"bubbles kiddo - delicious marmalade..

...spring smells wee - midnight tea. penguins and wagons - ocean salt. antonia smiles - sparkling blooms."

nooo, they're not snippets of some long lost james joyce manuscript, but a string of sweetly singsong product names from ornamental life. wandering the store i found the words popping up on my hovertips (do i have that right? hovertips? damn kids and their internets lingo. *rattles her walker in adaire's direction*) nearly as delightful as the crayola-bright (that big box of 96, thankyouverymuch), layer-tastic casuals scattered all around. shir dryke has several freebies set out, among them this northern nights dress:



[hair - armidi, the ginza (295L); shoes - aphrodite creations (?L - edit, from emma in the comment box up there: "The AC Cheeries flats are 100L but those are from the International Red Stick Hunt from a month or so ago.")]

delicious, yes? it comes with a shorter babydoll skirt, as well as several shirty layer options. and if i were you i'd get to the store ASAP as this was initially a store rebuild freebie and won't be out much longer. oh, and if it's not out when you get there? no tantrums in the store owner's general direction please. we're all grownups here, and i highly doubt it would kill anyone to act like it. anyway.... the skin is the latest rosemar group gift, and yeah yeah yeah, it costs 250L to join up but by my vague crappy guesstimate i've got about 4000Lish worth of yummy group gifties thus far, so do i really need to reiterate that it's so, so worth it?


awhile back i blogged a lush indian-inspired babydoll by zaara indian couture, and if that dress had you squeeing, you're in luck. there's a group only black recolor out now at one of her locations:


[skin - blowpop, aden 3b (950L); hair - mm, vanessa (190L)

search groups for zaara, join up, get to the store with the tag activated, and click the appropriate display for yer goodies.