Gorgeous skins and much more!

*Wolf whistles*

OMG! You guys look smoke'n hot in these skins. These are the latest group gift from Belleza. left to right: Thomas V2 Pale - Thomas V2 Med

Thomas v2 Sk - Thomas v2 Tan - Thomas v2 Deep Tan

Hair: MADesigns - Slide DBIII free - available in the hair section.

Eyes: The Plastik - VaeColl. Ageis green (previous group gift).

Shape: Le.LOOK! le homme christmas gift.

Underwear: Vitamen - Athletic sheer boxers brown/blue (past lucky board prize).

Belleza Christmas group gift is still available in notices. Thomas V2 in 3 skin tones.

Underwear: Zarra white boxers from the Le.LOOK! le homme chrissy gift

Nikita Fride - Men's tattoo'd skin and shape, lucky chair only. Must be wearing group tag before you sit.

Gritty Kitty have a wall of freebies set up just inside the entrance to the right. There's shirts, tees and a few hair styles available, all for $0L.

Hair pictured: Zombie (left) & Ministry.

And the tees: Dangerdoom, Catnip, Play kitten & Pussy liquor.

Para Designs have this 'Cyber Scales' tattoo in a Midnight Mania (MM) board at their second store at CStar Mall. It comes in a couple of shades and also in a coloured version.

**UPDATE: MM board prize has actually changed since I started this post. Prize is now 'Carnival sleeves' unisex tatt, coloured only, all layers, 90 hits. Para Designs main store have another MM board for 'Noxious' tatt as well as a lucky chair for more tatts.

Rotten Defiance are having a rotten hunt. 10 skulls to be found. Skulls numbered 6 - 10 are male prizes and they're easy to find! There is a MM board here too.

#8 Grunge Jacket (had trouble making collar fit, no modify)

#9 Grunge shirt (collar & cuffs)

#7 Men's design tee

Spiked wrist bands: Little Britain Designs past camping prize.

#6 Brown cords

#10 Stitched jeans

On the right are Snake skin pants from Poison MM board. ***Don't rush over there, the store seems to have vanished :(

Rotten Defiance are also involved in a few hunts:

DBHH Death mask hunt gift #9 Jeans and shirt. Includes sculpted collar and cuffs.

Hint to find death mask: need to make a phone call?

40 Below hunt gift #14 - Men's Ice skater outfit, also comes with a bloody top version and an ice skate to embed in your chest. Hint to find snowman: OMGAH! I've been kidnapped by a Bunneh!

Little Britain Designs still have their converse ice skates available for free. You can get them in red and black. Just look for the frozen pond to find them.

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Extra credits:

Hair: FNKY/Cake - Jealous $300

Skin: Dragonfly - Joshua

Boots: Little Britain Designs - New Rock Black flame $400 (pic 9 10)

Piercings: Reaction (location currently unavailable)

Gloves: SiniStyle - Finger tape and black nails

Pants: SD Wears (pic 6)

Tank top: FNKY/Cake grey tank (pic 6)

All poses: Kuso DZCP SL005 P40 pose HUD $150

Sharp Shades

All mods need a cool pair of shades, its as essential as clean underwear! And recently I was generously given a pair by Ameshin Yossarian of Curious Kittens that completely blew me away.

The level of detail put into these FREE shades is exceptional, the beautifully transparent lenses, and sharp design of the frame arms make them look like shades you shelved out a few hundred lindens for; but no, they were a freebie gift...fantastic!

While your in the store, check out some other items maybe purchase one or two, free stuff this cool deserves a bit of of linden lurve!!!

A little Naughty, A little Nice, A lot Free

The Shopatorium group of vendors at Gallinas is having another mini hunt called the Turkey Trot. It began yesterday and runs through December 6th. You're not going to find a lot of clothes (ladies, there is a giftie for you in the 2dye4 store last time I looked) but you will find some interesting and fun gifts from most of the vendors there. Accessories, housewares, poses, hair, artwork and a fairly complete avatar except for skin and eyes from MEAT.

You are looking for whole Turkeys or Drumsticks in the shops. Some shops have one gift others two. The area is not huge, so poke in all the shops. Pictured (click for larger) is Meat's Bad Boy Santa Gift Pack complete with shape, clothing, boots, glove, hair, and a shotgun and shells at your back to chase off those pesky reindeer (sorry guys, for show only). You get a knit cap and hair from Fiction, a set of jingle bell nipple rings from Sable Rose, and that last smoke before you quit from Oddment. It's a little naughty, a little silly, but a fun double take on your traditional Santa get up.

Oddment offers a single prim poinsettia field to spice up your seasonal landscaping and it's copy so you can do a lot of spicing. Carla's Workshop has a clever breakable vase that resets itself.. which is just plain fun and I wish I could show it you in action. Comes with instructions. Pet's Shoppe and Erasing Drawings are both offering up very different original artwork for your in world home. Pet's got a traditional Winter landscape to evoke Peace on Earth and Erasing Drawings offers a little more introspective but nicely done mirror trick called "Vanity". Also pictured here is a pumkin charm necklace from Pookah Designs.

.:coLLisions:. has two tattoos, one for males and one for females. Lancer is a tribal style for upper back and arms.

Other offerings not pictured are leather wrist wraps from Sable Rose, two garden poses form ~Poetic Poses~, hair from Ali & Alli and offerings from Celtic Cache, Magpie Eclectic Designs, Wide Eyed, and Carla Collazo's Candles. Central TP point to the area here.

And another quickie: A good many vendors are holding Advent Gift giveaway's, with a new gift each day. Some will allow the previous gifts to remain until the end of the advent season (traditionally Christmas Eve) but others will only leave their gifts out for 24 hours. I picked up this little friend at Never Ever as part of the Advent Calendar being shared between N. E. and Robbish. It's animated, very friendly, and I'd suggest you get it today in case his buddies run away and there are no more pet rats to be found.

Jackrabbiting for bargains

Post-hunt one of the things I like to do is visit the stores of things I liked, or in this case the sims to see what else might be around. It's kind of a haphazard approach to looking for stuff but every now and again, you get lucky. What I' found this morning is a mix between new stuff, free, dollarbies, or minimal costs (like under $25L)

Before I even started today, DSN had dropped a gift from Dark Closet: a Shades kilt in distressed silver-grey leater, complete with chain mail pants and a top. I mixed it up with previous hunt gifts, including the Shaggy hair from Bryce and the boots in the last gift from Sensual Mistery from MHOH2, Krazy Kanji Tat from HUZ from the JFTG hunt and the Pup collar from Urban Assault from the Steampunk Hunt.










I started at KOSH, which is a good bet any day of the week and they added a bunch of new stuff to their perpetual dollarbie piles, along with the weekly offerings: this time the lockless bracelet (charms style with skelton keys) and a triple wrap checker belt. Necklace is Coexist from Sable Rose in the Lucky Board.

Philotic Energy (PE) is another good bet where I picked up this Boyd Hair with knit cap fatpack on the discount display. Right across the way from PE is Moonshine with this gift of a hoodie and jeans for men in the middle of the display. (Other hoodies in the discount area for $10L)

Harajukubox was my next stop for these dollarbie Dirt Clod Boots at Slanted Fox -- they've been running a Going out of Business sale for a bit, so don't miss it, or the other dollarbies in the store.

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Skin: Den Dou - Ichiro -Bronz- /02 Stubble (with Body Hair) (not free)

Quick Links:

Accessories:
KOSH, Sable Rose, HUZ Tats, Urban Assault

Hair:
Philotic Energy, Bryce

Clothes:
Moonshine, Dark Closet

Boots:
Slanted Fox, Sensual Mistery

Things not to skip in the Skipping Stones Hunt

EDIT: Hunt Ends on the 25th. Go Now.

The Skipping Stones hunt runs through the end of the month and while there's not a lot of clothes for men, there are some very, very cool prizes worth grabbing.

Mostly summer themed, there are clever and creative offerings including this dock from [chanimations #16] that comes not only with the dock and sitting animations but incorporates a very fun "stone in mid skip" set of posed sets for great pics, including water ripples and a stone for your hand. The poses are more or less feminine but there's enough unisex ones to make it worth grabbing, plus it's a nice, light addition to any water feature you might have access to.

Another really nice set is this full conversation porch from #07. [Second Spaces]. It's a complete set with sits and a nice relaxed feel to the whole thing. Do rezz it in build mode and take it up the same way. Rezzes as one piece but the sofa, ottoman, cushions table and accessories aren't linked, so you can use it as a whole installation or in pieces.

Another full set with some chuckles is #05. [Frop!]'s DayDreaming Trundle Bed. Two fun poses on the trundle (one sleeping, one chilling) and a spinning animaton on the stool.

From 41. [the Sea Hole] comes "Drinks Crazy crooked Steampunk-ish House". At 107 prims, it's big, but it's got some fine detail and its a seriously usable space if you have the land for it (needs slightly more than a 512 plot.) There's some incredible light and texture elements, and the whole look is something between the Adamm's Family, Strawberry Shortcake, and Psycho. An odd combination but one that works in all the best ways.

#38. [Reek] offers you a smaller domicile in the Lyric Skybox. Basic box but again, nice lighting and texture elements, not dark inside at all. The outside is logo stamped but inside it's light and amazingly usable and fun.

There are some clothes for guys; light weight colorful fun casual wear like this Retro Chic set of shorts and a lavendar button down from # 26. [Shiki Design]. The shirt is prim collared and cuffed, making it wearable with a lot of things, but by itself, it kind of makes me want to spend the day at the beach.

12. [NachtMusik] offers you this Indie Kid set with shorts and a shirt (there's an argyle sweater in there too). And a surprise modern plaid couch -- so when you set up in your new skybox or steampunk mansion, you'll have new furniture to go in it.

If you are in need of footwear, 14. [Duh!] offers up these Grey Leather Work Boots. I got a similar set to this in another hunt and I get a surprising amount of use out of them. Nice detail, resizable and fun.

#39. [Addict] had what may be my favorite outfit of the lot. It's a casual look, crop pants , tee and a vest, but it also comes with accessories: a nicely done razor blade necklace, the tiger eyed cross bracelet (above)that I am wearing a lot, and bandanas for your pocket and wrist. The set goes really nicely with the flip flops and prim feet that I picked up at [+grasp+] as a group gift (not part of the hunt.) It's just a nice easy look and all the pieces can be worn with other things.

And last but not least, #37. [Republica] offers up this striped beach umbrella set (there's a strawberry themed one too) to make your day at the beach comfortable and relaxing. Poses, component pieces and most importantly: they didn't forget the sun screen.

I have to thank Vina and some other very kind ladies who are sweet enough to do some of these hunts and provide me with notecards of stuff of interest to guys. I'm gonna have to throw a luau to thank them all properly.

Again, the hunt ends at the end of the month. You are looking for a glowing stone, but none of them were particularly difficult to find and in this batch, well worth the time it took some places to rezz fully.

SummerChoice!2009

SummerChoice!2009 is still up (will end on 31 August) with several unisex prizes.
All you have to do is buy a product containing the stamp card from the list of stores involved (some of them offer only limited products marked with the card logo, some others offer them in every product they sell) and mark them at the printing device located in all the 20 shops.
More info on the official site.



If you are managing to do the print rally all at once, probably you need many free slots where attach the cards in order to print them. I personally use the HUD slots, saving one for the AO but you can also wear them in every free slot of the avatar like many actually do.

Here are the unisex prizes available that I picked up:


Picnic camping car [SummerChoice!2009]
"anuenue. Hickory pants Choice2009
Uw.St Rouvel-Hair (CSR)

)) HANAUTA (( - Picnic Set "SummerChoice!2009"
Feather =F=LunchBox(SummerChoice!2009)

**DP**yumyum shy sheep/2009 choice
(iTuTu) Sunflower Cart // SummerChoice!2009

D-LAB GREEN TREE HOUSE-box
Vooner <>Hamster Box
*Edelweiss* School Blazer Cure - Choice!

S.I.C_5_Jacket_Set_Choice! version_BOX
*LPP* Choice!2009 Gift / *LPP house PKG

*COCO*_SummerChoice2009_GIFT
=DeLa*= Boots "Tucson" Summer Choice09

Summer boy

I must confess, I am not really thrilled about the kids fashion and I am completely ignorant to anything kids-like.
So, when I visited a kids store (by chance) today, I was surprised to find a large variety of clothes and accessories that I usually don't picture for kids.
Anyway, I found something interesting for adults as well. This flip-flops for istance.
I haven't seen them blogged around but I think that they're really handy.
One pair of flip-flops and dozen of options.
Thanks to the color changing menu you can recolor sole and rubber as you prefer.

There are also a couple of boxes with some free t-shirts, underwear and pants.


The quality is not the best but some items are not too bad.
The pants are all low-rise and you can't wear the swimtrunk without showing the *very bottom* of the back (you know what). I am wearing them with one of the free underwear found in one of the boxes.

The shirts come without underpants layer so you have to wear an high-rise pant to avoid to show the belly.
Meh, modern kids fashion trend.

Details:
Noi's Flipflops (free)
** Yuto ** freebie box (free pants and t-shirts)
Yuto's used underwear box (free t-shirts and underwear)
M.R.M. Surf Bracelet *White Shell*

New WAvE

Free outfits from *WAvE*
Guitar: Hufschmid Guitars (free here)
Shoes: >TRUTH< Hair Fair Hi-tops (free @ Hair Fair)
Eyes: PE Eyes-Cornflower M (free @ Hair Fair)
Hair: PE Saxon Light Auburn (free @ Hair Fair)
Cap: [ hoorenbeek ] Cap - Logo (free in Store this weekend only)
Eyeglasses: K_gs Aviola (not free)

GLBT Hunt - Part Three

This is the last of what I'll be posting but it's still not everything: Most vendors gave out multiple gifts. There were a fair amount of poses and animated furniture (beyond the usual sits), small household things, some funny things. As with any hunt, not everything was to my style and taste, but there was certainly a wide range to choose from, and I found at least a few stores I'll be visiting again.

Eyes: # 81 - [Sterling Artistry]


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sa_PrideEyes_guysndolls

sa_PrideEyes_kissthe boys

sa_PrideEyes_diversity

Eyes: #02 - [Clover]

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CloverEyes_003

CloverEyes_002

CloverEyes_001

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Left:
#52 [Bolissima]: Stereo system (not a land radio)

Right:
#40 [Hi-Design]: Cherry Blossom LR set

Left:
#38 [Euphoria]: I'm free Shirt & Jeans

Right:
#40 [Hi-Design]: Diversity Shirt

Left:
#43 [Luxus]: Contemporary Sofa & Retro Lamp

Right:
#32 [SLaNg Studios]: Freakyball Rainbow

Left:
#84 [Extraordinaire]: Men's GLBT sandals

Right:
#60 [Mir'ah]: ProudTank
#63 [Brokeback Babylon]: White Jeans
#55 [Bare Bear Discount Store]: Contemporary loveseat

#67 [Luxurious World]: Family Tattoo

Left:
#14 [Simple Designs]: Sexgen Douche (shower) Goth (het)

Right:
#35 [Naughty Nibbles]: Veggie tray
#22 [Babel Confectionairs]: Fairycakes
(Table is part of the #86 [Big Thrifty]: Celtic Dining Room Set - also a bedroom and living room set - unscripted)

#47 [Licks]: Casual Olive Shirt & Pinstrip black pants
#056 [TRoUBLed ReBeL]: Unity Belt

Left:
#53 [Golden Thorn]: Gold Link Bracelet (right wrist
#56 [TRoUBLed ReBeL]: Unity belt

Right:
#24 [Wildroses]: Rainbow Bracelets (
#73 [AR Designs]: Gold Intwined Ring (also in silver)

Left:
#75 [Bad Cat]: Catskull tank, Barbed Wire Bangle (also in silver - right wrist)
#85 [AHC]: Sharktooth Gemmed Necklace
#56 [TRoUBLed ReBeL]: Jellie bangles (mens - left wrist)

Right:
#66 [Different Drummer]: Shredded jeans
#68 [GG & Len]: Poof T-Shirt

Left:
#61 [Simply Shelby]: Cherry Garden Set

Right:
#60 [Mir'ah]: Tabletop Meditation Mandala (color change)

Left:
#59 [Stud Puppy]: Shirt, Necklace & Visor
#58 [Sasha Quality]: Camo Pants
#62 [FamilyRoom]: Nautical Pride Flag

Right:
#15 [foo foo]: Rainbow teddy
#19 [Candy Prims]: Pride Shirt & tie (combo)
#66 [Different Drummer]: Patched Jeans

Left:
#59 [Stud Puppy]: Shirt, Necklace & Visor

Right
#31 [PdC]: Rainbow Rocks