Port Christopher: The New Babbage Exhibition for Relay For Life!

New Babbage Universal Exhibition display for Relay for Life (click all images below for full size or go view the full Flikr collection)

The New Babbage Designer Sim Mars (( Right on the Track))
The New Babbage Camp site 32 .... The Universial Expo

[Capt. Red steps up to the podium and raises the Barker's cone to her lips and calls out in a true Carnivale voice....]

Step Right up Ladies & Gent's! Don't be afraid to Step Right Up! FREE to the Public and only here for a Short Time! Blink and you'll miss it! A GORGEOUS Mini Second Life build! Visit the New Babbage Relay for Life Universal Exhibition to get an idea of what the BEST builders in our Victorian Steampunk Sim can create! Take a Ride on the Merryman Ferris Wheel! Enjoy the Cleanslate & Co. Galerie de Machines! Dock your airship above the Great Obolensky Airship Deck & Observation Tower! Visit the Petit Palais for shopping and dance a daring Burlesque Hurdy Gurdy! So much to see and do and ALL FOR CHARITY! This weekend ONLY take a LAP and walk for Relay for Life! More information can be found on our Ning! Don't miss it!
PLEASE VISIT! here's the SLURL
**MANY PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES!!**

Visit this Exhibition and you'll never know who you'll run into!

This is our Beloved Babbage urchin Jimmy OOC!!! A rare sighting!

Does he not look grand in his Captain's Uniform! Very Spiff i say!

Ride the Merryman Ferris Wheel! Look at the lovely views! Be careful and hold onto your hat! and your gown's skirt!....the wind in such a modern ride is fearsomely splendid!

**GREAT PHOTO OPPORTUNITY!!**


Eeep! My Lauging Academy hat! Noooo! Must to save!


Visit the Petit Palais Shopping Arcade and view the Shocking Clockwinder's Bane! Buy gorgeous gowns & handsome garb! See The Modern Burlesque Stage!....AND hunt for the hidden Airlock!

Clockwiners Bane....sour milk is a potent brew....climb the ladder & feel the effects ...but be careful, tis a heady brew!

****GREAT PHOTO OPPORTUNITY!!


Buy Lovely Gowns, Dr Obolensky Gags & More!
Whilst at the Palais Buy the Lovely Velut Aurum Suite by my talented dear friend Viv Trafalgar!....Visit her shop in New Babbage or buy her winsome wares on Xstreet!!!

[looking both ways quickly she lowers the barkers cone and says to the fasionably dressed ladies in the front row before her in a consipratorial hush]

Now...when i was shopping at the Palais recently i found myself wanting to change into Miss Kembri's gown i looked around frantically for a seemly place to change ....and i spied this strange door tucked into an alcove....

upon touching the door it opened into this most beautiful airlock...i rushed in just before the door closed behind me...and voila! a perfect place to secretly change into my gown....pesky things those small windows were, but in a pinch....i made do!

[she winks saucily and raises the cone again and goes on with her barking]

Marvel at the science at the back of the lock..what makes it do that?
Find the secret Cleanslate Airlock! touch it just right and you can walk in...door closes and you can spy on visitors and jump out and scare them for fun!....not that Capt. Red would do that!

****GREAT PHOTO OPPORTUNITY!!

More Shopping! Buy a lovely Babbage Tartan Gown....this one is from Miss Kembri Tomson! Visit her store in New Babbage or buy her delightful wares on Xstreet! Dance the Hurdy Gurdy on the Burlesque Stage! Shocking! Modern! Created by New by the gorgeous and delightful Miss Ahnyanka Delphin of The New Champagne Rooms at New Babbage!
[says as an aside to her Ladies down front]
Capt. Red is wearing the Miss Kembri Victorian Day Gown with Feathered Hat, Bow bedecked Bustle, stockings and revealing the modern shocking bloomers!
****GREAT PHOTO OPPORTUNITY!!

An Aerial View of the Lovely Universal Exhibit!


Visit the Cleanslate & Co. Galerie de Machines featuring builds & Modern Machines from some of the best of our Victorian builders & Scientists!


The lovely Valhalla Tartan & Lace gown by BlakOpal designs! My talented & gorgeous friend has a huge shop in New Babbage and you can also buy her wonderous wares on Xstreet!!!

Hat by Miss Reghan Straaf of Hatpins!




Gallerie de Machines view from the Steampunk Duck Factory -

***GET A FREE STEAMPUNK DUCKIE!!!!

For a lovely time, visit the Exhibition at night!

See the Obolensky Airship & Viewing Dock!


See the Commons Steam Powered Globe! As Mr. Roland Zepp said in his journal "The globe tickled me because every good steampunker knows that the world is powered by steam and this was the perfect metaphor for that. " He also was very complimentary about our Build and he purchased a Red Luminaria and dedicated it to his father, an "RL Steam man who would have loved to see this" [as an aside to her audience she says] his blog has some beautiful pictures ....and great articles about fashion!


So Ladies & Gents, Visit the Exhibition! Shop! Walk! And Let's light up these luminaria! Donations are being taken and you can dedicate them to loved ones or friends or just to show your support! GO...GO NOW!...Go This weekend! Don't be the last one to see the Exhibition!

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And dear New Babbagers?.....Industry Marches On! That's Why we Relay for Life! Go! Walk a Lap & Proudly Carry the Babbage Flag! Please note send YOUR note cards or contact the lovely and charming Miss Serafina Puchkina or Visit our NING! For more information!



and when you come back?....Please take a moment to thank the lovely, tan, hard working, & generous Miss Breezy Carver for ALL her hard work making this our most successful RFL New Babbage EVER! Why not leave a comment on her page or visit her lovely Blog, too!

The Waves of a Seabreeze

Victoria Station: The Undergrid & Bloomers! OhMy!

i recently got a notecard from Mr. Mavromichali Szondi about a new portal or hub that's opened called Victoria Station.... here's what the notecard said:

What is Victoria Station and the Undergrid? Victoria Station is a new way to link the Steampunk Victorian themed sims across the grid. You can get to the station via one of our many Station Entrances located in Victorian Steampunk sims. You do this by clicking the entrance then clicking Teleport when the map appears. Inside the station is a pleasant area where you can meet people, sit and talk at the café area, and socialise, but it's main purpose is to provide links to destinations like any station in real life. Here, in Victoria Station, you click the link for the sim you wish to visit and are given a landmark to that sim.
It's a convenient place to stop to find Victorian Steampunk sims so you can visit them, but that's not all. The main purpose is to link to other destinations too. Think of the station as a virtual directory, with all the best of the Victorian period and Steampunk style creators in one place. They advertise their stores and services as destinations at the station: in subject groups ie. 'Clothing' or 'Home and Garden'. This gives you an easy one stop shop to quickly find what you are looking for, all in one place. Want to rent? Then just click one of the boards and follow the simple instructions. Destination boards can handle notecards, landmarks, objects (in notecards) and a sound, and our rates are low. We also have Events boards. These have a 3 week rental limit, and different pricing structure than the regular adboards. Visit the station and touch a free event board to find out more. We hope you find the Undergrid useful: Happy Travelling!
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The Undergrid is the brainchild of Nix Sands and Mavromichali Szondi.
Undergrid, the Undergrid idea, the word Undergrid and the Blue Triangle Symbol are Copyright © 2009 Silverstar Holdings

so of course i had to go over and explore this! i went so fast, i forgot to change my clothes and went out in my short skirt....the kind i wear around the house and when visiting my smuggling cave & urchin hideout under the treehouse.
what i found was a large dark...one could even say brackish, station...with eerie station sounds all around me. of course as a Babbager and a lover of the bracing atmosphere of soot, i felt right at home! as i turned i saw through the gloom and saw Mr. Mavromichali Szondi himself! he was kind enough to show me around. on one end of the station there are displays and links to all the Victorian era sims

Babbage was right there on the top!


on the other end was a display of ads for Tourist Destinations...and no surprise to me that our own business savvy Miss Breezy Carver has her two popular properties listed (and Mr. Cleanslate's lovely Hotel Excelsior!) ...and with her help i added a top shelf ad for.....



The Great Obolensky Metal Steampunk Treehouse!

looks pretty spiffy up there, huh?! and at only $30L a week (same as a search listing) but to a directed, interested, and like minded audience..it's a great deal! though i don't *sell* anything i do adore having visitors...and i have a wishing well for tips....so it may pay for itself, you never know! it's definitely worth giving it a chance....i talked with dear Nix Sands today about it and it was his idea that Mr. Szondi made manifest...AND they have FREE underground station entrances and signs you can add to your build if you want to encourage cross sim visits. which, i do! so i hid a 2 prim entrance on both my properties....hopefully they'll get found and used. i always get a thrill when i'm exploring and i find something that a builder puts in as a secret, room, gift, or find.

i've always wanted an easy way to get to all of our Victorian sims.....what a fun idea for a station! reminds me of Harry Potter Train Station! [is a huge Potterfan!] but really... the station also has areas for clothing ads, and all kinds of services, brochures, and kiosks...as well as a snack bar serving British food! sort of like a Tourist Bureau for all the Victorian sims! why not go check it out!
here's the SLURL.

Going Bonkers Over Bloomers!

(Lord Smashington Guard gets the bloomer treatment!)

NOW....as no blog post is complete without a shopping tip!

i got a great one from dear Miss Breezy Carver (does this woman ever rest!??) this morning about a new To a T collection! dear reader, you might remember that i wrote about her lovely dotted bloomers that i wore for my Stockings! How Shocking Autopilotpatty Poppy Exhibit...so of course i just HAD to check out this new collection!

So this was Breezy's note:

Bloomers in Public! The scandal! Yes, To-a-T has made bloomers, feel free to wear these in public places. Think of the outrage, think of the attention! ;-) Sarah Jane Bloomers & Automated Alice ensemble is at the main shop in Eyre now. The striped bloomers are trimmed with bows & ruffles at the knee. The Automated Alice is an underbust corset made of hand worked metals, this model is made with iron and gold, velvet padding inside for comfort. Also included is the ruffled blouse in luxurious silk, a lovely lace and ribbon choker, and the piece de resistance - a winged cog fob watch (Tempus Fugit) that plays a lovely french tune and chimes the hours by steam. It's all topped off with a Tesla Bowler that sparks on touch! Smart & Sassy. This ensemble comes in 7 colors: Canary Cornflower Saffron Lavender Sage Black Candy

so after i visited Victoria Station i rushed over there to take a peek and sure enough...it's a delightful outfit!

.....here with Miss Kembri's back bustle half skirt from her RFL tartan gown that i've written about before. here's a closeup of the Tempus Fugit watch. i moved it up from the bloomers for a more seemly and [cough] proper photo:

so though i don't know if i'll ever feel ......entirely comfortable...walking around Babbage in just these bloomers...(though i did go over to the stockyard and visit dear Gatsby, Sera, Jed & Jimmy to see Gat's new build in them)....i do see a LOT of possibilities for accessorizing with this...and the Tesla bowler hat with electric lightning & buzz was worth the whole outfit!
ALL this for less than $600L!


SLURL: To a T Victorian Couture, Caledon Eyre
Terry's Blog: To a T