My book

Looking into the Darkness by Huntress | Make Your Own Book

Halloween

While we don't really celebrate halloween in Australia, it is a pretty big deal in the US, so what the hell, our sim has slipped into perpetual night, the occasional howl of a wolf carries out over the cool air, and the fog hides many a creepy crawly.
Your path can lead you through dense forest, full of watching eyes and hidden traps.  Or it can lead you to the fun off the fair and a haunted house, play, dance, have a rest.... permanent rest.

September, time for the Royal Adelaide Show, and my friend Attica really wanted to go.  Like me thought she just wasn't well enough for something so taxing.  The solution?  Bring it in to sl.
So I set about trying to surprise my friend, not easy since most of the stuff I would need to outfit was stuff she made, and I had a VERY short time line to work with.  Well I didn't manage to keep it secret, but I did manage to get off and running in a couple of days, complete with getting things listed in the Destination Guide.

Plenty of people have zapped in and out,
bringing their friends, and walked all about.
They've jumped on some rides, and juggled some balls,
dunked a mermaid after answering her calls,
and after watching the fireworks flash and bang,
they decide for the next day, to bring the rest of their gang.



It has been fun, much like ArtFest it will be a shame to see it go, but all things change and the next project is already under way.  For a little while though I have the added memories created by my friend NicoleX, who created a wonderful video piece:

Someone has a birthday coming.....

Yep it is nearly that time again, SL's 8th birthday, while the actual event is not until June, the chance to get a spot to build in comes much earlier and can be quite a competition to get. So my friend and I are now on the lookout for announcements on when the areas are open. We have already seen a picture of the sims map, so the rest can not be far off.

Now if we manage to get a spot, what do we build?.....

You came, you saw, and you listened

Well the judges had a hard task with all the great works, but they made some great choices. The concert had a slightly rocky start due to a couple of griefers, but once they were kicked, a great time was had by all, listening to the great voices of Strum Diesel, Thunderfoot Lorefield, and Dusty Smythe.
We were featured in online magazines, various blogs, we were top of the search system, and even got listed on the sl Facebook site (wow, talk about being busy, at some points we were getting one person arrive at the platform every 2 minutes).
Everyone dragged their friends along to look around, have a ride on Fred, the zip line, and a fly around on the bunny's (we even had a bunny race which was a great laugh).

Of course with all the fun there was still the fundraising, and the water drops grew ever rounder as time went on. While I of course wanted the moon and the stars, we at least reached up into the clouds and I know in these hards times, that people gave all that they could.

The Judged Winners

No more building

Well building phase ends at Midnight on the 20th, but most have been finished a good while now. This means the next phase can begin, the judged voting. And what a task is that going to be, there is so many good pieces, it is going to be very hard to choose between them.
Popular voting still continues, so get over there show some charitable generousity.

And here are the other great supporters

Donators of prizes, givers of things we need to make other things work, and performers giving up their precious time. Thankyou, you are what makes the world go round.

Alesia Barbosa
Alicia Stella
Aruba DeCuir
Attica Bekkers
DragonLady Majestic
Ginette Pinazzo
Korgi Lerwick
Lilith Heart
Mayfly Cyberstar
Neeks Moonshadow
Strum Diesel
Thunderfoot Lorefield
Winter Thorn

Check out the artists

Below is a list of the artists taking part in ArtFest come and see their wonderful work:

Adrianne Torrance Alesia Barbosa Alizarin Goldflak Aloisio Congrejo Asmita Duranjaya Attica Bekkers Belinda51 Unplugged Billy Laffer borges19 Oh Fuschia Nightfire Giovanna Cerise Gleman Jun Huntress Catteneo

Jiran Lane Lagu Indigo Louly Loon Mare Brown mayfly Cyberstar Moeuhane Sandalwood Molina Rhode Neeks Moonshadow Nema Galicia oona Eiren Penelope Parx Pixie Tungl Rebeca Bashly

Sandhya Patel Scottius Polke Shangreloo Kuhn Sheba Blitz Silene Christen Solkide Aver Stardove Spirit Tani Thor Tegan Jenvieve Thor Effingham Ub Yifu

ArtFest looking great

Things are looking really good now, art, art, everywhere art, and it is good art too.
This is a picture of the landing platform, it also has
- the portal down to the underwater garden where you can take a ride on Fred
- the Bazarr where you can shop for a few things
- the cafe area to sit and chat in
- the dance area
- posters and information you can grab
- items currently up for auction that you can bid on
- concert area for the singers when there is a show on
but wait, there's more..
it also leads off to the islands to go and see all the great works

ok, most sculpture spots on the sim are now occupied, lots of wonderful works are lready out there and the general feel of the place is open warm and friendly. For those that want to donate their money themselves there is a webpage for ArtFest set up through the Red Cross here:

http://www.redcrossfundraising.org.au/ArtFest