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Tiamat Windstorm von Hirvi
@tiamat-windstorm-von-hirvi
21 Dec 2015 10:35:54AM
359 posts

TTR-Louis XVI "Deer" Chair & Table Set


House & Garden

Ha - my lord may be wanting these for the dining-room in our country house, which I fear already boasts an impressive set of antlers over the fireplace, and a carpet that is pleasant to our eyes but may subject those members of the "ton" who regard their own taste as "refined" to some puzzlement. Still, I have to admit that allowing my lord's influence in one room may be fair, as my own tends to dominate elsewhere. Of course, cocoa and cookies add a good deal of enticement, and the low LI adds a good deal more.

Tiamat Windstorm von Hirvi
@tiamat-windstorm-von-hirvi
21 Dec 2015 10:23:53AM
359 posts

~Chateau d'Esprit~ GENRE REGENCY ROUND


Marketplace Archive ** CLOSED **

I came, I saw, I shopped...some of the outlets, including yours, are quite dangerous! (Others, fortunately for the family exchequer, are less so; not all of the vendors paid as much attention as you did to what "Regency" implies.)

Tiamat Windstorm von Hirvi
@tiamat-windstorm-von-hirvi
17 Dec 2015 08:36:25AM
359 posts

St Lucia Celebration on YouTube


Communty News & Events

Our Scandinavian St. Lucia celebration in Antiquity Finlanda went well, despite a weird SL glitch that affected seating in the pews! Live singer Inchino Melson made a lovely Lucia Maiden, visually and vocally, as you can see in the following You Tube video created and posted by videographer Dianne Melson:

We were especially happy that Jacon's RL mother was able to attend (the elegant lady in magenta.) We were also appreciative of a gift received from Sere Timeless - a new, much more realistic fir candle wreath for Lucia's head, to replace our old textured prim circle!

Finlanda Chapel is designed very much in the manner of medieval churches scattered across northern Europe, and its decor matches the tastes and traditions of the 18th and 19th centuries (note the ship suspended over the aisle - very much a tradition of Baltic sailing communities, sailors needing all the heavenly protection they could get!) Unfortunately, it's a bit primmy by current standards, and Pamus Bing, Finlanda's manager, is in the process of creating a new one that will still be traditional but not the same tradition. If you want to see the current one before it's gone, do drop by Finlanda during Christmas week.


updated by @tiamat-windstorm-von-hirvi: 06 Oct 2016 06:38:23AM
Tiamat Windstorm von Hirvi
@tiamat-windstorm-von-hirvi
11 Dec 2015 08:34:46AM
359 posts

Sanssouci Park: Claire nukes her sim while installing Christmas Lights


Communty News & Events

Actually, the mer cavern ended up quite different in style from the original creation - I think beneficially so; what I cobbled together during that desperate week has more of a "lava tube" effect which is what it should have, given that MarieGalante is essentially a volcanic crater and the sea cave would be the shell left by the drainage of a lava dome.

Tiamat Windstorm von Hirvi
@tiamat-windstorm-von-hirvi
10 Dec 2015 10:32:55AM
359 posts

Sanssouci Park: Claire nukes her sim while installing Christmas Lights


Communty News & Events

I know your pain.

When Olavi and I first partnered, and I started sharing responsibility for management of the MarieGalante sim, he left on holiday and within three days I managed to return - not merely one item left by some tourist - EVERYTHING on the island and seabed and sky platforms, including cavern construction, mer haunts, and tropical vegetation put in place by earlier owners who were no longer present regularly in Second Life. A very bald tropical paradise....in very public view! And I had never done sim admin before, let alone landscape design or any building more complicated than texturing, stretching and moving a dividing wall.

Fortunately I was able to depend on a couple of very supportive estate administrators with lots of experience for help, advice, and hyperspeed tutorial. Even more fortunately, I had a few days of vacation to restore the basics once Pam and Sam and a couple of others had provided me with freebie rocks and other building blocks and put me on track with editing, placement and sources of necessities that required actual Linden. By the time Olavi returned, the island looked more or less like itself, and I was able to merely apologise profusely for the nuisance involved in him having to return his own objects to their places, rather than having to confess to whole-sim mass destruction while standing in the ruins.

I did something similar to what you did a few months ago, when I un-convexed a new house that was impossible to enter because the builder had convexed and then sold it without checking to make sure that the LI reduction hadn't caused issues. That was only a matter of fifty prims over capacity, though, so all that I managed to knock out that time was the 2000-meter forest, one platform and a couple of sheep. Still embarrassing, because the trees and platform were Jacon's and some confession was thus required.

Tiamat Windstorm von Hirvi
@tiamat-windstorm-von-hirvi
08 Dec 2015 08:23:30PM
359 posts

Christmas at Buckingham hits the Destination Guide!


Communty News & Events

Yes, Buckingham Christmas is in the Guide!

http://secondlife.com/destination/christmas-buckingham-palace

Jacon's done an amazing job of decorating for the season - well worth dropping by to see, if you weren't able to attend the reception after La Boheme - and Twelfthnight's done good work of her own in flagging it for the Guide. (Of course the most exciting work of all was done in the late 1700's - early 1800's by Queen Charlotte, who introduced the concept of the Christmas tree into royal Christmases and therefore into the British Empire at large.)

Feel free to visit at any time this month. Costumes of the 18th or 19th centuries are appreciated but far from necessary for our guests.


updated by @tiamat-windstorm-von-hirvi: 08 Jan 2017 11:55:39PM
Tiamat Windstorm von Hirvi
@tiamat-windstorm-von-hirvi
03 Dec 2015 09:43:03AM
359 posts

Historically informed mesh building kits for those of us who are all thumbs!


Textures, Mesh & Other Building Components

Oh, this sounds dangerous, Leena. As a fellow minor-builder-with-major limitations, I am such a sucker for other people's skilled creation. My Buckingham character, Marchioness Conyngham, is already starting to lust after a really well-built barouche, capable of handling passengers of weight.

Tiamat Windstorm von Hirvi
@tiamat-windstorm-von-hirvi
12 Nov 2015 11:23:14AM
359 posts

The Sims (and Second Life ) May Help Boost Real World Health, Exercise Habits


Gaming

That is interesting - although I'm afraid that my time in SL may have contributed to a reduction in physical activity, something my real life self should be doing more!

Tiamat Windstorm von Hirvi
@tiamat-windstorm-von-hirvi
16 Nov 2015 08:41:23AM
359 posts

New Classic Avatars are Now Available in Second Life!


General Discussion

Tucking in my fichu a little more securely now...

Tiamat Windstorm von Hirvi
@tiamat-windstorm-von-hirvi
09 Nov 2015 10:44:31AM
359 posts

New Classic Avatars are Now Available in Second Life!


General Discussion

Can they still be used as the base for editing a shape to match individual preference? One of the things I deeply, deeply dislike about the Mesh avatars available for purchase is that you're stuck with the shape. No matter how nice (or realistic, or idealistic!) that shape might be, it's not individual.

Of course that's also the reason I was slow to start adding mesh clothing to my inventory. The wasp waists and gigantic bosoms we saw so often might fit well in a Victorian brothel, but not so well elsewhere. Fitmesh has helped, and so has the entry of more designers into Mesh fashion, but I still find myself frustrated by bits of alpha showing around the edges on an avatar that doesn't exactly match the five molds, or a gown that pairs the hips of a skinny child with the bustline of a porn queen.

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