Dream Boss

A short post for you guys today with some gifts you can go grab. The cool T-shirt is from JLB and is a gift for Avenue Magazine Readers (copy this into your viewer to join: secondlife:///app/group/c3e0ee4b-7058-3c9b-bb98-f0f2043d71fe/about). The couch (which I previously blogged here) from End of Daze is now a gift down at the Energy Club, where you can find a ton of good gifts for men & women to mark the club's 3rd anniversary.

The skin here is a recent group gift from LaVie (unfortunately no longer available). However, LaVie has just announced a Sim-wide Easter egg hunt with gifts from the top designers present on their new  urban style shopping area. I haven't had time to do the hunt, but I'm told there are skin gifts for men & women, hair, N-Core shoes etc, although all the gifts may not be out yet. Nice to see LaVie back and bustling - see the pic below for the stores in this hunt.

Update: LaVie Sim is temporarily closed, while they set up the gifts. Sim now reopened.

Dream Boss

• Shirt: JLB Apparel - Pop Fashion T-Shirt Brown Man Up Medium (Avenue Magazine Group Gift, MESH)
• Pants: LV - Skinny Pants white/black M (Previously at Mens Dept, MESH)
  
• Necklace: Maxi Gossamer - Gold Heart Key Short (Energy Club Anniversary Gift,  MESH, Unisex, includes multiple versions)
• Hat: Avoid - Snapback BOSS Black Leopard (150L at Mens Dept until Mar 31, MESH)
• Skin: LaVie - Massimo Goatie2 Pale (Previous Group Gift)
• Shape: Entropy - Kane Shape (100L at Mens Dept until Mar 31)
  
• Hair: Uw. St - Prince Black (150L at Mens Dept until Mar 31)
• Facial Hair: Nivaro - Tonespatch Dark (Moolto Hunt Gift until Mar 31, includes multiple beards) 
• Pose: Exposeur - Advent Gift 9 Mirror (Previous Gift, now available for purchase)

Decor

• Couch: End of Daze - Special Energy 3rd Anniversary (Energy Club Anniversary Gift,  MESH)
• Lamp: Trompe Loeil - Spotlight Lamp (25l per play at Arcade Gatcha Event until Mar 31)
• Clock: Floorplan - Driftwood clock gatcha sage RARE (25l in Gatcha)
• Wall Art: Urban Style - URBAN pict44 (15l)
  
• Table: Vespertine - Cubistic sidetable/dirty planks (90l at Mens Dept until Mar 31, MESH, includes multiple versions)
• Wooden Eggs: Apple Fall - Collector Eggs (The Nest's Easter Egg Hunt until Mar 30, MESH)
• Bunny Figures: Lame Furniture - Peter Rabbit Figurines (The Nest's Easter Egg Hunt until Mar 30, MESH)

Hints & Slurls for hunts mentioned in this post: Moolto Hunt - Nest's Easter Egg Hunt

Pop Music & Video Games

It's always hard to get back to blogging when I've been away because I spend so much time catching up, but My Attic's particularly great February round (ends Feb 28) with its Pop Music theme brought the necessary inspiration to do a little playlist. The collection has awesome stuff for women as well as the very cool "MPop" pose prop from W.Winx that is texture change, completely moddable and lots of fun for doing photos. It paired up well with the Arcade video game piece, new from End of Daze.

The male avi features an excellent new skin from Essences - nice to see them concentrating on the male side of things again - available in numerous tones and with various facial hair options. Hair is by Mr  C: designed for "lovers" it was released for Valentines and can be worn by women. Clothing is from Mens Dept and I especially love the cool leather look from Razorblade Jacket with texture change highlights on sale for 150l until Mar 1.

The female stuff shown includes items from various sale rooms (all of which will end soon - the Fi* Friday leather shorts in a few hours - so don't miss out) and two hunt gifts with very different looks that both come with appliers: paper.doll's dress from the I Love NY Hunt (14l, gifts shown here) and American Bazaar's top for HFYIS.

Pop Music

• Jacket: Razorblade Jacket - Subtlety Rogue Jacket (150L at Mens Dept until Mar 1, MESH)
• Pants: LV - Skinny Pants Gray/white S (100l at Mens Dept until Feb 1, MESH)
• Necklace: Mulholland - Bound Necklace (1l)
• Gloves: Mulholland - Biker Gloves (Free)
• Hair: Mr. C - Lover Espresso (New Release, Unisex)
  
• Skin/facial hair: Essences - Kirk light rose/ Goatee 01 (New Release)
  
• Shape: Ellabella - Lapsed Male Shape (JOJ Male #16 until Mar 1, gift also includes unisex piercings)
• Pose: Adorkable Poses - 8 of 25 2012 (Not Free, Modded)

Pink, it was love at first sight

• Dress & belt: Paper.doll - February (14l, I Love New York Hunt until Mar 1, partial MESH, includes Tango Applier)
• Necklace: Cute Poison - Love Necklace (Torn Between Hunt #12 until Feb 22. Note: Hunt is over but gift still available at time of publication)
• Bracelet: Sweet Leonard - My Triangle Bracelet Silver/Onyx (Torn Between Hunt #8 until Feb 22, includes multiple versions. Note: Hunt is over but gift still available at time of publication)
• Glasses: Needful Things - Love Mustache Glasses (1l, Bubbly Heart Hunt #14 until Feb 20. Note: Hunt is over but gift still available at time of publication)
• Shoes: Epic - Mesh Platform Pump Suede Pink (Not Free, Mesh)
• Stockings: Cutie Creations - White Socks (included with various outfits)
  
• Hair: Truth - Hollana Barbie (88l for colorpack at Collabor88 until Mar 1, MESH)
  
• Lipstick: Pink Acid - Plumped Lippy Pink (JOJ Female #31 until Mar 1, gift includes lipstick color pack & eyeshadow)
• Skin: Panda Punx - Kimmie Skin (Free on MP, also includes two shapes - previously blogged by Estrellita here)
  
• Shape: annaA - Body Shape Laura (65l at Stuff in Stock until Mar 4, Modded)
• Pose: W.Winx (included with MPOP pose prop)

They say you like the bad girls...

... Honey, is that true?

• Top: American Bazaar - Slut Top with Lolas! Tango Applier 1 (Hunt for Your Inner Slut #5 until Mar 15, includes Tango Applier)
• Shorts: Faddism - Night Rider Shorts Pink S (55l at Fi* Friday until Feb 27, MESH)
• Shoes: Duh! - Ruby Classic Pump (JOJ Female #14 until Mar 1)
• Stockings: D&G - Black Fishnet Leggings Ultra Low (Hunt for Your Inner Slut #6 until Mar 15, includes complete outfit)
• Tattoo: Yulicie - Modern Vintage (25l)
  
• Clutch: [HAND]verk - Heart Clutch (Subscriber Gift)
• Bracelet: 22769 - Valentines Bracelet Platinum (22769 Turns 3 Store Hunt gift until March 1, includes multiple versions)
• Rings: (red)Mint - Silver Rings (1l on MP)
• Hair: ploom - Rene small boobs Indecisive (95l for a colorpack until Mar 1 at My Attic, MESH, includes special sizing for Mesh breasts)
• Lipstick: Pink Acid - Plumped Lippy Red (JOJ Female #31 until Mar 1, gift includes lipstick color pack & eyeshadow)
• Pose (upper): End of Daze (included with Arcade Machine)
• Pose (lower): Glitterati - Lapdance F-2 (Free, includes multiple poses)

Decor:

• Pose Prop: W.Winx - MPOP (95L at My Attic until Mar 1) 
• Video game: End of Daze - Arcade (New Release, MESH)
• Microphone: Fen Lux - Stand Mic 3 (availability unknown)

Hints & Slurls for hunts mentioned in this post: Bubbly Hearts Hunt - Hunt for Your Inner Slut 4 - I Love New York City Hunt - Jack or Jill Hunt - Torn Between Hunt

Modularity

My last post on Four Walls concentrated on some of the rustic items, the grungy even. This time I wanted to feature the more modern gifts - those with clean lines and often modular in concept. Pieces such as Scarlet Creative's shelving units (the gift includes numerous versions that you can mix and match) or Breno's reading nook (part of a future modular series), work perfectly in Circa's "Infinity Cloud" Glass Studio from the hunt, which has cubed rooms off a main living space,  skylights with metallic highlights and panoramic glass windows (Mesh, 29 land impact). Four Walls goes to the end of the month and previews can be seen on the hunt website.

I'm wearing Diego, the new Mesh head from CheerNo, which is on sale at TDR Fusion until Feb 1. In a sense, with these mesh add-ons, be they heads, breasts, hands, feet or other appendages, the avi itself becomes modular, a base to which components can be added or subtracted at will depending on needs. CheerNo's head is interesting and can give a very realistic effect, but the lack of facial expressions can be a drawback. Some new releases shown below include Mens Dept items, a great shirt from HuHu (available with texture change hud) and an outfit from Apple May Designs, which is marking the opening of its new mens store with everything 50% off just this weekend (the AMD hoodie shown below is available in a different color free in store).

Scrabble

• Shirt: HuHu - Mens Long Sleeve Loose (New Release, Mesh, Texture Change version w/ hud available)
• Pants: Apple May Designs - Low Rise Skinny Jeans S Classic (New Release, Mesh)
• Head: CheerNo - Meshead Diego Shaved/Pale (70l at TDR Fusion until Feb 1)
  
• Hair: Alli & Ali - Eliah Hair Darkbrown (1l on marketplace)
• Pose: Exposeur - Simple Man 1 (75l at Mens Dept until Feb 1, includes 5 poses & mirrors)

 Decor

• Couch, Ottoman: MM. Home - Mid Century Sofa v2.0 Velvet, Ottoman (20l, Four Walls Hunt until Jan 31, MESH, Texture Change)
• Art: Breno - Checkmate (50l)
• Scrabble Game: Cleo Design - Scrabble (20l, Four Walls Hunt until Jan 31. Gift includes complete furniture set)

Big Chair

• Chair: Johadez - Oversize Chair Ashford (20l, Four Walls Hunt until Jan 31, MESH, also includes side tables)
• Shelving: Scarlet Creative - My Modular Shelves Option 1 (20l, Four Walls Hunt until Jan 31, MESH, includes multiple shelving units)

Cube Forest

Left

• Jacket: Apple May Designs - Zipped Hoodies M Duo Black (New Release, Mesh)
• Pants: Apple May Designs - Low Rise Emo Pants M Dragon (New Release, Mesh)
  
• Boots: 7Styles - Hof Boots (125l)
• Pose: Embody - M Lean 4 (Group Gift, see group notices. Includes 5 poses)

Right

• Sweater: American Bazaar -Victor Sweater Black M (99l at Mens Dept until Feb 1, MESH)
• Pants: LV - Loose pants lightgray S (100l at Mens Dept until Feb 1, MESH)
• Scarf: HeadzUp - Infinity Scarf Red Plaid (Group Gift, MESH, includes two versions)
• Shoes: Dirty Little Secret - Unisex Hightops (Free, MESH)
• Pose: Poise - Male Stand 03 (Not Free)

 Decor

• Blocks: Lucky #7 - Cubed Wall Pearl (99l at The Gallery Gift Shop until Feb 15, Mesh, includes multiple versions)
• Wall Art: Hanaya - Pine in Winter (20l, Four Walls Hunt until Jan 31, MESH)

Modularity

• Desk Unit, Chair, Books: Breno - Reading Nook, Glass Chair (20l, Four Walls Hunt until Jan 31, MESH)
• Screen: Pixel Creations - Bubbly Frame Animated (The Courtyard Hunt #6 until Jan 31, Texture Change)
• Cup: Storaxtree - Coffee Mug Decorative Blue (The Courtyard Hunt #18 until Jan 31)

Moonwalk

• Sweater/shirt: gO - Morten shirt with vest S (150l at Mens Dept until Feb 1, MESH)
• Pants: LV - Loose pants darkgray S (100l at Mens Dept until Feb 1, MESH)
• Boots: 7Styles - Hof Boots (125l)
• Pose: Poise - Male stand 5 (Not Free)

Decor

• Cabinet, canvases, painter supplies: End of Daze - EOD Shelf (20l, Four Walls Hunt until Jan 31, MESH)
• Lamp:  Vespertine - I live on the moon lamp (10l, Cold Winter Nights Hunt #17 until Feb 15. Gift also includes a skybox)
• Brillo Boxes: LND Creative Collective - Warhol Brillo Box x 4 (50l)

Infinity Cloud

Build

• Circa - "Infinity Cloud" Glass Studio  (20l, Four Walls Hunt until Jan 3, Mesh)

Hints & Slurls for hunts mentioned in this post: Cold Winter Nights Hunt - Courtyard Hunt - Four Walls