Home and Garden Shopping: Part One

 

By Gemma Cleanslate & Bixyl Shuftan

 It has been a wonderful experience roaming the Home and Garden grounds and shops. There is so many lovely items for the home and all I do is think, “How many prims?” and pass on by.

However I found a shop that has some lovely art pieces. Michiel Bechir has beautiful landscapes from various SL regions and other aspects of Second Life that attract anyone interested in collecting. His vendor offering is a subtle photo of a photographer getting ready to snap that picture.

I love the setup there where he has a photo of himself as photographer taking photos with an antique camera. Drop by and enjoy. http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hope%202/38/63/23

Gemma Cleanslate

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There's plenty to shop for at the RFL Home and Garden. Among the things you can get is artwork, which Gemma found. But there's much more. At Terry Wardark's Warhorse store, I found a pottery fountain. 

The water flows from the jar on the top to three brass bowls, each pouring water to what's below it, in the case of the bottom one to the fountain base. The water is continually in motion, and you can hear the sounds of it pouring. In real life, this would be accomplished by a small pump moving water from the basin up to the jar.

The pottery fountain costs 450 Linden dollars, with 100% going to the Relay for Life, and has a land impact of 7.

You can find the Warhorse store at. Hope 2/(11/121/25). 

Stay tuned for more examples of items.
 
Bixyl Shuftan
 

The 2020 Relay Season Kickoff

By Bixyl Shuftan
Some pictures from Gemma Cleanslate

The largest fundraiser in Second Life is the Relay for Life. Started in 1985, the leading charity for the American Cancer Society has numerous chapters not only across the United States, but around the world. The Relay for Life in Second Life ranks as one of it's largest, one year ranking 17th in size. Starting in 2014, the Relay has held fundraising seasons inworld every year. This year's theme: "Game on Cancer!"

Just a couple days before the Kickoff, the Home and Garden Expo started.

There were several sims with shops, and places to look around.

The Kickoff took place on Saturday February 15 at 10AM SL time. With so many Relayers, it would be not in one sim, but two. The main location was at the Hope 1 sim, at the Home and Garden Expo.

There was also another location at the Bellissaria fairgrounds.

Gemma Cleanslate was there and took a few pictures.

Including of when Stingray Rainmaker showed up.

There were avatars of all kinds, including a giant fox.

The Committee was on stage, some rezzing more properly on my viewer than others.

There were numerous words of encouragement from the Committee, with videogame music tribute melodies in the background from Mario Land to Tetris, and others.

 Following the Kickoff, there was a "Family Feud" game. This one pitted Moles against some noted Relayers.

While I was there, the Relayers were ahead, but the Moles were putting up a  fight.

Two other photographers would take a number of screenshots that day. They were Ishtarkiss (link), and Wildstar Beaumont (link).

Stay tuned for more pictures of Relay events.