Everythings coming up.... Petunia's?

With all respect for Mr. Sondheim and Mama Rose, this weekend is about Petunias and not roses.

Petunia's weekend dollarbie this weekend is the cute yellow Tiered mini skirt.


Petunia's is a somewhat recent discovery for me, and while it hasn't completely entered my regular store roster just yet... I am very impressed by the quality and value of their clothing. Petunia's clothing is a mixture of casual, classic, retro styles, that look oh-so-comfortable and stylish.

You will find the dollarbie mini skirt at the back of the store, hanging on a rack on the wall. It will also be labeled "weekend dollarbie".

While you are at the store, you might wish to hit the subscribo board to keep up to date on the current weekend dollarbie special. A few weeks back, it was a charming green cami/cardi set that I just love.

You might also wish to check out the Gypsy Autumn dress.



This dress is on sale for $L60, and the vendor is found near the entrance of the store in the window.

That's all for now! Ta-ta... and always remember to stop and smell the Petunia's!

Other credits:

Pose- Everglow (past gift)

Eyes- Poetic Colors- Deep Jungle (not free but other eye color gift in store)

Skin- Mynerva- Sophie- Smokey Red (not free but free Sophie skin can be had in the Think Pink Hunt)

Hair- Eha- Jean- Fat Pack (free opening gift, still there a couple of days ago)

Hair Base- Tiny Bird (free fat pack)

Sweater, Scarf, Baret- CS Fandango (past gift)

Socks- aDiva (past cheapie)

Boots- Hoorenbeek (past hunt prize)

On a Rainy, Foggy Late Summer Day

It looks like fall has officially arrived here on the North Oregon Coast... it is drizzly, cool, and foggy. We usually get an Indian Summer, so we may yet see a bit more of the sun before it gets put away for the winter.

But enough about the weather... on to the good stuff!

First up is an adorable fall offering from aDiva Couture called Living in Germany wearing adiva couture Mona and watching the rain.



The whole outfit costs just five little lindens, and includes the dress, undershirt and layered ruffled stockings (not the prim legwarmers though... those are attached to the boots I'm wearing). There is a catch though... it is for a very limited time! It goes away at 3 A.M. Friday (slt?) If you want it, better make it quick!

Next is a beautiful hunt item from Icing.


Look for the Red-Seal Envelope, and pick-up the Pink Coquette dress for free. It isn't a very big store, and it probably took me all of a minute to find it. The dress is a new release from Icing, and comes with a couple of color options... an all pink dress or pink and black as I am wearing.

Somedays...don't you just wish you could sprout wings and fly away from it all? It would be hard to find a prettier set of wings to do just that then the Blue Forget-me-not wings from Vita's Boudoir.



They are free in the garden... head towards the small building, and you should find them laying in the grasses just outside. There is also a free matching hat with a veil there too... so grab that while you are at it!

The dress I am wearing is called Apparition, and it is the Twisted Hunt prize at Dare Designs

And for a little Midnight Mania fun, head over to Mariposa. Mariposa has been offering some beautiful items on the MM board, everything from jewelry sets to stylish dresses. This was a recent MM prize called Noche.



The dress also included the beautifully detailed jewelry shown closer here.


Took a quick run over to Mariposa just now, and the MM board has been changed out to a jewelry prize, but with quality gifts like this, it is worth keeping an eye on. The prizes are changed up frequently, and the board has a low target (currently 30), so get there early! There is also a lucky chair close to the MM board. It is set at five minutes, and is generous with the wild cards... so your chances of picking up a goodie or two are pretty high.

Other credits...

Eyes- Poetic Colors (this color not free... but a different eye gift available)

Skin- Mynerva (free- Think Pink Hunt gift)

Hair- (in order of posting)
eha (free- Jean- opening gift at Switch Mall... still there as of this post)
Calico Ingmann- Juliette ($L10 for fat pack with color-change rose)
Amacci- (Hair base and attachment free in gift bag at 2010 Hair Fair until 9-19!)

Boots- Ncore- (Multi-color Ankle Boots- free group gift)

Photos taken at Mooc Skins photography studio

Echos of a Forgotten Spring

Real life has been beating on me as of late... most nastily in the form of two very ill kitties that are taking most of my free time and attention. Say a prayer, or think a positive thought for them, will you? They are both very special to me.

But I thought I'd take a little escape break, and show off a skin and hair that I've gone completely head over heels with...

Mynerva is participating in the Think Pink Hunt. You are hunting for a small wrapped candy, and what a sweet reward it is! The beautiful Sophie skin in a special make-up... pink, of course!

The more I see of Mynerva's skin, the more and more I fall in love with them. They are just so well done and charming!

The hunt goes until Sept. 30th, so don't miss this truly lovely skin, even if you aren't particularly a pink person (I'm not either, but loved the skin so much I bought it in a red lipstick which you can see a little lower combined with the Ezura Steamhunt gift!)

Mynerva also has an offering for the OMG! That's Adorable Sale for $L99... check the vendor on the wall in the hallway.

The hair is an opening gift from Eha at Switch Mall. It is just completely charming, and you won't even have to fight the crowds and lag at the Hair Fair to get it! It is called Jean, and comes in a Fat Pack of several different colors.

It has been out for awhile, so if you like it, run and get it now! It seems to look best with a hairbase, so I am wearing it with the free tattoo layers from Tiny Bird.

I am normally a long hair person (in rl, my hair reaches my hips!) but this style is so cute, I've been wearing it almost exclusively since I picked it up a week or so back!







Credits:

Hair- Eha- Jean Fat Pack (free opening gift)

Hairbase- Tiny Bird (free) (requires viewer that supports tattoo layers)

Eyes- Poetic Colors (past hunt gift)

Skin- Mynerva- Sophie (First two photos Think Pink Hunt prize... third photo not free)

Sweater, Cami, Scarf Set- Petunia- Spring Retro Cardi in Olive (past weekend dollarbie... but available in the Tops vendor at an affordable $L100 for the entire set! Other colors and tops available in the same vendor)

Skirt- MNK*Shop- Fleurir Skirt in Candy (lucky board item)

Socks- G Field- Ruffled socks in Mustard (free sample... join SoM group and check history, or head over to the sock vendor to the right after entering store, and click the display of the mustard socks on the wall)

SteamPunk Outfit- Ezura (Steam Hunt prize) though the pants I'm wearing were a past hunt prize from Rfyre.

I've been Ink'd!

I see an entire month has snuck by again since my last posting... where did the time go!? Actually, work has been truly hectic (I work in tourism!) and I've just been completely exhausted. I cannot wait for Labor Day weekend... then perhaps I can take a bit of time off myself! lol

Anyway... I've been doing a hunt here and hunt there, and have a couple of wonderful items to show off! (I am in the process of replacing the pictures in this blog... weird light stuff showed up that didn't show up when I took the photos. :( The new ones are a little boring, but at least you can see the items now. )

First up, the lovely Aya Love dress. This is Boho's offering for the Platinum Hunt.



You are searching for a little black ring box with a pearl inside of it. There are slightly over a hundred stops in this hunt, and while you do have to pay $L10 per hunt item, the stores taking part in the hunt were hand selected, and represent some of the best designers that SL has to offer.

I'm not planning on doing the full hunt (100 X $L10= $L1000 after all!), but I've been looking at various blogs and seeing what items others have gotten in this hunt, and then gone after the items that interested me.

Also, the hair I am wearing in these photos is Exile's offering to the Platinum Hunt. It is called Samara and you get a fatpack of colors for just a measly $L10! Cute isn't it? :)

Next up, Reale's Dancing Star Dress from the Platinum Hunt. The details on this dress are just stunning, and you will truly feel like the queen of the dance floor, even if you've got two left feet!



Now if I'd been thinking more clearly, I would have also shown you the Platinum Hunt offering from Heartsick. But I wasn't, so you'll just have to trust me that it is a very nice skin prize for just a little tiny bit of linden! :)

The other hunt I've been doing is the Ink'd Hunt. I love collecting tattoos in SL... interesting since in RL I have a needle phobia, and just thinking of getting a tattoo makes me break out into a cold sweat! lol But I admire them on other people though, and ease (and lack of needles) of getting them in SL makes them damn near irresistible! Please note that the tape pasties or panties worn are not part of the tattoo, and I am just wearing them modesty's sake.

Though I mentioned the Ink'd Hunt, only one of the following tattoos is an actual Ink'd Hunt prize. But here we go....

This is Endless Pain's offering to the Gear Hunt at Industry Mall. It is a wonderful full body Celtic/Nordic inspired Tattoo. This hunt has been going on for a few weeks, so I'm not sure how much longer it will last... however, the gear was still there as of this posting, so make a run for it if you fancy it!








Next are a couple of freebie sleeve tattoos from Back & Writer:

Tiger-



Nightwolf-


Though I haven't tried it, these are said to be tintable! You will find the wall vendor for these in the building to the right of the landing area.

V Tattoo Shop is one of the stores taking part in the Ink'd Hunt, along with the Summer-Doesn't-End Hunt. There are actually two prizes to hunt for in the Ink'd Hunt...the tattoo which I'm going to show you, and a belly piercing which I didn't think to take a picture of. Sorry!

But first, I'm going to show the Dragon tattoo prize for the Summer-Doesn't-End Hunt. This tattoo comes with a white and a black color option.





And this is the tattoo prize for the Ink'd Hunt:






This tattoo comes in three different intensities (faded, light, and dark) and comes on multiple layers, including the new tattoo layer! I am in love with this tattoo, and have been wearing it almost constantly since I got it!:)

I had the pleasure of meeting Van Naimarc, the owner and creator of V Tattoo Shop, the other night, and found him to be friendly and helpful. I complimented him on his work and expressed my amazement that such a beautiful gift was being given as a hunt prize. He responded that he wants to put the same quality into his gifts as he does the items that he sells. His store isn't the best known at this time, but hopefully more people will find out about it through these hunts. I'm also going to do my part by shouting it out in my own little corner of the SL universe. :)

I liked his work so well, I went back today and bought the Dragon Fish tattoo!




Skin- Mango, Mango! Pussycat Pale- past Humpday Happiness item
Dragon Lady Manicure & Ring- Love Soul- past hunt prize
Poses- Sweet Lovely Cute- Past gift

Soul Eternal

Just a very quick post on this week's group gift from The White Armory... a beautiful gown titled Soul Eternal. The White Armory group is free to join, and every week, look for a different beautiful gown... just wear your group tag and click the group gift vendor near the lp!



Credits-
Skin- Belleza past group gift (join fee)
Eyes- Poetic Colors Free, but color will vary.
Hair- Amacci- Sophia in Henna (not free)
Necklace- Star Kindler Past hunt cheapie
Dress- The White Armory Group Gift

Pose by Long Awkward Pose
Taken in Gaslight in front of Urban Forge's Bel Cottage, available for purchase

Newbie Style Challenge

Every so often, I enjoy creating a new avatar. I guess it is kind of like that new car smell... totally addicting. :) They are just such a blank slate, an open book.

So when the Juicy Bomb blog issued a challenge to create a complete look for an avatar, it seemed a perfect excuse to create another new avi! After all, was clear back in February that I created Quinn (see blog post here), and I was getting itchy fingers to have another go.

So, this evening Iolanthe (guess I've got Gilbert and Sullivan on the brain!) was born. I decided I wasn't going to use items from Fab Free HQ or most of my other regular haunts, but try instead to go to places off my beaten track. Every item shown was added to Iolanthe's inventory the evening of 7-9-10

Many of the items came from the GSHunt, which is ending today, so if you see anything you like, better go grab it quick! The Pixeldolls shirt was also a very limited time freebie, and may already be gone by the time of this posting. Sorry for any disappointment.



Close-up of face



Items shown-

Shape- census- GSH prize (altered a bit)
Skin- Mynerva- Fashion is Love Hunt Prize ending 7-15, I think
Eyes- Umedama Holic- GSH prize
Lashes- Symphony Skins- freebie on dressing table
Hair- Truth- Jess- near entrance
AO- Long Awkward Pose- free to new avatars (both male and female available)
Top- Pixeldolls- Papillon- was free for the evening, may be gone now
Jeans- Fri.day- GHS prize
Shoes (not shown)- Duh!- GSH prize

Every item was absolutely free. I did cheat a little, and use the same Jess hair that I did for Quinn. I always find good hair to be the most challenging to find for free, even over skins. Besides, it is a cute style! :)

Here's another, more vintage look...


Skin- Imabee- GHS prize
Eyes- Poetic Colors- GHS prize
Hair- Ingenue- Myrna (free at Savoir Hair)
Dress & Hat- Purple Moon- Josephine (group anniversary gift- free to join)

Pictures taken at MOOC's photo studio

Mischief No More.... Waaahhhh! *sniffle*

Ok... I see it has been a month since my last post. Things have gotten busy at work, and I've been dragging myself home most evenings just to go brain dead by watching something on Hulu. Such are the joys of working in the tourism business! Everyone else goes on vacation, while you work your butt off making sure they have a wonderful and relaxing time. lol

Also, for a while there, there just weren't any offerings that I felt so in love with that I wanted to blog. With the coming of summer to the northern half of the world, it seemed like it was bikini this and tankini that! Not to say there weren't, and aren't, some wonderful offerings in swimsuit world (there are!)... they just don't excite me enough to take time to write about them.

But, with today's temperatures here rendering it too warm for my poor computer to let me go in-world, I figured it was time to bring you some good news and some bad news.

First, the bad news... one of my favorite stores is going to be closing its doors. Mischief will disappear sometime soon, though just how soon has not been specified. Owner Janie Marlowe is reinventing herself, and is working on a new project which will be revealed soon, but the Mischief line of clothes will be going away. :(

Now the good news is, that until Janie closes Mischief's doors for good, she is having an amazing sale! Single items are $L50 or $L100 for the greedy packs, while full outfits and dresses are $L90 individually or get the greedy packs at $L180! I spent more hours and lindens than I care to admit browsing the shelves of Mischief... trying to decide what items I couldn't live without and those that I could. lol Basically, I just wanted to buy pretty much the whole shop!

Here is a small sampling of items that were deemed "must haves"!



This cute midriff shirt is called Clara Belle, and is available as a greedy pack of assorted colors or individually.



An elegant full outfit titled Past Life Pirate.









This outfit shows a combination of the Sweet Shrug with Day Trip.



Another combination of Mischief items... Up Down Skirt with the Tart Halter, both are available in greedy packs, and in the case of the skirt, available singly.





This pretty little sweater dress is called Tom's Girl, available singly or as a greedy pack. I love the playfully sophisticated touch that the scarf adds to the ensemble. A bit retro, but fully modern...





The sweet and sexy Annabelle is available singly in three different colors or as a greedy pack. The clothing comes in different layers, so that you can wear it with or without the flowered underskirt and top.



The aptly named Lil Skin dress is available as a greedy pack of mouth watering colors.



And last, but hardly least, one of my all-time favorite wardrobe items... Lucie. This dress I've actually had for sometime, but I wanted to show it because it is the dress that started my love affair with Mischief. It also seems to be a guy magnet! I tend to get more propositions when I wear this than anything else in my extensive wardrobe. Now that might be a good or a bad thing, depending on your mood and/or point of view! ;)

I told you I bought out the store! hehe... Actually, I didn't show everything I got! In addition to Mischief's in-world sale, there is also an ongoing sale of older Mischief items on XLstreet which I blogged earlier here.

I also blogged a bit on Mischief once before here. I believe the Rock Me, Roll Me outfit is still available if you join the Mischief sub-o group at the store, along with the March group gift... though I didn't confirm this, I was in too much of a hurry to get to the racks and spend my linden!





For a non-Mischief related moment, a close-up of Bubbles Clawtooth's amazing new release "Twinkle Toast". It isn't free ($L275 for a color pack), but it is so pretty and touchable looking, I just had to show it off! Color shown is Red-Eye Flight in the Exquisite Reds Pack.

The eyes I am wearing in this close-up are Poetic Colors gift in the GSH (Good Sh** Hunt) going on right now. If you haven't done this hunt, get on it! It isn't very long (40-ish stores), nor are most of the hunt items (soda bottles) fiendishly hidden, and the majority of the prizes are wonderful! The color is called Summer Wheat. I am also wearing Sunny Glade in most of the other photos, which are free to avatars 30 days or younger.

The skin worn in the close-up photo is the Dahlia Skin in the Potpourri make-up, and it is the current group gift from Cupcakes. While the skin itself is free, there is a one-time joining fee of $L100 for the Cupcakes group, but it is worth it! The skins are high quality, and given out monthly. The skin was still in the group notices as of this evening, but will disappear soon! So if you want it, go get it now!

The skin worn in all but the last photo is Pussycat Pale by Mango, Mango! It was the Humpday Happiness offering a couple of weeks back. Mango, Mango's mainstore seems to have moved from the Badblood sim... I'm still trying to locate it, contenting myself with their satellite stores until then.

Follow up on Mango, Mango... I just got a note card today about the main store being in the process of a rebuild. It should be back up soon, but in the meanwhile, if you get a craving for Mango, the satellite stores will be the place to go. ;)

All photos were taken at the MOOC's public photographic studio.