Prim Perfect Jigsaw at the Home and Garden Expo: Steaming Ahead / Gothic Musing

A Steampunk Folly

One of the fun things of any large event like the Home and Garden Expo is discovering new and unexpected things. And so it was today. Wandering around the regions (mercifully, things have calmed down sufficiently that a walk at a European morning time is a pleasure and not a purgatory) I came across this lovely little … well, I would call it a kind of Folly.  It’s a room for entertaining friends, set inside a lantern, and it’s rather fun.

It’s created by Steaming Ahead/Gothic Musing and is one of the sadly few steampunk elements at this year’s Home and Garden Expo. There are some rather fun balloons too – do check it out on Home Expo 8.

But only, of course, after you have tackled the jigsaw!

A Steampunk Folly from Steaming Ahead / Gothic Musing

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Catch up with your Prim Perfect jigsaws (showing images of Second Life and other virtual worlds).

If you’d like to submit a photo of your own to feature as a jigsaw, send it to the Prim Perfect Flickr Group. It should be sized 800w x 600h, or else it will need to be re-sized.

Check out our talks at the Home and Garden Expo – and don’t forget the beautiful lantern ceremony, every day at 4pm.

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Prim Perfect Talks at the Home and Garden Expo: ReACT Animation Engine and ~*~ Inspired ~*~

Throughout the Home and Garden Expo, Prim Perfect has been running a series of talks at the Prim Perfect Temple on Home Expo 6. You’ll see a full list of the talks at the bottom of this post.

Today we will be talking to Cytherion Revnik of Akaesha Designs about the ReACT Animation Engine at 3pm, and at 5pm, Cinders Vale will be talking to Krysta Ember of ~*~ Inspired ~*~.

Meet the Designer: Cytherion Revnik

Cytherion will be talking about the ReACT Animation System which stands for REactive Animation Control Technology and which was introduced to Second Life by long standing designer Akaesha in 2010. It has been a sensation since then with over 750,000 users gridwide.

At 5pm, Krysta Ember will be talking about her store ~*~ Inspired ~*~, in company with her partner RH Engel, the well-known designer behind The Woodshed. We’re expecting a very inspiring talk!

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We have a full programme of talks coming up at the Expo – make sure that you don’t miss them!

Prim Perfect Talks at the Home and Garden Expo

And make sure you don’t miss our daily lantern ceremony at 4pm, when we invite people to join us at the Prim Perfect platform on Home Expo 6 every day of the Expo at 4pm SLT for a communal release of lanterns both to celebrate the living and in memory of those we have loved and lost.

Lanterns Lifting

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Prim Perfect Talks at the Home and Garden Expo: Isla Gealach of Cheeky Pea

Throughout the Home and Garden Expo, Prim Perfect has been running a series of talks at the Prim Perfect Temple on Home Expo 6. You’ll see a full list of the talks at the bottom of this post.

Meet the Designer: Isla Gealach of Cheeky Pea

Today, Wednesday 29th May, we have Isla Gealach of Cheeky Pea, who will be talking about Mesh, Events (and maybe Mesh Events too!) and shopping areas. Isla, of course, is the owner of The Nest as well as Cheeky Pea, and has been running some very interesting projects there.  We hope to learn about them at 3pm – so do join us!

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We have a full programme of talks coming up at the Expo – make sure that you don’t miss them!

Prim Perfect Talks at the Home and Garden Expo

And make sure you don’t miss our daily lantern ceremony at 4pm, when we invite people to join us at the Prim Perfect platform on Home Expo 6 every day of the Expo at 4pm SLT for a communal release of lanterns both to celebrate the living and in memory of those we have loved and lost.

Lanterns Lifting

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Prim Perfect Talks at the Home and Garden Expo: Park Place and Bellarose!

Throughout the Home and Garden Expo, Prim Perfect will be running a series of talks at the Prim Perfect Temple on Home Expo 6.  You’ll see a full list of the talks at the bottom of this post.

Today, Tuesday 28th May, we have two great people for the talks – DeAnn Dufaux of Park Place Home Decor and Builders Breweryat 3pm and, at 5pm, Bella Bertone of Bellarose Designs Home and Furniture!

DeAnn Dufaux of Park Place Home Decor

DeAnn will be talking to Rosamoo Mendelsohn at 3pm about her store, Park Place Home Decor, and also about her work at Builders Brewery, the much-loved training centre and builders’ resource centre

Bella Bertone of Bellarose

At 5pm, Bella Bertone will be talking to Cinders Vale about her store Bellarose Designs Homes & Furniture and her stunning designs.

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We have a full programme of talks coming up at the Expo – make sure that you don’t miss them!

Prim Perfect Talks at the Home and Garden Expo

And make sure you don’t miss our daily lantern ceremony at 4pm, when we invite people to join us at the Prim Perfect platform on Home Expo 6 every day of the Expo at 4pm SLT for a communal release of lanterns both to celebrate the living and in memory of those we have loved and lost.

Lanterns Lifting

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Prim Perfect Jigsaw at the Home and Garden Expo: Meshworx

Meshworx at the Expo

Yesterday we were very traditional, with Cierra Anatine’s gorgeous manor house. Today we have gone very modern, with Loz Hyde’s Meshworx cube on Home Expo 3.

Loz was one of the first designers to start working in mesh – and his chandelier was one of the stand out “wow!” creations of last year’s Expo. This year he has gone for a very sleek modern look – with this fascinating cube design. It’s well woth checking out – as is his new main store – Meshworx.

And you can catch Loz talking about his work with Maxwell Graf, Kriss Lehmann and Cube Republic at the Prim Perfect Talk on Friday – back by popular demand!

But first – let’s do a jigsaw.

Meshworx at the Expo

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Catch up with your Prim Perfect jigsaws (showing images of Second Life and other virtual worlds).

If you’d like to submit a photo of your own to feature as a jigsaw, send it to the Prim Perfect Flickr Group. It should be sized 800w x 600h, or else it will need to be re-sized.

Check out our talks at the Home and Garden Expo – and don’t forget the beautiful lantern ceremony, every day at 4pm.

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Prim Perfect Talks at the Home and Garden Expo: Cain Maven and Sandi Glas

Throughout the Home and Garden Expo, Prim Perfect will be running a series of talks at the Prim Perfect Temple on Home Expo 6.  You’ll see a full list of the talks at the bottom of this post.

Today, Sunday 26th May, we have two great people for the talks – Cain Maven of Maven Homes and Quantum Luxury Homes at 3pm and, at 5pm, Sandi Glas of Glas Houses.

Meet the Designer: Cain Maven

Cain will be talking sticks and stones with Saffia at 3pm – and, we suspect, mesh and materials as well. To say nothing of ducks. You can see Cain’s log cabin (although it is rather grand for that term!) here on Home Expo 2.

Meet the Designer: Sandi Glas

Sandi will be talking about her store at 5pm – and you can visit her exhibition at the Home and Garden Expo right behind the Prim Perfect Temple and cafe.

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We have a full programme of talks coming up at the Expo – make sure that you don’t miss them!

Prim Perfect Talks at the Home and Garden Expo

And make sure you don’t miss our daily lantern ceremony at 4pm, when we invite people to join us at the Prim Perfect platform on Home Expo 6 every day of the Expo at 4pm SLT for a communal release of lanterns both to celebrate the living and in memory of those we have loved and lost.

Lanterns Lifting

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Happy Hunting celebrates birthdays, the wide open road – and visits Old Europe

Now you can enjoy the new episode of Happy Hunting! on the web with Cinders Vale and Rosamoo Mendelsohn and an interview with Up4 Dawes of Old Europe Village, who tells us all about the Spring Market Fair and Umbrella hunt!

Rosamoo, of Hunt SL, has found some amazing hunts and items this week – including all things Birthday – and a trip on Route 66. And you can find the details of all the hunts discussed right here.

Cinders and Rosamoo enjoying the spoils of the Birthday Hunt

And Cinders will be visiting the beautiful Old Europe Village to find out all about the Spring Market Fair and Umbrella Hunt (after all, March – like April – can be shopwery!) from the amazing Up4 Dawes – who also shows us a peek at a very special place!

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A decidedly Vintage Retro look for Designing Worlds!

Now available on the web – our latest episode, as we explore a new region with a decidedly Vintage Retro theme.

The name of the region is Old Time Prims (as the owner of the region, Mila Edelman, is also the owner of that well known vintage store), but it is also known as Vintage Retro. It is drawing together a wealth of vintage and retro commercial ventures – and some that actually cross boundaries into real life, as we discover on the show.

Vintage Retro – photographed by Wildstar Beaumont

Modelled on a bustling vintage European city, with echoes of Munich, Vienna and Budapest, it provides an intriguing home for a number of stores and vintage locations. Mila will be giving us a guided tour and an insight into how smaller stores with a strong theme can help one another – and themselves too!

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Designing Worlds explores the possibilities of Vintage Retro

Join us at 2pm SLT today, Monday 4th February, for our new episode of Designing Worlds at our studio in Garden of Dreams as we visit Old Time Prims, the home of Vintage Retro, a new region next door to 1920s Berlin, but covering a far wider time period, and featuring some interesting real life crossovers.

Vintage Retro – photographed by Wildstar Beaumont

The name of the region is Old Time Prims (as the owner of the region, Mila Edelman, is also the owner of that well known vintage store), but it is also known as Vintage Retro. It is drawing together a wealth of vintage and retro commercial ventures – and some that actually cross boundaries into real life.

Modelled on a bustling vintage European city, with echoes of Munich, Vienna and Budapest, it provides an intriguing home for a number of stores and vintage locations. Mila will be giving us a guided tour and an insight into how smaller stores with a strong theme can help one another – and themselves too!

It makes for a fascinating show – so do come and join us at 2pm.

Vintage Retro – photographed by Wildstar Beaumont

Or – if you can’t attend in person – tune in at 2pm SLT on Monday for the live show on http://treet.tv/live – where you can now chat with other audience members and even some of the participants during the show – or catch it later in the week on our shows page on the Treet.tv web site at http://treet.tv/shows/designingworlds – our very own version of the iPlayer!

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If you do one thing related to Second Life Today …

Well, actually, there are several things that you could do … and some of them are related to filling out forms …

Art
Or perhaps you’d prefer to pick up your camera and enter our special competition to design a new fraphical strapline for Prim Perfect.  Our old graphic was created in 2007 – and Second Life – as well as other virtual worlds – has moved on since then!  We are offering a prize of L$5000 for the best one we receive, featuring images of Second Life (and other virtual worlds) in 2013. And Froukje Hoorenbeeke has generously matched that prize – our winner will also receive a voucher for L$5000 to spend at her gorgeous store, Dutchie!

Dutchie’s Mesh Kitchen

We are offering five further prizes of L$1000 each for people who share with us pictures of the best indivdiual style icons in homes, gardens and landscapes. So get out there and record your absolute favourites!

You’ll find full details of the competition (which closes on January 15th) here.

Romance
And don’t forget to complete our special survey of how you met (whether in Second Life, real life or somewhere else entirely!). We are planning a feature article on this for our Valentine issue, and we’ve already received some great stories – make sure that yours joins them!

Sunset on Gilmour, photograph by Honour Macmillan

Last day for sharing your story with us is January 18th.

Centre for Business Development

Business
Finally, today (January 10th) is the last day to complete the survey being run by the Centre for Business Development who are gathering information that will be useful to use in identifying issues and provide them with what they hope will be a good basis to start developing strategies.

The Centre is is a collaborative group of business people working together to identify and improve areas that may be hindering growth in Second Life. Their aim is to be proactive in improving business growth, opening avenues of communication with Linden Lab and enriching experiences for SL residents.

So … what are you waiting for? There’s lots of things to do … and later, there may even be a jigsaw …

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