Theatre the way she is meant to look

I’m in love with the Gaiety Theatre in Caledon Penzance. Persephone Gallindo is a masterful texturist, and she’s created a Gay 90’s structure in a beautiful, opulent style that is elegant rather than gaudy. When the location isn’t hosting an event, you can stream archival vaudeville footage onstage. I’m tempted to schedule the occasional business appointment there just to relax in a velvet seat while enjoying the eye candy, but I don’t want to transgress on Miss Gallindo’s generous hospitality.

You can see many of her expert textures on a number of period structures throughout the grid, but her own shop, Architextura, is remarkably understated. I would love to see her stretch her creative legs for the retail market to increase the visibility and appreciation of the key role played by texture creators in world.

Without further ado, here are some more views:

March Treasure Hunt – Clue 12: True North Designs

Once again there’s a Treasure Hunt in the current edition of Prim Perfect. There are FOURTEEN stores taking part this month - and you have to visit the store to discover the prim count of each of the pieces featured in the magazine. You’ll find instructions on how to find the prim count for an item on our Treasure Hunt Information page.

This time we’re looking for a Birch Drinks Cabinet within True North Designs. Dellybean North has built a curved cabinet out of light, almost silvery, birch wood complimented by a slate blue top. The curved pewter handles mirror the curve of the cabinet. Inside it is stocked with a variety of drinks which it will dispense with a touch and a menu. The texture of the cabinet is carried around to the back side of the piece so it is not limited to being placed against the wall. Did I mention it was very low prim? Take a look and write that number down.

Looking around, I found more beautiful birch wood. This new compact kitchen was created with birch cabinets and green marble counters. In many houses, the kitchen becomes the gathering place of the home. This design allows family or guests to hang out while you work on a meal. The fridge, dishwasher, sink, and lights all work with a touch. According to the informational notecard, Delly is planning a cooking animation to be attached to the stovetop as well. Hidden within the stained glass door at the end of the counter is a drink cabinet, dispensing the same selection of drinks as our featured item. The stools are purchased separately so you can select the right quantity and seat covering to match your individual style. Each stool has a choice of animations available through a menu. This is a wonderful item for the person who loves to entertain.

For the treasure hunt competition, find as many prim counts as you can for the magazine’s treasure hunt items, and send the details to primperfect@gmail.com, including your avatar name and an answer to the tiebreaker question (which you’ll find in the magazine on Page 72). The person to find the most prim counts will win - and in the event of a tie, we will use the tie-breaker. Also - you don’t necessarily have to find every prim count to win a prize! Just find as many as you can. You have until April 20th, 2008, to send in your entry.

See our earlier clues here:

March Treasure Hunt - Clue 1: Elements in Design
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 2: Creative Fantasy
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 3: Organized Confusion
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 4: Over The Rainbow
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 5: Oh! Furniture
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 6: Bygone Days
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 7:Sofia’s Furniture
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 8:Sweetbay Designs
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 9: Botanika
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 10: KitStar Designs
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 11: The Loft

Another clue will be appearing shortly!

March Treasure Hunt – Clue 11: The Loft

Once again there’s a Treasure Hunt in the current edition of Prim Perfect. There are FOURTEEN stores taking part this month - and you have to visit the store to discover the prim count of each of the pieces featured in the magazine. You’ll find instructions on how to find the prim count for an item on our Treasure Hunt Information page.

New to the Treasure Hunt, but not new to readers of this blog or followers of Meta Makeover, is The Loft. On Meta Makeover, Saffia Widdershins talked with Bethany Heart about how the group redesigned the interior of Skate Foss’ beach home. The Loft’s designers (Bethany Heart and Camille Desmoulins) recently celebrated the grand opening of their store on their own sim with a wonderful party. Their designs are clean and modern, and the new store showcases them wonderfully. While exploring their store, be on the lookout for their Treasure Hunt item – a pillar candle holder. They’re available in large and small sizes, ready to accent your home decor.

While the pillar holder is beautifully textured and holds up well on close inspection, it does not give a good sense of The Loft’s style. Here is their Braedski collection with sofa, mini tables, and media armoire. The items are available individually or the set can be purchased at a discounted price. Bold colors and clean lines are hallmarks of their style, but this still has an organic feel. Sink yourself into the sofa for a little while. The animations are hidden within the pillows. I gave them a try and was happy to find them skirt-friendly. Enjoy the new store, but don’t forget to get the prim count of the candle holder.

For the treasure hunt competition, find as many prim counts as you can for the magazine’s treasure hunt items, and send the details to primperfect@gmail.com, including your avatar name and an answer to the tiebreaker question (which you’ll find in the magazine on Page 72). The person to find the most prim counts will win - and in the event of a tie, we will use the tie-breaker. Also - you don’t necessarily have to find every prim count to win a prize! Just find as many as you can. You have until April 20th, 2008, to send in your entry.

See our earlier clues here:

March Treasure Hunt - Clue 1: Elements in Design
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 2: Creative Fantasy
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 3: Organized Confusion
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 4: Over The Rainbow
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 5: Oh! Furniture
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 6: Bygone Days
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 7:Sofia’s Furniture
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 8:Sweetbay Designs
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 9: Botanika
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 10: KitStar Designs

Another clue will be appearing shortly!

March Treasure Hunt – Clue 10: KitStar Designs

Once again there’s a Treasure Hunt in the current edition of Prim Perfect. There are FOURTEEN stores taking part this month - and you have to visit the store to discover the prim count of each of the pieces featured in the magazine. You’ll find instructions on how to find the prim count for an item on our Treasure Hunt Information page.

For this clue, we’re traveling to Vorlheim, home of KitStar Designs. Kittie Munro created an elaborate Moroccan Blue Star Table. It is a wooden table painted in an complex mosaic of blue, red, green, black, and gold. The hollow base is accented with cut out screens. To complete the set, a Moroccan star chairs and couches are on display as well.

After you note the prim count of that table, take a few minute to enjoy the rest of the store. Decorating the walls of the store, you can find several different rugs on display. The patterns are beautiful and would go well with many different color schemes. Following tradition, they can be used as either floor coverings or wall decorations. Either way you use them, they’re a single prim and very affordable.

For the treasure hunt competition, find as many prim counts as you can for the magazine’s treasure hunt items, and send the details to primperfect@gmail.com, including your avatar name and an answer to the tiebreaker question (which you’ll find in the magazine on Page 72). The person to find the most prim counts will win - and in the event of a tie, we will use the tie-breaker. Also - you don’t necessarily have to find every prim count to win a prize! Just find as many as you can. You have until April 20th, 2008, to send in your entry.

See our earlier clues here:

March Treasure Hunt - Clue 1: Elements in Design
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 2: Creative Fantasy
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 3: Organized Confusion
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 4: Over The Rainbow
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 5: Oh! Furniture
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 6: Bygone Days
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 7:Sofia’s Furniture
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 8:Sweetbay Designs
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 9: Botanika

Another clue will be appearing shortly!

March Treasure Hunt – Clue 9: Botanika

Once again there’s a Treasure Hunt in the current edition of Prim Perfect. There are FOURTEEN stores taking part this month - and you have to visit the store to discover the prim count of each of the pieces featured in the magazine. You’ll find instructions on how to find the prim count for an item on our Treasure Hunt Information page.

This bright flower is a creation by EmpressNever Rejected from Botanika. It’s called a Canna, and it’s one of the Treasure Hunt items for this month. The colors of this plant are vivid yellows, oranges, and greens. It may be hard to see in this picture, but the petals of the flower have wonderful freckles! When the breezes blow through the sim, the petals and leaves flutter slightly in the wind.

Botanika is set in a land of bright sun and sparkling water, offering flowers and garden items that are slightly exotic or whimsical. This new item definitely falls in the latter category. Em is now offering a brand new mom & baby flamingo set. Any lawn can have pink plastic flamingos, but I’ve never seen a mom and baby before. The pale pink baby is nuzzled against the mother. I think I saw the tail feathers wiggling in the breeze, too. This would absolutely draw attention to your garden, but don’t let it distract you from your prim counting!

For the treasure hunt competition, find as many prim counts as you can for the magazine’s treasure hunt items, and send the details to primperfect@gmail.com, including your avatar name and an answer to the tiebreaker question (which you’ll find in the magazine on Page 72). The person to find the most prim counts will win - and in the event of a tie, we will use the tie-breaker. Also - you don’t necessarily have to find every prim count to win a prize! Just find as many as you can. You have until April 20th, 2008, to send in your entry.

See our earlier clues here:

March Treasure Hunt - Clue 1: Elements in Design
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 2: Creative Fantasy
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 3: Organized Confusion
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 4: Over The Rainbow
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 5: Oh! Furniture
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 6: Bygone Days
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 7:Sofia’s Furniture
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 8:Sweetbay Designs

Another clue will be appearing shortly!

A name - and a competition

You will remember, I’m sure, that Prim Perfect and the Connolly Telegraph are working together to create a new magazine. We held our second meeting yesterday and were delighted to be able to announce the name of the new publication:

> > The Primgraph < <

The first edition will appear in mid May, but before then, there will be a competition to choose a most important contributor to the magazine - Miss Manners.

We are intending to have a regular column where Miss Manners will dispense her advice on social ettiquette to the denizens of Caledon and other similar sims.

But who should this arbiter of social decorum be?

Answer this problem - and it could be you!

Dear Miss Manners, I had arranged to meet a young lady for tea last Saturday. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend, owing to technical difficulties of a depressingly familiar nature. How should I tender my apologies?

The person supplying the best answer, to primgraph@gmail.com by 27th April 2008, will be awarded the position of Miss Manners, whose true identity must always remain a secret.

March Treasure Hunt – Clue 8:Sweetbay Designs

Once again there’s a Treasure Hunt in the current edition of Prim Perfect. There are FOURTEEN stores taking part this month - and you have to visit the store to discover the prim count of each of the pieces featured in the magazine. You’ll find instructions on how to find the prim count for an item on our Treasure Hunt Information page.

Next we travel to Sweetbay Designs on Sweetbay to find a Midland 3-plank Wagon. Pip (followmeimthe Piedpiper) has filled the wagon with bright spring flowers from Kvinta’s Garden Centre , but it could be filled with anything you wish. The textures on the steel carriage and wooden side planks are great. The wood is weathered and knotty and the steel has rusted and stained in some spots. There are a 5-panel wagon and a coal wagon also available for purchase. The designs are based on wagons from 1913 used by the Midland Railway, the best railway according to Pip.

The February Treasure Hunt clues gave us a sneak preview of traditional English narrowboats available at Sweetbay Designs. Since then, Pip has expanded the canal and rail line. Stop by the toll house to read the notice of tolls to be paid. Be sure to pay what is due! Farther up the canal is a lock, and it is now operational. The lock is usually full and water leaks out where the gates meet. There is a crank on the lock that lets the water drain and the narrowboat slowly lowers within the lock. Then the large wooden gates can be pushed open. Eventually the lock fills up and the boat floats back to the higher level. It’s wonderful to watch, but don’t forget there are still more places to visit on the Treasure Hunt!

For the treasure hunt competition, find as many prim counts as you can for the magazine’s treasure hunt items, and send the details to primperfect@gmail.com, including your avatar name and an answer to the tiebreaker question (which you’ll find in the magazine on Page 72). The person to find the most prim counts will win - and in the event of a tie, we will use the tie-breaker. Also - you don’t necessarily have to find every prim count to win a prize! Just find as many as you can. You have until April 20th, 2008, to send in your entry.

See our earlier clues here:

March Treasure Hunt - Clue 1: Elements in Design
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 2: Creative Fantasy
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 3: Organized Confusion
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 4: Over The Rainbow
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 5: Oh! Furniture
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 6: Bygone Days
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 7:Sofia’s Furniture

Another clue will be appearing shortly!

At last - the new magazine meeting!

You will remember, I’m sure, that Prim Perfect and the Connolly Telegraph are working together to create a new magazine.

And we had planned to hold the second meeting last weekend - until Second Life went down and threw everyone’s schedules off!  So we cancelled that - but, Second Life behaving, we now plan to hold the meeting this weekend!

The meeting will be in the Gaiety Theatre, Caledon Penzance on Sunday 13th April at 2pm SLT. Everyone interested in the magazine will be most welcome; we are planning to discuss content and hand out assignments. But we are eager to see people interested in other roles too - graphics, advertising and production.

People are welcome from any and all of the sims in the 1700 - 1920 range; we want to offer as wide coverage as possible!

See you at the meeting!

March Treasure Hunt – Clue 7:Sofia’s Furniture

Once again there’s a Treasure Hunt in the current edition of Prim Perfect. There are FOURTEEN stores taking part this month - and you have to visit the store to discover the prim count of each of the pieces featured in the magazine. You’ll find instructions on how to find the prim count for an item on our Treasure Hunt Information page.

This Medieval Fireplace can be found at Sofia’s Furniture on Serafina Island. It is solid brick with a shelf high on the right side. A roaring fire is built from thick, heavy logs. I like the texture on the bark. I think they’re from a maple tree. Suspended over the fire is a heavy iron pot, full to the brim of bubbling water. This fireplace was a centerpiece in the kitchen of Amber Selentiak’s castle from a recent episode of Meta Makeover. Sofia Standish was a guest designer on episode 4, and many items from the makeover can be found within the store, especially the tapestries.

One of the special items from the makeover was an elegant writing desk. This drafting desk is a relatively new offering from the store. It’s made from gorgeous warm wood, and two stools are on display to go with the desk. One has a dragon inlay on the seat, and the other is a rich blue. If you click on the stool, it will give you a pen. When you sit down, there is a wonderful writing animation. It looks as though you’re creating your masterpiece. Did you remember to get that prim count? Quickly dash back to the fireplace and write it down!

For the treasure hunt competition, find as many prim counts as you can for the magazine’s treasure hunt items, and send the details to primperfect@gmail.com, including your avatar name and an answer to the tiebreaker question (which you’ll find in the magazine on Page 72). The person to find the most prim counts will win - and in the event of a tie, we will use the tie-breaker. Also - you don’t necessarily have to find every prim count to win a prize! Just find as many as you can. You have until April 20th, 2008, to send in your entry.

See our earlier clues here:

March Treasure Hunt - Clue 1: Elements in Design
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 2: Creative Fantasy
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 3: Organized Confusion
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 4: Over The Rainbow
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 5: Oh! Furniture
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 6: Bygone Days

Another clue will be appearing shortly!

March Treasure Hunt – Clue 6: Bygone Days

Once again there’s a Treasure Hunt in the current edition of Prim Perfect. There are FOURTEEN stores taking part this month - and you have to visit the store to discover the prim count of each of the pieces featured in the magazine. You’ll find instructions on how to find the prim count for an item on our Treasure Hunt Information page.

Bygone Days is the location of this next clue.  Somewhere within the curious collection of period furniture and accessories is this French Bombe Chest designed by Jeannie Moonflower.  It’s a low, wooden piece, smooth and curvy with golden trim.  There are several pieces in this set of furniture, but you only need to find the prim count of the chest.

Bygone Days is a large store, offering many things, but it does have a teleport system if you’re looking for something specific.  I had the time to see only a fraction of the store during my visit, but I really enjoyed the display of art deco furnishings.  If you want to put a chic lounge in your house, there are several styles of bars, chairs, sofas, and tables that would be perfect.  Personally, I couldn’t resist dressing up and posing on one of the newer Parisian divans.  The smoking kitty pillow is terrific fun.

For the treasure hunt competition, find as many prim counts as you can for the magazine’s treasure hunt items, and send the details to primperfect@gmail.com, including your avatar name and an answer to the tiebreaker question (which you’ll find in the magazine on Page 72). The person to find the most prim counts will win - and in the event of a tie, we will use the tie-breaker. Also - you don’t necessarily have to find every prim count to win a prize! Just find as many as you can. You have until April 20th, 2008, to send in your entry.

See our earlier clues here:

March Treasure Hunt - Clue 1: Elements in Design
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 2: Creative Fantasy
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 3: Organized Confusion
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 4: Over The Rainbow
March Treasure Hunt – Clue 5: Oh! Furniture

Another clue will be appearing shortly!