Curio blasts off
The in-world group for Curio – Gala and Rita Design Announcements – sent out a group notice on June 26th. This notice contained three colours of Curio’s “In Space” hair: black with blonde tips, blonde with black tips and blonde with pink tips. This gift will be GONE from group notices after July 10th (notices stay for no longer than two weeks) so if you want it, join the group and grab it.
Rockberry’s lucky boards and Waka & Yuki free hair
Five minutes of stalking the lucky boards and lucky chair at Rockberry paid off for Mar. The boards turned over onto ‘M’ twice, and she got these two lovely skins:
Walk to the back of the Rockberry store, then turn around to face the front, and you’ll see the boards and chair:
The hair comes from the freebie and dollarbie stall that Waka & Yuki have outside the Peppermint Blue Free Store. Take the blue TP pads up to the store, then turn right and head to the first market stall that you see:
An endless summer at Poetic Colors
Poetic Colors have a beautiful free pair of eyes called ‘Endless Summer’ available for a limited time:
Clearly Minty
I’m showcasing another lovely free ‘Newbie Assistance Pack’ from Peppermint Blue today. These are available to everyone, so don’t think because you’re not a newbie you can’t get them!
They can all be found at the Peppermint Blue Re:) Free Store (remember to take the blue TP pads up to the store). The one I’m showcasing here is the 090703 pack, and it’s a lovely summery outfit in pale blue:
The hair in the above pics is from House of Heart’s new release gift for July 3rd. You can find it on an easel in the long hair section of the store.
Poses are from Striking Poses: Monica Bellucci dollarbie (right) and Gisele Bundchen #10 (left).
There’s a lot more in the Peppermint Blue pack than I’m showing here, including skins and shapes. Hop behind the cut for a screenshot of the enormous amount of items you’ll get.
Oh, say can you see…
You really don’t need another July 4th outfit, do you? ;)
Well here’s a great free one, from Twisted and Spoiled. I found it on XstreetSL and had to bring it to the attention of my American readers nice and early, so they could wear it today. Find the XstreetSL listing, here.
The dress comes with two variants: the longer skirt you see on the left, and the mini skirt on the right. There are two glitch pants layers: one with a belt and one without. Top hat, feather boa, stockings, gloves and diamond choker are all included. What a great freebie!
The hair is from the special 4th July freebie pack from Bewitched Hair and the boots are the 40L$ ‘Neo’ boots from House of Curios, both blogged here.
Poses used are by Striking Poses (Charlize Theron set, No’s 3 and 5).
Purplelicious!
You know Mar and her love of purple. Well…
The top is Pixeldolls‘ latest subscribo gift: the Atlantis jacket, in violet. I’ve teamed it with the skirt from the (not free) Amity dress, also by Pixeldolls. (Psst! There’s a 10L$ retirement sale going on at Pixeldolls right now, so hurry over. Lots of good stuff to be had!) The boots are the latest offering from House of Curios (in-world or on XstreetSL). At 40L$ they come with lots of colour options for both the boot itself and the metal heel. The necklace is the Opium freebie choker in amethyst (can’t remember where I got this now, but it was at one of the big freebie stores; most likely Free Dove).
The hair is part of the July 4th gift from House of Heart. Both HoH and Bewitched Hair have not only July 4th gifts, but also Canada Day gifts out in their stores:
There’s also a hunt going on at the HoH and Bewitched locations. Details below are from the group notecard:
~~~~To celebrate the opening of the island of Bewitched, shared with my mama Wiccan, we are having a HUNT!! ~~~~
There are 35 little “bewitching” hats spread out all over the island. HOH & BWH have 25 little hats out with 21 of them set at 10$L and 4 at 0$L, with prizes ranging from single packs, various mixed colors and everything packs. Wic will also be putting out some goodies for you guys, clothing and shoes..o.O, 8 of which are 10$L and 2 at 0$L. There are even some goodies for the lads.
So basically you get a crazy load of hair and clothing, for only 290$L if you pick ‘em all up!…I think I’m feverish…lol. The hunt will run from July 1st to 5th….Have fun!!
Striking Poses: New dollarbie pose
I love poses. They’re rather a necessary thing for someone who blogs fashion and other avatar-related items in Second Life!
Striking Poses has a great selection of dollarbie poses in the middle of their store, and this week’s new dollarbie release is such a good one, I wanted to feature it in a blogpost of its own. It was inspired by a picture of Katy Perry on the red carpet:
House of Heart & Bewitched Hair: new location & release gift
House of Heart and Bewitched Hair have moved, so throw away your old landmarks. These are the new locations:
This is the current House of Heart new release free gift, which you can find on an easel in the store. You get two longer styles and two sleek, classic bob styles:
The XStreet SL Newbie
Think you have to hop around tons of stores in-world in order to look good?
Think again.
Head over to Xstreet SL. It’s Second Life’s official out-world shopping area. Log into it using your avatar name and password (the same ones you use when you log into SL itself) and click the ‘Marketplace’ button. There’s a LOT of free stuff available. Yes, some of it’s crappy, a lot of it is demos (a tip is to use boolean search operators to weed those out, so if you want free skins type in +skin -demo -demos) but there are some gems out there.
I thought I’d try to equip a female avatar with all the basics, for nothing at all. Did I manage to do it? Hop behind the cut and see ;)
Blue, blue, Peppermint Blue
Saving the best for last today. Many of you have heard of Peppermint Blue, the great ‘Assistance Set’ place that offers limited time complete avatar kits for free. Well, they’ve re-opened after a remodel, and they have set out more than 130 kits on two floors of their new store.
You’ll land here, so take one of those blue teleporters to the store:
Many of these are complete avatar kits, for both males and females. You’ll get shapes, skins, eyes, shoes, hair, clothing, and all for free!
Guys, there’s a big section of great stuff for you, too:
Here’s Mar in just one of the many full avatar kits available there. Many of them come with multiple skin options and avatar sizes/shapes, as well as multiple eye options, and other useful gadgets like height meters. They really are excellent full starter kits for newbies (and anyone else!)
About
So what is SL for Nowt all about? (Hey, that rhymed…)
Initially, I wanted to see if it was possible to create an entirely new avatar in the Second Life world, without putting in any money of my own. I planned to do this by picking money from money trees only. No camping (sitting on chairs/mopping floors/doing other activities that make an area look busy, in return for small amounts of cash), and definitely no begging! I set myself the goal of a minimum 50L$ per day from the money trees, and met this target on most days. I even exceeded it a lot on a few days. Along the way, I spotted (and screencaptured) many odd things, met some interesting people, got annoyed at the rudeness of ’some people’ and generally had a fun time.
The blog has now taken a different path, since my original goals have now been met. Now, SL for Nowt is all about finding freebies and cheapies, living a virtual existence in the Second Life world on the cheap, and helping out newbies as much as possible.
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Contact: sl.for.nowt@googlemail.com (Please include ‘SL4Nowt’ as part of the email’s subject line). Please note that because my in-world time is limited I do not accept products for review, but I do welcome alerts about good freebies out there. An email will reach me much quicker than an IM or notecard.
