Over

Well... I didn't see that coming. I honestly didn't!
I went back in world to see if the afternoon's shocking news was still true and was told that the good citizens of Victoriana were packing up.
I am doing my best to be a good one, so I dutifully went about the business of packing my prims.
It is all done now. Finished. Over.
I want a sl home so I feel I belong there, but maybe this is time to reflect. Maybe now I simply don't belong. Not sure but perhaps what I needed SL for has passed?
I have had a quick wander round this afternoon looking for a primmy place for me to set up and build and I haven't found anything approaching charming.
Do I regret selling Southend? Absolutely. Do I want to go back there? Not really.

I am ready for what comes next.
I am not frightened of change.
I am not frightened of the future.
The past is wayyyyy more frightening :)

As I said when Fathom disappeared beneath the waves.. "Onward and forward"

My Tiny New Home

I was talking to Edward Pearse tonight between my intervals of 5 minutely crashes... and mentioned that I feel a little like a dog on the end of a leash. The smaller prim allowance is a bit of a test for me.

Yesterday I set up my new home in Tinytoriana.

This morning I got a special notice to say that I was 10 prims over my limit... whoooops!
It is quite a challenge to furnish with 200 prims. The little house is three rooms and 55 prims. That's not exactly low prim, nor exactly over the top. So I am learning to pull my horns in a little.

I still have most of my prims at my biggee home so I have some where I can build a tiny skirt without having to retreat to the Victoriana Sandbox. Or a shoe with 120 stitches evenly spaced round the sole....

I should really put in a photo of the sandbox too as it has become my default home. I am spending quite a lot of time there and am very grateful to LBD for putting those prims at our service. I just lonely there, that's all. So I would rather build at ground level if I could.

The sandbox

In the sandbox I have three WIPs. The railway station is being made tiny, I am re-texturing the Morris House and it looks much better in stone than it did as a brick cottage. (Also textured in weatherboard as shown in my new tiny house)
Also working on the original Lidl Auds shop. Once it is is re-textured, I will get myself sorted, find a more commercial spot for my houses and it will be the store for my houses. I will probably put landmarks in there with directions to a couple of my other place so that people can see the sort of things I build.
It is a toss up you see. Who will buy a house without seeing it rezzed? Will they ever pay enough to pay for the prims it costs to have houses rezzing? A rezzing vendor would be ideal I guess. I think I need a firm hand top guide me through that one though. I have wasted plenty of SL hours trying to decide on which rezzer.

ohhhh I have garbled on and on and I am too tired to read what kind of aimless nonesense i have spouted.... off I go .. gooodnight :)

Moving On

The sounds of water ... irresistable.

My dry land locked RL insists on SL water. Having sold off all my waters edge in Caledon I last only a handful of days before I decided that I needed a major reshuffle of all land.
All along, I have mixed my residential with my commercial but I think I will now sort that. I Have the tiny shops in Tintoriana and Raglan. I think I need a more commercial place for my houses and not simply a residential block.
While the Forest sim and my block there would have to be one of the prettiest places in SL, I cant use it for either commercial or residential as any residence must let me build and I can not build in the trees.
So then I had my eyes out for a tiny home and a biggee home and I have spied, and bought the next two most lovely blocks in Victoriana (IMHO).

The first was one I was drooling over a few nights ago when I figured I wouldn't buy it this time round but wait til it came free again. No will power. I imagined some one else living there and it didn't sit right. During winter I went skating on this pond at night. Absolutely stunning.
For the moment I have plonked Frankston Villa onto the block but now I have a good reason to build a new house that address the corner better. St Albans faces the road fine, but ignores the lovely rear view so it wouldn't do at all.

Look at the view from the lounge room!!!!

Even more stunning from outside. Littleblackduck Lindsay (Ducky or LBD) has designed the most wonderful sims.

The newest is Tintoriana and again I have grabbed a lovely block. This is where I have bought a block for tiny Auds. These photos are from last night before I got building.

More photos to come :) Not many prims here so furnishing was something of a trick. Think mats and paintings.

Right!

Day of mopiness is over and I am onward and forward again.
Important question for self then is "what is forward?" Next question is "who is driving?" "Does there need to be a driver?" "Should I drive?"
Tricky questions..
At the moment there isn't a driver. What happens, happens without a plan. I don't know if there should be a driver and while I don't want to drive, I suspect I do need to be a bit more pro-active.
This is all probably more than anyone wants to know. This is about my whole life. not just the SL bit. But I have some goals. That at least is the beginning of driving this life of mine

RL plan: Drag the UK cat to Oz

SL plan: Earn enough to be able to buy a plot of land by the water. While the new arrangement isn't breaking my heart, I miss the water. I really, really do.
I found a plot of land in Victoriana Harbour.. it is stunningly gorgeous. But I just need to have a little breathing space from tier.

And here is something... I am a stayer. I figure I will be around people will come and go from the gorgeous places, and when I am ready .....

As well as stayer... I have a streak of naughty.... yesterday I went to brand new Caledon Pangur Ban. I think my prim might be the only one there.....

Greetings from Victoriana

I have a job!

I am now working as a Victoriana greeter, to welcome people as they arrive in Victoriana. Whether newbies or wanderers finding their way to our lovely sims for the first time!

Naturally I wanted to look the part so I asked the mayor for a copy of the tartan and quickly made a frock to wear while I worked last night. then today, with more time I embellished it with some braid and made a hat to go with it, a lovely little felt sun hat.

And I have made shoes too! Shiny patent leather ones with yellow ribbed tights.

i have put them out to sell in a box at Victoriana Tinytoriana.
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Victoriana%20Square/252/209/33

More News!

I was asking Miss Peaches about the lack of dawn and she mentioned that she was selling her plot in the forest.. next thing I know she has taken over my plot and will sell it instead, and I am living on the side of a stream, opposite a water fall in the best place in Victoriana!
Photos to come!

News!

I have bought a plot in Victoriana Forrest! I told you I liked it there!
Now I have a little slice!
I like that Victoriana is a bit tidier than Caledon and I like that there are dots around in the ozzie hours! I like that it is smaller. I like playing in the games room in my ozzie evening. I like having a new project that is just for the fun of it, nothing commercial.

Tinytoriana

I have fallen in love with a new collection of sims: Victoriana. I visited there first over a year ago when the first sim was fresh and new and haven't had time to go back to investigate. I went off to to see the Frankston house that was bought and placed there and i am quite taken with the place.
I roamed around in the Forest sim completely lost. i have gone back again and again and i still have no way of telling where I am. I would love to own a little place in that sim.

Meanwhile, I cant afford to. I would have to sell off one of the 4 in Caledon or the shop in Raglan and i cant quite decide to do either of those, so I have rented a small shop in Tinytoriana. I am really enjoying both the scenery and the company I have bumped into there.

I have rented the shop on the corner here and have filled it with tiny clothes. I have been having fun with tiny Halloween. This is me in my Bloody Erzsebet Moppet outfit

Athena Zepp, Victoriana and the Frankston Villa!

No time to blog really, I need to get in to work as I am to fetch coffee for the workers... but briefly...
Athena is the first person to buy the Frankston Villa as it has been named ( some one really needs to give me a hand with names for things...looking pleadingly at Taz.....)

She sent me a photo of the newly erected building and I had to go and have a look.

She has done a magnificent job. It looks wonderful and she has furnished it tastefully and appropriately. I am really thrilled!
While I was there admiring her gardening she arrived and I gave her a hand and I have fixed the patio to suit her location too.

I guess in a sim built by Littleblack Duck, another Ozzie, I should hope to find an empathetic neighbourhood for my little Edwardian :)