In the beginning...

So I'm what you would most likely call a newbie at Second Life. I've only just started SL in the last week, but within a day, I was hooked. Not only am I having a great time exploring, but I very quickly got bitten by the creativity bug - I was itching to start making my own stuff and share it (read: sell it and make some money). I started this blog to talk about things I've created, discovered, loved, hated, and pretty much anything else that relates to SL.

Within a day I starting trying to build things. Of course, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, so ended up visiting the Ivory Tower Library in the hopes of understanding what in the world a "prim" was. After a quick tour, I ran back to the sandbox to play around a bit, and came up with my first object: a wooden box. I know, anybody can make a box, but I was proud of it. I did at least try to make it somewhat original, with a slanted lid across the top.


The second object I made was another simple one: a gift bag. Not spectacular, not visually appealing, but it was a learning thing. This was right around the time I decided, "Hey, let's try some clothes and see what happens!"

This time I was semi-intelligent and looked for help before starting. I found Mermaid Diaries, which has some excellent tutorials (and loads of amazing stuff to buy in SL), and actually took the time to read some of them. The result? Not as good as I was hoping, but better than I was expecting.


Quite a bit of clean-up is needed on this shirt, but maybe if I can fix it up, it's something I can eventually sell. This is assuming I am able to open a shop, of course, something I'd like to do someday in the not too horribly distant future.

So not much exciting for my first post here, but hey, gotta start somewhere, right?