Rediscovering

It's very unfortunate that my sudden "building bug" is coinciding with a crazily busy RL period, and err... a new love interest ;)  Hard to build when you have your arms around someone, and also hard to build when you are trying to shop at 50L Friday, Weekend Fever, 60L Sunday, Beating the Blues Monday, 25L Tuesday, and 69L Hump Day Happiness (Thursday must be feeling all left out and lonely, poor thing)... not to mention the Truth sale, Glitterati sale, Flirt sale, Mischief sale, and god knows what other sales. Phew.
 
 

 
 
Still, I am very nearly done with the house, except that midway building I got a new idea and now have to start from scratch again and completely redo it. But I'm happy enough with the original house that I just might sell it on Xstreet. I always did intend to eventually start selling some stuff; the problem is I'm rather lazy so I firstly don't build very often, and secondly, don't want to have to manage a business in SL when I already have to work in RL. On the other hand, the prospect of having some possible SL income is somewhat enticing :p
 
In other news, Chestnut started a 365 Day project which involves taking and posting a self-portrait every day for a year. I'm participating, but posting the pictures to my Flickr, here.
 
Originally I thought, well, taking a picture a day is easy, but I don't want to overload my blog with posts that contain a picture only, and not much else. But I'm finding that Chestnut was right: "It is about the process of making a comittment to a creative endeavor and working through the dry spells that are sure to come." So far the commitment is keeping me going, and seeing other people's shots is challenging me to be more creative, rather than simply post a pretty picture of my avatar.
 
In fact when I saw Elora's shots, especially this one, it made me want to do more work on composition and try to tell a story with my pictures, which I have never done before. Here are four other great ones: by Chestnut, by Elusyve, by Trisha and again by Elusyve. They're my inspiration, you might say :)
 
 

 
Moreover, I'm discovering that I'm quite possibly overthinking my blog posts (gaaah). I was reading through my very first posts on the blog and found a sort of joie de vivre that appears lacking now -- the ability to talk about anything and everything, just happily chattering away about my Second Life and not needing it to be meaningful, or witty, or particularly intelligent. That's what I'm rediscovering with this project -- posting the pictures on Flickr with a brief description of what happened in SL that day has helped me recapture that "Hey, look what I found!" feeling with regard to SL. In recent times that feeling has mostly become identified with shopping, which is very sad :p
 
The only problem I have with this 365 Day project is that setting up the picture, getting the correct setting, attire, pose, etc takes time. I already have so little time! Plus I need to sort inventory because I can't find the poses I want to use!
 
 
Second picture (I had to sneak it in because I'm so behind in my blogging!):
Hair: Truth Elizabeth 2 - Chocolate
Skin: Free Speerit Katherine Pale - Natural [review copy]
Eyes: Beloved Lolite Eyes - large
Glasses: PrimOptic Stilo
Shrug: Last Call Jenna Polka Dots - Paraiba (part of outfit) [no longer available]
Sleeveless top: Lookr Clean - Light Blue (F) [review copy]
Long-sleeved top: Potassium Off Shoulder Blue [store moving, not available at the moment]
Skirt: Sn@tch Crazy Little Jean Skirt - Green - Siena
Jewellery: alaMood Alkahi Dew Set
Shoes: Diamonds Fashion Ed Henry Shoe [free on XstreetSL]
Pose: Long Awkward Pose Feisty