Hm... I guess it´s time to come clear

Hello Lovelies,
yes, I´m still alive ... thank God? Unfortunately? I´ll leave that up to you.
There are no words that can express how terribly sorry I am to have poofed so suddenly, without a word. It´s nothing you should do, especially not as a sponsored blogger.
Let me give you a short recap of what happened in the last 3 years:

•  I had a major burnout, followed by a boreout cos my colleagues didn´t give me any tasks after the burnout in case it was too much for me (well cleaning the coffee machine 3 times a day really does your head in, trust me...)
•  there was a nasty break-up as in I got dumped pathetically
• I was at home for 2 years - plenty of time but I was struggling financially as it is and my desktop was too old to run SL properly, let alone take acceptable pics
• I met the man of my dreams and we became best friends
• I started StarWars Cosplay and joined the 501st Legion German Garrison as                TI - 68713
• I got a new laptop and returned to SL because as you might remember I abuse Kasha for Character Pics *coughs*
• Last Christmas I got a new PC (admit it you sung it in your head^^) 
• I started retraining as an office clerk (I worked in offices for years, but in Germany you need a certificate for everything...)

So yeah, while I do have the hardware to blog again I´m nowhere near capable of returning to where I was.
Back then it was like this:

1.  styling
2. setting up the spot
3. cranking the graphics up
4. praying to whoever was available - all of them
5. taking the pic
6. cropping/"editing"
7. typing the blog entry in blogspot (this one is actually written on wordpress^^)
8. posting
9. PR: 

• crossposting to WordPress, Tumblr, moolto, what have you
• FB (the blog´s page, Kashas Profile, about 300 SL Fashion groups (no really... I kid you not...)
• inworld groups
•  Flickr including all tags, links, groups

all of that took me up to 3 hours PER POST.
My current SL budget is 40€ a month which is about 12k L$, 7k for rent and 5k for shopping. You see that´s dropped down severely. Now with D (the name continues but let´s introduce him as D ^^) ...we´re going to move in next year but until then the cats and I go over every other weekend plus there are the 501st events, we´re in 2 PNP rounds (Shadowrun 5 and D´n´D 5) and  we´ve got a monthly SW get-together so it´s one free weekend. My retraining is full-time so that kills another 10 hours every Mon - Thu, 6 every Friday.  I´ve started bullet-journalling (yes, I do have one for SL, too XD) and I´ve started to clean my inventory, take pics of the  stuff I didn´t take pics of back then (accessories, poses, furniture, textures) - I´m down 21k (still 62k in there^^).
Plus there´s these damn Mesh heads. I´ve demoed everyone and their kids and moms and whatever I could find... NOT ONE I liked... so this will take quite a while, too.
You get the idea, IF I´d return to blog there´d be waaaaay less  PR, it´d basically just be:

• yadda yadda -> post
• crosspost to either Blogspot or WordPress
• FB: Blog page and Kasha´s page
• inworld groups
• Flickr

plus it´d be waay less frequent of course and not regularly. I just can´t tell how much I´ll be on tomorrow, next week, what have you.
I miss blogging, I really do. But that´s the only way it could be. There´s no way any sponsors would accept me (back) like this so I wouldn´t have sponsored posts and deadlines either.
Ok ,now you´re informed what happened, why I did what I did and yeah. I´d love to talk to you though. Via IM inworld or on the forums? I´m quite active there...
Til then,
Love,
Kasha

Game of Thrones - House Troy

Hey Lovelies,

hm ok I couldn´t let this opportunity pass.
When Wicca saw yesterday´s post she offered me a dress. ME! a DRESS! ..well challenge  accepted.
She surprised me with a model called Cercei.

Now for all Game of Thrones Fans out there this name DOES ring a bell or two and most likely not the most positive ones.
Neither does it with me to be honest as I´m not a fan of the House Lannister (ok Tyrion is ace but that´s the acception to the rule). This post gives me the chance to portrait a very own version of Cercei though  - which is a pure pleasure because well Ikari and I are Game of Thrones fans, my RL phone´s Background and cover feature both our banner sign and family motto:

ok it features an old motto *gg*

The motto had been changed to "Family, Duty, Honour", when Jacob Troy was made head of the Clan as a wedding gift. His aunt abdicated as the Head of the Clan after binding us as husband and wife. (Jacob Troy and Arali'wa Raven-Troy are our RP Chars at sw-empire.de , a German StarWars ChatRoleplay, you met my other Char Rhian de-Girondel at my first collaboration with Wicca).

Another sign of my love for GoT MIGHT be the name of our RL cats, who moved in when I moved to this lovely flat on July 1st, 2013:

Arya (left) and Daenerys (aka Dani. right), 

2 spanish girls I got from a shelter, born Feb 26th, 2013

But now let´s get to my interpretation of Cercei: 

I am not Cercei Lannister, nor will I ever be. I understand that she would do anything for her children (so would I, even though at this point in my life my "children" are those two cats or close friends from the RP I mentioned above - lovely young adults aged 24,22 and 16), but the most dominant part that is portrayed in the HBO Series´ - and I think n the books as well is one her being a cruel woman with no mercy and a big love for intrigues (and her brother Jaime - no I could not let that slip *gg* - well until he lost his hand that is... - see  - she´s mean!). 

The dress inspired me to do a softer version of Cercei... Cersha if you want ...Kacei? Pfft you get the intentions my clever lovelies,

black haired instead of blonde, tattoed (hey it´s mainly roses  - the flower of looooove ;) )

I even put my hair into a bun to show you the lovely backside ...of the dress - and my tattoo which fits so perfectly to the laced corset (Wicca knows of my love and passion for corsets *blushes*). 

(excuse my poor attempts at picture editing XD still learning)

What? What was that? Because Tommen is not old enough yet and Joffrey is dead Cercei is the current Queen and a Queen needs a crown?

Happy now? :P Both crown and this epic shoulderpiece are included of course. 

I´ll tell you another secret: They´re engraved.... What they say you ask? According to Wicca´s husband Redclaw Inshan it says :

 Ruler of the Seven Kingdoms

StyleCard:

My Standards

Dress, Crown and Shoulderpiece of Epicness: Wicca´s Wardrobe

*available @ Tales of Fantasy - more detail about that here*

Shoes: Alyce

Hair: Truth (Dariela and Snow)

Poses: Glitterati

Backdrop: PNP now known as Katink

In her vendor ads Wicca kept a bit more to the TV version just so you see the comparison:

and those are all the colours you can grab :

Now tell me my lovelies, what do you think of my interpretation? 

Love, 

Akasha