Holiday Confetti

I bought a couple of good-value items in the Icing sale a while back and hadn't blogged them yet. The top and leggings are the Icing "Confetti" outfit: it was L$100 when it was half price. Some of the other things were Valentine freebies: the hair, bag, bangles and choker. Both the shoes and the bangles are colour change: a good wide range of colours for the shoes. The glasses are dollarbies from Oasis, and there are several colours on offer. I got the hat there too, at L$30, for when the sun just gets too strong.

Confetti outfit: Icing, Mischief (126, 167, 27)

Sunglasses and hat: OASIS , Poco JAPAN (89, 150, 25)

Colour change shoes (dollarbie): StarChild, CZESTATE Kuai Nui (5, 137, 22)

Hobo Bag - Patent Cherry (group gift: still in the Notices if you join): Celestial Studios, Celestial City, (67, 240, 27)

Hearts and diamonds choker and earrings (Valentine hunt freebie): Flirt, La Reina (24, 84, 23)

Plastic heart bangles (Valentine hunt freebie): Schadenfreude, La Reina (180, 170, 27)

Loveaffair hair (Valentine freebie): RAC, RaC City (75, 122, 26)

Time's arrow

I've tried not to chase all the Valentine freebies, but am wearing a few here: namely jacket top and sunglasses from the La Reina hunt and a quiverful of pretty pink arrrows from 'Ookami Ningen. The skirt was bought a while ago and picks up the aubergine hue. Other items were dollarbies or freebies at the time - which was only a week or so ago ;-)

The pictures were taken in the Pillow Talk shop which is up in the clouds (you can buy clouds there, too, and that little blue bird)

Quiver of arrows: 'Ookami Ningen (126, 193, 31)

Broken heart glasses: chadenfreude at La Reina (180, 170, 27)

Round and aboutton rose top: Veschi, La Reina (201, 126, 23)

Amerantine skirt (Egplant plaid): CKS Designs, Selby (45, 34, 57)

Bavaresi Hair (in Expresso):

Blaze stiletto boots: Blaze 75, 117, 23

Retro Grandma

When I visited Grandma! for the free apron, I couldn't resist this 50 Linden retro shirt, since red and black are favourite colours. I knew it would go with this full red skirt (with fluffy white petticoat) that I got as a Christmas freebie from Bossa Nova. Though this isn't available now, Bossa Nova still has plenty of full skirts, and Ivalde also has similar items. I wanted to keep the look simple, so I just added black pearl earrings and the white pearly hair jewels that came free with the Calla Sages pack.
Grandma! retro dot shirt: Grandma!, Broadmead (104,135,34)
Skirt from Noel dress: Bossa Nova, Amour (184, 59, 27)
Sage hair (darks - black) including Calla Sage hair jewels: Calla, Callatropia (125, 193, 23)
Elise black pearl earrings: Second Mirage, Second Mirage (71, 14, 22)
Mary Jane Silver Sequin Shoes (free in store): Digit Darkes, Dacham (107, 143, 49)

Pinks

I decided to play round some more with the Grandma! apron, since it's such a pretty pattern. Firstly I wore it with the top from the free Amor dress and the flowered leggings from the Marzipan's closet Monica suit. I added a pink flowered headband from Decollage and in all the photos I'm wearing the dollarbie Bavaresi hair in the colour Candy.

Secondly I took off the apron top and wore the apron skirt with the top and leggings from the Ingenue set "Pink Hawaiian" (a patterned halter neck with plain pink leggings). The heart necklace and earrings (just seen) and the shoes are also part of the free valentine's Amor set.

I tried various tops and skirts with the Amor dress, but to be honest it looked better kept as a set. Therefore my second set of pictures has the 50s scripted skirt from the set, plus the glitch pants and top; to add a personal touch I wore Honey Kitty's strawberry camisole underneath, to give a lace edge to the neckline, and the valentine stockings I just got dropped as fashion Consolidated gift from pop feel. The cherry brooch was also a freebie from Ingenue, and I'm sitting in the Ingenue shop (the lady in black, on the left, is part of the decoration!) I don't usually think it's a good idea to match the upholstry, but here it seemed the more pink the better.

Bavaresi Hair in Candy (dollarbie): Frangipani, Iladil (95, 57, 71)

Pink Hawaiin outfit (dollarbie): Ingenue, Born (92,24,34)

Pink Pussywillows Headband (part of dollarbie collection in box near door): Decollage, Endicott (166,6, 129)

Floral apron/skirt (part of free cleaning set): Grandma!, Broadmead (104,135,34)

Valentine gift stockings: *pop feel*, KyuKaruizawa (118, 30, 23)

Alienbear Designs Amor ear studs and necklace; Alchemy Amor dress and Angels Amor Valentine shoes: all at Alchemy: Emilia (38, 84, 61)

Monica set (freebie): Marzipan's closet, Business Bureau Isle (222,85,22)

Strawberry camisole: Honey Kitty, Plush Terra (213, 222, 21)

Classic Tank Watch: Muse (148, 148, 25).

So cute!

I wasn't going to blog again today - but this is so cute! Grandma! has moved to a new shop which is fitted out as a bookshop, with the clothes hung around by the shelves. There is a wonderfully cute freebie: an apron, a pink feather duster for dusting books, and a pile of books. Top of the pile is a Haruki Murakami book, one of my favourite authors ;-)
All the other clothes are as in my previous post. Grandma!'s new location is in Broadmead (104,135,34)

Watch and glow

I wanted to work out another outfit for my favourite Virginie trousers. I tried it with a couple of gold-coloured tops and this was what I liked best: the shirt part of the Love Cupcakes dress that I got as a freebie at their shop a while ago. I added a triple necklace that was an advent gift from Second Mirage and also a nice watch with a gold face and caramel strap that was part of a Muse gift set. This set used to be free in a CSI NY sim, but I had a fly round what is left of the CSI sims and it looks like the freebie fashion items aren't there any more ;-(

I was also going to use the Digit Darkes gold freebie shoes yet again, but as you may have noticed there have been inventory problems in SL and I found that the folder for these shoes was mysteriously empty. Then when I went and got another pair, they refused to rez into my inventory. So I'm afraid I gave up and treated myself to a pair of not-at-all-free gold boots from Fuel.

Gunmetal breeches from Virginie set : Last Call, Dazzle (56, 216, 35)
Gold dress (free in store): love cupcakes, Fuzzy (242, 137, 34)
Tory triple necklace: Second Mirage, Second Mirage (71, 14, 22) (advent gift)
Classic Tank Watch: Muse (148, 148, 25).
Bavaresi Hair in Expresso (dollarbie): Frangipani, Iladil (95, 57, 71)
Tainted Spring boots in gold: Fuel, Arias Requiem (142, 54, 307)
Another Fundraiser skin; Passion: Nuclear Boutique.

Glam pink

I did photos of this outfit a week or so ago, but didn't blog them for some reason. However it's turned out for the best, since when I bought the dress it was on sale in limited edition to support a charity. Now it's out as a group gift to celebrate the Fashion Consolidated group rez day, so if you sign up to the group quickly you can retrieve it from the Notices list for free (so that makes all the jewelry and clothes pictured here free).

I made it just a little less glam with the lacey cardigan, and kept the accessories simple as I think the dress is sparkly enough on its own. An elegant updo seemed to go nicely. The first picture is taken in Wales. The second was taken in Thetron Three, in the detailed recreation of a theatre: it was taken before I decided elegant was the way to go with the dress.

Glam rock in Pink (for Susan Komen): Punch drunk, Mischief.

Sadie shoes: ZHAO Shoes, Kasba (15, 185, 639)

Enji lace jacket:Bis-Daisy, Ueno (51, 200, 22)

Drop earrings: *UnTone, Koen, Koenji (115, 139, 39)

Tintable tights: G.L.A.M. ,Viva La Glam (76, 180, 24)