Just Swingin’ darling …. just swinging …

As anyone who knows me, I just adore *ICING* as a shop and have a moderately large collection of Miko’s clothes in my inventory. So, you can easily imagine my happiness when I saw an email that a dress was waiting for me. *sighs, oh the hours I had to wait*

The dress is *ICING*’s addition for the Vintage Fair [and here] and was first advertised on plurk. The dress is a gorgeous two colour number with small polka dots. There are six colours to choose from all in total, but displayed here by yours truely are: pink, navy and red.

Enjoy, and I, for one, can’t wait until the Fair starts in two days

And thank you Miko for a wonderful dress *smiles*

xx
lexi

Wonderful dresses and shoes…

A while ago (yes this post is very much overdue, my sincerest apologies to Miko Omegamu), I got to admire the wonderful dress set that is the “Joan” dress from one of my favourite designers in Second Life, of course that being *ICING*

The first dress I got was in wonderful blue as you can see me showing it off belong lounging happy at the Victorian beach cottage on our land..

The second dress is the result of colouring the dress in green. The dress Miko made was the result of the same dress worn by the gorgeous Miss Christina Hendricks, I must say that this dress is certainly one of my favourites, especially in so many gorgeous collours. So from the bottom of my heart, Thank you Miko!!

If you like this dress, you certainly can’t go wrong to head down to *G Fields* in Second Life and pick up a pair (or two or three) of ribbon slingbacks. They come in a gorgeous range of colours and quite possibly well suited to go with the Joan dress.

Last but not least, while I was over at *G Fields* yesterday I discovered the wonderful little flower garden there and couldn’t resist the chance for a photo. Now normally I tend to do a little bit of post processing, but this time, it came out so perfect I decided to publish the shot as is….

the gorgeous dress I am wearing in the picture, is called Minuet and how could it be else, made by *icing*.The only thing you perhaps don’t quite get from this photo is the cute little bows on both shoulders.

All in all, those dresses made  a very welcome addition to my wardrobe

xx

lexi

The year past & gone by …

A year …

How much can change in a single year …

A lot it seems. I know I largely have been quiet here, having neither felt the need or the inspiration to put my thoughts to the virtual paper. But today, of all days .. I want to write. *smiles*

The story really starts, over a year ago about 4 months earlier to be exact. A chance meeting again, perhaps. But we got talking, just short IM’s here and there. And over time those grew out to longer messages.

I took the step forward of asking her if we could exchange friendship. A moment that felt like an eternity passed. My heart beating in my chest. But oh the happiness when she agreed.

From then on, things slowly changed, we started to talk more and more and deeper about the things that interested us, where to go. It soon became quite clear what the future was going to be. I happily sat at her feet, listening, explaining and talking the hours away.

Then .. a year ago. After having been shopping, we went to a quiet Sim and sat down, and talked, freely, openly. For perhaps the first time and last time completely equal. And it felt so weird. It was needed. We talked quietly and laughed. One of the things I have always loved about Her is the dry sense of humour and wit she can display.

And then the moment was there, I knelt before her and she held the collar out and I slipped it around my neck. I bend my head forward and lifted the hair clear as she performed the final act …. and locked the collar around my neck.

That ….was a year ago.

A year has since come and gone and I am still hers. And I am still happy. Very much so. And there are things I never expected, she taught me how to dress extremely well. And worst of all .. she taught me to like pink … and not forcibly, but subtly like water flowing. *shakes her head and smiles*.

I am sure that I come across as a lovestruck kitten, but it’s been a wonderful years. With some downs and a lot of ups and at her feet. I think I have learned, grown. At least, I like to think I have.

I have not much more to say, except this: I am looking forward to the next year at her heel, being and learning, and that over the time we might grow closer and closer, and learning and enjoying each other more…

I leave you with the following words, directed at Her … my Mistress …

Mistress,
Thank you for a wonderful year,
Thank you for looking after me,
Thank you for guiding me,
Thank you for teaching me,
Thank you for training me

but above all

Thank you
for allowing me to be yours.
your girl, your kitten, yours..

lexi.

Munch transcripts

As most people probably know, me and Vannesh Cannoli host a bi-week munch and discussion group in-world.  This happens every other Saturday at 11:00 AM SLT.

After much prodding and al of searching through about a year worth of log files, I have now published the chat transcripts of all topical munches. You can find the transcript on the munches page on my blog. I will endeavour to post any new transcript within 24 hours of a topical munch.

Kinkster Munch Transcripts / Chat-logs.

We hope to see you there!

Lex.

A new outfit…

Just a while ago, I found a lovely little shop called Vita Bella. It’s a shop that just sells the right kind of clothing for me. Nice, sexy and with more than a dash of demure and 40s/50s style.

The outfit released this month is called “Lola” and is described as:

“A classic vintage silk high-waisted pencil skirt with a coordinating silk blouse. This outfit accentuates your curves and just oozes silky sophistication! The blouse is tied at the neck with a pussy bow and has cute capped sleeves.”

The Lola Blouse in variations

So having bought both outfits, because I just know that Mistress will love the pink skirt on me. I decided to play a little game of mix and match. However it turned out rather hard to find a decent-ish location for a secretary or librarian type photo shoot:

A look at the new Second Life viewer

Well, there is a lot of noise going on about the new Second Life viewer.If must admit I felt already a dread of fear after watching the Linden Lab video talking about the new features. It’s an interesting mix of hype- and buzzword bingo mixed with a healthy dose of pat-on-the-back, lick-me-ups and see-how-good-I-find-our-own-product.

Being the curious person myself, I decided to take a look. Surprisingly they already have a Linux viewer ready for download, sadly it seems Lindens haven’t caught on to the 64bit movement yet.

So after loading and starting the new client, let us have a look to what is going on:

1 – Menus – Directly noticeable is that the menus have changed completely. So while this make sense for newer users, for older users like me, this means a complete new learning curve.

2 – Screen estate - The new bars at the top, take up way too much screen estate, I like a nice clean UI.

3 – Colour choice – Strange enough not a colour choice inside. Even the themes offering a dual choice of skins in the old viewer has been gone. While something like the Emerald Viewer offers a myriad of choices, Linden Labs in their infinite wisdom have decided to just go with very dark colours that give me a headache.

4 – Icons – I find the icons quite a lot more confusing than the old “box” icons that immediately show me what is a prim and what not. And Why is the trash the same icon as any other folder? You wonder if any of them actually read a book on interface design at all.

5 – Sidebar – Looks okay, perhaps need to get used to this but it takes up again extra screen space. A major bug with the viewer comes immediately comes into view. Clicking the sidebar .. makes your HUD objects shift. Seriously .. what the heck? Since when is that acceptable?

Okay, is there anything good about the new viewer? In my opinion not as much. sure it looked rather licked. But form should never triumph over function. Once again it seems that Linden Lab pushes things through because it suits them rather than, what is wanted. Looking at the plethora of Open Source viewers that are out there, think Emerald, and look at the amount of extra features that are already implemented there.

One thing I did notice, and this is probably a pure Linux issue, sound works properly this time. Before, with the 1.x series of the Second Life viewer, the viewer directly speaks to the sound hardware device. I mean come on, how do you even come up with stuff like this. At least the new viewer hands off the sound to the operating systems sound system to deal with it properly.

So, all in all, once again the Lindens have pushed something which nobody really is waiting for, without listening or thinking of what their established users would want. So far I am utterly unimpressed by the viewer and it reaks largely of fail.

your friendly penguin-loving reporter from the field
signing off….

xx
lexi

The kitten near the fireplace..

We all know that there are toys. Collar, Cuffs and Gags, oh my… *winks*

But sometimes, just sometimes there are toys that just beg for you to be taken out and put on display. A good example of this are the Japanese clover clamps by Linus Daxter. Having seen them in world, I just knew I wanted a pair. So after a quick search and I found them and …

mmmmm … me likes.

So after a quick fitting I decided the only way this set could be shown off was to properly display myself, and what better for a submissive to display her, in nothing else that a corset, heels, stockings, gloves and the optional gag and a smile?

Corset & Fireplace I		Corset & Fireplace II
Corset & Fireplace III		Corset & Fireplace IV

me, in various outfits and restrained and .. well on display…

What else can I say .. I had quite some fun playing with these and while I haven’t discovered all the features (with the RLV functionality enabled, it should be able for someone to pull on the chains or just pull them off (*youch*)). The best part of these clamps is that they don’t come with the typical huge nipples that one normally sees with piercings.

All in all a quite nice toy…

A bientot!
xx

Lexi.

ps I: For those thinking this was going to be some kind of Doctor Who fan/slash fiction, sorry to disappoint you all. Although I do admit that I based the tittle off the episode “The Girl in the Fireplace“.

Is this thing still on?

*tap* *tap*

Is this thing still on??

*blows off the dust*

For those still looking at my blog in hope for an update, here is a couple. I haven’t blogged in a absolute ages for various reasons I am not going to rehash. But for now I am back with a couple of posts.

As you probably all noticed, there is a new header image on my blog. And about time too! The previous one was rather old. And for those that know me a bit better in-world will have noticed that I have ventured a bit more outside these days and that I indeed now have some colour.

I am not 100% satisfied with the header image just yet. But it is an improvement. The picture has been taken at our home. “Our” you will ask? Yes, some things have changed in the last couple of months.

I am currently with a new wonderful Mistress, called Miss Tungsten, after being released from Miss Thalia, with whom I am still very close and she is still one of my best friends in-world and count my blessings will remain so for the ever foreseeable future.

The chair in the background is Mistress’, a chair of course where I spend a lot of time kneeling in front of, with absolute joy and pleasure

(Gosh, I really should stop gushing).

But as often, life does move on and life finds ways and change is the only constant factor we can count on. Anyway, the real reason for me picking up the blogpen will become apparent in the next post.

A bientot
xx

lexi

Meme: “nekkid but tasteful butt pics”

Butt surely!!

Some people are just so darn helpful. It seems that there is a meme going around the Internet these days which was started by Marnix Malifozik, who wanted to start a meme and see how far he could run with it. This was in turn picked up on the New World Notes blog. And thus the wildfire started to spread.

So, that’s what it is about. Pictures of your backside, but in a still sexy and tasteful fashion. And, well after much pushing from both Velicia and Vanni, I have decided to go along with this and the result is below:

Nekkid but tasteful butt - I

Both pictures are taken at Sin Lab in the Circe Sim

Nekkid but tasteful butt - II

I think this is the first time I have posted some naked pictures of me (yes, I am *that* shy). But for all it’s worth …

Obligatory butts:

• Vanni’s
• Velicia’s

I hope you enjoy.

xx

Lexi

[*] – Edit: Linked the pictures properly this time so it all can be seen “up close and personal“

Munch time!!

Subbie Union presents:

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The Kinkster Munch

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Please join the Kinkster Munch group for our first BDSM themed discussion event this coming Saturday! Vannesh Cannoli will give a presentation on the differences between submission and slavery, followed by general response and discussion. All folks are welcome, whether a long time in the scene, just starting, or just interested!

The Kinkster Much Group meets at the Diloba Celtic Pub each other Saturday. If there is a topic you would like covered, please IM either Vannesh Cannoli or Lex Berchot. All people are welcome to listen and participate in group discussions, which are low key, and designed to foster learning and sharing. Please join us, and IM Lex Berchot or Vannesh Cannoli for an invite to the group to gain information on future meetings and topics.

Location: Diloba Celtic Pub.

When: Saturday 23 May 2009

Time: 11:00 AM SL Time.

See also the announcement here:

If you want to join `The Kinkster Munch‘ Group, you can click the link.

Hope to see you there!

Vannesh Cannoli & Lex Berchot