You can see some captures from SL and Opensim in the Gallery
hg.osgrid.org:80:Nadejdae

This pic was captured at Belly dance time in AMV grid


Current exhibition is : "Face to face"

... is about the emotion around a face, an attitude, in the fleeting moment, a stolen moment of femininity, this exhibition shows the woman in her feminine states, the faces are subject to effects, depicting time and space, words accompany the images, but they are read and let themselves be carried away by the imagination, yours, it is this imagination that finally registers to speak to you...
I invite you, your sensitivity and your words if you want to share them with me :)

Hi All,

I've decided to leave both OpenSim and Second Life. It's not for some sulky reason, someone offended me or anything like that. I've just decided my life is going in a different direction.

Big hugs to all those who I have come to know over the months or years and hope you all have great virtual lives in OS :)

Thank you for helping us track the notorious and very dangerous PRISCILLA KLEENEX. Here at the special grids investigation center in langley, virginia, we've set up a special team to help find this MOST WANTED criminal! Our computer command center runs non stop 24/7/365 supplying leads to Local Enforcement Officers in the grids to eviscerate this highly obnoxious and extremely mischievous individual. The G.I.S. plans to put an end to this monkey business once and for all! God Bless America!

Ok... just looked through some of the recent front page posts. I've been here in Open Sim for about nine months now.

I have accounts in OSgrid and Kitely.

I'll have to admit a good deal of my wardrobe is possibly copybotted. I'd like to know if anyone is willing to send me a list of LM's showing truly original, OS based stuff (aside from Lunaria), I'd appreciate it. Most of my wardrobe is rigged to the Athena body. I also have a small number of Ruth2 takes. For my male alts (yes, I have a few, using the same names that I established for them in SL), I use Adonis and Roth2.

There was a discussion recently that influenced me to write this post. It's located below the post from Luna Lunaria, #92052. I totally understand creators desiring to be compensated for their creations. I have spent a fair amount of L$ to gather some of my clothes in SL. I wouldn't mind paying a few K$ or O$ for some creations on this side of the metaverse, as I think that's quite fair.

Thansk to anyone that can help me out, I appreciate it. I'd prefer that the links be included publicly (instead of PMing me), so other users can find it easily.

So this post was left on one of my regions and is fairly representative of the mindset original opensim creators will grapple with if they want to sell their products here:

"It looks nice but I like the whole sharing is caring idea. So many places in OS that offer free stuff. Not here, too bad."

I don't blame this shopper at all for wanting to find quality items for free - who doesn't? I was grateful that they visited in the first place and cared enough to leave a comment. It's for that reason that from time to time I do exactly that - offer most of my stuff for free as I did this past OSFest.

No, the ones that make life for opensim creators difficult are those freebie mills continuously churning out stolen content from Second Life and calling it 'sharing', and who aggressively push the idea that merchants in opensim have no right to exist.

As I replied to this user: Sharing is truly caring only if it's the original creator giving it away free, or if they have explicitly given permission to others to do so. And that only works if they don't have to pay for their regions, which is not the case for me.

My region costs average $20 per month per region, and the money I make from sales covers that most of the time. There are months I take a loss with my opensim stores (my Second Life store has never posted a loss in 14 years). But because sales do cover most of my rent I can keep doing what I love: making original content for Opensim.

Paying for regions of course is my choice - I prefer to be on well-run grids that truly respect creators rights. I know that you can easily find quality items for your regions for free all over opensim, so no one is more grateful than me when you choose to purchase at my stores :-)

Just visited SL and looking through the very first jewelry I created. This set is in gold but I brought in the ring, made it silver. It is in the foyer at the store This set had a pendant and earrings, I will work on bringing those in too soon. This was a blast from the past to see this!! continuum.outworldz.net:8002:Monentes Jewelry

I wanted to open this sim next year but cause of some not so good news I open the sim for public right now . Items for every kind of Festive Occasion and more .Perhaps have a look at the boxes, it it might be of interest?:-) . The sim is full of scripted items, all is working so that you can try the items out...

~Ara~Nova~ ein Land geschaffen um den Geschöpfen der Magischen Welt eine neue Heimat zu geben.
Alle sind herzlich willkommen egal ob Elfen ,Feen oder Hobbits oder Trolle, auch Menschen ohne Mystischer herkunft sind gern gesehen . Respektiert euch untereinander und vergesst nie ihr seit auch alle nur Gast bei mir, so seit immer gerne gesehen.
Endeckt das Land mit vielen möglichkeiten, ihr könnt zu den fliegenden Bergen reisen oder schaut euch in den Höhlen auf ~Ara~Nova~ um
Endeckt die vielen kleinen ecken und lasst euch an manchen orten verzaubern.
Damit das Spiel auf ~Ara~Nova~ mehr Spass bereitet ,habe ich ein Elben Shop mit einigen hübschen Kleidungstücken für euch . Folgt einfach dem Teleporter.

Eure Taliya

~Ara~Nova~ created a country to give the creatures of the magical world a new home.
Everyone is welcome, whether elves, fairies or hobbits or trolls, even people without mystical origins are welcome. Respect each other and never forget you're all just my guests, so you're always welcome.
Explore the land with many possibilities, you can travel to the flying mountains or look around the caves on ~Ara~Nova~
Discover the many little corners and let yourself be enchanted in some places.
To make the game on ~Ara~Nova~ more fun, I have an elf shop with some pretty clothes for you. Just follow the teleporter.

Your Taliya

@Shirl Taintedangel keeps creating great .oars to share, Thank you Shirl!! Fred has just put in your drop-down list of Free Outworldz .oars the latest two .oars offered. The Permanent Vacation and Motels and Hotels!! #outworldz #shirl #oars #oar
Outworldz-DreamGrid .oars
Fred Beckhusen designs and creates .oars to share with his Outworldz-Dreamgrid members. The OAR is licensed exclusively for use in DreamWorld Grids. CC-BY-NC, Outworldz, LLC.

Just a touchy-feely ... a friend of mine wanted to know about an online witch-coven, I would consider building it, to help her out.... just want an opensim feedback first... please leave your comments

The company buying Trump's social network Truth Social warned investors about Trump's history of bankruptcy and failed business ventures. If anyone plans to "solve world poverty" by selling regions for AviTron, you should warn potential buyers too.

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