After a month of planning and building and revising and biting my nails and swearing and cheering, tomorrow is the day I start moving the new Winterfell build down to the ground level. I decided to build it up at 650m to give myself time and privacy to really work out what I wanted the new area to look like. And not disrupt the venders or visitors, which I think I did despite my best intentions.

Starting tomorrow night at around 8pm SLT I will start returning the old shops, taking what I can of the build into my inventory and doing the first round of terraforming in preparation for the new build to be moved down.

I figure that will take about an hour to two hours (with the normal interruptions that SL and RL provide), after that I will cross my fingers and carefully lower the new building down into place and do another round of terraforming. It shouldn’t be too hard; I have it linked up into about 8 pieces… OH, maybe I will rezfoo it tonight!! Great idea Serra… LOL!!

If I can get the new build into a rezfoo tonight, the instillation shouldn’t take long at all, hour tops with the extra tweaking of the land. Then I will bring all the merchants shops down that I can and IM the ones I can’t or don’t have a new shop set up. Hopefully there are a good number of merchants online and I won’t have to get nasty about getting set up in time for the opening party on Saturday.

Then comes the art and furniture and then finally I will move down the trees and install the secret, which will take a good deal of terraforming, but hopefully if I do it right throughout the process of getting things down from 650, it wont be much work at all.

I will be doing things slowly and carefully, but I hope I am over estimating the time it will take to move everything down. I would like to spend the rest of the night and following morning shopping and building some more furniture… and setting up my own store. Yes, you read right! I will have a store in my own sim FINALLY! Took me long enough don’t you think?

Feel free to come and gawk at me while I do the move!

Much love and kisses!
Miss Serra

Threik Wilkinson in SL - Keith R. Ainsworth in RL - reads from his book of poetry The Courage of Intimacy. Life, death and the relationships we forge between: The Courage of Intimacy is a collection of modern poetry exploring the fundamental human need to connect with others.

3:30pm to 4:30pm SLT
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... and you have the waterways which must be kept open to sailing, and you want some land to be open to wandering visitors, but you would like to keep them out of your private areas… visitors falling in love with the area for its beauty and charm and then hopefully wanting to move in, is what will keep Winterfell flourishing and vital.

How can you make it easy for visitors to know where they can and where they shouldn’t wander?

EASY!

All islands should have parcel divide enabled, so you can do some snazzy land management to let visitors know where they are welcome to explore in a few easy steps:

Step one: Name your sim something neato like “Sea of Rosy Sunsets – Open for sailing” or what ever suits your fancy!

Step two: Cut a parcel around the land mass of your island and name it something like “Land of Hippo – Open to Public” or what ever is appropriate.

Step three: Cut a parcel around your home or just a section of your home and name it something like “Marshmallow Manor – Open by Invite Only” again, what ever suites you and your home.

Step four: This is for the people who really want to be left alone! You can then add a security syetem on the section of land you want to be fully private. I HIGHLY recommend you to use “Star Security“ It has a nice particle test system, so you can press a button and see spheres of particles to show you the height and width etc of area it will scan, boot range, etc. It is also low lag and the particle setup really helps you understand what you are protecting.

Security notes: I request that you only protect as much of your building and land as you need to be comfortable, and no higher than 30 meters high. Give AT LEAST 30 seconds of warning time, lag and other SL issues can delay visitor’s ability to comply with your security settings and boot them home and cause the hapless visitor to get a sour feeling about Winterfell. If you protect a specific room in your house, and it is a reasonable size area that you have given plenty of warning with the other land parcel names and settings, and if you are careful with the security radius settings, you do not need to offer people any warning time at all.

I hope this helps everyone, and I do hope I didn't add any confusion, but as always... respond here if you have concerns or comments.

Much Love
Miss Serra

I finally gave into my itchy building finger and have started a rebuild of the village and palace in the heart of Winterfell. Because this its been eight whole months since I did any revamping and I feel this build is a bit more special than anything else I have done, I will be having a huge reopening party!

Music and entertainment provided by Gabrielle Riel of Radio Riel.

Prizes and trivia and other nonsense provided by little ol' me and my W.I.C.K.E.D.team.

Please stop by August 23rd 2pm - 4pm SLT and help me bless the new village and palace with good cheer!