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In case you’ve missed it, it was Second Life’s 21st birthday the other day, and there’s a month of celebrations and events happening.

Of course, one of the big events is the Shop & Hop, which unbelievably covers twenty four regions with over 480 creators this year!  Just as well for the girls at FabFree (more on this in a sec) or you’d be wandering around for weeks!

This is the first giftie I want to show you.

This short sleeved dress is sized for Lara, Lara Petite, Legacy, Legacy Perky, Reborn, Peach, Kupra, Khara, Belleza Gen X, and Gen X Curvy.

It has a HUD with a very nice selection of abstract floral patterns, some subtle like the one I’m wearing, some much more bright, for a total of twelve in all, so you’re sure to find something you like.

The chain belt is a separate object, and is sized for the major bodies mentioned above.  It also has a twelve color selection.

Now, a big thank you! must go out to the girls at FabFree for getting early access to the Shop & Hop and putting together a comprehensive spreadsheet of all the gifts on offer, including photos of most of them!  For all 450+ stores.  What a fantastic effort!  You can find the spreadsheet via the FabFree SL21B post on their website.  I highly recommend it!

Hair Fair 2024

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Hair Fair, one of my favorite yearly events, is open!  The event covers six regions, and is chock full of the very best hairstylists in SL.  There are event exclusives, discounted items, and even some gifts for you to find.

Rush over and have a look!  The event runs until the 16th of June, and benefits Wigs For Kids, with a percentage of most items being donated (or you can donate at a kiosk, and don’t forget to buy a bandana).

No Match is offering this wonderful gift that I picked up to show you.  I’ll have to return tomorrow to browse all the booths!

This inverted bob is certainly my style!  It’s unrigged and also comes with a resize script.  The base HUD has thirty six colors and there are two other HUDS – ombré and unicorn – with twenty four more colors!

And, if that’s not enough, the hair is modify, so you can tint it to get the color just as you like.  I do this for hairs that let me so I can get close to my RL color.

The creator has also been thoughtful enough to include matching hairbases for all the base colors in both classic BoM and EvoX, which are also mod.  This is a very nice gift!  Don’t miss out!

Did I use enough exclamation marks?

BeSpoke Faun

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This is a slightly scary one.  The mythology around fauns is filled with stories of them playing tricks on humans, and being indifferent to the results, as long as they get a chuckle or get what they want.  If you’ve ever seen the movie “Pan’s Labyrinth”, you’ll know what I mean.

At The Warehouse Sale, there’s a FREE gift for members of the FabFree group from BeSpoke, who describe themselves as “a collective of artists, deviants, and makers”.  If you’ve not seen their work before, it tends to lean very much to the darker side, as do most of the items available at this event.   This free Bento faun head is no different.

There are dozens of items in the pack, including two female and two male heads to support both SLUV and EvoX mapping, female and male skins and starter shapes, eyes, addons such as the black nose and deer dots makeup I’m wearing here, and the horns.

The HUD is extensive, and it has all the usual options you’d expect with a modern head, including HD texturing for lips, eyes, eye shadow, and brows, various teeth types (I’m not showing you those, some of those really are scary), a load of static and non-static face animations, normal mapping for some facial features, and more.

I took the head parameters from the starter shape and modified a copy of my usual body shape accordingly.  The settings I used were all the default ones in the head’s starter shape with the exception of the mouth width and lip fullness, both of which I dialed down to make the mouth smaller, which to my eye suits the pointed chin far better.

The only tiny issue is the head has a slight halo that shows up against transparent backgrounds (you can see it in the second photo), but for FREE, this is a wonderful gift if you’d like to dip your toes into fantasy RP, or play the darker side of furry.

Oh, and if you’d like to look slightly more human, there are human style eyes in the kit instead of the goat eyes 🙂

Zee

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At the Très Chic event, one of the FREE gifts you can pick up are these rather amazing thigh high boots.  The sparkles are animated and you can switch them and the materials on and off via the provided HUD.  They come sized for Lara X, Reborn, and Legacy.

I kept them, because, you know, they’re shiny!  But I didn’t think I’d even wear them with anything, having seen the matching dresses at another event last week and deciding such, shall we say, “sequined extravagance”? was not worth the asking price for what would probably be a one-off wear.

But!  Announced in the creator’s group today, the matching silver dress is on sale on her marketplace store for L$90 but only until Satuday (SLT).  This is a significant discount from the price that was asked at the event last week.  So I bought it 🙂

There are sizes for Lara X, Legacy, Reborn, and Waifu.

Milli

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Très Chic is celebrating their 5th Anniversary, with the event opening yesterday, and running until June 10th.

I managed to get in today after only a few attempts.  Tip: switch on World->Show Friends Only and cam shop to save yourself from lots of lag.  There were approximately 50 avatars present when I visited.

There are lots of FREE gifts which you can pick up just by joining the FREE event group.

This dress and cardigan (the creator calls it a jacket, but I’ve never seen a knit jacket!) are separate pieces, and the dress is quite nice on its own or with the cardigan.  Both pieces in this gift come in the one color, and there are fits for Lara, Reborn, Legacy, and Legacy Perky.

Janine

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It’s the last day of this round of the Sense Event today, and if you haven’t been over and grabbed the gifts for their 6th anniversary, you have only a few hours left to do so!

I think this full outfit from Finale Couture is the pick of the gifts.  The outfit includes pants, top, boots, and the necklace and bangle.  The top and pants are fitted for Lara, Freya, Isis, Venus, Physique, and Hourglass.  Both the necklace and the bangle come un-rigged but do have resizer scripts.

The boots are left and right fits for Maitreya, Belleza, and Slink.

The attention to detail with the texturing is what makes this though, right down to the tartan trim at the bottom of the cargo pants that match perfectly with the boots!

What lies beyond the dark?

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Hallowe’en is a Big Thing™ in Second Life.  Creators go nuts with outfits and usually this time of the year, you can’t find a single freebie that’s not Hallowe’en related.  So, I’ve spent my time on building a spooky setting for Eden‘s big party this year.

That’s what’s behind the dark entrance way here!

Save the date: Saturday 28th October at 2pm SLT!

Save the Sea

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This dress is a L$3 hunt prize on the Save the Sea Hunt 4.  The hunt runs until the end of the month, so you have plenty of time!

The dress is sized to fit Lara, Lara Petite, Legacy, Freya, Altamura, Hourglass, and Erika.  It comes with a ten texture HUD, with of course some sea themed patterns, a few florals, and a plain red.

  • Dress: Veronica by Telsiope’s Coture
  • Body: Lara and Lara Petite add-on by Maitreya
  • Face: Jennifer by GA.EG
  • Hands: Slink
  • Hair: Ruda2 by Monso

Two events

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I’ve been away for a while, recharging a bit after the hectic sprint to finish the big work project, so no posts for far too long.  Let’s make up for it with FREE outfits from two events, via Chic at Phil’s Place.

I grabbed this top and panty outfit mostly for the fantastic tied bracelets.  The top, panties, arm bands, and bracelets are all separate pieces, and each piece is rigged for Lara, Legacy, and Reborn.  It should be available up until the 5th of August as a FREE group gift at the Cosmopolitan Event!

And the next outfit is FREE at the Sense Event.  This event closed on the 28th of July, but if you’re really quick, the vendor for this outfit is still there and functioning (I picked this up no more than an hour prior to publishing this post).

Unlike the other outfit, this outfit is all one piece, so no mix and match 🙂  It’s sized to fit Lara, Freya, Isis, Hourglass, and Legacy.