Garden Updates: Cherry Blossom & Flame Lily

A first in the history of the Qbee shop blog, we're updating with not one, but two new looks featured below, both beautiful and freshly sprouted from our Songbird Garden of Shapes!

A pallid bloom, Cherry Blossom appears feminine, soft, and delicate from the snowy pale of her skin to the light blushing of her cheeks. Cherry Blossoms personify a devout warrior whose life ended early within the wintry battle and with innocence forever remembered through the young, fallen blossoms.

A flower with proud petals in a fiery gradient, Flame Lily represents glorious beauty and is flower familiar to the east. An ember soul, she's the most spirited of the lilies.

Visit / * qbee's garden to bloom your own Cherry Blossom or Flame Lily and to collect lucky flower chair surprises and group offerings! If you spot one of the Qbee shopkeepers wandering the garden in-world she will surprise you with a special shopkeeper-exclusive treat too. Hugs!

Paisley Pretty group gifts in 3 variations - Unicorn Revenant (left), Cafe Berry (middle), and Peony (right).
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Return to the Songbird Garden:
In-world
Marketplace

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."

Garden Update: Black Lotus

Black Lotus has been part of Qbee for over a month now, and over a month have I not updated Qbee's blog! (Shame on me, worst blogger ever! And to think I used to have literally thousands of LiveJournal entries back in 2000...how times have changed!) With KittyCatS and Guild Wars 2 to sidetrack me from blogging, I (finally) present to you Qbee's curviest shape, Black Lotus!

Black Lotus is revered in a plethora of cultures as the epitome of unmarred beauty, and tenuous in her shades of black. The Black Lotus specifically demonstrates tragic romance for future lovers falling in love with a beauty so dangerous yet so bewitching with her shadowed petals. She's a both seductive yet chaotic flower who wishes to shadow others with her beauty.

Throughout the time that Black Lotus has resided on our marketplace and in our in-world store, I've received several inquiries about Black Lotus' origin and the lotus flower overall in regards to Qbee - a black lotus doesn't imply neither a Buddhist nor Hindi reference as the color isn't one represented by either, it's a fantasy flower depicting dangerous beauty and dark magic.

Much thought (and love!) poured into Black Lotus through creating a curvier body due to popular suggestion and constructing a more mature face than some of Qbee's other existing shapes to depict her flower properly, I really hope to discover more flowers to lend a curvier bodies to in the future - curves are lovely and I'm grateful for this chance to fine-tune a curvier body with a suiting flower inspiration. And yes, a true lotus with potentially Hindu or Buddhist influences will one day cultivate itself in our Songbird garden, so stay tuned!

Visit / * qbee's garden to bloom your own Black Lotus and to collect lucky flower chair surprises and group offerings! Make sure to snag these group gifts before the next round of group gifts are released, which will be coming up soon! If you spot one of the Qbee shopkeepers wandering the garden in-world she will surprise you with a special shopkeeper-exclusive treat too. Hugs!

Paisley Pretty group gifts in 3 variations - Unicorn Revenant (left), Cafe Berry (middle), and Peony (right).
View the full-size version.

Return to the Songbird Garden:
In-world
Marketplace

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."

Garden Update: Fresh Round of Summery Group Gifts!

Basking in the summery weather of August, Paisley Pretty embodies the warm, light-heartedness of this season in floral and paisley 3 variations - Unicorn Revenant (left), Cafe Berry (middle), and Peony (right) shown below, all available as group gifts of Qbee including mesh skirt, tanktop, summery flower sunglasses, and hairband. Which Paisley Pretty best suits you? Hugs!(*´・ｖ・)

Paisley Pretty for this summery season in 3 variations - Unicorn Revenant (left), Cafe Berry (middle), and Peony (right).
View the full-size version.

Visit / * qbee's garden to cultivate these group gifts. If you spot one of the Qbee shopkeepers she will surprise you with a special shopkeeper-exclusive treat too. Hugs!


Return to the Songbird Garden:
qbee @ Cherry Blossom
Marketplace

"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."

New beginnings: / * qbee has moved!

We are back, and ready for visitors at our new location!

 Just as spring transitions into summer, rivers into oceans, we have finally and fully transitioned onto our new sim. Deer has spent the last 2 months hand decorating everything, terraforming the land, adding tons of scenic locations to make our new garden the best place on Second Life to hang out.

As some of you may know, we had a huge disaster about 2 months ago and lost our entire store to SL. Long story short, Deer decided it was time to move, and we relocated to the lovely sim, Cherry Blossom (84/164/21). We (I sit there, Deer works) have been hustling and scrambling to create an all new garden, that looks even better than the last one, but still has the same feel and style. Deer's work is never over, and she is always adding, removing, and restyling her land, but we are finally ready to "officially" open and welcome everyone to come join us!


View of the Garden from Mt. Deeth. (click to enlarge)

Plenty of locations are available for you to come and discover, take pictures, enjoy with your special someone, or just stop on by and listen to our epic personalized radio station, designed to be soothing, perfect for our cozy garden.


I don't even know what she's doing here.

We will be continuing in qbee tradition very soon, releasing our monthly group gifts, hunts, and various other things Deer loves to do (she's crazy, sometimes she just rides bikes in the rivers for no reason). I don't want to ruin any surprises, but next month should be interesting. Our skin shop will be opening very soon as well, as we attempt to make our garden a place for everyone to cultivate and personalize their own unique look for their Second Life. So stop on by, say hello, and come enjoy the lovely views, unique landscapes, as well as meet some of our animal friends that have wandered into the garden.


One of the lovely cottages we have constructed around the garden.

Have a nice day everyone, and I hope to see you all very soon!