A Sinister Offering

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August has come, and with it the Sinister Steampunk Hunt. Oh, dear! What fun! Cal and Lludmila are outfitted as Mad Alchemists from Brain Circuit Inc. [Please keep in mind that Lludmila is only 5'1" in heels so that coattail will probably be considerably shorter on other avs.] In another week, the flirty-naughty side of steampunk will be featured in the Burlesque vs Steampunk Hunt. We can hardly wait. While there, haggle with the Haggle Box, slap the Midnight Mania board, and hang out on a comfy chair waiting for your letter to come up on the Lucky Letter board (lace up boots this week - oo!).

Come with us ... or else.

Rag Dollz is sponsoring the Sinister Steampunk Hunt and is the first stop on the hunt. Their contribution is the Abduction Engineer. Cal's doing his best to look threatening, but we all know he's just a sweetie. The Group Midnight Mania board has a 99L gift card prize. Cal was able to get the fab medieval outfit below with a gift card. (Horse and spear not included but the boots were. Fabu!)

Handsome is as handsome does.

Cal, you're scaring your partner.

Cal wanted one more chance to look threatening, so he put on one of the old guy skins from REO-G Skins (lucky board and group lucky board gifts). I hate to tell him, but the pipe ruins the effect. You need a stumpy see-gar to look tough.

Starring Role

This week's special guest model is our good friend, Sophmila Lloren.

Gorgeous Steam Hunt gift in male and female versions from BrainCircuit.

"You have to be born a sex symbol. You don't become one.
If you're born with it, you'll have it even when you're 100 years old."

Boot and pegleg from Bad Juju, back from who-knows when.

"Everything you see I owe to spaghetti."

This week's group gift from The White Armory - it's a keeper!

Unslutty and Inconstant

I'm always promising myself to not get involved in another [insert humorous expletive here] hunt - and then I see some pictures on the freebie blogs [list at right] and it's "Goggles on, chocks away, last one back with the goodies is a Euro-Federalist!" - again.  The men's prizes at Rag Dollz has already been touted by Carson, but nowhere did I see the women's prize!

You can tell it's Steampunk by all the spinning gears.

The dress is a gleaming gown with beautiful details and has the handheld mask as well as a tattoo mask.  I had sent Cal to get the men's prize and he peeked at the women's prize box before tossing it away (Cal wouldn't be caught dead in this outfit) and tipped me the wink.  He also told me where it was hidden - sweet of him, as if the avs standing around the area weren't a good enough clue.  You, however, are on your own.  It's not that hard.  They at least give hints for the Steampunk Hunt.  Now, that Twisted Hunt is a horse of a different chinashop.

Peep-Bo!  It's just Lludmila!

While I was pawing through the pile of bargains in the 60L Weekend notecards, I came across a photo of some glasses that looked so nicely detailed that I visited the shop.  It's called Hatpins and has, as should be expected, the loveliest collection of vintage hats and other accessories for the meticulously unslutty.

Lludmila tries a demo cloche hat (just love those!) at Hatpins.

 Coincidentally, Hatpins also has a Steampunk hunt prize comprising a hat (of course) and goggles - well, a goggle.

The goggle hunt prize - OMG, Lludmila needs to start eating cookies!

Hat - without steam

What paroxysms of delight one could experience changing the color of the hatband and tinkering with the colors of steam.  The little needles on the dials on the hat move, too!  This really "pegs the needle" on my happiness meter!  Their blog.

Hmm, I forgot to get those 60L glasses!  Will have to go back.  [Makes note to self: "Re-read this blogpost."]