a virtual accomplishment...

Not only have I been working on real-life projects, I've been fiddling with creating things in Second Life as well. In this case, pillows. Here my first efforts and let me tell you - it's much easier manipulating fabrics by hand, real hands! After many suggestions from friends in SL asking me when I was going to try to make something, I went for it. There's so much more to learn yet, but up until now it's been exciting, frustrating, and lots of fun when the end result looks like what you had in your head.

It's not the same as creating in real life - nothing can beat that, but hey, at least the braincells are being stimulated in a new way and more importantly, it's inspiring new projects, color-ways and styles for new real life quilts to come...

I'm back!

Phew!

It's been a very long time since I've written!
Where have I been? In Second Life, exploring new worlds, meeting wonderful people, making good friends, and working in this never boring world. One of the first things I did once I figured out how to move forward and backward, is joined a quilting group. A great, creative group of people from all over the world, it's been very inspiring to see their work, and share ideas. After realizing I'd need some money to be able to "live" like many of the residents and have a decent representation in the form of my avatar, I went looking for a job and found it teaching English as a Second language. Come of my colleagues have become good friends with whom exploring SL has been one adventure after the other.

After all this time, I finally feel a bit settled in Second Life, so now I've returned to my passions and projects that have been waiting patiently for my hands...
It's been weeks and weeks since I've really sat down and got to stitching, and I"m missing it. Stayed tuned for some shots of the latest project, a simple tryptic wall hanging in two Kaffe Fassett farbics. Something was needed in the dining room to bring some more color into it, but had to be restful to the eyes. If the sun will shine today - I'll add to the post...

oh, brave new world....

Monkicat Giha


Where have I been? Yes, yet again, I've neglected my blog. Not intentionally, life just threw me a boomerang and I went after it....but its' path brought me back eventually...

So, to answer the question, I've been exploring that strange world called Second Life. Some of you may have heard of it, some of you may have already entered it. I had heard of this Second Life through the media - can't remember exactly but on and off for the past year and a half or so. It went in one ear and out the other. Then one day, while thinking about what to do it popped into my head to go check it out. I did, and so my life took a little turn...and so for the past few weeks I haven't done a stitch, haven't looked at my blog. Second Life is a virtual world, a world created by the residents themselves. Everything one sees, can do, and experiences in Second Life has been created and made possible by a human being like you and me. You start off with a generic avatar, learn a few rudimentary basics to get you started and off you go! Even though I officially started the end of June, I didn't really get into it until quite recently. It was so overwhelming at first! Then with help from total strangers (avatars dressed in black capes, fairy wings, or just in jeans) I began to learn. Now I've made friends from all over the world, laughed until my belly ached, and had serious discussions. I've even joined a wonderful groups of quilters! We recently came together from all over the world for a show and tell of our quilts. Good fun that was!

Now, I have a home, first alone, now sharing a bigger one with a real life friend of mine who lives in France. I, or actually, my avatar was found pretty enough to become a model with a modeling agency. While that's going on, I've been looking for more serious work and am most likely to begin in a week or so, and earn money. Yes it's strange, but Second Life, or SL is much like the real world and even though many call it a game, there's so much happening that is real that I've come to realize that this is bigger than I thought! Oh yes, there are people there with the only goal of picking up someone, or creating havok, but SL is so big, I haven't come across any trouble yet.

I haven't made up my mind about SL yet, but for now, I'm enjoying exploring the brave new world, a world that for better or worse is on the threshold of the way we may live and relate in the future. It may not be through the SL platform, it may be evolve into something else, and although I feel strongly about the importance of relating to each other in the physical world, this may be the direction we are going in whether we want to or not. In the meantime, I'm going to move among the natives, like David Attenborough and observe...learn...ssshhhhhh....!