A Cozy Holiday Ball

A Cozy Holiday Ball
"Dear Virginia:
"Your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age.
They do not believe except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little.
"In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! How dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus.
There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The external light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus.
"The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in this world.
"You tear apart the baby's rattle to see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart.
"Only faiths, poetry, love, romance can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.
"No Santa Claus? Thank God he lives, and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood."
—Francis P. Church

"No Santa Claus? Thank God he lives, and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood."

We do believe that one line alone has stood the test of time !!
It is with both equal parts of Pride and Humility
Piermont Landing is pleased to invite all to
“A Cozy Holiday Ball”

When: Saturday December 27th 2008
Time: 6pm to 9pm Second Life Time
Place : Piermont Landing
Music provided by : The Amazing DJ Bats

With the busy holiday season upon us, We have decided with the help of our dear friends and neighbors some of the best of the best in second life retail to give and do something for each of YOU this Month !!

Two Trees - One for the Gals and One for the Guys .
Click on the tree of your gender one time and get a Christmas Gift.
25 gifts and gift certificates ranging from 300 to 800 lindens on each tree. 50 in all.

You don’t want to miss “A Cozy Holiday Ball"
With the help and kindness of Our Sponsors from all around the Grid,
Piermont Landing is able to Give to Each of YOU...
Over $L17,500.00 worth of gifts and gift certificates!!!

Sponsored by
House of Frye
Capalini Fine Furnishings
HatPins
Silent Sparrow
Avid
Smooth Desings
The Curious Seamstress
Ordinal Enterprises
Pearse'd & Cut
Skusting Dagger Galley
Mechanix Arms and Oddments Shop
Xcentricity
Kiergarten Armoury
Merryman Machinations
Her Dark Materials
The Little Red Pen
Black Barnacle Tattoo Parlorr

Please join us in support of each of them and Please do come to A Cozy Holiday Ball

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
A Happy and Joyful New Year
From We to YOU and Yours
Joyfully Yours
Breezy Carver & Skusting Dagger

Black Barnacle Tattoos

It has been quite a while since any new tattoos have arrived at the shop (conveniently located on the floating rat trap houseboat behind Ruby's Pub in the Canal District, but that is about to change. New designs are being created as we speak and should start arriving at the parlor over the next couple of weeks. (if not sooner). The new offerings will all be mono-toned and fully tintable should the original color not be to one's liking.
They are being designed and geared towards the adventurous (and sometimes over adventurous) pirate, air pirate, and sea-farer in us all. All my designs are made from scratch, and none are downloaded procured from any other sources. The new offerings are inspired by some fevered absinthe dreams of my dear Breezy, which she relayed to me in a low voice as I held her hand as she slept.

Here is a smattering of existing designs currently on sale...


Also available at XStreet SL (SLX)
NEW TATS COMING SOON!

An Autumn Mystery Ball

Mark your calendars!

I Am the Autumnal Sun
Henry David Thoreau

Sometimes a mortal feels in himself Nature
-- not his Father but his Mother stirs
within him, and he becomes immortal with her
immortality. From time to time she claims
kindred ship with us, and some globule
from her veins steals up into our own.

I am the autumnal sun,
With autumn gales my race is run;
When will the hazel put forth its flowers,
Or the grape ripen under my bowers?
When will the harvest or the hunter's moon
Turn my midnight into mid-noon?
I am all sere and yellow,
And to my core mellow.
The mast is dropping within my woods,
The winter is lurking within my moods,
And the rustling of the withered leaf
Is the constant music of my grief....

Indeed there is something in the air
A Mist of Mystery
All are invited to dance the night away as
Piermont Landing is Proud to Present

An Autumn Mystery Ball
Saturday, November 22, 2008
6pm SLT to 9pm SLT
We shall supply the clues.
All you need to do is dress well.
Have fun as you
figure out the who, what, and why
Music by The One and Only DJ Bats

Prizes from our Wonderful Sponsors
The House of Frye
Capalini Fine Furnishings
Hatpins
And Cash Lindens
Ah yes and of course as always Fun and Memories

Hope to See YOU all there
Sincerely with Mystery
Breezy Carver & Skusting Dagger

A Masquerade

More details as they come will be posted at the New Babbage Ning

The Adventures of Space Rangerette

Our story begins as Rangerette contemplates the rising sun on her home planet on the day of the big journey ahead. This may be the last time she sees this sun rise above her city. She calms herself on this serene morning even as the adrenalin cause her heart to beat with anticipation of the lift off.



Getting ready to board her craft, she stands calm and steadfast in her resolve under the massive rocket which will take her to parts unknown...



One last look at her home before strapping in and preparing for flight...



To Be Continued...

The Engineer's Ball - An Astounding Success

First, a message from my dear Breezy Carver...

Good Morning Please excuse my delay here ... as I did need a day to gather my thoughts ...
Number one I wish to thank each of the (63) guests that attended this event ... For it is each one of you and the time you took to attend that made it a success and to the many who IMed my and Skusting and could not attend thankyou from my heart for caring enough to do so I really mean that ..

Each person really does matter ...we are each real live people behind these characters and the passion and caring for New Babbage showed tenfold and Wheatstone waterways was a bit extra bright Saturday night because of each of YOU .... Thankyou to the Mayor for keepin an eye and even upping the count .. None of us had any Idea how this would go .. I will say it is proof when you do something with thought and from your heart .. sure one might make mistakes but as long as one is genuine and really tries to do the right thing .. I think it really all pans out just right .. We shall attempt this again in October thinking October 18th it shall be in period again a Masquerade Ball to celebrate Babbage ... These events shall always be in theme to our dear city and period ..... We are planning our best to an earlier 2 hour event for our dear friends of different time zone ( but the evening will run 6 to 9 pm slt) ....
Again from Skusting and Myself thankyou soo much .. Safe and Happy Jorneys to all ..
Always Breezy ... warm smile wow this thread hit 200 ..-posts .. twirlsssssss ....

Indeed this was a night to remember in New Babbage. I could hardly believe the turnout for this grand ball. everybody in their finery, and everybody so happy to be there mingling with their friends and neighbors, many who met for the first time that night. My deepest thanks to dear Breezy for all the hard work she had put into this. I would also wish to thank Canolli Capalini for her generous donations of prizes for Best Dressed, and Bats Enoch for the amazing music!

Which brings me to this...
$L500 gift certificates from Capalini Fine Furnishings and Portrait Gift Certificates from Dagger & Swindlehurst Photographic Enterprises we awarded to Delilah Nephilim for Best Dressed Lady, and to Baron KlausWulfenbach Outlander for Best Dressed Man.
The $L2500 prize for Best Scripted Cog Fountain went to Nikita Weymann (the fountain is now installed at the top of the Grand Stairway at Piermont Landing) and $L500 each went to Bela Lubezki and Greg Merryman for a second place tie. Breezy and I thank you all for the hard work you put into these fountains


Our first guest of the evening. Baron KlausWulfenbach Outlander. Many thanks, dear Baron, for your kind words and enthusiasm, and they way you were able to put Breezy at ease over her nervousness!


Dancing the night away in fine company.


Breezy shares a dance with the Baron.


The Winning Fountain Entry by Miss Nikita Weymann.


Saving the last dance of the evening for Breezy!

Photos by Breezy Carver

The Engineer's Ball

Breezy Carver and Skusting Dagger
are proud to announce
a Victorian Steampunk Affair to Remember...

The Engineer's Ball
Saturday, September the 13th
6pm SLT
Piermont Landing
Wheatstone Waterways, New Babbage
Formal Attire Required

Come One, Come All
To the Engineer's Ball!
Ladies and Gentleman,
Young and Old,
Human, Furry, and Tiny,
Automatons, even!
Everybody is invited!

Fabulous Prizes!

$L500 Gift Certificate to Capalini Fine Furnishings
and a Free Portrait Sitting at Skusting Dagger Photo Studio
for Best Dressed Lady

$L500 Gift Certificate to Capalini Fine Furnishings
and a Free Portrait Sitting at Skusting Dagger Photo Studio
for Best Dressed Gentleman

$L2500 prize for
Best Scripted Cog Fountain
28 prim limit
The winning entry will be installed at Piermont Landing