Moving!

Teesa's Teases is moving and will be part of the Beau Belle Village Blog. This is a shared social website and online community for the Beau Belle family.

Please check it out.

Kisses

Teesa

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Happy Valentines

Well it is that time of the year, when the lonely feel lonely and the loved feel loved, I hope you are one of the latter. Well in the spirit of that we threw a Valentines Ball for the single people of SL (although couples weren't forbidden :)). And as you can see from the number of smooching couples in the following photos, it was a great success. Everyone seemed to be dancing with someone, and even Curly put on some clothes! He looked so cute, and had no trouble getting dancing partners. JJ was wearing a tux with his top hat, and there were many new faces which was great!

Shayna Wrigglesworth won our best dressed competition and gets to be a Beau Belle resident for a month.

Bluebell invented a new bomb just for the occasion, so here are a few pictures of excessive use of hearts, and dancing with old and new friends to make you smile today.

Kisses to all of you

Too much fun to post!

Oh my goodness, it has been a ride and a half. Life on Beau Belle is moving so fast so many fun nights, and so many changes that I hardly know what to write. So I thought a pictorial of the last month or so might be the way to go. (more to follow)

The team having a mountain conference

Checking out the beach houses

Bluebell worn out from building

Shares first coffeeshop

Shares second coffeeshop

Dancing with Icarus?

Our first event arena layout

I may have drunk too much!

Sunset over the Event arena (second layout)

Beach houses

Inae had been bad!

Sitting with friends when a strange figure appeared!

Singsong!

Our new plaza with its rotating information centre and gallery of galleries

Events arena current layout, all set up for our Valentines ball

Icarus Rising!

So it has been months since I blogged. And why? Well my mummy always said if you had nothing nice to say, say nothing at all. So I decided not to speak for a while. Now if you read my first ever blog, I believe not a word of it is still true. I no longer live on Hallelujah, I am no longer with my partner Harley, I no longer run sLove Is... But sometimes losing things clears space for better things in life. Things were changing around me, things I couldn't control, and I was slowly getting more and more sad, watching things I loved disappear, when I realised if you want to keep things safe in SL you have to build them yourself.

So myself and my very good friend Bluebell moved on. We decided that we would like to be neighbours, and slowly started to discuss the idea of a co-operative in SL, to find out if it were possible to build a community as a group, and not have a leader as such, we had bought a parcel each and with days a friend of Bluebells (Cranmillion) and a friend of mine (Share) had bought two more adjacent plots and before we knew it we had a quarter sim. Ideas started to bubble and the concept of a village was born. We got to work. People slipped into roles, Share was the master gardener, and Bluebell was the master builder, I was dealing with logistics and Cranmillion was the not so silent, silent partner. But we all did all things, design was a joint process, and so wonderful when we all worked together, one of the most rewarding early evenings was spent as a group deciding the perfect floor texture for the cottages, and we have quickly learned that we work best as a team. We all bring different talents and obsessions to the party, Bluebell is the perfectionist and texture freak, I obsess about scale and prims, Share has a natural gift with colour, and Cranmillion knows when to say something for the best effect.

So all was going well our working title of Beau Belle Village too and we were soon set up and already had tenants. Then we hit our biggest snag! The covenant requested that we asked permission to sublet, which we did, and it was at this late stage that we were informed that we could only have one tenant per parcel, oooops, not much of a village then. So the hunt was on for our new land. And we looked at the sublime, and the ridiculous too, and finally settled for a half sim in Shadowvale. Suddenly we had a real blank canvas, and started landscaping in earnest.


Bluebell wanted a mountain, so Mount Broome was hoisted from the ground, and a bay was carved in. We wanted all the cottages to have great views so created a ridge, and terraced land. We set about siting our cottages, and later luxury beach houses. And quickly moved onto our retail and events area. A launch party was planned and suddenly we were against the clock.


And we launched. The party was a blast and my friend Harry won the "best hat" competition and won a cottage for a month, which he kindly donated to Inae, who is still reeling from the shock of not being homeless for a short while.

Oh, and lest I missed him too much, Orb let me Icarus, and all was well with the world.

Dear Diary...

So now I am wondering (see, it is dangerous when you get me thinking), do people use SL as a kind of interactive diary. I am not suggesting that is anyone's reason for installing the game but consider the interplay you have with each other. I am constantly touched and surprised at how my friends and even new aquaintences open their hearts and souls to me, and I am sure, to you too.

We talk about RL, our fears and hopes, we discuss our day and advise and support each other. I have told friends in here things about my own fears and feelings that I haven't told my closest friends in RL. So, here it is, a diary is a way of putting these things out there, purging our minds of the thoughts that cloud us, but not all of us keep diaries and journals. I try occasionally, but lack the discipline or self awareness to keep it going. But there is something cathartic about throwing down the truth of your day to let you move on to the next without baggage.

But what makes SL better than the diary is, those words are written down, purged from our mind and cast away, but are not recorded. Like wishes cast on the wind. And we might even get some good advice and comfort along the way too.

Not the only one who has been thinking

So there was me looking at how we touch each others lives, and how we perceive the truth of matters and what did I find? A brand new blogger asking himself similar questions! Not an SL blog an RL one but I still found it something I wanted to include here, and I can't wait to see what he has to say next. http://bloggingohno.blogspot.com/

So, I've been thinking

So lately I have been having thoughts on the way people touch each others lives in this strange world. The way we become so close to each other and are yet so removed from each other emotionally. Running a dating agency, I have found so many broken hearts and broken promises along my journey here, and am constantly struck by peoples need to return to this game, despite the hurt they feel. The optimism they have that the next person will treat them differently and that the last episode was merely unfortunate. But what has struck me more than anything lately is how much people can surprise you. That the person you think is so solid and emotionally tough, might actually be dying inside. That the person you thought had no emotional investment in you at all, may actually turn out to be your stalwart. The person who promised you the world, may only ever give you promises. Maybe someone who wants to be your friend, actually wants to whip you to make himself feel better, and the quiet aquaintence actually turns out to be a real friend. It may seem silly to realise at this late stage (after 14 months in the game) people aren't always what they seem.

By this I don't mean the actual deceit of the character they create, this is the lie that we all tell and that we accept at face value, I for one could not maintain Teesa as a fiction for more than a few weeks. Initially she was 26 and a character I created, but in the end that was exhausting, and the real me had to erupt from the keys. Large as life, and definitely twice as ugly. And (I apologise for the twists and turns this blog is taking) when I have the opportunity to censor myself, type and edit, why do I allow my nasty underbelly to still be exposed? In fact far more so in here than in RL where i am guarded, private and far less prone to emotional outbursts. Only the closest girlfriends have ever seen my tears, and almost no-one in rl has been on the receiving end of my temper. The closest I come to that is a walk where trees and bushes may get whipped and pulled as I play out in my head the words I wish I had said. Yet inworld I have been known to shout, walk off in a huff, even mute, and on occassion delete. Never without regret it must be said, but it has happened. So we allow our worst sides to show, but expect the best of others here. Hmmm.... maybe that is where I am going wrong.

So what am I asking you dear reader (for I dare not think there is more than one) to think about? Careful what you say, words wound, and unlike physical wounds, they can cut again and again as you replay the words you read. Words play bigger when typed than when said, the other person may not hear the tinkle in your voice. Don't make promises, even if you think you can keep them. Remember your game may be moving faster than someone else's. Live for the moment, and make that moment fun. You don't have to be honest, if you admit you are being creative. If you say you are being sincere, be honest. Look after each other, after all if we didnt want to connect with each other, we wouldn't be here.