Monday 28 December 2009

Red Christmas


LeeZu Baxter gave out a really luscious gown as her Christmas treat, the Rahel. There were also great group gifts from Truth, including this Festive Geri hair in several colours. I bought the Shai red Lizard Skin Boots as a special deal (a Friday or Wednesday - can't quite remember which) and they fit very well. Finally, one of the Ivalde advent gifts was actually from Aurora Borealis (which has a shop on the Ivalde sim): the Tannenbaum necklace.

Monday 21 December 2009

Ivalde love


During advent Ivalde has been as generous as ever, with a gift every day. This post shows off two items: her Karin white dress and Agnetha snowflake bolero. I wanted to keep snug and the oyakin*summer-leggings*(light-blue) were waiting in my inventory andjust when I was looking for the right footwear the :Duh!:: Nordic Knit Boots arrived as a DSN gift. I had already picked up the Bliss Couture Crazy Hair (Black), free instore, and am still wearing the Ibizarre free nail polish (here in dark blue) and the Pixeldolls group gift Catalina Peachy skin.
Around the time of the jewelry fair I picked up the Alienbear Gupte Kitty Cyrus Earrings as a group gift, and round my neck is the Noel Necklace I found as part of the LVS hunt, from U&R Dogs. Finally, an advent gift from Kosh (in the box I'm holding) was the underground dawn bracelet.

Saturday 5 December 2009

Out of the boudoir ...

...onto the ice rink. This ensemble is not low prim at all I'm afraid - I paid for both the biker jacket and the dress, and they were worth every Linden! The dress is a beautiful creation from Boudoir, the Black Lace dress. The skirt flows in movement and falls gracefully when you are standing still. The Biker Jacket from Grasp has rich sparkling buttons and buckle and the prims were easy to adjust. Myhair was from a new-to-me designer, Liriope. I went to get the freebie Christmas hair (an elegant updo in green, with a festive flower) and couldn't resist this flattering hair, Nat in black. I think the rest of my outfit consists of freebies: I'm still in the Pixeldolls group gift skin, the Miss Mara shawl was also a group gift from LeeZu Baxter and it fits very snugly. My boots were the amazing free black patent Soho boots from the Maitreya subscribomatic and I picked up the hooped Vertigo earrings at the Jewelry Fair from La Forgia Jewels. You can see me skating in the fun skating rink next to AnaLee Balut's shop.

Monday 16 November 2009

Classic black


This is a classic, cool look with some stellar pieces. The Maitreya soho boots are worth their full price, but for a mere click of their Subscribomatic instore you can get this versatile black patent and suede pair. I am still wearing my new favourite hair, Find Ash's freebie Normal Hair[Charcoal Gray]. I also still have the comfy dark leggings from the C'est La Vie lucky chair. With its own unique style, the Sugarcube former opening gift of the pine straw dress is sculpted loveliness. Caroline's Natural Rings necklace was not free, but very cheap, and its simple, yet unusual, gold links make an elegant statement. An element of whimsy is brought in by the GJK slice of summer bird pierce earrings. I am also wearingIbizarre freebie nail polish, and Pixeldolls' group gift Peachy skin.

Wednesday 28 October 2009

Cosy


A cosy look for autumn, with new freebies or dollarbies. The grey woollen dress and stripey leggings came from 20 minutes camping at C'est la Vie. Then there is a clutch of items from Find Ash: the normal hair was in a freebie board, and the Gothic Stole and Mixture bracelet were in Lucky Boards (lots of them at Find Ash at the moment). The stole includes the scarf and the necklace, which as you can see has a Halloween element (and the scarf is also colour change). The pumpkin theme is picked up in the earrings, which are Earthstones' Halloween freebie. The babouches are still my old favourites from 2g, and I am also still wearing the Pixeldolls freebie Peachy! skin.

Tuesday 27 October 2009

Diwali delight


Mashooka put out some beautiful Diwali gifts for her visitors. This Nisha gharara dress is worth paying for now the gifts are past, and it is complemented by her Diwali-gift Arpita Jewelry: bracelet , earrings and headpiece. My hair was a Halloween gift from Baiastice: Witch&Vampire hair 2. On my feet are the free babouche by 2G that I featured before and a Midnight Mania anklet from Earthstones.

Thursday 15 October 2009

Not an Alpentraum


A wonderful October group gift from ALB Dream (the long skirt, with its layers of different fabric and intruiguing belt) continues the autumn theme. I am wearing it with part of Baiastace's group gift, the Hershey dress, which includes adorable bows on the sleeves. These should still be available, but Kyccie is gone now, alas, and so this magnificent necklace and earrings (her last freebie) is not available either. The hair, shoes, skin and tights are the same as the previous post.




Friday 9 October 2009

Autumn dreaming summer


In SL you can be dressed for autumn but still enjoy summer ....
Here I'm warm and cosy in the G.Field Halloween gift of the pumpkin-coloured long sweater (free) and their "Anna" ankle boots (30 Linden). In between are some thick tights, brightened up a little with the patterned pants from Ivalde's Vivikes dress (a subscribomatic gift). I'm also wearing the group gift from PixelDolls, the Catalina Peachy! skin and my favourite Avarice hair from BishWear. The hair and the pumpkin earrings (iGems) were previous gifts, no longer available.

Tuesday 22 September 2009

Jewel


There is lots of booty to be found at the jewelry fair! The SD True Dress in Golden (a group gift) and the cardigan by Kalmia (gift not longer available) make a lovely setting for these pieces. The jewelry was all freebie or dollarbie, from booths at the Fair. Firstly Bliensen + MaiTai's Vintage Earrings frame the face, and then Earth Jewel set out a number of freebies including this glistening Gallant Bracelet in Yellow Gold. One of the most popular dollarbies has been this beautifully made Geheimnis (secret) necklace from Shine. The nail polish is from Ibizarre again (firebrick) and the pretty leather slippers are free babouches from 2g. My hair is Avarice from Bishair (former instore gift).

Thursday 3 September 2009

Sequins, lights, action

This is a fun mashup from various sources. It started with the hunt in Festivale, with the Kissy Kissy hair from Tiny Bird and the Starlight skin from Aut. I had seen the sequinned trousers and bolero on the feeds: in a freebie box instore from Mayden (join the group first). It comes with a shirt, but I wanted something a bit different, and ended up with this former-freebie Celeste top from Pixeldolls. It has a sequinned feel and a cute buckle.
I felt it needed something adding, and I started with a recent freebie skirt from Sugarcube. But then this shortie Lulucia skirt dropped from ALB Dreams, and that was it. It is such fun, with lovely detail that you can see on the middle picture. The necklace and earrings were a hunt item (I think) from Ommik, Pendant & Bead item in Citrine, and the shoes were from Zenith in the Slice of Summer hunt. I still have on the freebie bracelet from Izumiya.



Saturday 29 August 2009

Flower Power


This outfit started with a Designers Showcase Network gift, VLW's Flowerchild Wreath in Teal and Yellow. I visited the store later, and you can get this in a number of colours for 25 Linden. It went nicely with another DSN gift, Tiny Bird's Olivia hair in Pepper. I wanted something flower child to put with it, so I visited Sari's. She actually had a free dress out, but I thought this one went better: it is 75 Linden, so didn't exactly break the bank. It is called the Ice Embers Dress. I must confess that it does not have shoulderstraps: I only just now realised that I had left on a Sugarcube undershirt: however I think the straps add to it ;-)
The skin is back to full price now, but when I was putting the look together, there was a call that this skin would be free for two hours: it is Firefall's Sofian Freckles Skin in Rose 2. Finally, I have the free IZUMIYA Bracelet in brown and (no longer available) Sasa shoes in "Blue Spring" by Orchid Dreams. The pose (not free) is by Lotta.

Saturday 22 August 2009

Ivalde inspiration


The focus of this post is the 3rezday group gift from Ivalde, the Morina dress in blue. The Mashooka group gift from about a month ago, the green shell bracelet and necklace seemed to go perfectly, as did the Maitreya Group Gift Pumps, which come in many colours, and I selected the blue ones. The Rosy Mood hair and Ibizarre nails are as before.

Friday 21 August 2009

Imperial delight


There is another lovely lucky chair gift from Icing, well worth the wait for your initial to come up. It is the Imperial Blossom dress in Pink, beautifully textured as ever. I have grown very fond of my ROSY MOOD Melon Flower hat hair (a Slice of Summer hunt gift). Whilst on a hunt, I visited IZUMIYA and found a set of Bracelets (this one Dark Brown&Pink) free on the shop wall. The gifts keep coming from the Designer Showcase Network, and the shoes are by Coriander, Silver Bow Pumps. I am also still wearing the Ibizarre nail polish (free in store) in pale fuschia this time and the Pink Fuel shoulder bat from the SoS hunt.

Thursday 6 August 2009

Greenie


Firstly, there are a couple of items from the watermelon (Slice of Summer, SOS) hunt that only has a couple more days to go! I am wearing the Cutey Honey sweet necklace and earrings. While I was there I got this very cute free/dollarbie hair from them.

The anklet is the SOS item from Rozoregalia. The dress is a DSN gift from WhoNose: the Riika dress, and I think there was a nice hunt gift from them too. The tights are freebies at Royal Blue, the "Line to the Crown" tights which have lines up the back with little crowns at the top. Finally, Nissa Rayna is unfortunately giving up her shop, and she had these boots marked down to 25 Linden.

Nicky Ree elegance


I seem to have forgotten to post this lovely item: the Nicky Ree Satin Shine floral gowns were on offer to group members, and here is the gown in orange. It went beautifully with the green shell jewelery that was a group gift from Mashooka. Also on offer was hair from Bishwear, since many hairs were being retired. This is Corazon in MidnightBlack. With it I am wearing Ibizarre Nail polish in spicy orange (free in store) and carrying an old group gift from BM: Grab Bag in Oriental Gold. Not seen, but toning perfectly, are the Maitreya Group Gift Pumps in Tawny. The Leafy pose is by Kaethe Dyrssen

Wednesday 29 July 2009

Watermelon with the bird

This is a simple look using Slice of Summer watermelon items. My top is part of one of K's+m's gifts: zinbei for females and I have on with it Evie's Closet's hunt Empire Mini skirt (over the kinbei glitch pants). The necklace and earrings are some of the favourites of the hunt: wonderfully detailed GJK's slice of summer bird cage jewelery. The bracelet is limited colour change leather: the hunt item from fairy tail. My hair is also from the hunt: YUZUKMAIYA's Tsuyoshi+Bordeaux hair as are the shoes, part of Zenith's gift. All other elements as before.

Tuesday 28 July 2009

Peach fancy

This adorable dollarbie is the Morcade dress by Dany French touch. It goes almost too perfectly with the G Field Wedge Tong Sandal in peach and matching hibiscus hair clip (both of those were in the Yabu hunt).


I am wearing the Pink stockings that are part of a free lingerie pack at Fancy Fairy. Not free are the Uzuri Rhama Necklace and my hair: Maitreya Piper II in Coffee. The pictures were taken in the Drowsy sim, on the gorgeous floating raft and in the temporary horror festival.


Wednesday 22 July 2009

Watermelon life


Here I am, firstly wearing the ENCEMBLE Slice of Summer Watermelon hunt prize, the Dot Long Set - it comes with this long skirt or a shorter one. I have kept the other items from the last post as they seemed to go so wonderfully well together! I am also wearing a necklace by Chloe (flower necklace) that I got as a freebie a while back. The second gown (in black and white) is the Likka House gift: the Mama's Rose black set. On my shoulder is the LittleGirl gift of a shoulder pet doll . Finally (all watermelon items, as if you couldn't guess) I am wearing the wearable bicycle from Khittenish , The jumpsuit from Ezura and the backpack from Concrete Flowers.

DSN delights


The babydoll and jeans are a DSN gift, the Evita set from CIA Designs. There are some nice touches, in particular the red cord which makes the halter neck. The hair is also a DSN fift, from Adimu: the Oh My, Lye hair. I am still wearing the G Field hat that was part of the hunt there: now you have to pay for it and the Ibizarre Nail black polish which I found free in their store. The straw bag is a fun item and was the May group gift from Dark Mouse and the churiya on my left arm was in th Mashooka hunt a while back. The pumps were one of the many group gifts from Baby Monkey: red floral shoes.
This has been my costume on the watermelon hunt so far, so the next post will see me wearing items I got whilst I was on that trip!

Wednesday 15 July 2009

White linen

This dress is just perfect for summer days, a poem in white linen from Mashooka. The Marilene dress was an item in their sale, reduced to (I think) 60 Linden. I'm wearing it with the G Field hat from their hunt, but the hats are now on sale in the main store. My hair is from Maitreya: Apple II, free at the hair fair a few weeks ago. The bracelet and necklace are two old hunt items: PR!TTY's Aila Bangles in Silver and the magnifying glass necklace from ICED. The shoes were a dollarbie, jewelled flats in ice from 50 Flats - they often have freebies or dollarbies in store. In the second picture I am holding a current Concrete Flowers freebie, a crystal ball.

Friday 10 July 2009

Southern heat


After the fairytale dream, a beach reverie. A number of items were in the Yabu (mushroom) hunt, from the ever-pretty G Field (note that some mushrooms are very small). Then I followed up a notecard alerting me to a freebie at Donna Flora, and discovered a very interesting southern shopping district. I got a very striking freebie necklace from one shop (I may blog it in future) and also some freebie hair, also very striking, from Pocket Mirrors.

Lilla top and necklace: Donna Flora (5 Linden)
Hibiscus capri jeans, Sunny Tong sandals in peach and hibiscus flower in hair: G Field (hunt items)
Josefine Short Black hair: Pocket Mirrors (freebie in store)

Thursday 9 July 2009

Fairytale

I joined the many people chomping at the Lucky Cupcake at Evie's Closet. I snagged a really sweet sweatshirt set that confirms that I believe in fairies, a little fairy friend that hovers round your face, a couple of storecards (I used one to buy my hair garland) and finally this wonderful Aurora gown. The outfit is completed with the long pendant that was a prize in the Yabu sim hunt. The pictures were taken near the Caverna Obscura shop, a very pretty area.

Aurora gown: Evie's Closet (was free in Lucky Cupcake - now over)
Nail polish - diamont black: Ibizarre (free in store)
Piper II hair - Coffee: Maitreya (not free)
Denim flats: Baby Monkey (free)
Innocence Garland (Gold): Evie's Closet (bought with store card free in Cupcake)
Anchor Long Necklace (Silver): Yabusaka (free in hunt)

Sunday 5 July 2009

Colourful


Some quick pictures of recent grabs. There were some very cheap items out on the LVS sim, and the dresses are all from there, as in one of the necklaces. The hair is from the current House of Heart free sampler in two cases, and the other hair is from the RELIC freebie board. Also in the mix are shoes from Baby Monkey, and some DSN jewel gifts.
The first picture shows outfit 1, and also Outfit 1 with one of the extraordinary hairs that were free from Baiastace at the SL 6th Birthday celebrations.


Outfit 1
Modern Garden-dress lime: PRINCESSCOUTURE, 30 Linden in LVS sim
Antoinette hair in auburn: House of Heart, part of free gift for July
Golden nail polish: Ibizarre (free in store)
Filigree Necklace and earrings Amazonite Gold: M!ne, DSN gift

Outfit 1a - the same, but with the Baiastice Hair-marieantoinette cyborg -pluto.

Outfit 2
Ms Kelly Dress in yellow: LVS&co (dollarbie on LVS sim)
Firebrick nail polish: Ibizarre (free in store)
Filigree Bracelet Amazonite Gold: M!ne, DSN gift
KAWAII-Summer Shake NECKLACE: Lynx (dollarbie on LVS sim)
Hair #618 (Bandage hair): REDLIC freebie in store
Denim Flat: Baby Monkey (colourchange, 10 Linden to group in store)

Outfit 3
Apple of my eye dress in red: LVS&co (dollarbie on LVS sim)
Aphrodite shoe in red: Baby Monkey (free 4th July gift in store)
Sasafrass hair in rosewood: House of Heart, part of free gift for July
Silver Star Necklace : Dark Mouse July group gift
Journey Earring - Diamond _Silver: Dark Mouse (DSN gift)
(other items as Outfit 2)

Sunday 28 June 2009

Hair fair

In this post I show off a couple of items that were freebies or dollaries at the Hair Fair, plus some items from the new Fabulously Free HQ on the Car Wash sim. I picked up some nice hair and will be showing it off in future posts, but probably my favourite was this Angelica style from Rock Candy: a dollarbie pack included all colours. Sari's had freebie dreadlocks on her stand, but I'm showing her other Hair Fair gift, the Fringe Bene baby doll dress with beaded hem. The Peacock hair flower (there's a little feather at the top) was also free in the Fuel booth. I wanted some cover up for my legs, so I visited the Fabulously Free HQ and found a nice freebie pack from Malt which included a dress and these Genista jeans. Baby Monkey had been generous as usual, and the pretty red pumps and little red shoulder bag are from BM. To complete the outfit, U&R Dogs had donated pretty Cyprian bangles and matching earrings.
Later on I visited the new Yezibah sim, where Ibizarre has relocated. Although it was a whole 50 Linden, I couldn't resist the beach bag replete with goodies that you see in the second picture!

Friday 26 June 2009

Sascha style


Sascha has gifted a lovely dress to her group, with a worked bodice and transluscent wrap: the Gaggle dress in Turqoise. Fortunately I discovered this gift from Eolande in my inventory that matches the dress perfectly: Hibiscus Hair Pin in silvermist.
My hair was a DSN gift from JADAStyle: Catherine in black. I am wearing two dollarbie items from PURE: the flowerbracelet and flat necklace.In the picture below I am relaxing in the Life is Good sim.

Tuesday 16 June 2009

Gypsy!

A quick post to feature two items from ALB Dreams and two from Duh! The skirt is a group gift from ALB Dreams which you find instore: join the LAMU group and make sure your group tag is activated. Since it does NOT come with glitch pants I kept on the Pizzacato Poppies pants and shirt - the waistband of that outfit seemed to go nicely with the multicolours in the skirt. The hair is also from ALB: a very unusual new style, and this colour was only a few Linden as a special offer.
I visited Duh! to collect the free clogs that everyone had been blogging - I think this pair was free as part of one of the hunts featured instore. However I was even more pleased with the Mosaic necklace - a distinctive design and a nice contrast between the various stones and gems. This was a group gift - I think a Subscribomatic group.

Two items from Earthstones made up the ensemble. The bangle had been free (it is almost an Earthstones logo!) , but it was single strand. It is Copy, so I made a copy, attached it to my hand and edited to place it over the wrist, then I wore the usual forearm-attached bangle too. The earrings (just seen) were a celebration gift last year.

Thursday 4 June 2009

Poppies with pride

I finally snagged the Pizzacato Poppies dress from the Lucky Chair at Icing, and as you can see, it's a dream. I accessorised it simply with the Floria bangles that were in a former GF Field hunt, a Kunstkammer necklace free in a St Patrick's day hunt and Maitreya pumps from the generous Suscribomatic gift pack.

My hair is NOT free: it's the luscious Piper II from Maitreya. My eyes are from Miriel and the skin was Nuclear Boutique (no longer available).


The "flying" picture was taken at the PopFuzz shop. It has a great "healing room" - when you go in and click on the floor, a night sky globe rezzes around you and you can click on a "float" ball.