The experience of virtual reality provides us an opportunity to express our creativity, design with our own imagination, materialize graphically dreamlike, sharing feelings and dreams with those that take a glance our way...
In our second life we have stopped our time, and it was like finding ourselves after a long wait. Everyone has their own perspective on the virtual life, finding their own paths and dreams, the road is not always an easy one but when and if you find that special soul you dream of it is worth every minute of the time spent...
We continue our journey, inspired by what we can share in this dimension to bring in our daily experience a part of us still tied to the simplicity of childhood and, at the same time, to the enthusiasm of adolescence, with the knowledge that being adults does not necessarily mean 'to become old'....
Lord and Daisy
The Bride
Lord and Daisy
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Our Journey - A year in the life of we...
Our first meeting on SL..
It all started with a poke in Facebook...I only knew him as Doctorhawk Lord way back then, I started to notice his post, the music he posted was of similar taste to my own, also he posted some wonderful art work enhanced sometimes by Gimp ....somehow I felt a connection, but who would have thought what would unfold...not me for one...
It was a strange feeling to be drawn to someone you do not even know, but something compelled me to look out for him...I began to notice when he was not around, It was not stalking as they say, but just a feeling of knowing some thing was missing when his post did not appear.......and then one day I took courage and poked him, little did I know he would IM me straight back with a simple hello.....and from that moment all began....
At that time I was about to leave SL for good, for me it had become a place of solitude, nothing more than a world in which to create artworks, visit and explore Sim locations, I was tired of it and told Lord as much at our first meeting...even when you know there are in excess of 40,000 people logged in at any given time it can seem a very lonely place....
Getting to know each other
It was the end of January 2012 and meeting Lord in SL was very daunting for me, he seemed a larger than life character, but I could not have been more wrong, he was gentle, kind, understanding of my nerves and we soon fell into fits of laughter when hearing us for the first time in Skype .. 'secretly I was praying that he could speak and understand English' ...(he could do both very well)..
At the beginning I had always kept my own land/home, never relying on anyone else for what I had in SL, Lord had 3 parcels and soon we took a joint land and created a beautiful place to dream and live...he was learning that I was a stubborn independent English woman that would not just fall into his ideas.
Our first home together
I was learning that this Italian man was not just that, but very much more, I really could not imagine what was to follow, it seemed that we both had known each other a life time in those first few weeks, knowing each others thoughts and reading the mood signs before a word was sometimes spoken....we were also lucky that our time zones were only 1 hour apart....
The next coming weeks were a bit of a blur as we settled into our virtual lives we found that everything was spilling into our real lives and that we kept every spare moment with each other, and before I knew it we were getting married!! ...Me Daisy Silverweb getting married in SL and to a man that I had know only for a few weeks (but felt so much more)...
We were visiting a sim called Armenelos, dancing and chatting as we listened to the music, and then it happened, 'he asked me'... My heart raced, my body temperature rose, it was a crazy exciting feeling, I was scared, nervous and happy all in the same moment, it went silent, and then I answered ... " Yes, yes I will marry you" ...we both laughed, (I think mostly through nerves). My head was in a spin, it had only been a few weeks and here we were planning on getting married...
The Proposal..
We started to plan the wedding, it would be a quiet affair, just the two of us and the Minister, we created a special place in one of the parcel's Lord owned and we chose Celtic theme, a subject close to both of our hearts, (after all he is my knight in shinning armor) .. We both went in search for the perfect dress, what Lord chose was impressive, beautiful and of such grandeur how was i to match it, I have never been one for gowns in SL and did not have a clue where to start my search, I needn't have worried, Lord took me to the right place and I chose what I hope would compliment his outfit...then it was my hair...OMG I agonized over what style to choose, I think I actually bought about 6-8 before settling on the final style...I wanted him to be happy, I wanted to please him, I wanted this day to be the dream our lives had become....
The date was set to March 11th 2011 ..only 8 weeks since we had met, was this really happening!.....Soon everything was ready and I felt so nervous,I think I spent the who afternoon fixing my dress, changing my hair, my shoes, logging in and out of SL like a mad woman LOL, I should not have worried everything went off like the dream I imagined it to be, it was not just a feeling in SL that had grow between us, it had carried over to our real lives, I knew that I loved this man in all dimensions....he was my true soul mate...
Our special day..
The Bride
The Groom
Soon after the wedding we decided to leave the home we had taken together and move onto one of Lords parcels, (yes, finally i gave up my independence, much to Lords delight LOL) and we started to build a home for us, and the birth of SilverHawk Creations came into effect, Lord had previously had a store in Market Place and created some wonderful items, he encouraged me to start building, I had done some building in the past but only for my own use, he was and is a wonderful teacher, I have no patience and get frustrated with it all, but with his knowledge and skill he soon showed me the way forward.
We both love to take photographs in second life, mainly for our own enjoyment, and we both love to share our happiness and love with the world of Facebook, where much of the second life community also gather, if we are able to put a smile or good thought into the lives of just one person it is a joy for us....
Our garden
So next on the agenda was a in world store and photo studio which we designed and built between us, although we soon realised that to become a SL photographer would take dedication and time, we had the dedication but not the time, both working full time in real at that time we wanted only to keep the time we spent there together, so we decided to close up shop and keep it just to the Market place, we would take photo's on request only and were both content with this...
SilverHawk Creations Store and Gallery
At the end of March we discussed the idea of creating a family in SL, the practicality of it, we both wanted it, and I am proud to say Lord wanted it as much as I did.... but we wanted to live it as a real experience, what I mean is we did not want to just go and buy a baby or even make one of our own, we wanted to go through what it is like in real, but decided not to wait the 9 months.... We did some research, visited many SL clinics for information and then decided on our choice.
We found a fertility kit that enabled a real life experience, so after much deliberation we went with it. We live our virtual life much as we would in real so to tell you it took a couple of attempts to become pregnant is the truth, and the 9 weeks that followed were hard work for me....
Little did I realise that I would have to follow a health program, vitamins, diet and pain relief were all included in the kit we had purchased...over the coming 9 weeks we experienced the pregnancy as though it were real, I never p'd so much or took so many pills for headache's in my life LOL...my tummy grew and grew as the weeks past, 1 week slt for every 1 month real... we laughed many times over how many of the pills that rezzed I lost, I was not always quick enough to take them, (5 secs)...No wonder our land prim count kept disappearing ....
Support and Tenderness
We had already decided that we would like a baby girl when the time came, (the reasons for this were personal to our real lives) but what would we call her!! I wanted to choose an Italian name with meaning, hence she would be called Amaranta (Italian form of English Amarantha, a flower name meaning "unfading") And so on May 8th 2011 she was born...Lord who is normally the calm one was all of a dither, smoking, pacing, nerve's all over the place LOL...He was wonderful though and we had many tears of joy and laughter at the birth...
May 8th 2012
Papy's Princess
Two become Three
This was such an emotional time for us, it was a new chapter to our lives, little did we know how this tiny baby girl would effect us both, we would take care of her as if she lived real, as we always lived in this dimension. We watched her grow and learn, saw to her every need. To many people it is a crazy notion to have a child in a virtual would, but for us it was another part of our dream fulfilled, (for me especially as only Lord will ever understand).
Amaranta brought a new dimension to our second lives, and over the next coming months we would watch her grow, Zooby have given a lot of thought and creativity into one of their many products for which gave us much joy, laughter and stress!! ... We did not realise how panic stricken we would become when things went wrong, 'ie: her disappearance on some occasions' ... It happened a few times and always we (me more than Lord I think) got into such a flap over it, especially before we learned that there was a retrieval box at the store to find her LOL.
Learning to crawl
Play time
Up with Papy
Playing with Sheba
Family
Our family had grown, and with that we thought once again to a new home. We loved the land that we had created a dream for us in and even though it did not hold enough prim we wanted to keep living there, Lord came up with a plan, he would try to sell the land parcels that he owned and ask Linden if they would raise a parcel next to our current one enabling us to join them together....
With the way things were going in second life we (me mainly) did not hold out much hope to sell the smaller plots, but I was proved wrong once again and within days of advertising them they sold, and not only that Linden agreed to our request and gave us what we wanted...So plans for a new home began...
Before this new chapter began we had some major stresses in our lives, which sadly we paid the price for, life is not always a bed of roses in the virtual world, loving some one deeply, being a thousand miles apart, not being able to touch, feel, hold and comfort can be and is some times a very high price to pay as we were to find out ....We had, as many couple's in second life no doubt a few ups and downs on our journey, but this time it was much more.... I want not to go into the finer details but both of us suffered a pain indescribable, one that I do not wish to en-devour again...How we came through it was a miracle and I thank god for blessing me with the love of this man.
I realise that in second life there are many sorts of people, some say they will not mix real life with second life, I say it is impossible, you cannot love someone in a virtual world on a temporary basis, you cannot give and receive the feelings that you both share with out feeling it for real, personally I think that if you are able to do this then it is not love that you are feeling, and sometimes people forget that behind each Avatar there is a real person.
Anyway I digress, back on the path and in each others arms our love seemed stronger than ever, the plan for a new home continued but also with that another new member to our family would be appearing in 9 more stressful weeks LOL ...This time it would be a little boy, a sibling for Amaranta and another special meaning for us both.
This time we wanted to build our own home from scratch, and what a home Lord built for us, it was like something from a dream we had both shared. I will say that when Lord normally builds something it does not always come so quickly, but this house seemed to materialise from nothing.... it was/is beautiful ....and with the birth of Luke looming I was glad it did not take an age...
Home
Our dream house
Built by Lord
I could feel that Lord had put his heart and soul into this build, he was and is always doing things to make me happy and once again he succeeded tenfold...Once it was completed I could not wait to start the interior design, (it is one of my most favorite things to do in sl) and boy this time I was able to go wild, with the extra prims the children's room would be my priority, our room would be simple but with a feel of comfort and warmth...
Next would be the garden, I always loved to create the outside space, second life builders and creators of plants and tree's have come on in leaps and bounds, there is such a wonderful selection to be found giving the choice of all seasons. This time I asked Lord if he would take the lead and do as he desired in the outer garden, he always had let me do the gardens of our previous homes so I was keen to see what he would do, he designed a wonderful forest garden that we could ride our horses in....
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| Riding through the forest |
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| The forest garden |
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| Moonlight beauty |
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| Amaranta and I |
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| Amaranta exploring the gardens |
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| A view from the lake.. |
Next came another special moment in our virtual lives, Luke was born, 23rd November 2012, this time we knew what to expect and so the delivery would not be as stressful, (or so I thought) ...
On the night of the delivery there was some panic. Second Life was up to its normal tricks of crashing out every few minutes, Lord kept coming and going off line and I wondered if he would actually make it back at one point....but the SL gods were kind and enabled us to bring the little knight into the world safely and calmly....
Once again emotions took hold and tears flowed for us both, our family was complete... our dream home was now a reality and we still had Christmas to look forward too.
We knew it would be a difficult time for us both, not being together in real life meant that we would not share the joys of our first Christmas together, so we decided the next best thing would be to live the dream in virtual, to create a magical Christmas feel to our home...(yes you guessed it, the land was to get yet another make over LOL)...
Sometimes I know I am like a spoiled child, (as many adults can be) I can and do want things that I really could go without, but I wanted everything to be perfect for us, and Christmas is a wonderful time to create the perfect dream .....Snow, Lights, Tinsel, Santa, all of it brings a warmth in to each persons life.
I had many things in my invent that I had accumulated over the time I had been in second life, but really I wanted to create something new for us both, so the transformation began, Lord was also in his element with this new project and we were able together to create a wonderful winter home.
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| Snow Falls |
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| Snow and Ice |
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| Lights |
The scene was set and Christmas began, we were like kids in a candy shop, for us it was beautiful, a way to share Christmas time together even though far apart....distance can be a great barrier at times but we have come to realise that it is not a reason to stop loving and living what we have.
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| The garden became a winter wonderland |
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| Santa came for a visit! I really don't know who had more fun here LOL |
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| Fun and games |
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| Dancing on ice |
Christmas came and went along with new years, in which we also found time to share a special moment, to celebrate what we had and to thank god for it. Life is a gift and we should treat it as such, nothing happens casually and we are all here for a reason, Lord and I know more than most that our path has not always been an easy one, but with each passing day we have learned more about each other than many couples do in a lifetime together.
January seemed to pass quickly, we lost the snow and ice and waited for the spring to arrive, the garden became a painting of colour and beauty once more and we talked about what project to work on next, I loved our home/house and knew it would be hard to replace, but we both had thoughts about it but decided now was not the time, we would focus on building things for our respective stores.
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| Down the Garden Path |
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| A Sea of Colour |
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| A little piece of heaven |
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| A Peek Over the Garden Wall |
We never really have made many things for sale in the market place, mainly for our own personal use, and when Lord makes something I love more often than not I ask him not to put for sale LOL .... that is not to say we have not built much because I can tell you Lord has an inventory full of things he has created and just not had the time to market .... as for me I create things for children, I have never classed myself as a builder but have learnt a lot from Lord along the way.
Luke and Amaranta were growing, they are and have always remained a big part of our SL, they are part of our family life in this dimension and we treat them as such, they give us both much enjoyment in watching them develop and grow with each passing day. It is strange and I know many people will scoff at the way we choose to live our life but for us it is and always has be an extension of our real lives and we treat it as such.
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| Growing Up |
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| Luke & Amaranta |
February was soon upon us, and the excitement of Valentines day loomed, it is always exciting when there is a special occasion to celebrate, you would think that in a virtual world it would be much easier to decide what to do, where to go, what to wear, but I personally think that because we have so much choice there it is never easy to perfect LOL ....(I hear many people laugh at this, and probably think it is because i am a woman that cannot make up her mind, but believe me I have waited and waited for Lord to choose his outfit so it is not only a woman thing ) ! :p ....
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| Valentines.. |
I really do not know where the time goes in this dimension, for me it is hard to remember a time without Lord in my life, it is also hard to believe that once again over the next couple of weeks both of us went to hell and back. With our first years wedding anniversary looming, plans to renew our vows, what should have been a wonderful occasion turned out to be the darkest time of our relationship.
I will not go into the details of what happened as it is a very private and personal moment in our lives, needless to say I was the cause of the pain for Lord and myself, and I give thanks to god that he saw fit to bring us through this traumatic time and place me back into the arms of the man I love.
Most people looking for love (not that either of us were looking) wouldn't cite a long distance relationship as their ideal situation. But we can't help who we fall for, even if that person lives hundreds, or many thousands of miles away. In fact, sometimes, just for a moment, a long distance relationship may seem romantic, but before you make a resolution to only ever date people who live five miles away at the most, we can tell you that long distance relationships can work, and they can be amazing in fact.
And so, life returned to normal (well as normal as we know it lol) plans are afoot for a new house, blueprints are in hand, although Lord keeps loosing the building tools ( that's his excuse) so I think this time it will be a slow process, but maybe we should see something before the end of the year! ... One can only live in hope :o)
Our new inworld store has been opened, not sure how long we will keep it for as both of us are prim monsters and are always swapping and changing things round, coming up with idea's for this and that... and with Lords list of projects it is a never ending process LOL ...This blog idea was his...and yes, you guessed it, yours truly ends up writing it, not that I mind, I have always wanted to try it out, and women do have more to say than men, well some!!!
In between all these ongoing projects we do still find time to go on sim visits, snapping photo's (a great passion we share)
I will not go into the details of what happened as it is a very private and personal moment in our lives, needless to say I was the cause of the pain for Lord and myself, and I give thanks to god that he saw fit to bring us through this traumatic time and place me back into the arms of the man I love.
Most people looking for love (not that either of us were looking) wouldn't cite a long distance relationship as their ideal situation. But we can't help who we fall for, even if that person lives hundreds, or many thousands of miles away. In fact, sometimes, just for a moment, a long distance relationship may seem romantic, but before you make a resolution to only ever date people who live five miles away at the most, we can tell you that long distance relationships can work, and they can be amazing in fact.
And so, life returned to normal (well as normal as we know it lol) plans are afoot for a new house, blueprints are in hand, although Lord keeps loosing the building tools ( that's his excuse) so I think this time it will be a slow process, but maybe we should see something before the end of the year! ... One can only live in hope :o)
Our new inworld store has been opened, not sure how long we will keep it for as both of us are prim monsters and are always swapping and changing things round, coming up with idea's for this and that... and with Lords list of projects it is a never ending process LOL ...This blog idea was his...and yes, you guessed it, yours truly ends up writing it, not that I mind, I have always wanted to try it out, and women do have more to say than men, well some!!!
In between all these ongoing projects we do still find time to go on sim visits, snapping photo's (a great passion we share)
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| Venice |
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| Alarium |
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| Worlds End Garden |
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| Armenelos, will always be a special place for us. |
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| My Knight is also my Dragon LOL |
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| Bed and Breakfast sim
Our journey continued -
As many of you have seen SL has many a wondrous and beautiful places to visit, with the advancement of Mesh and Lindens server side baking things are moving on, it is a place to live and create dreams for sure.
It is now September, time is moving on and we have made many a change in our SL in these past 6 months, we decided to close our in world store and focus mainly on our photography studio, we continue to build and sell our items in the market place for now.
Now let me think to what has occurred in these past months, with the closing of our store Lord designed and built us a new photo studio, (which is absolutely stunning, shhh don't tell him I don't want his head growing bigger LOL), this led to a friend requesting a build similar for her store, so he was very busy in this time, whilst he was concentrating on this I was constantly thinking to a new home for us, we had seen a beautiful build on a visit to another creators store, but decided against it, Lord told me he would build a similar one in time.
   
We were accepted into the SL10 birthday celebrations and this let us set up on a plot of land provided by Linden to create anything we wished, we decided to focus on our love of Celtic life and build a picture of a dream we both share. It was a lot of fun and we enjoyed the experience.
  
Our children have grown, Luke started to walk and Amaranta had someone to play with apart from myself and Lord ^.^ I know many people have a disregard for children in SL and I myself was always very sceptical about it and never dreamed that two sets of prims could bring so much fun, love and laughter into my life, BUT it is so and we would not be without them, they are and will always be a big part of our lives.
Lukes first steps.
Summer of 2013
Luke and Amaranta
Fun in the water.
We entered a photo contest, well I was invited to do so and got Lord to enter also,(and wouldn't you just know it, Lord came 2nd, cheeky monkey that he is), I was well surprised that I came anywhere but got 3rd place :) Lord has always been great with photography and has taught me a lot of what I have learned, I have spent time learning morphing as well as some shadow work in world. Here are the two pics that we entered. Our thanks to 'Seil Epression' for the invite to enter.
 
My entry
After this Lord was asked to make a promotional video for a shopping mall and did a wonderful job, he also made a great video whilst on a visit to a friends Latin nights event, it turned out really well, he is becoming quite the aficionado with the video camera now, so if you want your dreams captured be sure to give him a call. You can see the films on our Video link page.
So the photography studio is picking up slowly , we are getting new clients and taking on advertising work for creators so it seems the dream we share is taking shape, looks like exciting times to come. We would like to thank those who have chosen SilverHawk Creations as their preferred photographers.
With all this going on we (me LOL) still dreamed of the house we had seen and slowly dropped subtle hints about changing the land, or even just the garden, hoping that Lord would be swayed into either finishing the house he had started to build or giving in to taking the new one.... and and ...guess what ....yep yep yep.....we were getting a new house, the dream house that I fell in love with, we went back for a visit and looked at almost everything the creator had in stock, inside I was excited and thought to myself 'yes this is it we will get it today' but no... Lord still could not decided so we left empty handed LOL. I did not mind really, the home we had and that Lord had built was beautiful and familiar with what we had grown with.
Then a day before Lord was going away for a few days he said 'Amore do you want to take that house into your invent,' I told him no, it is ok I can wait, he told me 'I do not want you to take it' I was a bit disappointed but what happened next made me jump for joy LOL... He told me 'I will take it for you now and whilst I am away you can make it into our home' ... I know it is just a house made of prims, but sometimes you get a feeling about something that brings you closer together, that gives a deeper meaning to what you have, this house was an Italian Farm House 'Tuscan in style as our friend 'Moki Yuitza' informs me :) the textures are beautiful and it is extremely well made. For me this house brought me closer to Lord, (if that is at all possible) It had meaning and has planted seeds of more dreams in our souls...
   
I cannot begin to tell you how it makes me feel living this dream, with a man that I would give my life for, he has made our time together everything a person could wish for, oh I don't proclaim that it is always a bed of roses, our life in this dimension is as close to what we would live in real, there are as in all relationships ups and down, tears and laughter, joy and sadness, but what I can say is that I would not change it for the world.... It is what we have for now, It is a way for us to continue living as one, sharing, giving, taking loving and living all.... we have both grown so much in this time together, coming to understand the frustrations of not being under the same roof.... we surely are living proof that it can be done and my advice to anyone that would ask me would be " Don't ask why, just do and follow your heart"
   
My heart and soul
We have also managed to get in a few sim visits in our travel time and found some more beautiful spots, here are a selection of snaps we made along the way...
La Perla - A beautiful old Italian village
Frisco Utah - RP sim wild west
Disney Museum - A must for the child within us all
Blackspot Shipyard - Sea port
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Saltwater Sim - Beautiful beach themed sim
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Dedicated to the one I love..I Believe In You..
I believe in you....In your spirit, your goodness, in the way that you face each day with a commitment to your life and the things that really matter.
I believe in the decisions you make, in the careful consideration you give each challenge, in the perseverance you've shown when others might have given up.
I believe that you possess an extraordinary strength and endless reserve of resilience! Even more than you realise.
You are a person of enormous courage, someone truly special in this world, a rare and beautiful gift to me....Don't ever forget that I believe in you..
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Do you know what loving you does for me?
Do you know what loving you does for me? Do you understand what being with you has done for my soul, for my spirit? It has made me soar above the uncertainties of this world, beyond the pressures and conflicts of everyday living.
When we're together, I forget there is even another place out there ~ our private world is the only one i'm aware of, and I love getting lost in you...I love how being with you feels like a crush ~ like I just can't ever get enough.
Do you know what loving you does for me? It brings so much happiness every second...Every minute...Every hour of my life.
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Sometimes I think about the first time I realised that I love you...
It was as if my eyes took a picture of that moment and stored it in my heart. Sometimes I think about how much my life has changed because of you, I think about you and your happiness...About us, and our life together ... and I realise that you are as much a part of me now as the air I breathe and the dreams I nurture... I love you simply this....
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So as you can see we have been busy bee's these past few month's and with lots more dreams and projects to full-fill we continue on our path. We hope that those who take the time to read our story so far will or have found as much joy and happiness in this virtual realm as we have. God bless and good wishes to all.
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October 1st.
October is here already, summer has left us with autumn and with that we have decided to remodel our home/land. We already had the new farmhouse in place and wondered what we could create this time to fit in with it, with a few chats with Linden Lord took a further plot of land that adjoined our own giving us extra prims to use, (apparently I am the prim monster and waste alot LOL).
We have always been able to create ourselves a beautiful dream home, with lovely gardens or water features but this time we wanted something a bit different so with a lot of debating we have decided to try and create a small village scene, the surrounding area is walled by a dock with a view out to sea, within the walls so far are a chapel, formal garden, a small shop (built by me hehehe) not without help from Lord I add, also in progress is a Bistro/pizzeria!! being constructed by my better half.... it looks pretty wonderful so far and hopefully will soon be completed and we will have pictures to show here.
We are debating whether to move our photo studio to another location as it is currently situated in our home land, time will tell no doubt, and when the land is finished we will use it for photo shoots for clients and alike. We continue with our photography and have started to grow a steady client base, we would like to thank all that have chosen SilverHawk studio's as their photographer of choice.
Amaranta and Luke are both full grown as from today, so no more of the frequent trips to Zooby's sadly, I know many people are sceptical of prim babies in SL but let me tell you they have brought many tears and lots more laughter to our lives in the virtual world than many would believe, as I have said before they will always remain a part of our lives there, for me it is a happy and sad day rolled into one ( a bit like when a child reaches 18 in rl and they are no longer dependant on their parents). But at least we have our memories, photographs and video's to look back on their lives from birth, they are memories I will treasure for the rest of my life, two beautiful gifts of love (tears fall)...I thank god and Lord for them both.
 
We have started another blog, this time blogging fashion in SL for designers that wish to advertise their creations. So I have been busy with that, learning and creating a new site, spending a lot more time in photoshop than i thought I would be, but it is early days and hopefully things will settle down. Lord has made a few more wedding video's (which turned out beautifully i might add). Makes me quite envious that we never had one made of our special day, but the other video's that Lord has made of us are more than beautiful and I never tire to watch them.
Looking forward there are only 85 days to go until Christmas, yes '85' you heard me right LOL, this year has flown by and not long after that we will reach our 2 years together. I don't know where all the time goes, it just seems to fly past, but saying that it seems to me as though we have spent a life time together, and not only 2 years, I honestly cannot remember a time without Lord in my life, and even with the everyday stresses of real life we endure we always keep time for us.
October 11th....
Well as promised we have some progress on our project :) ..we have moved our photo studio to another land and opened it for public visits, we have also launched our SilverHawk photography group and are gradually gaining members, (thank you to all those that have joined thus far). Here is the LM to our studio SilverHawk Photography The home project has also moved on in leaps and bounds and we will soon be able to offer a photography package that will include a romantic meal and photo shoot at our newly built pizzeria, suitably named "Thats Amore" (big smile).  
We hope to be able to offer you a visit to a nice quiet spot, where you will be able to select your choice of meal from the menu, and whilst sipping a glass of wine you will be serenaded with beautiful violin music played by none other than my other half.... when you have had your fill you will be able to take a bike ride around the land or a walk through the forest to sit round the camp fire and sip hot chocolate cuddling with your loved one or chatting with a friend, or maybe your prefer a walk or some dancing to soft romantic music. Your photograph will be take whilst you are here and it will be available for a viewing once it is ready.
We will keep you updated with further progress on this offer as and when it is available.
January 1st 2014
Well another year has passed and we move on to 2014, over the past few months our lives have been very busy in real, so unfortunately we did not get to open the land as stated, for now it is on the back burner as there is not the time right now to focus on it, but we do hope to hold some events there in the future.
Lord and I have both been busy with the photography, he much more so with the video's and this is one of the things that eats away much of the time, I do not think people realise how much work goes into the making of them, it is not just simply capturing the event as is happens, well it is, but then afterwards there is the editing process which can take an age just to get it right, cutting and splicing pieces together to make a beautiful creation for the client. (he is rather good at it) ... I am immensely proud of him for what he manages to achieve, and especially for one event, Lord was asked by Asia Connell to make a video of her dedication to the " Memory of Nassiriya" He had never made a video with the audio of speech before and did and outstanding job. (you can watch the film here "In Memory of Nassiriya "
Luke and Amaranta have made a few more advances as Zooby released some updates (more money in the bank for them LOL) ...But for us is worth every penny spent ...ehm I mean Linden :-) .... And You have to give credit where it is due, Zooby have cornered the market in what they do,(in my opinion) so all respect to them.... and who knows, we might just hear the sound of pitter patter of tiny feet once again this year ....smiles ...
Currently our home is in winter theme so I am thinking of plans for the spring and what we will create this time, I love re-designing land, planting, building and creating, it is like composing a painting full of colour, and I am sure I will have Lord working hard to fulfill yet another dream.
Last night he surprised me yet again with new years celebrations..
What I thought was going to be a quiet evening in turned out to be a beautiful family evening, I know some people think we are crazy but let me tell you as always we live our virtual as real as we can, so it was a special meal (cooked by Lord, I cleared the dishes lol) and then to my surprise we carried the children out to the garden and watched a wonderful firework display on the count of midnight.. It was fantastic, some creators astound me in SL in what they are able to achieve, the many talents of people in a world that seems at times to come to life, enabling to give joy and happiness to people miles and miles apart.
Winter at home
Santa's Been
New Years Eve
Plans for this year .....nothing really concrete as of yet, a few idea's on the drawing board, but we shall see... JANUARY 2014...
A new year begins, over the next few months we have a few things to celebrate, my RL birthday, our 2 years of meeting and our 2nd wedding anniversary... Many people will wonder just how we have managed to stay together for so long, we have seen many many people in and out of SL relationships in our time together, so we know along with everyone else that the paths do not always run smooth in the virtual.
Our path has not always been an easy one, we would be lying if we said otherwise, BUT we are here, we have made it passed another mile stone, and what might seem only 2 years in the virtual world can feel like a life time in real. It takes a lot to live this life but surely we are living proof that it can be done....
"How do you do it?" some might ask! ... well our SL has entered our RL in more ways that one, it takes a lot of understanding, patients, support, trust, loyalty and much much more, but when you love someone enough, time and distance are put aside, you both work hard at the relationship to arrive at the place you both want to be...Yes we have had our ups and downs, the same as any married couple living in real but we have some how managed to work through them all ... personally I think we have beaten the odds of the SL relationship. So all I can tell you is "if you want it, work at it, cherish and nurture it, you can and will get there if you both desire it".
So my birthday came and went and Lord took me out to celebrate, we went to the Pixel Pot restaurant for a 'beautiful meal' and lovely surroundings, one could get used to being waited on at meal times LOL, but I can tell you that it is well worth the visit if you are looking for somewhere to go for that special occasion.
PS. I also had a new moto.......Yeah!! Pink!! \o/    
So on that note I would like to dedicate a small poem to my hubby, and tell him that I love him more than words can ever say.... I want to thank him for everything that he has taught me, given me, shared with me, for loving me, dreaming with me, for staying at my side through the good and bad times, for picking me up when I fall, and most of all for being who he is..........
I wonder if I dreamed of you-
if you would appear?
To make my nights full of love,
and always hold me near.
I wonder if I thought of you-
if you would feel it in your soul?
Like two spirits in the universe,
who always seem to know.
Even if the stars went black
and the sun were to shine no more.
They could find their way to each other,
no matter how far the shore.
Safely in each others arms,
to bid the rest of time.
Finding Eternal Love
so many seek to find.
Caring for each other
through the worst of storms.
Leaning on the arms of love
and never need anymore.
This is how I feel for you,
I've known it all along.
You are my one true love
My world.. My heart.. My soul!
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