Royal Living Magazine Volume 11 July 2012

spontaneous and instinctive, I am lucky in that I research trends and am always looking at patterns, colours and textures everywhere we go, sitting watching telly, Lubo will point out a faded wall or whilst shopping I’ll notice key colours. Lubo is my rock; he’ll say what’s good, offer other suggestions and has a different look on things which pushes me to break out of my own personal style.

I also get a lot of inspiration from bouncing ideas around with friends and customers, (RL and SL) I have a couple of friends in particular that whenever we get together we are forever talking about did you see this design, what about a texture like this and we generate a lot of ideas, enough to fill several notebooks!” It is always difficult to manage the time needed to be creative and manage a business while finding time to spend just enjoying Second Life with friends, but Amisha says what she loves most is “the creative and the business side. I like having control over how I work and the fact that I can choose where to budget, how to spend my time, and I like talking to customers and answering questions. I can then switch back to arty mode it’s a good balance for me but what does suffer is my social life in SL because sometimes I view SL like another program I work with. I will flip between PS