Ribbons and Bows!

Many years ago, when I was yet a youngster on the grid, I created some fabulous ribbons and bows, the kind you put on gift boxes.  I was already selling household wares - furniture and the like -- so I set up a new store just to sell my ribbons and bows.  It turned out to be the biggest earner for me. (Which wasn't significant, but at least they did much better than my other creations. )

I was prepared for disappointment when I re-entered SL this week because I knew I had lost my entire inventory some years ago.  That is one of the reasons I waited so long to go back in-world.  It's frustrating to know that everything you had done in your second life is gone.  I suppose a real-world example would be losing a hard drive filled with files you'd worked hard on, projects representing your creativity, pictures of adventures, letters from friends, and all the rest.  It's fairly devastating.

In any case, I had a small 512 m2 property for a number of years that I eventually realized still had a small shop on it, and that it had some of my creations still for sale.  When I logged in this week expecting to find it, I found instead that the property had been reclaimed.  And here is where I sing the praises of the Lost and Found folder -- everything had been sent back to me.

For the last couple of days I've been pouring through everything that I've been able to salvage from my old second life.  All told, I think I was only able to recover about 10% of my previous inventory, but there is just enough left for me to be satisfied.

The point of this far-too-long post is that I've now set up shop again in my old mainland region of Namhae, where I repurchased a small piece of land. I've also gotten all of my ribbons and bows up on the SL Marketplace.  (Wow, if  that isn't different than the old SLX / XStreet...)

Please pay me a visit!

Ribbons and Bows / Zizka, in Namhae