Fauve Aeon

I was getting this too today (middle of continental US) so I fell back to a previous viewer version and that worked.

There are many types of avatars that do many things, also. I’m just saying. When Bjork wore her swan dress she dropped an egg too.

I looked for some and didn’t find any so I’m working on it. There may be a little scripting magic and non-laggy type temp rez involved (have to look for and touch the nest eggs when they appear in order to get an egg...) and sometimes the renegade hen lays hers in the bush! (I’m not a scripter - but I am a modder and kit-basher and this is a fun project). If you want a game type that you can use or sell, MyStory system has chickens, but they need feed etc. I’ll never tell! But there will be fuzzy chicks, that much I can say.

From Patch. He made special bears for the Birthday this year.

I initially wanted one near a pond or best of all near the north shore where the edge terraforming is done. Failing that, I think I have a good compromise since I want to have a little 'farm stand' and some chickens that actually give eggs - I'm in Cicely with a road on each side, a clearing in the back, and fairly near a rez zone.

Patch's Birthday Bear ❤️

I will make my guesses as Thousand Island(s) for Bali/Bora-Bora/Maldives, especially as a 512...which would also be ideal for an Adult theme because Honeymoon/Romance, I'm just saying...then Blue Cheese would maybe be French Provincial with a Chateau as the Community Center - and it could maybe be a blended 1024/2048 theme to give variety and pretty views. Just dreamy speculation of course.

Yep, will take some photos inworld later today and I’m also a collector of Libertine Eggs - so many good smol things in them! There’s a script helper for this that increases the smallest piece in a linkset and lets you shrink more things with more ease & abandon. https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Fix_Small_Prims Shrinking things by 2/3 is also usually right for Dinkies and Petites.

I think everything in this theme is really well done and it’s inspiring me. I’m dusting off my shabby/distressed texture making & modding skills. Going to see if I can work up some color coordinating out-buildings that look nice in the shared environment (time to learn PBR Materials) and some ‘up-cycled’ looking decor. Ivy for the walls, maybe a farm stand. Also chickens, a little garden plot (maybe MyStory) and a dog! Green Acres x Petticoat Junction with a dash of modern boho. Yep.

Just a gal and her virtual toast!

I got excited and burned through my choices too quickly… So I had to bring an alt online and upgrade her membership… Which is a good practice for walking someone new through it at some point if they need it because I had never gone through the payment method steps needed to connect a paid SL account to PayPal. I like the Knotty Pine model ok but it’s quite big and open - those tchotchkes and furnishings that don’t have strong LOD lower levels may collapse across the room! I’ll see how many of these models I can decorate before a new P+ theme is available. I probably won’t keep 2 P+ homes in this theme but one of these and one in the Premium area might be nice.

I agree to always follow the TOS of any full perm items but several template sellers DO allow for time limited group gifts (some also requiring an original texture on gifts) and if the freebies were in a limited use vendor available only to newer avatars, I do believe that would usually satisfy the ‘limited time’ requirement. So it’s not impossible to outfit a freebie store from purchased fullperm items. @YoungKrypt once you are set up, I’d also definitely solicit more individual creators directly to place their promo gifts with you, and my best suggestion would be to request that everyone contributing use a HUD or shopping bag unpacker that you can add to the avatar because believe it or not, I still run into the old ‘wearing a huge box’ syndrome - not a good experience. I’m styling a ‘freebie’ female full mesh avatar right now and I’d be happy to pass you the style card and photos when I’m done if you want it.

Part 1/2. The Basics. Free everything. This avatar features the free Genus Strong Head with the current Genus skin gift, wearing the included shape as well with a few tweaks. Body is the Lucybody, it’s free on a pretty active MM board. BOM is extra but optional, it has a range of skins included and ability to tint them and adjust shine within the HUD. Makeup and hair base from the Genus HUD. Neck fix needs work. Mesh Hair is from ‘Petrol Sue’ in our Library. Shoes, wonky sunnies and earrings are some of the Rowne group gifts in a free-to-join VIP group. One more session should see her dressed in a capsule wardrobe, with her neck, skin, brows, hair and makeup sorted out further and then she’ll be off for her location ‘vacay’ trip to Backdrop City for her glow-up photo shoot.

I have a basic dummy setup of folders for my clothing by company because I have a tendency to sweep a half off sale but I rarely buy fat packs and I like to layer. So for example this week it was ‘Rowne > separates ‘tops’, ‘bottoms’. Then under tops ‘lower’ & ‘upper’ to give myself the quick reference to how they will layer. All the bras, bikini tops, bralettes, tanks & corsets in ‘lower’. Everything blouse, wrap, jacket, coat, sweater, shrug, in ‘upper’. I’ve done this for several years with their clothes, and Ison too. It makes wearing their particular style of clothes much more fun and creative.

This year I find myself popping in every day so far, either to attend something, to enter the giveaway, do the hunt or visit someone’s build. I’ve shopped a bit but not that much. I pop on a tiny low-li cartoon avi, set my max av capacities low and then just run-run-run everywhere - and sit up front for everything instead of needing to cam forward…it’s been pretty fun, and not too laggy or weird except for one texture glitch.

I’m trying to nest things more, for instance decor, home decor, ‘wall decor’ instead of several top-level folders with wall hangings, paintings, pictures wall art up at a higher level. I’ve done ‘tabletop’ for anything that usually sits on a table, and yep, ‘dining/tabletop’ under that, snd so is ‘countertop’. I’m trying to un-flatten my inventory and make it deeper. So far it’s making sense. I’m also spending time just reducing things like old lm, notecards and demos - but I do each activity separately, and kind of swap off. Occasionally a few friends and I sort together and hilarity ensues in a bizarre show and tell scenario. I have the Wardrobe, and I used it a bit, it seemed like a good idea once set up - but I’m mostly back in the Official viewer these days, so it’s not useful there.

Soon is so last year. Didn’t Patch say he wasn’t even going to say it anymore - at the SL19B ‘Meet the Moles’? It’s a cursed word. Like S!m/Region. Honestly, I’m just excited to hear the announcements, so I’m not putting much expectations on it other than hoping to hear More Good Things (like the news of the Smokefest event)…but if pressed, I’d say I’m probably more excited about the potential for NUX avatars being imminent even though I’m terribly curious about the P+ homes too, and…planning how to be fast enough to snag one!

Budget avatar on Genus Strong x Lucybody is a WIP. Everything additional so far is free, a big value for the $L required to join a group - or fairly inexpensive/on sale.

My SL looked Glitch-tastic- like woah.

If I win the car, I’m totally keeping it. I’ll tell people I got it in ‘that crazy online game I play’, and that ‘they sent it to me in the Real World’. ‘What Could Possibly Go Wring?

I resonate with the art comparison, one of Koontz large steel items, Roxy Paine’s trees in the changing daylight, standing in front of a larger Rothko - huge and dominating an even larger space, seeing O’Keefe’s Jimson Weed as I round the corner and am able to lean in to study the color unaltered and ideally lit - it all gives a different feeling than seeing them in photos or video. These examples are all art I’ve seen in photo or video but all of the above also ‘live’ near me and when I visit (often), it’s apples to oranges with looking at photos of them. That doesn’t mean I stop looking at art photos, it’s just different. And in between, I’ve been amazed by some SL gallery spaces too. I think it depends if we are comparing a substitution (which I also feel often falls short) or instead an alternate if the real deal is not convenient or practical. OTOH, I’m often amazed at the people who make quite realistic flowers in SL, I have a good collection of some shops’ things - both to wear and to arrange. My RL Peonies only last so long and there’s no cheery yellow Columbine left by November.

For me the title and the message are 2 different questions. As good? No. Beneficial? Absolutely. I have a huge mature garden and a nice variety of birds, lizards, bees and cute garden snakes. I live in a temperate/subtropical climate that is cold enough for spring bulbs and pretty autumn colors but warm enough for calla lilies to stay in the ground and it is rainy enough that I rarely need to manually water most things, even lawn. Not everyone has this so to be able to recreate it somewhat in order to be able to enjoy some aspects of it in SL is amazing. I appreciate the aesthetics of arid, high altitude Southwestern deserts but don’t enjoy actually being in them much, lol. I like the visuals of snowy landscapes but don’t miss driving in snow one bit. These I really enjoy in SL. I’m also one of those people who loves the idea of ‘the beach’ but unless there are tide pools, or seaside caves to explore, I’m bored quickly. Yet I visit SL beach places and watch the water, look for little animated critters, etc. I like SL outdoor spaces of all kinds, I find them relaxing and interesting.

I think it’s always good to see more membership options whether they are suited for me or not. I’m happy so far with Premium Plus, it has aligned with what I’m currently wanting to do, other that wishing for the 2048 Linden Homes to arrive sooner. But I’m not opposed to looking at something else either, if a Lifetime account or other option had more or different incentives.

I’ll go to the Premiere. I’m interested to see it. Some SL documentary material I like, some isn’t my style but it’s a big world and everyone’s focus is different. I think seeing it before making up my mind makes sense. Plus, I like Premieres. edit for future context: replaced photo with link after it went live.

Inside WIP pix from me too. That rug texture is a pain to rez but I like the way the shape is so lumpy, lol. Yes the little Totoro is me.