Relay for Life: Winter & Spring Sims

Many of the Winter Sim designs were not my style -- dark in many ways amidst a frozen landscape. But if dark and mysterious is your forte, this is the sim for you! My personal favorite here was TULI . (And who doesn't like Tuli? Well there must be someone. )

Freebies available at:

Gorgeous - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rezzable%20Discover/174/24/24


Onward to the Spring sim! By 4 pm SL time the lag was terrible, my hair in my crotch and my shoes gone - LOL, but I did keep on keeping on. The cheery colors helped.


Freebies available at:

Coconut Ice - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rezzable%20Design/213/45/24
Evie's Closet - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rezzable%20Design/114/34/24
Mischef (not working when I was there)
Icing - (Night Mist dress) http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rezzable%20Design/51/32/24
Bossa Nova - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rezzable%20Design/40/101/24
Moonshine - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rezzable%20Design/33/180/24
Rose Petal Creatins - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rezzable%20Design/33/180/24
Gritzi Design - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rezzable%20Design/34/230/24

And here are some of my favorite designer gifts from the fair. I'll need at least a day to get my inventory in order after THIS week. And who knows what adventures might come my way. There are lots of mix and match options within the presents.

Click for a large version with more detail.

THANK YOU designers - one and all. Go forth and shop guys! You are sure to find something to your liking here at the fair. Go early if you can. After becomes a lagfest.

Relay for Life: Fall Sim

Journeying on this morning after trying on some of my new clothes, I noted that the crowds had definitely diminished. Good for lag; not good for sales. While Autumn is my favorite season, many of the stores seemed simply depressing to me. Tiny and crowded vendor pictures abounded. But then I came to Vindi.



I haven't been to the Vindi main store. It isn't my type of clothing really, but it was a great breath of fresh air to see some space and color and interesting backdrops for the clothing vendors.

Rebel Hope has a VERY nice, large and prime location at the corner (http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rezzable%20Create/200/201/24) where you can pick up some freebies in small boxes with pics. Look in the window area. These appear to be treasure hunt items.


Freebies can be found at:

Devilish Cupcake - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rezzable%20Create/116/225/24
Vindi - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rezzable%20Create/116/225/24
Rebel Hope - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rezzable%20Create/200/201/24
SF Design - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rezzable%20Create/229/175/24
Bailers - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rezzable%20Create/227/111/24
LVS and CO - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Rezzable%20Create/232/14/24

Some worked for me, some not :D Pics coming soon of my favorites

Fame! Glory (well maybe) and SHOES!

I won honorable mention in the Green Shoe Contest! Yeah!

It was a lot of work to do this photo (wink) but also a lot of fun. And "no" those aren't all MY shoes -- some belong to my friends. In order to take this photo, I had to go out to a sandbox; there were just way too many prims for a pal's pad. So, my shoes went down first and then I teleported in the gals and they put copies of their shoes down etc. Much fun, but in a small 10 foot temporary studio it was also crowded. Just standing in the right spot amidst all those shoes was a challenge. We laughed a lot! :D

My "wearing" list is tiny of course. Boa by Callie Cline, St. Patrick's shoes by Shoes Simply Shoes. Other shoes in the picture are by Maitreya, Vacano & Stine, Ingrid Ingersoll, ETD, Shoes Simply Shoes.

And here is my holiday look complete with NEW SHOES!

Elsie hair by Curl Up and Dye -- Inari 34/223/401 (today's hunt - don't miss it!)
Get Lucky Tank by Lala FooFoo -- Celestial City 126/154/0
Rebel Plaid skirt by Punk Shack -- Ohana Isle 67/18/22 (Ohana Isle hunt)
Drama Queen AO (I SO LOVE THIS!) by ANA_Mations -- Sterling Heights 122/95/22

Shoes by --- you got it -- TESLA!

These Boots Are Made for Walkin'

OK. I have been VERY busy of late NOT winning the "Look of the Day" contest (sigh) and convincing the Campmaster that I am not a robot and then not getting paid anyway (another sigh) BUT, besides all that (wink), I have BOOTS. I mean very very COOL BOOTS and they were free from Angry Monkey. I saw a brief post by Cherlindrea on these and zipped over. I love them. I wrote the designer and told him so. And ya know what? They are FREE!. Hard to believe but true. Anyway Angry Monkey has tons of great stuff along the lines of these boots. I hope to get a couple of extra accessories when I am feeling a bit more flush. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eternity/131/162/536
is the place to be. Right side about half way down -- the boots are in a vendor. If you like anything close to Steam Punk, you will love this shop.

ALSO, I want to thank Electric (he gets around a lot it seems) for letting me know about LOTTA poses. A small shop with lots of great stuff. I recognized the name as they seem to have one vendor in a few other clothes shops? But the main one is here at: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Koenji/104/123/39
I bought three great poses. They have animations too and a cute set of boxes to sit on in various textures.

I am going to assume most of you know about the ETD St. Patrick's hunt. If not, get over there and look for the hair, glasses, shoes, hat etc in the shamrocks. I found four of five. The second set of shoes alluded me. Have fun.

Intellectually Chic

Some of my favorite items of late for a Look of the Day collage. All free but the shoes.

Top: :sey tank top silver
Skirt: Punk By Proxy Black Net Skirt
Belt: DP ::belt::D-brown
Bag: CRAP Journalistic Bag
Shoes: Shoes Simply Shoes Untied Sandals

Nylons: Snatch Nylons (black)
Glasses: Snatch Geek Glasses

Hair: Calla Carolina Jasmine Dark Frosted

Skin: Another Shop (Se) brow1, wrath

Lost in Translation

Electric sent me a LM to Lucca Oh -- Ginza 51/63/31-- to feed what he calls my "purse fetish". There are indeed two free styles of purses here --one being nicer than the other. What I REALLY thought was charming was the note from the designer who has most likely not taken English in school. Since I have taken NO Japanese, I am definitely not faulting them - LOL - I just thought this was a lot of fun.

In the bottom of the sign board there is this message:



So much for the power of "Babbler" or whatever translation program was used. Much fun!

:sey - Woot!

So I saw a purse picture tonight on SL Freestyle (thank you) and zipped over lickety split to :sey -- Born East 117/50/32 to see if I could find the purse. And yes, I did. There are in fact TWO purses (one for left hand - one for right and in two different sizes (smallish and BIG - it says trunk and means it). You need to join the group to get this in store item, but who WOULDN'T want to join. This place has gorgeous stuff. I have to say I didn't BUY anything yet as the price tags are a bit high for my camper budget, but everything LOOKS fantastic. And the STYLE!!!! I want to be fair here. These purses did NOT work well with my AO poses so that might be an issue for you (or go AO-less which you CAN do you know). And simply for that reason I will probably stick with my ETD purse for most events. Those poses from Ms Midnight are killers (in a good way). But, even if you just have "the trunk" sitting around your bedroom it is SO cute (they both are).

So along with the purses there is a very cute long tank in both gold an silver (no need to join the group for these). They have some of the nicest stylish leather jackets that I have seen, plus belts and such so if any of that sounds like YOU, get over there pronto!


Also wearing in the photo (all available currently and most for free or 1L):

Sn@tch gray gloves
BeBe DoLL tights with lace trim
++ChaCla++ ::::Free:::Spider Web Belt (OnRez freebie and maybe in store)
Untied Sandals from Shoes Simply Shoes (not free)
Calla Carolina Jasmine Dark Frosted (prize chair)

Purses, DMCA and Life

Well the title pretty much covers it. Been gone from the blog for a bit. LIFE got in the way as it will and today I spent the day with TAXES (geez) so I don't have a very friendly feeling toward authority at the moment. So much time to give them SO little money ( a good thing I guess).

Anyway, a bit of this and that of a post today. First off -- and this should be Chic's post as she SO loves purses -- CRAP just sent out a message that she is not feeling very designy of late with LL waffling and wavering and the like over content theft and all. So she put out a very cute free purse (shown below) that you can find at her shops (I believe both) but for sure at : http://slurl.com/secondlife/Russel%20Bay/222/234/26 . This is very cute and I hate to admit it but I think that purses are coming "back" or "in" or whatever to SL. At least I am beginning to get on Chic's bandwagon about them. There is also a purple necklace for 1 Linden. Not me but might be "you" :) so check out the vendor pic next to the purse.



ALSO, Ivy has has fun new purse (different color from CRAP's which is great)on her wall for free. Just find it. Shown above from Sn@tch -- Pulse 175/216/30 (again one of Chic's favorite places but she is busy camping today to feed her purse fetish I think - LOL so unavailable). There are also some very nice gray gloves rotating in a vendor as you enter AND another outfit which I haven't opened (see below) but did find. The second freebie is shifting place and item for the next few days. Not terribly easy to find but hey.

AND while you are there at Sn@ch, you can pick up a Run DMCA T shirt from Retox. It comes in all top layers so you can mix and match and be VERY stylish at your next protest or sit-in.




This is the current on the wall free item at Sn@cth. I'm not telling you what it is called or WHERE it is. Go look. I LOVE THE GLASSES!!!!!! I have to say that whether or not you agree with the Sn@tch outrageousness, there are some DAMN good things there and the freebies (off the wall) are top notch. So venture over if you haven't.

Cheers!

Back to School at Princeton

So here we are at Princeton! I have never been to Princeton in the real world, but its virtual counterpart is quite lovely. The grounds are treed and the lawn well manicured (wink) and the architecture is striking.

And the Princeton folks have given YOU the chance to be a coed (maybe again) for free. They have a huge store aimed mostly at new students coming into SL I assume. It is filled with T shirts, pants, shorts, full avatars (nothing you probably care about in that area) and some really fine sweatshirts and jackets. And lots are for guys. And yes, I KNOW the hat isn't me but wanted you to know there are hats too :D

Find them at the student store -- Princeton Forrestal 28/229/23. And thanks to Electric for this tip.

Shoes - I found shoes!

This is my look of the day before I head out to show you some FREE stuff a reader sent in.The big news is that Samara Kasshiki put out some new shoes last night (I am SO glad I read the blog stream) that EXACTLY match my new ETD purse. Well there is more texture to the shoes than the purse but they go so well I am in HEAVEN!

Anyway, I am sure that wasn't her plan but I am a very happy camper with my new coordinates. I love my ZHAO shoes too but a girl really needs more then one great pair of shoes -- I mean REALLY.

So you can read about them here and see more photos: http://samarastudios.blogspot.com/2008/03/untied-sandals.html


Meanwhile, here is what I am wearing:

Hair: Calla Carolina Jasmine Dark Frosted
Sweater: *KUROTSUBAKI* valentine nit (group)
Shirt: Blaze* Boyfriend Buttondown Top
Jeans: :::Sn@tch Punk as Hell '84 Jeans::: (group)
Shoes: Untied Sandals by Shoes Simply Shoes
Purse: ETD Everyday Tote (Steel) - Shoulder
Necklace: Simply Spoiled beaded necklace (free by rabbit)
Pose: Torrid Midnight (comes with purse)

ETD Shopping

I saw a post on the ETD blog about a new purse -- and you KNOW I love purses. So I jumped over there to check it out. As with most ETD products there was a free demo (so cool) and I tried out both the Everyday Tote and the City Purse. I decided on the Everyday Tote mostly because I like the shoulder option. BOTH styles come with an AO built in and Torrid Midnight Poses -- a walk to. WHAT A DEAL.

The ao is the type in the chat for on off and not as sophisticated as a ZHAO but the poses are really lovely and work great with the purse.

While there I also got one of the Layered Tee packs (five shirts - four with sayings and one plain). The come in about ten colors I think.

There is also fairly new hair there in the freebie store (or I don't remember it) called Airy which is VERY cute and works great for me. The Barley Cords are a must for everyone IMHO and also in the freebie shop. The purses and Tees are in the NEW ITEMS section very close to the freebie store.

Hair: ETD Airy - Black Frosted
Top: ETD KR Layered Tee (Magenta)
Pants: ETD Barely Cords (Black)
Purse: ETD Everyday Tote (Steel) - Shoulder

Cal Gals Friendship Week

So it's Cal Gal's (group name) friendship week! And the gift for day one was an extremely cute St. Tropez one piece swim outfit including hat. The trim has the CC logo intertwined artfully and it came complete with beer and a Callie Cline innertoob (purple to match of course). So feel free to join the group and then look in the notices for the landmark to yesterday eve's gift. It will only be there for 24 hours according to the notice, so be speedy. A new gift should appear tonight.

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.

Vacano & Stine Opening

There is a lot to see at the brand new mall of Rainer and Larissa. I chatted with one of the owners of Vacano & Stine --Horns of Hattin 82/83/84, Larissa Vacano, for a bit. She has spent the last two months working on this new sim location. There are 80s retro furniture sets with working items, some lovely sculptures, and a general dark and classy atmosphere reminiscent of GLAM. There was a giant give away this afternoon with shoes and jackets in abundance. There are also lucky chairs (6) with very nice products and lots of "?".


This is the red jacket gift for the opening party. SO cute with a furry hood in back. Looks wonderful with all things black. The pink, black and white top is "Ringelpulli S.Moehri" which I am going to guess translates into mohair sweater (wink) as there is definitely a sweater weave on close up. Since it is a bit warm for the jacket, I paired my great sweater up with some new gifts and some old favorites and I was ready for the grand opening party.



There are other classy stores in this new mall too, so come venture out and see what you can find!

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.

Slink - Dollarbies and Boots

Slink --CG Heart 33/31/23 -- has some new cute bracelet and hoop earring dollarblies in both gold and silver. The earrings are too big for me and I am a BIG girl (wink) but the bracelet fits just fine.

While I was there I noticed some very cute sculpty boots with wooden heels. There is a demo so you might want to stop by and give those a test if they appeal to you.



The store has a very wide variety of items and some GREAT stained glass windows. So stop by on your next shopping excursion - why don'tcha?

Free booN Unisex Hair

booN has some great hair including some of the nicest Oriental styles. This is just a quick note to say that they put out some very nice Unisex hair today. It comes in two sizes and eleven colors. It is mod-copy, and can be found at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Zapico/34/170/35.

Silent Sparrow 1000

Remember when I advised you to join the Silent Sparrow group if you liked the things? Well it's party time as I type this. I am out by the abandoned house (I just love it here and need to come back in Windlight) in my NEW and GORGEOUS group gift. No, you can't join NOW!!!!! Ah well. If you are a member and miss this party, there is another Sunday eve so be sure and come. Note, this was only one of three gifts and there were unisex outfits also.

I got here VERY early and took some photos before it got too crowded. Took a brief jaunt home to look at the presents (three of them) and change into something Silent Sparrowish (wink) and return and take a pic here. The sim was full for awhile, but I got back in (whew!)

So here are some other photos of the pre-party. Our hostess is in the middle picture :D


I'm heading back in. Will add a few more pics in a bit.



That's it. Back to the RW :D Things to do, places to go, people to see.

Galleries 'N Look

I really liked Chic's Look of the Day mode and after Fashcon's Anniversary and Valentine's giveaways I am sort of shopped out. Well not TOTALLY :D. Anyway a look of the day with one great freebie is included in today's post. But FIRST, we are going to some Art Galleries.



My first stop -- picked at random from the Galleries of SL website -- was DanCoyote (Dancoyote Antonelli). And no that is NOT an abstract painting you are seeing; it is a glass floor with informational signs about the GIANT sculptures floating in the air. If you look VERY closely you can see a tiny dot in the very middle. That is me. Woot!. It is an odd sensation here, walking on the semitransparent glass (more likely heavy plastic) floors and gazing around. Definitely in the surreal category! Each of the posters talk about a work and gives a SLURL to the place where the work resides. Of course in SL you never really know if it will be there "tomorrow" :D This is a very impressive place.



Back down to earth -- literally -- to Charles Hera Fine Art -- which is primarily a sculpture gallery. Works range from home sized to outdoor installation size and feature water, SL lighting, particles and chrome. This is a perfect backdrop for my fashion shot. Apologies to the artist for photoshopping this shot to highlight my garb. The sculptures glow with their own light and are very lovely.


The sweater and pants are from Nuclear Boutique and are the Free Item of the week. Find them in the Casuals store near the TP point. This outfit which I really love comes with regular slacks, short boots and skirts in a variety of sizes.

Boots are Reheli from Shoes Simply Shoes (not free), earrings by Nip Tuck (previously blogged), shades by Digital Dragon (no longer free), hair by Curl up and Dye Salon (not free)

Poses by Long Awkward Pose




One more art stop for the day. With the Tour Hud on random -- that will be?????

Phaedra Sands Gallery



This is an abstract 2D gallery. My favorite work is the one shown -- AND IT MOVES in different directions. Not all of the art is in flux here (smile), only a few. Actually I like the colors of this as well as the movement.

That's the end of my brief art gallery tour. Look up the website or visit any of these listed. Just click on the GALLERIES OF SL sign and you will get three tour huds (regular, erotic and photography). I may be brave some eve and do an erotic tour. We'll see. I'll have to get in a very brief outfit for that (wink).

Until next time.

Look of the Day: 2-23

So, I've decided that I have ENOUGH clothes that I may never wear and am only going after "gifts" that I will actually use (wink). So - we have the new Look of the Day category which WILL of course include freebies as well as bargains.

Today's look includes two new finds from the blogs and groups. First, we have the Sn@tch Fucked up Lowrisers 69 --Pulse 177/221/30 -- (yep, that's thier name) which are free today on the wall of the store. At least they are currently on the wall. While I am on the Subscribomatic at Sn@tch, I didn't get the notice or perhaps I crashed and didn't know it until I tried to tp (boo hiss). Hence I read about it on Juliet's blog. Anyway it is no longer WHERE she said it was. Ivy changed it (certainly fair). So look for the poster on the wall of the shop. This is a 200 Linden set I believe. It includes "brand new" jeans as well as ripped and patched as I am wearing. It also includes a VERY short sweater with great prim neck piece. The sweater did some odd things around my rib cage. Maybe my "breasts" aren't in the right spot - who knows? (grin). So I am wearing a vest from Last Call on top and filled in the empty space (I am more modest than I suspected I guess) with a homemade undershirt from the appearance menu.

The other find is a darling purse from The Sweetest Goodbye -- -- Japan MALIBU Resort 161/134/22 -- which I saw blogged in SL Freestyle. I really love this purse and I love purses in general so a big hit with me.


Other credits: Hair by Calla, Skin by Another Shop, Crayon Garter by Kimberly Foss, Pose by ANIMAH, photo stage Samara Studios