Beverly Ultsch made a place as lovely and tricky as herself.

Her retreat, as she calls it, is a beautiful mix of landscapes and natural wonders conveying all the emotions the owner wants to fill your heart with.

An ideal tropical beach comes complete with its palm trees slowly swinging under a soft breeze, dolphins graciously playing in the distance while you lounge on a white carpet of soft sand, the crispy blue ocean laying its foamy tide at your feet.

Walk along the shore, pass the pony race track, yes, you pony players are going to enjoy this place for countless sweaty hours, and enter the thick colored wood at the bottom of the cliff. Right in the middle, an old and huge tree has a ladder resting against its tortuous trunk. Climb it and reach the secret platform among the branches. Bring your own chair and enjoy the song of the birds, the sweet melody of the wind and the regular moaning of the waves licking the shore beyond the trees.

The ruins at the top of the cliff will wrap your heart with a strange melancholy. Bare arches standing in the wind, ancient walls resisting the assaults of time offer the harsh beauty of their stones to the broken cries of the ravens. Bats abound too, they guard the grave which gloomy tombstone is just waiting for your name to be carved in.

Not far from the cliff a lighthouse proudly pierces the sky, planted on an island which imposing rocks conceal more than one secret.

There’s definitely much more to see there and much more to do. Beverly is an expert at planning and creating some evil traps and she had the time of her life carefully hiding the most dreadful fruits of her imagination among the gracious shapes and the beautiful angles of her sim.

One has to be extremely careful there. This lovely path could lead you to some dark place where no one will ever find you.

Beverly truly managed to give shape to a sharp expression of beauty reflecting the gorgeous light she keeps inside like a perfect cage lost in the middle of the ocean.

Pay a visit to the strange wonderland she built and try not to become its permanent guest !

/me grins

Okay okay, I am pretty sure that most of you already know this place but, hey, there maybe some newbie around who never heard of it so lets go. Most of the items crammed into the clothing file of my inventory come from the shop Bare Rose Tokyo.

 This more often than not heavily crowded fashion mall offers an unique and vast collection of outfits. Bare Rose fashion is colorful, highly imaginative and definitely exquisitely crafted. Whatever your style is you won’t leave this place empty handed: casual, goth, fantasy, sci fi or Japanese traditional, all genres collide and mix so just to be sure that what you are going to wear won’t be seen anywhere else.

I never bought anything there more than 180 lindens, often less than that and every outfit came into more than one colour and was loaded with highly detailed sculpted props. Yes, definitely the place where one can afford quality without smashing her piggy bank into pieces.

I decided to delete my shibari ropes set after spending one hour trying IN VAIN to adjust it. The process was just killing these old and tired eyes of mine and I finally gave up looking good in ropes. Bax boots have this auto-adjust feature that seems to work fine and I sincerely hope that future will bring us restraints supporting the same technology. Marine did and does a fantastic job and I proudly leave my keys out the wonderful serious shackles she had created more often than caution would allow it but yes, please pretty please, give us stuff that we can put on right away.

I sure know nothing about scripting and building and merely give my user point of view here. I am certain that technology and the way SL works today can’t enable creators to work the way they would like to and give birth to the perfect tools they would love to offer us.

I just want to look good in ropes and not kill my eyes trying to reach this goal.

And again, I love everything Marine does. Besides her blog is full of great information and when she wears what she created, well, let just say that things suddenly get very very interesting.

But I still want to look good in ropes.

/me pouts.

Sunday evening in grey Paris and I have to understand that my sweet Gabrille won’t come back in SL, at least not soon in spite of the fact that she didn’t turn off her profile yet .

My lovely Voltek comes less and less often being kept really busy by RL, a good thing she still has a tiers to pay so we have a chance to meet once in a month and express how we miss each other. Her beautiful garden, the new wonderful house she built all look empty now and the magic she puts in everything she touches or does gradually fades away.

Beverly granted me the honor of becoming a warden in her new sim and I love to go there, to rest on the beach listening to the song of the tide and thinking about the dear ones who chose to go away. Beverly and I had some binding fun recently and it is hard to express how pleasant and exciting sharing bondage with such a love is. I still owe her more than 100 hours in bondage because I lost at the simple yet wicked card game she had installed and being in the mood I am now, I definitely wouldn’t mind finding myself bound and left alone somewhere no one could find me. Beverly and I share the same feelings about how certain things should be done when capturing someone and we both definitely enjoy bondage for the sake of it.

She is a true love but I sadly have to admit that the kind of SL breakdown I am experiencing now prevents me from enjoying what this virtual world has to offer the way I am supposed to. I feel like a ghost and certainly must be a very disappointing piece of avatar.

 Well, I managed to kick my latex ass bad enough to fill this blog with entries again so I guess that the future doesn’t look that gloomy.

Well, I guess that saying sorry for the delay won’t be enough as this delay should be capped with an extremely huge and bold D. What can I say folks, RL and some more RL, long days and short evenings.

So I had my age verified, my account verified and I updated the viewer. So far the only interesting stuff I saw in this new adult continent are the secret spots Voltek managed to discover during our first visit, an underwater cave with some magic fauna and a reservoir full of surprises where a giant toad is still left to be captured.

I really enjoyed this first visit, flying over empty plains and whispering forests in the wind, roaming along rivers which grassy banks were still clubs and marina free.

I went back since, only to find a collection of your typical porno a go-go malls and resorts crammed in between discos and clubs bathed in all their neon glory.

A good thing most of my favourite sims didn’t have to move there.

Go west young avatar and grow with the virtual country before it’s too late.

So a new continent is born to welcome all adult activities.

So people who won’t have been checked before won’t be able to search for nor access adult tagged sims.

So a single tiny piece of land devoted to adult activities will have the whole sim where it is located tagged as adult.

All these changes and some others will apply as soon as the new viewer will be available. Some people already took some drastic steps to express their opinion on the matter as a well known shop owner who decided to abruptly cease all business in sl and left giving away all the fine products she took so many years to craft.

I sincerely don’t think these new sl laws will have a great impact on my virtual life as most of the places I visit are not located on a continent and are entirely devoted to these peculiar games we bunch of perverts seem to enjoy.

My profile has been checked already through money information and I shouldn’t experience any difficulty searching for and accessing adult themed locations.

Though I don’t belong to the “proud parents” category, I do fully agree with the whole idea of preventing kids and teenagers from wandering in places where they shouldn’t.

So, why do I feel nervous and rather disturbed by this new direction Linden has decided to take ?

I love sl because it allows me to live the multi sided life that rl doesn’t allow me to live, an existence of different colors, a quilt which harmony is solely forged by my own will, desire and my ability to respect the privacy and sensitivity of my virtual neighbors.

I consider myself old enough to be able to refrain some of my needs, words and actions when I know or feel that there is a chance that they could offend someone else.

I consider myself old enough to be able to adapt my behavior and my attitude to my environment.

I consider myself old enough to understand and definitely respect the fact that other people don’t share or have difficulties to accept the way I see and do things and I am always extremely careful not to offend their sigh nor their judgment.

I definitely need no one to tell me nor to remind me where, when and how I must adjust myself in order to fit in the set.

Besides, I consider myself old enough to leave a sim where I feel uncomfortable or to mute a person whose actions and words I find offensive. I would never think of asking Linden to delete these sims nor to ban these people or worse, to park them in some remote parcel out of my sight.

I wouldn’t but apparently some other people would and in fact did.

Time flies so fast.

Tomorrow is going to be my first rezzday and it is so hard for me to imagine that I already spent a full year in sl.

I met so many wonderful people here and made so many new friends that thanking each of these lovely persons for just being who they are and for all the joy they filled my heart with would definitely take another blog to be created. So I guess and sure hope that this big and sincere THANK YOU will be capped enough to express my gratitude to all of you great avatars who found the time and the patience to cope with this weird girl.

I hug you all so tight.

I love you all so much.

THANK YOU

Roma has been celebrated as one of the most interesting and beautiful sim of sl, a forum and even sites are devoted to the making and the history of this unique place.

This sim will take you to a journey through time and will let you discover this ancient city at your own pace.

Explore, shop and pray as you wander along its finely recreated paved streets, enter the temples and bow in front of the huge statues of gods, visit the boutiques and learn what all their highly detailed and crafted tools were used for, take a rest in one of the numerous and lovely gardens and let your mind follow the song of the fountains.

Climb the Trajan Column to get a fantastic view of the Forum or reach the top of the Colosseus protecting the harbor, try to pet the lions waiting in the cages next to the Coliseum, become a book worm in the Library of Alexandria or simply take a well deserved break in the Baths of Caracalla.

Most of the famous monuments of the city have been rebuilt for your viewing and exploring pleasure but Roma is also a rp sim and you’ll find all the necessary informations to be part of this fantastic experience.

You can even get your own place there as various homes are available in the residential district of the city, all waiting for you to get in wearing your sandals and your favourite toga.

And if you feel like exploring some more, just leave the city and take the road to the port of Ostia. The countryside is beautiful even if you have to walk through the cemetery where you’ll have to decipher the epitaphs Romans loved to ornate their tombs and mausoleums with so curious travelers could benefit from the precious post mortem pieces of advices they felt like leaving them.

Reach the top of the mountain to visit the Cybele and get a glimpse at your future or the cave of Lupercale where you will behold the famous wolf who fed and raised Remus and Romullus the founders of Roma.

The port of Ostia is as finely made as the capital itself and lets its ancient walls face the sea while ships of beautiful colors just wait for you to get on board.

Roma was not built in a day and a day won’t certainly be enough if you really want to enjoy all the treasures concealed within the antique stone walls of this fantastic sim.

Therefore, MACTE ANIMO and leave these dull and grey times of ours to pay an unforgettable visit to a past made for your pixel eyes only.

Most of my friends here have a place they can call home.

I know that living somewhere in sl allows you to enjoy the intimacy and the privacy that most of public sims can’t provide but, in spite of all the good things that I have been told about getting your own place, I have to admit that I still feel reluctant about making this big step.

I have no problem to financially help Linden staff to maintain their lovely creation as I am amazed that one can actually enjoy almost everything sl has to offer for free.

What bugs me is the fact that you have to pay more than once to eventually own nothing.

To me buying a place means that you can afford it right away and it’s yours or that you keep on paying for a certain amount of time until you enjoy it’s full ownership.

Well, here in sl, no matter you purchased the land or not, you still have to pay a tiers as long as you live there.

To me, subscribing to a website means that the money spent on a monthly basis to keep my account activated will allow me to get a full and free access to all the services that this site provides.

Getting a sl premium account or logging in for free doesn’t make any difference when it comes to acquire some substantial piece of land .You still have to pay for it and you still have to pay the tiers. We all know that the free 512 sqm such an account gives you rapidly prove to be really unsatisfactory as far as surface and prims allowance are concerned.

I know that I may not clearly view all the various elements that maybe would help me to adopt another point of view on this matter but, as far as I am concerned, renting seems to be the most reasonable solution.

Now let see: do I rent land to some nice individual with the risk that one day my landlord decides to give up on sl thus leaving me homeless or do I rent directly to Linden (if possible) with the risk that the company decides to close business thus leaving me not only homeless but also naked, bald, shapeless, skinned and totally desperate.

Oh my, is paranoid my second name or am I right to ask myself all these silly questions ?

I just need an aspirin badly.

Sorry for not blogging as often as I sincerely would love to but various factors, both online and rl keep my mind pretty busy.

Thanks to Voltek’s precious help and hints I recently managed to collect all the 300 hidden eggs of the Grid Wide Easter Bunny Hop Treasure Hunt.

Yep, 300 more objects and landmarks in my inventory.

Scary isn’t it ?

Especially since I still have to unpack the 232 gifts I had collected at the previous Valentine Love Hunt.

Unwrapping more than 500 items will certainly take some time and that is not the hardest part. When unpacking will be done, I will have to choose which one to keep and which one to throw away.

And let me tell you that I can be pretty slow at making up my mind.

I love these treasure hunts even if hopping from one shop to another, waiting for everything to rezz then starting to search for the (sometimes) extremely well hidden gift make it hard on these old eyes of mine.

Besides I have now this long list of shops just waiting for me to pay them another visit.

No wonder I have no time to blog.