Doorstep Bargains for March

Well one thing never changes.... I am a terrible blogger.... I never was that great at writing a diary either! But I am excited about a new Second Life sales group. The Doorstep Bargains group is a monthly sale that runs the last week of the month and will feature new or popular merchandise from Home and Garden Merchants. Oh! and only 55L! Hard to beat those prices. You can always check their blog to see what the coming month will bring! Above is the offering from Hearth & Home for March The sale has started and will run through the 28th of March.   http://thecookiejarcommunity.wordpress.com/doorstep-bargain-event/

It is interesting... when I first started building in Second Life, it was to build something pretty with the least amount of primatives or now (land impact). I have noticed sooo many people build home and garden items with so many prims! It is hard to think about making something to set on a table that is 25 prim! But I suppose I'll do some things... it will just be a bad habit to break! :)

If You Can't Say Something Nice

What an inspiring way for my year to start! A lovely lady decided to send me a note today telling me that everything I make is "bad, bad quality" and over priced that only a noob would buy it. Now after spending the last 4 days trying to rebuild my store... this is quite the bit of encouragement that I was needing!

To be fair I had realized that a lot of pieces were out of date, seriously, I was looking at some of my very 1st fireplaces, and yeah, they look a bit dated... some even still had some poseballs on them! Some I didn't even bother to put back into the new store. So she is right in her assessment of some of my pieces - I will give her that much. I have been doing this since 2007 so yeah, the times are changing and many pieces probably do need to be retired. (*note to self* be sure and update marketplace once you finish building all those free items for hunts).

I just felt the need to remind people that they probably should mind their own business. There are people with feelings behind these avatars. She doesn't know what I have experienced in my RL over the last year. She doesn't know that I'm a single mom that works full time to support her family. That I had seriously considered leaving SL over the last 6 months. That last spring I spent most of my free time trying to learn Blender so that I could better create my designs because I had been feeling inadequate. That my world recently changed to the extent that might not have RL work in a few months. It was a lot to deal with, and I took a few days from work to de-stress, and promptly lost myself in my shop re-building.. enjoying the building like I hadn't done in several years. I was excited to come home today and try and finish up the work and reopen the shop.

So to log on today and get her note... I suppose I should be grateful that I didn't find that 2 weeks ago when I learned of my company's buy out. I was feeling inadequate in RL with my work position and NOW I learn how inadequate I am in SL as well.  But the week long rest helped me to accept her note and to even agree with her (on some items). If I had received her note then in the fragile condition I was in at that time.... I don't know what my response would have been.

But today, I feel energized, and happy, (I even wore my Wonder Woman bracelets to work). I don't know why this woman felt the need to give me unsolicited advice on how I run my business and design things. I will accept her critique in the manner I "hope" she gave it. But I still think Thumper's dad had the best advice... "If you can't say something nice.... don't say nothing at all."