Shiny New Year

Shiny happy people holding hands
Shiny happy people holding hands
Shiny happy people laughing
Everyone around, love them, love them
Put it in your hands
Take it, take it
There's no time to cry
Happy, happy
Put it in your heart
Where tomorrow shines
Gold and silver shine
- REM

We had a very Happy New Year party at Common Ground with our Shiny theme! Everyone enjoyed our new Photo Op, Photobooth, and Slideshow! Let's Shine in O9!

Sunrise at Common Ground

Our color theme was Sunrise at Common Ground and everyone rose to the challenge. Par and Penguin enjoyed our new Tinies Dance Ball donated by Rhiannon to Common Ground! Ricken spun lots of great sunny songs for us! And, Mel came as one - "House of the Rising Sun"! Such creativity abounds!

Midnight at the Party Plaza

Our color theme for Common Ground was Midnight, so everyone came as the night sky! It was lovely to be surrounded by so many stars!

Golden at Common Ground

With a Gold color theme, Common Ground @ NPC Plush was sponsored by Virtual Ability. Ricken Flow shared their mission ito enable people with a wide range of disabilities to enter into virtual worlds like Second Life®, and provide them with a supporting environment once there. He provided wheelchairs and dances for the "wheelies". It was a great night full of angels, supporters, and snow!

Yellow - You are my sunshine!

Super bright sunshine shone at Common Ground @ Plush NPC! Mel and Par stole the show with their outfits of mustard and a banana! Common Ground continues to be a place to connect with others and learn more about what nonprofits are doing in Second Life.

After the party, I thought I would take some shots of my new gown I made that afternoon.

Red Alert! Common Ground Rocks the Red!

Rose-colored glasses were not needed with everyone dressed in red with glee. Common Ground continues to be an excellent spot for networking, brainstorming, and merriment for nonprofit folks. We share stories, surprises, and sticks. Glow sticks that is!
Join us each Thursday night at 7 at Plush Nonprofit Commons. Find out the color theme to dress up and get down!

Magenta

Lovely in Magenta! This one pixelated image of me with Ozma and Ethelred in the background got to me. They have been such a supportive team with Common Ground! Thanks guys! And, our DJ, Ricken, just makes each night so special and extra fun! I look forward to his set every week! Thanks Ricken!

Blue and Violet

Common Ground has become a wonderful place to show support of nonprofits and we have tons of brainstorming sessions while dancing away. We had to see how many AVs we could sit on our spinning light. Five! That's right! Five!

Teal Appeal at the Party Plaza

Hop! Hop! Hop! Everyone looked stunning in Teal and had fun trying out our new Bunny Hop group dance ball!

Grand Opening of Common Ground @ NPC Plush

Rah! We had an awesome time with dancing, networking, and fireworks! This weekly event has a color theme to show unity and to have a bit of fun going through our closet! It was easy being Green that night! Thanks all for making Common Ground such a great time every week!

White at Common Ground Plaza

Has hard as it was, everyone managed to find or make something white to wear to Common Ground. I wore my first successful flexi skirt of glittery satin. Yes, I cheated and colored the underskirt my warm hues.

Grayscale - Common Ground @ NPC

The color for this week's theme was Grayscale for the Common Ground Party. Buffy blews us away with her awesome grayscale ball that she could even dance it!
Thank you everyone for attending the parties and dressing with the color themes! To display unity, we have a different color theme every week. Here are the upcoming color themes for 2008: Sept 4 – Black, Sept 11 – White, Sept 18 – Green, Sept 25 – Teal, Oct 2 – Blue, Oct 9 – Purple, Oct 16 – Violet, Oct 23 – Magenta, Oct 30 – Red, Nov 6 – Orange, Nov 13 – Yellow, Nov 20 – Gold, Nov 27 – Brown, Dec 4 – Midnight, Dec 11 – Sunrise, Dec 18 – Midday, Dec 25 – Sunset. You don’t have to dress up, but it is fun to!

Black and White - Common Ground @ NPC

I was so pleased with our practice run of Common Ground @ Plush NPC! Our color theme was black and white and Ricken Flow was our DJ for the night. He spun awesome disco and 80’s new wave tunes for us, while taking IM requests too. We planned for an hour of merriment, but it lasted two ending with a special request of “Moondance” for Ronnie. I decided that the next few Common Ground @ NPC events are going to stay desaturated (void of color – the horror!) like the beginning and end of Wizard of Oz until our grand opening on Sept 18. Then our first color will be green sans scary flying monkeys.