Bandana-day

Bandana-day, a photo by Shelly-70 on Flickr.

Today it is Bandana Day in SL. 'Remove your hair, to show you care', at the Hair Fair you can buy al sorts of bandana's for 50L$ and today is the day to wear them to show your support for Wigs for kids.

All the proceeds of the bandana's go to Wigs for kids. Same for the hairs that have been bought at the Hair Fair, a percentage or the whole amount, that depends on the vendor, goes to that same cause.

Presage

Presage, a photo by Shelly-70 on Flickr.

I wanted an unicorn in my pictures so bad....here is the result.

Lorn

Lorn, a photo by Shelly-70 on Flickr.

And another try with the water reflection.

A sunny sunday

Today we had a sunny day here.....finally! Because it has been like autumn this past week, and the week before that, and before that...So a little bit of sunshine is very welcome.
I (of course) stayed inside to go on experimenting with PS, what else?! But with the doors and windows open it feels like summer has finally arrived in The Netherlands.
One thing is getting on my nerves though: a bunch of young seagulls on my roof is peeping all day long. Apparently I have a nest on my roof and the young ones seem to be hungry the whole day.
But nothing is ruining my day, me and my PS had a super sunny sunday!
Today i played with water reflections, it didn't work out the way I had in mind, but it's a starter.

Weekend!!

Finally weekend!!
I was so looking forward to the weekend this last week. It has been a busy week, but a friend of mine gave me such a big surprise: He gave me a present that made my day...my week...even my month, Photoshop CS6!
He came by with a beautifully wrapped gift and I really had no idea what could be in it. Imagine my surprise when I opened it.......Of course I had to jump up and down a few times lol.
Since I was working with Lightroom and Elements, I have to watch a whole lot of new tutorials now, but I don't care, because it is awesome.
First trick i learned is the easy way to get rid of the horrible lines you get when you take pictures in SL. Please give the person who came up with the "content aware" thing the Nobel price! In 1 sec those lines vanish....wow!
I, of course, always look forward to the weekend, but this time even more so I could play with my new gadget....content aware....content aware...
I've been a real bitch to my friends in SL today: no dancing, no shopping, no kissing, no chatting, the only thing I did is taking pictures.

First days in SL

My first days in SL......I can't remember a whole lot, but there are a few things I remember very well:

I looked at all those avatars and thought: "How can it be that they all look so good and i am walking around in very ugly skirt?!" And of course there was the moving, everybody I saw was walking very sexy or beautiful and I was walking as....well I don't know as what, but it sure didn't look pretty or sexy.

Although being a newbee seems to be a great turn on for a lot of guys, in the beginning I thought I had stepped into some kind of great virtual world of sex! Most IM's I received were more or less something like this: "Hey, where you from? Wanna dance? Oh, you're so pretty, wanna fuck?" And believe me, I wasn't pretty! But somehow I guess they like a virtual virgin or something, I don't know.

After a few days I discovered Marketplace, but had no idea where or how to get money to spend there. But a bit of reading and searching did the trick. So i got myself a bikini and dress on Marketplace, but the rest of me was still what I began with.

Thank god there was a very nice guy who told me all about skin, shape and hair. He even went shopping with me a whole afternoon. Suddenly I looked a whole lot better, but I still had that ugly walk. And again I was lucky to ran into a very nice girl who showed me around in the world of animations and AO's. The fact that she was a vampire, but I didn't let her teeth come near my just bought new skin, didn't stop her from being nice.

I guess those first days with those two people started my shopping addiction in SL, SL has no secrets for me in this area! When I come to think of it.....my RL self isn't any better, lol.

Dream

Dream, a photo by Shelly-70 on Flickr.

Yes, yes......still fighting with my Photoshop tools and brushes......lol

Life

Life, a photo by Shelly-70 on Flickr.

Today i was finally able to get in the OneVoice sim. I tried the last two days to get there, but it always said "sim is full". At the sim some of the best SL creators joined together to help another (skin) creator in need.

All her creations have been taken away from SL, due to legal problems caused by somebody who claims that the skins are copy's of her designs. To see so many creators stepping in to help another person and to let their voice be heard is a very beautiful thing to see. The fact that the sim was full for two days shows the support of all those people who wanted to go there and spent their Lindens to raise money for this cause.

In a short period of time i came across these two wonderful projects: Stand4love and OneVoice. I could not have ever imagined that these sort of things were going on in this virtual world when I started SL.

These projects make me enjoy Second Life even more and they sure make me a proud resident.

Vivienne2

Vivienne2, a photo by Shelly-70 on Flickr.

RL has been kind of busy, but today I had some time to go on with the photoshop thing. Still not even close to perfect, but as long as I am having fun....lol.

heart

heart, a photo by Shelly-70 on Flickr.

Still trying to get better pictures in SL and working on the photoshop skills. Still reading and seeing every tutorial i can get my hands on.

Butterfly

Butterfly, a photo by Shelly-70 on Flickr.

Still playing with photoshop!