Allright, I made a few calculations, and I gave up… I took a Premium account. I really wanted to try my hand at building a house of my own, even if it meant making dozens of attempts for that, and thus I went on a little quest for a small plot of land that I could call “home”. After many journeys through many sims to examine more closely the parcels on the list (of course I can’t afford a big plot, so it had to be one of 512 m²), I finally settled down in Kafiri (88,240), just behind a very nice and big house. Actually, I met its owner, Sophos Casanova, not very long after. We talked a bit and exchanged cards; he builds houses for a living in SL, it seems, but I must admit that buying a house isn’t on my list of priorities right now – I know myself, and I want to do it with my own hands, so to say.

Earlier on, I also hit the sandbox in Cordova for a bit of prims fun, and got to make the obi for my yukata. It turned out better than expected, after a few battles with the rotation tool to get everything aligned as I wanted, and some texture fun to make it look like the front part itself. Someday I’ll really need to send a nice word to Lumiere Noir for his excellent tutorials, as they helped me a lot when it came to the tools and to linking prims. I doubt it’d have been as funny to make if I had had to figure it out all by myself from the start.

I’ll try to get in the Red Dragon market, if I can. It looks like my current project of Japanese clothing has gone better than I thought, at least given what Hiro said about my yukata, and so it may indeed be worth it. With the new obi, it looks even better in my opinion, and I also want to apply different colors to it, to give a bit of variety. Next on the list… I haven’t decided yet, perhaps a male version of the yukata – I think skirts can be worn by male avatars too – or a hakama. I really dig out this oriental theme, so finding ideas shouldn’t be a problem anyway.