Feb 19 2021

MUSIC, I MUSE

“Songs express who we are and how we feel, they bring us closer to others, they keep us company when we are alone. They articulate our beliefs and values, and they bear witness to our lives. Songs weave tales of our joys and sorrows, they reveal our innermost secrets, and they express our hopes and disappointments, our fears and triumphs. They are our musical diaries, our life stories. They are the sounds of our personal development”.

NEW year new goals. One new year’s resolution was to have more music in my life! I tried to visit youtube, or iHeart or my vid stream on Facebook and listen to new and old songs each morning! As I drink my coffee and consider the day and reflect on yesterday the music soothes my soul. I don’t know about you but I have always loved music! I was in the church choir as a youth and even though I don’t think my voice was that of a singer I belted out the songs with all my heart.

As I got older vinyl records became my obsession. I had one of the those little portable suitcase looking record player and would carry it around with me to my friends houses. I recalled my neighbor and close girlfriend who lived across the street from me, we once listened to a new Elvis song over and over and over and over and over and over and over again. Laughing at the memory.

My mother use to stop by the record store on her way home from work sometimes and pick up a bundle of 45’s that were on the sale rack and bring them home to me. Some were very weird songs! But sometimes, I would discover a Song that touched my heart and soul and to this day I still hear the tune play in my head. One was called the Trumpeter’s Prayer… an instrumental that a wild teenager like me would never buy on her own.

As I got older and the internet came out I joined many music sites. Some were very erotic where we would talk to other members through song titles. Mmmmmmmmmmmm. Then I found Second Life where music and dancing was the highpoint of my second life. Live concerts from so many genres to choose from. Getting to know these folks from around the world and learn of their musical talents. Dj’s who played a variety of music while our avatars bantered and danced and had the time of our life.

With Music!

Music, let it carry to you to new places. Let it fill up your heart and soar your soul. Some say music is therapy that perhaps provide a small window into what makes it so special and magical! Listen to the music as you dance your way through this journey we call our life. “Where words fail, music speaks.”.

Jan 7 2016

Delightful December

December has so many facets; A) End-of-the-Year month B) Winter Solstice month C) Christmas Day. All Delightful! End-of-the-Year conjures up hope for a better tomorrow and an exciting future. Winter Solstice brings sparkle and beauty to our world, all bright, white and positive. And Christmas Day bringing family and friends closer oozing love and unselfishly sharing our hearts and humanity, true and giving. We believe the Magic of Giving indeed brings happiness to all.

Sunbeam was so busy in this month of December 2015 she took over 200 photographs: building her Happy Holidays area at AAcme City, GCG, attending various HG tours, attended OSCC, began Mentoring at GCG, going to fab Winter/Christmas parties including a Masquerade Ball, where Sun won 2nd Place in Theme Dress contest, joining in on two ‘Treasure Hunts’ (Tangle HG Hunt and GCG Winter Hunt) and chillin’ with friends and family! Of course we didn’t post all 200, lol, but do hope you enjoy our Delightful December Slideshow below. Enjoy ! Smiles!

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YAY 2016 is here. Happy New Year to ALL! and after much reflection and thought about Metaverse Magic, the virtual adventures Sunbeam has experienced over the last three years, we have decided its time for a change. A change to our format for 2016. After reading a post by Selby Evans on blogging “Keep it Simple” Google +, that is exactly what we intend to try and do. Instead of cramming a whole month of her adventures into one post, we will do a Simple Post detailing one event or activity at a time. Hopefully blogging a few time per month. Smiles!

As always my valued friends, and soon to be friends, thank you for visiting my Metaverse Magic and Step in Sunshine!

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. Eugene O’Neill

Sep 3 2015

AUGUST ADVENTURES

August was an unusual month for Sunbeam, as about ten (10) of those days Dude and I were off in the RL grid on summer vacation. August was a lonely month as many other virtual friends also take off into the RL and are greatly missed. Well, let me tell you when Sun returned to her world, she made up for lost time and went to a dozen or so concerts and music events, whoa slow down girly!!! Sunbeam’s partying even went to the extreme of dancing in her birthday suit, baring it all at Hedonism, Refuge Grid.

Sun got herself a couple new outfits: one from the returned and beloved Linda Kellie Free templates, a mesh mini dress. Her second new outfit was a gift from the Guest Writer, Linda Diva (in Augusts’s VISIONZ magazine issue). Her third new outfit was gifted by Shannan Albright, called Fantasia. Sun felt so behind and was in such a hurry to publish on time, she made a real boo-boo adding the wrong picture set to the wrong article, (oops and ugh!) but all in all the magazine was well received. Sunbeam is truly a blessed fairy with so many kind and giving friends.

Sun got right to work on her HG Story, Scene Five (with Nara’s Nook grid), and Sun attended a most informative NPC seminar put on by Nara Malone. I think even though she was totally overwhelmed, a few things did penetrated her virtual brain and my old real life brain. Giggles. She is such a lucky little Fairy having Fred Beckhusen work with her on her Scene Five portion of the HG Story. He has spent hours and hours patiently teaching her how to do animations and make her NPC’s walk, talk and come to life!

Sun made sure to check all her scripts and teleporters on AAcme City and at her FREEBIE store after the great move to a new servers hosting company (Great Canadian Grid). She also visited her friends Kat and Lion Ewry’s new regions on GCG kayaking around and visited her friend, Kamira Sirnah’s completed Bath House and Temples. Wowsa to both regions’ fanastic look! She also went to the Drum Circle and the Market Day weekly events on the GCG The River Lands. There she learned how to gather essentials and bake bread. Time permitting Sunbeam is planning on engaging in Role Play with tRL perhaps starting sometime in January 2016. Smiles.

Well my fellow virtual world adventurers, I believe we have inundated you with plenty of pictures and chat reliving the month of August through Sunbeam’s eyes. ♥As always my valued friends and soon to be friends, Step in Sunshine! ♥

Jun 28 2015

JUNE BLOOMS

June was filled with magical realism in Sunbeam’s virtual worlds. Sun experienced many magical moments such as being a “Guest Guide” for the HG Tour group ‘Metaverse Tours‘, The group visited Tangle grid’s Kling Kingdom, Aqualand on Metropolis and The River Lands on Great Canadian grid:

She attended the The Hypergrid ‘WIP’ Shows held in June. (Works in Progress)

She magically became a ‘Mermaid’ and watched all the human folks walking on the docks across the water channel to AAcme City’s harbor.

She attended ‘Market Day’ on the medieval role=play regions The River Lands, Great Canadian Grid.

She was a nervous wreck waiting on the tour bus after working all day really hard polishing up AAcme City side=by-side with AAcme Fall to impress the expected visitors from

the Hypergrid Nights tour group. They explored the city then joined us for a magical party held at The Carousel Club (34 Avatars attended) with Dj Darrow Kanto playing some great tunes,

And she published the 4th issue of VISIONZ magazine – Hypergridders Dream.

She was asked to be a guest on the INWORLD REVIEW TV show to talk about VISIONZ and AAcme City. Inworld Review is hosted by Mal Burns.

( since Sunbeam does not have a microphone she asked her VISIONZ Sr Editor and also a AAcme City shop owner, Avia Bonne to appear in her place ) . She watched quietly below the stage area.

She attended her first ‘Writers’ Class’ conducted by Siobhan Muir on Nara’s Nook grid (Sun dearly wishes to became a better writer),

She attended a beautiful virtual wedding of her new friends Daniella and Josiah MacTire officiated by Jaekob Faolan.

She worked on planting even more flowers on her Enchanted Village (for non=humans), Hidden Glenn region located on Tangle grid.

Sunbeam and AAcme attended a ‘Crash Party’ on GCG and danced the night away, no matter how hard we tried the sim would not CRASH! lol 48 Avatars attended, I understand the record is 60.

Sunbeam and AAcme also celebrated over 100 visitors who have come to see our beloved AAcme City and share our joy in driving around the magical roadways, fighting off the zombies and strolling along the boardwalk.

Sun also enjoyed visiting with friends and family and going on many HG tours and trying out the new daredevil jump on our 2nd level roads and overall she had way too much FUN spreading Sunbeams.

June, the sunny month, shiny and as bright as the magic in our hearts ♥As always my valued friends and soon to be friends, Step in Sunshine!

Mar 16 2013

Marching On

The month of March found Sunbeam quite busy once again. She enjoyed some awesome musical concerts at different grids, Russell Eponym @ Metropolis, Melodee McDonnell @ Island Oasis, CelticMaiden Warrior @ Vitural Highway and Torben Asp’s 1000th Show @ Second Life. All were excellent! As far as building, Sun is working on her Fairytopia region @ Tundra 3D, her friend Jillytopaz Wasp gave her a welcome parrot she just loves! Sun is starting on a castle at Fairytopia now. Speaking of fantasy, Sun started a new fantasy region @ Olantica, called Hidden Glenn. Many friends have come to help like Judy Muircastle of famed HOBO Amusement Park. Judy set up a carousel and merry-go-round there. Thank you Judy! Minethere Always has done all the terraforming and donated many many wonderful items. Sun also imported AAcme “Dude” Fall’s Arcadia Asylm’s grunge truck that is redone in Steampunk. Textures were missing so Sun had to retexture before giving the truck to Miney for her Steampunk oar.

Sunbeam is setting up the party area @ Island Oasis on LadyK & Lions Horse World region for the big Barnyard Bash coming up March 19th. While @ IO Sun and her friend Kat Ewry visited the Steam Isles and had such fun, the maze was very very well done! Sunbeam also made some giant fantasy flowers and shared them with friends for free… always feels good to share!

Sun went on the @ Craft world grid and ‘went inside the belly of a live volcano’ (phrased coined by Virtual Christine) hehe. Sun then joined a new grid that is Aurorasim powered (she was a ruth for the first time in ages lol). Sun tried to take time out to clean up her an inventory, a big job considering how many grids she plays! Sad to say she barely made a dent in this work. Sun took a well deserved break at her home on 3rd Rock Grid and did some long overdue reading. Then right back to work!

All and all, the first part of March sees Sunbeam marching on trying new things and keeping the fast pace Virtual Worlds are known for. Sunbeam also started a new page on Facebook, called “Certified Gridhoppers” for all who also enjoy hopping from one grid to another calling many grids ‘home’. OH and Sunbeam designed a new logo for her virtual shops too! Hope to see you hopping around the metaverse real soon. Say Hello if you see this pixie flying around! Spring is almost here, our favaorite time of the year! Hop, hop, hop!

: Flower Power

: Made some lovely Unicorns today!

: Torben Asp 1000th Show Second LIfe

: DANCING with the Dude!

: Lovin’ how VW brings all countries TOGETHER

: Fun times on Metropolis at Russell’s concert

: More Disco Dancing with DJ Leslie

: Dancing Fools!

: The Maze on Steam Isle Brunel

: Amazing Maze on Brunel, Steam Isles Island Oasis

: Marianna show me Na’vi regions (six in all)

: Sun is in~Control now! woot!!!

: Headquarters of Na’vi regions on VH

: Pandoran Plains Virtual Highway

: New Fairy Home on OLANTICA

: Judy, Miney and I discussing Hidden Glenn Fantasies

: HOBO rides at Hidden Glenn OLANTiCA

: Virtual Christine highly recommended ‘VULCAN’ ty

: The lights spins and go in and out AWESOME!

: Creating new Firefly Lamp

: No surfboard around so Sun improvishes !

: Made myself a Windsurfer to enjoy the Waves @ Virtual Highway

: INVENTORY CLEAN UP UGH!!!

: Daisy and Tommy at Gyspy Camp with Sun

: Butterfly Fields on Fairytopia

: Thinking thinking thinking! What’s next Polly?

: Fairytopia on Tundra 3D coming along nicely!

: OOPS missing textures!

: Arcadia’s truck all redone 🙂

: Barnyard BASH coming … get those horses stabled!

: Beer Check Coffee Check Cakes Check … Party coming Check!

: House on a Cliff in 3rd Rock

: SunbeamS New Logo

Feb 17 2013

WHAT HAPPENED?

Sunbeam wasn’t as active the last couple weeks at her Grid Hopping. Plus, a technical disaster happened at WHAT virtual world and the founder decided it best to closed the grid completely after days of trying to repair the damage. The best he could do was roll back to November 2012 and let the members know what happened. He’s a stand up guy. Many other grid have had ‘technical’ issues or closed up without a word to their members. I was proud to be part of the WHAT core crew. We were right in the middle of making a new Welcome area and setting up Free parcels for new member when it happened. It’s been a week now, we miss WHAT, but are certainly grateful for the time spent there sharing space with the wonderful new friends I met and my partners in crimes for a long time exploring and visiting virtual worlds of the metaverse.

Last time @ WHAT Welcome

Isis’ New Spot @ Tundra 3D

Sunbeam was lucky enough to dance and laugh and share good times with long time her friend Mikey McIntrye while he was spinning some of the best Blues on 3rd Rock . What a wonderful grand time reminiscing about our days together a couple years past when we planned parties on a region called Decades. Those were the days my friend!

When Grid Hopping over to Metropolis to see Minethere Always’ new Steampunk project Sunbeam fell into the middle of a impromptu party. She made a new friend, saw a couple familiar faces and had a fun time. The Euro feel of this grid and friendly members makes it a fun hop. Sunbeam is now working on a Steampunk Gazebo for Miney’s next Free Theme OAR to be given away free to anyone that asks. We’ll share pictures of that build next post.

Snapshot _ ROB'S ROCK N' BLUES BAR, ROBs Rock Island (169, 34,

Mikey @ Rob’s Rock n’ Blues Bar
Circle dancing with 3rg members

Impromtu Party @ Metropolis

A global community celebrating Love not war!

A brand new world … brand new! Tundra 3D

Sunbeams’ friend form Island Oasis, Isis Ophelia invited her to come see a brand new virtual world she had just joined. It’s called Tundra 3D and is based out of Italy. Everyone was very welcoming and Isis offered Sun a couple parcels to set up shop at ID Designs. Love a new start and fresh beginning. Its like the first few weeks of an intense romance. Smile.

Planning project meeting with lynne and Kat

Flying out for more VW Grid Hopping Adventures

Spent some quality time with a couple bff’s’ Kat Ewry and lynne lundquist at Kat’s new shop Lady K jewelry. She is so amazing at it! We envy her talents. Anyhoo, the three of us are planning doing up Lion and Kat’s newest acquistion, another region making four now. We’re thinking castles on top and a full region glorious magical merfolk and scuba diving under the sea fantasia. Sunbeam’s speciality. On Second Life we have avatar Kohana Schimmer who has been a mermaid creature since 2008. Island Oasis is also having another building contest this one themed “Beach” so Sunbeam joined in and building a nightclub themed …. mermaids of course. She is calling it SirenS Club and will share some pictures with you next post. Wish her luck, she could be winner of 5000 Ps ♥

Apr 1 2012

More FUN in Virtual Worlds

Yesterday I talked about music and virtual worlds. Today let’s dance! Yes one can puppeteer their avatar to dance, alone or with a partner or with a group. In the beginning dances were done by clicking on a ‘pose ball’, pink for ladies and blue for the gentlemen. There are also large floating Dance Balls (allows 20 or more avatars to dance and holds 20 or more dances) and Dance Systems where you choose which dance you want from a menu and can change at will. You can also make your own HUD (Heads Up Display) where you program in your favorite dances.

Then there is the ‘chim’ which you wear, most popular place to wear is the hip. All the dances in the chim are choreographed in a sequence of your choice. The ‘chim’ is similar to the HUD except the dances loop and you do not choose which dance to activate. The chim is invisible and only your friends can click on your chim, or you can send them an invite to dance with you step by step.

Virtual worlds have many specialized dances too, like the River Dance which is very popular with the Irish members and the surfing community (another blog subject to come) or John Travolta’s Saturday Night Live dance or one of my favorites Michael Jackson’s Thriller dance.

So pop on in a virtual world and let’s dance! your feet won’t ache and you can literally ‘Dance ALL Night’… have FUN!

Safe Paths

Sunbeam

Mar 31 2012

Different Types of “FUN”

Fun: adjective for good, happy

Fun means many things to different people. Most people see fun as amusement, enjoyable, merry and entertaining. In Virtual Worlds everyone is always commenting on your play by saying “… as long as you’re having fun”. Most people define fun as something that makes you smile or giggle. You can create your own fun or join in someone else’ fun. The beauty of Virtual Worlds is there is always some one making up fun things to do. Virtual Worlds can be very social and everyone, young or old, skinny or fat, tall or short is invited to the party. Parties in Virtual Worlds can be themed parties for holidays, birthdays (or as they say in VW ‘rezz day’ > the day you signed up to play in a VW), or come as you are parties for no reason at all. Parties can be held at a club, a home, a full sim or anywhere there may be more than three or four avatars gathered together.

Fun to some in Virtual Worlds mean causing havoc and stress often referred to as ‘Drama’. These type of people thrive on seeing others struggling to understand what the hell is going on. They push your human emotion buttons with words and actions they would never say or do in the real world, because hey what can you do back, break their virtual bones? Not to mention they are totally ‘anonymous’, you have no idea who is behind the avatar pulling the strings to make this avatar act the way that they are. Most players try to avoid these types of avatars at all costs, but as everyone knows sometimes you just can’t help but step in their mess especially if you are a person of integrity, or they are such good manipulators you don’t even know you’ve been had.

One of the best things about Virtual Worlds is the music and entertainment (like poetry readings or stage plays). Many many budding musical artists can get up on a stage and sing their hearts out for you. They could not do this in the real world due to extreme stage fright or fear of failure. But as an avatar they have no fear. In their minds’ eye, it’s not really them singing or playing the music, its the avatar.

Another great party entertainer is the Disc Jockey. In Virtual Worlds you can attend parties where the DJ is playing all your favorite songs. You might hear a song you haven’t heard for ages or hear a new song that rocks your world. Some DJ’s are also real life DJs. Some have always wanted to DJ and the Virtual World has given them the opportunity to give it a go.

To me, music and fun go together like toast and jam! So if you love music, love fun and want to try something entirely different enter a Virtual World and go to a party! Don’t worry about being alone, the crowd will welcome you by name! Have FUN!

Safe paths,

Sunbeam