Fifty5 Thursday 20th of June

It's almost that time again already! This week Gossypol will be on sale so drop by at http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Gouda%20Atol/8/49/4003

Yollew

Just in time for the next Moolto hunt! I had always been playing with a round or cylinder shaped house but could never make it work. But I did it now, look ....

Xanthone

For a long time I have been thinking about building a windmill as you find them in the Netherlands. I started with a mockup months ago for trying out sizes and shape and it's been sitting there for well ... months. Two weeks ago I decided "enough is enough!". I opened Blender and started building. It took quite a few attempts .... building in Blender, uploading to the testgrid, trying it, testing it, going back to Blender to tweak and add the next part. I am very happy with the outcome and here it is .... Xanthone, a Dutch windmill!

Woad

I felt like a change for a while now and as you may have noticed I do like Asian influences so I decided to change my land from tropical island to more Japanese. Ofcourse that means a new house was needed so I started building what's now knows as Woad. Angled walls, diamond shaped rooms .... diamond shaped roofs (I didn't think that one through lol) ... it came out stunning! See for yourself ...

Moolto hunt March 2013

It's that time of the year again .... the first Moolto hunt for this year! You can find all the information about it on www.moolto.com so go check it out! I have decided to put out Viridian in the hunt :-)

See http://home-appeal.blogspot.nl/2012/12/viridian.html

Revamp!

My shop has been around for about 3 years now and I felt like a change. I still love the colourscheme I chose so I'm sticking with that but I am changing the layout of everything else as well as a new name!

I have thought about a new name for a while. I have tried them out, checked for availability, with or without my name in it .... a long process! Then I remembered someone said to me once: that's so you! so ..... Bib! But I decided on something else :-)

Soooooooo ..... the new name and logo are .....

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!