Category: Day by day

An attempt to share some daily highlights related to Second Life


Jan
2013

Live music and sales in Second Life!

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Live music show, gifts and sale! At Saturday 26th January 8-10 PM PDT Making Magic is having an event with lots of give-aways and store discounts. Pocket Avatars are participating! Come join!

Live music in Second LifeI have submitted 2 gift vouchers as give-aways to some lucky visitor during the event and will offer an exclusive discount on everything in the store for group members of the Second Life group Pocket Avatars during the time of the event! None members will get 10% of everything in the store.

Don’t miss out on this opportunity for great shopping bargains at the same time you are enjoying some great live music performers!

More information of the event can be found below. LIMO to the event for your convenience: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Loamford/186/89/68

Enjoy!

Making Magic is pleased to present two guitarists and Vocalists for a two hour live music show. Come join us in the park to hear Gregellistoronto and Starrfish Ohmai.

GregEllisToronto is a Toronto-based singer and guitarist, performing in SL since Aug 2011. Mixing acoustic rock with splashes of folk and country, Greg delivers a set of quiet introspective songs, ranging from 70’s to present.

With a stellar presence, Starr’s voice is sultry and smooth, Starrfish Ohmai is pure sweetness with a touch of fun. A singer and budding songwriter with several live performances a week with an extensive songlist.

There will be give-aways and lots of store discounts right across the mall, with some stores offering 50% discount for all purchases made for the duration of the event.

Come spend a couple of hours with us, all residents, big and small are welcome.

 

 


Jan
2013

Valentine’s Days Luxury Kits!

categories: Day by day, DesigningSL

Surprise your loved one with a luxury Valentine’s Day date! All the kits of this set are packed in beautiful heart shaped gift boxes with transfer permissions! Available both in-world Second Life in the main store as well as on Second Life Marketplace (click on each add below for listing).

All you see on the advert pictures below is included, that is:

BATHROBE KIT – LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

Warm and cosy bathrobes with matching puffy slippers, five different sizes. One set for the Gentlemen and one for the ladies! All in mesh, slippers are unrigged mesh. Alpha layer, resize script for the slippers and shoe base included.

Each set packed in a separate heart shaped gift box, meaning you can buy it for your loved one and invite him/her on a surprise Valentine’s Day date!

CHAMPAGNE KIT

4 scripted champagne glasses, scripted with bubble effect as well as three built in animations (hold, sip, toast). Wear to activate, touch to change.
A separate ice bucket containing a luxurious bottle of champagne, positioned on a silvery stand.

Then, depending on your choice, you get either a Jacuzzi or an old style bathtub.

JACUZZI

Consist of two versions, one decorated with candles and spa flowers, one without. Menu driven animation engine with option to adjust both rotation and position. Including two couple cuddle poses (Bath her and Lap kiss) plus some single poses.

Valentine's Day Luxury Kit - Jacuzzi
Valentine’s Day Luxury Kit – Jacuzzi

BATHTUB

Discrete steam and gentle rose petals floating in the water. Includes a romantic and sensual couple animation (Bath her).

Valentine's Day Luxury Kit - Old style bathtub
Valentine’s Day Luxury Kit – Old style bathtub

Would you like a customized set, for example include note-card, other items etc, please contact me, I’m willing to arrange that for you free of charge!

 


Jan
2013

What a day!

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A day full of oddities. Some sad, some amusing.

First out. Snow, lots of it! The Aussie expat keeps repeating, louder and louder, to himself mostly I think, maybe it calms him down (I’m so in trouble when he will read this) but sometimes he includes me and the cat too. “We will all die. The white stuff is here again! 10 minus Celsius?! We will all die! …”

I listened briefly to the news and heard some comments about that someone had driven a train straight in to a house. A house?! A train?! I thought, I must have misheard. I listen further to the news as I was working on some new ideas in Second Life. It was true. Believe it or not, someone had stolen (!) a train and crashed it into a house. Luckily no one was seriously injured. But, a train, why? It isn’t like to steal a sport-scar, really. But I guess, if you are going to do something, you better do it properly. Unfortunately there was a house in the way …

I continued to work and again the news got my attention. A wolf in the centre of the city close to where we live had been spotted. I laughed to myself, thinking, aha, the “I seen the wolf rumour” has spread to our city too. There were reports of a wolf further down south last week, which in itself is rather unusual. Therefore my thoughts were, people will start to see wolfs in each corner now I suppose. But the reports kept coming on the local radio station and I realized it was actually yet another wolf they spotted. How nice, one of my favourite animals, although very rare and almost died out  in Sweden a couple of years ago because of the massive hunt of them.

Then to the more sad news, the biggest car crash I ever heard of in the south of Sweden. They reported about 100 cars was involved, 15-20 people injured and suspicions of 3 dead. I just saw the late evening news and the chaos was horrifying. It is hard to imagine it is real, even after seeing the mess on the television. Apparently the highway was extremely icy and the fog so thick they couldn’t see more then a couple of meter in front of them. But 100 cars? It is hard to take in. My thoughts are with those affected.

So little it takes and everything changes.
Carpe diem.

 


Jan
2013

SALE for small mesh avatars, come look!

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Sale for small mesh avatars, come look! The sale runs from 12 AM Friday 11 January to 12 PM Monday 14 January. Hurry up to grab your bargain! Click on the pictures for links direct to the items! See also previous post about My 60L secret. Happy shopping!

Submission to my 60L item!

SALE! Pocket Avatars participating in My 60L secret!

 

Discount in-world!

SALE! Pocket Avatars 33% discount item!

 


Jan
2013

Free advertising space available!

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Free advertising space at Lutricias LuxuriesDo you have a business or service you wish to promote? This is a great opportunity to get extra promotion, for free! I just put up some advertise boards at the main store location in Second Life!

As a start, the one outside the store are free of charge! The more that are interested, the higher the price will be for new advertisers. Hurry up to grab your spot! I also have a couple inside the shop, for a very low price to start with.

I have quite high traffic and the advert spaces are placed just around the main landing spot, great exposure to anyone that visit the store!

Please contact me if you have any questions. Limo here: Free advertising space available!

 


Dec
2012

Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year to all in Second Life

Warm New Year greetings to all in Second Life!

It is soon New Year! 2013 is just around the corner. I wish you all a New Year filled with peace, prosperity and happiness!

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.
~H. Keller

 

 


Dec
2012

Second Life versus Facebook?

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Second Life versus Facebook? "Death" of social media networkThe Second Life group Swedish People in SL sent out a message informing that a popular Swedish newspaper had an article about Second Life (link in English … or at least an attempt by Google translate). The main theme of the article is the “death” of social media networks and in particular it highlights Facebook, Myspace and Second Life among others.

The first I noticed was the odd combination of social media networks to compare. As I see it, the networks mentioned aim at totally different users, I would doubt that Facebook and Myspace has the same target groups as Second Life. My experience is that Facebook and Myspace is more aimed towards kids and teenagers, whereas Second Life has a much wider audience both  as for age and geographical location.

The journalist also spice it up with adding a bunch of social media networks exclusively for Sweden that started off quite strongly but later on died out. If to compare something, at least a fair deal would be to have similar target groups as for age and geographical location. I started to read the article with interest but quickly got annoyed of what I feel is just empty words without any statistical fact behind the statements.

I firmly believe it is hard to compare Second Life to any of the social media that is mentioned in the article. Second Life is obviously a way to communicate, to connect, a social network simply. But, the big difference is, that Second Life provides so much more depth and possibilities, that a comparison between Facebook and Second Life becomes just ridiculous  Or, perhaps you can create and design buildings, avatars, clothes … and similar in Facebook now?

I believe all these negative predictions are wrong. I believe that Second Life does have a future and all the changes and new possibilities I saw highlighted in Second Life featured news from their official blog the other day proves me right. Second Life is developing and will provide even more opportunities.

To summarize, the definition of crisis doesn’t mean per default a negative development  A crisis is a turning point, a change, for worse … or for better! I believe the changes we are experiencing in Second Life right now, is just that. Through the crisis something better is developing.

Looking forward to 2013!


Dec
2012

Merry Christmas!

categories: Day by day

Although we already have celebrated Christmas in Sweden (24th of December), I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of the Second Life friends and followers a Merry Christmas!

Swedish tomte - Swedish Santa Claus - Merry Christmas!
Swedish classic “Tomte” – i.e. Santa Claus

For those interested, the picture above is illustrating a Swedish “Tomte“, a mythical creature of Scandinavian folklore. Credit for the picture to Bergerlinds Förlag.

 


Dec
2012

Homeless in Second Life during the Christmas holidays?

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Homeless in Second Life for Christmas?

I just received following group notice when I logged in to Second Life. I thought I’ll forward it here for anyone who might be homeless in Second Life and in the need of a virtual home during the Christmas holidays.

Seasons Greetings!

As a form of celebrating Christmas Season, Victoria Chung Estates provides 1008sqm land for free until December 27, 2012 for those residents who has no land and wish to have a shelter during the holiday.

On December 28, 2012 all occupied parcels for free will be reclaimed and if tenant wish to keep the land, they can pay the corresponding amount (400L / 300L / 200L weekly depending on the location of the plot)

The only qualification for this offer is that the avatar must be at least 30 days old.

Feel free to IM Victoria Chung for further assistance!

Happy Holidays ^^
Lots of Love,
Victoria Chung

 

Homeless in Second Life for Christmas?

Apart from this, please note, anyone who like to set their home location somewhere around the land where the main store in-world are situated are very much welcome to do so. Just get in touch with me and I’ll make sure to invite you to the proper group. This offer is valid all year around ;)

Happy holidays!

 

Credit for the photo used goes to MD-Arts.