Hello lovelies, today I have a nice little top and shorts set from Artic Storm to show you!
The top and shorts are separate and come in nearly every size imaginable.
This outfit was put together for a themed party at Eden recently. I really had nothing to wear so I went looking on the marketplace and I found this! It makes lovely use of materials for glitter, which I hope you can see in the photos!
The minidress and top are all one piece and come in standard mesh sizes and fitmesh for Lara, Hourglass, and Physique. Included are appliers (Omega and Maitreya) for the leg wraps and tattoos. The leg wraps also come on a system layer, but the tattoos are only in the appliers, which is a shame if you only have a system body.
The package also included some prim butterfly wings, but I wasn’t very happy with them, so I used these bird of paradise wings I had stashed away. They are really pretty and fluttery.
I also found some arm bracelets that matched well, and going along with the blue theme, a great hairstyle from Wasabi Pills that I picked up at Hair Fair 2015.
And I did really well in the contest too! Yay!
There are some really nice things on the marketplace for very little expense. Today, I’m showing you a set of lingerie, a hairstyle, dress, and shoes, all bought for less that L$5 total!
This applier lingerie is available on the marketplace for L$1. It has Belleza, Maitreya, Slink, and Omega appliers, as well as system layers.
My hairstyle is also available for a single Linden Dollar, and incredibly comes with a 30 color HUD!
The nice thing about applier lingerie is it provides a good modesty layer for… short dresses 🙂 This little mesh dress is available on the marketplace for L$1 as well, and comes with sizes for Isis, Freya, Venus, Physique, Hourglass, TMP, and Lara. It also comes with a three color HUD for black, white, or red versions.
Admittedly, I’m wearing my Lara body and SLink hands and feet in these photos, but with just a little searching on the marketplace, you can look good with just the system body. For example, you can find Bento hands for L$0 if you care to take the time to match your skin!
And lastly, here’s a closeup of my heels, available for SLink, Belleza, and Maitreya High feet. Cost? L$1.
All up, these two outfits and a 30 color hairstyle cost me L$4. That’s pretty amazing for what equates to about USD 1.5 cents! What clothes can you find out there?!
I’ve moved the store due to some exceedingly poor treatment from my previous estate managers at Azure Islands. I’d been a tenant there for 24 weeks and never been late with a payment. Having turned up to pay my rent with half a day to run on my meter, I was surprised to find that the meter was paid up for a month! After checking with Aeon to make sure she hadn’t topped it up, I assumed I had an angel looking after me.
About four hours later, my entire store was returned to me with no warning! Even though if someone hadn’t topped up the meter, it would have still had about eight hours to run (I know, I looked at the L$ transaction history to make sure).
I immediately TPed to discover Candy and Billing Azure there, and not only had they returned my store, but also a huge art gallery next to me! When I asked what was going on, after waiting nearly 30 minutes for them to respond to my repeated queries, I was told that “(resident name) had paid my meter with fraud [sic] lindens and we had to reclaim the land”. I didn’t know there was such a thing as “fraud lindens”. I can only assume that the named resident had participated in some form of phishing and dumped their profits on my meter and the art gallery’s next door.
Okay, so I can understand that they needed to reset the meter to wipe the credit, but couldn’t they have done it in a way that would have made everyone happy? For example, transferred the payment to the meter on an available parcel and cleared that? Failing that, why not be considerate and IM me, and tell me what’s going on? I was obviously online, there was an online indicator in the store! Then I could have come and picked up the store, they clear the meter, sell the land back to me for L$0, and I put the store back, and I remain a happy tenant. But no, just boom, return with no warning. Result, one extremely upset tenant.
After receiving basically only the information I’ve laid out above after repeatedly asking for further clarification and being ignored, I TPed back home very upset, sans land. Of course, I could have repurchased the parcel, but after treatment like that, I really didn’t want to deal with them any more, and I sure didn’t want to give them any more L$. So I moved.
After nearly two days of searching for a new place, I settled on a store right at the landing point of MyntBox, a supervised adult sandbox. This place is pretty cool, and I knew about it from some early builds I did there. Why don’t you come and visit, browse the store, and maybe stay awhile and build something of your own in the sandbox!
Oh! Blue, my namesake at Blueberry is spoiling us! She just released this amazing top for FREE!
The top comes in two versions, short and long, and in sizes for all three Belleza bodies, both Slinks, and Maitreya Lara.
And it comes with a massive HUD with 27 color choices in both lace and plain for the main fabric. It allows you to texture the lace trim, main fabric, and ties separately, and it allows you to switch the lace trim on and off!
Wow, just wow. Blueberry’s October group gift top is one of my favourites, and I’m sure this will quickly become a favourite too!
One of my recommended stores for women beginning their Second Life is Snowpaws. Their group is L$150 to join, but without even doing that, there is a wall, yes, an entire wall, covered with pretty good quality outfits, all for L$0 (there are really 50 outfits, but who’s counting?) Most of these outfits are system, but they are far superior to anything you’ll find in a freebie mall.
In addition to the freebie wall, there are six Midnight Mania boards, eight Mini Mania boards, six Lucky Letter boards, and seven Lucky Chairs, and all require no group.
If you do chose to join their group, at the time of writing there are 35 group gifts, yours for the taking.
This gown is from memory and old group gift which is no longer available, and it’s in standard mesh sizes. To demonstrate you don’t need a mesh bod to look good, here I’m wearing it on my system bod! OK, I am wearing Slink hands and top quality hair and jewelry, but you can find free hands, hair, and jewelry too, if you have the motivation and are selective about what quality you’ll accept.
Snowpaws also offers free gifts for SLF&O and FabFree group members most of the time, and free offers are periodically available for a number of other free-to-join groups. This store is a must-see for ladies just starting SL!
I have to do a quickie post! Look at this nail art! Aeon, make sure you go grab this before it’s gone! Appliers for Slink, Maitreya, Clawz, and Astralia.
Or perhaps I’m the one in the white hat chasing the gangsters? I love coming up with outfits for themed parties. This is an old ensemble and I’m actually wearing it on my system bod. Sometimes, system clothing works really well, and in the case of old items from Carrie’s Lingerie (which is where the corset, bra, and gloves are from), you can’t really go wrong!
Oh and the fab car behind me is at Builder’s Brewery. They have fantastic classes for beginners to experts. Go and check them out for all your building needs.
A little mix and match today with this cute ruffled mini. I’ve shown you the top before, but I thought it went really well with this mini skirt so here it is again!
The mini skirt comes in nearly every mesh body size, and it also includes a 20 color HUD! 10 solid colors and 10 cute textures!
I found this pretty little location to photograph too. Most of the time I photograph in the studio as I’m too busy with building or texturing or scripting or something to get out and find locations. Well, this time I got out yay!
This dress has just enough design on it so I can’t really classify it as an LBD… ok, it’s an LBD 🙂
It was a group gift for the Maitreya Gifts, Sales & News group a little while ago from Lo’s, and therefore it’s only in fitmesh for Lara.
I think that is the designer had stopped and thought for a moment, adding a materials layer for shine just for the pattern at the hem could have made a great dress into a totally spectacular dress 🙂 As it is, it’s certainly one to consider when going out clubbing!
