My Second Life

Every one has been busy over this holiday season and i have been just the same what with family and friends.

So have left my message till now

In the words of one of my fave Christmas hits

I wish you a brave New Year
All anguish pain and sadness
Leave your heart let you road be clear

May 2011 be a good year for you All

JJ

There is a blogger challenge going on at the moment. A year in colour and this week it is week 8 and the colour is green.

So not knowing if any of the male bloggers are taking part i thought it might be nice to try and do a male version.

So here is JJ in drag.

The Skin is one of the advent gifts from the LaVie advent Calender
The Hair and do rag is from the Lavie group gift for Independence day
The outfit is what i am blogging today It comes from Lash-Ware and is 50 lindens

Antonio goth in Moss

so info

Lash-Ware http://slurl.com/secondlife/Bruised%20City/241/175/24

The link for the challenge is  http://lunajubilee.com/category/52-weeks-of-color-challenge/

I thought that i would show you how much of a difference a skin can make to your look,and i don't mean with different cloths or makeup.  I have below  picture of three skins  but each avatar is wearing the same shape and only a hair base to show the face in full detail.

the skins from left to right are 1) LeVie  2) Essence 3) LeVie again  both the skins from LeVie are old group gifts gifts gift

Hi today I am going to talk about a store called Essence.  If you are a member of fab free you will know how generous the owners of this store are. They also have their own group and this month the free gift in group is a lovely female skin which i have paired up with one of their own hair styles.

The skin is right at the landing point and the hair is behind the vendor It is called Jackie and is 99 lindens
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Diamond%20Cove/139/34/23

Essence is also taking part in the Mix Christmas and New Year hunt thatis runningat the moment.  You are looking for a ginerbread man and hereis the prize you will get.   Apologies in advance as i am not used to dressing up as a male. Any willing males out there wanting to model for me  come find me  grins


The prize is the whole avatar Skin, shape and complete outfit

One of the joys of being a club member is the great gifts some stores send you or you can get from them.

LA Vie is one of the best in that respect.As i have already blogged they have an advent calendar and today's gift was just wonderful i just had to show you .......

This whole avatar is the gift on day 15  one snow queen and it even emmits snowflakes its so cool

Close up of the skin with frosted effect

http://slurl.com/secondlife/FallnAngel%20Creations/143/94/106   But remember the board is for member's only and there is a joining fee .

I love finding good stores that offer a discounted section and well when i found the basement at Fallen Angel i just about cleared the bank balance.  This Store has a lot to offer the rgper and all of sl  skins, hair furniture and even fun sims to go play on   so i have a little look about and found a wonderful PVC Kimono in white and a gift advent tree so here are finds  well worth a trip.

I have a new friend on my shoulder his name is paddy and he is to keep me from spending tooo  much

Kimono white 10 lindens at FallnAngel Creations http://slurl.com/secondlife/FallnAngel%20Creations/143/94/106

The Skin i am wearing is one of the free advent gifts from the same store   


Meet my new travelling compion  Paddy is his name and he is very friendly . Grins

Hi  I hope you are all coping with that nasty word the "weather" still snowed in here so thank goodness for the hot and sunny beaches of sl.

Once again the wonderful makers of Secret Hair have been busy and created a new style called Tempest. Its a midlength hair and is 200 Lindens per colour swath.  While I try to keep the linden spending to a minimum some times it worth a little splurge once in a while.

The colour I am wearing is called Borealis and the landmark is already on the blog

Also on the same sim is Tribal Soul Designs and they are taking part in the winter animal lovers hunt.

Their prize are these Feline Canvas/rubber unisex boot



That's Tribal Soul Designs landmark http://slurl.com/secondlife/Crimson%20Spear/161/72/801

Once again your roving reporter here with new up date on looking good for free or as close to free as i can get.

Urban girl are having a sale on all their skins 1 Sl per skin. So quick as the snowing chilly UK would let me i sledded over there and pick up a few  here are the results and the landmark

from left to right   They are all the Laura skins  A4  A5  A8  A7

and again from left to right  Jennifer A4   and Kassandra 5

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Jewellery/54/48/426   Urban Girl
 

Have already posted that there is an advent calender frenzy going on in sl at the moment.  One of my fave designers LaVie is holding one and i blogged the first and here is the 4th gift . I Hope you enjoy

 landmark :-  http://slurl.com/secondlife/LaVie/127/127/23 LaVie

Now I love gowns not great for running around the grid in but great for dancing. So always on the hunt for gowns that are detailed and reasonably priced.  Sascha offers both of those and with many of her dresses there are a number of skirt options.  She does have a group and there is a one off fee to join but sooo worth it.  Every month you get a new gown and there are always offers on . I am not going to blog this months as the most excellent bloggers at fab free have already done that link :-http://fabfree.wordpress.com/   but instead I am going to show you November's group gift

 Land mark :-http://slurl.com/secondlife/Coco%20Beach%20Kelina/226/202/24

There is a wonderful store called Phoenix Rising that is closing down slowly.  In the front foyer is a large number of boxes and most seem to be set ad one linden so i went and had a nose about and found this wonderful dress its called tribute to Coco

 So as you see well worth a visit while it is still there :-  Landmark

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ashoka/131/150/29   Phoenix Rising

As i mentioned yesterday there are a number of stores doing advent calenders and one of the is LaVie.Now I LOVE this store for their wonderful skins but they also do clothing. They have like most stores in SL their own group, there is a fee to join but it is well worth it for those that love good skins and the wonderful group gifts that are sent out periodically .  

Here is the 1st advent gift and at the time of going to press it was still available.....

 Please note that the stocking are not part of the gift but the little candy cane topper's are

here's the landmark  :-http://slurl.com/secondlife/LaVie/133/196/29

Now that we are finally in December  many of the stores are going to be doing an advent calendar.  So to get the ball rolling here is the first one I have come across.

The eyelashes are again from Chuculet landmark already blogged and again they are only one linden

What make an outfit complete is what you choice to accessories with it so here a  few that i picked up yesterday . The Jeans and corsett are old faourites of mine soi willnot blog them.