I want a bike!!!!

Motor Loon is probably... no for sure the best motorcycle builder in SL. Yesterday I first visited his racetrack 'Motorworld', and tried one of the testbikes and ended up in the ocean, yeh I need some practice... but then I thougth why not pay a visit to his shop..

What I found most fun was that he has a workshop at the back of his store...

with men at work... but pfff, my charmes could not bring them to stop working for a while and have a little chat with me...

Ok, if you guys won't talk to me I go just wander around in the shop to try to find a bike I like..

and oh boy... did I like!!!! Love the black Sprinter and

Love the yellow racemachine (this one is not from Motor Loon though)...

What shall I get????

Ever tried to pick up seven meeroos at the same time?

I just did..

What a mess LOL

Pfff... Show Off!!!!

Yesterday Max showed off his new mountainbike pfffff.... I only have a Dutch citybike I picked up for free long time ago in Amsterdam. But, we raced our mountains and, ok I did not win but I surely could keep up with that fancy new mountainbike *grins

Hellion's space ship!

I'm married to a nerd and my best friend is one too, they both love to build stuff in SL unlike me, I rather go shopping for stuff *winks

Anyway, since my 'Explore 1 place each day challenge' is not working too well (pure lazyness), I explored Hellion's new building project... Dude!!!! A spaceship, OMG!! What the hell are you gonna do with a spaceship??? Well I did not ask him that question.. I will some day.

He gave me a tour and I must say it's cool, it did miss some parts but that was not his fault, SL was being its bugging self again, grrr.

Nice job, big guy:-))

Big Daddy's 80s club!

Darn, I'm killing my own challenge (explore one place each day), already skipped a day, well I just had to attend to some RL issues yesterday so forgive me:-)

Anyways, I like to tell you something about this club 'Big Daddy's 80s club'. I have known this club all my SL but I kinda lost it through the years. Since Max is not online very much these days I must keep myself busy;-) So I wanted to visit some clubs... I go on search, type in 'club' OMG.... I did not know where to start but suddenly I remembered this club I frequently visited with my other ava (which is now deleted). 

Big Daddy's 80s club. I typed that in search and BANG, there was it... I tp'ed over and BANG there I was. The scenery changed ofcourse but the people and the music was still as nice and great as I remembered, so I did stay there for a while and had a great time:-))

It might be not the most beautiful club in SL but it's certainly the most newbie-friendly, the most relaxing, the most down to earth and with great 80s music club:-)))

They even allow those 'gestures' we all like to do and not admit it to ourselves;-)

Ehm... ok I like to take pics from nice looking boys *grins

Keep on going Big Daddy's 80s club!!!

It is a challenge... exploring one place each day... but here is the next one;-)

Hotel Chelsea in Manhattan, again in 'showcase', 'editors pic', was my next stop today. I like old buildings with a history, I live in a country which is famous for old buildings so...

This is cool but I must warn you all... so laggy... but worth a visit if you have a lot of patience;-)

 figures... grr

ok let's try this elevator

WTF??? rats!!! ok I'm outta here

Rats or not, here some history of this hotel in Manhattan:

On August 2nd 2011, The Hotel was sold and closed down.  For more information you can read about it here: http://www.chelseahotelblog.com/living_with_legends_the_h/And in the NYTimes :  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/01/nyregion/historic-chelsea-hotel-closes-to-guests.html?_r=1

It is a sad day in the History of the Hotel Chelsea.

The hotel has always been a center of artistic and bohemian activity and it houses artwork created by many of the artists who have visited. The hotel was the first building to be listed by New York City as a cultural preservation site and historic building of note.

The twelve-story red-brick building that now houses the Hotel Chelsea was built in 1883, and opened in 1884 as one of the city's first private apartment cooperatives.  At the time Chelsea, and particularly the street on which the hotel was located, was the center of New York's Theater District. However, within a few years the combination of economic worries and the relocation of the theaters bankrupted the Chelsea cooperative. In 1905, the building was purchased and opened as a hotel. Since 1946, the hotel has been managed by the Bard family, and until recently was run by 72-year-old Stanley Bard who took over as managing director from his father in 1955. [2]On June 18, 2007, the hotel's board of directors ousted Bard as the hotel's manager. Marlene Krauss, a doctor who is the chief executive of KBL Healthcare Ventures, and David Elder, one of the heirs of an original owner who lives in California, replaced Stanley Bard with management company BD Hotels NY, L.L.C., who have since been terminated. Residents are fighting to return the Bards, as managers and majority shareholders, to the Chelsea Hotel and have mounted a campaign of banners, art pranks and other protests toward this end.

Owing to its long list of famous guests and residents, the hotel has an ornate history, both as a birth place of creative modern art and punctuated by tragedy catching the public eye. Sir Arthur C. Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey while staying at the Chelsea, and poets Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Richard and Rebecca Eller chose it as a place for philosophical and intellectual exchange. It is also known as the place where the writer Dylan Thomas was staying when he died of alcohol poisoning on November 4, 1953, and where Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols, was found stabbed to death on October 12, 1978

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One place each day... my personnel challenge:-)

This is the deal... I love exploring new places in SL, thing is I didn't do it for a very long time. But as of today I will explore one place everyday. This is my starter... kinda strange place.

But how do I explore? Well for me the best is 'showcase', it got a lot of different tabs like: popular places, editor's pick, miscallaneos, strange and magical, real life and so on... so I find 'Showcase' ideal for my quest.

Also there are some blogs who post about new places too but... I like to be inventive if you know what I mean *winks

So this is my first sim tonight called: Forgotten toys by Romy Nayar, found it in 'showcase', under 'editors Pick'. 

It's a strange place, it's about toys but like giant toys... most of the time I can put a feeling into places but this was hard to put feeling into it... it did not scare me, it did not move me, it didn't make me sad, it didn't make me happy... well since I can't explain it I will copy/paste here what they say about it: 

'Romy Nayar is at work once again! Following her work Papermakis, she now brings us the exhibit Forgotten Toys, a spectacle not to be missed. Explore the darker side of toys and marvel at the giant-sized objects crafted in this unique sim.'

Belgium, Pukkelpop 2011

I normally don't write about my RL here but for this I like to make an exception. I live in Belgium and during the summer there are a lot of live concerts organised. This summer the weather was... well not really concertlike. Yesterday was the start of a four day concert called Pukkelpop, everybody was excited cause the weatherman forecasted great weather.

It started sunny, the concertground was getting full with people who just love great music, nice scenery, sun, relaxing..

All these people were trying to find a spot to put down their little tent.. they did, they were happy, excited, ready for four days of great music.

I was at home watching tv before I would log into SL, just relaxing.. I tuned my tv on the news and what I got to see just filled me with terror.

The news I saw was at 7.oo pm, the reporter was talking about Pukkelpop... a storm came over the concertgrounds 2 hours ago, a concert tent collapsed, a lighting tower was dragged down by the wind, people running around in panic, people killed, people injured...

I was watching this in total horror cause my daughter was out there... She left on wednesday with a bunch of friends for Pukkelpop, she and her friends were so looking forward to it, sun, music, fun!!!

Last night I probably experienced the worst two hours of my life... I could not reach her, I could not reach her friends, I could not reach parents... the emergency number was constantly occupied.

After two hours of total panick and horror and worry I finally got a text from her telling me she was OK and on her way home.

When she came home I just ran out the door and hold her so closely, so tight and we both cried.

She is home safe, the concert is cancelled out of the respect for the victims... but some parents have now lost their children, or their children are fighting for their life or their children are injured.

Like the headlines say in the newspapers 'this is a black day in the history of live music concerts', it is.

I was lucky, my daughter is safe but I feel for the victims and their parents and friends.

So, this is what I wanted to tell, I just needed to write this down.

Sending my love and thoughts to the parents who have lost a child out there.

Going retro

Nice hey... this retro tv comes from 'Artillery', not very low prim though. A lot of stuff in my house comes from there because I just love retro:-)))

The picture of Audrey Hepburn I just downloaded from the internet and I have put a frame on it with the free frame wizard (a very cool gadget I must say, I have used it a lot already).

I adore my cooker;-)

This cooker I found at 'Dench Design'. All their stuff is super low prim... so I LOVE Dench design;-)

It has an open/close door feature and you can put out/on the fire.

Can't wait to cook my first diner for me and Max:-)))

An art piece I just love

I just love this item in my house. This cute little mannequin with flower comes from 'Facts'. Elise creates just the cutest stuff. She recently moved the store so I don't have a landmark yet, but you can see her stuff on her blog http://eliseonmurasfacts.blogspot.com/

Just keep on creating Elise:-)))

Time to show my new house:-)))

This is it, finally found my dreamhouse.. well for now;-) I am turning into a real house addict and Max is going crazy. I think I had about 3 or 4 houses in one month lol. But this one is my fav... like I said, for now...

The horses are still here:-)

The porch with rocking bench

The kitchen:-)

My husbands desk

The livingroom

My fav place, the greenhouse:-)

Almost all the stuff you see comes from Artillery and LISP bazaar. Those shops are just totally awesome:-)


Wolvie's outfit:
Hair: Pandora Streaked *Truth*
Top: LMD Zodiac Tee Leo (they have all zodiacs, mine is Leo) *LMD*
Skirt: Summer Plaid Skirt Pink *Stellar*
Shoes: Bandana Flats - Pink *Stellar*

And then there were....... FIVE!!!

So I started with one meeroo... thought she would be lonely so bought another one. Apple and Pie were happy with me and I was happy with them but I would not be Wolvie if I did not try something else;-)

I told myself I would not breed with them...But thought it would be nice to have a male there too:-)

I bought a male meeroo... I did have no idea how the breeding worked, I kinda thougth you had to do something special with them or with the hud, I simply did not know.

 

So this is Chip my male meeroo. I rezzed him one night and the same night he managed to let Pie fall in love with him. The next day I logged on there was a nest, OMG... Seems I did not have to do anything, meeroos just fall in love and make a nest;-)

I had no idea what to do with it, so I clicked it, choose 'coax' and 120 seconds later 'Sticky' was born:-))) 

I thought well a little baby meeroo is so cute. But I forgot about Chip's libido... the night before last night he managed to let Apple fall in love... I logged on... again a nest, OMG

Anyway, last night I clicked the nest, choose 'coax' and 120 seconds later 'Mousie' was born:-)))

Yeah, yeah, sucking up to me now are you,Chip! I hope you are satisfied now for a while;-)

And then there were... FIVE meeroos: Apple, Pie, Chip, Sticky and Mousie and... I love everyone of them:-)))