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  1. Hi everyone,

    I recently picked up the L$500 gift card at Fancy Decor, and I just tried to use it at the store.  According to the instructions on Fancy Decor's help pages, I should add the gift card to my avatar, and it will appear on screen - but when I try doing this it doesn't appear.  When I added the gift card to my avi there was a message in local chat saying I need to use a Caspervend vendor to use the gift card balance, but when I try to buy items using the gift card balance I just get a pop up telling me to click on the gift card on screen - but I can't see it!  Can anyone help?  Thanks! 🙂

  2. 2 hours ago, Rat Luv said:

    OK, let me try to redo what I originally wrote from memory 😆 I drew - THE EMPRESS (ETA  -the right way up, not reversed)

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    To me, this is the 'Mother Earth' card! I just want to sit in a wood and listen to T Rex and listen to the wolves howl 🐺

    This card stands for nurturing, raising children, connecting to nature and health. Don't worry, I won't say "You should do outdoors yoga, speak to trees and drink herbal tea"! (but do it if you want xD) But as well as giving birth to children, this card can mean creativity, and giving birth to art and ideas. Maybe it's worth looking back to creative things you used to do that you enjoyed, and finding out if doing them again kick starts other emotions that help you rediscover the life you think you lost? (which, agreeing with Lindal, I'm sure you haven't - it's just that circumstances have changed )

    The Empress is powerful, but she has patchy moments too. Look at her face - she's like, "I've had better days!" Even Empresses can't escape bad days or pandemics. But she is still wearing her crown of stars and in control! Sometimes you just have to ride out bad situations, but remember you're in control and are the same person who enjoyed the good times :) Maybe try applying your best skills and personality traits that worked before to the present? And spoil yourself with a day of treats :P

    Thanks @Rat Luv - the bit about creativity and giving birth to ideas does make sense to me right now.  And the Empress's face looking like she's had better days - well, you're spot on there, mine certainly looks like that, too! 🤣  The bad situation I'm riding out has been going on for a very long time, and is not in my control.  But the overall positivity of your reading has certainly helped to give me some hope for the future.  Thanks again! ❤️

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  3. 14 hours ago, Rat Luv said:

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    @LunaThymeLuna your question BROKE THE DECK! :oxD

    It's gone mad on me...I cannot figure out how the card relates to your question AT ALL...have tried writing this 100 times and none of it makes sense...

    I think Lindal's advice is probably better in this case!

    (ETA again, it's The Empress if any of the tarot pros want a go at this?)

    @Rat LuvSo sorry my question has given you such a hard time - but you've actually helped me more than you think! 🙂

    I googled the meaning of The Empress card, and what it said made a lot of sense for me, in my current situation.  Although, I understand the interpretation of the card can be different if the card was reversed - so can you remember which way up the card was?

    Thanks again for taking the time to do this, and for your very kind private message - it's much appreciated! ❤️

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  4. 12 hours ago, Lindal Kidd said:

    Ooh! I don't have Rat's touch with the cards, but I'm moved to comment on @LunaThyme's question anyway.

    Your life is yours, and will be until you die. No one can take it from you. But you can never get your "old life" back, only move on to new chapters.  This is true of everyone, whether that old life is taken simply by the passage of time, or by some disruptive event or evil person.

    Whatever has happened to you, I wish you all the best.

    @Lindal Kidd- I don't really want to go into the reasons behind my question to @Rat Luvhere, but I appreciate your kind words! ❤️

  5. It’s tricky buying clothes these days,

    I’m at a funny age.

    I’m too old for a mini-skirt,

    Although they’re all the rage.

    I’d like to wear a sparkly dress,

    To make me feel all glam,

    But would it only make me look

    Like mutton dressed as lamb?

     

    If I dress all in leopard print,

    Will I look hip and smart?

    Or will I just look desperate?

    A lonely, sad old tart.

    If I wear leather trousers,

    Will I look sexy and cool?

    Or will people just think I am

    An absurd, ageing fool.

     

    There are lots of celebrities

    Who look good for their age,

    I’ve seen them in the magazines,

    They smile from every page.

    But they’ve all got a stylist,

    A surgeon on speed-dial,

    A trainer, and a dentist

    For that perfect, veneered smile.

    I can’t compete with them,

    I don’t have that sort of money.

    I tried Beyoncé’s hairstyle,

    But it made me look funny.

     

    To hell with those young models

    In the fashion magazines!

    All posing in their skimpy tops,

    And posh designer jeans.

    I’m going to wear what I like,

    Who cares what people think!

    Blue platform shoes, red hotpants,

    And my hair dyed shocking pink!

     

    I’m too young for a twin-set,

    And elasticated trews,

    I’m not ready for blue-rinsed hair,

    And frumpy, laced-up shoes.

    Why should I look ‘appropriate’,

    With hair up in a bun?

    I’m not old yet.

    Let’s get dolled up, and go out and have fun!


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  6. Trompe Loeil are giving away a free cottage - just outside the main entrance, on the right. 

    http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hyde Park/208/167/22

    There are also some free chairs available.  The items are free to anyone, you don't need to join a group.  The cottage is 56 land impact, measures 18.1 x 17.6m, and comes with a working fireplace.  The paved patio/base can be unlinked and removed from the cottage, which decreases the footprint quite a bit, and also reduces the land impact to 54.

     

    trompe loeil free cottage_001.jpg

    trompe loeil free chairs_001.jpg

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  7. 7 hours ago, Malayaa said:

    I remember touring the Log Homes preview, and thinking that they looked kind of bland inside and difficult to furnish, then the homes were released and right away creators were offering additions and Belli peeps were showing their furnished homes and landscaped yards, and wow what a difference!  Wound up with several versions over time of warm, colorful and cozy log homes that I was very happy with.   So when I got the same feeling about the Chalets, how am I going to make these look like home, I knew not to worry  :)  Coincidentally I found a store yesterday who sells Tudor Chalet Cottages AND windmills!  The cottages have cute stone cladding on the outside...mullioned windows...and warm beams inside.  See interior/exterior pics below for inspiration! 

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    @Malayaa - How lovely!  Could you please tell me where the store is that sells those Tudor cottages and windmills?

  8. 1 hour ago, Evangeline Arcadia said:

    I generally agree. I don't know if too much stock should be placed on exactly what style the door is, because of what appears to be 'recycling'. From what Patch has said so far, and hints and things in these threads, it's not going to be similar to what's come before. I'd expect it to look a different as a whole  for example the house shape or the roof, but maybe some of the details such as window frames, inside flooring etc. are similar to what's gone before.

    I'm still thinking rustic or fantasy.

    I hope you're right - it would be nice to see something a bit different, and rustic or fantasy would be lovely! 😍

  9. 43 minutes ago, Raspberry Crystal said:

    A rustic farmhouse look would be lovely, but you would not find the door in Patch's example in a countryside setting, it is a 'townhouse' style. That is what is so puzzling!

     

    I agree, the stucco walls suggest a cottage or farmhouse, but the door doesn't quite fit with that theory.  The door in Patch's picture looks like the door from a Victorian.  I think the moles do tend to 'recycle' quite a bit with the different themes - Victorians look very similar to Traditionals, just a bit bigger;  log homes look quite similar again, just with different coloured wood siding;  stilt homes look similar to Trads/Vics, but on stilts.  I think whatever the new theme is, maybe a cottage/farmhouse - it will be a 'Linden Homes version' of a cottage/farmhouse (so basically a Trad/Vic/log home, but with stucco walls instead of wood siding.  After all, when we heard about there being a log home theme, I think most people were expecting something a bit more like these...

    log cabin 1.jpg

    log cabin 2.jpg

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  10. I still think the house in Patch's picture looks like a traditional English or European cottage (or maybe a farm house).  Just for fun, I thought I would have a go at building what I think it might look like (within the restrictions of the textures and building bits and bobs I had available to me in my inventory!)  Of course, the moles would do a much more professional job than I have...😄

    Patch cottage pic.jpg

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  11. 11 hours ago, seeno29 said:

    Maybe it's something like this, if they do this it's gonna be so colorful and beautiful:

     

     

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    If you want to see something like this in SL, have you visited Vieux Colmar?

    Coeur d'Alsace - Ville de Coeur, Coeur d Alsace (173, 132, 26)

    colmar_001.jpg

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  12. 13 hours ago, Chic Aeon said:

    My eyes that I purposefully "froze" move around in my head also BUT they no longer blink :D.    I am using the free STRONG head.   

    I tried it again - when I freeze the eyes, they don't move at all.  When I unfreeze them, they move.  Either way, she doesn't blink.  I wondered if it had something to do with my main AO, that maybe it was overriding the head AO, but even when I turn off my main AO she still won't blink no matter what I click on.  I've solved the problem for now anyway, as Vanity Fair's suggestion of trying an AO from a different head seems to work. ☺️

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  13. 14 hours ago, Vanity Fair said:

    I have discovered, quite by accident, that a blinking AO (from Kalhene) worked just fine on my Genus head, without having to use the full-blown Genus animation AO. So try a different head's animation override, it might work.

    Thanks for the suggestion!  The only other mesh head I have is a Genesis Lab one, so I tried the AO for that - and it worked!  She's blinking all over the place now...☺️

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  14. That's good to know, thanks!  At least that means it's not something I'm doing wrong - I haven't accidentally clicked something on the hud that I shouldn't, or forgot to click something I should.  And it's good to know I'm not the only one who is wandering around SL unnerving everyone I look at with an unblinking stare... 😁

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  15. Hi everyone,

    I'm using the free Genus strong head, and I'm very happy with it!  The only problem I have is my avatar never blinks, which looks a bit weird.  I've tried clicking on the 'blinking' bit on the hud, but nothing happens.  Does anyone have any ideas how I can get my avi to blink?  The fixed stare is becoming a bit unnerving...👀

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