Once again there’s a Treasure Hunt in this month’s edition of Prim Perfect. There are THIRTEEN stores taking part this month – and you have to visit the store to discover the prim count of each of the pieces featured in the magazine. You’ll find instructions on how to find the prim count for an item on our Treasure Hunt Information page.
Today’s clue comes from followmeimthe Piedpiper’s (known as Pip to her friends) store – Sweetbay Designs. The clue is this elegant Edwardian railway lamp that would make an attractive outdoor light on the wall of many avatars’ homes.
One of the reasons I am so in love with this is because of the station name you see below. Stormhold is Second Life, but Adlestrop is the name of both a sleepy little village and of a lovely poem by Edward Thomas, one of the poets who died in the First World War, but who was famed for his beautiful rural poems written before and during that conflict:
Yes. I remember Adlestrop—
The name, because one afternoon
Of heat the express-train drew up there
Unwontedly. It was late June.
The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
No one left and no one came
On the bare platform. What I saw
Was Adlestrop—only the name
And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,
No whit less still and lonely fair
Than the high cloudlets in the sky.
And for that minute a blackbird sang
Close by, and round him, mistier,
Farther and farther, all the birds
Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
I’ve been to Adlestrop and – even though the station has long gone, the place is still a lovely Cotswold village with a classic Cotswold manor house (rather like the ones that Pip creates in Second Life!) where Jane Austen is rumoured to have spent time. I’m not wholly convinced that the estate was the model for MansfieldPark, even though Northamptonshire is not that far away. But the Cotsowlds have a character all of their own …
Pip has been busy recently, and has created several pieces that I want to share with you. But one which was absolutely stunning was a custom ballroom she created. It was a lovely and gracious room in itself but what bowled me over was her use of reflections to create a highly polished floor. The effect was stunning – as you move around the ballroom, so do the relections of the walls, windows and lamps – and they also reflect light in different ways at different times of the day and night. I took several pics – you can see a couple on Flickr here and here.
But for the moment – our focus is on the Treasure Hunt!
For the treasure hunt competition, what you have to do is to find as many prim counts as you can, and send the details to primperfect@gmail.com, including your avatar name and an answer to the tiebreak question (which you’ll find in the magazine on Page 90). The person to find the most prim counts will win – and in the event of a tie, we will use the tie-breaker. Also: – you don’t necessarily have to find every prim count to win a prize! Just find as many as you can – by January 20th.
See our earlier clue here:
New Year Treasure Hunt – Clue 1: KitStar Designs
New Year Treasure Hunt – Clue 2: Serenity Studios
New Year Treasure Hunt – Clue 3: Botanika
New Year Treasure Hunt – Clue 4: Organised Confusion
New Year Treasure Hunt – Clue 5: L’Utopie
Another clue will be appearing shortly!
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