Waiting in the garden

She hadn't planed to wait. But she had supposed that she would have to. At least the garden where they let her wait looked nicely. She avoided to touch any of the flowers. It was always strange when she went to her boyfriend to pick him up to go out. His parents were so odd. She did not know if they supposed that she would try to take advantage of him or if they simply did not like her. The truth was way different. Keith her boyfriend was an alien. He had some problems to make sure to look always the same when meeting her. So he and his parents needed ages to compare a picture they took of him and her with his current look. Sometimes he needed to change his haircolour back to brown after his hair did become green after he tried to communicate with some grass, at other days his lips were brown as he had spend time with kissing trees. She would not have cared as she really liked him. But the aliens supposed that humans might be a bit shallow.

22769 takes again part at the gallery giftshop event. Its a mix of a gallery and a shop. So that you could see some amazing art and buy great clothes at the same time. For this cycle of the gallery gift shop 22769 created an outfit for guys and one for girls which go well together. On the picture you could see the outfit for females. Its a short skirt with several layers and a short cape with fitting top. It is possible to adjust and mod the primparts. I like the cape with the houndstooth pattern very much. It goes well with other outfits as well for example the top and the cape also look great with simple elegant trousers. It also could be used to make a casual outfit a bit more elegant.

Outfit: 22769 ~ [femme] Gallery Gift Shop 15th August 2011 (150 L$)

The used pose comes from No Strings Attached and the picture has been taken at Japan Project Garden.

Four

Here I am representing four variations of four items being, the skin, eyes, tops & headband. The skin which has to be a firm favorite of mine at the moment is Vero Modero's Burch skin, I love the detail as with all Vero Modero items but particularly it has a lovely sheen without looking too oily. I love the luscious pink glossy lips which remains the same in all the 9 variations of skin as does the skin tone, only the eyeshadows vary and all of them are tastefully vibrant colours. What I also adore about this skin is that it has a whole lot of lashes!

Birdy is fast becoming one of my favorite stores of the moment too & currently instore is a whole wall of  these tops. I am wearing just one of the styles of the sculpt tops but showing all four of the different textures, there are other slightly different styles so for example there is a style a bit more ruffle around the top yet doesn't lose the essence of the style - great to have so much choice. Have fun choosing!

Hair: 0L -  1st anniversary gift - onyx > D!va
Top: 75L - Sculpt top v2 > {birdy}
Headband: 0L- gift > Beatnik
Skin: 500L each - Burch skin > Vero Modero

Eyes:
Top left: 0L - gift > I.D ( insufferable dastard)
Top right: 0L - gift - forest cat > Poetic colours
Bottom left: 200L -  Old moss > Poetic colours
Bottom right: 65L - Mystery eyes - enigmatic gray > Sterling artistry

ADiva

Things you might want to grab fast! and here they are - I should first mention the hair since sadly there's a closing sale at AMG all hairs have been reduced to 99L so I grabbed a few of my favourites before they vanished forever.

 Next is the latest subscribo gift from ADiva and what a generous gift too! you get this pretty little dress with matching accessories i.e necklace & earring (which you can't see in this image) & then a lovely matching bag which all ties in perfectly with these sandals which I adore on the luckyboard at Pesca.

The skin is a lovely pale one from ......  . I must admit i'm quite partial to a pale skin and I find that this one is a realistic natural tone which I'm sure is hard to achieve , because the skin is quite natural  & plain it's makes wearing make up fantastic - a blank canvas if you like which is perfect seeing as the skin comes with a range of vibrant eye shadows one of which i'm wearing in my picture.

Dress, Jewelry & bag: 0L subscribo gift > aDiva
Hair: 99L closing sale > AMG Boudoir
Skin: 199L - Angie skin > {birdy}
Shoes: 0L - luckyboard item > Pesca

Alice Nr. 8

It had been a long day. Alice Nr. 8 needed a rest. She had been at the front for several hours fighting against the army of deception. It was a bloody work and somehow she liked it. This time she had killed about rhinoceroses. The deception used rhinoceroses of the size of bunnies as spies. Alice never managed to find out why but she killed them.

Now she needed a rest. She used to sleep in a big basket with a teapot and a hat. She had found out that none of the beings of the deception managed to get her when she rested on the flying hat. And it movements made her sleep very deep. In her dreams she hugged bunnies.

The Disgruntled Alice Dress is currently on the midnight mania board at Brain Circuit Inc. It comes with puffed sleeves and could be either worn with a bloody top and skirt or in a clean version. Both are included in the pack. The skirt is mod so it was possible to make it smaller to fit my avatar. The basket with the hat and the teapot is a groupgift from The Looking Glass. The glowing flowers on the pictures are from the same store. They change their colour and look great. The set includes several circles of flowers in a noncolourchange and a colourchange version. They are non copy but trans. The Looking Glass has a great collection of plants and buildings which simply look different. Their plants could grow in a fairy garden as well as on an other planet. Its the same with their buildings and their furniture. The textures are all stunning and done with love and I guess also with hours of work.

Items:
Dress: -=Brain Circuit Inc=- Disgruntled Alice Dress (0 L$ Midnight Mania board)
Hair: /Wasabi Pills/ Ryoko Hair (250 L$ for one colour 1500 L$ for the fatpack)
Teapot and so on: Mad Teatime Boxed - The Looking Glass Group Gift (0 L$)
Glowing flowers: The Looking Glass - Paper Flowers (300 L$)

The pose on the 3rd picture comes from No Strings Attached.

Crystal flowers

It was always hard work to get the dreamflowers. She had to manage to dream herself to them. She was a great dreamer but this was a really difficult task. Those dreamflowers only grow in dreams which contained nothing but them. So she had to manage to imagine emptyness. It was one of the hardest task for a dreamscout but she knew how important it was that the wizzards always had enough of those plants. They were the most important ingredient in the spells which healed broken hearts.

The Looking Glass have always a gift hidden somewhere on their sim. This month its a set of crystals. The ones from the picture which look like plants belong to this gift. They are well made and not primmy. The set contains five crystals. The gift is hidden somewhere on the looking glass sim. You could find the hint to find the gift in the little town on the same sim. The sim is really beautiful so it is fun to search there and there are some groupgifts available as well. House of Fox takes part in the current For the Love of hunt. In this one the participating stores set one of their items on 1L$. The jumper on the picture is this item from said store. The primparts include an resizescript and the textures are very pretty. The boots are a current groupgift from Tainted. They also come with a resizescript. I like all the leatherbands on them. The necklace is an other freebie. I won it on the Southpaw lucky chair.

Crystals: Crystal Cave Rocks - The Looking Glass Gift (0 L$ hidden somewhere on the sim)
Jumper: House of Fox [VintageJumper] (1 L$ For the Love of Hunt)
Boots: {::.Tainted~Love~~Boots .::} {Black} (0L$ groupgift - they are in the old groupnotices)
Necklace: Southpaw: Storm Diamond Pendant (0 L$ Lucky chair)
Hair: /Wasabi Pills/ Ryoko Hair (250 L$ for one colour 1500 L$ for the fatpack)

Mature Dreams

Elvira was happy. She had not supposed that she would be able to pass the test. But surprisingly enough she didn't fail at all. Now she was allowed to show her ears in public. It was a test all had to pass if they wanted to be seen as mature. The easy part was answering a bunch of questions about the history of the society of dream. But then it became tricky. They had to create a dream. Elvira had hoped that she would get the task to create a beautiful dream. She was known for having some talent for those dreams.

But instead of this she got the task she did not want at all. Creating a nightmare. This was the moment when she was sure that she would fail. First she thought about monsters, tentacles, thin hairy legs with clawed feet. But the time she had been given to design the dream was to short to create scary sounds so she decided to improvise. The dream she created was one of the most horrible ones which had been ever created. It was about waking, getting ready for work, going to work, working, going back home, watching a boring tv-show, going to bed. Everyday for the rest of the dreamers life. None of the testers wanted that the dream would ever be used. But they kept it hidden in a safe. Just in case that they would need to torture somebody.

Wasabi Pills released new hair which is available in two versions. Its called Kiki. The haircut looks like a bob which is a bit more feathery at the tips. There is one version which has two long streaks at the front and one without the streaks like on the picture. As all hair from Wasabi Pills it is available in many colours and has a resizescript. When owning some more hair from this store fitting hair becomes really comfy and easy as normaly it is possible to use the same values to make the hair fit, as they seem to be built in the same size. The ears are the Depraved Urban Wreckage Hunt gift from gauged. The hunt includes a lot of great stores for more informations its worth to take a look at the huntwebsite. They are amazingly easy to tint and the button in the earlobe can be textured in several ways. The gift includes a hud for tinting and texturing. The gothy dress comes from Aliza Karu. The system parts come on the jacket, trouser and glove layer. The prim parts do not include a resize script but it wasn't tricky in my opinion to make them fit my avatar. I like the collar with the lace and the lacing in the front very much. It might look very nice with other outfits for example combined with a short dress which does not cover the shoulders. The bleeding nose is a facetattoo from hysteria and the eyes come of course from Sterling Artistry.

Hair: Hair: /Wasabi Pills/ Kiki II Hair (250 L$ for one colour 1500 L$ for the fatpack)
Dress: [ALIZA KARU] Line goth dress (450 L$)
Ears: :GAUGED: Elf Ear (Ver2) - URBAN WRECKAGE (0 L$ Depraved Urban Wreckage Hunt)
Blood: ~.:.Hysteria.:.~ Bleeding (35 L$)
Eyes: Sterling Artistry DragonEyes_IndigoFrost (60 L$)

Sometimes I read Avatars in Motion. Its my favourite second life travel blog. So I found Alice: Madness Returns where I took the pictures for this blogpost. The poses come from DARE but this store is closed so they are most likely not available anymore.

[brothers of gloom]

When the lovely Miss Nuuna Nitely released her latest male skin, the 'Ellivu', I knew that I needed to have it - come what may! I'm still not quite sure if it was the sharp contrast between black and white that attracted me, or the fact that it looks so gorgeously gloomy; I've always had a fetish for bones and anything related, and this is what you get here: lots of delicious, beautiful bones all over the place (errr, skin).



In combination with the 'tunnel eyes' from {nestle my bosom} you can easily achieve the look of some nasty, walking dead that's been brought back to life by an experienced voodoo priestess seeking for revenge - and who needs nipples in that case, anyway?

And psssst... ladies, there is a female version available as well!


Skins: +Nuuna+ - Ellivu male (both skins in one pack for a mere of 250 L$)
Hair: :KM: - Mash Wolf No1 (streaks are colourchange)
Eyes: {nestle my bosom}- tunnel eyes (no longer available)

Pants: [ Cynful ] CapeyoJeans - white and black