December Dreams @ The Arcade

From dreams of winter she woke. Beside her as she'd slept lay the mask of Mother Earth, as the world turned and span through nothingness, receding from the Sun, the mask had gained a scrim of frost. Its colours enhanced, made magical anew by this pristine background. Stretching out on her sleigh bed Madeline was glad of the warm coat in which she was so snugly wrapped. Pulling aside the curtain and looking out across the rooftops she saw that winter had indeed arrived, with fallen snow glistening on every surface. However cold, she would go out and enjoy it. She would pull on her hat, and wait for you to come out and play. Arcade!!! Come to the Arcade! Gacha! Gacha! Gacha! This amazingly popular gacha event is back for December, with more winter themed goodies than you could shake a Christmas tree branch at. Take your chances on the machines, stock up with winter themed skins and hair, clothing, buildings and accessories. 

Taxi to The Arcade

Hair 1 : .Olive. the Snow Princess Hair - Carrot Tea'  L$ 50
One normal hair, one to fit your mesh bewbs, one unrigged in the prize pack.
Hair 2 : Clawtooth: Snow Bunny prize 4  L$ 75
HUD driven options for hair colour, and hat colour!
Skin : -Glam Affair - December skin - Asia 04 L$ 100
Seven skins with different brow colour options, and one with no brows. Also hairbases for brow shapes. Amazing as ever from Glam Affair. 
Outfit and Boots : Foxes - Woodland Wonderland - Dress & Boots Grey L$ 100
Love the contrast buttons on the coat, and the sole of the boots. Style!
Mask : Remarkable Oblivion - Holiday Spirit - Mother Earth RARE  L$ 100
Beautiful intricate mask - can be worn, or hung on your wall. 
Sleigh bed : Pizza's and Tarte for Scram Co - Sleepy Sled - Antelope L$ 75
Lovely sleigh bed, with pretty cushions and several sitting and laying poses.
Trophy : {vespertine} Faux throphy -light  L$ 50
No animals were harmed in the making of this modern wall trophy.

Skybox : llorisen - mimi skybox.blue    L$ 100.
Great skybox, simple and classic. One main room with a raised L-shaped mezzanine. My favourite bit about this is the roof you can see out of the window. That's part of the skybox! Really different, totally stands out from anything I've seen before.

Escape

The snow felt good under her boots. And so felt the fact that she had managed to escape the party finally.
Not that she had disliked it too much, the food was decent but her friends had thought it would be a good idea to invite one of their male friends just so that they could meet and so on. And the guy was horrible. At least in her opinion. He did not only like popmusic he also read the wrong books and drove the wrong car.
And the whole evening he had been trying to figure out what she liked and everytime she admited something he suddenly liked it as well. The last thing she had come up with was some hobby she called jojotinning. In wich people would throw jojo's at tins. As he told her that he had really good things about that she could not stand it anymore and left. The trees would be a better company than a mindless man.

Amanda Randall joined Captivity Co.as posemaker and started doing amazing work for this already very good posestore. The used poses come from the laying set and a set with the name Leila. Both are single poses. The other items come from the Collabor88 event. The hair from clawtooth is available there in a pack which contains several colours. The capecoat is very cute and comes from u.f.o it is made of rigged mesh. When using a very active ao it can look sometimes a bit messy but at the same time it is so cute that this is not really a reason not to buy it. The skirt comes from ison. It is very elegant and still at least a bit playful with the ruffles at the side. The boots are made by Hucci and as all items from this event they are available in several colours.

Hair: Clawtooth: Heart Attack and Vine (C88 November Dip Pack)
Poncho: ::{u.f.o}::ponpon cape coat - black
Skirt: ISON - side ruffle skirt (black)
Boots: ::HH:: Hucci Tottori Boots - Midnight
All available at Collabor88

Poses: [Captivity Co.] Poses

The pictures have been taken at Winter Scenes By Incendia Outdoors. 

Hair Fair 2012

It's that time again! New coverings available to keep the cold away from your second life skull. It's the Hair Fair! That's 4 sims full of new hairstyles, and a good deal of bandanas! Creators donate a portion of sales from their items to Wigs for Kids. There are also many generous gifts set out, not just hair, some outfits too, but as these don't generate any monehs for the charity, please buy as well as picking up the goodies! The sims tend to be pretty full, so it can take a while (2 and bit days for me) trying to get in. So worth it. Here's a selection of some of my favourite finds. Sadly not all, there's another hair I bought that I love, yet there are some issues with the mesh, and segments of the hair, which are there when grey inbetween the colour changes on the included HUD but vanish once the colour all rezzes. I'm waiting on a response from the vendor, but if any of our lovely readers here have any ideas - please scrawl away in the comments section, it's much appreciated!. Anyway. On with the hair!

Clawtooth: Cosmic Love - Dusty Black (Hair Fair Gift). This hair is not mesh, it has a nice flow, not too 'done' as a hairstyle, which gives it a realistic feel. The colour is pretty too, not a harsh or too solid black at all.

 

[COLORS] Free D LightPink  Also a free gift, also not mesh. This is a very pretty, yet edgy style, and the creator has generously included 12 colours in the gift, each with a normal version, and one with a resize script.

::Exile:: Silent Wings: Blacks L$250 with 20% to Wigs for Kids. This is a beautifully designed mesh hair. While I rarely use a mesh enabled viewer for my general non-pic taking SL, I could NOT pass up buying this. The hair falls gracefully, and the feathers are stunning. The Blacks colour pack includes five colours, here I'm wearing 'Raven'. Alpha layers are included for hiding any pesky bits of skin, and the feathers are separate mesh, so the hair can be worn without them.

Heartless: Eva Hair (Midnight Collection) L$ 180  15% to Wigs for Kids. Another non-mesh hair - so glad to see that beautiful styles are still being made! Pack contains six colours, here I'm wearing the Dark Purple. The style reminds me of some old favourites I lost years ago. Very glad to have something similar again!

The skin worn here in these pictures is : S u g a r : StarChild [sugar] - red brow - L$799. As ever, available at the store in different shades and lots of lovely add-ons, cleavage and makeup- new location again - http://slurl.com/secondlife/The%20Slums/153/74/70

Hair Fair Sims
Water - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hair%20Fair%20-%20Water/129/59/24
Flower - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hair%20Fair%20-%20Flower/129/232/23
Sand - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hair%20Fair%20-%20Sand/21/129/25
Garden - http://slurl.com/secondlife/Hair%20Fair%20-%20Garden/232/127/25