On Saturday at 7AM SLT (also real-time for me) while most sane folks were still lightly snoozing, I was decked out in my goth pantsuit from Silent Sparrow and my butterfly net, roaming around IBM's new SOA island, looking for butterflies that held unique pieces of jewelry from Random Calliope.
What?!
Exactly. A butterfly hunt. Random explains it this way .. she had a request to make a piece of butterfly jewelry. But she didn't want to create a "theme piece" without a good reason:
Here are a few shots from my morning fun ...There was another idea brewing, however and for that I have spent a lot of time in Caledon just wandering around. It was inevitable that butterflies and Victorian Caledon clicked.
Ode, and the butterfly hunts that allow one to get it, is an homage to the once very popular community butterfly hunts of days gone by. Proper gentlemen and gentlewomen would pack their picnic baskets in the spring and summer and head off to the nearest flowered field. There they would use their butterfly nets to capture prized butterflies of infinite variety.
The Ode hunts are done just the same way. The community gathers in a field of butterflies and tries to catch them. They may be in trees, floating around, in the grass, or anywhere a butterfly might be found. At this moment there are 14 color varieties of Ode and 8 different pieces to each color variety. The challenge is to complete full sets of one color for your Ode butterfly collection. More color variations are being made. The more there are the greater your challenge.
Here is Katicus, ready for action.
Look, a butterfly. The folks who organized this were very sneaky! There were 338 butterflies with pieces of jewelry hidden inside. But there were THOUSANDS of butterflies on the island.
Some of them were even hidden inside the volcano.
I'm pleased to report that in the end, I successfully found two pieces of jewelry. Both of them beautiful hair pins - one emerald and amber (shown here) the other ruby and amber (similar design). Love them! Random has other amazing pieces of jewelry at her tiny shop on Kandinsky. Go check out her intricate, lovely pieces! Also, stop by IBM's SOA Island. There are some really fun things to do there: hang-gliding, drumming, hanging out on the beach. Plus, you can learn a little about SOA, if you're into that sort of thing :).
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