Ceremonies for Christmas

Come, bring with a noise,
My merry, merry boys,
The Christmas log to the firing,
While my good dame, she
Bids ye all be free,
And drink to your heart’s desiring.

With the last year’s brand
Light the new block, and
For good success in his spending,
On your psalteries play,
That sweet luck may
Come while the log is a-teending.

Drink now the strong beer,
Cut the white loaf here,
The while the meat is a-shredding;
For the rare mince-pie,
And the plums stand by,
To fill the paste that’s a kneading.

Sytling Details:
– Gown: Malicious in moss by SAS – Sascha’s Designs – New release at the Mainstore available in several colours: Amethyst, Charcoal, Crimson, Moss, Royal Blue and Sapphire
– Jewellery: P.C; Encrusted Emerald Set
– Shoes: Sequined Heels on silver) by **DECO**
– Haistyle: Lady by Miss C.

Ceremonies for Christmas
Poem by Robert Herrick

Location: Slightly Twisted

…Night and light and the half light…

“Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
~W.B. Yeats, The Wind Among the Reeds~

Styling Details:
– Gown: Natalya in Black by SAS – Sascha’s Designs
– Jewellery: Norena Star~Diamond/Black Diamond by Zuri Rayna~ @ Zuri Jewelry Mainstore
– Headpiece: Rosanna Hat – Noir by !*Bliss Couture*!
– Gloves: Appliers for SLINK Hands Tattoo Opera Gloves by :AE:
– Shoes: Mesh Glitter Heels by [Epic]
– Hairstyle: UFFIE by Faenzo

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Let your heart be light
From now on your troubles will be out of sight

Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Make the Yuletide gay
From now on your troubles will be miles away

Styling Details:
– Gown: December 2013 Gown by SAS – Sascha’s Designs
– Stole: Z’s Wolven Embrace Stoles in White
– Jewellery: Diamond Tennis Set in Platinum by EarthStones
– Hairstyles: Veronica by /Wasabi Pills/ and * ALLEGRA * by .:EMO-tions:.
– Shoes: Mesh Glitter Heels by [Epic]

Location: Painter Designs @ The Canvas

Excerpt from
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Lyrics by Hugh Martin

Before I loved you…

Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own:
I wavered through the streets, among objects:
Nothing mattered or had a name:
The world was made of air, which waited.

I knew rooms full of ashes,
Tunnels where the moon lived,
Rough warehouses that growled ‘get lost’,
Questions that insisted in the sand.

Everything was empty, dead, mute,
Fallen abandoned, and decayed:
Inconceivably alien, it all

Belonged to someone else – to no one:
Till your beauty and your poverty
Filled the autumn plentiful with gifts.

Styling Details:
– Gown: Maelie in Black&White by SAS Sascha’s Designs
– Jewellery: Czarina Jewels~Diamond/White Pearls by Zuri Rayna~ Zuri Jewelry
– Bracelet:  Shameless in diamond by FINESMITH
– Hairstyle: Gloria by Amacci Hair

Sonnet XXV by
Pablo Neruda

You Wouldn’t Fool Me, Would You?

You’ll have to go soon
Say you’re glad you met me
It will be so soon that you quite forget me
This I’ll impart to you
For it is now or never
I give me heart to you forever

You wouldn’t fool me, would you?
because I am not fooling you
Don’t be like that!
You wouldn’t fool me, baby?

Styling Details:
– Gown: Caryn Silver by SAS Sascha’s Designs
– Shoes: :: Pickford Heels :: Mist by Ingenue (for Slink original and Avatar Enhancement)
– Necklace: Formal Black Pearl by ~Aurora Borealis~
– Ring: Here comes the sun – sheridans by FINESMITH
– Cigarette: Parisian Accessory in Coal by The Sea Hole
– Hairstyle: *Dura-Girl*51

Excerpts from
You Wouldn’t Fool Me, Would You?
Lyrics by Annette Hanshaw

Location:  Club Fiume in 1920’s Chicago