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!


Return to the Songbird Garden:
In-world
Marketplace

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

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.


Return to the Songbird Garden:
In-world
Marketplace

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

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

Return to the Songbird Garden:
In-world
Marketplace

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

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.


Return to the Songbird Garden:
In-world
Marketplace

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

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.


Return to the Songbird Garden:
In-world
Marketplace

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

Presenting Chickweed

Deer and I, being shape and overall avatar fanatics, always take the time to check out what exactly other people are wearing. We've noticed a trend in styles out there, and decided that we needed to incorporate them in some way or another into our garden. Inspired by Pitbull himself, we present to you: Chickweed.



This feisty flower comes jam-packed with attitude. Whether it be at the mall or at a Wal-mart, she'll surely be down to fight anyone if you get in her way (or try to wear her Renzie skin ooo datz my renzie). Her massive attitude is further augmented by her heavily slitted eyes, complete with spiderweb eyelashes, bootyliciousness, lollipop head, and piercings for every person she's delivered a beat down upon. (oooo gurllll u so stoopid u dont even no) Her rounded chin and wide, poofy lips are ready to take a punch in any future brawl without hesitation. Hair? As long as she has more than the other person at the end of the fight, who cares what it looks like!





Damita Esperanza Estefania Rodriguez (or Deer she likes to be called) and I were so pleased with our newest addition to the garden, we just had to go flaunt our new look in public. (followed by comments: "Eth, is that you?" "ooo dont talk 2 me liek u no me, stoooopid") We went to a Kittycats auction to find some new amigos for our cats, and saw a couple of babigurls sitting down about to eat their lunch. We both felt the urge to ninjaloot us a new place to sit, as well as score us some Micky D's. A few minutes later, we were relaxing after warning the people once sitting there to not mess with our Renzie. Chickweed doesn't care, why should we! Ooo gurl don't u mess w/ my Renzie.

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.


Return to the Songbird Garden:
In-world
Marketplace

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