Achievement Unlocked: First Second Life Tee!!

So today I set out to figure out how exactly do you make clothes on Second Life. I went through countless tutorials and asked my good friends a bunch of newbie questions. I decided to start out simple and not try and tackle mesh texturing just yet. Most tutorials I read linked back to one tutorial/template: Robin Wood. Sure its a pretty simple design, but its a great way to start. If you know Photoshop, its pretty straight forward.

 

My first design is for a quidditch uniform shirt for the Havendale Ravens. If you have a quidditch team and would like some tees for your team, make sure to register your team at Havendale!

Havendale Village Quidditch Match 4/27/2013

Thank you to all the Quidditch players!!

We had quite the match over at Havendale Village on Saturday. It was a three-on-three match. The match was set-up a bit different than a usually quidditch match; this match was an all chasers match with a 30 min. time limit. There was a clear winner in the match. The “skins” team dominated the field with a final score of 300 to 130. Sadly I was on the other team, but in the end it was just fun to play. Congrats team “Skins” (Jadz, Proxi, & Fabian) on your win!

If you are interested in registering your team to play in Havendale, please fill out the form and drop it into the dropbox. Forms and dropboxes can be found in the town square, welcome center and the quidditch shop.

       

Quidditch for Charity

Quidditch for Charity

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. Havendale Village is hosting a Quidditch match on Saturday, April 27 at 2:00 pmslt. Havendale will be highlighting different organizations that help fight against child abuse and show you different ways to donate toward child abuse prevention. Please note that NO ONE in second life will be taking donations for these organizations. We will provide links and ways to donate to these organizations DIRECTLY.

If you are interested in playing in the quidditch match, please contact me, Leeloo Mill.

I Open at the Close….A Reflection on World of Hogwarts

I Open At The Close….A Reflection on World of Hogwarts

It didn’t hit me until I collected my last prim on the sim. It was a lone banner at the far end of Diagon Alley. We all know the corner; right next to Gringotts Bank. As I walked the long path of Diagon Alley to retrieve the spring banner, the reality of it all was dawning on me. Sure I could of used my cam, to quick zoom over to the prim and collect it, but walking the alley and seeing  empty shop after empty shop; the closing of a chapter of my life was upon me. Not just my second life, but my life.

For the longest time, World of Hogwarts was my home in Second Life. Sure, I would take breaks from Second Life. But every time I returned, it was always there. I was a part of pretty much every Harry Potter sim that came before it, but I felt the most at home at World of Hogwarts. The memories, the people, the countless times I would tell my non-second life friends that I was “busy with other plans” and couldn’t hang out with them, but really it was because of a quidditch match or Leaky Party. Many have been in that situation and many are in  this situation now.

This reflection doesn’t speak for everyone’s options, but this is mine.

Looking back on it now, the closing of World of Hogwarts has been written for a while now and for the longest time I tried to fight it. For months, I didn’t want to see it. I turned the blame onto anyone or anything else other than the truth.

Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

When I returned to World of Hogwarts, I expected to be exactly how I left it months and months ago. Like returning home from college, your room may look the same, but you’ve changed and your parents have changed during your absence. Looking back on it now, it was unfair of me to expect the same World of Hogwarts when I returned. It was like there was a golden halo around my memories of WOH. There was so much fun and laughter during those times. I’m not saying all of my memories upon returning were awful. I met even more good friends at WOH this time around and met my old ones again as well.  But still, my memories of the past were clouding my judgement of the sim today.

Everything has an ending. Nothing lasts forever.

I didn’t want to believe it would end. Seeing the spirit of the members at the end made me truly believe it was a new beginning for WOH. As the bitter truth tried to shine through the walls of false hope, I grew angry. Why aren’t we doing more? We need change! Do SOMETHING!  We must do everything to hold back the truth!

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.- Buddha

The truth was World of Hogwarts was coming to an end. Some of my best friends were no longer at World of Hogwarts. I grew bitter at the one place I called home.  Whenever I went back to visit, it was quite as a tomb.  A sign of the end.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.- Buddha

 I met some of the greatest people in Second Life at World of Hogwarts. So many that it would take hours to name them all here. Each one of them made World of Hogwarts. It wasn’t the prims on the sim that kept us all there, it was the people. Keep connected. The sim may be closed, but the bonds live on. I will keep the WOH facebook pages open, for anyone wanting to make announcements or WOH meetups.

There are still some that still fight to keep the old World of Hogwarts alive, I say to you:

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”- Buddha 

We can not dwell on what could of been, or what should of happen with World of Hogwarts. We remember the great moments of World of Hogwarts and respectfully close it. Now we see where our journeys in Second Life takes us. If you still wish WOH was around, then start another. It won’t be the same World of Hogwarts, but it doesn’t have to be. You can start small. Even if it’s a tiny corner of a sim, I’ll stop by and RP with ya. 

 

I am starting this blog to document my new experiences in Second Life and starting my new home. I am using this time to try new things in second life like starting a shop and photography business. 

 

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.- Buddha