Hey there, baby doll

It’s day four of this current FoaB series and the theme is baby-doll tops or dresses, hence the title.

I love baby-dolls, as they can be paired up with a classy pair of pants or a pair of jeans. Not only are there dresses or tops, but some sets of lingerie also come with baby-doll options. But the first is not really a baby-doll but a mini-dress, lol.

Rotten Defiance had a sale a few days. Single items were 10L$ with fatpacks at 60L$, so I got some great deals.

The next is a 2-in-1 set from Glam Affair. I am showing the baby-doll version, but it can be worn as a pant-set.

The 3rd and final outfit for the day is a mix-&-match of A Piece of Candy and Annabella’s Song. I was tipped off about these goodies y the FabFree blog.

Credits

All Pics

Skin - Belle (light – naturale) – Vive9      *no longer available*

Hair – Heather (Ash, Champagne) – Calico Ingmann      10L$ fatpack

Poses – Olive Juice

Pic 1

Clothes

Polka Dot dress (peach) – Rotten Defiance    60L$ fatpack

Graffiti jeans – Rotten Defiance      10L$

Shoes – Zimmy Flats (black) – Shiny Things    350L$

Pic 2

Clothes – Danville – Glam Affair discount section      10L$

Boots – Worn (black) – Heart & Sole    *no longer available*

Pic 3

Clothes

Alix (yellow) – A Piece of Candy      35L$   Thirsty Thursday

Lazy Day jeans – Annabella’s Song     Midnight Mania prize

Shoes - Zimmy Flats (black) – Shiny Things

All About Evie

My friend and fellow blogger, Evelyn Hartshon, owns a little store in SL. In the past few days/weeks she has passed me some of the new stuff in her store. She sent me a pair of leopard print leggings, following a conversation in IM saying that she had gotten bored with making tops and experimenting with making other clothing items like leggings.

Some time ago Evie had sent me the butterfly tops, but I didn’t have anything suitable to pair up with them. So when she sent me the first 2 sets of leggings she had made, I had the perfect companion piece.

She had sent me the leopard leggings asking for my opinion. I replied that they were good but felt that they need cuffs and a more defined waistline. Evie went quiet for a few minutes, no doubt beavering away in Photoshop redesigning the leggings and making leg cuffs. A few minutes later she sent me a new pair of leggings with cuffs.

Next thing I knew, she was sending me further leopard print leggings in more colours like the purple ones in the picture above.

The poses I have used in all the pictures are also by Evie, but they were test poses as she has only just started making poses.

Credits

Skin – Georgia (light – smokey – pale) – Body Heat

Hair – Kate (fudge) – Audacity

Clothes – Evie

Shoes

Zimmy Flats (faded denim) – Shiny Things

Superb High Heels (purple/white) – Tara

Boots – Alone (black) – Tara

Fashion on a Budget

Hi & happy May Day!! May Day marks the end of the uncomfortable winter half of the year in the Northern hemisphere, and it has traditionally been an occasion for popular and often raucous celebrations.

With the start of a new month, there are some good hunts coming up…Dark Katz and Myths & Legends are just 2 that Emmi and Viki will be doing. Also, it means its time for a return of my budget miniseries. And boy! do I have some fab goodies for you this time.

To kick off, are some goodies from Mashooka. Mashooka are celebrating their 3rd year anniversary and until Sunday, they have put out approximately 20 gold-wrapped gift boxes containing jewelry and clothes. The first 2 outfits are a mish-mash of separates, creating great casual looks.

The first is the Blossom blouse and Ash pantalon jeans.

The blouse is really a baby-doll top, and the flexi attachments are modifiable so they can e made to fit your shape accordingly. I call the pants ‘jeans’ but the texturing is more of a leather-like material. No matter what the material used, the pants are a good addition to any wardrobe.

The Tristin blouse is a great top, so flexible in styling that it can used with a classy pinstripe suit for the formal look or be worn with jeans for a casual look.

As you can see in the picture, the top can be sheer as my latest tattoo (which I got for free at the Moloko shack @ the Alternative Fair). Also the colour of the top compliments the jeans beautifully.

The last outfit from Mashooka is the Dips minidress. It also comes with the black bolero jacket.

I wanted to do a photoshoot on location. The shoot took place over 3 sims, Japan Chubu (which is home the SL version of the famous Matsumoto castle), Japan Kansai (home to an Edo period settlement) and China Sichuan (home of the SL’s Great Wall of China). I also took photos of the scenery which you can find on my Flickr page.

Credits

Skin – Georgia (light – smokey – berry) – Body Heat

Hair – Monday (blonde – swedish) – Magika       50L$ Friday

Clothes – Mashooka     0L$  3rd anniversary gifts

Boots - Worn (black) – Heart & Sole     *no longer available*

Bangles – Night (pewter) – Baubles

Poses – Jazzy Hands – LAP          50L$ Friday

Multiple Personality Designs

I have been to Multiple Personality Designs or MPD as it is known to me and my fellow members of the FabFree group. What is unusual about about this store is that the outfits are on sale for 1L$ each. Yes! I did say 1L$, and if you still don’t believe me, you can check it for yourself.

During my visit to MPD today, I bagged a few dollarbies. Some were the easter eggs left lying around in the store. I fell love with the outfit that was found in the #8 egg and I have chosen to show it to you.

It was the colours that I love… the pearly quality and the hand-drawn textures are fabulous.

I found the perfect outside location on the Japan Chubu sim. It is home to the SL version of the famous Matsumoto castle, and is next door to Japan Kanto sim where I found a traditional Japanese fishing village with sampans in the harbour and racks full of fish drying. You see more photos on my Flickr page.

I admit that I will come back to the Japan Chubu & Japan Kanto sims again, because I love the traditional architecture and the tranquility of the sims. In SL you can travel to the other side of the world without having to purchase a airline ticket.

Credits

Skin – Georgia (light – smokey – berry) – BodyHeat

Hair - Monday (blonde – swedish) – Magika         50L$ Friday

Clothes – Multiple Personality Designs     egg hunt 1L$

Boots – Worn (black) – Heart & Sole     *no longer available*

Bangles - Night (pewter) – Baubles

Poses – Jazzy Hands – LAP      50L$ Friday

One for the Girls

As the title says, this is one for the girls. This is about the Just for the Girls Hunt, which has been going on throughout April, organised by the same team behind the successful Just for the Guys Hunts.

I have not done the JFTG hunt because it is some 100+ stores long… but I did come across 2 of the prizes, one from Alexohol and the other from my favourite grunge wear store, Ducknipple.

It was serendipitous that I had won the shoes from the Lucky Chair at Wetherby’s some days before I found the dress at Alexohol, and the shoes were in a matching colour. Also while I was at Body Heat looking the Georgia skins, I found the right skin/make-up on sale for 10L$. All thanks to that funny thing, Serendipity, lol.

The second outfit came from Ducknipple.  Although called Pink, in fact it is a purple leopard print dress.

I couldn’t get a picture of the full look as I couldn’t put on my shoes without the shoeshape replacing my skin with a default texture, . So I ended downloading the Emerald viewer which is based on the older v1 viewer, and haven’t had the problem since, lol.

Credits

Pic 1

Skin – Victoria (light – 80s) – BodyHeat

Hair – Valium (champagne) – Deviant Kitties

Dress – Alexohol

Shoes - #180 DrJ Clleanslate’s dress stilettos – Wetherby’s

Poses – Maitreya

Pic 2

Skin – Georgia (light – smokey – berry) – BodyHeat

Hair - Valium (champagne) – Deviant Kitties

Dress - Pink – Ducknipple

At the Back of the Wardrobe

It happens to us all at some point in RL or SL that while we are looking for something in the closet/wardrobe/chest (of draws), we stumble across some forgotten item of clothing or pair of shoes. We ponder things like ‘when did I get this?’, ‘where did I get it/them from?’ and often we don’t have answers to these questions.

I was looking through the Hunts, Freebies & Cheapies folders in Emmi’s inventory and stumbled across this set of stuff from Diapop. I did some digging around and found that this had been the Diapop offering on the Button Hunt in March.

Credits

Skin – Georgia (light – smokey – nude) – BodyHeat

Hair – D.A.N.C.E. (true black) – Tiny Bird    0L$

Tank – I want sun on my skin dammit (water) – Diapop    Button Hunt 0L$

Jeans – Blu Scuro (lowrise) – Diapop   Button Hunt  0L$

Shrug – Poison (grass) – JE*Republic    0L$

Boots - Leather Work (black) – Duh!

Poses – Maitreya & LAP

Double Dose

This week’s Double Dose features 2 store hunts, at JE*Republic and Rotten Defiance. Also instead of the styling credit being at the end, I have decided that they should go with each picture.

I had been to the Rotten Defiance store before whilst doing a grid-wide hunt, but didn’t know that they had a store-wide hunt going on until my friend Evie blogged about it.There 10 skulls to be found, 5 for the boys and 5 for the girls. Also, the hunt happens every month with new gifties put out, yay \o/.

All Pictures

Skin – Georgia (light – smokey – nude) – BodyHeat

Hair – Chic Girl (dark blonde) – JE*Republic

Boots – Leather Work – Duh!

Tattoo – Moloko   (0L$ @ Alternative Fair)

Clothes

Teal Mini, Death Hoodie, Cracked jeans – Rotten Defiance

Jeans (black) – WhoNose

Word of warning, girls, you will need to a pair of panties as there are no pant(ies) included in the minidress!

Clothes - Plaid Shirt, Jean Miniskirt, Plaid Jeans – Rotten Defiance

Clothes – Circular Saw tee, Burn tee, Arcane jeans – Rotten Defiance

The second store hunt is at JE*Republic. Like the Rotten Defiance hunt, you are looking for 10 items, this time they are gift boxes, but the prizes are for the girls only. The items are a mix of skin (4 to be found), hair (one fat pack) and clothes (2 tops and 2 complete dresses), plus one I could not find (gift no. 6).

Clothes

Cropped Top (Rosewater (black)), Shrug (Poison (grass)) – JE*Republic

Jeans (black) – WhoNose

Clothes – Candy Dress (dark brown) & Shrug – JE*Repulic

Clothes – Barbie Doll dress (light green) – JE*Republic

Location – Astoria (look in the Destination Guide/Showcase under Nature)

Poses - Striking Poses