The Millenium Hunt Starts Tonight

Oh hey!  I'm finally settling back in from a very hectic holiday season and collected a few things to share.  FTLO's Millenium Hunt begins at Midnight SLT tonight, January 5th.  The organizer, Rhed Rhode,  has kindly gave me the scoop and there are a few things to keep in mind.  There is no store list for this hunt it's like a scavenger hunt (like hunts used to be).  The hunt begins at Pestle & Twig at 12 PM SLT 1/5/12.  There is NO hunt object.  The item will be hidden inside a regular store vender that has been marked 1 L.  The item is supposed to be within 30 m of the landing point and store owners have been asked to not have anything else marked 1 L during the hunt (so they will be like 0 or 2 L).  So its like a hidden dollarbie with a free extra gift inside!  I did find a few items already.  Another really great deal that my lovely ex-wife, Whisper Despres, told me about, are some items marked for 50 L at The Secret Store.  The Secret Store is one of my favorite stores and it appears that these are holiday specials as the items are red, green or white/creme.  However, most of them are regular items at steep discounts, so you might want to visit before these are gone.  Last on my list are the recent daily specials at Baby Monkey.  The owner, Pixieplumb Flanagan goes on these release sprees and has begun offering them at significant savings.  I picked up the zebra pumps for only 50 L and they are color change so it's a great deal. There are also cheetah pumps and some boots right now; I think the boots are only 25 L.

Details:
Shirt: SHUSH: Millenium Top : 1L - FTLO Millenium Hunt
Skirt: The Secret Store: Pencil Skirt - Cedar: 50 L Limited Time
Bag: The Secret Store: Girly Briefcase - Cherry: 50 L Limited Time
Shoes: Baby Monkey: Desi Pumps - Zebra: 50 L Limited time
Plugs: Nox: FTLO Millenium Plugs: 1 L - FTLO Millenium Hunt
Skin: Laq: Ebba
Makeup: MOCK: Less of a Beotch Millenium Makeover - 1 L - FTLO Millenium Hunt
Lashes: Cheap Makeup: Tableau Lashes: Free <3
Hair: Wasabi Pills: Taleen Mesh Hair: new release

It's all about freebies

No money left? Here is what you can get with no lindens in your wallet:

 Skin - Al Vulo! group gift

Dress - Wertina, group gift

Shoes - Flax Pye On The Hunt - Magnifying Glass - General Hunt

Glasses - b.nuts INNH free

Earrings - Vogue group gift

Poses - Icons of Style free pack

Hair - Truth

*Dziękuję Pati!*

Jewellery Fair 2011

Jewelery Fair is upon us again. There are four sims each with their own theme; fire, earth, air or water, packed with heaps of jewelery specialists for you to browse. Proceeds from Jewelry Fair 2011 will benefit Oxfam International. Charity vendors, one of a kind auctions, and even Gacha machines are available at the fair that donate to Oxfam. There are many stalls which have free gifts and/or dolarbies throughout the fair for you to find. Here's a very small selection of the goodies available. These may or may not be free items (I took so many pictures I honestly can't remember which ones were free and which were not, and I took many more pictures than the ones that are shown here)! Nevertheless, I hope you enjoy looking through the photos and I hope it inspires you to visit the fair. Thank you to all the amazing generous designers and the Fair's organisers, without whom this would not be possible! The fair ends 25th September.



collisions - sensu earrings,
collisions - sakura dojou earrings (charity item).




ellabella - puritan spirit (charity piece),
ellabella - phedre (Jewelery Fair exclusive).




Je Suis - Leah set,
Blienssen & Maitai - auguello earrings.




Starkindler Designs/ Amaranthus - Filigree Fire mask & Foliage Tiara Autumn.




collisions - golden snitch necklace,
collisions - paradin's promise necklace.

Dress worn in the picture on the right is a group gift from bonne chance!




Bliensen & Maitai - papercut set,
plastic acid - love notes.

Dress on the left is another group gift from bonne chance!, tank top shown in the right is a subscribo-gift from cracked mirror.




Ganked - falling stars in peridot,
ellabella - phase in mochi.





Ripe - pink tweetle set
Ear Candy - beaded teardrop set

Blouse on the right is by Whippet & Buck and is currently only L$88 @ collaber88.




Ripe - in Ca'hoots in gold
Mia's gems - fire thorn set




Aidoru - egyptian dream,
Tunic is from So Many Styles.

Skin in all pics is tres blah - neon @ collaber88,
Hair - lamb - lovage,
Eyes are insufferable dastards' new gift for September!

Enjoy!!

Trini xx

Hair Fair '11: Last Call on Goodies!

Sadly, Hair Fair '11 ends today.  It is one of my favorite events and I rarely have enough time online durring the summer to spend as much time there as I want.  Luckily the new releases will all move to the main stores, but the gifties might not travel with them.  That means this might be your last chance to pick up some of these awesome styles.  I have covered the first 2 sims in previous posts and I am only showing a small sample here of the gifts on Sims 3 & 4.  Both sims are chocked full of gifts so get over there and I just looked on the map and they are not too full.  

You might see a lot of people today wearing bandanas instead of hair.  Today is Bandana Day and this is to show solidarity and support for the event's charity, Wigs for Kids.  Wigs for Kids provides real hair replacement for children who have lost their hair due to medical conditions.  There are some gorgeous bandanas this year from RP to silly to glam.  They are reasonably priced and only available at the fair.  I've purchased several and I hang on to them... they are particularly handy to have at high lag events to keep my own lag to a minimum.  If you want to see photos of them my suggestion is to visit Sasy Scarborough's blog, Sasypants.  She has provided amazing coverage of the event and was one of the key organizers.  The entire Hair Fair '11 team gets my admiration for their awesome build, hard work and dedication to a worthy cause!  Now hurry up and get over there!

Hair Fair Gift Tour: Chapter 2 + other Finds

There is no shortage of great finds across the grid.  Hair Fair '11 runs for a few more days.  This post will cover gifts I found on Sim 2 of the Fair.  There were so many gifts on this sim and it would take an entire page to show them so I decided to show you variety vs. quantity.  Most of the clothes and accessories I am showing are also awesome deals you can find whilst grid hopping.

Xplosion Hair has an uber generous gift in the fatpack of Lilli.  It includes two hair sizes.  The hair is adorned with cute barettes and other little decorations. The headband is texture change. There is no resizer in the hair but it is modifiable and all that was required for my fit was some slight stretching on the small size to find the right fit.  It was a great compliment to Sassy's Saucy Lass outfit from the Skull & Bones Hunt.  

I am totally digging Maria, the Alice Project gift for Hair Fair. It comes in 2 options, one with fun colors and another with "normal" colors.  Both hairs are scripted to change color as well as resize so you don't have a folder with a million hairs. The tank is part of a large gift at ChiChickie at Hair Fair.  I have to go on one of my squee rants for a minute to talk about DooDad's reopening on Oh My Stars.  I've long been a follower of Paisley Mizin, both at her old store, Sock Shop and at DooDads.  She has combined the store and there are a whole bunch of dollarbies and other great steals.  Paisley makes her own things, all original and bright as well as a bit strange.  Gotta haves for me!

Nikita Fride's Carnival hair is a bit of departure from my usual frumpy look (I've been called Bea Arthur and Florence Henderson!) but I lovvvve it.  The tat layer hairbase with it's creepy face and the hair is a partial mohawk with dreads and flips; this one will be a keeper for sure.  It looks great with Fishy Strawberry's exclusive items at the new Fashionably Late venue.

I collect hair to wear with kimonos and such so I loved loved EMO-tions' Moon hair, which is also a gift at Hair Fair.

Mina has a darling poofy ponytail style called Antje as it's gift at the Fair.  Not a fat pack or anything fancy but a lovely auburn color that I like.  It was a great compliment to the awesome July dollarbie at JustB who just moved to the new Chic sim.  Darling DooDads has yummy pink poodle for your mouth as another great dollarbie.

You can get slurls to all every booth at Hair Fair by visiting their blog.  Hair Fair's charity this year is Wigs for Kids, which provides hair replacement for children with medical conditions that cause hair loss.   All items contribute at least 15% of their proceeds to this worthy cause, though many stores are donating more than the minimum.  Don't miss it!

Credits
Hair: all are gifts on Sim 2 of Hair Fair 2011.  (There are so many more - this is a small sample)
Xplosion: Lilli
Alice Project: Maria
Nikita Fride: Carnival Hair
EMO-tions: Moon
Mina: Antje - Dazzle

Skin:
haut.monde: Amelie Naturele: Preview Skin, exclusively @ Fashionably Late.  I completely love Teresa Republic's new skins and this one is a steal.  Get it!
Mango Mango!: Sequins - Pale Pink: pay what you want at the Free*Style HQ. Thanks Sileny!!!

Clothing:
Sassy: Saucy Lass Outfit: Skull & Bones Hunt: one of several hunt items at the store. Ivy Burner rocks in the generosity department!
Tank top: Gift at ChiChickie on Sim 2 at Hair Fair
Fishy Strawberry: Gleam Top Gold / Sequins Gradiation skirt: not free - exclusively @ Fashionably Late
Sweetest Goodbye: Breeze (kimono): 50% off at closing sale: awesome sale if it's still going on
JustB: Sequin Dress - Fuschia/Blood: July Dollarbie

Accesories:
DooDads:
Pinkie Bot: dollarbie
Sparkle Bracelets: dollarbie
Genie Lamp Earrings: dollarbie
Poodle for Mouth: dollarbie
Acid&Mala: Rings & Pearls set:not free
Shoes: haut.monde: Blison Wedges: not free (moving soon!)

Hair Fair Gift Tour: Chapter 1

Greetings from Hair Fair!!! Hair Fair is all about new hair and new hair only!  This year is really special as all hair are donation items, which means that at least 15% of proceeds will benefit Wigs For Kids, though I saw many designers donating up to 50% of the purchase price to charity.  Wigs For Kids has been the charity cause for a few years now and it's purpose is to provide hair replacement for children who have lost their own hair due to chemotherapy, alopecia, burns and other medical conditions.  The official website for Hair Fair '11 is an invaluable resource as it has slurls for all designers and as well as an exhaustive list of suggestions to make the trip more enjoyable and a lot less laggy.   The sims were designed and built this year by the Hair Fair Committee, a dedicated group of folks who have been doing this for years, so they know what does and doesn't work.  It's a beach theme (think The Deck ;) and if you stay on the path you will eventually hit every booth at the fair.

My Free*Style posts are going to show some of my favorite gifts from Hair Fair '11. It isn't an exhaustive showing of everything there; I wasn't crazy about all the gifts and Hair Fair is not about gifts...it's about charity and new hair.  In spite of that there are at least 60 gifts at Hair Fair that are free or 1 L, which is a WOW that deserves a big thank you to the generosity of so many talented designers. Lots more on Sim 1 to find and worth grabbing!

I totally dug this hair gift from Gauze. Gauze has 2 fun, funky styles in their gift as well as this separate hair ornament. Toast Bard of fashionably dead gave this great purple leopard body suit as well as the necklace and earrings AND sunglasses of awesomeness.  I paired them with some denim gauchos from Mocha that are on sale this week. I've been eyeballing these for awhile and was amazed when they weren't already in my inventory and forgotten (but we won't talk about my inventory).

LeLutka had my top gift hairstyle this year.  It's called Pinned and is a wonderful fatpack that shows roots that are so popular this year. It reminds me some of a tamed down version of Rykiel, that is hard to remove from my head.  The barrette is not color change but if you have some texturing talent the hair is mod so you can make changes as needed to this accessory.  The skirt outfit is from pr!tty who also has some great hair feather headbands and accessories, which didn't work with this hair but are awesome!  The cuffs and collar are part of a very large gift from !DERP.

I love great looking retro hair and Pocket Mirrors has an awesome cut in Melinda.  It comes in two colors.  I usually am a blonde in SL but for some reason I seem to prefer dark colors when it comes to retro styles.  The lovely hair bow is a gift from Donna Flora.  It is impeccably textured and detailed with lovely filigree gold detail wrapping the pearls. It's truly a sensational little piece.

Details:  Look at the HF blog for slurls for the stores with HF gifts but you might want to wander as there are so many great ones.
p1: Hair/Hair Accessory: Gauze: Nephra - Blue - Accident: HF gift
Bodysuit/Jewelry/Glasses: fd: HF Swag Bag
Skin: MOCK: Kennedy: New Release: Not Free but works great with all those fab MOCK makeups
Pants: Mocha: Denim Gaucho: not free but on SALE!
p2:
Hair: LeLutka: Pinned - Popcorn: HF gift
Outfit: pr!tty: Indie Chic: HF Gift
Collar/Cuffs: !DERP: Part of a huge box of HF Gifts
p3:
Hair: Pocket Mirrors: Melinda: HF Gift
Hair Bow: Donna Flora: HF Gift
Eyes: KMADD: Nature - Ocean Deep: Part of HF Gift
Skin: Glam Affair: Layla Light - MSW01-steal of the day at the new My Second Wardrobe shop

Megan: YS&YS group gift

Your Skin & Your Shape has a new group gift and it has been worth the wait.  Megan is a lovely skin with a soft glow to the face.  The group is free to join which seems to be a rarer thing to find these days.  This adorable dress is from X*plosion and it is from the Depraved Summer Nights Hunt.  It comes in two versions (one without flowers) as well as a black bra layer (or you can go without the bra for a clean line).  This was my first visit to this store and I really liked it.  When you visit make sure to visit the discount area where there are boxes with tons of freebies from eyes to skins to clothing.  Thank you to both designers for their kind generosity.

Details:
Skin: YS&YS: Megan - Beauty: Group Gift
Hair: Elikatira: Again: Essentials: only 50 L today only for FLF. Go get!
Dress: E*plosion: Sweet Flower Dress: Depraved Summer Nights Hunt item: 0 L
Eyes: E*plosion Diamond Eyes - dark blue: Free in a box with a bunch of eyes.  Great for new players for lots of options.
Jewelry: Frippery / ET: Dancing in the Sun: not free

Sittin' pumpkiny

Hello, I'm Acha from www.achariya.net. I bring you two awesome free things for Halloween! First, that pumpkin I'm sitting on and the cigarette holder I'm contemplating -- those are update group gifts as part of the "Smokin' Halloween" pose set from Chanimations (they will also be in the lucky chair shortly). Pick them up through the Chanimations update group! (SLURL to Chanimations)

Second, my skin and ears are free from the new Curious Kitties: Fantasy Fuzz build! The skin is in a pack with a ton of other skin tones, and the leaves are beautifully painted onto it. The ears have little leaf earrings, and come with a skintone changing hud. (SLURL to CK: Fantasy Fuzz)





Free:
***Skin: Curious Kitties Azil Peach Skin - Autumn Spirit (SLURL to CK: Fantasy Fuzz)
***Ears: Curious Kitties Autumn Elf Ear with skin color changing hud (SLURL to CK: Fantasy Fuzz)
***Pumpkin seat and cigarette holder with poses: Chanimations - A smokin' Halloween! (SLURL to Chanimations)
***Hair: Used to be free, the Ohmai gift for the Seasons hunt.

Not free:
***Shirt: Blue Blood Kaoru Set in Ocre, WG (SLURL to Blue Blood)
***Boots: Gos Posh Bootie - Autumn Trio (SLURL to Gos)
***Jeans: Scribble Jeans (drops) scrunched (SLURL to Scribble)
***The floor leaves and photo backdrop are very very cheap at the iTuTu October Festival. (SLURL to iTuTu), some free items here too!

666 Followers

I was going to do this post with the awesome demon horns by Dark Goddess Designs when I noticed we had 666 followers on this blog o.o I am scared now, lol!!

This dress is from Aliza Karu Creations and is on the MM board currently. There is another dress too in a different board there :) The demon horns are not free but they are one of the donation items at the Wear Gray event.

The shoes I am wearing are the Twisted Hunt prize from Heart and Sole. I love the skin change hud, it's so easy to match *any* color, even dark stockings :)

Worn:
Dress, Aliza Karu, MM board
Shoes: Heart & Sole, Twisted Hunt gift
Horns: Dark Goddess Designs @ Wear Gray For a Day charity event
Hair: Raspberry Aristocrat @ Hair Fair
Skin: Mango, Mango! (50L)
Stockings: Nomine
Poses: Glitterati