Between building

One of my favorite pastimes is browsing the Marketplace and collecting freebies.
I thought I had bought the car with poses at the Glitterati closing sale but it seemed I had not so it was up to the Marketplace. I wanted some new vehicle when I do the ad for my latest townhouse. I found this cute little city car for 1L and the red and white striped car and the yellow bike for free.

My townhouse is taking more time than I expected. At first, I didn't plan on making a townhouse. I wanted to do another classical mansion-type house which I had seen in the internet but as I built, I kept on deleting and then when I decided to add a garage, it turned into another townhouse. Right now, only part of the basement and 1st floor is in progress.

I guess the truth is, I am much a city girl at heart and eventhough I love a single house with lots of land and trees around it, the city holds my interest.

fameshed in august

2 styles I couldn't resist for this months's Fameshed.

top and skirt: Baiastice

top and skirt: Mutresse
This is a really good buy because it has a texture changing hud with so many possibilities and top, skirt and sleeves come in different parts. Moon is not wearing the sleeves in this picture.

A house with a stable for my horses

Finally completed this ranch-style house. Although most ranch style houses are 1-storey, there are some that was renovated up.
I also realised while building this house, that sometimes, sculpts are better than mesh when it comes to counting down prims. Sculpts will remain at 1 prim no matter how big you resize them but mesh will just get primmy if you do that. This makes me thing that sculpts will probably not go out of style. That's a comforting thought.

I also took out Carter and played poses with my 2 avatars.

Summertime blues

dress: [LG]K Collection (Summer 13) Catherine 2 Outfit

I've been preoccupied with building a house with a stable for 2 horses that I've stopped work on my parcel. Sometimes inspiration comes out of the blue, there's nothing I can do but get it done and leave everything else for later. But I saw this blue printed dress and it was only 49L, so I had to get it.

I wish I know how to photoshop a mesh dress because this dress makes me wanna be a dressmaker. This mesh template is the same as the Zoe Maxis from Drift which was on sale at TDR in June. I really appreciate that eventhough it's a maxi, it has separate mesh top and bottom because not all women figure are created equal and my avatar is slightly top heavy.

Now back to building.....

The thing about new

After my last build, I realised I must have a bigger parcel for my shop. Amelia's Townhouse, was a little too crammed to fit on the demo area.

Also, people sometimes didn't realise that I also had a shop on a sky platform on the same parcel and vice versa and would im me for landmarks.
I've been mulling this decision for a few months now because a bigger parcel will mean more tiers to pay and that will also mean more complications when I really want things to just be simple and easy.
But the small parcel in Qinsa was running out of prims and a few days ago, I was lucky to see a really cheap water parcel near where I have my mermaid's 'home'. The Remonta parcel was cheap compared to the mermaid's parcel. I had to pay through my nose to get my mermaid parcel because it was at the very edge of a mainland sim, had 2 free water sides and a sunset view to boot.

The Remonta shop isn't anything fancy. It's purpose is mainly for demoing the houses that I have. Inside are the houses in box. Customers can choose to buy straight from the casper vendor where there is also a redelivery terminal behind it or to buy from the shop, in which case, if they didn't get the house, they will have to im me and show me proof of purchase.
And since I got a gazzillion prims leftover(not really), I brought my little island and the mermaid's landscape to the parcel.
From the store, you can take the tp down to the island and from the island, you can dive into the sea. I didn't add a teleporter down to the sea.
It's still a work in progress but please feel free to come check out the place, take pictures or just hang out. I'll probably be up on my building platform. Don't be fazed. Don't have to say hi. I'm probably building and unaware:)

Tp to the Island.

Next I have to figure out is, what to do with my mermaid's parcel.

Love Donna Flora Charity Event

Truth is, I have a difficult time expressing my feelings about illness and death because for a long time, I have had to suppress the overwhelming sense of helplessness, anger and sadness. My father had been a renal failure patient all of my grown-up life and I wasn't even sure he would see all his 3 grandchildren. And when he died, I stopped having anymore eventhough my wish was to have 5 broods. And there was also my own sense of failure, that I did not live up to his expectations.

I steer away from sadness as much as I can because I hate all these feelings coming to me.

I used to have a friend in SL who doesn't even want to know anything about anybody's sickness because to him, SL was a place for him to be happy. I guess once you have been in SL as long as I have, you cannot help knowing people who are ill, people who are flawed in one ways or the other because I myself come here to heal some parts of me that cannot be healed.

It is a heavier burden to bear than to see and if we can make a person feel they are loved and appreciated by such events, than half of the job is already done. Syabas!

dress: [CIA Designs] Floral Summer dress from Love Donna Flora event

A gift for You

I had the most confusing time while trying to list this freebie cabin on the marketplace because it kept on getting unlisted and then I realised that there was a banned word in it. After a few trials and errors, I realised that I cannot add the word FREE on the item. I guess people have misused and misled that word till it is now banned. So I had to delete the whole thing and renamed it again.
My beachcomber's cabin series have been quite a success story. I think it came out at the right time because of summer. I think I also didn't sell it for your arms and legs. I'm very grateful and I wanted to give back this little modified version which I am using so that my little beach wouldn't look so forlornly barren.
It's free and it's for anyone who happens to see my blog:)
Word of caution. It is 100% made in SL. No mesh.