And she created….

Oh, I am just loving SL. The last few months I have been developing an interest in building things. It really does enhance the enjoyment of SL when you can modify and arrange things that others have created, and when you can make something from scratch. Yesterday I made a flexi tweed skirt and a flexi lace petticoat that showed underneath. That will probably get another bog post, as I want to re-do it and tweak the flexi properties somewhat.

This morning I logged on and there was some pseudo-scientific video posting on YouTube about Creationism/Intelligent Design. So, you know, what with me playing around with sectioning some of my land off with a yew tree hedge, I thought that I would do a bit of topiary. So, on the main photo you see me sitting on a plinth for an ironic statue that I made. OK, so its topiary growing on a marble plinth. Yeah, OK, where are the roots, why doesn’t it die….I like topiary goddamit and on SL anything is possible!!! Maybe I’ll make a pot for it or do the statue in boring old stone. Pfff! We have a creator, who is female of course – gotta turn on it’s head the idea that the male is superior to women and of course the supreme being is therefore male. The creator is creating a person, in her own image….and the person is in turn creating…. And there’s little old me sat on the plinth, in my silly builders hat and looking very practical.

I’ve thrown a few other photos in, with an overhead view of my main land. I have spent a lot of time on landscaping, and I love my spring leading to a stream, and then going back to ground. It flows past my conservatory and adds to the calm atmosphere of sitting there and chatting. The other two photos are of the entrance to the cave that is underneath my house, and of the cave itself. OK, so I had to have a pretty cave with pink marble and pink quartz, oh and glass viewing panels over the water with fishes swimming. Nice to create things that are pretty and practical, nice to make more of one’s SL.

More tea vicar?

I changed my house recently, opting for the lovely Apple Grove Manor from Creative Fantasy. This gives me a fair bit of room, yet has fewer rooms to fill with prim hungry furniture. Another thing that it gives me is a beautiful conservatory, to sit and chat with friends. While I was browsing around for furniture to replace some items that I thought I had lost, I noticed some lovely tea sets that Elements in Design do.

I bought the one in the pictures. She has a few sets and this one is just an irrestibly quaint British tea service. I go on about the detail on shoes from Shiny Things, and similarly I am just delighted with the lovely shape, texture and pattern of this service. She even has a lid off slightly, as if you’ve just been using it. Feel the quality!

The tea sets aren’t just pretty things. If you click the tea service it offers you a cup of tea, with a drinking animation built into it. While I was browsing at the few tea sets that Gwen Carillion has on offer at Elements in Design, I noticed that this one gave out cups in a different pattern. She fixed it, and delivered a fixed tea set to me. In fact she gave me a free painting, one of her own, as a thank you for pointing out the flaw. Now that is a good SL designer. Very artful and creative, and also good to her customers. The woman in my pictures, sat on my Rattan King Chair from Del Sol Open Market, is Ella, another of my dear friends.

Reaching out, even into different worlds

 

The Madeleine McCann thing has been stirring up the media across Europe, and even in SL you can find posters appealing to ask whether you have seen her IRL.  Sad.

The Pleasures of Friendship

Oh, I haven’t been keeping up with the blog, but gosh I have been landscaping and such, getting deeper into my SL. I think that I’ll do more quick postings and try to keep up. Here’s a few pictures of me and my friend Anna Zwiers. We go shopping, discuss making things, explore and tease people, that sort of thing. Mostly Anna is very tall and elegant but then we both like to fool around, hence the zombie skin on Anna and my prim Charlie Chaplin moustache to go with my bowler hat. We’re browsing in some shop and I start rabbitting on about a texture site that I’ve seen and how it would be cool to make clothes out of bizarre materials like paper, cardboard or tin foil. So Anna quickly applies the brown paper and corrugated card textures that I’ve uploaded, to a prim skirt base she has already made. Next minute, we’re giggling and dancing away at some Bastille Day party in said outfits.

Anna is fun, creative and very accepting, so I am very very fond of my friend. To quote the slightly silly and faux-naive poet Stevie Smith:

The pleasures of friendship are exquisite,

How pleasant to go to a friend on a visit!

I go to my friend, we walk on the grass,

And the hours and the moments like minutes pass.