Daisies and Bunchberries

 This photo was originally intended to go up back in Spring, but the Typist got hooked on a cozy-style video game that still has a very strong hold lol. As a result, blog posts got pushed aside, and while I have a nice backlog of items from the various weekend sales over the months for more photos, it's going to take a while to style them all and get the shots. 

(I also haven't been on Primfeed much, and sincerely regret not seeing everyone's pictures and giving likes there!) 

Head: LOGO "Christina"
Skin: [Glam Affair] "Foxy" L006A 
Hair: TRUTH "Linger" - Redhead
Makeup: Velour "Dreamin" Eyeshadow (Gold), Cazimi "Holiday Glam" Eyeliner 80% and Warm Lt Nude 60& Lipstick

Clothes: ::pm:: Paula Set -cream-, [M.O.D.A.N.] "Anais" Heels
Jewelry: *Avaway* HUMMINGBIRD Earrings Set, ~~Ysoral~~ "Ariane" Bracelet, Evelock "Flora" Amber Necklace

Pose: versuta. melly // 9

Location: Dutch Pavilion 

February Fugue

 The second half of February kind of went by in both a rush and a daze for me; the anniversary of an emotionally fraught event falls in there, some RL stuff (helping a friend move, being even more short-staffed at work due to co-worker medical issues, etc,, and The Typist getting hooked on a new video game. possibly in reaction to some of that stuff). 

There's no location for this shot, as it's a set put together on a friend's bit of private land, with items from the February Shop & Hop, and items from a couple of weeks' worth of weekend sales.

SL's 13th Birthday at Hairology

Apologies if I'm rushing these posts a bit, but the 13th Birthday event runs through June 26th and I want to show off some of these items while people can still grab them!

Yesterday I hit the Hairology event for its load of freebies and oh my pixels were there some lovelies in the mix!  With only a few exceptions, the hairs come with multiple color options and/or HUDs which make them suitable for most avatars. (Sorry guys, I only saw one vendor there specifically for men's hair - but at least one of the other gifts is unisex.)

With no further ado, here are a few of my favorite scores!

Happy 13th Birthday, Second Life!

SL is having a birthday, and we can all get presents!  There's a list of current shopping events at which some of the designers have put out free gifts for SL members; just look for the tall birthday cake and click on it!

So far I've hit two of the events, and have soooo many other things to try on and take pics of!  For this entry, I'm focusing mostly on items from Whimsical (with a couple from We Love Role-Play thrown in for the second photo.)

Photo One shows a lovely maxi-dress and lots of accessories:

Creepy, Kooky, Mysterious, Spooky

For the first time in quite a few Halloweens, I had more than one costume to plan! When we started planning a party, Himself said that as long as he didn't have to go shopping, he'd wear whatever I picked for him... so I started planning, and scouring Marketplace, and in the end just couldn't resist a blast from the past:

...Gomez and Morticia Addams. This outfit does break my usual guideline of $100L or under, but I'm weak-willed when it comes to Halloween!

October Marketplace Promo Finds

First of all, in a slight departure from discount SL fashions, I'm also going to be doing some blogging over at INSTYLE News. INSTYLE is a new shopping area that not only has some cool stores, but an entertainment venue as well. Sounds like they have some fun stuff planned, and the sim's calendar is linked from the blog. Give it a look! :)

A few days ago, I did my intermittent search to see what interesting things come up as promo items or freebies on Marketplace and found a few lovely things!

Antielle (who teamed with Tentacio to bring the "Rabbit in the Moon" set from this post to The Arcade Gacha back in June) have this sweet minidress up as a gift right now.

With it I'm wearing the <Rima> mesh hair from -FABIA, which is a dollarbie - yes, this gorgeous hair for all of $1L, plus it comes with a HUD containing 30 different natural hair tones!  And adorning my tootsies, a gift from Stelloane, their Rosa shoes for SLink High Feet.

From the Autumn Love Hunt

Uh-oh, look who's back! ;)

The Autumn Love Hunt opens today, and I've hit most of the stops already (yes, blogging early in the hunt for a change! *gasp*).

This cute dress came from a store I haven't been to before, SweetRed's Designs:

*BAD* RL, No Biscuit.

I've had another bad attack of RL, so it may be a little while before I manage any more fashion posts. :(  (Darn it, and I wanted to do the Atlantis Hunt, too... maybe I can still sneak a few stops of that in around the edges.)

Back soon, I hope!

Vixen in Blue

Kastle Rock Couture has a lovely new gown out called "Vixen," with two colors so far having made an appearance in their "My 60L Secret" sales. I'm wearing the first week's color, Blue; the current sale version is Purple and every bit as gorgeous.

Hair Fair Haul

I fought the lag, and the lag won - the first round, anyway. Then I buckled down and manged to get through the four sims of Hair Fair 2015 collecting a bunch of demos and gifts from the various hair vendors and admiring the items they put up for the event. (Once the crowds die down a little bit I'll make my decisions on which of the demos to buy. There are some lovely styles out there I probably won't purchase just because their reds are too washed out for me, which is a bummer.)

Almost everything I'm wearing in these photos (except for skin, eyes, and a couple of pieces of jewelry) was a Hair Fair gift! The first style is a mesh ponytail from ICONIC - one of several, which made me happy.

More Retro Glamor

This dress is one of the lovely group gifts from -siss boom-. I don't know why I'm such a sucker for the dresses that remind me of old-time Hollywood, but Lestat Reuven's Audrey in metallic taffeta has that feel to it.

Summer Stripes

Dressed by Lexi has a new group gift out - the Summer Chic skirt and top set in Stripes, which is a fun and flirty outfit.

Picture taken at the Baja Cove sim.

More Arcade, and the Advanced or Casual Hunt

A couple of the Arcade trades I was hoping for came through, and I've hit a few stops on another of the Fi's Creations hunts - this one is a dual-path event called The Advanced or Casual Hunt. (There's still 5 days left on the hunt AND the Arcade!)

Damaris is the other hair offered by TRUTH in the current round (same machine as Gilda from my previous post), and it includes the Hibiscus accessory. It made a good match for one of the Casual path dresses from {D.o.R.k.}

The Arcade Gacha, June 2015

I had a busy first week of June, so my first Arcade post is late-ish. I'm still trying to trade for my preferred color on a couple of items, so there should be more to follow.

The Exile hair styles for this round of The Arcade are even more "big hair" than the shopping guide made them look, so I'm not sure how often I'll end up wearing this one. However, I really like Tentacio & antielle's Japanese kimono-inspired "Rabbit in the Moon" minidress!

Fun in the Sun

Sunflowers, that is! This bright and cheerful dress is the May Group Gift from Kastle Rock Couture (the group has a 100L joining fee, but designer Spooky Mistwallow keeps well over a years' worth of prior group gifts out for members - well worth the cost!)  I wanted to photograph it as soon as the notice came out. :)

Waiting for my picnic partner ;)

Just Me, Myself and I

Another of Strawberry Singh's Monday Memes, done later than I wanted. (My tweak of the title comes, of course, from the inimitable Kelly Clarkson's song "Stronger")

Playing with Photoshop filters

Happy Trails

One of the current dollarbie gifts at Brii Underground Wear had me feeling all cowgirl-ish, so with a little help from a friend I saddled up for this. (Brii's dollarbies and lucky chairs are for group members only, unless you catch a special deal on Marketplace - but so far, the group is free to join and well worth using a group slot!)  Most of the Brii outfits come with accessories which may include makeup tattoo layers, jewelry, and shoes - though unless the outfit comes with boots, those shoes are designed for Slink high feet. If you (like me) do not yet own Slink feet, you'll have to match shoes on your own. ;)

Git along, little dogie...

Skin:  .::WoW Skins::. Erin Tan CL
Cosmetics: .::WoW Skins::. Aurora Pomme de Terre Lipstick; Flirt - Rawr eyeliner; [:Tuli:] Parted Lips 1
Hair: Exile: Give or Take Reds - Give (The Arcade Gacha, March 2015 round)
Eyes: Keshie: Mayfly "Deep Sky Eyes" Deep Sapphire w3
Outfit & Jewelry: **Brii Underground Wear** Beth Country Style Black Version Outfit

My friend (who requested to remain anonymous) is wearing the Breeder's Choice Quarter Horse Mare basic mesh avatar with its included tack. I very much appreciate her assistance - and patience! ;)

A Little Too Breezy

After a little bit of a warm spell, Real Life got all cold and wind-chill-y again; in Second Life I can pretend the winds are warmer!

I'm imagining this as sort of out "outtake" moment from a tropical fashion shoot  - the wind gusting at just the wrong moment to ruin the model's perfectly styled hair, and blowing sea spray to soak the hem of her dress

Whoops!

Skin:  7 Deadly s{k}ins - Group Gift Girls February 2015
Cosmetics: .::WoW Skins::. Eyelashes Pack 2013, #3
Hair: Exile: Windsong Dark Reds 
Eyes: Keshie: Mayfly "Deep Sky Eyes" Deep Sapphire w3
Dress & Jewelry: **Brii Underground Wear** Bernadette Hippie Style Outfit
 (from the Brii Underground Wear/RD Style Easter Hunt, $1L/item - 10 items available in each store)

2012 to Today

Another meme from Strawberry Singh's blog: "Meme instructions: Share a side by side comparison of your first blog picture beside a recent picture of your avatar."

I'm tweaking this one a little and comparing against my first profile picture, instead.

July 2012 vs. March 2015

Now, since I've been in Second Life less than three years, the differences probably won't be as dramatic as avatars who've been around longer. (I had a mentor in the friend who convinced me to try SL; she showed me where to go for freebie skin, hair, and clothes to upgrade from my starter avi right away - which I'm wearing in the 2012 picture.)  

Besides the improvements to the SL grid itself, I've also reversed my initial opinion on mesh clothes (of course, the clothes themselves improved dramatically in shape and fit!), joined a couple of skin groups, and at least started to learn about working with Windlight settings for my photos. There's still SO much more to learn, though!

Then: 
Skin: [Rockberry] Apple Natural
Cosmetics: .:Glamorize:. Revolver Black/Moderate Red
Hair: ""D!va"" Hair Ami Type A Garnet
Eyes: BNS Deep Eyes - bright blue
Dress: **GizzA** October Peacock Dress
Jewelry: Persefona Peacock Green Earrings (and some other odds & ends I don't remember)

Now: 
Skin:  .::WoW Skins::. Rosalia March Group Gift
Cosmetics: .::WoW Skins::. Eyelashes Pack 2013, #3
Hair: Exile: Give and Take "Give" 3. Reds (The Arcade Gacha, March 2015)
Eyes: Keshie: Mayfly "Deep Sky Eyes" Deep Sapphire w3
Dress: Prism Blossoms Le Jardin Rose (Summer in January Hunt 2015)
Jewelry: Babe Necklace 3; .:LC:. Wyll Diamond Earrings

Teacher, Teacher

This dress from ~Sassy!~ was part of last month's "Jack or Jill Hunt" (which I didn't complete because RL interfered, darn it).

(...hmmm, did someone give an apple to the teacher, or is teacher giving a lesson on Eden and temptation?)

I also took the photo long enough ago that I can't remember which skin I wore for it, bad me. :(

Makeup:.::WoW::. Eyelashes Pack 2013, #1
Hair: Amacci "Zoe"
Eyes:Mayfly "Deep Sky Eyes" Deep Sapphire w3
Dress: ~Sassy!~ "TeacherTeacher Dress"
Jewelry: ~XM~ Diamond Dew Drop Set