More Ossumness!

Lludmila won't be doing laundry today!

Yet another goodie for the 60L Weekend Sale at Altya's Dream Creation and Toys.  It's the Hospital Bed!  Just like I'd hoped for in a blogpost on my Unslutty and Undead blog!  Now, it's not like I'm above being greedy ... but when I walked around the shop after my sale purchase to see what I'd like to hint for next week, I noticed my eye dragged toward the more "expensive" items (400L was the highest I saw - prices are really quite reasonable).   This makes me feel a teeny bit guilty.  So, instead of lobbying for a particular item, I'm just going to show off some of the stuff that captivated my imagination.  These and more photos are Available for Viewing on Presentation of Visiting Card on my Flickr page.

 Nice book-sit here, but ... choose the wrong pillow and:

 Kathy being swallowed up by the quicksand.

The book/pillow sit (sold separately) is really nice.  Unlike the usual, the book appears when you sit and you don't have to dig it out of wherever it was sent in your inventory.  Elegant touch.  I really liked the genteel struggling in the quicksand, too.

 Who doesn't love a really good AFK? 

I have a nice collection of AFK attachments (one of them, not so very nice - ahem), so I recognize good ones when I see 'em!  A friend already has the RIP one, but my lethargic nature leans me, ever so sleepily, toward the bed one.  Ohhh, that looks so inviting!  That and an anti-idler, and I'll be happy to camp on your land for hours!  (Send me a notecard inworld if you're interested; terms negotiable - heh!)

 Kathy tries out the Wormhole - and gets the feeling she's being watched.

The POS* poster urged me to try it if I dared, and I sent Kathy through.  I suppose I could use this to replace the tp pad to my exhibit.  Just "touch" and "sit"!  Can't be any more complicated for newbs than the usual pad, but for the post-menopausal like me, it took a couple of tries.  

 Ooo, a palanquin! That's the way to go in style!

I think I have some freebie Egyptian outfit somewhere.  Must get this inventory under control!  Or at least back under 38,000.

Kathy thinks: Lludmila could use this for her next photo exhibit (see post below) to save on prims.

Altya's keeps me coming back for more.  There was even some little cow lying on the ground claiming it was free.  I picked it up and hugged it.  Not quite the stuffed giraffe that I lost in the Great Toy Folder Disappearance, but still udderly comforting.  

As a suggestion, to go along with the bag lady and legless man avs, we were talking about an apple-selling tray you wear around your neck that solicits Lindens** (in only 1L increments) and gives an apple.  You can buy one for your alt and send it out to earn its own damn LLs while your primary av goes dancing or canoodling, or whatever it is you get up to in the virtual-world-that-shall-go-unnamed.  

And ... the Mousetrap's not too pricey.  Maybe that can be next week-end's bargain!

* This always makes me giggle when people use it for Point of Sale.

**Or, as I like to call them, Lludmila Dollars.

Lludmila Makes an Exhibition of Herself

 Exhibition Poster based on old crash photo

Apparently, posting thousands of screenshots on Flickr are not enough, but I had to create a small exhibit of some of my favorite pix of the past, ohhh, two to three years in SL.  The idea originated when I was using an older pc with an inadequate graphics driver that crashed continually.  I thought the resulting images were interesting and friends suggested putting together an exhibit.  I tinkered with the idea for quite a while, but in the end decided that the crash pix weren't that interesting even to me (except for the one above that was Photoshopped to make it more interesting) and not worth the 10L each it would cost (that at the time I didn't have, being a poor and homeless waif in the virtual world) to upload them.

The idea was always in the back of my mind and I talked about it with friends recently and, looking at my stash of Linden cash (now that I am both employed and have a space of my own), decided I could fritter it on uploading about 25 pictures (there goes my weekly salary and then some) that I really liked and putting them in one of the many freebie skyboxes I had acquired.  This meant rezzing the skyboxes, of course, to see if they were suitable.  They were not so suitable as skyboxes for Lludmila to live in, or change in, or whatever she planned to do in them, but I was reluctant to delete them (which explains the struggle I'm in to keep my inventory below 38,000 items).  I chose the large and airy skybox pictured below and began to upload photos.

Photos were not exactly chosen for their artiness, but for my own personal reasons - such as: I thought they were funny, they said something about virtual life, or they were just ... colorful.  They show how much personality you can read in some pixels as well as the beauty produced by some of the content creators.

 Exhibit Opening Gala

It didn't seem like enough just to put something up, so I figured I'd attempt to have a party.  This would require a dance ball and dances.  I'd acquired those for my ill-starred rez-day party and reassembled something that worked.  That still wasn't enough.  I thought it would be fun to have places for people to pose and take pictures of themselves, so I set about poseball tinkering and set them out.  The poses are the best I could do from the freebies I had in order to make the Birth of Venus, Zeus, and a cheeky Psyche at Nature's Mirror.  I had some other freebies where you can pose in a frame.  I topped it all off with a Very Valuable Egyptian Vase from Carla's Workshop.  All I had to do after that was turn something prettier than a headstone into a tip jar (because tip jars are all about extorting Lindens from your friends), set out some champagne, and put up some signage and a teleport.

It sounds easy, but it was pretty fiddly.  I wrestled with Photoshop for a couple of days, swore at the poseballs that weren't working, and left pieces of skybox all over the Awen airspace as I tried to adjust, readjust, and tuck things back in the inventory for the night.

The Book of the Exhibit with photo of the First Visitor

All I ask is that people come by and have a little fun.  Take some photos of your own av and either post them online where I can see them (which requires telling me where they are) or drop them on me in-world, if you can afford the upload charges.  If you do, I'll visit them in the former case and put them in The Book of the Exhibit in the latter.  

Yes, a couple of the photos are for sale.  I figured folks weren't that interested in photos of Lludmila and her other inpixelations, but they might like a landscape.  If you're in a photo, you get it free, of course - just let me know.

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Shameless Self-Promo

Lludmila rearranges her posters on Awen.

We're trying to keep two months ahead in the Cozy Mysteries.  We meet on either the last Monday at 11 am or last Tuesday at 6 pm of each month at the Pub in Awen, whichever you find more convenient.  November's book is Ghosts by Paul Auster and December's is Zombies of the Gene Pool by Sharyn McCrumb (the latter chosen because - well, you can just guess).  Both books are easy to get hold of inexpensively.  The former is quite colorful and mysterious - and the latter just good, silly fun.  

Hope to see you there!  Oh, and stop by my plot of land (it's right across the water from the Pub) and pick up a notecard about that and, of course, Bob and Bear's music.

Tip If You Got 'Em!

After years of hanging out at Grizzy's, Lludmila is embarking on a hostess position.  No longer will she have to suffer an hour on tenterhooks at a trivia quiz to see if she can earn enough to keep her in ... Lindens that she usually ends up tipping at Grizzy's Café (and some other venues).  Tonight she starts her hostess job and reminds any attendants that she has no control over the music so the only reason to tip her is out of pity.  Pity tips accepted.  Oh, yes!

Lludmila would like me to add that, after years of being homeless in the virtual world and never having more than 30L to her name, she solicits tips only from the well-heeled.  Everyone is welcome to come and dance and have a good time.

Find The Happy Place!

I went to a mahvelous party
With NouNou and Nada and Nell
It was in the fresh air
And we went as we were
And we stayed as we were
Which 
   was 
      hell ...


Actually, it was a lovely party with lovely people and I couldn't have liked it more.
Especially because I heard someone mention carousels and we know how much I lovvvve carousels.  So I asked for a landmark.  I pried myself away from Cal at the first opportunity, and this is what I found:

 Omg! A watermelon carousel that goes up and down as well as around,

emits note particles, and plays music. Oh, and look!  It has kitty ears!  

 Meow meow meow meow ... Lludmila rides the kibbles ...

 ... and the french fry on the cheeseburger carousel.

 But wait, there's more!

The cutest poses on luscious edibles!

Did someone say "jellyroll"?  Lludmila covers her ears.

There are so many delights here at Four Kittens of the Apocalypse (including the name).  I could have spent hours, but I had another party to attend.  

All of the poses worked so well even for Lludmila, who is but 4'8" - everything carefully made and scripted.  I couldn't have liked it more.  Hurrah!  I'll be back soon because they're participating in a hunt and I think it will be over soon. 

More photos at my Flickr page (see feed at right Gizmo that linked to my Flickr page no longer works - no doubt due to some conflict between the Googletude of Blogger and the Yahooniness of Flickr. What's more, I am unable to delete the gizmo.).

(Lludmila considers wrangling a zombie-themed carousel from these delightful designers.)

Cross Posting

Grizzy has issued a statement on how she plans to commemorate 9/11 this year in SL, and I thought I would go along with it - I have put this picture and the following statement on my profile:

"To show solidarity with my Islamic brothers and sisters who have had their faith vilified as a result of the actions of extremists, I will be dressing my avatar in the traditional Islamic hijab for Tues - Sat this week."

You Say Vaaaayse, I Say Vahhhhze ...

Let's call the whole thing ... ooo, pretty! These three vases are the prize at Wine and Roses for the Starry Nights hunt. The hunt lasts from June 17-July 17th. I had to do an inset of one of the vases because things weren't rezzing earlier on my land - but things were rezzing better in my skybox. Gah, LAAAAG! Anyway, now that I look at the pix as they loaded here, you can hardly tell. Grr.

I had to lie and say I was a blogger (okay, maybe it was stretching the truth more than an outright lie - but it's not like anyone reads this) to get the vases without searching all over for the little blue star. I was there, like, 200 minutes (perhaps 2) and didn't find it. However, I did get lucky with the lucky chair and won the backyard window, which came up again as a wildcard round so I started IM'ing friends to find someone who wanted a freebie. Then Leeorie and I oo'd and ahh'd over the pretty stuff.



I love blue - but then there was this terrific fall leaf photo in oranges and yellows ... sigh. Well, that's why I keep changing my houses, you can have your cake and eat it too in SL!