"Grand Illusion..."
...living within my escape.
Friday, April 16, 2010


SC and [42] Sale

So...the girls and I have decided to have a Spring Cleaning sale. No, I haven't started creating things in SL again, mainly because I'm just no good at it! I have, however, been reminded why I need to get rid of some of the older transferable stuff that I own. I just cannot let my inventory break 50k again, and even with this sale I have a vast amount of items I want to *give* away in the future!

Today however, its time for that Spring Cleaning and a [42] skin sale! What?! Oh yes, thats right, one of us happens to be the skin creator from [42]! Mandy closed her shop for a while, but for this weekend only her skins will be available at my Asylum Grand Illusion location. This includes her Series 1 that will be retired! I talked her into bringing them in world again for the next three days until I move from this location to a new one (again, I know, hush).

Kerra and I dont have a creative bone in our body when it comes to clothing and skins and such, so we dug deep and brought out some of our things that we know we will just never use. This includes items from Mischief, Nyte-N-Day, and best of all, Dazzle. Yes! I am parting ways with even more of my Dazzle items! I've been giving them to friends and these are the last pieces I think I can part with, for now that is. I hate to see things wasting away in my inventory and you just cant get these items easily anymore.

Click here to visit us this weekend, we will be here until the 19th! Hope to see you there!

Crates: Molto Bene!

Dina's Style Card:
Skin: Belleza
Hair: Truth
Top: Dazzle (no longer available)
Jeans: Malt
Shoes: Ingenue

Kerra's Style Card:
Skin: LAQ
Hair: Truth
Jeans: Total Betty
Top: Maitreya
Tank and Shoes: Fri.day

Fae's Style Card:
Clothing: Dutch Touch
Boots: Shiny Things
Skin: Belleza
Hair: Truth

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Thursday, November 12, 2009


As a great many people know, this time last week I was in a completely different place than I am today. It seems all of the plurking world has gone through a few ups and downs this week too, and I think its going to be refreshing for everyone in the end, when it all settles down, which, I hope is soon. Sometimes it takes a really good temper tantrum, a fit of emotions released in rash movements and 'mistakes' or errors of judgment, to find yourself on the better end of life again. As I said, last week I was in a different place and one night deleted my entire timeline. Aw, shame, thousands of replies and hundreds of plurks, just gone. More might have ended up deleted in this mood of madness, but thanks to Kerra I signed off and went to bed. I left my plurk gone for a couple of days before being talked into remaking my account and joining the plurkworld again. Do I regret deleting my old timeline? Not -one- single bit! Going through that friend list and deleting people would have taken forever, and there are so many accounts out there that are inactive that having a list with 300, 400+ people is easy, but a ridiculous thing to keep up with even with half of them inactive, most likely. Once my timeline was created and my plurk layout fixed I started the process of finding people to re-add and found myself in a mad whirl of activities! Dozens upon dozens of Welcome Backs, What did you DO!, and Don't ever do that again plurks and IMs in world made me laugh and realize that I had grown attached to some of the crazy people on plurk. Granted, not everyone accepted my add again (its ok, I don't mind, helps me weed out certain people anyway and that is awesome!) but in their place I have gotten over 100 new friends that I never had before! No, not everyone is always active, but my timeline seems to have a different feel to it than from before the deletion. So no, not a single regret, its the best thing that has happened to my plurk actually!

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What else did this week bring, well, tons! I did a bit of a friend list clean up (because deleting there is not an option, heaven help me) and was happy to welcome a dozen or so new people from plurk to it as well! One of those people is the designer of the *Dreams* stores and an absolute amazing person, I am so glad to welcome her to my plurk, in world friend list and messengers so I can cyber stalk her at will. Should I say thank you or I am sorry now? I took a little side trip over to her store and picked up a few things, received a blogger package and promised myself I would get her blogged as soon as I felt up to it again. I have felt up to it for a while, just so extremely busy I have slacked on blogging again! I think I should be back on track soon, but I make no promises. The holidays are always really chaotic and there will be so much to do, I just don't know how much blogging will happen. However, I of course will try!

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The *Dreams* store is filled with a lot of accessory pieces that are absolutely adorable! Chokers, suckers for your mouth, leg straps (like the cupcake worn here) and so much more you really should pop over and take a peek. I picked up a neko tail and ears set first because I have missed being a neko once in awhile in SL and thought a new set would be nice. They are great! She also has a few pieces of clothing up as well, lots of Ts and such. One of the great things about her clothing is she does included it on as many clothing layers as she can, so layering with other pieces is a snap. I dug out an old pair of pants from Dutch Touch, my favorite Dilly Dolls shoes and a hair from Truth before starting to play with my windlight settings for the photos here. I used a couple of poses from Persona and one from Diesel Works for these shots, credits and SLURLS at the end of this post for you to TP right over and start shopping!

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In other SL related news, the sim work that I have been focusing on for the last couple of weeks is finally done. People are now more than welcome to come and visit us on the sim (and darn it all I logged out, will add a link soon or just check my in world profile for one) and we hope you enjoy it! We still have a couple of store spaces available right outside of the [42] main store location and ten (ONLY ten, ever) homes for rent. I still to get in world and find a tv and radio for renters to control their media, its on the top of my list I swear. The Grand Illusion studio is done and clients are already being welcomed to our home away from home. A grand opening for the sim is in the works, so if you would like a tour ahead of time or to participate in any of our activites please get in touch with us!

After that, I've decided on my next project! Shapes. I can't tell you how many people daily will ask me where my shape is from, or if I will sell/give it to them. First let me say, I made my shape, and second...no! You cannot have this one, it is mine, and I am a greedy greedy wench when it comes to what is really mine. Instead, I have decided to get a handful of demo skins, or purchase more (I have to be careful, this could get expensive) and start making shapes to sell. So, if you catch me online and I am looking like ruth for a few minutes don't worry, thats just where I will be starting for each and every shape I make. I'm kind of excited about it, to be honest, and its a good project that should keep me busy so I don't rip up the sim and start over, again!

Out of SL news is pretty much the same, per usual. Playing a lot of EQ2, WoW and the tiniest bits of Lineage2 again, with Sands. He has crazy work hours now because of the holidays, cant imagine running a handful of stores and dealing with people this time of year. Its crazy enough on this side of the shopping. Everything else in that regards is going fantastic right now, surprised? Good. Best to leave it that way huh! I hope that everyone has had a fantastic week, and that your weekend brings you good weather and great times with your loved ones. Don't do anything drastic...or wait, better yet, do! Leave them all wondering and wanting more....

Dina's Duds:
Top, Leg Band, Tail, Ears: Dreams
Pants: Dutch Touch
Hair: Truth
Skin: Belleza
Shoes: Dilly Dolls
Pose 1 & 2: Persona
Pose 3: Diesel Works

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Thursday, February 19, 2009

Winter never seems to last as long in SL as it does in RL *notes the snow falling outside* and I don't think that many residents mind that fact at all. My notices have been filling with spring fabulousness and even my land has left winter behind. In the coming weeks I look forward to filling my flickr and the blog with all of the colorful creations that sing happily that spring has sprung in Second Life!

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I hadn't really intended on making this a spring post, as you can see from todays look, but the freebie from Sways Creations was too adorable to not blog and the lil bear is ready for spring rain. Since I have an over abundance of things from Dutch Touch after their recent card sale and notification of those cards needing to be used before the end of the month, I clicked the first folder my mouse landed on and picked add to outfit. I would be wearing boots, but the Tesla boots I purchased never really got to me. SL, why do you dislike my inventory? I try to keep it clean, just put my boots right here please. Pretty please?

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I've adored Dutch Touch for some time, always perfect for mixing and matching and my comfort level sky rockets in their clothing. I also cant resist a good full head of hair like Babo here from Magika. I have a happy fat folder full of Magika hair that I have been using lately and I never tire of how warm and fluffy I feel in them. I know, fluffy? Don't ask.

Dina's Duds
Outfit: Dutch Touch
Hair: Magika
Bear: Sways Creations
Skin: Redgrave
Boots: Tesla....ok, they would have been
Shrooms & Stepping stones: Creative Fantasy
Bench: RekidStyle
Flowers: Organica

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