Garden Update: Iris Skin & Group Gift

Qbee's long journey in creating a natural-looking skin has come to a close as we release - at last - our first official skin, Iris, in three skin tones inspired by tree bark with our palest as the birch tree, our medium as the rowan tree, and our light tan as the willow tree, each skin tone comes with five different eyebrow colors - light brown, dark brown, black, blonde, and an auburn red, and an optional eyeliner. We hope to vary out the skin tones offered in the future and switch it up a bit so that a multitude of skin tones can be highlighted to cater to everyone's tastes.

Group members (entry is free as well) of Qbee may claim the Iris skin with lightly dusted freckles in the rowan tone now from either the main store or our new satellite store, whose sim name is also Iris. Iris with freckles is on the group gift table with the group joiner and the rest of the gifts. The group gift comes with three eyebrow colors - light brown, dark brown, and an auburn red.


Qbee hopes that you enjoy perusing our garden and seeing which skin tone suits you the best, whether rowan, willow, or birch. We've made our first skin with so much love for the SL community and hope that others who too adore a more natural look can have a skin that they feel beautiful in. Thank you so much for checking out our blog and we hope to see you in-world!

With love,

Your Qbee Staff

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Garden Update: Iris Shape

A symbol of elegance and crowned with colorful flowers, Iris represents the winged Grecian goddess of the same name who painted the sky with rainbows and served as herald to Hera.

The Iris shape compliments our new Iris skin! ❊

Visit / * qbee's garden to bloom your own Iris 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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Garden Update: Stargazer Lily

Revered as a flower of perfection, Stargazer Lily symbolizes the splendor of a queen stargazing above at the sky with her petals forever pointed at the celestial heavens.

Qbee wishes all of you very happy holidays! We thank the community for touching our hearts over the past year. ❊

Visit / * qbee's garden to bloom your own Stargazing 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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Garden Update: Camellia

Sprouting from the ice of the winter, this youthful flower is the first to appear within the snow of the season. A bit of wintry weather doesn't appear to chill the spirits of little Camellia, continuing to be ever so sweet and full of loveliness.

Qbee wishes all of you very happy holidays! We thank the community for touching our hearts over the past year. ❊

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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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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).
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Garden Update: Sweet Pea

April, considered the month of Aphrodite, arrives in the garden with our celebration of spring in brighter, fun colors in / * qbee's group gifts along with April's traditional flower, Sweet Pea. An ambrosial floweret, celebrated for its pink, red, white, and purple dainty petals, lauds winter transforming into spring at last and represents feminine bliss and gaiety arriving with the spring season. The Songbird garden now bestows this blossom with her skin Diamond Dove (free group gift edition for April).

Visit / * qbee's garden to cultivate your own Sweet Pea and to collect April group offerings sometime soon! If you spot one of the Qbee shopkeepers she will surprise you with a special shopkeeper-exclusive treat too. Hugs!


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Garden Update: April Group Gifts

As the wintry season metamorphoses into the bright, fun colors of spring, / * qbee too reflects on the beauty of the changing environment throughout our garden with several surprises for group members:

❀ Diamond Dove * April Gift Edition Skin - we wanted group members to sample the first of our future skin line, Diamond Dove also complements the garden's newest shape and flower of the month, Sweet Pea.

❀ A Splash of Springtime wardrobe set highlighting the colorful spring essence

❀ Silly April Fools gestures!

Skin: qbee - Diamond Dove * April Group Gift Edition (Free! - April Group Gift)
Shape: qbee - Sweet Pea
Hair: D!va - Ema2 (Amber)
Top: qbee - A Splash of Hot Pink Top (Free! - April Group Gift)
Bikini Set: qbee - Yummy Dotted Bikini - Grape (Free! - April Group Gift)
Skirt: qbee - Springtime Lovers Skirt (Free! - April Group Gift)
Ring: qbee - Stylish Pearl Flower Ring (Shape Exclusive)
Shoes: ::HH:: - Hucci Vintage Wedge - Moonglow (Collabor88)

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Penitent Hunt: Lily of the Valley

While the March month remains relatively quiet for / * qbee Main Store, we're very much active and working on plenty of surprises for you as you can see from wandering into our work cottage on the outskirts of the garden, most of them for hunts or prizes of some sort. One of these lovely gifts is the blessed flower Lily of the Valley.

The most fragile flower of all, the pallid Lily of the Valley only unveils her enigmatic location and penitent lore those seeking this blossom during the Penitent Hunt (From February 22 to April 2) using the hint relevant to this spiritual hunt's theme:

"In sorrow He's my comfort, in trouble He's my stay,
He tells me every care on Him to roll;
He's the LILY OF THE VALLEY, the Bright and Morning Star,
He's the fairest of ten thousand to my soul."
With this pure woodland blossom resides a rose-entwined, wooden music box featuring two songs from the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Judge Claude Frollo's "Hellfire" versus Esmerelda's "God Help the Outcasts," two songs of penitence. Wander into the garden and try to unveil this dainty flower and box of rueful songs.


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Garden Update: Azalea

February, a month symbolizing love and affection, begins at Qbee's garden with the addition of a flower reflecting this month, azalea. Azalea, a resplendently lofty flower, commences February with her blushed fuchsia blossoms and quintessence of femininity. Rarely in bloom, Azalea glorifies any terrain she may roam with transcendent beauty when her petals lavishly unfold and our Songbird garden feels more than fortunate to bestow the romantic springtime maiden Azalea.

Ladybird, a shopkeeper at Qbee, has taken an adoration to the Azalea shape and has cultivated her own look using Azalea combined with Qbee's February group dress set, the Wintry Bloom bubble dress depicting the sprouting of budding flowers beneath the wintry canvas of February. She also adorns February's little peachy papillon accessory residing in her hair as well, a lovely look within the garden.

Visit / * qbee's garden to pluck your own Azalea floweret and to collect our February group offerings sometime soon! If you spot one of the Qbee shopkeepers she will surprise you with a special shopkeeper-exclusive treat too. Hugs!


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Garden Update: February Group Gifts

As January transitions into February, Qbee refreshes its lace-covered table with an extent of fresh offerings. Despite February ordinarily embodying the one-day Valentine's Day holiday, Qbee wished to provide a newfangled approach to this month by offering gifts based on meanings of the word "February" throughout the world. From "month of the pearl" to "snow falling from blooming treetops," designing a wardrobe with a soft palette and florals mixed with pearls proved beautiful and surpassed our Valentine outfit plans so we hope that the freshness and floral theme of our bubble dress can make up for the few-day delay on Qbee's gifts.

To adorn your ribbon and tulle-laced bubble dress depicting the beginnings of spring and the snow-covered canvas of a February garden, a peachy papillon awaits residing on your head for our monthly hair accessory! And to celebrate our beloved Valentine holiday, there's a heart-shaped balloon offering on the table to match the rest of February's gifts, in the most delicate of pink-peach shades and spawning tiny sparkles every once in a while from the heart of the balloon.

A delicately feminine array of group gifts await you beneath our garden house for February. We hope that the spirit of February beyond the obvious of Valentine's Day will be felt through Qbee's surprises and that you will adore the goodies you pick up in the garden!

Avatar Shape: qbee - Lily Shape
Hair: [e] - Charmed - Brown 04
Truth - Nadine - Latte
Hair Accessory 1: qbee - Peachy Papillon Accessory (Free! - February Group Gift)
Hair Accessory 2: Enigma Inc Antlers
Eyeshadow: cheLLe - Sheer Earthtones (Rose)
Top: qbee - Wintry Bloom Top (Free! - February Group Gift)
Skirt: qbee - Wintry Bloom Bubble Dress (Free! - February Group Gift)
Ring: qbee - Stylish Pearl Flower Ring (Shape Exclusive)
Shoes: tulip. - Calling (Mocha)

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Garden Update: Sunflower

As frost conceals the grasslands surrounding the garden, our spirits still illuminate brilliantly in this January season in hopes of our seedlings uplifting with the embrace of the sunlight. Stalks of sunflowers prosper, overgrowing the withered weeds of winter and bringing new, cheerful life to the Songbird garden and to the other flowerets enduring winter. Sunflower has arrived in lemon-lime goodness speckled with deep brown doe eyes, to brighten up this dreary season complete with exclusive sunkissed blush and an aura of amaranthine radiance.

Our January 2012 group gifts feature the bikini shown in Sunflower's illustration. Don't forget to stop by the garden's gift table and grab our monthly group goodies including a full wardrobe reflecting January's symbolism, plenty of gestures from Spirited Away, and more. Come for shelter and stay warm in / * qbee's garden sometime soon! Hugs!


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Garden Update: Carnation

January drifts by and carnations continue to bloom despite her friends slumbering within winter soil, even within Qbee's Songbird garden. A timeless flower, Carnation sometimes considers herself a goddess as she's been timelessly deemed the prized (and immortal) blossom of the gods. Crowned with gold, adorned in January's crimson and faintly blushed pink, Carnation desires to deliver passion and spirit into those who cultivate her with her forever revered beauty and regal demeanor.


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Garden Update: January Group Gifts

Symbolizing the birth of a rejuvenated year, garnets and black embody the January month with black as the lingering elements of the previous year's decease and the resplendent crimson as a sign of the passion through that which we intend on dedicating ourselves to throughout these next twelve months.

With passion arrives a spirited soul and Qbee has sewn together a myriad of apparel that demonstrates our personal spirit - the sylvan spirit. Our wardrobe features a white top depicting our endless romance for all that pertains to wildlife and the core of our persona, our heart, represented by a blossoming rosette, our garden. The crux of every individual's heart sojourns a garden, and it's the assortment of blooms that separates us depending on which we pluck and harbor within our hearts, much like a garland of precisely-picked wildflowers flourishing on a mountainside harmoniously.

To finish off our wardrobe, we have added plenty of licorice dotty goodies from leggings to a double skirt to a halter bikini beneath (It looks super cute underneath the Sylvan Spirit top with just the bikini straps showing!) and the most subtle of silvery eyeshadow. As always, we adorn Qbee creations with bows and flowers, from the back bow behind the dotty double skirt and the dotty hairbow, and the twin garnet roses with the tulle ribbons trailing to pin into your hair. Embody the quintessence of January with Qbee's Sylvan Spirit Set, in garnet, dotty black, and roses with Qbee's first full wardrobe group gift. (With many more to come!)

We hope that the essence of January's spirit will be felt through Qbee's group gifts for this garnet month. For our soundbyte group gift, we've chosen to highlight the best of Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away 千と千尋の神隠し and hope that you will adore reminiscing on the beautiful (and often humorous) dialogue.

Avatar Shape: /* qbee - Lily Shape
Hair: [e] - Charmed - Black 04
Hair Accessory 1: /* qbee - Garnet Tearose Ribbon (Free! - January Group Gift)
Hair Accessory 2: /* qbee - Dotty Licorice Bow (Free! - January Group Gift)
Eyeshadow: /* qbee - Subtly Sylvan Shimmer (Free! - January Group Gift)
Top: /* qbee - Sylvan Spirit Shirt (Free! - January Group Gift)
Bikini Halter: /* qbee - Yummy Dotted Bikini - Licorice (Free! - January Group Gift)
Skirt: /* qbee - Dotty Licorice Double Skirt (Free! - January Group Gift)
Leggings: /* qbee - Polka-Dotty Licorice Leggings (Free! - January Group Gift)
Back Bow: /* qbee - Licorice Back Bow (Free! - January Group Gift)
Ring: /* qbee - Tearose Ring - Rogue (Gatcha)
Bracelet: *H&K* - Cutie Ribbon Bracelet (Gatcha)
Boots: KAO - Suede Fringe Boots - Black

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Garden Update: Rose

As little Snowdrop played hide-and-seek with the other flowerets in the Songbird garden, the prim Rosette sighed, wishing the child would halt grieving her with joining in the juvenile (and drab, according to Rosette) excitement. Morningtide emerged and Rosette's plea had been bestowed as her holiday gift; a petite bud sprouted from a rosette formation of leaves and blossomed into little Rose, a child of the same height as Snowdrop and just as eager to play, although slightly resembling the refined demeanor of her elder.

Roses embody a myriad of meanings depending on the shade and amount of petals adorning each blossom, Rose is no different as she loves to turn from a sweet, affectionate girl to nothing short of an imp on a whim, beware of her thorns! (And beware of her playing hide-and-seek unfairly, little Snowdrop!)

Plenty of child flowers will continue to be cultivated over time, beginning with Snowdrop and Rose. Stroll through our garden and discover our newest, and littlest, Rose blossom.


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Garden Update: Holly

Joining the ranks of the holiday-inspired plants is the protectress of all flora within the wintry season, Holly. Fierce like a valkyrie maiden and adorned in evergreen armor dotted with crimson berries, Holly defends her fellow flower friends from the bitter cold December brings and until spring blooms.

December has been packed with plenty of holiday surprises here at Qbee's Songbird garden and we invite you to continue celebrating the rest of it with us! Remember to collect your yummy gifts under the purple holiday tree before the month is over, as our group gifts rotate at the beginning of each month.


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Garden Update: Mistletoe

As the holidays drift nearer, a fortuitous amount of seedlings have sprouted within our Songbird garden. Perhaps a gift to us in these festive times, Qbee has harvested every floweret found in our soil but struggled with one we couldn't seem to catch. Nestled in the treetop above, an impish fairy urged us Qbee shopkeepers to kiss, claiming it was a wintry tradition, leading us to discover she was Mistletoe. Mistletoe laughed impishly at the thought that she could demand us, among other victims who would stand beneath her, to do such a thing but refused to drop below onto the grass until she fell from her cackling. She now resides in Qbee's Songbird Garden shop, incessantly conning customers into kissing one another.

We anticipate more holiday-themed plant and flower shapes to bloom within December, coupled by matching accessories and other shopkeeper surprises. Qbee invites you to celebrate this festive month ahead with us in the garden.


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Garden Update: Snowdrop

Within the wintry night, a drop of snow drifted from the dimmed sky and sprouted by dawn into the tiniest blossom of our garden, Snowdrop. Snowdrops represent new life and her shape bursts with sweetness, youth, and vitality, her eyes could soothe a thousand hearts. An innocent child, Snowdrop loves to play hide - and - seek in our garden with the other flowerets who (barely) oblige to partake in such a silly game, but we're more than joyous to house our first child shape at Queen Bee!

We anticipate more holiday-themed plant and flower shapes to bloom within December, coupled by matching accessories and other shopkeeper surprises. Qbee invites you to celebrate this festive month ahead with us in the garden.


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Garden Update: Snapdragon

Gardening with Customer Support Ladybird Lyric is never a simple task, the girl barely knows how to tend to newly-grown sprouts and only has knowledge of answering Qbee customer inquiries. Today though she redeemed herself by plucking a rather fiery flower in hot pink and red from the soil behind our shop, despite her shock as the blossom snapped at Ladybird, the flower angered at being awakened from its garden slumber.

The Qbee staff couldn't resist adding this sultry Snapdragon to our array of flowerets, and she's on display in our shop for all to admire her beauty. Dragonlady Snapdragon now awaits all future servants and worshipers (her words, not mine!) within our garden shop location.


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Garden Update: Wildflower

Not only has Wildflower sprouted along the Songbird garden and taken form in a shape, but she's covered our shop's meadow entirely! Our meadow, peppered in flowering pink and lavender buds, inspired this shape and she's a celebration too of our new garden's dawn.

Wildflower's promo may be purchased in-world for a discounted price, this promo version is offered in three heights while her copy/modify version can be found here. She looks like a candy unicorn princess of some sort, like Lady Amalthea from The Last Unicorn with pink and purple instead of her pearly white, Wildflower appears enchanting nonetheless and looks perfect against her natural meadow canvas.

Whichever way you choose to obtain a Wildflower bouquet, this shape's dreamy look and doe eyes have been an inspiration for our new shop throughout and we hope you love her as much as we do at Queen Bee. Thank you, Wildflower!


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