Pinterest

I’m now on Pinterest! As you can tell by the above screencap of my profile, I’m really new to this site. There isn’t much of a learning curve and its quite fun seeing all the pins and repins especially from the Secondlife residents. Don’t worry you’ll catch on to the lingo quick. Please feel free to add and follow me.

Take a moment to read Terms of Service before joining Pinterest or any site. Never pin (upload/add) photos that are not your own without permission. If you would like to protect your own Flickr photos, here’s a little handy guide to follow.

Add your Pinterest profile links in the comments! <3

EPOCH-Legend

Mark February 26th on your calendar because the first EPOCH event called “EPOCH-Legend” will open. This is the newest festival to come to the grid. Many of our favorite designers will be present to offer items in one of three themes.

This time the festival’s themes are: Beast, Clowning and Art of Escher. Each of the themes are hosted on 3 separate sims with one landing point called Creator’s Cafe. This cafe is just as well staged as the three locations. I recommend using a mesh-enabled viewer for the full experience.

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Since 2009

Three years ago today was the day that I got to spend 14-hours with Express Zenovka. We talked about everything and anything that day (and still do!). Mostly our nervous chatter was me trying to impress him and him trying not to be so shy. After three years, he’s still just as shy … and I still try (in futility) to impress him.

We’re still as crazy and stoopid together as ever. I have a flickr set bursting at the seams dedicated to our three year history. I think we still “argue” over what day it was that marks the start of the “us” in SecondLife. I say its today and he thinks its, uhh, in two days. All I know, I’m thankful to have met him at that random September plurk party back all those years ago … and kept in touch until that following January day when we spent all that time together in my skybox.

Express, thank you for not only being the guy who has filled my partner box for all this time but being my SLeverything. Still more than ever and more importantly after logging out you’re my best friend. You are and always will be a “Happy Thing” for me.

<3

Luna Jubilee turns 5

It feels like just yesterday I was celebrating my 4th rez day and just last month logging in for the first time! Its been five years of logging in as Luna Jubilee.

This past year has been a true “hitting my stride” year. I’ve been able to grow my pose store since closing the feeds and dedicate more time to my photography. I even feel like I’ve finally be able to do what I’ve been preaching – help new bloggers – by hosting a color challenge to sharing blogging and photography tutorials. I still get giddy when I see folks using my windlight settings.

To share the awesomeness of the milestone, I’m holding a 50L off sale at !bang poses to celebrate my rez day. There’s even a cute couples pose for just 5L.

I remember in my first year I heard someone celebrated their fifth rez day. I was in awe. Now, that its me, I feel old!

Thank you for being the reason I’ve been logging into SecondLife for the last five years. <3

Inspire Challenge

Harlow Heslop recently kicked off a new challenge. Simply called the “Inspire Challenge“, its all about positivity. I was beyond flattered when she asked to mention me in her first Inspiration Challenge post.

After that, I asked Harlow if I could blog about the challenge. For my post I wanted to pose with her.  Its not often she’s seen infront of the camera. I ended up stealing her away from her very popular photography studio but I really thought I would have to go down to her cafe, The Pixel Bean, to snap a candid of her!

So far the blog posts I’ve seen have been so sweet. It’s interesting to see who inspires who and why. I encourage the SecondLife™ community to do their own post or two about the residents that inspire them. The nice thing about this challenge is that its not just centered around the fashion folks. It’s left up to you and who you feel inspires/brings joy to your life.

Crazy Cat Lady

Well. I did it. I became “one of those people” … a crazy cat lady! See, I admitted it!

Over the past month or so, I’ve been really good at making sure I stayed at a reasonable number, turning over my “stock” and, of course, breeding. Well something made it get out of hand. Either was the breeding, or perhaps it was the numerous auctions, but it was something for sure. Its time to call out the big guns and do a blog post to help these kitties find a new home.

If you’d like to buy one of my KittyCatS, most are breeding pairs or well traited, you’re welcomed at anytime to my rental spot on CatNip or GTFO.

Find out about KittyCatS | Visit CatNip or GTFO | See my breeding stock, not for sale

And, yes, this is the closest I think I’ll ever get to doing a fashion post with my cats. There are others that do it so well (and much better than I).

<3

xoxo

Express and I wish you all the love imaginable today and always. Enjoy it with your loved ones – not just your partner or special someone but those you cherish. Tell them you love and appreciate who they are and what they do. Make someone smile today. <3

Happy Valentine’s Day

what do you see?

I love playing in shadows. My computer, on the other hand, hates them.

A few days ago I’ve been setting up a few different windlight settings for ideal shadows. While tweaking I stumbled on this idea of a pitch black background. One thing lead to another and I was in photoshop cleaning up the photo.

I didn’t see anything glaring until I uploaded the finished work onto flickr. Its known that things get changed depending on file type. I admit I know nothing about the differences but can say I’ve been reading on this topic to learn. Its on my “to-do” list to create a tutorial for this once I understand it (aka, talk to Express) and post it to my Blog Boot Camp.

Also, I’ve heard from a few people telling me they don’t see the lines and other do. For me, I see lines all over the finished photos (only after posted to flickr) and not as pronounced on the original/raw photo or even on the photoshop file.  The few marks on the raw photo are more than likely left by my computer hating me for using shadows.

Now I wouldn’t be so obsessed if I didn’t keep my monitors at nearly blinding full bright. Other monitors I’ve viewed this photo on calibrated correctly to be less bright. Always showing the colors to be less vivid or the lines are less glaring. So now I wonder — how do you see my photos? bright, dull, dark, light, etc.

I welcome you to browse my other photos on my flickr and leave comments on how the colors appear to you. This, I’m hoping, will help me tweak how I work in photoshop.

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Bad Business: Selling/Using Names Without Consent

Every day I receive a store message from a messaging service like ScriboMatic. These types of systems are awesome. I don’t have to free up a group slot to keep in touch with ongoings at the store.

Its NOT ok that I get messages from stores I don’t know or even visited. Today, I received a notice from a particular store that I didn’t sign up to join the mailing list. Yet, I have a message from this store.

I go to the store using the LM in the message, fly around the chaos for a few minutes and I don’t see the mailing list board. I IM the owner, who’s standing near my landing point.

I ask to be removed, he removes me. I think to ask him how he got my name as I’ve never heard of the store let alone visited the place to touch the board. He said they have several locations. Again, still don’t know the store to get on the board. This is a sure sign that my name was added or possible “sold” to the owner.

Its a bad business practice to sell people’s names to others in way of a mailing list or any other form. To the best of my knowledge, I didn’t approve the use of my name in this way.

Selling names for purpose of mailing lists or even using the sold list is a bad business practice.

Oh, I’m not the only one that this happens to and its never ever good. I know I won’t shop the store and will be asked to removed from the list, if I can not locate the unsubscribe feature.

(If you’re on my plurk line, you’ll know what store I’m talking about… but I’m not giving this store name or the owner here.)

The Circus is in Town!

Le Cirque De La Mode started yesterday and runs until April 18th. That’s right – its only one week. This monthly event will feature new designers and a new theme each time. “Le Cirque – The Circus!” was chosen as the kickoff theme.

Hucci is one of the handful of designers participating. I choose to showcase “Man Tamer”. Eboni Khan, the designer behind Hucci, has several other exclusives available.

This week will be packed with tons of circus theme products – all exclusives! Once this week is over, the items won’t be seen again.

I highly recommend taking the time to explore and experience The Fashion Circus on the Le Cirque sim.

I can’t wait to see what next month’s theme will be… and thank god for the scribo! Its nice to not use a group slot but yet still get all the notices so I won’t miss the next event.

Hucci’s Main Store Location

Event Location: Le Cirque

Product used
hair: >TRUTH< Joanna – mahogany
skin: L.Fauna {Lapine . Tan 1} [Opium] OO
dress: ::HH:: Hucci Man Tamer
necklace: – .HoD. – Costumed Pearls – Crush (Black Bow)
shoes: #OC# Melanie- Black Leather
background: Diesel Works PolyWall
pose: PF10 – F – *~*HopScotch*~*