That is, of course, the 2010 Homes, Garden and Patio Expo for Relay for Life – the amazing exhibition located across eight sims. If you would like to visit, you can start at the Prim Perfect Pavilion on Expo 8,or maybe you would prefer to jump down right in the centre of the sims and start exploring from there by using the awesomely long teleport boards you’ll find (and maybe take in some music, or even play bingo!).
Throughout the site, there are vendors where you can buy some fantastic objects, ranging from crazy umbrellas, to candles, to entire houses … and all the money raised from these sales goes directly to Relay for Life!
And you’ll also have the opportunity to see some of the best new builds on the grid, presented by the best designers … including designs in a variety of historical styles. If your taste runs to the medieval, The Woodshed, the store owned by RH Engel and Rebel Hope, has presented an entire village – completely with smoking chimneys!
And the richly decorated furniture inside compliments this beautfully, with the characteristic sumptuous woods that RH Engel is well known for. Called the Macrath series, the buildings range from small rotund cottages in the Macrath series, that could fit on a small plot (and are extremely low prim too!) to the larger Westerley and Macduff cottages for those with more space – and a few more prims!
One store that was new to me at the Expo was Trident, which is showing some lovely medieval builds. The creator is Poseidon Dagostino, who specialises in anicent and medieval builds, and he’s created a grogeous village with a working windmill at the Expo. I should add that Poseidon is a Gorean and creates for that market too, as some of the displays in his store make evident.
Cierra Anatine of Kismet in Home Expo 3 was our designer of the month in the March issue of Prim Perfect, and she has made something a a speciality of kitchens – as you can see here. But another thing that I loved about her build was the way that she has iused these rather lovely pavilions to contain each of the displays. And it’s all set in a lovely garden too!
Sofia Standish of Sofia’s Furniture has supplied the furniture for the fantasy section of the Prim Perfect Linden Home exhibition. But she also has a display on Home Expo 5, where you can see examples of her medieval cottages and her inn. And it’s worth looking around, for she has examples of her other builds too, such as her Aussie Outback house, her new Persian Palace, and my long time favourite – her Greek village.
And a final display with medieval cottages is B&S Designs on Home Expo 5. There’s a group of cottages created by Bracken Back – and also some fun details by his partner, Samaria Arai, such as the self-sweeping brooms and mops!
So … with all this to see at the Expo … why aren’t you there now?
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