I have continued to work on building the Apricot apartment complex, as well as creating items for my shop. Steven B. (who I met some time ago at Runningbears and is an ongoing friend) has helped me with the rental boxes. I went ahead and applied for the Fall Frenzy grid hunt -- we'll see if I get in. But it fires my imagination to create some fall clothing lines. So I spent most of today creating my Manhattan Peasant Dress. It really is going to be an ensemble with a hat and bag and everything. I'm going to make at least three versions. I really am bumbling along with this -- clothes making. I haven't got the right tools and even though I downloaded Paint.net, the learning curve for something like that is tremendous for someone like me to be able to make clothing. So I am just making them right now from the "Edit Appearance" features, full perm examples, and I even made a prim item from a torus today. But it is fun, period.
So there is a poverty vowed sufi who is running around Al-Andalus these days and I spoke to him again. He was floating (you heard me) around my house. Ha ha. He seems very nice, and I hope to get to know him better.
My neighbor at my Sunset View apartment saw all the remodeling I have been doing (oh! I found a lovely Georgia OKeefe to put up!), and he begged me to decorate his place. So one night I burned the midnight oil putting up walls, floors, tile, and a couple of chairs. It will take me a while to complete it, but it gives me another project. My apartment is all lavender and sage and country feminine. So now I am trying to make something masculine for my neighbor. I am going for deep colors. I gave him one brick wall. A wood floor. I want it to be fun for him, not stilted, but not juvenile either. So we'll see.
I have started building my second apartment complex. I haven't got land, but I'll have a prefab ready to drop. I am calling it Cucumber. It is kind of Greek classical feeling fused with modern.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Monday, July 13, 2009
July 13, 2009 Monday
Oh, my gosh.
Where to start.
I have been BIZzy!
First bit of news is that I procured my first 512 sq m of mainland -- my free tier parcel due me because of my premium account. This is a big deal. I finally have wrapped my mind around the rules and the system, and now, of course, after all it's not that difficult.
I want to make the 512 pay so I have been building an apartment complex on it -- 3 apartments -- and will thereafter hopefully be able to fill them (rent them out). We'll see. I want to charge enough rent so that it will cover tiers for a second piece of land (1024) and I can keep getting bigger. I don't know. It sounds good in my mind. But I'm not sure the rent market will allow me to do that. We'll see. In any case, building is really jazzing me. I have created the whole building. The furnishings I have been buying. I know I can't pay my tier with lindens, but I still want it to represent the amount needed for covering. That way, I am ONLY paying tier with my real life money, and all the rent and such is covering my inworld expenses. We'll see.
I tried my hand at building a 3 prim bed, and for the prims, I must say it looks pretty cute. The secret is in fabrics for the bed spread and pillow. Now I want to create a 1, 2 and 3 prim furniture store. Dreams for now. My Aileen's Fashion and Furniture at Runningbear Beach Mall is looking cute now -- they dropped a new mall design. But honestly, traffic for my shop is 0. I paid for a classified ad, and I'm going to try to do some more things with this, so we'll see. I want to plumb the potential of this shop and then I will get a 2nd place for the low prim furniture, but of course link them with notecards, landmark givers and such.
I thought I had a lot to say. Ha ha. I guess not. My apartment remodeling is looking awesome. I've been spending more time helping newbies. I guess all the apartment shopping (the one I live in and the one I'm building) make me feel busy.
Where to start.
I have been BIZzy!
First bit of news is that I procured my first 512 sq m of mainland -- my free tier parcel due me because of my premium account. This is a big deal. I finally have wrapped my mind around the rules and the system, and now, of course, after all it's not that difficult.
I want to make the 512 pay so I have been building an apartment complex on it -- 3 apartments -- and will thereafter hopefully be able to fill them (rent them out). We'll see. I want to charge enough rent so that it will cover tiers for a second piece of land (1024) and I can keep getting bigger. I don't know. It sounds good in my mind. But I'm not sure the rent market will allow me to do that. We'll see. In any case, building is really jazzing me. I have created the whole building. The furnishings I have been buying. I know I can't pay my tier with lindens, but I still want it to represent the amount needed for covering. That way, I am ONLY paying tier with my real life money, and all the rent and such is covering my inworld expenses. We'll see.
I tried my hand at building a 3 prim bed, and for the prims, I must say it looks pretty cute. The secret is in fabrics for the bed spread and pillow. Now I want to create a 1, 2 and 3 prim furniture store. Dreams for now. My Aileen's Fashion and Furniture at Runningbear Beach Mall is looking cute now -- they dropped a new mall design. But honestly, traffic for my shop is 0. I paid for a classified ad, and I'm going to try to do some more things with this, so we'll see. I want to plumb the potential of this shop and then I will get a 2nd place for the low prim furniture, but of course link them with notecards, landmark givers and such.
I thought I had a lot to say. Ha ha. I guess not. My apartment remodeling is looking awesome. I've been spending more time helping newbies. I guess all the apartment shopping (the one I live in and the one I'm building) make me feel busy.
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