I told you people I would not bother you before crossing another significant milestone on Flickr. The last one was 50K, and now I crossed 75000 views. Thanks to all the people that came to visit my Flickr stream, leaving all of those lovely comments (even if I admit I completely lost track over the replies). Hopefully, I can create more work of love for you sweet people and cross the 100K barrier in no time!
Oh can I dream? 
That was a rough coming back home, I must admit. But what perfect vacations that was. That was so good just sticking my head out of the mud, being with my sweet family and just relaxing for the first time in 2 of the most agitated years of my life. Yes my very amazing SL has something to do with it, but of course you heard me whine enough about the work, the ex, and the rest, so I will spare it.
I feel much rested now, despite the freaking chaotic return home, the job overdose on the return (I had 5 major server crashes in 3 days), I feel much more rested and ready to kick it! Thanks to you all sweeties for the sweet come back home wishes and the moral support over the last year or two. Again, it’s you all that make my life fulfilled.
Much love.
On Saturday evening, Plurkers, Twitterati, and various other SLebrities, took advantage of Codie’s absence by breaking out of their straightjackets and disguising themselves as doctors and nurses. As is generally the case when this group gets together, madness ensued. I offer as evidence the following photo:
Osiris and Roxette fashioned a Codie mask for everyone to wear and a group picture was required. Poor Kitty Lalonde wasn’t able to get out of her wheelchair, but we managed to roll her into place anyway.
Unfortunately, technical difficulties forced us to move the party to The High…Big thanks to Nexeus Fatale for generously offering the use of his club, so that we could continue the party!
Queen Coronet served as our Hostess with the Mostest (the most KY, that is) and Nexeus and Amanda Shinji kept the dancefloor packed with great music.
For more great pics from the party, check out Dakota B’s Flickr Stream. If there are more photos lurking about…please post the links in the comments!
And for the next party…hmmm…what should the theme be?
As you people may know I pretty much needed vacations badly. So I’m going to my family. I will be back around the 27th of July, just a bit after my birthday. Please have fun at Rouge while I’m gone. Contact Gabby Panacek as she is in charge of the estate during my absence.
You can send me Twitter direct messages (DM) as I will get them on my mobile. I may also tweet back during my vacation. I may get inworld from time to time but don’t count too much on it!
It is repair time for Codie’s damaged brain. Just want to tell you how much I love you all. Your friendships means everything to me. Much Love.
Some people have asked us if Rouge is accessible to group only, I want to state clearly that it is NOT the case. Rouge is completely OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, for anyone that wishes to visit. It is my house, and you are all very welcome to come in there, chill, relax, use the bubble rides and admire the landscape.
Also, I will add more stuff so you can gather and have fun together at Rouge, from 7seas fishing server, to couple poseballs and loungers in numerous secret spots. Hike up the giant butt, take pictures, shop, dance, have fun. I wanted this place created for you all to enjoy. So get your ass there and enjoy it.
Click here to teleport to Rouge right now
Gawd what a party. An incredible night for me and I hope for every one of the 750 unique visitors that hit the Rouge sim in the 15h of partying. I can say that an impressive part of SecondLife’s who’s who got in there that night. I had so many nice and enriching conversations, met many awesome people I never had the chance to meet before, it was simply magical for me.
Of course, after such an epic but rushed event (it was the last moment I could organize such a huge event before vacations), I wanted to give a very warm thank you to everyone that helped organizing the event and everyone that passed by, sometimes up to 4 or 5 times in the night. That was amazing. Thanks to you all from the bottom of my heart, I had the most fun I had in SL in months.
Special super thanks to all the DJs from the digital Digital Nation guys, Nexeus Fatale, Eris Alexander, Amanda Shinji, Nephie Eerie, DJ Azu, you guys were all incredible. And thanks a whole lot to my lovely hosts Queen Coronet and LadyArwen Demina, you girls were amazing.
Thanks to Gabby Panacek my lovely executive assistant for helping to promote the event. Thanks to Ryker Beck for making that awesome portrait of Gabby and Marx for me, I’m still in awe. It’s simply gorgeously beautiful. Thanks to Mairead Fitzgerald for making that beautiful Rouge gown she gave away for free through the night. It’s now on sale at Simply Silks. Thanks to Callie Cline for the nice freebies and for making it so much fun. Thanks to Gorgeous from Juicy for the lovely shooz I gave away. Thanks to Roxette Wise for giving over 60 lovely outfits. Thanks to Alexx Markova for making another 40 pose set for Boudoir Rouge and to celebrate the sim opening. Thanks to Jacek Antonelli for the Rouge Bubble Ride that is already placed on the sim so you can enjoy very special bubble rides. Thanks to Celebrity for letting me hump her, that was delicious.
Thanks to every blogger and journalist that encouraged and promoted the event, and covered the event after it ended. We had amazing press coverage, hundreds of awesome artsy pictures, even 7 videos made during the night. All if this is covered in the updated press review post.
Again, of course I want to state I am immensely grateful to Eshi Otawara for making my dream come true, and to Fallon Kazan for generously donating this sim.
Thanks to Osiris, Jun, Washu, Damien, Marx, Neysa, Erotica, Nadine, Krys, Stephen, Sho, Kimmy, geez I could not possibly thank everyone individually that helped in a way or another, but I thank you all for being such wonderful lovelies with me. I surely don’t deserve so much sweetness, but know that I am blissful, grateful, humbled and honored of it all. Each and every day you people proves me that theres some hope for a better humanity, compassion, generosity and beauty.
I love you all to tiny little bits.
Your red host, Codie
To celebrate the opening of my new Rouge sim, I commissioned my good old pal Alexx Markova for the third of the Boudoir Rouge posesets, containing 40 new poses, labeled Boudoir Rouge Poseset #3. Also, I decided to make a Boudoir Rouge Fatpack containing the 3 released posesets, for a total to 120 poses at a discount price.
All the Boudoir Rouge posesets are available at the new Rouge Boutique, click here to teleport directly to the store.
Until 5AM SLT so come and enjoy! It’s already celebrated like the biggest party of the year! XD You people are amazing I love you all so fucking much. Now get your ass in here and PARTY with us! XD
Here is a quick press review of everything I could find for about the Rouge sim opening, press conference and upcoming event.
Videos:
Audio:
Others:
Special mention of Eshi’s struggle not to get deported, please read the last news on her blog here, and please act. Write your congressman, speak out about it, and spread the information.
I will update this post with more as it comes in. The press conference was a huge success and I hope to see you all at Rouge tomorrow at 2PM. Codie is exhausted but so damn happy. I wish to thank all of you. Much love.
As stated in the previous post, my new sim, Rouge, will open it’s doors with a smashing epic party this Saturday on the 5th of July 2008. Party starts at 2PM SLT and will end up late in the night. You are of course all invited, my dear friends. Let’s crash that sim repeatedly in the memory of good old times.
Since this is heading to be huge, I may have to lock the sim to group only during the party. I strongly suggest to everyone to get a CodeRed VIP group membership by simply contacting me inworld.
I will post the exact location on the day of the event.
DJ Lineup (may change and more will be added):
Sponsors (will offer free gifts to the invitees):
Designers are invited to sponsor this event. Contact me inworld if you can provide transferable gift boxes for our invitees.
Many many many thanks to everyone that made all of this possible. First to Eshi Otawara, my building heroine. To Fallon Kazan for being amazingly generous and give me that sim for almost nothing. To Mairead Fitzgerald for making a gorgeous gown that will be given for free. To Alexx Markova for making a new 40 poses Boudoir Rouge poseset that will be put on sale on the opening day to finance the sim. To all the generous DJs and sponsors that accepted my invite. To all the blogging and press community for making much noise about this sim. To all my adorable friends and lovers, and I won’t name any of you in fear of forgetting anyone. Your friendships mean everything to me, I cherish you all, for being so generous, supportive, open minded and delightful people. I love you all.
