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Sand Castle Studios 1 Year Anniversary Celebration

Sand Castle Studios will celebrate its one year anniversary on Saturday, October 25, 2008, with an evening filled with fashion, fun, music, and prizes.
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There are many amazing articles to read in this months issue of Castle Keep. You can find the issue in Second Life at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cousins%20Pau/86/117/23
OR on the web at http://castlekeepmagazine.com/
If you are interested in advertising with Castle Keep you can contact me, Sadie Pippita, at Sadie@Changingworldsbuildingdreams.com or look me up in world. Or you can contact Gianna Borgnine through the Castle Keep site.

Another completed project designed and put together by Sand Castle Studios. This creation was custom done for the Carnal-Lingerie For Angels shop within SL. If you wish to find out more about this amazing build you can stop by and see it for yourself at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Aqua%20Pache/194/142/43

On Saturday July 19, 2008 the owners of the SS Royal Romance, Sundance Latte and Venus Staryk held a wedding themed fashion show with a formal reception/ball to follow.I was lucky enough to be a part of this amazing event as the coordinator through Sand Castle Studios. Reed Steamroller worked his magic creating a truly unique and fitting runway as well as the chairs, podium and some other odds and ends. He is the CCO of Sand Castle Studios and is amazing in what he does. The models for this event were some of Second Life’s best from Urban Model Management (ChristopherJames Beaumont, Tylor Thibedeau, Tylo Mabellon. Kiya Villota, Natasja Schumann, Ransome Ansome and Saleena Hax). Many beautiful, unique and amazing designs were shown at this show. Featured designers were Elle74 Zaftig of Bellissima, Ptitpooh Writer of Madame P., Dyanna Darkstone of Designs by Dyanna, Edo Tone of Styles of Edo, Danielle Harrop of Dani’s and Yuli Orman of !Yuli. Let’s not forget the wonderful commentator for the evening, Mr. Angelico Babii, the host of the MBC show “The Late Show with Angelico Babii”.
After the fashion portion all of the guests were invited to stay after for the formal ball/reception that also featured a raffle to benefit a RL cause, Breast Cancer Awareness. The prizes that were given away varied from bridal gowns, tuxes and bridesmaid gowns from Oya’s 24/7 Fashions, JCNY wedding ring set, a week free stay on the Bara Sim, Bellissima gift certificate, Madame P, gift certificates, a gown from Cute K., a complete wedding on the SS Royal Romance SIM with a 5,000L$ prize and some sweet and romantic prizes as well. Venus and Sundance also gave a matching 5,000L donation to The Network Of Strength Breast Cancer Awareness. The amounts raised from the raffle are unknown at this point however in donations only we raised $100.00 USD all to benefit a good cause. Thank you to all that helped make this event such a success. We could not have done this without you!

This one time a little over a year ago, I met a man in Second Life that would change my life as I knew it then for good. He was a kind man, married, but so nice to me. We became friends and talked from time to time. He helped me out with my computer (which is still a piece) however it does work a bit better. Our friendship grew and grew and grew until before either of us knew it, we fell in love. We had to always be talking and Skyping. I loved seeing him on the web cam (nothing naughty). We talked about our troubles and what we would do if we could be together. I eventually was so much in love with this man that the 11 year difference and the fact that he was never the type of man that I had ever fallen for, didn’t even matter anymore. I loved him for him and he loved me for me. He was not happy in his life and I just wanted to be with him. He accepted me for me and all of the crazy things I did and said didn’t ever once alter his feelings. He was my angel and I thought for sure that this is it. I had found a man FINALLY that wouldn’t break my heart. In September of 2007 we actually met face to face, he took the 1000 mile plane ride to my hometown. It was wonderful. We connected better than I could have imagined. He was my soul mate and I was happier than I had been in a LONG time. We were no longer restricted by distance. We didn’t have to see each other on a computer screen. He was with me. At my house. Snuggling with me on my couch. Kissing my cheek as I cooked us dinner or in one rare case he was in the kitchen cooking me dinner while I was taking a nap. Talk about spoiled. I had never once felt this way for any man in my entire 27 years of existence on this earth. Having him, not his avatar, hold me, not my avatar. It was amazing. Saying goodnight didn’t ever once end in tears. It ended in kisses and snuggling close to one another as we eventually dozed off. I hated not being able to hug him when we could not be together, so the first thing that I did when I saw him was give him the biggest hug I could and then the entire car ride home from the airport I couldn’t shut up. It was nerves. I talk a lot when I am nervous. Everything about him was wonderful. One day I had to go get some laundry done so I had come home on my break to get clothes and I told him I would be home about 5 or 6. After I had finished laundry I stopped at the store to pick up groceries for dinner. My phone rang, it was a text from him saying… Hey Sugarbum, I miss you like mad. He was at my house, but he obviously was thinking about me. It was the sweetest thing anyone had ever done for me. I loved it. When I got home, I didn’t even get my car door shut and my trunk open before he was out the door to carry things in. That is something that is and was very rare to me. A perfect gentleman. He met friends, family and co-workers. Everyone loved him and knew that he would be the one that could and would make me happy. That is where I wish I could say that he did, but he didn’t. He left…. The last day that he was with me we laid on my couch together, me in his lap crying my eyes out, begging him between sobs not to leave me and not to hurt me. I was so sad. I knew that he had to go and sort things out before we could be together again, but I was selfish. I wanted to be with the man I loved. Not too much to ask for, right? He was crying too at one point not wanting to go either, but he had to. I took him to the airport and kissed him goodbye. 2 perfect weeks were over and all I had was memories and dreams of the day I picked him up again and for good. Oddly enough that day won’t come. His wife found out and he lied his way through it (or so I think he did). He broke my heart, telling me he was not happy, his wife didn’t love him and he didn’t love her. I believed it. I was so blinded by the thought of finally finding what I had been looking for that I didn’t see the path I was headed down. So I received emails and phone calls from his wife or RoomMate as we called her. He said that was the set up they had. He then told me that he was coming and I should be ready. Lies again. He never came, stopped talking to me and at one point told me to not contact him again. This coming from a man that told me he loved me, traveled 1000 miles to see me or was it for a really expensive 2 week stand. I hope he is reading this. If he is I want him to know that he broke my heart. Tore me apart even more than I thought was possible. I forgot to mention that during all of this he had been there for me through 2 major illnesses, one that almost took my life, my Dad passing, both of my Grandma’s passing and my Aunt passing. When my Dad died I BEGGED HIM “Please don’t hurt me, if you don’t want this tell me now. I can’t be hurt anymore” He promised that this was what he wanted. He broke that promise and now I have had to uproot myself from the life I knew, move over 1000 miles away to be with family because I can’t do this on my own. I feel horrible, I feel betrayed, dirty, worthless and worst of all I hate myself because of him. He denied me and the love he said he had for me. How do you get past something like this? The reason I am actually writing this is because I had a dream about him last night. We were together and he was visiting. The only difference was…. HE STAYED!!! He didn’t leave me in tears and my heart in pieces. When I woke up today I thought it was real. I thought for a quick second that he was in bed next to me. Then reality took hold and I realized it was a dream and yes my heart was still in a million pieces. He hasn’t had to suffer as I have. He wont tell me why. I just want answers. I want to know that I am not unlovable and that it was all him. That he couldn’t do it. If it was all a lie then I think I deserve to know. One day I will go back to this post and laugh about things (I hope), but if the angel that broke my heart does happen to read this, I would like you to know that it would help me out more than you will ever know, if you told me why. Told me everything. It is only fair.


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SCS and UMM have joined together to offer SL residents the opportunity to throw amazing fashion shows in SL. With Sand Castle Studios on the marketing, PR, constructing, and designing side and Urban Model Management supplying the event with some of Second Life’s best looking avatars, this is a partnership that is going to offer everyone exquisite fashion events. Contact Sadie Pippita or Topher Pollock in SL or you can email Sadie at Sadie@changingworldsbuildingdreams.com