Second Pictures – Page 7 – nimil’s adventures in wonderland

Love Thursday: Lucas Gerard

July 2, 2009 by nimilblackflag

i’ve never really done a love thursday before now, but i figure its another way to talk myself into blogging more since i continue to fall out of the routine.

anyway i decided that i would blog about the person i love most in the whole wide world for my first love thursday, my partner and best friend, lucas

yes i know.. groan she’s going to talk about her boyfriend.. gag… but dammit i am so happy and grateful that he rezzed 3 years ago saturday. so he is my love thursday.

we fight and fuss at each other but in the end, he really truly is my best friend. no one on this earth has ever been so close to me in all my life and i can honestly say that i would be honored to spend the rest of my life with him.

we laugh like two mad freaks cackling at the stupidest shit… with him i feel safe, and protected, and he knows my every secret.

i am truly blessed to have this man in my life.. even if sometimes i am grumpy with him.

i picked lucas for this love thursday because his rezday is saturday, july 4th and i wanted to honor him in some way.

he is my everything.. he is my love everyday, not just thursdays 🙂

ramblings

June 4, 2009 by nimilblackflag

i haven’t written in a while and i’m tired of apologizing for that.. so i’m not gonna. the previously mentioned carrie tribute dress is now available inworld at our store if you are interested in getting it. i’m kinda disappointed in its lack of sales, but instead of being hard on myself i’m just going to say that it was probably just not something the normal crowd would go for, not to mention its my first real attempt at making a dress. but i’m not going to let it stop me. no… i’m going to keep trying and learn, and do better stuff. i know i’ll never be some super fashionista clothing designer, and who are we kidding, i’d never want to be that to begin with. but i do want to make things i am proud of, and even though i am proud of my carrie dress, i can do better.

next week is my 3rd rezday. i have no idea if i am going to party for it, or if i am going to just silently let it slip past. haven’t decided yet.

i totally stopped doing my 365 sl thing and i feel bad now.. its been several days without a photo and i know i need to catch back up and keep going but i just feel very uninspired to do any photos lately…

i do want to get back into photography though and i have been trying to come up with a way to extend my abilities to the public. recently i took some lovely shots of my sl brother and his new wife ava.

they are adorable together <3 but i want to do more of these and perhaps for paying customers :p (no i do not charge family..) as well as maybe do some creepier work for people who are interested in that sort of thing. i know i keep talking about it and never do it but i just can’t seem to figure out what to charge for stuff. that’s mainly what stops me.

oh speaking of photos there’s a butt meme going around the bloggers and plurkers of sl, so lucas and i decided to make ours a double 😀

i dunno if that will show up for everyone, i had to flag it moderate because last time i left a butt photo flagged safe flickr had a hissy fit. we have cute butts, flickr should be glad i put our asses on there at all.

and so my blogging for today ends. i dunno what else to say.

the continuing adventures of clothing making

April 16, 2009 by nimilblackflag

so to my delight, so far everyone loves the jeans i’ve made, either that or they are just kissing my butt :p but at any rate i’m really happy and i can’t wait to get these things out for the general public to buy! i sent a group notice with a special pair of the jeans last weekend and the response was good.

to continue my new found clothing skillz i made a tank top. pretty basic stuff but it looks great, and its next on the list to go out in the store.

its really amazing to me how much better i’ve gotten. i have no idea where i’m suddenly getting this burst of awesome but i hope it continues at least for a while! i’m actually PROUD to wear something that i made all by myself! and that’s really a first.

i’ve been shopping a lot lately which is always fun! but i haven’t been coming up with any cool outfits for forced midnight, so my friend mali and i made ANOTHER (yes another..) blog where we are going to do some look of the day’s that aren’t forced midnight related. and we even talked lucas into joining so hopefully he’ll do some posts for the guys (if he ever posts). mali will also be ranting about ugly things, and giving some tips and advice. i’m going to stay out of the mud slinging i promise.

i’ve also been clubbing a bit! yes that’s right.. i’ve actually been leaving my house 😮 (who is this woman and what has she done with nimil?) started wandering over to GOL 8 early in the morning when i can’t find anything to do and i’ve been having so much fun! mali comes with me and we sit on skype laughing about some of the crap people wear there and stuff… last night we forced lucas to come with us and he decided to wear a dress! it was great and mali even convinced the dj to play goodbye horses for me, which is a very old and obscure song that you might recognize from silence of the lambs. yes i am weird and i love that song D: it was very appropriate since lucas was in a dress..

at least he makes a pretty man in a dress <3

so last night was all giggles. i need more of that. i forget how to laugh sometimes, and i really thank you guys who have stuck with me even when i fall off the fun boat.

i can’t believe i didn’t post about april fools! see how much i suck lately? well last year and the year before lucas and i dressed as eachother for april 1st but this year we decided to blingtard out. i didn’t get many photos but i did get a great one of me and mali on a street corner being hookers.

it was pretty hilarious. we went to a bunch of blingtard places and all in all, i don’t make a bad latina hooker.

i’ve been pretty uninspired photography wise so not much coming off the flickr stream lately. but here’s what i’ve done recently to round out the blog tonight.

fear me! for i have made pants!

April 4, 2009 by nimilblackflag

so the on-going clothing making quest has continued and i’ve finally made a pair of jeans! i am so excited because they are actually good enough to sell!

behold! a preview of things to come 😀 (the jeans anyway…) they aren’t super amazing or anything but for me its a giant step forward. so yay perhaps i will finally tackle the art of making clothes.

in other sl news, i’m thinking of offering my services as a photographer/photo-manipulator to the grid. but i’m not sure what to charge. the packages would include photos by me in either studio or out in the field, and then i will take them into photoshop and turn them into something awful unique in my style. customers would have options of letting me go nuts (which means you’ll probably end up being a dead thing) or they can tell me exactly what to do to the photos, which of course would probably end up in less death. also customers would be able to order things like large mounted prints complete with frame, modeling portfolio books, profile photos, contest photos, ect.

my only limits are that i won’t photograph you in places i dislike (don’t worry that list is small i promise) and i won’t photograph anything against the tos.

anyway i’ll probably write up a big old page for this site about it once i figure out how much i should charge for this kind of thing. any ideas?

last thing before i close this window and attempt sleep. it seems my blog is number 87 on the second effects : list of sl blogs 2009. pretty crazy to begin with that people would spend that much time compiling a list.. but also crazy because i’m on it. :p this blog is just day to day garbage lol i have nothing important to say here. but thanks to those of you who do read my blog, and i hope you enjoy it.

thats all for me.

in your memory

December 21, 2008 by nimilblackflag

this is a post that i was dreading to write because i am not very good at dealing with death stuff.

2 years ago on this day, i lost a very important person in my life. i knew her as minx, and as fauna, but her real name was tanya

i woke up that afternoon with the intention to completely avoid second life, as i just tend to get to breaking point around december… but i recieved an email saying that i needed to log in immediately, that something bad had happened…

minx… tanya… had died of a heart attack that morning, just hours after having a long conversation with arahan… we were all crushed, in shock, unable to really comprehend what had happened. she was so young! only in her early 30’s.. and such a wonderful person…

to me minx was like a mother figure. she was always kind and gentle towards me and never had an ill word to say. she helped me deal with crap i was going though and never turned her back on me when i did my usual basket case bullshit that always ends up losing me more friends than i can count. she was always there and suddenly she was gone…

i regretted avoiding second life, i regretted not getting to spend more time with her, getting to know her better, i felt like such a horrible person, and a horrible friend, and i still do, to this day, regret that i only knew her for that short time.

my last memories of her are happy ones. i’d gone to her and her partner jorus’ christmas party days earlier, she even gave me the sweetest gift. a snow globe that i still put out every year as soon as december arrives.

i met minx earlier that year though her partner lupus (later known as jorus), who had been a friend from the angry ant. when the angry ant closed, a bunch of us found a new hang out in minx’s club “the minx den” and i had my first second life job. it was though her that i met arahan, who i still concider one of my best friends.

2 years have passed since she was laid to rest and i still feel a part of me is missing from her absence. it also reminds me glaringly, to cherish those who are still a part of my life. i am horrible at doing that sort of thing, and i apologize to those who have to deal with me on a day to day basis.

i don’t think i will ever find another person like minx. she was one of a kind. the world is less without her here.

today i went to her memorial site, i left a copy of the freeview tv she gave me when the minx den closed, full of photos from when we were all together. i miss that time and place in my life… i miss that family… i miss you minx…

Lucas + Nimil on post 6, and other junk

December 19, 2008 by nimilblackflag

just wanted to link this 😀 lucas and i were recently featured in the herald as a post 6 couple. enjoy a little history about how we came to exist in this strange new world, and of course, some nudity :p oh and for those who are curious, the “i’m really a man” shirt was made by me, and i hope to set it up for sale soon. and no i am not really a man.

thank you bunny for letting us be a part of this! i’ve been reading the herald for a long time now.. yeah it’s not really a respectable sl newspaper but its amusing and i like things that are amusing.

the article is also great because the photos were taken in tainted hearth. those who don’t know, tainted hearth was built to be a darkly themed sim featuring some like-minded content creators. sadly, because tainted hearth was built on an open sim, the owners do not have the money to continue running it at the new higher price that LL has set. so tainted hearth will be returning to the depths at the end of this month. we dedicate our post to the sim, and it will be sorely missed. please go visit it if you have not, take a moment to enjoy the art that has been placed there, and make some memories of your own before it’s too late.

i guess i seem a bit silent recently, people may have noticed i’m not logging on as much anymore. i’m taking a little bit of a break. the holiday season always takes a toll on me and i tend to get grumpy and bleh… but i am hoping to work on a few projects and try to get better at some things in the coming year. my new years resolution will be to try harder, to not be such a basket case, and to be a bit more tactful with things. the things that come out of my mouth are sometimes not the best choice for situations.. but i am learning to curb that.

anyway, happy giftmess and enjoy your new year.

Bare @ Rose Appreciation week? yes please!

December 7, 2008 by nimilblackflag

kay i am too lazy to be a real blogger but i figured since there’s a bare rose appreciation blogger challenge going on i would take a moment to show this:

so this is my bare rose folder… i’ve been a customer of bare rose since i started sl 2 years ago and they weren’t even on their own private island yet! as you can see i’ve amassed quite a collection. not all of it was purchased though.. some of it was won from raffle balls, some of it given to me by friends but a huge chunk of it was bought. and i wear it often XD

hell behind the wall of inventory screens there i’m wearing gl gungirl which i just bought a couple of days ago and haven’t had a chance to move into the bare rose folder.

so yes i think i appreciate bare rose quite a bit hehe… its really amazing to put on the old stuff and then new stuff and see how the store has grown and evolved over time. everything there is amazing.

ok and now a post about halloween

November 8, 2008 by nimilblackflag

so this was our second annual halloween party, last year’s was a great success and this year’s was even better!

this year our personal theme was puppet and puppet master. our venue was a giant doll house, decorated with shadow gears on the dance floor, and huge puppet master hands holding marrionette controls, who’s strings hung down over us as we danced.

we had some great costumes at the party, the winners of our costume contest were daphne abernathy and dazz anvil. both won special edition skins which are not sold in our store and have never been seen before. of course everything started out with chaos. we had some teleport issues and at one point the island was completely inaccessable! i was stuck there all by myself and lucas was stuck in the corner of a near by sim! but the night ended well, and after all of it, we had a wonderful time. i also made time to get married that night 🙂

fantasy meets reality

November 8, 2008 by nimilblackflag

there’s a blog challenge going on and actually i’d already done this about a year ago i think lol…

the blog challenge was to make your avatar look like yourself, well i’m too lazy to take a fresh photo so i’ll just post one that i have.

i’ve always had a little bit of my real life self in my sl self. of course that changes drastically because i am a shape shifter and i can make myself appear as many things, but my original face shape and has always been a pretty close match to the real me. i’m not going to try the body shape because sl’s sliders are not kind to those with large bottoms lol

at any rate i figured i would share this :p if nothing else it gave me something to update this blog with. i really should write about the halloween party and stuff but i’m lazy…

my favourite place

September 28, 2008 by nimilblackflag

you know… i opened this program on monday to do a blog challenge post on my favourite place in sl. but for some reason i could not come to one specific place that i concider my "fave". i mean.. my house, for one.. is a favourite place…

i have the ocean before me, photos of loved ones, big smushy couches, and the skylab…

but a girl has to leave home once in a while…

i like midian

one of the first roleplay sims i ever joined.. i still go there, to people watch.. and on the odd occasion play my quirky little rat girl…

i like water in second life… i don’t have the ability to see the ocean in my real life.. so being able to go and stand on a rock overlooking a stormy sea when ever i feel like it is really a great place…

i love rl places rebuilt in second life! i have no idea why… but sometimes it’s fun to visit something real in a world where everything is fake… sort of tethering i suppose.. and reminds us that we still cling to worlds we know even in a world of imagination.

so here it is on sunday and i’ve finally decided: sl is my favourite place.