Candy girls...

Sugar...
                            do   do   doo   do  do  do...

                                                                                        Ahhhhhh...
                                                                                                                                 Honey honey...

Candy and her friend Floss lived in a sugar coated world. Marshmallow stars glittered in a blue velvet sky each night, and each day broke with the rising of a shining slice of candied orange. The people you could meet there were as sweet as you could hope for, but never too much, they wouldn't want to give any visitors a toothache.

Candy loved pastels, the lightest treats, with delicate flavours. Strawberry and blueberry, icecream sundaes, the finest spun sugar. She would decorate the prettiest of cakes, swirling flowers in frosting, adding sprinkles and glitter to all she came near. Loved by everyone, her gentle nature added delight to each treat, all finished off with a cherry on top.

Floss was every bit as sweet as her friend, getting to know this occasionally just took people a little longer. There was a hard shell protecting her, to some she would seem sour, but with time and patience, you could come to know the real her. She was hard, sure, but she had a softer side, her company enjoyable to keep for hours at a time.

Together these candy girls could really sweeten up your day. 

Wow wow woW

How have I not stumbled across this before? The Perfect Wardrobe is a bi weekly event - currently the theme is Candy Shop. It features many fabulous designers, who have items matching the theme on offer for a mere L$90 each. The value of these gifts is mindboggling. As I was opening up what I'd bought I was amazed. If you like the items, you better get there quick - not sure when this round is going to end!

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Escapes/110/54/22

Both girls :
Skin  : Izzie's - Geanna Skin Bubblegum
A very pretty skin, comes with normal and cleavage options - shown here with the cleavage
Nails and Ring  :  -UtopiaH- Sweet Coated Hand Set - Mesh
The hand set contains a modifiable glove layer to tint to match your skin. The ring with the sprinkles is lovely!
Arm tattoo  :  -UtopiaH- World of Candy [Arm Mesh Tattoo]
My first ever try of a mesh tattoo! I found this worked remarkably well. No sizing or layering issues, and the design is very cute,
Poses  :  :: Focus Poses Candy Set ::
This pose set knocked my socks off. For the L$90, you get 10 poses, prop cupcakes and lollipops, the lolly is even colour change on touch. Amazing.

Candy outfit :
[y] Vellent Retro Dress - Tutti-Frutti
Love this dress, MESH, with fantastic shape, there are two L$90 packs available, the blue and pink as shown here - which is paired with a negative version of itself in pink and cream. Also available is the same dress in chocolate and cream - and yellow and chocolate. Be careful which section of the poster you click on to buy!

Floss outfit :
{le fil casse} candy hearts mesh outfit
Another amazing range with this item. The MESH skirt comes with the usual 5 size options, as does the top. However, you get the top in four different colours! Blue, butter, mint and pink. Shown here in Pink. The lovehearts on each colour version also spell out different mottos - so you can pick if you want kisses, or just to be sweet!


Also shown - not from the Perfect Wardrobe event
Hair - Magika Whimsical   - MESH L$250

Zombie Rock

Some had said death was the end... There were even songs written about it. Others knew better, and of course, now there had been some songs written about that too. The Reaper was not someone to fear. The transition wasn't always pleasant, and the food took a bit of getting used to, but still...

Out in the backwoods, she was away from one spotlight, the one she had chased in her life before, but there had been another ready and waiting. Once the cities had fallen, the new undead needed fresh prey. Fear motivated reprisals from those still alive on other continents had laid waste to much that remained after the initial fires, leaving few around worth the chase in the rubble of vast metropoli. Out here in the wilds, people still needed entertainment. Far from the shuffling undead most people had come to expect from countless films, these... people.. they could move. They could dance. Some could sing. The crowds would gather at twilight, and sometimes near dawn. Before or after the hunt, to set sluggish pulses racing or to celebrate. Thudding from the decrepit generator, powering the whole event, kept added its irregular beat as her hand gripped the mic stand. The crowds would go wild, it was just in this new world, the arms rising to wave in the air as she sang would not always belong to those waving them...

 

Hair :  /Wasabi Pills/ Amandine Mesh Hair - Jungle (Nature colourpack L$250)
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Wasabi-Pills-Amandine-MESH-Hair-Nature-Pack/3039391
Tattoo : +REDRUM+ Black Stars Tattoo L$89
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/REDRUM-Stars-Tattoo-Black-and-Pink/3859069
Bullet wounds :   +REDRUM+ Bullet Wounds  L$19
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/REDRUM-Bullet-Wounds/3989257
Top : +REDRUM+ Witch Tank MESH Ladies L$99
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/REDRUM-Witch-Tank-MESH-Ladies/3752650
Jeans : +REDRUM+ Slime Leopard Jeans MESH L$99
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/REDRUM-Slime-Leopard-Jeans/3975394
House :  Pandemonium: Dilapidated Villa - No Mod Version  L$250
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Pandemonium-Dilapidated-Villa-No-Mod-Version/2958181
Pose Microphone :  (*chanimations  Fetish Cabaret set 27 (standingMicrophone) L$450
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/chanimations-FetishCabaret-Set-27-MidnightMuse/2506984

A space oddity...

YYYAAAWWWWWWNNNNNNNN!!!

It had been a long day alright, with lectures and seminars, then time in the research library, all before the hours volunteering at the planetarium. Even after the long days work Estella could lose herself in the stars, tracing their paths across the manufactured sky, enlightening those who came to see the show. Educating without ever boring, her passion for the subject shone through. As happy to talk through complex theories as she was to create stories to inspire young minds about other worlds, but now her day was done, it was time to sleep.

Closing her eyes, the world never went away, rather it opened up into her dreams.

Transported across lightyears to where she felt free, she would dance through the cosmos. Stepping lightly on belts of meteors, she could move without gravitys restriction, tails of comets brushing through her hair as she gazed on sights unseen. Planets passed by as she traced the orbits of moons, learning things about the universe and herself that she could never explain. Worlds everywhere would turn, as would those on them, in their dreams. Estella would stay here as long as she could, galaxies spiralling in her eyes.

Scene 1
Hair: Magika   Early (Mesh) L$250
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Magika%20Land/127/127/22
Glasses :   +REDRUM+ Nerd Glasses - Blood Red L$49
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/REDRUM-Nerd-Glasses-Blood-Red/4245674
Outfit : +REDRUM+   Monday - Ice blue bratop and knickers - part of the 7 days underwear set  L$79
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/REDRUM-7-DAYS-Underwear/3458933
Eyes :  ~*By Snow*~ Bioluminescent Eyes (Black - L) L$25
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/By-Snow-Bioluminescent-Eyes-Tattoo/3191169
Skin : S u g a r : -C- :3: Bound Pretty - currently unavailable
Tattoo :  Garden of Ku   Tattoo Neo3  Forbidden Planet  L$300
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Huggies/116/147/25
Bed  :  Lisp   Mathilde BedV2   500L
http://slurl.com/secondlife/LISP/122/136/1268

Scene 2
Top :  +REDRUM+ Nerd Crop Top (Mesh - 5 sizes)  L$49
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/REDRUM-Nerd-Crop-Top/4022921
Bottoms : +REDRUM+ Galaxy Leggings (Mesh - 5 sizes) pack of three designs L$169
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/REDRUM-Galaxy-Leggings-3-Pack/4380646


I love the blue geeky look so much!

Room 326

Discover the mystery of the Silent Peacock Hotel...

What happened to the fifteen people who vanished after spending a night in the hotels room 326?

Sure the Hotel is a bit down at heel, a little shabby around the edges. You can't expect a place with a reputation like this to get so many guests as to warrant everything being kept like new. 

Times were hard in this part of town, but even here, the management had decided that it just would not be reasonable to charge room costs to the accounts of those never seen again after visiting room 326...

 

Welcome to another marvellous MadPeas Event! This is a grid wide novella, letting you into a dark world of long corridors, thickly carpeted to deaden any screams. Fifteen missing people, fifteen locations for you to search for an envelope, something you will hear each received shortly before their disappearance at the hotel.
Just make your way to the Silent Peacock Hotel, and buy a newspaper (50L$ for your game HUD) from one of the dispensers by the front doors.
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Hoshi%20Island/102/139/901
Along the way you will visit some amazing stores, so be sure to take a look around while you are hunting, join groups, hit subscribos, buy the odd thing (or eleven if you are anything like me!). Help keep these wonderful merchants in business! Below you can find a few of the fantastic gifts you get if you manage to complete the hunt. Buildings, furniture, clothing, Mesh and non-mesh, jewellery, bodyparts and tattoos!

Stores include: Just Because, Lilith's Den, +REDRUM+, Distorted Dreams, CoLLisions, Never Totally Dead, Carrie's Lingerie, Boudoir, Mad', Mesh Depot, Patron, The Cube - Art Gallery, Death Row Designs, Image Essentials and of course MadPeas!

Part of the beautiful endgame...

The First Ball Of The Year

The winter holidays were over. The gift boxes were all opened, the beautifully decorated Christmas tree started to wilt slowly, almost invisibly… the first fragrant needles were already scattered around in the room. Yet, Melusina didn’t feel sad or exhausted or sorry. She was preparing for the first ball of the new year. The snow was white and fresh in the garden, and the new silk dress felt similarly cool and crispy under her gentle fingers.

Yes, the old year had ended, but a new year just began, and Melusina was looking forward to whatever she would encounter during the forthcoming months. She put on her new necklace, a lovely surprise from her family, then she touched her nose tip with a powder puff, and cast a big happy smile at her reflection in the mirror. Yes, beginnings were always exciting and wonderful, Melusina thought... and she swept out of the room, the first tunes of the very first waltz already ringing in her ears.

A Happy New Year and happy beginnings to you all, too, dear readers and followers! :)

Skin: Mother Goose’s “Lene” – Lucky Board gift in the main shop (0 L$).

Hair: Exile „Violetta” in Autumn - Subscribo gift in the main shop (0 L$).

Eyes: Sterling Artistry “Starlight Eyes” in Astral Blue – camping prize in the main shop (0 L$).

Tattoo: White Widow „Shine” in White/Black – Christmas hunt gift in the main shop. You must look for some tiny white gift boxes, each containing a male/female tattoo (10 L$).

Outfit: PurpleMoon „Winter Queen” in Ice – December group gift (0 L$); the group membership fee is 50 L$.

Jewellery: Finesmith „Happiness!” New Year VIP group gift (0 L$); the group membership fee is 365 L$.

I didn't use any poses for the pictures, just started clicking at Petit Pas. :)

Merry Xmess!

Uh oh....
  Of course she had known better... Even as a young elf, it had always been...
           
               "Rachael, stay away from the sleigh!"
                                                                                "Rachael, stop messing around in the snow!"
                                                "Rachael put that reindeer fawn down!"

It wasn't like she had never been told. It was just that she didn't want to listen. Listening to the don'ts just wasn't fun.

Crashing the sleigh... well. Accidents happened.

The reindeer were all safe, if not entirely steady on their feet yet, after she had extracted them from the various trees in which they had landed. The sack, as it blazed, contained no toys destined for good boys and girls... part of the reason she assumed the whole thing had gone up in flames so quickly was the sheer amount of lumps of coal due to be taken to the naughty and bad. Really, she reasoned, she had done the whole North Pole a favour, discovering this safety flaw without anyone getting hurt. It had been one helluva ride on the way down too!

As an elf, she didn't feel the cold. Even out here in the depths of whichever snowy forest she had landed in, the furry hems of her dress kept her warm, the flaming sleigh playing its part as a source of heat, and also, she hoped, as a beacon to let anyone looking for her find her before too long. While it burned she had time to play in the snow, creating displays with her elf magic that amused her, all the moreso as they would never have been allowed to grace the official tourist photos of the pole. This accident was turning into a good night off!

Skin : : S u g a r : [2] Cane - [Lush] Berries  ( DB - Lush {Cleav-3} [Teeth] Crease)  L$899http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/The%20Slums/211/72/28

Tattoo : +REDRUM+ SnowFlake Tattoo L$129
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/REDRUM-SnowFlake-Tattoo/4248420

Hair : Magika Early Christmas - Free - Subscriber gift
http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Magika%20Land/127/127/22

Outfit : +REDRUM+ XMess Dress Candy Cane L$99
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/REDRUM-XMess-Dress-Candy-Cane/4258834?id=4258834&slug=REDRUM-XMess-Dress-Candy-Cane

Sleigh :  Falln Sleigh Crash L$440
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Falln-Sleigh-Crash/1654948

Snowmen : Falln Snowmen 'Catch' L$275
https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Falln-Snowman-Catch/4475

Happy Holidays Everyone!!!

Frost!

 After waiting over half a month for Frost to start, I feel a bit remiss in leaving it this long to blog some items! Here we are anyway at last. Frost is a marvellous event, staged by Depraved Nation. It's a showcase of some of the best designers in SL, all with their own ministores, offering up some of their best stuff. with exclusives to the Frost event for sale, many at reduced prices. Oh, and the lovely people only went and wrapped up a big pile of items as gifts, some in their stores, some nestling under the frozen gift tree!

Of all the tasks at this time of year, trimming the tree was always her favourite! Each bauble collected over the years began as a decoration, and turned into a memory. With the passing years, memories were turned into baubles as well, sweet times and sad collected together, and lit with the magical glow of the lights. The scent of pine filling the room, everything calm, happy and bright... until the train came roaring through the room. Each year she forgot that little detail about this place, the seasonal scare becoming all part of the fun.

No word of a lie - as I was admiring the tree in a Christmas themed SIM, not having really noticed anything unusual about the room, it having tracks and all, when suddenly, a train! 

Shape : [:ME:] C2W Special Shape - Gift at Frost

Skin :   [:ME:] Nixie Light Skintone (Winter Preckled  w/ CL 04) - Gift at Frost

Skins and Shape in a gift! Great detailing on the skin, rosey winter glow to the cheeks with freckles too, fresh from a long afternoon snowballing.

Tattoo:  +REDRUM+ Finally Free Tattoo  -  Gift at Frost

Beautiful birds and designs on this tattoo. Lovely mix of faint linework on arms and legs to the bolder birds on the chestpiece.

Outfit :  1 Hundred. Babe Bodysuit. - Gift at Frost

Very sexy twist on a santa suit! Built into the shirt or jacket layer is the shiny black belt you would expect on the jolly old elf, but its not obtrusive. Styled here for a Christmassy look, you could wear this any time of year as its not in your face xmas costume wear.

Earmuffs :  Adoness - Daisy Ear Warmers - Red  - Gift at Frost

Very cute earmuffs! Red for the season, but decorated with a daisy, to keep you warm all the way into spring.

Necklace : KOSH- TALVI NECKLACE  L$75  50% off @ Frost

Beautiful, as with everything from KOSH. Couldn't resist this necklace. It comes with different attachment points, in male and female size versions. Also available were other jewellery items in this range to match.

Boots : Cheeky : Strap Boots (MESH) Dark Brown  L$200 @ Frost

Great MESH boots, Dark Brown and Black, have a bit of a saddleshoe feel to them, but in boot form, and with straps! Available in a good range of colours. I was also tempted by the purple!

It was a dirty job each year, taking care of the naughty list. Making sure all of the coal was mined, bagged up and delivered. Some people may have expected her to have looked grubbier, to be covered with the coal dust, be grumpier, affected by the naughty people she had to deal with, but no. This was the Christmas season, and nothing made her happier. By taking care of the naughty list, it freed up everyone else to take care of those who had been good to one another. Such generosity of spirit meant there would always be a gift waiting for her, under the tree.

Skin : : S u g a r : [2] Cane - [Lush] Berries (DB - Lush {Cleav-3} Crease)  L$ 899 @ Frost

It's with a very heavy heart I write this, as S U G A R is going to be closing. I can only wish the creator Iokko well, and hope that she finds happiness in whatever she does next. And of course, as a massive fan of her work, that she changes her mind at some point, and makes some more beautiful things for me to see, and NEED.

Outfit : [Plastik]-Bordello- Corporal Adorable - Gift at Frost

Plastik has been incredibly generous with their under the tree giftbox. This dress is one of many items, ranging from outfits, to shoes and more and more. This particular minidress is sexy, but modest, with a lovely lace panel over the chest.

Horns : *Epic* .:F R O S T:. 2012 Demon Snowflake Horns - Gift at Frost

Fantastic and subtley wintery horns from Epic, with pretty snowflakes at their tips.

Clutch : PARADISIS Serenity :  Purse - Gift at Frost

Lovely little clutch bag, with ribbons, but set apart from others by additional decoration, in the 2nd picture here it looks a bit like a creepy pink hand, which it isn't at all, it's a cute little piggy.

Nails :  [ S H O C K ] Frosty Penguin Nails - Gift at Frost

Very cute little penguin nails. Some cheer for your fingertips!
 
You can find it all here...

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Frost/131/125/28



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