AViChoice Award Nominee & Introducing Lincoln Beach!!!


I logged in world one day last week to see a notecard from the AviChoice Awards people. Imagine my surprise to see that I had been nominated for ‘Favorite Home Builder’! After the initial shock I was really thrilled to have been nominated and that so many of my customers and followers had thrown my…

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Sakia’s Cottage


I often get asked to visit customer’s homes after they’ve bought one of my cottages. I get invited mainly to hang out, share their excitement and so that they can showcase their landscaping and decorating prowess. It is always an honour to be invited and I love having a look around. I never fail

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On Holiday …. Plane Departing From St Martin’s SL!!!


I will be on holiday for the next couple of weeks, sunning myself in the Caribbean. I can’t wait to go, I can’t wait to leave behind what is turning out to be quite a damp, rainy English summer. Ever the optimists us Brits still have high hopes that the weather will eventually settle down…

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Please Take A Seat….


Look out for a new mahogany dining table and dining chairs in store. You will find the first of many different funky variations as shown in these photos. At the moment just the cream chairs and mahogany dining table are available (in-world) but I will be adding new chairs over the next couple of days. You…

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Bulb Chandelier Now Available On The Marketplace


This design led chandelier would look great in any modern house and would work equally well in the older style cottages available from my store. They are designed to create a distinctive modern focal point, whatever the setting. This chandelier actually comes FREE as part of the decor accessory sets for Butterscotch, Fox, Pippin and…

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New Bistro Table & Chair Set Now Available Just 99L!


This charming, vintage French inspired bistro table and chair set is now available from the store or via the Marketplace for just 99L! It would look good in any indoor or outdoor setting and works best in a conservatory/gazebo or anywhere where there is lots of shimmering, natural light. A soft warm, ivory shade this set includes:

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Welcome To Pippin Cottage


Welcome to Blossom Cottage’s  nearly twin sister. These cottages are almost identical architecturally with just a couple of differences, the main one being Pippin’s more coastal exterior, complete with weathered, dark white wood panels and rain beaten brickwork. So whereas Blossom is a more flighty pink and

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Cottage Redeliveries


The revamp of the Ven River store continues and this has meant some rejigging of where you will find store support. If you bought a cottage after April 2013 you can get a re-delivery from one of the terminals at Ven River. These can now be found at the welcome area and in the new…

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Welcome To Blossom Cottage


Blossom Cottage celebrates all that is good and all that is lovely about spring. From her rosy coloured walls, to the freshly cut flower sprays that surround the house she is an homage to all things, fresh, abundant, sunny and hopeful. This is all about the end of winter, the end to long dark nights…

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Black & White Portrait Challenge


At last a bona fide reason to use this picture for Strawberry Singh’s black and white portrait challenge meme. It’s a long time since I’ve done any black and white shots and I used to do loads when I first joined SL. It will be interesting to see what everyone else’s take is on this week’s meme!

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New Asian Makeover


My Asian Beach Lodge has always been a best seller but the sliding doors were often a bit … ahem… random. I’d get calls from some very happy but slightly stressed customers saying how much they loved the house but they had become randomly trapped in the doors or their partner had become (mysteriously) a…

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A Slimmed Down Bluebelle’s New Clothes…


Bluebelle Cottage has been given a bit of a makeover. It seemed like the right time and as she was one of the first cottages I built I feel she was more than ready for some long over due TLC. So, not only has she got all new external paintwork she’s also been partly

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My Kitely Avatar Evolution


Well, the New Year celebrations have come and gone and I have my usual sore head after only 2 glasses of pink Champagne. I am a total light weight… to recover I spent part of the day

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Something Old & Something New


Calas Galadhon Winter Scene As 2013 nears its end my thoughts start to move towards the future and inevitably I start to think of people, places and things past. It has been a mixed year for me, some things have been absolutely great, some things and people have not been so good and of course…

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FOX Cottage Garden FATPACK For Sale


The Fox Cottage garden FATPACK is now ready to buy in world or via the Marketplace. A few people have asked if it is going to be available via MP and  it is now available online as well to make things easier. This FATPACK saves 30% on the price of the individual items and comes with…

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