It was my intention to post a blog about the Hump day party. But Blogger is deciding to be a little b*tch. So alas, it just isn't meant to be. but it was a good time had by all, and Alicia's dj skills are hot enough to make even country seem cool.
And it goes without saying that all the ladies and gents looked fabulous!
~V~
9:13 PM
4:32 PM
I love freebie hunting. I've said it before and I'll say it again, there is nothing like the rush of finding a fabulous item at a real bargain. I even love standing around in stores looking at all of the beautiful inventory I would purchase if i had more lindens to spare. Given my love of the hunt, it should come as no surprise that my favorite event is...the formal freebie hunt. Give me a sim jam packed with loot to search out and I'm a happy girl.
But I noticed early in my freebie days, after only a couple of well stocked hunts...inventories become jam packed with loot, majority of which I will never use. Lately I've been working on formulating a game plan. It may or may not work for you, but it works pretty well for me so far.
1) Do a general scout of the store/designer providing the freebies. If the clothes on the wall are not your style, the clothes in the freebie probably won't be either.
2) While hunting, make a separate folder for all item folders and actual items given. Put everything into that folder as soon as you get it.
3) Continuing with point number 2: Never, ever rely on the recent items tab to sort your hunt finds for you. This tab is only useful when for your current log in session. I can not tell you how many times I've made the mistake of relying on the tab only to log out from sheer lag frustration...and then have no idea where any of my items are.
4) Post hunt, sit down and sort through all of your finds. If its mostly clothes or skins, now is a good time to camp. Even though you are sitting you can usually get a fair idea of the cut and style of garments. I have found that independent of cut, if I don't like the pattern of an outfit it will never see the light of day.
5) Make the hard decisions. With each hunt you will find more new things to fall in love with, and that means more old things will disappear into the back of your closet. If its not your style, you have something like it but better, or you are just over it, trash it.
Now these wont keep you from accumulating tons of items. But with careful organization and some item control, you can at least keep on top of things.
See you on the hunt.
9:18 PM
Nothing gives me the rush of an utterly fabulous freebie, even if its only found stalking lucky chairs. *giggle*. Earlier in the day I stopped procrastinating and joined the Ch'know group. First off these are probably the nicest, friendliest ladies and gents I've met yet in SL. Alicia is very generous and has made several gifts for group members. They aren't thousand linden items but they are funny and drool worthy none the less.
Here is my favorite
After a hard day of freebie hunting nothing is better than chilling out in a inflate-a-pool with tequila and tunes. Me likey!
Later in the day I moved to Tesla for some chair stalking. So far I have nabbed Mary Jane's, two sunglasses including this fabulous pair:
Even with the skin splurge I think I have once again proven that with a little effort, every woman can look fabulous in SL for pennies.
See you on the hunt.
8:10 AM
I am at present in an SL relationship. But it is very new and as such still in a period of growth. I met my boyfriend, Thallanor, in the lobby of the main building at the United Federation Starfleet sim. At first I thought he was overly friendly and a bit shy, So I basically ignored him. A day or so later I was decorating for the UFS St. Patrick's Day party and ran into Thallanor again. He and another person were doing a silly dance to the music and I joined in, although I was using a Sine Wave dance.
At that point I realized that Thall was a sweet guy, and I really had nothing to worry about from him. So for a good while we were friends and now we are dating. I don't think if we had met anywhere but Starfleet we would have ended up together. The most active members at Starfleet are like a family. Many of them are like my brothers and sisters. In that environment I don't worry about whether or not I'm being taken advantage of.
Now because I am a Starfleet officer, was a maiko, and have always been a freebie hunter, I just don't go to places where I am likely to get hit on. In fact until recently my SL schedule was so packed that even stopping by and hanging out with my friends was nearly impossible. So I suppose that is further support to the idea that if Thall and I had met anywhere other than Starfleet we would not be together. As for blogging? I've never mentioned that I blog. So it is a non-issue.
3:05 PM
If you spend even a millisecond of time on the "fashion police" blogs, you'll notice that the most common fashion faux paux in SL is...disproportionate shapes. Now I freely admit that when I first started SL I was slider happy, but in the wrong direction. I had almost no meat on my bones. Even with my "too skinny" sins, I was able to look at the freebie shapes I picked up and realize that they just weren't workin.
When I began working and studying to become an SL geiko, my first instructor sat me down and had a chat with me. My face was far too harsh, I was way too tall, and my chest invoked images of silicone. It took about 20 minutes for me to adjust sliders and give myself a face that is all my own and much closer to my personality.
20 minutes.
While I prefer small slender figures, my sister prefers small fullfigured shapes. Both of us designed our own shape. Each of us has done tweaking. But the basic ideal is: WE LOOK LIKE WE COULD BE HUMAN!!!
So please, deflat those watermelon rears.
Realize that it ain't cute to have boobs that your back couldn't support.
If you have a size 0 waist, a DDD cup, and a size 45 seat, you are out of whack.
When you pick up skins and clothes that don't quite fit, tweak the sliders a bit. Most of the time you wont look that different. Alot of times it will make you look your best.
And stop with the glamazon look! It just makes you a target for ridicule.
It ain't that damn cute!
If you find yourself unable to judge your own skin with an impartial eye. Find a neutral, female (sorry fellas) party and ask them to give you a clue. The anonymity you save may be your own.
PS...thanks Alicia.
10:31 AM
I'm terribly sorry that I haven't written in so long. I didn't forget this place but things have been so dreadfully busy for me.
Three weeks ago I completed TUi's Instructor Program. I now work there as a teacher. If your ever not busy stop by one of my classes ^_^!.
This week I moved to the maiko stage of my geiko training. Maiko is otherwise known as the point in training where whore makeup and really tall shoes are worn. So this puts me one step closer to becoming a fully fledged cyber geisha.'
And last but not least I went and joined Starfleet. If you are counting that is three completely unconnected hobbies. I wonder how many more I can cram into one second life...
Well I have decided that for benefit of my virtual wallet, my next hobby must be something that generates some revenue. As fashion design is still well beyond my grasp, I'd though I would delve head first into the world of jewelry making. Imagine my surprise when I did some research and found that one school is charging 35,000L$ for their program. With current exchange rates that is over $100.
First off, even if all materials are provided I have a hard time believing that the owners aren't making a huge profit off of that program. My SL family owns a parcel on a Class 5 server and our rent is only 9,000L$ a month. Now maybe they have bought a full sim for prim purposes. But even with it being a full sim the goal should be a gross of 50,000L$ per class, not nearly that much per student. Perhaps they are charging that much for the textures, but I have a hard time believing that they find or create an entirely new texture set for each class.
And at those prices it would have to be a very realistic texture set.
This brings me to something I've had on my mind for a while. Greed in SL.
It is on both side, consumer and producer, and in both cases it is mildly disturbing. Let us examine the recent case of a very well known designer no longer offering support for unreceived no transfer items. I can understand not offering support more than 1 week
past the purchase date. Beyond that point its just as likely that the person messed up or accidentally
deleted the item as it is that SL ate it. But if the item is no mod and no transfer, as almost all skins are,
then really what is the harm of replacing the item?
There isn't one except for pure greed. It doesn't take much to figure out that its better for me to receive money twice rather than once. And it's much easier to just
put a message in my profile saying I won't provide customer service. Or designers who make
freebies to get people into their store but rant and rave and call people ungrateful when they don't
make purchases. Now I agree, it is bad form to ask for more freebies, yell at a designer, accuse them
of false advertising (unless they are actually doing it), or fly over a sim being obnoxious. But its also
form to play the freebie game and cry about the rules. Freebies are a give and take.
You can bet that I won't be back to your store if I feel that look down on me. And yes I fully expect
that if nobody ever buys any freebies from you, you will go out of business. But consider that
perhaps your items are too expensive for the average SLer. Or the price does not match the quality.
Its called a supply demand graph. Simply put, if you have too great a supply and not enough demand you will lose money.
If you have too great a demand and too low a supply you have an inefficient business model. The trick is to find the sweet spot where supply and demand are in harmony. If your graph is out of whack no amount of advertising or sample giving is going to fix it. And bellyaching is only going to alienate the very people you are trying to court.
Three weeks ago I completed TUi's Instructor Program. I now work there as a teacher. If your ever not busy stop by one of my classes ^_^!.
This week I moved to the maiko stage of my geiko training. Maiko is otherwise known as the point in training where whore makeup and really tall shoes are worn. So this puts me one step closer to becoming a fully fledged cyber geisha.'
And last but not least I went and joined Starfleet. If you are counting that is three completely unconnected hobbies. I wonder how many more I can cram into one second life...
Well I have decided that for benefit of my virtual wallet, my next hobby must be something that generates some revenue. As fashion design is still well beyond my grasp, I'd though I would delve head first into the world of jewelry making. Imagine my surprise when I did some research and found that one school is charging 35,000L$ for their program. With current exchange rates that is over $100.
First off, even if all materials are provided I have a hard time believing that the owners aren't making a huge profit off of that program. My SL family owns a parcel on a Class 5 server and our rent is only 9,000L$ a month. Now maybe they have bought a full sim for prim purposes. But even with it being a full sim the goal should be a gross of 50,000L$ per class, not nearly that much per student. Perhaps they are charging that much for the textures, but I have a hard time believing that they find or create an entirely new texture set for each class.
And at those prices it would have to be a very realistic texture set.
This brings me to something I've had on my mind for a while. Greed in SL.
It is on both side, consumer and producer, and in both cases it is mildly disturbing. Let us examine the recent case of a very well known designer no longer offering support for unreceived no transfer items. I can understand not offering support more than 1 week
past the purchase date. Beyond that point its just as likely that the person messed up or accidentally
deleted the item as it is that SL ate it. But if the item is no mod and no transfer, as almost all skins are,
then really what is the harm of replacing the item?
There isn't one except for pure greed. It doesn't take much to figure out that its better for me to receive money twice rather than once. And it's much easier to just
put a message in my profile saying I won't provide customer service. Or designers who make
freebies to get people into their store but rant and rave and call people ungrateful when they don't
make purchases. Now I agree, it is bad form to ask for more freebies, yell at a designer, accuse them
of false advertising (unless they are actually doing it), or fly over a sim being obnoxious. But its also
form to play the freebie game and cry about the rules. Freebies are a give and take.
You can bet that I won't be back to your store if I feel that look down on me. And yes I fully expect
that if nobody ever buys any freebies from you, you will go out of business. But consider that
perhaps your items are too expensive for the average SLer. Or the price does not match the quality.
Its called a supply demand graph. Simply put, if you have too great a supply and not enough demand you will lose money.
If you have too great a demand and too low a supply you have an inefficient business model. The trick is to find the sweet spot where supply and demand are in harmony. If your graph is out of whack no amount of advertising or sample giving is going to fix it. And bellyaching is only going to alienate the very people you are trying to court.
4:39 PM
I've been a bit occupied with cheering up my sister. But I had to make some time to blog about a members only dress at bossa nova. Its Olivia, the color is aberdene.
Thank to some of the group members I also found a lovely set of hairs from RAC for free! Jump on that too.
See you on the hunt~!
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