Twisting Around

Three new things out at Oddment [SLURL]

Fairy cages! Both large and small, on hooks or chain alone for hanging from your trees/bridges/etc. The large cage has a pose (made by me!) for displaying your captured fairies.


Also: voodoo dolls to wear on your shoulder (name them after whoever you feel like sticking pins in this week!), and it's Twisted Krissmuss! Come down and purchase a transfer Santa Lucia crown with posing candle (comes in a pretty red and green gift box).




Available at the Oddment main store [SLURL] and the Shopatorium [SLURL]

The Shopatorium @ Gallinas is having a week-long post-Thanksgiving Turkey Trot hunt, running from November 30 to December 6. Oddment has two BRAND NEW items to find. A new one prim field of poinsettias, and a silly unisex top hat with a snowman on top--who is wearing another, TINER top hat with another, TINIER snowman on top:


You're looking for whole turkeys, and turkey legs. Many other cool shops @ the Shoppa are participating, so come down and hunt!

Also, two new wintery/holiday items up for sale at the shop. A wintery tree with touch toggle falling stars, and a set of holiday lights--copy, so you can decorate your entire ginormous mansion!


Available at the Oddment main store [SLURL] and the Shopatorium [SLURL]

Three new one prim fields of wintery white flowers available at Oddment (click pictures for larger):




I've also revamped the shop and put in 7seas fishing! I just put it in, so no customs yet, but I am working on some I think will be lots of fun. There's also a roof garden, and a snowy area with all the new flowers on display. Come on down and check it out. [SLURL].

I've also moved my satellite shop at the Shopatorium to a corner shop right next to the Patio live music venue. I think it's really cute. Come on over and hear some music and shop around! [SLURL]

AND Oddment is in the grid-wide Peace on Earth hunt which starts December 1st. I did this hunt as a hunter last year before Oddment was even born, and had a great time. So I am very glad to be able to participate as a merchant this year.

My prize is a Christmas box-- a diorama-style box with a wintery scene inside. Falling particle snow, a texture-change on touch Christmas tree, and a static couple pose for taking photos. Touch the snowman to get a candle to hold in the poses!

Two things out at the store today.

Christmas trees: four prims, color and texture change on touch, with a particle star. Mod so they are resizable, and copy so you can rez as many as you want.



Poppies: one prim field, copy/mod.



Here's a couple of the poppy fields rezzed out:



Oddment main store [SLURL] Oddment at the Shopatorium [SLURL] on Xstreet.

I spent some time experimenting with one prim flower fields, and have two in release today:



Both are modify, and can be resized from 10x10m down, and are copy, so rez a whole meadow! 100L each.

I've also made a couple of boxy things to sit on:



The chair has three animated sits, and the ottoman has one nice animated kneel. Color change on touch, with seven jewel tones to choose from. Change the cushion and base separately. Both are copy/mod, no trans. Chair: 150L, Ottoman: 75L, or both for 200L.

And two freebies on the 1L or less wall at the main store location (on the third floor):



The second freebie is a Sperm Gun, which shoots uh. Sperm. Not shown to protect delicate sensibilities. *coughs in a ladylike manner* You'll just have to go to the shop to see!

Oddment main store [SLURL] Most stuff also on Xstreet.

Two sets for Halloween:

A set of jack-o-lanterns I made for Rosie and are now available for you! And also a sugar skull set that you can get for FREE from the lucky board at my main store (or you can just buy them if you don't wanna wait for your letter to come up). The lucky board is on the second floor.





Oddment main store [SLURL]

The big news first: Oddment is moving! I was land-hopping around last week and found a spot I just kept going back to. And... I bought it. It's a really pretty plot on the Linden road (and waterway!). I've put up a new store build, along with some new items for sale. Please do go and check it out! (And if you go exploring along the road, it's very near a cool underwater tunnel.)

Oddment new main store location

I haven't moved the lucky boards yet, or closed the Low Dryston location, as I am waiting till the end of the Twisted Hunt. Which happens to be tomorrow night! If you haven't gone by to get the Twisted items, I've made the box REALLY BIG and obvious. Heh. Go get the stuff, 'cos after tomorrow, it goes on sale.

And, I've got some new things out at the new store:







They are out at the new store, and also my Shopatorium location (I've moved to a smaller shop there: straight back from the rez point, near the Patio live music venue!).

I made a little tattoo commemorating my recent surgery. "Surgery Stars" shows where the five new holes in my body are located.

Get it for free in my subscrib-o-matic in my shop inworld. Touch the sign to subscribe, then touch it again to see the 'history' options and get the tat.

AKA, groggy, percocet-fueled ramblings on what I did for Labor Day weekend.


So on Thursday, I went to the doctor for some severe back pain. They ran some tests, got that concerned look on their faces, prodded at my back and tummy, then pumped me full of dilaudid and sent me up to have my innards looked at with the ultrasound.

An hour or two later, they admitted me for surgery.

I was groggy, and confused, and in pain, and had a million thoughts running through my head. One of which was, who's gonna tell my fake pixel friends? I had my cell phone, but it's a dinosaur--can only text, and barely that. I've never been dissatisfied with it, 'cos I've never needed more than a plain phone that can just make and receive calls.

I texted a friend and went into surgery (they removed my gallbladder, which I didn't even know was unhappy with me, but the surgeon said was 'as hot as she's ever seen without bursting').

I came home then next evening and did what any modern girl would do, I checked my email. I had messages and private plurks and offline IMs up the wazoo.

And the next day, I received flowers. Two real arrangements from two pixel friends. I am right now looking at huge sunflowers from a pixel friend I never ever thought to cross such a line with. Real, tangible flowers from a real, physical person behind the pixels.



It's overwhelming. Still.

People who know me online know that I guard my privacy religiously. I don't like sharing more than is minimally necessary.

But this... these few moments of real lives touching... it's incredibly moving.

Oddment is participating in the Twisted Hunt [starting SLURL] again, and has two prizes in the little spinny box. The hunt starts tomorrow! (Oddment is number 104, so stick it out, peeps.)

A unisex tattoo:


And a batty little tree with touch toggle bat particles:


There's also a mini-hunt starting tomorrow at the Shopatorium (where Oddment has an outlet). Look in and around the shops for apples! Oddment has three apples hidden!

I added a second luckyboard, just 'cos. And the prize is a Ratticorn lounge! Exclusive to the board, you have to win it to get it.



Both boards are set on a five minute turnover, so your chances are good!



At Oddment.

I've added a luckyboard to Oddment's main location. The first prize is a 26 prim egg-plant.

I'd made the plant, and then I was talking with a certain chicken-crazed friend (who shall remain nameless) and decided to make it extra special. Touch each egg and it gives out a sionChicken toy shaped like that egg. Pretty and fun!

The board is set on 5 minutes, so people should have a good chance of winning.



Also a set of hanging starlights for your ceiling.

So I made an avatar for a near and dear dork. And said dork then insisted I put it up for sale. So here goes. If you're on plurk, you will get it right away. I threw in some goofy freebie dances for extra dorkiness.



In action:


Buy it @ Oddment or on xstreet.

"Wear your heart on your sleeve" arm cuff available at Oddment or on xstreet.

I am dipping my toes into the subscrib-o-matic pool. It doesn't take up a group slot, and it's free up to 500 subscribers.

So hightail it down to my main store location [SLURL] and join up! As a welcoming gift, you get a pair of spirally Seuss-ish wings, like these:

I made three kinds of particle flower emitters. One prim each, touch to start/stop the particles.





Find them inworld at my shop, Oddment or on Xstreet.

This post is late, I know.

So it was my dear, dear friend Boni's rez day the other day. Her first. And mine is coming up. I can honestly say I would not be here, in SL, as Helix, doing any of the things I am doing, if it were not for Bonibaru. I came inworld on a whim, inspired by one of her posts. And I definitely stayed because she forced me to go out and--GASP!--meet people.

Sometimes I don't know whether to thank her or curse her for that. Haha.

I've been sort of questioning my SL for the past few weeks or so. Doing a lot of overthinky navel gazing. To use one of my favorite words, indulging in omphaloskepsis. Wondering if a year in fakepixelfairyland was enough. Should I--and I'ma flash my nerd cred here--pull a Bilbo and just walk away, down that road, on my rez day? Could I, even if I wanted to?

I don't know. I do know that Bonibaru is a bright presence in my life, real or second. I made her a giant human egg surrounded by sperm that you wear on your head for her rez day. She's the only person I know who a) when I thought of it, I KNEW would love it and b) would actually wear it.

Here it is, modeled by moi:


She makes me laugh, makes me go out and INTERACT with PEOPLE, makes me explore new places (with amorous velociraptors, no less), she encouraged me to no end when I opened my store, and is just all around fun to hang with.

We'd been tangentially acquainted/at least vaguely aware each other existed since around 2003. But it was in SL that we really became friends. And for that, I am profoundly grateful.

Made some treeeees. They are bright and cheery and happy, and not at all realistic.

First, there's a freebie tree out for the 4th of July!


Boom! Red, white, and blue fireworks tree. Buy it for 0L in either of my shop locations: Main store or @ the Shopatorium in Gallinas.

Other colors are:

Candy


Graaape


Tang


and Sugar.


Available inworld at both store locations, or on xstreet. A fatpack is also available! Note that I've set the 4th of July freebie for 1L on xstreet, for easier gifting. But it is available for 0L inworld.

News news news! First, I rented a new shop location. So in addition to my regular place, I have a shop in the Shopatorium at Gallinas! Lots of cool shops there, and it's right on the Linden road--I LOVE Linden road!

Next, I've made a.... um, mustache ride?

Seats four, spins when you touch the pole. And you can only get it if you donate to the tiermeter at the Lounge of Dreams nightclub in June!

Two dapper new hats:





And a dress! With sculpted skirt:



Get them on Xstreet, or inworld at my shop: Oddment.