Im your dog

It was a beautiful day. Eliza had spend it at the beach. The people there knew her allready. She was that girl with the bone. Thats what they called her. It was wrong. The truth was she was the dog with the bone who looked like a girl. She never talked much the bone was also a good excuse. It was the only which she still had from her first owner. It was in the late 1970ties when they met. Eliza had run away from her mother and the fellow puppies as those always pestered her. And somehow a magician found her. It was the time when people said that they would believe in magic but in truth only believed in powerful drugs. The perfect time for a true magician to live less like an hermit. With her dogmind Eliza wasn't able to understand what really was going on but then her owner transformed her. Maybe because he thought that it would be horrible to see her die so soon as dog years are so much shorter than human years or because of reasons a normal human could not imagine. Changing the shape also changed Eliza. She became smarter but the rites of the humans still were a mystery to her. And some habits she simply couldn't change. She still loved to chew on bones and was as faithful as only a dog could be. Of course it was her master who died first. Some hippies finally found out that the tricks he showed them were real and killed him when he was not willing to abuse his powers. Since then she was alone. With the time she learned to deal with her human body quite well but still she didn't manage not to carry now and then a bone around. 
The Gallery Gift Shop is one of the cutest monthly events in second life. Its a mix of a gallery and a shopping event. Kumaki Glasses Style is one of the stores which take part in it for a long time. For this round of the event they made a bone which is worn between the lips. It has a tag on it which says "Im your dog". The bone is made of non rigged mesh. So are the crowns which are worn around the wrists from DownDownDown. The set is available in a metalic version and one which reminds on water. The outfit is the current groupgift from 22769, a store which besides this also takes part in the Gallery Gift shop. The gift is an alternative looking outfit for guys and girls. It includes a top which can be worn with and without primsleeves, trousers and a belt. The boots come from Duh! and are currently available at the Zombie Popcorn Brand event. They have of course a resizescript and include not only an alphalayer but also invisible prims for those who do not use a viewer which can handle alphas.
The design with the tattoos on it is great and they are even unisex.
The pose on the first picture and the scooter on the second picture are available on the same event. The pose comes from Purple Poses and the scooter from !Bang. The scooter includes six poses. Its a loveply poseprop which has to be rezzed which makes it possible to use for photographers. The only problem I had dealing with it was that I didn't understand the notecard with the posesettings inside of it so I was not able to adjust the poses. But it looks very lovely and I guess with a bit testing it should work to adjust the poses. It is possible to test the scooter in the store.
The Hair from Wasabi Pills is called Lola. It is made of rigged mesh. The set includes it in a boobs and a normal version although its rigged for women so its more a bigger and a not so big boobs version. It also comes with a hud which allows to choose between 15 designs for the scarf and 14 for the bands which hold the braids together.
The skin and the shape come both from Adam and Eve. The shape was a gift there sometime ago and isn't available anymore but the skin still is.  It is called Victoria and the used version is the sunkissed one.
Hair: /Wasabi Pills/ Lola summer Mesh Hair - (250 L$ for colourpack 1500 L$ for fatpack)
Skin: Adam n Eve Skins - Victoria Sunkissed (1800 L$)
Outfit:  22769 ~ casual couture Groupgift May 2012 (0 L$)
Bracelet: DownDownDown_Milkcrown bracelet Metal_(90 L$ Sold at the Gallery Gift Shop)
Bone: kumaki - Bone"I'm your dog" (10 L$ Sold at the Gallery Gift Shop)
Boots: ::::Duh!:: Tattoo Love Ankle Boots - Unisex (25 L$ sold at Zombiepopcorn brand)

Pose 1st pic: Purple Poses ALEXIA (100 L$ for 10 poses sold at Zombiepopcorn brand)
Pose 2nd pic: !bang - mini scooter {black} (250 L$ sold at Zombiepopcorn brand)

The pictures have been taken at Lost Beach.

Zero

The switch your gender for 0 Linden challenge is really challenging. And Im happy that Fauna and me aren't the only ones who made a 0 Linden avatar of the other gender. Paco and Manuel from 22769 put a picture of their girl avatars in the flickrgroup. Corvus Szpiegel the owner of [Hate This] did the same. and Flash Unplugged, one of the bloggers at MD Style Watch created even several outfits for his alterego Flashette. Silverr Andel, owner of Sterling Artistry and blogger for SLdiscovery turned the girl next door into a princess. Maitresse Couturier created a boxer for 0 Linden and blogged him. Khan Omizu put a girl with a hat on flickr. And Aili Panthar created a free male na'vi.
As my first attempt to create a male avatar failed at the eyes I used by mistake I decided to try it again. This time I wanted to put a softer looking guys avatar together and I wanted him to have shoes too. So I spent some time at mother goose to win a male skin on the lucky board. After that I decided to make a male shape myself. Luckily Paco and Manuel were willing to help me with the face because that was really tricky for me. I used the male woodelfshape from the library as start but I hope that the shape does not look very much like the woodelfshape anymore. The shape will be a gift in the Eclectic Equations group with full perms. Just join the group it will be in the notices. After that I got some of the free hair from exile and eyes from the Sterling Artistry camping chair. Exile has three free hairstyles for guys and some for women as well. They all look great and are mod. Sterling Artistry also has normaly two pairs of eyes as groupgift. After the base of the avatar was done it was time to get some clothes. Most tricky was to get shoes. Luckily I remembered that Ordinary gives out some sneakers as profilepick gift. The trousers from 7style are sold on the marketplace for 0 Linden.

The fisting shirt is a permanent freebie from a:s:s. It makes me laugh so I like it and the shading is great as well. To add some detail I got a wristlet from the ruru@pino camping chair. Kumaki glasses style have headphones on the luckyboard and cherries for the mouth. Actchio still have their gift from the goodshithunt in the store it contains a unisex tattoo. In my opinion the look is fine.

I decided to look around for some more free stuff for guys. Poison has two jeans as groupgift. 22769 has also a groupgift every month. This month its a Life guard outfit with even a pipe. A:S:S just put out new gifts for residents which are younger than 30days. The suit is also a groupgift it comes from G&T Creations . The trousers worn with the fisting t-shirt are a groupgift from sey as the ones next to them. The Sexsi one is also from a:s:s. The hair with the hoodie comes from colors. It was a bit surprising how tricky it was to get jeans but normaly some of them are always a huntgift somewhere. As I tried not to use huntgifts and freebie stores it was a bit difficult.

On all pictures:
Shape: Zero Shape (0 Linden selfmade will be fullperm in the Eclectic Equations Inworld group)
Skin: .::Mother Goose's::. Dale_LB (0 Linden Lucky board)
Tattoo: actchio. ladyskulls tattoo (0 Linden)
Eyes: Sterling Artistry : sa NekoFelidaeEyes_Look (0 Linden Camping item)
Shoes: *ordinary* Pickgiftsneaker (0 Linden)

1st and 2nd Picture:
Hair: Exile Echo (0 Linden)Shirt: A:S:S - Fisting tee (0 Linden)Jeans: ::7Style:: kipe men Jeans (0 Linden Marketplace)
Wristlet: Ruru@Pino [Morpholino (Dark)] (0 Linden Camping item)
Cherry: K_gs Cherry (0 Linden)
Headphones: K_gs StepNote_Pink Kamo (0 Linden Lucky board)

3rd Picture
1.
Trousers: Poison jeans pack Poison (0 Linden groupgift)
Hair: Exile Echo (used on all other outfits exept the 6th) (0 Linden)
2:
Outfit: 22769 groupgift MAY 2011 Life Guard (0 Linden)
3:
Outfit: A:S:S - Free for Noobs (0 Linden for all who are younger than 30 days)
4:
Suit: G&T Groupgift 2011 HIM
Horns: + eX + ezura Xue Macabre Face & Horns (0 Linden Huntgift)
Shirt: A:S:S - Fisting tee (0 Linden)
Trousers: :sey Camouflage cargo/Green&Khaki[LOxKE]/GroupGift_003 (0 Linden)
6:
Shirt: A:S:S - Sexsi tee (0 Linden)
Trousers: :sey union cross Jeans [LOxKE]/GroupGift_014 (0 Linden)
Hair: [COLORS] FREE_AB (0 Linden)

As Ao I would recommend the free bright ao. It is available at the marketplace.
It would be great if some more people would give the idea to make a free avatar of the other gender a try. Simply join the flickr group and put a picture of the avatar with the description of the items you used in it.

In which she wears pink hair!

Well I thought pink hair wearing days were over...ok in my 1st life yes but when I saw this subtle pink shade of hair on a luckyboard at D!va I knew I had to have it! and so I teamed it with this 'Marine' look with this marine top, and Marine bermuda pants at Vera Modera . I love the cleverly designed top which looks like it had a prim bodice due to the creased effect, which helps keep my prim count down. Oh and yet another pair of fantastic footwear from Skifija. I know I harp on about them but honestly I've never found shoes as easy to wear, available with so many options, I just LOVE them!

Hair: Free luckyboard item > D!va

Top: L$400 Red marine top > Vero Modera

Pants: L$200 Marine low rise bermudas .> Vera Modera

Sunglasses: Free luckyboard item > Kumaki glasses style

Bag: Free group gift > Coco

Belt: L$1 Gacha item - hot pink  > Chuculet

Shoes: £149 - secrets of Iris > Skifija

Hot pants! sssssss

Trying to walk down a glass staircase is never easy at the best of times, especially when teetering around in heels and being aware that you're wearing the the shortest of shorts! ok ok they're hot pants and aren't they just the most amazing hot pants you've ever seen! I felt super glam in this outfit today that I just fancied walking around the most populated areas jiggling my little bottom ...well that was the plan but lag made me walk into a river instead! no so glam pfft! Anyway pick up a pair of these hoty hoty hot pants by joining LeeZu group or in fact try joining Vain inc group there a few more little gifties in the notices too!

Hair: Free gift > Yuna's hair
Glasses: Free lucky board item >Kumaki glasses style
Jacket: Free group gift > Latte
Necklace: L$20 imitation black pearl > Izm
Vest : Free intrinsic tank - pinks > Jane
Hot pants: Free group gift > LeeZu
Stockings: Free group gift - purple .> Modd.G
Socks: Were from Izm but have vanished from display..sorry.