This week, Designing Worlds is paying the second and final visit to the wonderful Home and Garden Expo!
From 2pm today, Monday 23rd March, you can see the show on the Designing Worlds Vimeo channel at: https://vimeo.com/channels/dworlds and on the Designing Worlds channel at SLArtist at: https://www.slartist.com/browse-dw-videos-1-date.html.
And you can join the special Watch Party (also at 2pm SLT) in our studio on Garden of Dreams.

At a very difficult time for the world, the Home and Garden Expo raised more than 2,272, 300 Lindens for Relay for Life of Second Life (as of today). That’s approximately 8,900 US dollars.
In the show, Saffia talks to Mike of Loggin’ Off Homes, one of the organisers of the Expo, and she and Elrik look around some of the amazing exhibits at the Expo, including talking to Cassie Eldamar of Little Big Designs.

We take a look at the Home and Garden Expo Decorating Contest, which was then in full flow, and we talked to a couple of the decorators, Prokovy Neva of Ravenglass Rentals and Dee of Dictatorshop.
The Competition raised raised 159,288 Lindens – that’s US$615.93 in total!

The winners of the Decorating contest were:
1st Place: Jarrod Beck for House 8: Lil Victorian by Painted Pixels
2nd Place: Ororeia Resident & Kyra Nachtigal for House 4: The Skwer by Cain Maven
3rd Place: House 5: Aja Direwytch for Barn House by RVi Design
We also had a second contest, for the best story that accompanied the homes you decorated. This was judged by a panel – me; Kaerri; Cain Maven (designer); Terra Volitant (scripter), Briony (LaNez Writer).

The results were:
1st Place: Prokofy Neva for House 7 Martha’s Vineyard Cottage by Little Big Designs
2nd Place: DevinVaughn resident for House 13: Natane by Glas Houses
3rd Place:- Joint Winners:
Dame Roxan for House 3: The Winter Cabin by Loggin’ Off Homes
and
Alec Rogue and Roshy Aura for House 11: The Beach Cabin by Loggin’ Off Homes

There’s also a swift look at the new Linden Homes – the log homes.
Sadly, the one thing you can’t do is visit the Expo itself as it closed today.
But it’s a very impressive show, so do tune in or join us at 2pm SLT at the Watch Party in Garden of Dreams!
Have you seen the first part of the show yet? It’s available here:
DW414 – Home & Garden Expo 2020 I from Richard Elen on Vimeo.
Part One is also available on Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/395410400 and SLArtist at: https://www.slartist.com/designing-worlds-dw414-home-garden-expo-2020-i_a4031c532.html
