It's Never Simple, Is It?

Annthrasite tries out the Take Your Own Photo booth.

You think you have it all under control. You're just going to "stop by" Rag Dollz to see if there's something new in the Midnight Mania boards (one group, one everybody) and there's this cute li'l ole sign inviting you to visit the Christmas Village*. How could this possibly hurt? There are free gifties ...

Look for these - but check for other
freebies!

"Holiday Scene Mesh Boho Tube Dress" from Shanti -
winner of the Most Complicated Name Contest.
Be sure to pick up the bag outside.

Sweater and dangling mittens from Moonflow.
Goofy life-size pirate nutcracker from Jinxed Toys.

Santa hat from Stich In Time.

 

Christmas casual from Iron Sea Designs with
Xtreme brown leather heels from Cha cha.
Aloriana hair from A&A (hair for men included).

This is right about where Annthrasite had a little mental breakdown. She hasn't opened everything yet, not to mention the Peace On Earth boxes still hanging about. This is only the tip of the Christmas Village Iceberg of Freebies.

*Christmas Village (Takes you to Rag Dollz - click the Christmas Village sign when you get there.)

Not Christmas Village:

Color-change pumps by Baby Monkey
Blue jeans by Piece of Mind (lm is to BHWM - PoM is the downstairs colorful sister)
Skins - always from Aeva

In first photo - while it was still fun and simple:

Dress - group gift from dollle.
Hair - group gift from little bones.
Color-change glasses - old subscribo gift from [kusshon] & Poetic Colors.

Merry Kiltmas

Not so warm & cozy without that poncho, eh?
I think I see nips!

We've already covered some non-clothing items here available at The Looking Glass Sim in their shopping area under the tree.  Well, more stuff has been put out including the above outfit from MacMoragh & Muse that comes with kilt, poncho, scarf, tam, and boots!  Below is the offering for men (also with kilt, tam, and boots) ... and petites weren't left out, so if you're even smaller than Lludmila, there's something for you here, too.

Men's outfit from MacMoragh & Muse

Unslutty at Ho Wear

Fabulous gown and hair from Ho Wear.

More great purple.

Outrageously fabulous kimono.

We thought we'd joined the Ho Wear group back in October when we were blown away by the freebies.  Then we never heard anything.  So we went back to check - and they've put out 21 gifts for Christmas!  OMG!  The outfits range from sexy to goth to goth sexy to normal to costume ... some that come with skin, shape, eyes - pretty much everything except footwear.  The kimono is the only gift that came with shoes, in the form of geta.
The presents aren't hidden or small - but they are all over the shop and its extensions.  There is something there for everyone, even those of us who stick with unslutty!

Gowns Galore

Gift from Leezu

In order to qualify for "unslutty" this gift from Leezu had to have modesty undies added. Other avatars might not mind going around in the cold with their whole midsection hanging out, but, as we all know, that isn't Lludmila's thing.  And, yes, that is a lighted candle on top of that hat.

"Who's Queen?"

We've been picking up the weekly gift gowns from The White Armory for longer than my inventory cares to remember.  In fact, I think deleting them would probably solve all my inventory problems.  But then they put this gown out and I remember how much I love the gorgeous fairy-taleness of it all.  This is a great gown if you want to take up as much room as possible.  The prim skirt really fans out.  It took up the whole photo-box and stuck out the back! Ossummmm!

Just one of the Vintage Apparel Emporium
Advent gifts 

If you've been to the Vintage Apparel Emporium every day in December, you will have picked up the pieces of so far three vintage gowns and there's a fourth showing up!  Unlike most shop's Advent gifts, you can still get the earlier gifts ... for the price of the day!  Day One is 1L, Day Two is 2L, etc.

Northern Lights captured in Vintage Apparel Advent gift

Kathy's hair is from that great sale at Dark Mouse again ... in fact I think this color was a freebie!

Freebie Christmas Pudding earrings from Reasonable Desires.
Mysterious floating chair courtesy of Prime by way of Cool Viewer. :(

Sinterklaas earrings from Bliensen + MaiTai -
alternating 12 Days of Christmas prezzies with La Flat.

Hairy Christmas!

The dark version of this style is free.

Dark Mouse has a huge hair sale going. Color packs are only 25L and there are are few totally free ones.

Showing Off

Is that a Phlogisiten Lever or are you just happy to see me?

Dress ensemble from [BELLE]issima, 10L. Whatta bargain! This comes with cute ballet flats I ordinarily would wear but I am currently enamored of the
Shoooooes from Nardcotix, 10L hunt gift and worth every penny.
Freebie AO available at Grimalkin's Workshop.
Jubilie hair, an old freebie [modded blonde by me], but available for 179L in many colors on the SL Marketplace.  I just love this hair - it's soooo ... happy!
Bachelor Ice Maker/Phlogistigen Pump at the skating pond on Awen, where the Bookstackers hang out. Maybe you'll have better luck with him than Lludmila did.

Awww, Pluie!

Many apologies for being away. There have been nice things floating about for free, but I just didn't think my avs needed more clothes.  Then Paris Metro sent me this lovely Christmas gift today, just because je suis magnifique! 

Gift from Paris Metro: La Pluie, Red Rain

The Red Rain dress is slightly slutty (what with the bare midriff and all - although in my youth I was not above wearing a similar sheer empire waisted peasant dress over matching bikini panties and consequently being sent to the Vice Principal's office for "indecent exposure"), so Lludmila opted out. Also, the skirt was a bit too long, even after modding the root prim to be invisible (it was poking through her chest).  And look how nicely it flows!

Advent Calendar gift jeans from Isis

Isis has an Advent Calendar going that hands out items as varied as this nicely detailed black jeans (prim cuffs removed because I prefer the pegged leg look), sexy little dresses, tippy-toe socks, skins-n-shapes, etc.

Hunt Prize from Nardcotix

Sorry, I can't show off these shoes from Nardcotix enough. I've been wearing red for two weeks now just so I can put them on.  Hmm, I wonder if I should get Lludmila her own pair and tint them her skin color.  I always drooled over the Nardcotix shoes, but tightwad that I am, couldn't bring myself to pay that much for them.  This is the second pair of freebies from them (okay, 10L) and I'm so grateful I'll just grovel right now: grovel grovel grovel please do this again grovel grovel.

Santa Kilt, only 99L

 Kilts: not just for men anymore!  There's nothing like a really, really nice kilt to make an unusual fancy outfit.  This one is reduced for a short time at [Belle]issima.  There's also a women's outfit, but - meh! Who needs another dress?

Group Gift from [Belle]issima

 This cute set of jammies, scarf, and mix-n-match slippers is the group gift.  I had to really zoom in to see what the "steam" was coming out of the right-hand slipper and it turns out to be The Star shining on a Nativity Scene.  Sooo cute!

Kathy's skin is from Heartsick.  Normally, I would call this make-up "Raccoon Eyes" but it seems to work here.  The hair is from Vignette.  Kathy's shape is thanks to my fiddling with the sliders and I'm beginning to think she needs to eat cookies.

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