La Galleria EXCLUSIVE Mesh Library

The La Galleria library set includes two copper leather wingchairs with reading animations (and book to read), octagonal pedestal table, marble fireplace,  mahogany bookcase, lamp, and everything else in the picture!  

The chairs go with just about everything and can easily be tinted a darker color.  Everything in the room is sold separately as well as in a discounted boxed set.

All mesh and only 43 prims total!

Come by the landing point at La Galleria to pick up the FREE marquetry box and open book pictured above. 

EXCLUSIVE LA GALLERIA MESH BEDROOM

You will not see this content anywhere else, because it is all original La Galleria content (not made from a full perm kit)!

The mesh linens now include a sleeping bedspread position with two sleeping sits in the pillows!  Both the linens and bed frame can be bought separately.

Includes extras like fireplace, armoire, scarf tables, ginger jar lamps, rose print pictures and more! Only 73 prims!

 

Pale amber marble fireplace.  Touch to turn on/off

Gold and peach bedside table with ginger jar lamp.

Mesh Armoire

See it on the Marketplace HERE!

Christmas!

Placing My Bet

It has poisoned everything. Everything I see, even everything I dream.  I feels like I have a stone in my chest.  No appetite.

I remind myself that a lot worse things could happen. It's just a job, after all, not a life. But when your job requires creativity, you really need to feel some creativity, and for the time being, I don't. At all. 

"Oh then you don't love creating just for the sake of creating." the copy leftists will say. "You are just greedy!"

Imagine that you have a garden -- you had to dig up rocks and bring in a load of soil and build frames for it -- and you plant the seeds and fertilize using your homemade compost and you water and you weed and you pick off the bugs. All fun! 

Then comes time for harvest, and you look forward to feeding your family the delicious food you have grown.  And then your neighbor comes in with a wheelbarrow and cleans you out. Not only that but he dumps all the harvest into a big fire and burns it up.

How motivated would you be to plant another seed?

(Yes, I know, the analogy is not perfect -- no analogy is. Maybe the neighbor just takes half. Whatever.

Or change it to cooking a big Christmas dinner for your family -- assuming you enjoy cooking for your family -- the list making, the shopping, the chopping, the cooking.)  

I create not just for myself, but for my family, and for my customers, many of whom have become friends. It is not about me creating things in a vacuum for fun and never has been.

I just don't feel like finishing this kitchen I am in the middle of working on when I know that as soon as I am done with it, someone will come along and take it and pass it around as a freebie. I do enjoy making freebies for my customers -- but I want to decide what to give and whom to give to. It is hard to imagine at the moment wanting to spend weeks making something for someone else to copy and give as a freebie at the same time I have it up for sale.

I know other creators, some of them among the best in Second Life, who got tired of swimming against the tide. They got tired of preparing and faxing DMCAs. They stopped creating. Some left Second Life. Quietly, because there was no fight left in them. 

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But there is one hope, and only one: The honest people in Second Life, who will delete any stolen content delivered to them rather than passing it along, and will support creators whose content they enjoy using.  They are the one and only defense against those who want to destroy Second Life completely.

Together, creators and honest customers keep Second Life alive, because they are investing either  work or money or both into it.  Together they keep SL living and vibrant with creativity while the copiers try to drain it of its creative lifeblood. The copiers are the cancer of Second Life.

And writing those words, I come to a decision: I am placing my bet on those who support life and creativity.  

The end of a miracle?

A little over three years ago, I found myself in a difficult situation.  My mother had fallen down a flight of stairs and shattered her arm, so we moved her to our town where we could look after her -- "we" being my disabled husband and I.  As a teacher, I had the summer off to move her and get her settled -- but as the new school year approached, I wondered how I could go off to school each day and leave only my husband to look after my mother. Sometimes he was up to it, but sometimes he was not.

So I took a big risk and resigned my position and began creating and running my store full time. And by full time, since I am a very slow creator, I mean 10-12 hours a day most days. A house can take me months.  But it worked out, and I was able to just about replace my teaching income with my store income. I am able to work from home and be on hand to help with caretaking tasks.

 Never a day goes by that I do not recognize what a miracle this is.

And now I discover that most of my store, including houses and furniture, has been copied and is being handed out free. 

And I wonder what I ever did to make someone want to destroy my livihood. But I know this kind of maliciousness is simply beyond my comprehension. I cannot imagine inflicting such an injury on another human being. I have some idea that they justify their attacks by asserting that 3D artists (or musicians) should not be able to make a living, but I am not clear why that is. It doesn't matter; everyone who does evil has some justification for it.

I don't know what the effect of this attack will be long term. But there is nothing for me to do except this: Be grateful to those who do think the work of 3D creators has value and that we do deserve some compensation for the goods and services we devote so much work to providing.

To all honest customers, let me just say "Thank you for making a miracle possible!"

It remains to be seen whether the attackers have put an end to it or not.  I know I cannot spend 60 hours a week working to provide free content for others to distribute. However much I enjoy creating, I have to make a living. 

The NEW La Galleria Mesh Kitchen is here!

The mesh kitchens I have made over the last year were a big step up from the regular kitchens, which were already the best in Second Life -- but this newest one is another giant step forward.  So much so that I made a whole page describing how everything works, here -- it is actually the notecard that comes  with the kitchen, with pics.

It has a more flexible layout (though still fits all of my houses), a refrigerator with mesh food, a new larger island, cabinets, a fireplace,  a teacart that rezzes really cute things, and more things to rez from the bar. It also has new cutting edge scripting that allows owner and guests to attach utensils directly, without going into inventory. And lot more new things!

I will be updating the other mesh kitchens in the same way -- owners will get an automatic update.

Come by and try it out! It's right by the La Galleria central landing point.