No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

I'm about to throw my computer against the wall.  My fab new computer has great speed and memory but a horrible graphics card and what usually takes me about 20 minutes to do has taken me over 2 hours.  What I don't want to do, though, is make my frustration hinder you from some great items. I could start anew but I'm at that "screw it" point so please forgive and focus on the products.   Baby Monkey Shoes has it's free join weekend from now through Sunday evening.  The group normally costs L$250 to join but the fee is waved only this weekend.  Member benefits include lots of exclusive gifts (the 12 Days of Christmas is HUGE, an extra set of lucky chairs to increase your chance of winning, as well as sometimes significant discounts on new releases.  The shoes I am wearing are a brand new group gift, the xxxxxx shoes, in an exclusive fatpack of bright colors.  These will not be available for sale otherwise.  If you like to own lots of shoes in a wide spectrum of colors, this is a group you will want to stay in.  I know few people in SL as generous as owner, Pixieplumb Flanagan.  The cute linen dress I'm wearing is a lucky chair prize in the mesh clothing section.  I love the linen texture.

You can see from my screenshot of the HUD that there are a ton of options, including toe rings, ankle bracelets and colors.  The other tabs open of a slew of toenail options, skin matching (including exact RGB), resizers and heel sounds (I always turn mine off!).

Finally, Baby Monkey is holding a Spring Photo Contest.  The contest is free to enter and you may submit as many entries as you wish.  The clothing and footwear must be from the store but it does not say the items cannot be free, so this is a great chance for photographers on a low or non-existent budget to challenge themselves and win gift card prizes!  All the details are noted above.

I also wanted to show you the gorgeous new skin from Cupcakes, Creampuff.  Rosemary Galbraith and Mimi Coral had a creampuff skin way back when they merged their brands during the Stone Age, which I loved but I love this one more!  They are beginning to phase out their full perm skin lines and have been creating new, beautiful skins.  There are complimenting lipsticks, eyeshadows and even eyes for the skin.  I have been a fan of Cupcakes forever and am thrilled with they are returning their focus to the consumer line.  Love you two!

Credits:
Shoes: Baby Monkey: Ultimate Roxanne 2013 - All Colours: new group gift (free join this weekend!)
Dress: Baby Monkey: Patty Dress Lilac: mesh clothing lucky chair prize
Skin/Eyes/Makeup: Cupcakes: Creampuff - Creme tone (basic lip-rose/eyeshadow-black/blue eyes): New Release!
Hair: Wasabi Pills: Betty: available exclusively this month at FaMESHed
Necklace: HANDverk: Tassel Lariat - Lime
Clutch: HANDverk: Flamingo Clutch - Lime - available at L'Accessories until April 8! 

Lingerie time

Patina (blondie) is wearing:
Lingerie - Delish at marketplace, lingerie in beige, dollarbie (other colors of this set available in marketplace for 1L$ too)
Socks - Wertina mainstore 10pack for 50L$ or a freebie version of 5 colors at Freebiesowo
Wer (brunette) is wearing: 
Lingerie - Seldom Blue, Elizabeth lingerie set, new release, 200L$ per set (not free but worth buying! beautifully done)

Surprise!! It's Aeon.

I tell you this move across the world has knocked me for six, and getting used to the timezone is so bloody hard. I miss all my SL and RL friends that I was so used to seeing every day, however, in some ways it's been good to not socialise as I've been getting all creative and shit in my studio.....ahhh just like the old days :P



Getting creative however means I have a whole lotta catching up to do blogging wise,so may as well start now! You'll find some great yummies in the chair at Dare Designs, "Surprise" being one of them. Total rawr, wild woman stuff........lickable latex on eleventy twelve million layers.



"Aeon" will be released tomorrow, with chair exclusive colours of course, so make sure you're around to stalk it. The gorgeous skins shown are a hunt gift from Kiko Life. It's the Golden Sarcophagus hunt, taken from the official card:
You will be collecting 50 sarcophagi hidden in our participating stores and around our sim.
Inside each sarcophagus will be either a phrase, a gift, or both. Each one of the phrases you collect is part of a whole paragraph that talks about Cleopatra. Sarcophagi may move around from day to day, so if you missed one it may be easier to find the next day. Even if you don't get them all, you will pick up some delicious prizes along the way, so don't give up. Put the paragraph together CORRECTLY, and you are eligible for the Grand Prize Drawing!!!.

* Grand Prize is L$5,000
* Cash Prizes
* Gift Certificates from our participating stores
* Skins (value L$4000)
* and more....

Send your completed paragraph, in a notecard, to either Tabatha Giano or DragonLady Majestic. All entries must be received by August 5th at 11:45 PM SL time. The Winners will be randomly chosen from all correct entries. The winner's will be contacted by August 7th and names posted in the University City Group.

We hope to see you there. Happy Hunting!!!!!! Be nice and play fair.

Thanks to our sponsors and participating stores:

AFantasy
Athena's Antiquities
Avila Sterling Jewelry and Art in Motion
Babele Fashion Italian Style
Dark Crystal Rose Designs
DragonLady Designs
Gadgeteria
Jessop Creations
Kiko Life
Moon's Bazaar
Sara's Jas Elegant Gowns
Sexon's WB
Shellylove Designs
Steelheart
Wishedon's
Wolf Island Studios
I got to know the designer, Osuntomi, when I showcased her darker skins, you can read the post here. The awesomesauce boots are from Duh!,theyre not free but so reasonably priced, totally great for budget shoppers. Renee always has something fab in her lucky chair too, so well worth a visit. Ash Out.

Credits
Outfits
Dare Designs
Skins
Kiko Life hunt gift
Hair (not free)
The Stringer Mausoleum
Boots (not free)
Duh!

Dare To Be Different.

Dare from Dare Designs must be one of those all seeing undead types, cos literally as I was about to shuffle off to PS to process the first pic, he dropped a preview on me of next week's releases! We have lucky chair goodness, as well as stuff not in the chair.



This set is shown in my favie colour of Dare's, Blood/Red. The set in the chair is Coffee, as shown here. The Wilhelmina set is a huge folder of goodies, corset, panties, jacket, hat, cane, cape stockings, leggings, boots... oy! Time is about to run out, it will be removed from the chair pretty soon, so you know the drill. The amazing skin shown you can thank Loli for. While it's not free, the only hard time I had was not buying all the sodding fatpacks :P You'll find this beautiful, stitched up bit of dewy goodness at Atomic.



Shown here is the Papillion set, in pink, fuscia (lucky chair exclusives) and my fave again red. They won't be released till next week, but once they are, the pink and fuscia will only be in the chair, not avail to buy. Isn't my hair the absolute cutest. Named after our Loli, and available for a linden, along with 5 other equally pretty styles from Tiny Bird. Although on wearing the hair, I had the strangest urge to yell things IN CAPITALS and also had an odd attraction to mudkips........hmm, wonder if that's coincidence? Ash out.

Outfits
Dare Designs
Skins (not free)
Atomic
Erin By La Sylphide (retired now, more's the pity)
Hair
HCT
Tiny Bird (thanks Autumn xoxo)

Patriotic Much?

Not I said the fly! Forgive the eleventybillion pics, I've been distracting myself from a whore of a day. I've spent the day at immigration. A special place. And herein lies the problem. My Permanent visa subclass is 836- A carer visa, meaning I have an Australian citizen (minor) in my care. And while I jumped through all the hoops and crossed all the "I's", enough to gain my residency, apparently that is not enough to get Mini Ash an Australian passport. The problem is, I was not a resident at the time of her birth, although my whole immigration case was based on the fact that she is a citizen, and indeed was granted on that basis. Ever tried to get a passport officer to look up a visa subclass? Dun bother, they are incapable :P



Anyhoo, enough rantings and onto the good stuffs. Shown above are the latest group gifts from Concrete Flowers and KOSH. That's right!! Subscribo gifts this week. Gorgy girl boxers, 3 pairs of jeans, eyes, shapes and all sorts of other yummies.





Remember Wigwambam? I do, and Jojo has been MIA for what seems like an age! Buuuut, she's back, and how. The swimsuit shown is a dollarbie, the dresses are the latest (not free) releases. I look forward to more from this talented designer, indeed one of my faves on the grid to date.



These 3 skins are from Drlife. They used to be in the lucky chair, but have been made available to the group at the main store. Be sure to wear your tag to get yours. The lush hair I got from the Sn@tch show, courtesy of Adi's bestie Aems from Philotic Energy. I'm sure it's not free now, but it's a wicked style for guys and girls, and totes worth the L's.



The "Character" skin is the latest group gift from Rockberry, as blogged so magnificently by Ms Sileny here. You get to see it twice cos it deserves some exposure :p Also, I was lucky enough to get my hands on the latest releases from The Black Canary, that just cried out to be shown.



While you won't get these outfits for free, you will find some amazing poses in the lucky board, made with the same attention to detail that Morrigan shows in his incredible designs. The skin shown with the second outfit is also free, from a new to me store called Digital Dollhouse. You'll find all manner of goodies, including skins, shapes, prim nails and more. Thank you for bearing with me, I'm sure there will be much more emo leading up to my departure, and guess what? Y'all get to suffer with me :P Ash Out.

Creditos

Hair (not free)
Pics 1-3
ETD
Pic 4
Philotic Energy
Pic 5
ETD
Pic 6
Maitreya

Skins
Pics 1-3
Cupcakes group gift
Pic 4
DrLife group gifts
Pic 5
Rockberry group gift
Pic 6
Digital Dollhouse

Outfits
Pic 1
Concrete Flowers and KOSH group gifts
Pics 2-3
Wigwambam
Pics 5-6 (not free)
The Black Canary