420: Everybody Must Get Stoned

Waldos from all points of the globe are gathering today to consume the celebrated herb. For the unenlightened, 420 is a term that harkens way back to the 1971 (google it) by some people that are old now.  SL, being in all points of the globe at once.. is it?...yeah... I think...is celebrating today with start of The Stash Bash.  How do we celebrate in SL? Well, you know...with a party and a hunt (bonus).  Read on, good reader, for pretty pictures and details.  The hunt DOES NOT start until after 4:20 PM so if you go early some things may not be ready! Wipe those tears from your eyes.

The hunt kicks off with a party at Mudhoney at 4:00 pm (though you know half of them will be late, cuz, you know) with dancing and much happiness and good energy (munchies?).  Mudhoney is also the starting point for the hunt where you will be searching for bags of weed hidden in participating stores.  The hunt is a small one but those participating are prime and the goods can't be missed.  Neither the cops nor your mom will bust you for this one. 

Much coveted will be the Hookah Hangout Skybox from The Sea Hole.  Do yourself a favor and pick up two because 1) it's fantastic and 2) its no copy and should be rezzed in build mode, so if you are high and mess it up you won't be bummed when you don't have another copy.  While you are there, don't forget there are 2 prizes.  Oh man, I forgot to take a photo of the outfit. 

Sn@tch has a flipping fantastic Hippie Chick outfit in the hunt that comes with 2 different tank tops, a belly ringy and fab backpack.  I paired it with Ripe's Ganja Luv'in jewelry that includes a set for the guys, too.  Hempy Weezles of Ripe played a major role in organizing this hunt so give her the peace sign when you see her about. 

So Many Styles is offering a lacy blouse in green (duh). Look closely at the lace on top for the subliminal message.  

Blue Blood is offering the sexeh Adele lingerie in green. What was I looking for? 

No amount of Visine (or better yet, Opcon) is going to clear these eyes from doremi.  The lovely eyeshadow is also a prize from doremi. I love the horn earrings from Adore & Abhor.  Luckily for me Ducknipple's rocking necklace with handy pipe can also be copped and good to have if you left your steamroller under the driver's seat of your car. 

There are a ton more prizes. My pal, Jacqui Pobieski, blogged some other things on our blog, Crybaby, if you want more peaks.  There is a house from MiaSnow, poses from City of Dis, an awesome balloon from Tehro, more great clothes, etc.  Don't forget about this!

Other Credits:

All Hair: Elikatira

Skin: Curio: Pout-Tantrum at Project Fur

oh man... did I hear someone at the door?

Care to Take a Dip?

I love the Lucky Dips that come out for special occasions!  Skyler John from Mystic Sky has pulled hers out of the attic for a special Lucky Cupcake for Valentines Day.  There are some wonderful goodies in it and the odds of winning are very high as there are only 3 booby prizes in the cupcake.  You can dip every three minutes and you could win the gorgeous Annabell Gown, a matching Hibiscus Hair Flower or a Hibiscus Necklace.  This gown has features upon features: two cloaks (pink and green) that open and close, 2 skirt versions and 2 Aster Hair Flowers (Pink and Yellow).  If you don't want to hang around and dip for the gown you can pick it up at 50 % off as all White, Pink and Red items are marked down until Tuesday, 2/15.  

While I'm all excited I just wanted to tell you about a new makeup store for me, M.O.C.K.  The creator is Mocksoup Graves and the eye makeup I am wearing is from her Midnight Mania.  She changes out the items frequently in the MM and there are also 2 Lucky Boards.  Anyway, I like her stuff, so go there :)

A closeup of the Hibiscus accessories and Mock's Eyeshadow.  It's purty!

Credits:

Gown and Accessories: Mystic Sky: Lucky Dip Prizes or purchase the Annebell gown at 50 % off

Eye Makeup: M.O.C.K.: Rainbow Hope Eye Shadow: MM prize

Hair: lamb: Soma: not free

Skin: Dutch Touch: Meagan: Cream: Basic: Discounted Item available to group members. (It's so worth it!)

Highlands 1L Mini Hunt!

Hi! I'm new here, my name is Ashe Anthony and I was invited to join Free*Style! So glad and excited to be part of this wonderful team here. Enough about me, this post is about the 2 day hunt at the Highlands!

Buttons, RezIpsa Loc and estetica are having a small hunt where you hunt for small frosted donuts and buy them for 1L each. In these donuts, you will find poses (a male one too!), furniture, tops, hair, nails, accessories, and flats. A lot of goodies.

I just wanted to show some of the hunt items, and offer some hints (even though they are not so hard to find).







Hunt items shown above:
Bed: Buttons
Shirt: RezIpsa Loc (different color is hunt gift, but this color is 40L!)
Nails: RezIpsa Loc
Bow: estetica
Flats: estetica
Rug: Buttons

Hints:
estetica: Look in and outside the front of the store.
RezIpsa Loc: They are super obvious, be sure to walk around the store.
buttons.: All donuts are on the first floor.

As for the skybox, I have been dying to share this, but this skybox is only 10L on the Marketplace! It's small, and only 16 prims. It is copy/mod.

Credits (for other stuff):
-Hair: Fab-U-lous
-Skin: *CandyDoll*
-Eyes: JM:Mai
-Teeth tattoo: Tuli (free in store, different kinds too!)
-Jeans: Willow~

Ashe Anthony

Wrapped Up

More things to keep you cozy.  R.i.cielli's latest group gift is a fantastic trench with a dramatic high collar.  Today I paired the coat with Adam n Eve's cute leafy leggings, a bargain at 10 L.

Pixieplumb Flanagan from Baby Monkey made a special pair of the uber sexy Belle pumps in plaid.  They are available for only 100 L this week as a special fundraiser to help pay for burial costs for for a 35 y/o gentleman of 4 children who died suddenly of a heart attack.  They come with 10 different texture options as well as a stocking option.  I'm also wearing Cheap Makeup's lately subscriber gift, the Babysitter's Club Lashes.  If you subscribe you get these as well as some awesome blue eyeshadow.

Credits:
Coat: R.i.cielli: Donna Coat, creme: Group Gift
Leggings: Adam n Eve: Leafy Green Leggings: 10 L
Necklace: Deco: Pearls in a Rush, Black & Cream: not free (these were at Jewelry Fair and hopefully not at Orchid's main store.)
Shoes: Baby Monkey: Belle Plaid Pumps: 100 L this week
Hair: Shag: La Petit Morte: not free (this week's Stumblebum)
Skin: Lelutka: Lola sunkissed 4: not free
Mascara: Cheap Makeup: Babysitter's Club Lashes: Subscriber Gift

I will not make dirty references to the word SLOW

I was running over to DUunltd19 on the last day and I really liked the building it was housed in so I started to peak outside and discovered a whole bunch of my kind of happiness.  This is the first time in I can't tell you how long that I simply wandered around by myself and explored (shopped) with no particular mission in mind.  I wasn't blogging, I wasn't doing research for a post, I wasn't hunting or going to a lucky chair.  And I found great stuff, which I almost didn't blog, but it's too pretty and too sweet and the whole place is too tasteful to not share.  I am not showing you all the goodies I found so look around if you have the time.

Before I get too far into my tales of the SLOW sim, I wanted to gloat over the to-die-for jewelry that my awesome pal, Hempy Weezles from RIPE, is making for the upcoming jewelry fair.  The little bird skull pin is going to be a dollarbie and the hats (in other colors too) are going to be like insanely cheap unless she listens to me (which she probably won't do) and increases her price.  One of the reasons it's taken me three days to finish this post is I refused to take off this stuff.

The leggings are a dollarbie or cheapie at oyakin.  What I did was stretch the prims at the bottom to give them a slight flair.  They come in 3 different colors.  The babydoll top is not a freebie but at 90 L it's a good deal for adorable.

Before I forget, I completely forgot to shoot the adorable pink stripe flats that are the sim opening gift at oyakin so this is what I suggest.  When you get inside the store, stop at the table in the front room and get the darling shoes.  Then head to the back of the store and turn right down the hallway.  In the back of the next room there is a shelf with a bunch of freebies and dollarbies.  The leggings above and the dress and stockings in the photo below are items on the shelf.

The cute jewelry set is a new freebie at Beatnik and the old boots (in sky blue and grey) are are only 28 L at Clemantis. Every three days the color boot will change and on 10/1 they will be pink and green.  The boots don't seem to be mod or size change and they are size 0 so fair warning.

This fabulous, most excellent dress is a new group gift at Couverture, to celebrate the opening of SLOW.   There are so many ways to wear this sweet, flowy dress but I went casual and paired it with free leopard leggings from Beatnik as well a the darling feathers bag from RibboN.  Then to further delay me (<3), Sileny asked me my opinion on her skin for Humpday tomorrow and it's so cute!  Then Sabina Gully from Magika sent out an amazing subscriber gift of a fatpack of her new hair in the Delora style.

Sileny's new Twiggy skin has awesome painted on lashes which makes me very happy as I recently did some changes to my shape, not thinking that all my lashes would now have to be refitted.  While you are looking at my face, I wanted to tell you about this amazing little tat layer available for only 10 L at PXL. It is called a Skin smoother/lightener and it smoothes out all the unevenness of many skin tones.  If you are one of those people who have difficulty matching your skin tone to prim footed shoes you will find this especially helpful.  It can be used by either gender and is available thru this week.  Look for the box under the tree.  Magika's new hair is complete with all new textures and each color pack now contains 8 tones.  Color changes are now done thru a hud, reducing your inventory size.  The Delora style has 2 tones so what I did in the brown haired picture was use the blond hud for the secondary color to show how you can get additional effects if you have more than one color pack per style.

I'm usually quick and dirty so I hope you can forgive my yacking. Here are slurls and prices for all this stuff:
Oyakin:
   Black blouse: 90 L
   Gift dress: 0 L
   Leggings: 1 L
   Knit stockings: 0 L
Couverture:
   cle: green: group gift
Beatnik:
   Leopard pants: white: 0 L
   Sacred Wood Parure: 0 L
Skin: Mango Mango: twiggy: 69 L: available on Weds for Humpday Happiness
Skin Toner: PXL: 10 L this week only
Hair:
   Atomic: Im a Lady: not free
   Magika: Delora: subscriber gift
Nails: Miasnow: Dark Red glossy: 0 L at Starlust location
RIPE: preview of Jewelry Fair stuff: oh yes!
RibboN: Feathers Bag: 20 L
Shoes:
   Ordinary: Caraca: not free
   Clemanitis: old boots: 28 L (3 days)
   Kookie: Lazies: not free

Wear Gray!

The Wear Gray for a Day event began this past weekend and runs until September 5.  At the Wear Grey Market Faire is a plethora of goodies available from many SL designers, with at least a portion benefitting the American Brain Tumor Association.  There are also daily auctions and you can see what is available daily at the official Wear Grey blog.  For us frugalistas there is also a hunt.  Each item is only 20L and all proceeds benefit ABTA.  I heard a rumor that some people were complaining about the cost of the hunt items but seriously, guys, we are talking brain cancer here!

Details:  Dress: Sysy's:Lulu in teal: 20 L Hunt item at Wear Gray Market Faire - not far from the entrance
Hair: Rezlpsa: Anna: Broadway - 11 PM: not free though 100 % of proceeds benefit ABTA
Skin: Adam n Eve: Bianca t1 - Natural: not free
Lipstick: Adam n Eve: Citrus Fruit: not free

I also wanted to mention a great freebie at Adam n Eve.  There are free painted lashes!  These are a tattoo layer that you can use with the SL 2. or many alternative viewers.  If adjusting prim lashes is irritating, this is a fantastic solution...and they don't look like blobs in high lag locations.  There are other amazing makeups.  My favorite it one that turns your skin tone green, perfect for Halloween parties!

Close up of: Adam n Eve: Painted on Lashes: Free -- look for the mascara on the makeup counter