*Icing*

*Icing* is having a grand opening sale(read about it here). All the dresses are priced between $97-147 for the sale and all are transferable. There are two freebies available in the corner of the store along with a newbie friendly starter kit that includes skins, hairs, and other things to help any girl get started.

Dress:La Vie Boheme from *Icing* $0
Necklace: Alienbear "Ai" Love unisex necklace from Alienbear Designs $0
Skin:Le - Another skin is in the freebie pack at *Icing* $0
Hair: Nina from Gurl6 $1



Dress Peite Brasier from *Icing* $0
Necklace: Alienbear "Ai" Love unisex necklace from Alienbear Designs $0
Shoes: Almost Free OpenToe Pumps from SKG Shoes $1
Skin:Le - Another skin is in the freebie pack at *Icing* $0
Hair: Alyssa from Gurl6 $1

Closing Time

Two great designer's are no longer going to be selling their current collections in SL. It's a sad day, because as this month draws to a close the clothes at both Last Call and the vendors at Prim & Proper will disappear. So, if you've ever wanted to experience great designs now is the time. The Last Call designs are between $300 (for the catwalk collection) - $100 for most dresses, men's outfits, some shoes, and jewelry. Everything in the Prim & Proper store is $100 or less, male accessories are on the 4th floor. (hopefull) Pics under cut. Following is a sample of Last Call dresses all are modeled with hair from ETD:

These are a sampling of the dresses available at Prim & Proper:

Both places also have items available for male avatars. =) Hope you guys get to check out the deals before they are gone. These are really two great designers and they should both offer diversity for everyone since the styles they both designer are so different.

See What Happens

Yay! I finally seem to have changed my template to allow posting behind a cut. =) I hate you blogger, but damn you if I will give up! hee hee ^.^ Anyways so I now will be able to post a nice photoshopped picture pre-cut and if you'd like to see product details I will post behind the cut with a non-psed image(s). Which makes me pretty darn happy, but I'll save the photoshopping for another day when I'm not making list. Anyways, I'll shut up and show you some pretty pictures....

This dress is only $1 for the week of 1/24/2008 so hurry!

Dress: Weekly gift (Valentine's Boho includes animated fan) Orchid Dreams $1
Hair: Phoebe from ETD $1 (store is closed until Feb. 9)
Shoes, Skin, & Eyes: all from Ada Store $0 (this store has sculpty shoes, skins, & eyes all $0)





Hoodie: wearable demo- Revenge of the Little Nerd Hoodie in didnt turn out good pink from Fluky $1
Skirt: Happy Valentine's Day by Rose Petal Creations $1
Stockings: Free Valentine Stockings from Subtle Submission (2 pairs) $0
Eyes & Shoes: Boots by Ada Store$0
Hair: Zoey in fairy floss by Frangipani Hair $1
Skin: Kryptonia Paperdoll was nice enough (thanks Kry!) to tell me about a skin that will only be out for a limited time in her shop (1-2 weeks). It's mixed in with the other skins so look for the Mailin at Hot Silly Peppers Lab $0

Ok, ok... I know tons of stuff for the girls. That's just the way it is, but this one is for the guys.

Pants & shirt: I luv SL shirt & Black & Red Belted Pants from One ($1 each)
* The Onestore has a number of original designs (clothes and accessories) for $1-0 so everyone should stop by and check it out
Shoes: Simple Black Boots from The *AC* Boutique $0
Hair: Sleek from ETD $1 (store is closed until Feb. 9)


Outfits: Valentine 1 & 2 from SH Boutique $0
Hair: Jess from Diversity $1
Shoes & Eyes:Shoes worn with red dress are from Ada Store$0

Well, the cut was working ... maybe in another year I'll fix it. =P

Steal my heart.......

Since I hadn't started a Valentine's List I decided to:



Jewelry: Silver Heart - Silk Factory ($1)
Outfit: Flirty Valentine also from Silk Factory ($1)
Shoes: Color Change Mary Janes from Sarah Nerd's Freebie Paradise ($0)
Hair: Cyoncyokorin from Izumiya ($0)
Shape: Be My Valentine from Body Doubles ($0)
Eyes: Gemstone eyes (fat pack -sapphire worn) from Inspired ($1)
Skin: Free Valentine Makeup Skin (Re Valentine Skin worn) from Rave Nation ($0)






Outfit: Free Kimono from KiKis Closet ($0)
Hair: Cyoncyokorin from Izumiya ($0)
Shape: Be My Valentine from Body Doubles ($0)
Eyes: Gemstone eyes (fat pack -topaz worn) from Inspired ($1)
Skin: Free Valentine Makeup Skin (Fe Valentine Skin worn) from Rave Nation ($0)



Outfit: Sexy Valentine from Lavish Style ($1)
Shoes: Color Change Mary Janes from Sarah Nerd's Freebie Paradise ($0)
Hair: Cyoncyokorin from Izumiya ($0)
Shape: Be My Valentine from Body Doubles ($0)
Eyes: Gemstone eyes (fat pack -Amethyst worn) from Inspired ($1)
Skin: Free Valentine Makeup Skin (Le Valentine Skin worn) from Rave Nation ($0)




Outfit & Shape: Be My Valentine from Body Doubles ($0)
Shoes: Color Change Mary Janes from Sarah Nerd's Freebie Paradise ($0)
Eyes: Gemstone eyes (fat pack -Amethyst worn) from Inspired ($1)
Skin: Free Valentine Makeup Skin (Le Valentine Skin worn) from Rave Nation ($0)



Outfit: I heart you from Adored Clothing ($0)
Shape: Be My Valentine from Body Doubles ($0)
Shoes: Color Change Mary Janes from Sarah Nerd's Freebie Paradise ($0)
Eyes: Gemstone eyes (fat pack -Amethyst worn) from Inspired ($1)
Skin: Free Valentine Makeup Skin (Se Valentine Skin worn) from Rave Nation ($0)


Outfit & Skin: Valentine's Freebie from DawnShop ($0)
Shape: Be My Valentine from Body Doubles ($0)
Shoes: Color Change Mary Janes from Sarah Nerd's Freebie Paradise ($0)



Dresses: Mon Ami, Pookie, & Sweetie from DeFleur Fashions (all $0)
Shoes: Elise heel from Tesla ($0)
Earrings: Free Gift Drop Earring UnTone Quilt ($0)
Hair: Kira from Frangipani Designs ($1)
Shape, Eyes, Skin: Nozomi & Ritsu from Shop BF (both $0)

That should get you started until I unpack the other boxes. ;)

If you missed it....

If you happened to miss Spirit's grand opening you might want to go by the store and check out the awesome new build and grab the $1 boxes from the hunt that went on during their opening. There's a really nice tux for the guys to- a gray one with excellent textures! There's also a dress/tutu set named "SPIRIT Nutcracker Ballet, Clara's Party Dress Set" for $1. I'm not sure if this was out at the opening, because boy did I miss it. And look how super cute it is:

(modeled here with $1 berri hair from Truth and
Masquerade skin from Symphony $0- this was from the grand opening yesterday so hurry!)

The above tutu was scripted with the super cute pose. The set also contains a non-scripted tutu. ;) As you can see in the above picture the skirt and prim sleeve pieces are a little bright. For the following picture I show the pieces tinted with the default lightest shade of gray to match the top. This is purely preference and since I prefer for the prim pieces to more closely match the top I chose to tint my prim pieces when I can. -But of course this is my preference and you do not have to tint, contrasting pieces are nice to. I've been asked several times how I get my skirts & prim pieces to match and this is why I try to include this tip when applicable.-

(Here I'm wearing the $1 Elanor hair from Hair Solutions and in this and
the above picture I'm wearing the Gemstone eyes from Inspired $1)

On a side note *IF* you guys are free around 2 p.m. SL time I'll be walking in a show for Second Mirage Jewelry please feel free to come by and enjoy the show. =)))))

The Sun Fairy

Fancy Fairy has put out an incredible bargain The Sun Fairy ($1):

The Sun Fairy includes dress, wings, shape, and skin. I added the $1 Eleanor hair from Hair Solutions and Gemstone eyes ($1) from Inspire.

And beacause I can.... here's a heavily photoshopped version that I'm wearing the new $1 hair from Frangipani's in.

Swamp Thang

My friend Grafix shared the location of this cool unisex costume with me today - Muddy by Niamh ($0) can be found at Free Speerit....

It's a really cool avatar that leaves little muddy footprints trailing around behind you. Here's a better look at the avatar...

I'm modeling it with the Jezbel $1 skin from Soda and eyes ($0) from Talisman.

Think this is what *real* mud wrestlers would land up looking like?

The Free Fandom Project

Wow, way back at the beginning of January Imp Merlin told me to check out Lippert 160, 111, 171. In Lippert you'll find one of the places where you can obtain a number of the Free Fandom Project avatars and accessories based on characters from movies, television shows, and books. I took a picture of a very small selection of the outfits I found at the original Lippert coordinates and another distribution center at the Boxed Heroes Main Shop. The article written in the Second Life Herald about the Free Fandom Project listed additional distribution sites if you scroll to the very bottom of their piece. (All $0)

The Hermine Granger outfit did not include hair so I used the freebie ($1) Lily hair from ETD. I also added hair and shoes to the Galaxy Quest outfit: hair- Lisa II (sale ends tomorrow! $25) ETD and shoes- Plum Diamante Platform Shoe by Chrissy Ambrose were part of a discontinued freebie that was available at Phat Cat's Jazzy Blue Lounge.

So if you haven't, yet... go check out the Free Fandom Project!

Even Faeries Get the Blues........

Unfortunately it's sad, but true...........

Fortunately for us, when fairies get the blues there's a nice skin out there thanks to Faerie Hax that let's us express ourselves. ($0)

Here's the lowdown on the look so you to may achieve it: Flexified Butterfly Wings from Toya can be found on the LicoLico Sim. ($1) The silks are a combination of two free silks offered at Collar Me Sexy both $0. The hair is from Frangipani Hair and cost $1. (There are now 4 -$1 fat packs of hair offered here along with 60 minute camping for hair.) The eyes are from the Basic Eye Megapack found on the freebie wall at the NEW TALISMAN store located on the Talisman Sim. (Can you tell I'm excited that they're back.) I also used the Mixed Butterfly Emitter both are priced $0 on the Freebie wall that includes tons of stuff for $0-$1. And one last picture (zzzzzzz) for those who get confused by backgrounds and WindLight.

She's a Lady

There are tons of styles available in sl, but not all measure up to the modest standards a lady must uphold. If you're looking for some direction on how to find inexpensive lady like clothing I hope the following suggestions help out.

(Dress: Bossa Nova, Skin: Soda, Hair & Hat: SoulFire,
Gloves: TAP, Jewelry: Sh*t Happens, Shoes: SKG Shoes)

A variety of skins can be used and Another Skins are all offered for $0 and come in a variety of skin tones suitable for most anyone. You can even download the Another Skin pdfs and modify the skins if you'd like here. If you're looking for striking red lips might I suggest the $1 Jezbel skins from Soda.

(Skin: Another Skin, Dress: Ingenue, Hair: Marlys,
Gloves: TAP, Jewelry: Sh*t Happens, Shoes: SKG Shoes)

Two hairs that particularly inspire the kittenish vibe are offered at Marlys for $1 each: Leaf's Trajectory and and Tatyana Take Away. The Retro Betty Pillbox Hat with hair can be found at SoulFire for $1. Gurlywood has one hair for $0 found in the clearance section, Season, that is the cutest little bun. There are also a number of hairstyles offer for $1 at the Gurl 6 Hair store. If unrefined and edgy is more your style then perhaps trying a short style like the Beginning Hair from Find Ash is more your style. $0

(Skin: Another Skin, Dress: <3 Cupcakes, Jewelry: Sh*t Happens,
Gloves:Moon Cat, Shoes: SKG Shoes)

Clothing can be found at a variety of places, but the following stores have graceful options that will definetly be a hit. Bossa Nova offers the Lucia dress in a black and white for $0. Ivalde has a section upstairs 'Almost Free Stuff' with outfits and shirts ranging from $0-$1. Less than three Cupcake has 3 dresses near the front entrance; two are especially suited for the refined lady. $0 Ingenue offers a variety of clothing (including dresses) for between $1 and $0. A Free Top that is especially sweet can be found at Kurotsubaki $0. The Steamstress offers a variety of no transfer goods; mostly steampunk inspired, but all very classic in inspiration. There is a wall of freebies which include: Shirt, pants and shirt set, underwear set, jacket and hat. There is also a tache (moustache) over by the accessories. And at the time of writing there is also a underwear set Patience which is available for $0 located on one of the building supports. Tete a Pied (TAP) has two goodies on their train one is a suit: the other is a pair of gloves (in 3 lengths) essential for the proper lady$0.

(Skin: Another Skin, Hair: Find Ash, Dress:Ivalde,
Shoes: She's so Unusual, Hat,Corsage & Gloves: MoonCat)

SKGShoes has 6 pairs of shoes: 3 white, 3 blue $1 each- these are a great height and the the open toed and peep toed styles are reminiscent of times when a lady was a lady. Besides offering 4 boxes of shoes for $1 each She's So Unusual Shoes offers a very nice animation overide for $1 located on the wall above the $1 shoes.

(Hairs: Gurl 6 & Marlys, Underwear: Ingenue & Steamstress,
Skin: Another Skin, Shoes: SKG Shoes, Hat: MoonCat)

Accessories can be found in a variety of places, but the two following places have a lot more to offer than just the few pieces I used here. Sh*t Happens has a nice Freebie Accessories $0 which includes a divine colorable pearl necklace among many other extras. MoonCat has a lot of freebies and dollarbies, but what will be of special intrest to any refined lady is the mini hat, mari brooch, and leather gloves all $0.

I hope you find these suggestions helpful in your search for lady like styles in sl. =) On a side note all the skirts seemed not to be tinted gray. If you make prim attachments for dresses they often times will NOT match the shirt of glitchpants (non-prim pieces) unless the attachments are tinted the default lightest shade of gray. So please tint your prim pieces gray or at the very least make ALL your prim pieces MODIFY!

Passionate Neko - 2 days

You've got until Sunday to head over to Cassiopeia Isle to check out the new build for the Passionate Neko store and a new exciting store for new player's named First Look. You can read all about the details of the events happening all weekend long until Sunday at the LVS & Co blog. It sounds like there will be a lot of fun to be had and a wonderful $1 box hunt with some great prizes.


The photos are all using Another Skin Mods availabe in the First Look store for $0, Hair by Frangipani Designs $1 each, Shoes from Sarah Nerd's Freebie Paradise, outfits are a mix of pieces found in the $1 boxes at the hunt.

While you're at the hunt you'll want to check out the First Look store for additional dresses. ;) Good luck hunting!

ETA: Poses by Gorgeous Yongho $1 available at Juicy

Second Mirage Contest

Hey Guys and Gals,

A great way to obtain quality products or cash in SL is to win contest. Second Mirage (info on Second Mirage blog) a jewelry retailer in SL is running a photo contest .

(This is one of my entries! Skin: Nora, Hair: ETD, Jewelry: Second Mirage, Boots & Purse: Bare Rose, Skirt & Shirt: Last Call, Undershirt: Mistress Midnight)

The first prize is every piece newly released in 2008!!! *faints* Can you believe that?

Everyone probably has at least one piece from the Second Mirage store. The owner generously provides a freebie a week and also was one of the amazing designers that went above and beyond by providing a freebie a day via an advent calendar during the holiday season.

So come on everyone join the flickr pool and let's see who wins. (And Second Mirage does make jewelry for men; so no excuse not to strut your stuff guys!)

Good luck everyone!!!

A little bit tamer now ......

I've peeled off the latex to give you a heads up on 3 great dollarbies coming to you from Sysy Chapman's S.Y.D. - Sy Designs (Cassiopeia Isle 157, 215, 22):

[skin: another skin $0, classic chloe hat & dress by: S.Y.D. - Sy Designs $1 ea, hair: etd casual $1, shoes: dg innovations located at the free dove $0)

And one for the guys to:

[skin: another skin $0, shirt: S.Y.D. - Sy Designs (men's shirt) $1, pants: pixel dolls $0 (Cimarron Set - can be modded for males.), hair: etd casual $1, shoes: AL fashion @ AL Design Studio $1, belt: Fae Designs free from the hunt that should be ending soon, so hurry!)

Kink 101: Latex stylz

Welcome my freaky deaky lovelies! Today I shall take time out from my endless crying over my overstuffed inventory (woot! down by 3k as of writing!) and slip into some of sl's lovely latex fetish wear offerings. That's right Anna's going to get kinky for you; so hold on!

First I'd like to showcase a couple of looks from Spiderweb Creations' (Peraut 6,206,0)lovely and totally free ($0) Karen Hutton Collection with this I'll be featuring the lovely another skin (Lippert 74, 176, 179) modifications brought to you totally free by Sae Luan of Rave Nation ($0-Candyland 129, 202, 27).

[Modeled with hair: *WM* Slingback Hair Dk Brown from Winter Moon (*Winter Moon*, Canimal (64, 98, 26) on special, so hurry! ($1)]

This is a well balanced primer for the new to latex wearer. Spiderweb Creations offers a small, but varied selection ranging in price from $80 for gloves to $500 for a complete outfit including shoes and choker.

Next up is a bevy of latex suits offered for both MALE AND FEMALE from Kcreations (Kcreations Myeolchi (119, 25, 63) offers catsuits and latex skins $350-500 for both the ladies and gents):

[Modeled with Lotus_FreeSkin BlackSwan from Rabbit Skin ($0 - NEOJAPAN TOKYO 147,60,22) and ETD's Phoebe hair ($1)]

I hope you still have the baby powder out because next I'm going to showcase looks from the superstore of latex Kayliwulf Kingdom (Kayliwulf West 148, 111, 601). If you've ever wondered what latex has to offer this is a store you should not pass up! There is possibly every latex item imaginable here: clothing, shoes, skins and even hair (and yes other things)! This store is for the casual to committed latex wearer. But, don't worry if you're just curious there are 20+ totally free gift boxes on a table located at the landing point AND most demos offered for a mere $10 (even neko friendly skins!) are completely wearable! Complete outfits run around $1,000-$1,500, but keep in mind these items are *transferable*and is a complete outfit- clothing, shoes, and accessories. For single items or outfits you'll pay considerably less $395 on up. So on with the show:

[ Skin featured is $10 demo skin from Kayliwulf Kingdom and all hairs featured are available from Gurl 6 Hair ($1-0 GuRLyWood (110, 108, 22) the rest of the clothing items are from the Kayliwulf Kingdom's gift table. $0]

Ok, well lets say you don't care about the seriousness of latex, you don't want to spend a dime, and don't care who else is wearing whatever you're going to be sporting for friends, family, or strangers. Then I'll suggest Milky9 (kagurazaka 162, 201, 32) which features totally free what others are trying to hawk as designer originals, but what we all refer to as resellers or business in a boxes. If you don't care what anyone says sport these free kinky offerings (and you'll learn to appreciate the difference in textures to):

[All shoes, shape, and clothing from ($0), skin: Lotus_FreeSkin BlackSwan from Rabbit Skin ($0 - NEOJAPAN TOKYO 147,60,22), and hair: Eliane from Philotic Energy ( $1 Imogen 55, 13, 57)]

Lastly I'd like to offer you two alternatives to totally free one is PVC Lovin at a mere $10 from Winter Moon (*Winter Moon*, Canimal (64, 98, 26) and the last photo is of the simple catsuit (unisex) from Bare Rose ( Bare Rose (146, 11, 30) which is a steal at $75 for 3 colors! (all modeled with above skin and hair)

Finding First Love at First Egg

Yes, yes, yes.... It's a post about another Japanese clothing store. Today I'd like to introduce you to a store that is named First Egg [JPL OSAKA (188, 31, 23)]. You'll not want to pass this store up! Not only are there great freebies:

{Above clothing pictured: FS Free 004, FS Free 003, Fs Free 002, Fs Free 001, Fs Free pumps: all $0 from First Egg. I used the free beginners avatar (PRECIOUS+ HENSHIN) from Precious+ [PRECIOUS+, Ferguson (165, 211, 90)]$0. }

But, EVERYTHING is a steal!

{Free Cami ($0) and Free pumps ($0) modeled with First Egg 030 (Prim Skirt 009) Black $4 for two versions! all from First Egg. Pictured again with the free avatar from Precious+. $0}

That wasn't so bad, aye? $4 for two cute skirts. Well, since you've got your wallet out.... Why don't you buy the most expensive thing in the store? ^.^ At $10 you'll get two looks complete with boots. *poses*

(Set 003 comes with another skirt option not pictured and boots from First Egg $10, Pictured with Emmie skin from bazy $1 10pm pst January 7, and hair from Bewitched which if you've been following their blog or in the Bewitched Hair group you know that secret sales are upon us! $1)

All the dresses pictured below are between $6 and $8 each and all contain additional pieces not photographed.

(All outfits are shown with $1 skins from bazy, hairs from Bewitched's secret sales ($1) and the jewelry photographed with the green dress is from the Fae Designs hunt mentioned in the entry previous to this one.)

I hope when you do go to First Egg you learn appreciate the excellent textures, cute styles, and modest pricing as much as I do.

eta: All photos taken at Chakryn Forest and treehouse, Dreamworld SE (84, 63, 31) which is part of the Virtual Park & Recreational Service areas.

Down at the McD's

During the week more than a few of us are doing the work look. We're rushing to work and then rushing home. Shirt, skirt, and maybe by Friday we get to slip out of the heels and into the flats. And every now and again we get to indulge in some fast food like McD's the location of this shoot.

(Shirt: Ash Style - Plain Shirts White $0 , Rings from Accessories Peridot -Blue Topaz and Peridot both $0, Hair from Mayamaya Creations $0, Skirt and lace stockings are part of a set from Honey Soul $0, Skin is the new Cf○ skin from Eloh Eliot $1 or whatever donation you feel is appropriate, Eyes: Inspired ~ Sapphire Gemstone eyes $1/fatpack, Shoes:Illuminare/Colorful Star Ballet Flats from the Free Dove $0, Jewelry from Fae Designs grand opening hunt *this week only*! $0)

Everyone knows I have a soft spot for jewels! So, you guys and gals know I couldn't make an entry without telling you about Fae Designs Grand Opening. Ashlin McMillan has placed out 25 of the cutest little chest for everyone to hunt out and find some great prizes! Prizes include jewels and also furniture. This is only going on for one week so go and check it out. While you're looking around please take note all the jewelry is 50% off!

(Closer view of Fae Designs jewelry $o, Shirt from Honey Soul outfit above $0, and Hair from Bewitched's Secret Sale $1)

If we're a really lucky guy or girl we might even get to doll up for the weekend! The following outfit is courteous of two content providers that offer weekly freebies for the citizens of SL:

(L'Oreal Skin & dress can be found at Nuclear Boutique $0 each, Eyes are Inspired ~ Emerald Gemstone Eyes $1, and Earrings are the weekly gift from Second Mirage $0, Hair is from Bewitched Secret Sale going on for the next 24 hours!)
But, really once the weekend rolls around what we really want to do is just kick back in something comfy and hopefully as stylish as this little number from Sh*t Happens!

[Outfit from Sh*t Happens (there are 5 freebie boxes here, find this outfit in the Sh*t Happens Freebie Box) $0, Shoes from the above pictured outfit from Nuclear Boutique $0, Eyes are Inspired ~ Emerald Gemstone Eyes $1, Earrings are the weekly gift from Second Mirage $0, Hair is from Bewitched Secret Sale going on for the next 24 hours!, skin is from the I am Legend Orientation Area $0]


Fae Designs along with Second Mirage are two of the generous stores that provided advent calendar's during the holiday season. Please go check these stores out and show your appreciation for their overwhelming generosity of providing daily gifts over the holiday season at no charge.