Viridian

I have been to Cuba for a holiday recently and have to admit that it is a strange country. I found it really hard to wrap my head around this communist/socialist way of life there. The schooling system is amazing and the fact that everyone has a roof over their head and has access to things like food is .... well .... great. You do see though that people that work their hineys off find it hard that they get exactly the same as people that don't work .... understandable I think.

Anyways, the trip was amazing and I'm glad I went before everything changes. And it also gave me some new inspiration as I saw some amazing houses over there. The barred windowboxes, the tiling, the colors! Wow ...

It lead to this ....

Urushiol

I'm still trying to get the hang of Blender and making mesh and that lead to this house based on a Morrocan Riad. I just love the tiles they use in those houses and the vibrant colors.


You can sit on the terrace upstairs and enjoy the view of the pond downstairs with a fountain.

Tempera

For the summer Moolto hunt I made a little houseboat based on the Indian Kerala style houseboats. It's mostly mesh to give it it's rounded shape. It looks pretty simple, but believe me, it was hard work to make and to fit.

Sandarac

In the meantime I have moved in SL. Instead of two pieces of land, one commercial and one residential, I now rent a homestead where I live, work and have my shop. Ofcourse that meant I needed a new house for myself!

I made a house out of separate little buildings with a beachy feel. I love the paint texture with it's teal colors and slightly peeling as it's been there in the sun and wind for a while.

Rosin

As my last project for my friend with the Roman sim I made a big two and three story building. It can be used as a library or meetingplace, but can have many more purposes like a big home or a caste building ... use your own imagination!

Quercitron

As I was still helping my friend I made some more buildings to fit into his sim which has a Roman theme. I made two, very low prim, houses which come in a pack. A one-story building and a two-story building. It's nothing fancy, but it gives you the opportunity to add some little houses to make up a village on a sim without being heavy on prims.

Gorean Wagon

Lately I have been helping out a friend on his sim, a Gorean sim. I love terraforming and I love building (duh) and this is like totally different from what I usually do. I have made a little Gorean wagon that can be used by the different tribes (Kataii, Kassar, Paravaci and Tuchuk). And as you can see ... I have been learning new things! After that I had someone asking me about a bigger wagon, a tavern. So after some modifications  .... a BIG wagon ... lol.

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Moolto hunt - Puccoon

I know ... I know ... I spend too much time having fun (or working) and not enough on building. Ofcourse I have been building, I just didn't put them up for sale yet or on here for that matter. But it was that time of year again and another Moolto hunt started 1st of June and will be running till 30th of June. Loads of goodies for everyone.

So I made this funny, lil lighthouse, I also put it up for sale now but the hunters get this one for free!

More info about the Moolto hunt can be found here: www.moolto.com

Orlando

It's been a while coming but I finally finished it, the Orlando home. A friend of mine showed me pictures of houses in Cartagena and I just thought they looked awesome and I decided that would be my next project. The balconies, windows, doorframes and stairs are all mesh and they took some time to make but I think they came out good. I also loved that intense blue color of some of those houses, it was either that or orange, close call, but blue won. Thanks for the inspiration, my friend :-)

Moolto hunt - Naphtho

As posted before I wasn't sure whether or not to make a new house for this hunt. I ended up deciding to build a new one. It's a wee, cute blue house. I used some textures I had made before but never used yet and I think it looks good on this house. I did the Moolto hunt myself and as always it was fun and there was definitely some good prices! If you want to take part go here: www.moolto.com and look for the Sister hunt (not only for women!).

Mastic

This is a house I started a long time ago when I had moved to a new place. But before I finished it I moved again so I never finished the house. I finally finished it now though, this lovely, beachy pole house. If you are a little bit handy you could alter this into more (or less) rooms and even at different heights.

Lepidolite

I wanted to do something different this time and I came across a really dark wood house with a funny roof and a big porch all around the house while I was looking for pictures of houseboats. That resulted in this house :-)

Moolto hunt and new house

I have been busy in reallife ... work ... little holiday to Africa (very annoying!) and now trying to get some things finished and started.

I have finished a new house which I will put on sale over the weekend and I'm also joining the Moolto hunt. I'm a bit torn between using a house I have already made or making something new that won't be put out for sale for a while. It needs to be finished soon so watch this space to find out what I decide :-)

Kermes

As I wrote in my previous post: the next house was going to be mesh with custom textures .... so here it is!

Mesh with textures

In my last build I added my first mesh. I tried to texture it ... believe me ... but it didn't work and I decided I didn't need it for that particular one. I know it sounds like an excuse and it probably is, but only a little!

I was determined however to learn this so I spent this weekend playing with Blender, reading up on it and watching tutorials. And it worked :D

I made a mesh window with textures to go with the house I was working on. The house will be released soon, it's finished, but I need to package it, take pictures and do the whole getting-it-on-sale-business and I don't feel like it right now.

Here is an inworld picture though of the window, more transparent from the inside than from the outside.

Jaune

And here it is .... MESH!

I recently partnered in SL and wanted to have a house I built for us and not just for me. I had been thinking about these shapes of windows and doors. 1+1= ... mesh

It's possible to do with prims but it's not quite the same. So I downloaded Blender and started ... believe me, it wasn't easy but I stuck with it and that feeling when you finish something and it looks good ... wow .... worth it :D

Imbue

I'm still not quite sure how this started but I decided I was going to build the house I grew up in. It started as an exact replica, but SL didn't like that, it was too confined. There was two ways to solve it .... make it bigger (didn't want to do that) or lose some rooms (lost some rooms).

This house taught me how to add shading to give proper depth to a texture. I had done it before, but never like I learned when making these textures. Even I have to admit I love the brick texture, but also the texture for the doors inside with the etched glass.

I have showed this house to my family without telling them about it beforehand and they all recognized it, even though the inside isn't quite as it was. So I think I succeeded :D

Hardits

This house was build when I lived on a homestead, I had it floating over the water, it sits on poles. It's one big room around a ... well ... hole in the middle. Through that hole you could see the water underneath the house.

Gossypol

This is the oldest build in my collection, it is the house where I started making custom textures and learned about the problems with transparency in textures. One of many little .... challenges .... in SL :-)

Flavone

This is a play on the Alazarin house. Alazarin was a glass box inside walls where this one is a glass box pushed through the walls. The houses are similar yet different.

Elemi

A friend asked if I could make a beachhouse with a pool and loads of other things. This house here is not that exact house, I have made some changes in textures and amount of doors.

Damar

This was actually an early build, made with ready made textures. A friend liked the lay-out of this house and the textures I had made for the Bister house. So I updated the house with the new textures and added some steps to compensate for height differences.

Ceruse

And then I moved to a nice new bit of land ... a little island, my little paradise. And ofcourse new land means a new house (I just love to move, I need an excuse to build). So a tiki house it was ... on poles ... the ground was very uneven but I liked that and this way it was fixed.

Bister

At some point a friend and I decided to buy some land together. There was a problem though: it wasn't allowed to build two separate houses and we didn't want to "live" together. This house was the solution. It looks like one house, but it has separate entrances. I decided how I wanted to my half to look, so I added a curved deck at the back, my friend decided he wanted a pool downstairs.

Alizarin

I saw a program on tv about people building their own house and how they go about it. This is not an exact replica of that house, far from it even, I just liked the idea of a box in a box with loads of glass.

Starting up

As I have written in my profile already .... I have been building for many years in Second Life. I'm mostly self taught. I am very curious by nature (I know, what woman isn't :p) and love finding out how things work.

So over the years I learned to build and line up prims but using textures made by others. The next logical step was to start making textures as I couldn't find what I was looking for.

Building in Second Life means you will need to script a little as well, I am good at editing open source scripts or scripts I have bought. You wouldn't believe I was trained to be a programmer at times, but in my defense .... that was many, many years ago.

I have my own style, but my style doesn't stop me from building different types of houses. So far my collection has some Japanese themed houses, a tiki house, a Dutch mansion house and now also a Morrocan themed house. I like broadening my horizon.

Anyways, I have thought about opening up a shop for my builds for a long time and now I finally did it!

So here it is: