Hi, peeps!
Wow. I can’t believe that Mar’s been in-world for five years now! I know I’ve not been blogging as much lately (RL is pretty busy and I don’t have much energy to run around and find freebies/cheapies, or write up long illustrated tutorials), but I just had to celebrate the occasion with five new looks, all culled from Marketplace (with one in-world group gifty).
Hop behind the cut, for five fabby, cheapie looks!
Wishing all of my fabulous readers a Happy New Year, and a wonderful 2013! Thank you so much for being with me in 2012 (and previous years) and I hope to bring you more gorgeous goodies and helpful hints over the year to come :)
Before you hop behind the cut for the dresses, if you want the perfect thing for a best friends New Year card to send out to people or post on Plurk/Flickr/wherever, hop over to Alouette and grab the free gift on the table. Inside you’ll find the ‘girlfriends’ poseballs (a really cute friends pose) together with mesh Happy New Year crowns (one pink – as worn by Mar, above – and one blue) plus two glasses of champagne (which Mar is hogging both of!). Both you and your bestie will have to pick up the gift, as the items are no transfer, but it’s a lovely little freebie :)
OK, onto the frocks! Hop behind the cut :)
Hi peeps!
If I wasn’t offline all Christmas (and I wasn’t such a slowpoke!) you’d have had notice of this fabulous offer sooner. As it is, you’ve got one day only – December 26th – to grab this gorgeous freebie wintery skybox from The Gentlemen Bastards.
It’s out until midnight SLT tonight. Hop behind the cut for oodles more pictures, where you can find it, and info about the lovely freebie dress Mar’s wearing in the pics!
Hi, peeps!
This time, the freebie is from me! I wanted to give something as a gift to all my readers that meant something to me, and so I re-made the little castle skybox that I created as my first home in SL. If you’ve been following this blog for a long time, you’ll probably remember seeing pics of me sitting in the garden while I showed you how to create lots of boxes to help with archiving your inventory.
The skybox is 20m x 20m, and the prim count is as follows:
Skybox = 24 prims
Fireplace for upstairs = 6 prims
Fireplace for downstairs (slightly taller chimney!) = 6 prims
Fire grate with touch on/off particle flames = 3 prims
Hop behind the cut for another pic, and where to find it :)
There seems to be a disturbing upward trend in the number (and methods) of panhandlers in Second Life.
We’re all used to seeing them pop up in large, free-to-join groups, asking for “just L$50 until I get paid”. Indeed, one of the main reasons why so many groups that were once free-to-join now charge a minimum of L$50 (and, in some cases, multiple hundreds of L$) to join is to prevent both spammers and panhandlers from annoying their group members.
In recent months, though, I’ve both experienced and been notified about, new panhandling tactics. I hope this post will serve as a warning that they are out there, that they are getting more and more skilful, and hopefully I can help you to spot some of their tactics.
The main difference is this: The new panhandlers are far more willing to spend time, one-on-one, with another avatar, be it in person or (more usually) in IM. I’ve heard reports of upwards of 10 minutes’ general chitchat before the panhandler gets to the point: they just need x amount of money to help them out.
Hop behind the cut.
The idea for this post struck me on my way to work this morning, and it would NOT leave me alone! So, here it is!
Sometimes we all get a bit bored with our daily SL routine. Maybe we signed up a few years ago and many of our friends have drifted away to other grids, or are simply not around anymore. Perhaps our partners live in different timezones and we have hours to kill before they log in and we can be with them. Or it might simply be that good old ennui has set in for a prolonged stay. It happens to all of us at times!
So, what’s to do?
Well, how about giving yourself something new to do, in the form of what you’re reading right now. A blog!
“Oh gawd, Mar,” I hear you mutter. “I wouldn’t have a clue what to write about! I can’t write anything interesting to save my life! My SLife is soooo boring; who’d want to read about it?!”
Yeah yeah. Cry moar, as the meme goes ;)
Everyone has something they could blog about, and finding your niche could be the very thing that boots the fun back into your Second Life again! Sure, sometime bloggers need a break, but blogging can be a lot of fun.
Hop behind the cut for some hints and tips and ideas!
There are a couple of very limited-time offers in this look, so if you want them, you need to get your skates on!
The first of the limited-time offers is the dress. This is the Glitter Holiday Mesh Dress in black (other colours, and non-glittery ‘swirl’ versions also available) and it’s just L$60 today (Sunday Dec 9th) at Sweeter Than Candy. It’s part of the 60L Weekends offers.
The other limited-time offer also ends today, and that’s for the stunning Eternal Eyes in the ‘peak’ shade, from IKON. This is a group gift, so if you’re not already a member then paste this link into chat and click it to bring up the group-join box (it’s free-to-join), then – with your group tag active – head to the IKON store and click the box inside for the freebie.
Hop behind the cut for info on all the other items!
Winter has come to Del Mar! Get your big fluffy Ugg boots on, because there’s snow on the ground, and lots of new stuff at my little place up in the sky :)
Hop behind the cut for pics and info!
Hi peeps!
There’s a gorgeous blue mesh dollarbie necklace waiting for you at the Bliensen + MaiTai store at the Winter Fair.
A tip to find the shop, as there’s a central landing point: fly up above the stores and towards the red beam. The Bliensen + MaiTai store is at the very back of the eastern side of the sim. The fair runs until December 15th.
Hi peeps!
There’s a mini-Thanksgiving sale at Sn@tch, until Friday Nov 23rd (so get your skates on!)
Ivey has placed a board in the centre of the store with some gorgeous, massively-reduced items on it. Prices start at L$25 and go up to L$50. There’s a gift in a bag under the board, too! Come grab a bargain :)
Yes, I’m still hanging around in the store. There’s a new fishing outfit out, and it’s purple! *g*
Hop behind the cut for just one outfit Mar put together from the sale :)