Alert: 3-2-08

ICING has put a new dress in the freebie closet I hear. A very cute gray strapless number with ruffled skirt edge and leaf pattern. This is ONLY available at the Mischief Cove store at Mischief 112/190/25. And while you are there pick up any of the other freebies available including some VERY CUTE WEDGIE SANDALS with color change script. All right together in the store.

SN@TCH -- Pulse 177/221/30-- has a new freebie out -- rotating and in plain sight as you come in the door to the left. Gray gloves might just come in handy, so go and gettum!

[1:45 SL time] Lots of great freebies out there today. Of my personal favorites are a new purple jeans skirt from SWA -- Plush Omicron 187/184/21. It's name is "perfect fit" and it WILL but unless you are small or good with editing prims you may want to pass on this. Looks fantastic when you get it all set up but was one of those "edit selected prim" jobs for me and prim in question was no mod. Of course you can simply GO BACK and get another - LOL. Anyway a warning there but a great product.

Also, Rue D' Antibies (central landing point it seems) is having its official opening today with some great gifts. My personal favorite is the sweater with cowl neck and beret from Ingenue. It comes with a skirt et al but not my kind of skirt. The sweater, however is fantastic and even has an automatic (well you do SOME of the work) adjuster which is quite nice -- especially if you aren't a great clothing prim editor :D. There are also some very nice poses from Grapevine Shapes and Poses as well as Vital poses. Some Halloween items from Silent Sparrow made their way out into the light and since I wasn't even BORN then (hehe) they were new to me. There is a pretty blood red dress as well as a couple of unisex items (shirt with vest) and a rust colored jacket ensemble. There are lots of great shops there, many of which are satellites and I found a couple of new places that I'll go back and explore in more depth when it isn't lag central.

At the skin fair (I am boycotting :D) Tuli has an unreleased S5 skin. That was her post anyway. And we know how beautiful they are.

Alert: 2-26-08

SN@TCH -- Pulse 177/221/30-- has a freebie on the wall for the next 24 hours (ish). VERY cute black and electric blue striped leggings, a GREAT texture belt that you can wear with lots of things and a T shirt that didn't work for me at all (LOL). Well you can't love everything! Look for it on the wall with all the other merchandise. Location may change from time to time. Just mouseover and you will find it.

Also, be sure and pick up some lovely earrings (1L) from EarthStones -- EarthBound 125/134/25. She has the most lovely items. The earrings are on the mantel of the fireplace in a gift box. Also new there -- if you are a homeowner -- are some wind chimes and fountains made with stones. Lovely.

Those are my two favorites of the day. Enjoy!

[6:08 SL time] Pixeldolls -- Port Seraphine 38/127/56 -- gave out FOUR dress samples to their group and SubscribeOmatic folks. My favorite is a shortish black number with multilength salsa-ish skirt and net underlayer. VERY cute. There is also a long white with black midrift, a short white and a short charcoal. Join the group or go to the store to join the subscribomatic. Then look in the archives. She gives out lots of samples, is a prolific designer and has a great shop to browse and buy in.

Alert: 2-20-08

Free shoes at Maitreya -- Glam World 2 183/172/26. According to the Maitreya blog, these shoes were stolen (no named mentioned as to the thievery) and so they have become free for us all. These are basic black sculpty high heels. Find them in the hall of the main landing area :D

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[2:20] Lisa Marie's -- Barks 17/148/24 -- has some DARLING pink overalls for the freebie of the week. They include bootcut as well as regular. There is also a general box of gifts in the landing point in the middle of the room. This is NOT a newbie box, but some nice things. One even goes with the overalls.

Alert: 2-14-08

News of the day from the other blogs if you don't get them. From Caliah Lyon of secondsoigne :

There is a darling (but very prim heavy)Valentine belt from Kiki's Closet (shop) being given away on the boardwalk at: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kauai/180/177/23/

ARGRACE main store -- zushi 183/105/23 -- is giving away gifts for guys and gals (both work for gals) of sweatshirts with and without Tees under and on two layers AS WELL AS beanies with hair (again both work for girls). I preferred the mens hair as it is short. the hair is brown. A very nice gift from a great store.

RAC -- RaC City 180/125/27 -- is giving away beautiful flowing hair if you can get into the sim. I cannot (wink) and it looks like Last Call all over again. One of their sims is offline as I type this. Ah the maddening crowds of free-stuff shoppers. I'm off to class!

Alert: 2-11-08

Nyte'N'Day -- Nyte N Day 118/47/28 has a fantastic gift of tanks and bikini undies for $1 Linden. The tanks come in both white and a very dark pink and two layers (shorter and jacket length). VERY tasteful, well made, cute etc. and you could easily wear the tanks as shirts. I think you WANT THESE (wink). They are easy to find. Right at the entrance near other new items (very cute texture belts there too so take a look).

Alert: 2-10-08

[4:00 pm] [Freak Couture --Cupo 83/113/35 -- has free outfits for both guys and gals. Both tank and tee shirts and some bold (mod) camo pants which are very nice. Some very slight seam issues, but you probably won't care. This is an urban punk shop. There is a T shirt there also which I didn't try. These are TRANSFER.

Fluky -- Gateaux Boulevard 96/139/23 -- has a bounty of freebies both inside and outside their store. There are "wearable" demos for free or 1 Linden inside. I tried the Valentine outfit (right at the entry) and it is VERY cute. Light pink and blue with hearts and leggings, a tiny short skirt, leg warmers and a beret. If you are a young girlie girl -- this is for YOU.

The Beauty and the Beast Eye Shop -- Strutter 23/78/23 -- is giving away six sets of nice eyes. Find them in six small boxes on a counter near the door.

[8:15 by Divine] Inca Temple -- BeggarsBowl 17/20/22 has a very nice freebie box by the fountain that has jewelry, hair sticks and an assortment of NON fashion items (some which I really liked). They also have some lovely and unusual jewelry (heart fluttering here over some).

A variety of stores at Cotton Candy boardwalk -- Russel Bay 222/234/26 --have some fun items out for free to 1 Linden. CRAP has three pink (different shades) of sculpty jackets. Other gifts include a room with poses, some tanks and more. Just explore a bit. Most things are right out front and visible.

Alert: 2-8-08

Devilish Cupcake -- Talana 150/99/60 has a new location and new goodies. Turn right at the entryway, just past the lucky chair. First thereare JellyBelley outfits. VERY cute summery tops with short skirts as well as capris. The pants have an oh so slightly missing bit of texture on one seam (just wanted you to know). There are three BRIGHT colors combos of pink, purple and blue. Also there is Nonsenses pack with cute tops with a built in wide belt, jewelry and skirts. The skirts didn't work for me but I am a BIG girl (wink). My favorites of the bunch were the Celeste babydolls with capris (actually above the knee shorts). These come with a colorful design on the shorts. They have prim ties for the shoulders as well as a babydoll prim skirt for the top. You can WEAR both the strap prims and the babydoll part or just the straps for a more casual look. Great for summer which will be here before we know it (I hope). There is also a trashcan to look through. Some interesting stuff there.

Stellar Designs -- Stellar Isle 101/128/44 sent out a new hair (one for women - one for men) to their update group. Very cute clipped on top, low pony in back. There are a variety of colors. The mens works for women also. If you are joining the group to get the hair, be sure and pick up the Valentine's SD layered tee (also currently in the notice archives). It comes as a jacket layer or as shirt and undies (tucked). A nice dark red tee with layered white undershirt. Unisex.

SD Wears --Dubya City 35/158/250 -- has a nice VARIED shirt pack with a black and white oriental character T, a very unusual leather (?) holey and strappy top (think somewhere between Star Trek and Jungle Love) and a VERY bright striped orange and dark red sweater with low cut V neck.

Blang -- Jewelry 190 /121/37 (as well as other shops) has a great metal belt with a dangly "Love" charm on it for free. Find it along with bracelets for both men and women on the freebie wall about halfway down the store on the right. There is also a free belly ring on the counter, but it ended up INSIDE me (I am a big girl remember) and I have no idea how to fix that - LOL -- so can't report on the look. These are color changing, but they look great as is in silver.

Nuclear Boutique -- Archipelago Wild/224/180/78 put out a special gift for men this evening so they wouldn't feel left out with all the dresses that abound. Find it at the Mens department. The gift includes black dress slacks as well as two white dress shirts - one with red and one with pink tie. The new menswear section is up the hill from the TP point. Turn right when you enter the building. They also have dark dress jeans, Tee shirts (valentines but in gray and tan) and mens hair here for free. The outfits work for gals as well of course. You can wear the Tees over the long-sleeved shirt for a different lookThe black pants are VERY nice and I really needed some so happy about that. Thanks to Dion for the tip.

That's a full day of goodies for you to collect. There are probably more, but I need to get some rest. Enjoy

Alert: 2-7-08

[1:30 SL] Body Politik -- Eventide Far East 138/69/47 -- has just put out a new Freebie of the Week. It is a lovely, triple heart sculpty necklace with silver chain. It looks oh so great with the Boyfriend Shirt from Blaze that was still available this morning :D -- You can even cheat a bit and make it look like it is UNDER the shirt. How fun!

[2:00] Beautyberry -- MoonDoggies 215/44/27 (on a cart vendor) has a very cute light blue gray and darker violet layered look top. It has a tiny problem with seams under the arms but who looks there? It can be worn as an undershirt too. It does however seem to have INVISIBLE panties? So do not try changing in a public area.

There is also a nice light blue top in the same shopping area on another cart *Bagley* -- MoonDoggies 191/57/27, It is very nicely made, but has the word ORGAN in big letters on the front. So not for everyone :D

Also check Thimbles -- MoonDoggies 190/110/27 in the same area (a shop) for some wonderful, bright colored knee socks. They look great with my crayola garter.

[4:30] *ICING* just gave the CUTEST pink with maroon trim flowered short dress to her update group. If you like girlish things that are not TOO cutesy, this is a group for you! ICING UPDATE GROUP. Join, then go to the notices and open the attachment that is the dress called Poppy Love. ICING gives really wonderful gifts to her group.

[8:00] !Retox! -- Pulse 180/237/30 is starting a weekly hidden freebee in the main store. One normal inventory item will have its price set to $0L. You can either search around for it in the store or join the !Retox! update group by clicking the subscribe-o-matic vendor in the main store. First gift was a set of bangles in both black and white and rainbow colors. Left and Right wrists so many choices in wearability :D

Sirena -- West Sunset 160/50/22 -- has a very cute short, bright print babydoll dress for valentines day. (Thanks Ch'know?) Find it on the far wall in a tiny poster vendor in the Freebies area. Also check out the tutorials and other free things. The dress comes with shoes and necklace but I liked the dress the best (we all have different taste). It looks great with some of the other valentine goodies in the list above. There is also a yellow polka dot outfit in the same vendor area. It is OK but the valentine dress is better quality AND more fun!!!! IMHO :D

Alert: 2-5-08

So, here's the new system (wink). Freebies for the most part will be covered in an alert and the regular posts will carry more in depth articles on fashion districts, shops et al. They will no doubt include freebies also.

There will be no pictures with these alerts, but they will be as timely as possible. WE WILL ADD TO THE POST throughout the day as needed. The feed will pick up only the FIRST entry, so check the original posts for anything added that day. Simply click the title of the post to go to the Second Life Colors blog. Other free sites will most likely pick up any new tips and show you pictures. We will concentrate on other projects.

All alerts WILL HAVE BEEN CHECKED for quality. We are just saving a lot of time dispensing with the photos and layout. Each alert will have this logo to the side so you can recognize it easily. You can always check the "alerts" category for a back listing of items. We will always try and give credit to anyone or any site we got a tip from. Hope this works for you. It will lengthen our (at least MY) burnout time :D

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The VERY cute "boyfriend shirt" from Fashcon is still available at Blaze --Blaze 54/125/22. Find it to the left of the entrance in the main part of the store. It works for either men or women. You can also wear it without the skirt (lower section). Thanks SL Free*Style who found out from Ch'know? \

There are some very nice poses from Poseur -- LicoLico (44, 15, 21). They are designed as oriental poses for fans and include pictures of the poses in geisha outfits. All but the last (number 4) would work well for fashion and photo shots. No direct TP point so use the beacon to find the far away spot.

(2:45 from Chic) Sn@cth -- Pulse 175/216/30 has just sent out the weekly post to their update group. A new, not yet released, gray Henley jersey with 3/4 sleeves and open neck, over the knee socks and a trimmed bikini is available. It is called Jersey Girl and while the vendor says it is 100L (the price it will be) it is marked to 0. Find it on a counter not far from the entrance. There is a saying on the back of the shirt, so this may not be for everyone -- "So Rude You Can Taste It" in black grunge lettering. Great details on the stocking and T and the bikini come as undies or pants for tattoo folks. If you like her designs, why not just JOIN the group or click the SubsribeOMatic in the store? Note: this is not an "old-timers" group. My mom would cringe (LOL).