I hope that’s not in some violation of their clause or anything, I mean they are new to their market place.

It seems a nice place, but one thing I really wish they had was the ability to add merchant to favorites like onrez had. Maybe they will see this post and think to implement it. I find a lot of things I like by a merchant, and instead of having a billion different items in my favorites, you know hard to weed out that one item you plan on getting today… I also like to watch my favorite merchants for new adds to their stores like oh say… Grueling designs…

As most of you know, we bought an island in jan… it’s doing great, live concerts in the park, a lot of events going on, so been a lot of fun.

QnC got a new shop and we hope to have everyone moved in with in the next week or two. With deployments and real life, getting the shop moved over and open took a back seat to getting the island up and running.

I also would like to point out that the tarnished tinker side of QnC has put all of his older products in one of our gift shoppes…. he has a new line of a lot of cool things getting ready to come out. Some of the free items he has put up in the gift shoppe is a small hint of whats to come with his items.

Tallguy, if you haven’t seen him, heard him, you are missing out on one hell of an eargasim.

Dale Marsh as he is known in the real world is a very talented Texan, who has a voice as smooth as silk, incredible talent for the guitar, and original songs.  His originals are incredible, going from heart felt (Let Them In) to funny (The Yahoo Song).

You can get more information from his website DaleMarsh.com, or stop on in Second Life, look him up in the events and see him live.

He plays the violin, guitar, flute, keys,  AND sings!!

This man is incredible.  I was blown away just seconds into his first song.  If you haven’t had the opportunity to hear him, you really need to.  GO NOW!!

I think I am gonna be posting the themes over at the fantasy net freebie forums for free use. Share my learning and hopefully help someone else out.

Know if I could just master plugins, or actually come up with one that has a use, then I will be dangerous!

To Use:

1.  Go into your SL Preferences, Graphics Tab, Lighting Detail.  Toggle off sun and moon only, toggle on Nearby Local Lights.

2.  Right click on your personal lighting system and hit wear.

Now you look good in all lighting.

Can you believe that the whole room design is only 42 prims?   The shower has 8, the most in the whole room, the tub, 5, the bed 5, everything else is 1 or 2 prims.  Shows you how effective good texturing can be.  The room consists of things you would consider in a bedroom, a bed, end tables, lamps, wardrobe and artwork on walls. It also has a desk, a chair, a lap top, a shelving unit with books and knick knacks, a bench window seat, throw rug, and a jacauzzi tub and sauna type shower.

As her teacher in both building and texturing, I have to say, Kattie, I am proud of what you have done and learned.  Keep it up!!

Ok, enough of the babble, take a look at the images.

When my husband called, I asked him to set the property up for sale.  Being that it was grouped under the band group, one of the band members had to do it.  I am just a band spice, I don’t have that ability, not that I would want it.

Tonight, I logged into SL to check the market and see if things are going ok, expecting to log onto my sister’s front porch.  As things start to rez, I notice I am not at my sister’s.  I am in a sim where she holds rental property.

As it continues to load, I do the typical, check email.

“Sissy, I am not letting you leave SL because some bitch wants to be petty for what ever reason.  I am not going to let you do that, and you know as long as I have it, you will never be with out a place to go.  I built you a new house, Andy put some of your stuff into it, you need to go to my house and get your dogs. They have more room to run around now. We decided to let you do the kids’ rooms and set their stuff up because being a mom, I know how important that is for a mom to do.  I hope you like it.  I love you.  — Spawn”

There was more to that email, like how she hadn’t slept in over 72 hours and hoped all the prims aligned properly, and if not she sold it to me for 0L and full prims so it didn’t have to be moved and replace it and so that I could fix or change what ever I wanted to, Andy helped, Kyle came online to help, etc etc.

It’s a beautiful house. It’s the house I wanted to build before but didn’t have the room. I also wasn’t sure how I was going to keep it low prim. She did the whole house and front awning and deck in 48.

This particular property was supposed to go to the art museum she wanted to build. That project was important to her. In this gesture, I see that I am more important to her. I always knew she loved me, but this reminded me how much. It also reminded me that not only is she my sister, but my best friend.

Maybe later I will come back and edit this post so it makes more sense. Right now I am being overly emotional. If you knew about the ups and downs of the last 2 years of all of our real lives, it would be easier to understand the why.

I just read the post on the Second Life Official blog entitled “A Letter to Second Life Residents”.

I am very impressed with their decision on the open space pricing. Those who followed the rules are not going to be punished because of the few idiots. Here is the new ammendment in case you missed the post.

“Here is how we are amending the price change:

1. We are going to retain the Openspaces product at its original price point and its original intended use (forest, water, etc.). We will have technical limitations to help regulate their use, initially avatar and prim limit restrictions, eventually event, classified and script limits. Those of you who chose to use the Openspaces as intended may stay at the US$75 rate, but will need to contact the concierge team to do so.

2. If you want more than an Openspace, we will offer you the choice of moving to a new product called Homesteads that is intended for light use such as low density rentals. For existing Openspace owners we will phase in the price increase for this new product over the next 6 months. Homesteads will also have technical limits for avatars and prims, and eventually script limits as well.

* January 5, 2009 – non-compliant Openspaces will transition to Homesteads and the maintenance fees will go from $75 to $95 per month. We will offer an educational discount to qualified educators on the new Homestead product. The discount amount will be the same as Private Regions, roughly 30%.

* July 2009 — the maintenance fees for Homesteads will go from $95 to $125 per month”

If you haven’t read the full post yet, go to the link up at the top, and read it over.