Happy Holidays

Lady in Meadow

And another one because I've been away for a while...

You know, it's not easy to keep love flowing smooth

People are people and they all have their moods

But it's so nice just to have someone like you

Who wants a smooth and easy thing

And all the good times that it brings

Lady Love - Lou Rawls

(just because I like this one .. :)

Another dress from Kally Skytower. This is the august groupgift "Summer Meadow"- green and light and breezy.

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Another skin available following the The Freebie Ring is Freeda from SKINVY. The skin has a lot of contrast/ shadow painted, making it very lively. The lips and eyeshadow are gorgious but the nails are not very detailed but plain white.
Brows and freckles again are add-ons from the Annet package I already mentioned in previous post.

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Another QT wearable necklace (freebie ring also see previous post) I so very much do like. Simple but perfect. Again the Shakira hair but in snow.

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These floral sandals are a groupgift from - Merci- . Detailed and lovely. The sandals come with a hud. Using the hud you can color the tone of skin and nails and - hold your breath- you can make the sandals dissapear to have bare tippetietoe feet. A reilly reilly GREAT gift as you can grab all 6! colors. I don't know for how long this groupgift will be available so hurry. While you are there check out the shop for other great shoes.
Enjoy!

Styling
Skin: Freeda skin (freebiering) - SKINVY
Hair: Shakira/ snow (groupgift) - Emo-tions
Add-ons: Annet T1 package (freebiering) - TSYI
Dress: Summer Meadow (groupgift) - Skytower designs
Jewelry: Gold glass circular pendant (QT wearables/ freebiering) - QT Galleries
Shoes: Floral Sandals (groupgift) - Merci

Gypsy Moon

Yesterday I met a sky without sun

and a man without shame
A saint in prison
and a sad song without an owner
And I met your black eyes
And now I cannot
live without them

Ojos Asi (Eyes like those) - Shakira

Give me your hand and I shall tell you about your future. Is it the black-eyed stranger or an adventurous journey that will cross your path? I promise I will only tell the bright side and will keep the dark in clouds.
I found this gypsy-ish dress (Skytower) while scanning the new items in the Freebiering.
I also found QT's wearables in the freebiering; a huge box of jewelry for men and women.
QT stands for quadrapop tree, one of Inworldz most gifted and finest artists. I'm wearing the Valentine pendant.  

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I'm wearing Charlie (dark tone) skin from Helioscope. There is also another lovely free skin available in store (a great store worth a visit).
I used a few add-ons which came with the free Annet skin from TSYI (The Skin Your In). In this case freckles and teeth. I like a woman to show her teeth ;) and they make a total different look.
Annet (not shown here) is a lovely skin but very very pale. It comes with a pile of add ons and other goodies for mix and match.

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I completed the outfit with Shakira hair (groupgift) from Emo-tions
No shoes, Gypsy Moon likes to walk barefoot.

Styling
Skin: *38 Special* Charlie Dark Tone - Christmas Party (groupgift) - Helioscope
Hair: EMO-tions:. * SHAKIRA*/ombre (groupgift) - Emo-tions
Dress:  Lady Laurel (freebiering)- Skytower Designs
Jewelry: QT Wearable/ Valentine pendant 1 (freebiering) -QT Galleries
Add ons & primlashes: Annet T1 package (freebiering) - TSYI
Eyes: ME! eyes_dark hazel - My shop or freebiewall @ ElvenSong

Is Venus your Muse?

But I'll never let you go

If you promised not to fade away

Never fade away

STARLIGHT - Muse

Do I love that band!!!  :-)

Two freebie outfits from outstanding quality. The creators from both Venus and Muse are so very productive and best of all they let us enjoy their generous freebies. I also picked up two gift skins from Diamond Style. All pictues are made in my backyard garden in Ithil Dae.

I'm wearing "Tattered" Muse's new groupgift. The jeans with cuffs come in eight! colors and the top comes in three. The top can be extended by wearing a shorts layer so you can show or hide your belly as you wish.  

 

The Sara is skin is a little pale so I added a blush and eyeshadow from inventory. I think this skin looks pretty on the shape which is my own. While I was in my garden I picked some daisies and made me a wreath. Eyeshadow is from Cinnamon Girl - Make up 21- NOT free (but cheap)

The second outfit today is "Twiggy" from Venus. The mesh-miniskirt is in a vibrant shiny color and comes in all regular sizes. I completed the outfit with uggs from Annmaries shoes and boots. They keep my feet warm.

Carolina skin allraedy has a make up, a darkpink lipstick and blue-ish eyeshadow. It seems a little much but it works very well. I used my freebie shape "Starlight".

A close up of the sturdy brown uggs. 

Shopping succeeded ! 

Styling 1

Skin: Sara (august gift)- Diamond Style

Add on: Blush ad on (Kumiko groupgift june '14) - Jill Studios Mainstore (and Cinnamon Girl make up 21, not free)  

Outfit: Tattered (groupgift) - Muse

Hair: Sara-Iced Latte (dollarbie) - London Core

Eyes: ME! eyes_black - freebiewall Elvensong or my shop

Shoes: Eleanor purple (groupgift) - Deviant Designs

Styling 2

Shape: Starlight - freebiewall Elvensong or my shop

Skin: Carolina (august groupgift) - Diamond Style

Outfit: Twiggy Mini (groupgift) - Venus Fashions

Hair: Jessie Almond (dollarbie) - London Core

Eyes: ME! eyes_blue violet - freebiewall Elvensong or my shop

Shoes: Dark brown ugg boots (groupgift) - Annmaries shoes and boots

Not this but THAT!

My blogs are mostly about the THIS (freebiefun) but let's not forget the THAT's.
Yesterday I visited two events both on ElfClan regions:

Fleure's Enchanted Corner
Fleure Homewood is well known for hosting musical events @ her venue Fleure's Enchanted Corner , Falathrim.
A lot of Inworldz most respected musial artists perform there on a regular base. Fleure's enchanted corner has a solid group of visitors and their number is growing.
I like the friendly and welcoming athmosphere and it's a good opportunity to meet old and new friends.
Yesterday I attended a performance by Ultraviolet Alter.  

 "Her passion vibrates in the movement, rhythm and cadence that touch upon the essence of our human spirit" For me her synthesizer music felt relaxing, deep sounds variated by repeating soundbits.

 Fleure and the surroundings she created (Aurora level) to match the experience of Ultraviolet's sounds.













Sendalonde Theatre
Later that evening I attended a play (on voice) @ Sendalonde's Theatre. A unique experience. Two hilarious and funny shortplays were scheduled. To my regrets I only got to see the first shortplay (Dress rehearsal) because I crashed immense. My own fault.. don't try to put graphics high (for making pics) when there's 50 people around!
Producer: Ladyheart Muirin
Castmembers: Gerrard Winstanley, Ladyheart Muirin, Lion Ewry, Mathilde Vhargon, Rhiannon McKenna,
Rosslyn Guardian, Tadhg Muirin and Winter Wildcat.

 Scene on stage

The public applauded and complimented the cast who did so well. 

Even without a play going on the theatre is worth a visit for the interior's authentic feel.  

I'm looking forward to see the next play!

Choices

"Close your eyes, stop your ears
Close your mouth and then you know
Let others take the lead and you bring up the rear
And later you can say you didn't know"

Song of Choice  by Solas

And yes life is full of choices ..
But happily in this case Mimi makes some choices for us and she has great taste doing so.
I think most of us have at least once visited her simwide mall.
Mimi has managed to get the most sophisticated and special designers all under her roof with clothes, hairs, skins AO's and all you can think off for both men and women.

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When I visited Mimi's Choice I found this super gift from AlaFolie, a cocktaildress in cafe-vanille with matching shoes. In another part of the store I found a gift for may 1th (why am I so late to find these stuff..), a necklace and earrings with the looks of a piece of art. The jewelry comes with a hud to change textures. Happy mixing and matching :) 

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The skin from Jill Studio's is a freebie ring gift and lovely as always.
The hair is "Marilyn" from Alli and Ali designs (A&A) but not free! I just couldn't resist it because it's so darn cute :)

Styling
Shape : MJ Starlight shape- Elvensong & my shop
Skin: Makiko Pinked (freebiering) - Jill Studios Mainstore
Dress: "AlaFolie" CAFE_VANILLE (gift) -AlaFolie@Mimi's Choice
Jewelry: joyeux 1er mai  (groupgift) - AlaFolie@Mimi's Choice

...

A black day for the Netherlands. The unthinkable happened this afternoon. A boeing 777 from Malaysia Airlines that had left Amsteram Airport for Kuala Lumpur, Bali and Lombok crashed on the border of Ucrania and Russia. Strong believe is they were hit by missiles from Ucranian separists.
Confirmed at least 154 Dutch people died and many more from different nationalities*). My thoughts are with their families and friends.
25/7 Update victims:
*) Netherlands 194, Malaysia 43, Australia 27, Indonesia 12, United Kingdom 10, Belgium 4, Germany 3, Fillipines 3, Canada 1, New Sealand 1
The bodies that were found were brought home to the Neherlands where identification has started.
The search for remaining bodies and/or bodyparts still continues.

Muse

Long time no see. I've been very busy inworlds and in RL. Todays blogpost is all about Muse.
Heather Shadowheart is creator and owner of MUSE. She's one of the most gifted and generous creators I know in Inworldz. In her mainstore you'll find groupgifts, prizedrawing and lucky chairs with clothes and shoes directly from her stock.
Mesh clothes come in different sizes and fit perfectly. I really love her style and visit her shop again and again. Prices are unexpected low for this kind of quality.

And now Heather needs some of our generosity. Read why and how in her post on Inworldz forum right here.

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Muse's stock is far larger than is shown in shop. I bought the Etherial dress in green right here and it was real easy. All creations also can be seen on Muse's blog. Scrolling will make you greedy ;-)
As Heather is unable to cash out Izzies, donations can be made directly on her blog.

I'm wearing the current groupgift named "Tanked". The mesh tanktop comes in seven colors and five sizes and is accompanied by grey jeans with cuffs.

Styling
Skin: Maya - Peach - Plush (luckyboard) - Jill Studios Mainstore
Outfit: Tanked (groupgift) - Muse
Shoes: Purple Eleanor (groupgift) - Deviant Designs

Oh boy!

Aother groupgift from Artful Designs. Oh boy those change so fast I even didn't get the chance to blog the previous one. And I can guarantee that was a cute one too!
So if you like this outfit, you better be fast.

Pants and high kicks are mesh. The pants come in different sizes Maybe you gotta tweak the points of attachement. Shoes and pants were both attached to hands so I changed that and attached the pants to a forearm. The outfit is named WoMans Gangsta.. but in this case it looks kinda sweet, as if my avi deceided to wear her brothers pants an go out to play with the boys.



Jill's  Studio is packing out. This skin is Ami-vintage the juli groupgift. On top of great monthly gifts every new skin released Jill will mark down 50% the first week. Jill's skins never dissapoint me. I just adore the red geisha lipstick on this one. I used the Starlight shape I made for the previous post but used the sliders for some "normal" ears.

The hair is Cholie in black/purple (dollarbie) and I'm wearing a simple necklace I once made as a gift to my friends. The chinese symbols represent friendship (at least I was told ).

Styling
Shape: Starlight shape (freebie) - My Shop and ElvenSong (I added the "shape WITH ears in the Starlight box)
Skin: Ami-Vintage (groupgift july) - Jill's Studio
Hair: Cholie Black Violet (dollarbie) - London Core
Outfit: WoMans Gangsta (groepgift) - Artful Designs
Necklace: MJ Friendshipcord (freebie)- My Shop

Starlight for the Faes

Do You like faes and faeries? My region is named Ithil Dae, which means Moonshadow so I made these lovely faeries who come out to play in the full moonlighted nights.
I'm not a skinmaker but I downloaded free skintemplates here and I used photoshop to alter them. In this case I colored the skin in soft shades of blue and green and I added some moon and star tattoos. The most difficult task was to color the headpart so it would match the upperbody template without a seam showing. How fortunate uploading is without costs in Inworldz ;-)

I dressed my faery in a pink top and skirt, a groupgift from Avene, a shop for full perm skin and clothes templates.

Wings and ballerinas are part of the Nim Fairy outfit, a freebie from Simply Fae. The dress that goes with them is very beautiful but didn't show enough skin for my purpose. Check out Simply Fae though, one of the best shops in Inworldz for Elf, Faery and Pixi outfits.

The ears are actually neko ears from a sculpt package from Arcane, but I do think they do well disguised as faery ears.

I put the Starlight skin, shape and faery ears as a gift in my shop and on the freebiewall in ElvenSong.
Enjoy :)

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Styling 
Shape, skin and sculpted ears: Starlight package - My Shop and ElvenSong
Eyes: ME! free eyes package - My Shop and ElvenSong
Hair: Marlina-Iced Latte (I dyed it green/ blue) dollarbie!  - London Core
Dress: Pink Dress groupgift- Avene
Wings and shoes: Fairy Nim gift -Simply Fae

The gateway to your soul

This is the female base starter skin from Pixelicious Designs. Very basic indeed so we'll have to dress her up.
The brows already have a lovely and detailed shape. So this is good "claymud" to play with.

I'm a big fan of add on's. I used a make up from Cinnamon Girl (not free but cheap) a shop with good affordable skins and tons of  make ups. Shape and primlashes are from London Core (both dollarbies).























Mystery with surname -the gateway to your soul - is a large and very pleasant shop to visit. All areas are tastefully designed and decorated. It feels like the shopowner/creator was thinking carefully as where to place every item. In other words .. this shop is eyecandy :).

Would you believe it? but this lovely dress is a freebie. It comes with the shoes and flowered belt and arm decoration. (The shoes alone are worth the visit :)
The shop has spaces for ladies and gents (skins, shapes, clothes), for plants and flowers and for cute gift items. Very handy if you need a present for a friend or just want to treat yourself.

 

I just couldn't resist to do myself a favor with this adorable pluche cow (not free!)

















Styling
Shape: Imari (dollarbie) - London Core
Skin: Female Base Starter Skin - Pixelicious Creative Designs
Eyes: ME! eyes_violet grey - ElvenSong or My shop
Make up: Makeup 11 (25 izzies) - Cinnamon Girl
Eyelashes: LC Prim Lashes (dollarbie) - London Core
Hair:  * MADAME * /darkbrown (groupgift)  - EMO-tions
Outfit: When the Night Comes Gown in Petal (shoes included) - Mystery

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Neko or Costume party?

Neko shops have been the common theme running through my previous post so lets go all the way.
Today is all about this sweet or not so sweet kittycat in pink. A free variation on Catwoman, my beloved heroin.
This outfit "Pretty in Punk" I found in a grunge shop with the impossible name ViRTuaL ATTIRE from CHAOS to COUTURE. I already blogged "My Black Jumper" from this shop.
The cute neko ears and tail are from Bitch Tail. The tail is scripted and wiggles once in a while.
The boots are part of the freebie outfit "Be Mine" (Muse) I picked it up at one of the freebieplaces a while ago. I took the Freebie-Places-Tour, using the explorerhud, but can't find them again :(.

The sweet curled hair is a hunt item from Alli and Ali's (see previous post). I added a bit of pink.

This shop is like a growing habit but .. the shape and skin - Kyoko - are from Jill's Studio.
I got them by hitting the Lucky Mini Mania board. You'll need to be a groupmember to enter the board. but it's worth a try!
The skin (all tones) and shape come with additions; eyeliner, blush and freckles. And with skin appliers Evolve, but I never get them to work for me. I touch the hud and nothing happens.. is this just me?
Kyoko is a skin with character, in my opinion it's "calculated innocence". I tried to make a stronger impression by adding these long long, did I mention long? lashes, a gift from Venus.

Styling
Shape and skin: Kyoko shape and skin (Mini Mania) - Jill's Studio
Hair: Charlize Hair Raspberry (hunt)- Alli and Ali Designs
Lashes: Eyelashes gift - Venus
Ears and wiggletail: Fluffmaster tail and neko ears - Bitch Tail
Outfit: Pretty in Punk - ViRTuaL ATTIRE

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Alli's candy and more sweets

Sometimes I visit shops out of habit, see if there's something new or just because I like the place.
Alli and Ali is one of them. I found out there's a hunt going on (one I didn't notice earlier).

It's very rewarding to do the hunt !

This is one of the hairs I won, I dyed  it a bit of brown, so it would fit the outfit I'm wearing. The original color is Raspberry. Nothing wrong with that color either :)
Shape and skin are Jill's. Jill has a new shop (larger and revamped) and I didn't find the groupgifts (yet). But there's mini mania, midnight mania and letterboards.
The collar and bracelet I found @ a neko shop named Eva Lou Creation. Lot's of goodies there, such as free gestures and partystuff and also five luckyletter chairs. If you love Neko go and check it out.

The mesh dress I wear is a freebie from Bitch Tail, this link is to the shop's blog. I matched the dress with a legging that's part of a (neko) outfit from Sweets! The ankle-high boots are a groupgift from Deviant Designs.

Styling
Shape: Kumiko Shape (groupgift) - Jill Studios
Skin: Keiko - Tea - Chinese New Year (groupgift) - Jill Studios
Hair: Nadira Hair Raspberry (hunt item) - Alli and Ali Designs
Dress: Candy - Bitch Tail
Legging: Neko original pants -Sweets!
Shoes: Stefani tan - Deviant Designs
Jewelry: Collar and bracelet Earth Collection - Eva Lou Creations

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All things come and go, nothing is forever

I started this blog for fun and because I wondered if I could manage to start a nice avatar build on freebies.
During my sl -time I had a friend who almost had a days job to find the nicest free outfits and sending weekly notecards with pictures and landmarks about them. 
I remember, as a creator, I was thrilled if my items were blogged in Fabulous Free. 
I find Inworldz creators very generous. Besides the well known freebieplaces, just walk around in a mall and there's almost always a nice "catch".  
My blogposts are temporary though.
Shops come and go or move. Groupgifts are replaced or just taken away. Items that were free one day have a price the next day. That's how things goes and it's all up to the creator or shopkeeper and that is how it should be. Change is a good thing or we'll get bored.
So if you are working back thru my blogposts they might give you an outdated feel in some cases. I'm not going to check them ;-). I still think they give a nice impression of possibilities being a little bit creative and show the craftmanship of Inworldz designers. 
So if you make that click to visit a shop and don't find what you were looking for, relax and have a look around. Maybe you'll make other pleasant discoveries. (And if you do tell ME about them ;-))

Peek A Boo ;)

Forgive me if I use some free items again in new posts but I think mix- and matching is most interesting.

This outfit is named Peek a Boo from a shop named Butterfly Kisses (lovely name btw.)  Peek a Boo because it shows some belly and a tiny piece of the butt.
Seeing this outfit on the sellbox didn't make me enthousiastic at once but while wearing it looks so incredibly CUTE. The wrinkles are in the right places and give "substance".
The quality of this work is very good and I would buy from this creator without any doubts.
Add some wings and this also would make a great pixie outfit.

The shape is again from "Jill". Firm sexy body and thighs and a very feminine pronounced butt.

Skins just look different on different shapes. I always try demos before buying a skin. Sometimes I make pictures wearing different skins and look at them together to see which one looks best.This skin is also "Jill" and the latest groupgift. The shape that comes with the skin is a good one but today I used the shape that came with a Kazumi-skin (not a freebie).
I modded the shape a bit, I remember making her head a bit smaller.
I freckled the face with an add on and gave her smokey eyes. The hair is a free ponytail from Destiny.   





High heeled killer pumps "Gretchen" are a groupgift from Deviant Designs. Comes with a hud to color the skin and/ or retexture the pumps. I added (how appropiate) a delicate silver butterfly anklet.





Styling
Skin:  Kumiko - June Group Gift - Jill
Add on: Jaymee - Freckles Add On (groupgift) - Jill & Marina Eyeshadow Gift -  Bilo
Hair: Cyndra - Strawberry (groupgift) - Destiny hair
Outfit: Peek a Boo- Green - Butterfly Kisses
Shoes: Gretchen Pumps - Deviant Designs
Jewelry: Butterfly Anklet ( freebiering ) - Chele's fine clothing

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Orange is the new black

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World Championship Soccer 2014
Next weeks orange is the new black in the Netherlands ;-)

13/6 Netherlands -Spain: 5-1
18/6 Australia- Netherlands : 2 /3  I hope for a fair game with a lot of thrills :)

update 18/6: I watched the game and have a headache now. The dutch won but were NOT good...
pffff

Hup Holland hup Laat de leeuw niet in z'n hempie staan
Hup Holland hup Trek het beestje geen pantoffels aan
Hup Holland hup
Laat je uit 't veld niet slaan
Want de leeuw op voetbalschoenen
Durft de hele wereld aan 

Free fanshirts available at Marian's Clothing Shop
Matching flags on the cheeks, orange socks and nails; homemade.

Enjoy the games !

And I don't wanna break a nail

I think it was a note in The Pulse of Inworldz-group that made me visit Artful Designs a shop with sassy and mostly casual outfits. This GTA V outfit is the current groupgift. Though all but one displayed outfits are for women, this groupgift is available for men also. The groupcharter of Artful Designs says "We put our heart in"... and it shows.

The outfit is completed with these mesh high tops. A perfect fit. Both shoes had the same point of attachment. The points of attachment are left and right hand so just change it to the other hand.

These fingernails I did find @ Avene Beaute Creations, a shop for skins and texture templates. The nails come in textures only and this is how you make the nails. These are like a tattoo/ glove layer, not mesh nails.
HOW TO make fingernails from a texture
- Open inventory and click "create" in the top bar
- Choose "New Clothes" and "New Tattoo" from the menu
- Add or wear the "New Tattoo"
- Right click "New Tattoo" in your inventory and choose edit
- Drag the nailtexture from your inventory in Upper Tattoo
- Choose "save as" and name your fingernails
- You'll find your fingernails under the tab clothing in your inventory

To prevent your skull from shining through your hair use a hairbase as shown in the picture.
EMO-tions has a package of 8 different colored hairbases for free.

Styling
Outfit: GTA V outfit (groupgift) - Artful Designs
Nails: Nails layer texture-full perm. - Avene Beaute Creations
Hair: Sara Hair (Iced Latte) (dollarbie! & I dyed it) - London Core
Hairbase: Free Hairbases - EMO-tions

Steaming up your braincircuit

A search for free cloth and what a jewel I found. Brain Circuit inc. is a shop filled with timeperiod outfits.
A large section is used for Victorian steampunk but also Georgian- and Goth theme is to be found. The gents are not forgotten, there's an equal offer of clothes and shoes for men and women.

I just love the setting and interior of this shop..

Brain Circuit provides this nice sailing teacup for exploring the surroundings.

Free matching outfits for men and women so I digged up Greebo and pursuaded him to take the human form for a while. This is the Lacey Outfit/ Fredrick Outfit.

 And Darlia Darling Gown/ Fine Gent

 What about these distinguished spectacles..

I spent quite some time in the shop to admire the lovely quality detailed outfits. A shop to remember and visit again!

and Greebo can be his charming little self again :)

PS. If you don't manage to tp inworlds by clicking the link, right click it, choose copy link, paste it in your chatbar and tp from there.