Eldemar

Eldemar is a new Elven role-playing world that is scheduled to open officially this Saturday, January 31st.  The other night, I was fortunate to enjoy a preview of this magical world.  Shenlei Flasheart’s line of romantic gowns, Debutante, now has a presence in Eldemar.  The other night, Shenlei invited me to join her to see [...]

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44 … BARACK ON!

 
Um…like…wow.   Powerful photo, meaning.  Powerful moment and speech.  Powerful challenges…for all of us, together with him too, because, man, we’ve got a mountain to climb. 
Love his realism, clarity, courage, and ability to dream.  Return to eternal values.  Thank you, 44.  Barack On!
 (And he’s on Flickr, too, waiting to be friended.  Methinks that’s not a problem for [...]

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Eclectica Jewellery

Putting my SLayer gal out of the spotlight for a moment and bringing forth my Curator gal (although once a Superhero always a Superhero, smiles):
 
Eclectica Jewellery is a wonderful new line of historically-inspired jewellery.  Tiffy Vella, the creator of Eclectica, is the latest designer to be invited into the Shengri La Vintage Marketplace, and yes, her exquisite creations are [...]

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Save the Avatar…

 
…Save the World
 
Botgirl definitely has her mouse-clicks on the pulse of not only psychology but fun, creative tools.   As a result of a creative whim, a few of us joined in and created superheros, otherwise known as SLayers (see Botgirl’s latest post of the same name). 
Here’s mine:
 
 
Michele Hyacinth:  Shengri La Vintage Marketplace Curator by day; SLayer [...]

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Cocoon Jewelry…

…at the Shengri La Vintage Marketplace
 
Cocoon is a new jewelry line from Yoona Mayo, the latest designer to be invited into the Shengri La Vintage Marketplace.   In her Utopian Micronation blog, Shengri La visionary extraordinaire Shenlei Flasheart announced the wonderful addition of Yoona and her brand Cocoon into the Vintage Marketplace.
Yoona’s creations are beautifully delicate and intricate, utterly feminine [...]

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This Just In From RL

Well, SL logins are currently disabled (although they may be reenabled while I write this), so I thought I’d post a short commercial break from RL, brought to you by the makers of Realness, Kindness, and Helpfulness.
Yesterday, I hopped the RL grid.  I travelled north on a long stretch of backroads on what turned out to [...]

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The New Year…Light, Life, Love

I was inworld today, this new year’s eve, spending a great deal of time simply thinking about the year.   In many ways, 2008 has been a year like no other.  It brought with it just about everything imaginable (and unimagined) from both ends of the spectrum…things that were exceedingly difficult (without going into detail, even traumatic in terms [...]

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