Dancing in Winterfell: Second Life Machinima

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My gorgeous wonderful friend has made a lovely Second Life Machinima...in her words: "Dancing alone on the Celtic circle on the shores of Winterfell Harbor, mystical island in Winterfell, Second Life." Thank you dear Miss Eleanor Anderton....for your gift to us all!

The Proper Shopper

Be a Proper Shopper!

Lavish Ladies & Dapper Gents Please join our newly created shopping group, the Proper Shopper! Inspired by Miss Eleanor Anderton's Shopping Alerts....this group would periodically release a wearable shopping HUD (thanks Viv!) that with one click would transport you to the featured deals, sales, freebies and favourite designers of quality garments, furniture, decorative home goods & garden delights.

I know we all have lots of groups or are even at our limit ....but it would great if you joined in!! Shopping Tips are eagerly sought from our Members! Joining this group is FREE now but we may charge a small fee later.

The Proper Shopper Shopping Group is geared towards the Victorian, historic, & Steampunk sims....From the modest shirtwaist to the provocative plunging deep decolletage all of the fashions that we will gather and share will be tastefully Victorian or steamy Steampunk! We do have a rule: NO BLING! or modern clothes will be featured (unless it's lingerie or a costume!) And Gentlemen, we will not forget your desire to be dapper! We encourage you to join us and submit YOUR favourite sources for fine apparel and encourage newbies to join our group so that they can look their best when traveling through the Victorian realms! From your fingertips to your foundations...this group will strive to gather, evaluate, provide, and share helpful information to make your Second Life Lavish!

Antique & unique furniture, home & garden finds will be fitting for the Victorian home.

If you have a great shopping tip send me a notecard with a short write-up about the item, where in the store to find it (if it's not immediately evident) and the LM.
! My thanks to Misses Ceejay, Serafina and Eleanor who have already contributed!

Ideas for tags: "Can't talk, Shopping" "I'm a Proper Shopper" any other ideas?

To join...go in-word, click search, choose Group, put in the search term "Proper Shopper" and click to see Full Profile: & JOIN us!!! YAY!!!

Dancing in Eleanor's Stars

I fell in love with the out of this world atmosphere of space at the RFL display...and my clever & talented friend Eleanor has created a similiar get-away high above her lavish Anderton Estates.

I really think i want to try and recreate this astral wonderland above Llewellyn Industries of New Babbage....Hmmm i wonder how many prims it is....[wanders off to the shops to hunt down dear Eleanor]

#NECC09 Conference - Washington, DC

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WARNING: OOC rambling post with many parenthetical interjections
(if you're one of my regular readers (and i LOVES you! look how many countries real lil ole me!) and are here for SL shopping advice or SL travelogues, pls. read my past blog posts...thanks!)

so the NECC conference in DC was just brilliant this year! the Twittering backchannel conversation was so stimulating and i made so many new Twitterfollowingfriends! 100+....lovely, smart, & cool collegues who can continue the discussion about Educational Technology - explanded my Personal Learning Network!.....so..... i've decided to become transparent...my worlds are colliding anyway... my interweb & SL life and my RL life...this blog will still mostly be about my SL adventures and library/technology & education work in Second Life (what little i do between changing clothes and being a Victorian Steampunk chick) but i'll maybe add more RL or at least not be so cicumspect about who i am and what i do...(as a library media/technology specialist and a graduate instructor at Johns Hopkins Uni)....but because of my early years on the web (and don't we all have these stories? and try and one up each other about how hip and cool we were with appletalk, mudds, WBS, TTRconferencing, compuserve, gopher, and a 14/4k modem with a 100 foot phone cord?) i learned to stay mum about who i really was...doing my thing and being internet aware...lots of pseudonyms! i won't list ALL of them here..(sheah, right...like duh!) anyway...mostly i didn't want my students to see what a snarky smartarse i am and to be able to let off steam with my opinions...i still worry...teachers have been fired over what they've blogged about...i like my private life well, private. i do historic re-enactment where i play a pirate wench for gosh sakes! otherwise i'm pretty tame [blinks and smiles sweetly]....so anyway...how much of your RL do you let out there? i mean...really. so, hmmm not going to over think this but i may make some past posts private. and or start a technology blog that keeps the saucier side of me out of it...(omg, not ANOTHER BLOG!) or i guess i can just blog my technology thoughts on my library blog but that has always been just for my kids & community and as a program pomotional piece...hmm WWJVD (what would Joyce Valenza do?) maybe i'll be semi-transparent then. so, ok educators....fellow technology teachers...if you found this and are looking for me i'm sure you can find the real me by what i do or you can leave a comment here and i'll hit you back. k?

so one of the highlights of the conference (for the heavier and more techy stuff check out my wiki) i got to meet the lovely, gracious, funny and adorable Miss Eleanor Anderton!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Eleanor is one of my oldest friends in Second Life....along with Miss Serafina Puchkina and June Wozniak...anyway....it was Miss Anderton's Shopping alerts that got me in the inventory laden addicted clothes buying stocking wearing mess that i am today in SL....and i love her for it. we were trying to connect for a couple days...and with so many sessions to attend and 19,000 people there..it wasn't easy. finally in a session on creating PLN's in SL and i was hoping with this crazy red hair of mine i'd stand out...and finally as i was leaving i heard the sweet dulcet voice yelling "RED!" and Squeee!!!! huggies galore! YAY! i very nearly jumped up and down and well....YAY! we giggled over things and made our way to the second life playground where we picked up our special SL badges and our Second Lifer (snarf) ribbons because apparently having as MANY little ribbons on your badge is like crack to my geek tribe and well....we started gossiping about shoes and stuff and the people around us were looking at us a little oddly....see? Second Life is that thing that sucks you in and swallows you up! seee?!!!! LOL anyway....it was just lovely...but i'm happy i'm home and can sleep in my own bed...Mmmmm

so ok...semi-transparent. i'm out and proud...as Capt_Red, a Second Lifer and a Librarian....and a redhead! \\FTW//! oh and now i'm plurking....oh the madness! thanks Sera & Ele! gah! more stuff to keep up with....what WILL i do?! LOL

New Christmas Freebies at Hudson's Stained Glass Desires

i have such a love affair with the store Hudson's Stained Glass Desires...i've talked about it before..gushed even...but my word they just do NOT disapoint! in the picture above you can see the bevy of lovely gifts and freebies for the Christmas Season...from the left:
Victorian Secret black & red lingerie set..(HOT!) the small ornament below...holiday jewelry...
the Harvey's Bristol Creme sherry tray and two glasses, a fruit plate, a lovely potted plant in the magic wolf jar, a really pretty (though here not rezzed) globe light...touch on and off...and behind that a man's winter sweater set. WOW! it really is worth joining the group for these lovely and oh so generous gifts!

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Paektu/76/136/91

Dear Miss Eleanor Anderton also recently sent me a notecard of shopping tips as did dear
Miss Serafina...my good friends and fellow dear shopping buddies...i am so blessed!