Home Cookin'

So in real life I may be known to have started a fire or three in my cooking adventures [sadly not the fancy flambé kind] but one of the wonderful things about secondlife is that even I can't mess up cooking on it! ^_^ I first discovered Follow Us! on the marketplace within a couple weeks of joining SL. I was taken aback by how cute everything was and how I could afford it without tears! Joining their completely free group hasn't disappointed me; they have new gifts every month and season and the quality is still fantastic.

This cutes cooker has both the coffee pose I'm showing above and another that has you cooking and is the group gift for November. It does come with a coffee mug but I substituted this super cute VIP gift from Sway in it's place. I naturally wanted to get all dressed up in casual cooking-wear so I swooped up the Crystalline group gift by Little Bones, lil grey top by Sn@tch, aaaand flipflops from HopScotch. It was finally time to do one of my favorite freebie things: type random words in marketplace! The marketplace is a treasure trove of items you don't even know you need until you type in elephant and realise there's always been something missing in your life. Typing in apron found me this super cute lil chef set by Plausible Body which comes with multiple color/visibilty options and is just really cute. Here's to hoping your cooking adventures on and off sl go better than mine! ^_^


Credits

Cooker - Follow Us! Cooker Box (0L group gift, some past group gifts also still available!)

Coffee mug - Sway Birdy Coffee Mug Hold (0L VIP group gift)

Hair - Little Bones Crystalline Ink Pot (0L group notices)

Apron/Hat - Plausible Body Chef Less Sexy White (0L comes with white and black/sheer and not! ^_^)

Top - Sn@tch Sheer Ribbed Tube Tops grey (0L past Lucky chair gift)

Sandals - HopScotch Sunflower Flipflops (1L subscribo gift set out in store - intended for slink feet but cute on my non-slink feet too!)

Capris - ShuShu Good Morning Capri Pants grey (0L wearable demo)

I Wanna Do Bad Things But Stay Comfy :P

I almost have my issues with rezzing and stuff figured out so I wanted to share some good stuff real quick with my lady avatar.  First off, Plausible Body is a store I have heard of but never been to.  I went finally and discovered lots of cute things, all of them set as pay-what-you-want.  What P.W.Y.W. means is that you decide what the items are worth to you, what you are willing to pay, what you have available to you.  Say you have a newbie friend who has very few Lindens or you are on an extremely strict budget; you could go to Plausible Body and pay a small amount.  Say you have a good budget and you love the items; you can go and pay the suggested price on the vendor photo or even higher.  I'm on the strict budget end right now so I wasn't able to pay a ton but I plan on paying a bunch on my next visit once I make some more Ls.  What you do is click the vendors and you'll receive the items, often in several colors.  Then you go to the pay box in the center of the store and pay what you can.  It's a great concept and I sincerely hope people don't take advantage of it in a negative way.

OK that was a lot of chatting, sorry. xD  I wanted to mention my cute shirt above.  I am super addicted to True Blood so when I saw this Do Bad Things shirt from Sn@tch for only 75L, which includes a whole bunch of other shirts too, I had to grab it as fast as I could.  I paired it with this completely fresh and innocent looking skin from the M.O.C.K. Cosmetics group gift for a bit of contrast.  I added some not free colorful tattoo makeup (not free) from Miss Shippe's, a 10L open mouth alpha from Adore&Abhor, and a side pony style (not free) from Alice Project, and a friendly pose above from Status to make it even more innocent seeming.  My eyes are one of three colors you can find as a subscriber gift from Skin Within.

Worn:
Skin: M.O.C.K. Cosmetics, group gift (250L join fee)
Eyes: Skin Within, subscriber gift, includes three colors
Shorts, Stockings, Shoes: Plausible Body, pay what you want items
Shirt: Sn@tch, 75L (part of a set)
Open Mouth and Gap Teeth: Adore&Abhor, 10L (part of a set)
Pose: Status
Hair: Alice Project
Makeup: Miss Shippe's Studio (part of a set.  Can't currently find the new main store info. since the Lloyd sim is closing but her Marketplace account for other items is HERE and I will try to find the info. on this makeup and update this.)

High Style For Free On Xstreet

For a long time I've been meaning to blog about some of my favourite free and dollarbie items from Xstreet, Second Life's online shopping service. I finally got around to it. Here are some of my favourite finds. (note: the links in this post are to the Xstreet listings, not the shops).



This black feather dress is free from Aurum. After I purchased it I found out it was made by one of my closest friends, Medussa Reddevil. It's beautiful and she has another version of it in white, also free.



I know alot of you are big fans of Pixeldolls. This glittery limelight gift set comes with the tops and shorts in a number of different shades.



This stunning blue satin dress is a gift from MrS.



The beautiful little hat is included with this goth inspired dress from Edge Grafica.



Plausible Body has a number of really well made free latex outfits for when you're ready to get your kink on.



This romantic gown is free from OM!



This top and skirt are both free from Edge Grafica. They have more really stylish freebies so make sure to check out all the items.

The hair in all of these photos is a freebie from Niza. I loved it so much I bought it in my regular color.

All of these photos were taken using this dollarbie photo sphere. It comes preloaded with 140 poses and is mod so you can change the backdrop or drop in your own poses. It's a great item for all of you photographers out there!

All of the boots in these photos are from EVA, not free but worth every penny.

A big thank you to all of the generous designers who are giving away these items for free!