Again, The White Armory

I'm not sure why Lludmila had to find out about the latest group gift from The White Armory from one of the freebie blogs (see list at right - subscribe, subscribe, subscribe), as she is a group member.  The best we can figure is that the notice is hidden deep in one of the group messages/notecards or they just show up every Sunday.  How can this be?  How can they put out freebies like this so frequently?!

Anyway, Lludmila was so excited, she forgot to put her flies back on.  Just look at the textures!  This, like, totally assuages my Barbie-jones.

Gown by The White Armory
Coral hair by Hairy Situations :(((
Shoes by - "Shoes?  What shoes?  I don't need no stinkin' shoes!"

Goth and More

Is it possible to be an unslutty goth? Just pick the bits that cover the important bits. There's lots to choose from at the Lapointe and BastChild Freebie area.

Yes, especially if you cross your arms over your bewbs. And there's Lludmila's favorite end of the color spectrum again.

The freebie area has a good selection of "separates" that you can sling together and stay covered. There are also dresses, gowns, and some delightfully scary role-play costumes - for men as well as women.

Lludmila really liked the leopard neko skins that were available. The tiger ones ... made her face look fat. These were adorable and the maribou is helping to cover up the naughty bits to aid in the unslutty. Sort of. Hee!

Gothic Clothing "Urban Angel", "Tartan Nocturnal" womens boots, "Gothique Opera" Jade Satin Formal, "Crushed Silk" Black goth separates, and "Leopard Noir" Neko skins in black and ivory by Lapointe & BastChild
Antoinette hair in first set by Novocaine
Black stiletto bootlets (50L) by Sugar
Adena hair in second set by Amacci
Maribou Peignor set by Digital Knickers ... no longer available?
Maribou mules by Sin
Ears and tail sold separately, ¡Olé!

We'll Always Have Paris Metro

At least, I hope we do.  In this post are photos of twelve, twelve, outfits that Lludmila has snagged free from Paris Metro or their art gallery for just visiting or as part of a hunt.  If they never give out one more thing, they have certainly contributed more than necessary to the beautification of avatars.  Witness:

 Pink and black animal print gown, bronze gown, yellow print dress and hat.

 Gowns in Lludmila's favorite end of the spectrum (note how happy she is in the center photo where she also has that gathered chiffon at the top - she just loves that!).

 Pink to purple gowns - Oooo, have to love the pink organza with the black spots!

Pants outfit, black and silver outfit with the gathering up top again (Woot!) and something with a touch of red.

I had taken all the photos, arranged them and photoshopped them, and then what happens?  There's another free gown!  Are these people crazy or what?  This is the Barbie experience I didn't have as a child.  Oh sure, I had dolls (I had Midge, actually - I was destined just to be someone's sidekick, I suppose) but my parents weren't going to shell out for the outfits.   I had to be content with clothes made from scraps or just fancy handkerchiefs tied around Midge's neck.  

Lludmila is my little Zombarbie.  But, oddly enough, decades later I can't bring myself to shell out for outfits either.  Wonder where that came from, eh?  Thank you, Paris Metro, for allowing me to live out my Barbie fantasy ... for free.  Y'all are just too nice.  Put up a tip jar or something.

Note on the skirts: I especially like the way the panels move, so I'm always snapping a photo either right after attaching the skirt (which means taking it off and putting it on again a few times) or after switching poses, whichever gives just the right flounce or twirl.

Paris Metro
Yellow bows shoes from Baby Monkey
Camel shoes from Glamorize
Gold and silver sandals from S H E Magic
Melanie and other hair from EMO-tions (there are more hairs for just 1L each)
Small fly swarm by RC Cluster
Jewelry from GaNKed, of course, another shop run by crazy people.

Analog Dog Free Hair

There's new hair in the balls on the beach at Analog Dog. And, of course, the color-change HUD can come in handy if you remember to make a copy.  Kathy prefers the darker hair (although she started as a strawberry blonde) so it's easy to use the monochrome hud to get the precise darkness she likes.
Also note how nice the face-friendly lighting is on her skin.  Unfortunately, it doesn't do much for the landscape.  You have to decide what's more important to you.  Or else just remember to turn it back on after altering the environmental light when informed that the scenery looks better at "midnight." 

Always please to be remembering to change the name of the hair

so you know which one you made darker.

All this makes the typist wish she hadn't started life as a blonde because dark hair is soooo ... mysterious annnnnd ... mysterious.  It's ... dark.  I don't know.  Now my Real Life hair is some dull brown color and the grey hardly shows up at all. If only it were nice and dark and ... and mysterious, the grey would show up better and I wouldn't have these "What grey hair? You don't have grey hair!" conversations with my husband.  The reason little Lludmila has white/grey hair was that I originally tried to represent myself, but couldn't get the system hair to portray the correct salting of my dull, brown hair color.  In frustration, I just greyed the whole head and now I have to create a different av (say, "Kathy" above) to use hair of another color.

Analog Dog for free hair on the beach
Pink and Black Cardie from Artilleri
Torn Black Outfit from IdealIllusion
Corset from OoEas
PK Illusion Pure Morning Skin from Heartsick
Gemstone Eyes from Umedama Holic
Prim Lashes by InSanity (from a long-gone Car Wash sale)

The Black Canary Uncaged

 Lludmila as the Snow Queen/Blizzard Dancer

Lludmila slipped this chilly number on for a little ballet dancing at Grizzy's Friday night.  She put on a frozen skin and some silver sparkly flats as well.   What a refreshing change from the heat outdoors!  Wearing this reminded Lludmila of all the great freebies she had gotten from The Black Canary in the Old Days ... when there was a lucky chair upstairs and models slowly rotissering in the front windows below.  Lludmila used to stop and chat with one of the models while waiting for her letter to come up.   This could take hours.  One of the models was very friendly, so she got a tip.  Well, the lucky chair is no more, but you can still get a freebie now and then - or you can buy one of the beautifully designed outfits - they aren't that expensive.  

More past freebies from The Black Canary (the top/Pious at right being a current freebie):

Winter coat and dress/Frigid Belle, cute flats/Rozen Beauty, a little crown/Divine Right ...

The Black Canary's style saunters coyly from Lolita through androgynous and on to period.  The textures are lovely and Lludmila can wander the shop gazing at them for hours, even without a lucky chair to keep her there.

 And more past freebies: white babydolls/ Dreamer, parasol with animation, 
shoes/Harajuku Streetwalker, and scarf; 

long winter coat/Winter in London with scarf, fancy pants outfit/Frill Life.

Being short is a bit of a disadvantage here - you can't see the bloomers that go with the white outfit on the left.  Posing in midair over a modeling disk is all that shows the long coat.  Lludmila in this outfit on an upper floor would be showing about a foot of hem through the ceiling below.  But it's just so beautiful!  And no one knows where her feet are in the frilly pants on the right.  

By now you may have noticed that there's a hint of monochrome about these outfits (excepting the scarf and shoes at left, which were Christmas gifts, hence the red and green motif) - and I can picture them in an Edward Gorey illustration.  

Current hunt gift/Illuminati, reminiscent of Little Lord Fauntleroy that looks better on Kathy

Cold breath made by SR Puff.

Snowflake emitter made by Tyranor Horus .

Silver flats from BabyCouture.
Hair in top picture: Asako from Hairy Situations, now sadly closed.

Hair in middle two pictures: Kissy Kissy from Tiny Bird.

Kathy's hair comes with the hunt gift.

Undead and a Little Bit Twee

 Lludmila as the Cabbage Fairy.

After a happy evening of ballet dancing at Grizzy's with DJ Kero, Lludmila went searching for some ballet shoes, but found some other things instead.  And when I say "she went searching for" I don't mean shopping.  Not having won any trivia recently and the depredations from Relay For Life have left few Linden dollars in the pixel wallet.  Lludmila wanted free ballet shoes.  The best she found in the free line were system shoes with prim ribbons at Pas De Deux, where she also got this free Jade Butterfly outfit she prefers to call "The Cabbage Fairy."   There were also 13 lucky boards going at it, set to five minutes.  You're bound to win something in very little time.

Lludmila in her Alice Blue Gown

A little later she ran across a new shop (to her), Tikisma that was having its own mini-hunt for this Alice gown.  It comes with some black and white striped socks (to match the fingerless gloves?) and black high heels, but if you want to you can wear some TESLA black mary janes instead.  The "Drink Me" hearts are easy to find, but hard to keep track of.  Most of them are numbered and in folders, but a few are in boxes that appear in your Objects folder.  I went crazy until I realized I had found all ten boxes.  This dress is very sweet (and might not be as long on a normal sized avatar - remember, Lludmila is only 4'8"), if a bit alpha-y.  

Side Note: Blogger has improved a bit recently.  Illustrations are being sized to fit the template of the blog (although the upload confused me at first because it works differently), you can have more than one

alignment

in the same blog (not being able to have left and center alignment in the same blog used to run me right round the twist), they can provide stats for each of your blogs (I have four on Blogger at this writing), and there's a true preview in a separate window so you can see what your post will really look like.  I don't know how long this will last.  I expect that as soon as we get used to having such nice features and change our minds about fully migrating to Wordpress or, say, Vox, Blogger will try to charge us for the upgrade.  How much u wanna bet?

Hair in top picture: Kissy Kissy from Tiny Bird.
Hair in bottom picture: Asako from Hairy Situations, now sadly closed.

Unteal We Meet Again

Lludmila tried to put together a new outfit, because she hadn't been able to find anything free and unslutty recently. To this end, she put on one of the Djunk (which doesn't seem to exist anymore - pity!) Black Beauty dresses - choosing the one in teal because, well, who doesn't love that blue-green? Then the problem was finding some things to go with it. Well, what a coincidence! PixelDolls was kind enough to provide some leggings, in many designs, but all in teal! Lludmila just had to throw on a little more black in the form of the Bows Bows distressed black flats from In Her Shoes at Vignette, and some lacy collar and gloves, also from Pixel Dolls and cap it off with some funky Lemoria hair from Curious Kitties.


Now Lludmila is all dressed up and nowhere to go. Looks like the "Red-Headed League" discussion at UUtopia.