Yes. That is a crab on my shoulder.

So. I guess I should fill in with some history of my sojourn in SL to date.

I was invited by a friend way back in 2005 to come join SL!
I did make a cursory trip in, but didn't look at the place very hard and decided, 'eh, I don't care for this' and went off doing my other stuff. A few months later the invitation came again, only for whatever reason, this time I came in, got thoroughly oriented and then bolstered up by my already-here friends, and .... I got bitten by the building bug!

Am still suffering from the infection today.

I started off building jewelry and that has been fascinating. When I look back at what I used to make, I KNOW I have only improved by a wide margin!:)
And, one thing led to another. Next it was furniture. Actually, you wouldn't think it, but there was a connection from one direct to the next and that was SIZE. When I first got in here and looked at a lot of the jewelry (and then I noticed the furniture).. it was all so damn BIG! I'd see these enormous chain links hanging round people's necks (you know, the pimp daddy look?)..and rings the size of ostrich eggs on their hand practically smacking you in the gob, and I couldn't figure out why people made such unrealistic looking jewelry.

So, I started making very tiny prims, in fact sometimes customers wanted me to 'make it bigger please!'. I think I've found a happy medium and of course, I am really eclectic in my likings so I do like to experiment with different genres and styles of jewelry. I've made some very, very fine delicate stuff, but lately, I've been on an art deco kick (started off with my buildings) and I've been producing some slightly larger sized jewelry pieces, more 'in-your-face-Nooo-Yawk' style if you will :) Here's one recent creation - Fifth Avenue - gorgeous, big, gold and diamond.. very stylish and looks faboo with the right evening gown!

When I first came in world, of course I didn't have any land to speak of, so I rented space in a very busy mall that one of my friends rented in, Promenade, and business went well there. I did the satellite thing for awhile, but eventually, by the end of 2006, I had enough land (and I was making all kinds of other items too by then!), that I decided to jettison the satellite mode, and I established my main shopping complex, True North Designs, in Goun sim. I'm still there today and last January, I even did a total makeover of my stores (besides Dellybeams Gem Gallery, there is also my main True North Designs building with home and office furnishings, fountains, gift and scripted items etc, my Northern Lights Company, 101 Delmations and DellyciousWear).