Arriving in style

She took an overnight flight from Monaco. A quick stop in the plane’s loo to change her top and touch up her make-up, and she’s ready to face the paparazzi.

Free

Pants: Yip’s Black and White Suit – Gnubie Store

Top: Glam Top (Golden) – Vinyl Cafe – limited time offer for a fatpack with jeans

Sunglasses: Milano Shades – Maschienenwerk – Note: the store’s moved again!

Bracelet: Double Metal Bracelet (Copper/Gold) – Miriel @ Gnubie Store

Almost Free

Hair: Katherine – ETD – 1L$ fatpack (take #4 on TP board)

Dirt Cheap!

Suitcase: Brown Suitcase – Magi Take – 10L$

Not Free

Shoes: Lucy Peeptoe (Butterscotch) – Baby Monkey

Earrings: Sissy (Gold/Brown) – Gems & Kisses

Poses by VPoses.

Casa del Shai Fifty Linden Friday Dress

Ladies, hurry to Casa del Shai, because until midnight tonight, Friday October 23rd, you can get this beautiful evening gown for just 50L$:

He was a sk8r boi

Well, guys, summer may almost be over for those of us in the Northern hemisphere, but in SL there are sunny beaches all year round. And for you grunge and sk8r lovers, I have found a fab lucky board and a new store that sells stuff just up your halfpipe (as it were).

Head on over to Beggars Day, and haunt their lucky board to see if you can win this cute Sienna Calico Dress and Holey Leotards (the ‘& not’ bit means there’s a non-holey pair included). I’m reliably informed that the board is set to ‘easy’ and wildcards are plentiful. My kind of board!

Mar’s hair in this pic is from Philotic Energy, and her shoes are from House of Curios.

That’s not all, though. There’s a freebie in the store for guys, and there will be a secret sale, starting at 11:59 SLT tonight (Friday October 16th) and running all weekend until 11:59 Sunday October 18th. There will be freebies, dollarbies and discounted items, and the whole store (the whole thing!) will be available to buy for 300L$. Just look for the flaming box next to the dollarbie wall. Make sure you join the subscribe-o-matic, too, because new clothing will be coming out after the sale.

OK, a few piccies of what’s in the store behind the cut. All you sk8r bois and grrls out there, hop behind and follow me!

G. Field Halloween freebie

G. Field has a gorgeous Halloween freebie out right now: a long sweater dress in pumpkin with green tights and a green belt. There are two versions of the dress in the pack: the one  shown below, and one with a Jack O’Lantern face on it.

There are also two cute pairs of short boots in the same pumpkin colour, for 30L$ per pair:

Heeeere’s Johnny!

Or, rather, “Heeeere’s Hoorenbeek!”

Boys? Hie thee to Hoorenbeek, where – for a limited time – you can pick up this amazing Halloween freebie. You’ll get a jacket layer of blood for your torso, bloody jeans, bloody boots, and a blooded axe. Find it on a standalone wall, in the middle of the store.

Belleza group gift skin: Jesse

Belleza is a pay-to-join group (a one-off payment of 250L$) that has been incredibly generous to its male group members in the past. Now, it’s the ladies’ turn, with a stunning skin in two tones, called Jesse. The skin comes in ‘deep tan’ and ’sunkissed’ with extra cleavage options and also hairline options, to make a total of eight skins to choose from.

Search groups for Belleza. Make sure you join the one formed by Tricky Boucher, which has the title of: -Belleza- (including the hyphens), as there is another group of a similar name. You’ll have to pay 250L$ to join, but make sure you stay in the group, as gifts are relatively frequent and generous. The gift went out on September 26th, and will stay in group notices for two weeks, so you have another week to get it.

TOP TIP: if you can’t remember which groups you paid to join, you can either check the group’s profile (even though it’s greyed-out, you’ll still see the group join fee there) or you can make a note of the group’s name in the Notes section of your own profile (which is a handy place to keep stuff like that close-to-hand without having to search for it).

I’ve photographed Mar in both skintones, and with the cleavage options, too.

Classic Elegance

Congrats to the FabFree group on reaching 6000 members! All day long, the designers that are in the group have been offering gifts to group members, and Mar has picked just one gift to highlight here: the lovely Classic Elegance set for men and women, by Firefly Designs. Inside this gift, you’ll get all you need to attend any number of the social whirls you might get invitations to during the upcoming party season in SL. Ladies get a beautiful black dress with tiny gold details, and gents get a classic black suit.

Search the Groups tab for ‘Fabulously Free in SL’, join the group and search through past notices until you see one titled: “Congrats Fab Free on 6000″ from Phoenix Welles. This is the gift Mar is featuring here today. The gift will be in group notices for the next two weeks.

Ladies, I’m sure you have any number of lovely black shoes that would match this outfit, but while I was at Heart & Sole earlier today, I noticed a free pair of classic black pumps on the floor by the Subscribe-o-matic, so if you don’t have any black shoes, grab those! Gents, you should mosey over to House of Curios and snap up their 50L$ Leather Loafers with nine texture change options (you can also get them here, on XstreetSL). They’re classic shoes that will suit just about any formal or semi-formal outfit.

He-Arrrr!t and Sole

*groans at the title* (Okay, it’s not one of my best!)

Heart & Sole are taking part in the Doubloon Hunt. Search the store for a big piratical piece of eight, and inside you’ll find these fabby prim-toed skully shoes, perfect for those Anne Bonney moments!

Closing down sale at Dany French Touch

Sadly, another store in SL is closing, and it’s the wonderful Dany French Touch. There have always been gorgeous dollarbies in this tiny store, but now all of the other outfits are 50L$ each. I’ve no idea when the sale will end, but there are some beautiful outfits for men and women to be had. I suggest you hot-foot it over there as soon as you can. (Guys, if you want historical outfits, you need to visit this store, okay? That’s not the only style they have, but there are some wonderful historical creations, both for men and women.)

Mar’s going to showcase just a few of the dollarbies and 50L$ outfits (and at the end is one of the male outfits that works equally well on ladies; completely unusual and beautiful!)

Hop behind the cut for more.

Newbie Notes: “Help! I’m pregnant!/a vampire!”

Oh dear…

If you’re a newbie to Second Life and you’re panicking because you’ve just let a vampire bite you and been told it costs a LOT of money to ‘get your soul back’, or if you’ve been engaging in pixel-bumping shenanigans, only to have your partner’s naughty bits inform you that a bundle of prim joy will soon be winging its way to you via the sculpty stork, then read on.