(This page is a work in progress, please call back again as I may actually finish this some day)
Roxette Wise first rezzed in Second Life™ on January 23rd, 2007. Using a very slow computer Roxette gradually evolved, staggering around the metaverse waiting, sometimes for days, for the grey stuff to rezz.
Roxette at 1 Week
When I think back on just how slow everything was I’m amazed that I struggled on. I think that was because when the greyness finally cleared, SL™ would leave me breathless, it was always worth the wait.
The early days were fun, messing about in appearance mode, trying to get that individual look. Then Roxette discovered Prim hair!
This was a revelation to me after spending endless hours trying to get system hair to look good.
Hair by Calla
Flexi prims has recently been released, and were just starting to find their way into prim hair. My favorite hair creator at that time was Calla and my colour of choice became Mahogany.
Within 2 months I had bought then sold, an estate parcel, then went premium and purchased a 1024 mainland plot, and started building. I soon discovered there was nothing more relaxing than torturing the hell out of prims. The diversity of shapes and the ability to make prims physical, flexi or phantom kept me entertained for hours.
My pride and joy at this time was my garden. I had discovered Hart garden center and Pillow Talk, and was having a great time designing and rearranging the garden every other week.
Winter Garden
During a chance conversation with a neighbor (we discovered our humans were both from N Ireland), I was bemoaning the cost of a dress I had recently purchased from Blaze. I was to wear this dress to a fancy jazz club the following evening, but I got stood up and it was a year later before I actually wore the dammed thing!
I digress, anyhoo, my neighbor’s comment to my moaning was “Why don’t you make your own?”
……… more to follow…
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