Time Flies When You Are Having FUN!

It just slipped by. Quietly,  with no fanfare... the 1 year anniversary of my sim Mooville. It was a year ago on June 19th, exactly 6 months to the day that I first visited InWorldz when I decided to invest in it by buying a sim.
It wasn't an easy decision to purchase a sim, not because of my distrust of the future of Inworldz, quite the contrary . Financial  constraints of supporting a dying venture  in SL  gobbled up all of my virtual budget. I believed from my first days when Ele and Legion patiently  helped me get John and his Mac into the world and always had time to help me figure out how to repair my mistakes, that I would own a sim in IW. When I finally let go of the Steelheart dream, I was then able to start fresh , to build my dream in InWorldz.

 

Mooville's first year has been an interesting and exciting one. I am still amazed that I could, as a fledgling builder in SL could work on an empty flat piece of land bordering the InWorldz Straits and shape prims into  a little waterfront village that it has become Mooville.

After one whole  year, Mooville (and my dream) is still alive! Honestly, besides a few loyal shoppers (you know who you are and THANK YOU for your support!) , there are few visitors to Mooville. No one besides me( and John) hangs out there. It was my hope that it would be a kind of gathering place.

It isn't, not yet... but maybe it is because almost everyone who is on line a lot already has their own land to hang out on....Or maybe it is because I am reluctant to advertise and try to get folks to come see what is there. I don't know.  . It's ok though, Mooville is mine ...built by me and I am happy that I have managed to make almost everything in it in a year. While it may not be everyone's cup of tea., it is  mine, and I am proud of what I have done. I couldn't have done this in Second Life.Maybe things will be different when we have more people, when the "civilians " arrive in InWorldz.

In the meantime, because InWorldz is so affordable, I can just continue to be creative , learning new things and building quirky little things. Who knows what the next year will bring?

A little bit of quirky

Mooville Spooky Yaga Skybox

A while back, someone described me on her blog  me as quirky. At first I was a bit offended . Quirky? Quirky? What the hell is that?... weird?.... strange?... bizarre? I took her comment it to be something negative.I was reminded of this earlier this week when a friend of mine from Germany  told me that someone had called her quirky and she had to look up the word to find out what it meant. What she told me made me rethink. She was flattered that she was called  quirky. She has always considered herself to be out of the mainstream and very creative. We talked about it and I feel much better about being quirky. I have always been like this. As a small child I suffered from severe allergies and spent my summers in the library reading about all kinds of things,  daydreaming about far off places or at home doing some kind of arts and crafts. I like having a very small circle of friends and a large group of acquaintances to hang out with from time to time. I'm kind of like a bee (bee) going from group to group , visiting .....gathering all kinds of tidbits. Currently, I have what seems like a million projects planned or in the works. Who knows which way my  quirkiness will take me. I like being creative and being a wacky-doodle as my kids like to call  my sense of style.You are welcome to visit me in Mooville (Soda Springs , InWorldz) to see what is up.   While you are there, check out  Spooky Yaga Skybox , my Prim-o-Sketch and the new and improved canned Whoopass. :-)