, but on sunday I decided to check Koinup for any new comments on my stream there and I was surprised by a nice comment of Eves Rodenberg, congratulating me for having won.

“What? Me? One of my pictures? Naaa! She must be confused.”

I clicked the blog link and to my complete amazement one of my photos had been selected. I wasn’t expecting it, due to the absolutely stunning pictures that were submitted (you can see them here) and I still feel I didn’t deserve it.

Anyway thank you so much Bettina for having voted for my pic and congratulations to the wonderful people that are my inspiration to do more and better, both with the works they do and the nice comments they leave on my stream.

As it happens every month, and once this initiative is bringing to light so many talented writers, we are starting a new short stories contest at Owl’s Bay. This time we have as partial sponsor City Lights, the reading club owned by our good friends Fokas and Hopes, so the two “second” places will receive L$ 250 each.

The rules are basically the same as before, but slight changes were made, so please read carefully

1. All residents older than 3 months in SL may present a maximum of 3 works although only one story from each author can be selected.
2. The stories should some how be connected to the theme “Once Upon a time in the Farwest”, once this is the theme for this month’s event.
3. Stories can be submitted in Portuguese and/or English.
4. The stories have to be non-published originals and may not exceed 6100 characters with spaces. A maximum of 6 photos can be added (one being for the front cover). If you decide to present a comics story, the maximum number of pages will be 6, with a maximum of 6 pictures per page and an extra for the cover.

Note: All the photos have to be taken by the author or it/he/she should supply to the organization a written authorization by the photographer. If no photos are delivered, Owl’s Bay Editions will be responsible for the front cover picture.

• All works must be sent until January 11^th, 2009 to owlsbay@gmail.com in .doc and .jpg files.
• The winner chosen by the jury will receive a L$ 1,500 cash prize and the book will be published and set for sale in Owl’s Bay Bookshop and other places that join the initiative.
• The next two best stories will receive a L$250 cash prize and also be published and set for sale under the above terms.
• The winners will be announced on the “Once Upon a Time in the Far West” closing party and the books launched at the same time in a date still to be announced.

For further information please leave your questions here in comments or send an e-mail to owlsbay@gmail.com.

Have fun and may the spirits of our ancestors be with you!

Like I wrote here several times, I am not a shopaholic. Not only because my former lousy connection turned shopping into a nightmare, but also because I am a bit of a Scrooge when it comes to spend Lindens on me.

However a girl has to keep her style and I like to dress up for every occasion and not to repeat the same outfit, thus an overflowing inventory, that no matter how many items I clean doesn’t get any smaller hehehe

Anyhow, my friends and partners at Owl’s bay are big a bit shopaholics and two weeks ago we were having our usual weekly sunday coffee (yes we are RL friends, though some of us met first at SL) and this idea just popped up: Why not a fashion blog?

Each of us has his/her own style and tastes, different approaches to fashion and we are crazy enough to do this.

So yesterday Right Click Wear was published. Feel free to drop by, make suggestions, give your opinion and if you like tell us what you would like to see there.

We are doing this just for fun and hope you will have fun reading it.

My good friend Elora decided to tag me with the following challenge (her post is in Portuguese):

- Post your photo

- Choose a band/artist

- Answer the questions just with song titles from the chosen band/artist

- Tag 4 people

So here it goes

My photo:

- The band: Queen

The answers:

1. How would you describe yourself? I’m going slightly mad
2. What do people think about you? Friends will be friends
3. How would you describe your latest romantic relationship? Save me
4. Describe your present relationship. A winter’s tale
5. Where you would like to be now? The Seven Seas (of Rhye)
6. What do you think about love? A kind of magic
7. How is your life? The show must go on
8. What would you ask if only one wish was granted to you? Heaven for everyone
9. Write a wise sentence. Spread your wings

I tag (and if you don’t answer no worries guys):

June Jurak

Dyami Jameson

Looker Loomet

Marina Xi

I was cleaning my inventory (seems there is nothing else I do the last few weeks *sigh) and came to the Landmark folder. Yes! That one! LMs just seem to pop up like mushrooms after a rainy night. Anyway I started to check my “Cool Places” folder and decided to teleport and see if they were still there. You never know after all the mess LL did with the OS policy.

The one on top of the list was Yggdrasil. Couldn’t remember if I had already been there or someone had given me the LM, so I tped and there I was in the middle of a beautiful forest, some paths showing from the landing point and a bunch of notecards offered to me. I read them and one of them stated as follows:

“Yggdrasil, the important ash, is a symbol for the whole creation: spacious, temporal and in content. It is the worldtree, because it is standing in the centre of the world and connecting all worlds. As a centreline of the world (axis mundi) she connects the three levels: sky, middleworld and underworld.
That was reason for us to build a fabulous sim, to put a spell on you and let you dream of mystic times. Discover the secrets of this sim and be captivated.”

So go ahead and discover the 12 hotspots there, fly, walk, teleport, as you wish. The place has lots of beautiful corners to be discovered. Hope you will enjoy it as much as I did.

Some more photos in my flickr page

The bridge from the Palace

One of the many nice little corners on the island

Like I have been posting, we are launching a short story contest every month at Owl’s Bay with the same theme as the Island for that month.

Last one was Once upon a time in a Fairy Tale – although one of my friends claimed it should be Furry tails hehe.  Anyway, leave you here the video for the cerimony, produced by BlueAngel Lungu, and hope that on next contest you can be one of the lucky winners. I will inform the new theme shortly, so that you can call the muses in time.