The March Military Expo

February 29, 2012 by Leave a comment

Another part of Second Life Culture is honouring the heroes who fought for us during the wars. An article was written for the Torch SLG which showcased  the SL US Military Veterans group. Now we are proud to say, for immediate release  the World War 2 Memorial Park will be hosting the March Military Expo:

MARCH MILITARY EXPO

DATES:  March 25-March 30, 2012

LOCATION:  WW2 Memorial Park

PURPOSE:  The March Military Expo will feature a Merchants fair, where we are inviting all military, weapons, aviation, and similar merchants of SL to set up a small merchant tent in the WW2 Memorial park area for 5 days.  You will be able to bring your creations and services to a wide variety of people in SL!.  This event is in SL Destinations as a featured SL Destinations event!  To bring even larger crowds, we will hold all of Amelia’s events that week near the military expo.  So guests will have contests, music, live DJs, as well as other contests.  We will promote the event as much as possible, giving you and your business free advertising.

*There will be limited space available for military affiliated groups who wish to exhibit**

Cost:  This expo is free of charge to all approved creators and merchants.

If you are a merchant who is interested in taking part in the Expo, get in touch with Jessii Warhol2009 in world and she still provide you with a signup notecard.

In the mean time why not pop over to the WW2 Park and have a look around.

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Snowpaws

January 26, 2012 by Leave a comment

Snowpaws is an amazing store for new residents, from a price range of free – 280L$. They are very newcomer friendly with 24 Lucky letter boards, 6 Midnight Mania board and 4 Slap & Dash board. The store is modern looking and very open, the decor is minimal and with a beautiful atmosphere to shop. Snowpaws is also involved in many hunts in Second Life.

There aren’t any Mens clothes sadly, but you quickly forget about that when you their music of Pop and R&B distracts you for a second or you see your letter on one of the many prize boards.

Newcomer friendly:  8 out of 10

Music: 8 out of 10

Overall Experience: I got to give this place a big fat 9 out of 10 as this place is super

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Raid the Marketplace: The Bridal Outfits

January 24, 2012 by Leave a comment

While doing research for the Grumble Wedding, I stumbled upon another marketplace store that would be awesome for those who are looking for a wedding or brides maid dress.

CMORE Bridal White - 199L$

CMORE Amelia Pink  - 100L$

The CMORE store is just as awesome and affordable take a look! 

(Special thanks to Lily Stoop and Jensien Danick beautifully for these pictures)

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Smooth Jazz at Bella Vida Jazz Club

January 12, 2012 by Leave a comment

The sounds of the decades are flowing through the walls of this Jazz Club. One thing you have to love about SL is that it is a very musical place. Every where you look you can find, clubs, and pubs that range musically, from classic rock to modern, from blues to hip hop, from classical to jazz all are available in Second Life. We have looked at classic rock, urban and Metal clubs before., but never a Jazz Club. Personally I am a firm lover of Jazz and my first SL Jazz club will forever be Phatcats, but that review will come sometime later. For now lets concentrate on Bella Vida Jazz Club.

Smooth Jazz of the Decades flow through this amazing club, I happen to come to this club on a day that there was a live artists. The fabulous and funny Wytchwhisper Sadofsky, who lit up the stage. When there aren’t any live artists running around being just incredible and making you tap your feet to their tunes, Bella Vida slows down with the sounds of the old favourites, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and new favourites like Norah Jones.

Any good club must have friendly people and Bella Vida is OK in that department. If you are a music lover and want a place with a relaxing atmosphere this is the place for you.

Newcomer Friendly: 5 out of 10

Music: 9 out of 10

Lag: 6 out of 10

Over all experience: 6 out of 10

 

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The Renaissance Hunt – So Far

December 15, 2011 by Leave a comment

Fashion Writer Look Stoop and I went on the new Renaissance Hunt, and got a lot of awesome stuff. Let’s get the review bit of the hunt out-of-the-way.  It was not to hard and not to easy, the right kind of difficulty for a Second Life Hunt. The hunt clues were very clever in some destinations and others seemed as if they didn’t even bother trying to make or hide the hunt gift. There was a maze, which was once again the right amount of difficulty, not too easy not too hard. It was mostly the destinations that intrigued us more than the prizes. The different Renaissance and Medieval themed places amazed us, and peaked my already developed interest in the Medieval culture of Second Life.  Worth doing for the destinations, some gifts are good, others not so great.

For more information on the Renaissance hunt, check out their blog and the hunt will be going on until the 31 December 2011 so get in it while you can!

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It’s Winter Time!

December 11, 2011 by Leave a comment

Christmas Is all about togetherness plus some lovely clothing so here’s two idea’s for the love or maybe just that good friend in your Second Life

First off we have myself Look Stoop in the ”Winter” outfit by BULLET (Blue) this set cost L$75 Includes

Sweater

Jeans

Shoes and cap and look’s really great on

By Bullet

Chipmunk Zhong is warring *B.D.R.* Basics: Baby It’s Cold Outside (Pink) / Winter Promo!

This fab outfit come with A wonderful coat, Jeans, Earmuffs (not shown in our picture) tongue with snowflake, A blush tattoo layer and some fab pink boot’s

By B.D.R.

This outfit cost L$99 and my wonderful wife was over the moon

A big thanks to chippy who stepped in last minuet thank’s sweet love you bunches

Look Stoop

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Back to Basics: Changing Your Avatar in Second Life

December 7, 2011 by Leave a comment

The Different Avatars Choice given to you when you sigh up to SecondLife

Second Life have been as given its users a lot more variety to choose from since its start in 2005. Over the years Second Life Residents can choose from User generated content and their own starter avatars. It very easy to switch between the two. From Vampires, Werewolves avatars, Cars, and the normal human avatar.

So how do you change to these new avatars? It fairly simple actually. In the current Second Life up dated viewer, you have a Sidebar, which is located on the left side of your viewer. It has your avatar choices (as  shown above), outfits options, your inventory where items go when you buy them, the search button where you search for second life content, Places where landmarks are saved when you are given them, your voice settings, and your mini map which is a small that shows you the area on the sim you are in.

While it is important to learn about Search, Places, Voice Settings and Your mini map, that will have to come sometime later. For now it will be the first three buttons we will focus on.

Avatars 

Second Life is filled to the brim with different kinds of avatars, this is part of SL’s creative freedom, you can be anything you want to be here and Linden Labs is showing you this by adding on new avatars that step into the different kinds you can be in this virtual world. Don’t believe me? Check out our Awesome Avatars Section. Think of your avatar as a way of expressing yourself. Whether you want to be a human, a car or a furry, you have the freedom to do so.

Outfits

If you want to change your appearance and you don’t have clothes, you can always use the outfits given you for another avatars. Just right-click on the item and Wear, Add to Current Outfit, or replace Current Outfit. This is automatically add anything you click to your avatar.

To remove items, you can either: Right Click and then click Detach this item. You can also Click the wearing tab, as soon in the picture, this will list every item that you are wearing, to remove them, once again you have to right-click and then detach this item.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Your Inventory

When you start buying items, whether free or not. Anything you receive in second life is placed in your inventory. To wear clothes from your inventory you can double-click the item and it will appear on your avatar.

Nice and simple. Have fun.

If you any questions about Second Life and Avatars, don’t forget to visit the Torch SL Guide Group in world: secondlife:///app/group/c9805496-74de-d093-f3af-5b9dbec426de/about

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The Bottom Line

December 5, 2011 by 2 Comments

The Bottom line is a bargain basement store  on the Seabourne sim. Down there you will find many things from classy dresses to dungeons, all items sold in this store are priced between L$0 to L$99.

They sell period costumes, furniture and school clothing. They also have Neko items such as cages and clothing for adults and children which are  all at a reasonable price. They sell accessories such as hand bags, belts,  ties and bangles

 

They  have a small collection of men’s clothes plus  furniture including writing desks.

The store is a bit dark  and doesn’t seem too welcoming, there is no music on the sim but the overall sim is very lovely. There are two other stores here but for newcomer to SL this is a great place to find bargains and freebies. The store also has maternity department for the expecting mothers of Second Life

 

 

 

Newbie Friendly : 8 out of 10

Music well there wasn’t any on the sim so that a  0 out of 10

Overall Experience: 6 out of 10

 

By: Look Stoop

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I DO Love Finding Random Hunt Gifts

November 25, 2011 by 1 Comment

Since Steam has been doing these hunt item introductions I thought I’d give it a go. Up late at night, after drinking A LOT of coffee and with nothing to do, I decided to go walking around a few of my very favourite Second Life Stores. Although I don’t have any Lindens to spend, ( I know right? Shocker!). I find it a little bit therapeutic to do some virtual window shopping. The idea of doing a hunt didn’t come to me until I spotted the …. sexist looking hunt gift ever.

Outfit items from America Bazaar #15Very Important Hunt

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Alli & Ali Designs: Just Heaven

November 14, 2011 by Leave a comment

Alli & Ali Designs is a name that you will hear a lot in Second Life, they are one of the top hair designers in Second Life and a few months ago the Torch SL Guide had the privilege of Interviewing them:

 

How did Alli&Ali Designs come into existence?

We formed our business in February 2007, and it has evolved since that time.  We started by helping new residents get set up in SL, and set up a small shop with our initial designs.  The small shop eventually grew into a big shop, and is now the business you see today. 

What are the basic aims of Alli&Ali Designs ?  
Our mission is to make products that SL residents will enjoy using in various aspects of their Second Life, whether it be in role play, doing business, clubbing,  parties, events, and more.  We want people to have fun and look great! Our personal interest in this business is, that we want to have fun living out our creative side.

 

A&A Tekesha Hair Fire, (updo with curls)How does Alli&Ali Designs contribute to the newbie population of SL?

We’ve provided free tutorials since 2007 and we provide freebies of our products on a regular basis.  We also provide a safe respectful environment for all customers.  We understand that getting started in SL can be difficult, so we do what we can to ensure that they have a place to start without getting overwhelmed. 

Can you tell us a bit more about the dollarbie deals on your markplace store?

The dollarbies are special offers of our hairstyles in one color. The idea is, that people can try to wear the style in their daily life, for a low price, and if they wish to have other colors, they can buy our regular products at 175 L per color.
Visit their Online Store for fantastic dollarbie sales or go visit their inworld store to see more of their products. Interested in finding out about their upcoming items, check out The Alli&Ali Designs Blog. 

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