From May 9th through to May 13th, 2021, to celebrate the popular womenswear store’s ninth anniversary, Blueberry is offering L$500 in free store credit to all Blueberry group members! Just look for the attachment in the group notices, open it, and click on it to automatically get your L$500 credit. The store credit must be used within two weeks. (If you are not already a member of the Blueberry store group, it costs only L$20 to join.)
In addition, Blueberry is having a 50% off sale, but only from May 9th to 13th. It’s the perfect time to use that store credit, since it will go twice as far! Happy freebie shopping!
I still derive a great deal of personal satisfaction from styling a Second Life avatar as inexpensively as possible, but still looking like I spent thousands of Linden dollars! Here is what I was able to create today, using as my starting point a wonderful free skin I found at the COCOAMATRIX store, called Avril:
This avatar stands out in any crowd! She is wearing:
Head: Genus Strong Face (a free gift head from the Genus Project; includes the mesh eyes shown)
Body: Atenea body by LUCYBODY (a free Midnight Mania gift, more information here; requires a L$197 Bakes on Mesh applier to wear BoM skins)
Skin: Avril from COCOAMATRIX (this striking bronzed skin is a free group gift; the COCOAMATRIX group is free to join)
Hair: Raphael hair by Sintiklia (a free gift from their gift wall)
Outfit: Shey by Scandalize (the top and leggings are both free group gifts from the Scandalize Outlet store; more information here)
Pumps: Wales pumps by Essenz (I joined the Essenz group when they had a free group join period, and a fatpack of these versatile pumps were a recent group gift)
TOTAL COST OF THIS AVATAR LOOK: Only L$197! If this isn’t proof that you can pull together a polished look in SL for next to nothing, I don’t know what is.
Today, we are thrilled to share that Clubhouse for Android will start rolling out in beta immediately. We will begin gradually, with the U.S. today, followed by other English-speaking countries and then the rest of the world. Our plan over the next few weeks is to collect feedback from the community, fix any issues we see and work to add a few final features like payments and club creation before rolling it out more broadly. If you are an Android user, you can download Clubhouse for Android and sign up now to be alerted once it’s available in your area, and read the FAQ here.
If you’re intrigued and want to check it out for yourself, I do have 200 invitations for two clubs that I have created, which will allow you to join Clubhouse and join that particular club. It sounds as though Canada will very shortly follow the United States in allowing Android users in!
Did you know that you can help support my work on this blog (as well as the Metaverse Newscast show), and get some great rewards in return? Here’s how.
Manitoba has now entered its third lockdown due to COVID-19, and I must confess that I am spending more time than usual in my virtual haven of Second Life, avoiding messy, painful, chaotic reality. I hang out at Frank’s Jazz Place and Bray’s Blues club, and I go shopping, I put on my random teleporter backpack and go exploring. I style my small army of alts from head to toe as inexpensively as possible. I write blog posts about the freebies and bargains that I find. I endlessly feed Second Life selfies into WOMBO and Reface, and chortle at the results. It all helps keep me occupied and away from the worries and concerns of the real world. It soothes me.
In fact, I will go so far as to say that we have now entered the golden age of freebies in Second Life. It is now possible to outfit yourself with a completely mesh avatar and a wonderful wardrobe, tons of hair and footwear, all for nothing or next to nothing if you know where to look. And it has been my privilege to be your guide and share my knowledge with you. In fact, with the launch of my new SL group, I now proudly call myself a professional freebie fashionista! 😉
I find it interesting that when times get tough, I find myself going back to Second Life, especially when there are so many other social VR platforms and virtual worlds that I could explore instead. It really is a testament to the vision of founding CEO Philip Rosedale and his team, who have built a platform which is still vibrant and successful and enticing at the ripe old age of 18. Many of the newer platforms in the metaverse marketplace would kill to have the kind of success that SL has had.
So I would like to raise a toast to Second Life! May it last for many more years, and confound those who decry the platform and predict its imminent demise.
