There's a [Blossom] Over the Rainbow

Well to be precise, [Blossom] has re-opened it's door at the Over The Rainbow Market!

Oh my gosh , you guys, so exciting!

First off let me tell you a little about [Blossom]. For those of you new to things I opened [Blossom] a few years ago. Due to some RL changes and my mainstore sim being closed, [Blossom] shut down in July of 2013. At the time I wasn't sure if or when I would be able to open again.

This past week has been a whirl wind of excitement, chaos and well stuff I don't need to air in public!

Thanks to my amazing family on Cali, I was given the opportunity to re-open my store. I've got tons of mesh and scultped clothing and shoes.

To celebrate our re-opening I have created a brand new dress for you all! There are 6 great options, each at a low price of 100L!

You will Find 3 basic color options and 3 floral top options! I really hope you enjoy!!

You will also find a brand new group gift in store as well as many older group gifts/freebies out for you too!!

The group is 25L to join and please be sure to wear your tag!

You can find the new [Blossom] Main store Here!

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And now for the big news!!!!

My family has done something pretty cool. In fact they took a life long dream of mine and started making it a reality.

Over The Rainbow Market!

Over the Rainbow Market is a full service family friendly sim. You can look forward to a kitty/animal market place with seceral different sized stalls and stores to meet everyones needs.

There is also a Lovers Lane for Kittycats! Have you got a cat looking for a mate, or perhaps just too many cats to hold on to? Renters, you can sell your live and loveable cats on the cute little mushroom garden. Lovers lane is located in the enchanting Fairy forest. There are hidden snuggle spots for those romantic (but G rated) outings.

If you are like me, gachas can really break the bank sometimes! Be sure to check out the Over the Rainbow Yard Sale and kiddo playground! There are current stalls for rent as well as some items already set about from the most recent Arcade and Woodland creatures gacha events! Grab a stall and start selling!!

If you happen to be looking for a little time out, check out the various views around the sim, you can explore an old lighthouse, browse the up and coming Market area- home to [Blossom] and Coming Soon Mars~is~a~cloud and Soul Shards. Offered near by is a fun dock filled with all your needs for a little Neo Realms Fishing!

This is a really special project and we hope you and your family will stop by and enjoy it as much as we do!


There are tons of great things to see and explore on this sim! Stop in soon!!

For rental info- grab an open stall and contact one of the owners for a tag. If you need a specific stall or option contact AubreyG Bracken for your rental needs!

Newbie Style Challange-Get your newb on

As we all know I adore blogger challanges. I especially like a challange of making an avatar from scratch using a budget. If you haven't guessed by now I am a huge lover of anything cheap or free. I do spend money in stores but I also thing a healthy amount of gifts entices someone to spend money as a 'Thank You' as well as allowing a person to sample items without wasting money on something that might not be quite what they had hoped.

That being said when I saw Gogo of Juicy Bomb had started the Newbie Style Challenge II, I was Super excited. You can read the rules and such -here-

If you have spent any time in SL with me then you know I have an alt addiction. Most recently I cut back to those linked to anything I still do in SL. There was a time when I would create an alt just to 'make her/him over'. I would hunt all over SL just to prove I could make an avatar that cost 10, 20, 30L..even free. SO the 550L limit for this challenge sounds like a fortune.

I started out as a brand newbie with a new alt I made. I decided to make not one but three looks in total.(I may do more in the future! keep posted)

Look 1:

 

Worn:

           Hair: D!va- Group gift (there are tons here + free group join!)   = 0L

Scarf: Mr. Poet- Store Freebie (Boxers also + 2 Lucky Boards   = 0L

Dress: Riddle (+ 2 shirts Gift @ Fab Free HQ-TONS of goodies) = 0L

Boots: Vinyl Cafe (Dollarbie a day location- past  are 50L now)  =50L

total: 50L

Look 2:

 

Worn:

Hair: D!va- Naomi 20000 members (Group gift)    = 0L

Necklace: Milady's -  (Marketplace)                       = 0L

Dress: Entre Mares - (Fab Free HQ)                       = 0L

Shoes: Maitrya- Subscribo Gift                               = 0L

Total: 0L

Look 3:

 

Worn:

Hair: D!va - Haruka (Group Gift)                       = 0L

Sweater: ~Sweet Poison~ - (Marketplace)        = 0L

Skirt: JANE - In store Gift (Tons others too!)     = 0L

Boots: COCO- Group Gift (Tons more!)              = 0L

Total: 0L

About My Body!:

Shape: Made by me :)                                               = 0L                    

Skin: Mamboo Chic- Lucky Board       = 0L

           Eyes: TechnoLati- Hazel Blue on Marketplace         = 1L

 Total: 1L

Over all Spent: 51L !!

Additional Notes:

I also snagged some great things that aren't sp easy to see! Oracul offers one of the BEST freebie AO'S I've seen. You can snag it at the Fab Free HQ. It comes with a male AO as well and it's Copy/Trans!

The poses I used were freebies from Fab Free HQ and D!va (upstairs)

When making my looks this time around I wanted to focus on quality. Any old person can find a free outfit (If you can't then you deserve a smack upside the head ala Gibbs on NCIS.. :D). Rich textures and decent attachments make an outfit better than the system layer snoozer! The hardest things for me to find was decent hair (I tend to be ultra picky normally) and shoes. I never did go gaga over any of the shoes I found but oh well. Granted I could have used a chunk of that 550 to buy shoes or hair but I was more focused on an actual newb shopping.

Also noted: I could have made this super easy by doing hunts and current sales but I thought it smarter to show items that may still be around months from now!

Taking it one step further:

One thing we most often overlook is something as simple as a profile pic. Often spending 10L to upload is a big deal to someone new. (This is for anyone not using SL V3). During my quest for poses or photo studios to make a profile pic I found a rare gem. Studio Focus is a new photography location just getting started. As a special offer to new patrons they are doing one free shot to new group members. You can join the group - here-  and contact Sunnyboi Canis or Savannah OHare! (I'll be doing a write up in the upcoming days on these two so stay tuned if you are interested!

Check out the pic Savannah did for me:

 

Until next time! XOXO

Happy Halloween, but I'm feeling a bit Blah

Hey lovlies!

I had originally planned on showing something ghoul-tastic today in honor of Halloween butttt.. I ended up being introduced to this adorable store called Blah!

The stuff in this store is a bit out of my comfort zone but everything was so cute I couldn't resist sharing it with you all! It's a very 'American' store dipped in sugary sweetness. Imagine bright colors mixed with baseball T's, sweater dresses and  a great assortment of eyes, piercings and tatts! I am a total sucker for rich textures and cutesy items. You all really need to get over there and check things out!

Prices are absolutely reasonable and there are a ton of goodies to grab as well! hOshi is an incredibly generous designer who is active in hunts as well as offering 2 cheap gifts for Halloween and 3 lucky boards. Be sure to join her group as well because it's absolutely free as well as needed it to stalk the lucky boards and to get that free group gift in stores!

 

Pic 1: Top- Halloween cheapie (there is also a lingerie set offered as well!)

Pic 2: Top-  Lucky board item

Pic 3: Top- Group gift item!

The skirt shown in all three pictures is another lucky board item I snagged at Blah!

What are you waiting for?! Get on over there and snag some awesome deals!!

Monday blues but Not so much

I've done a few posts already about Collabor88. It's not often I can step into a hodge podge store with a bunch of different offers and walk out with a ready made outfit. However with the newest Collabor88 collection that is exactly what I did!

Worn:

Outfit- Tres Blah-  C88 Mellow Dress- Blue/White
Hair: Lamb!- C88 Girlfriend in a Coma- KitKat
Necklace- Artilleri- C88 Wenche Necklace- Pink

Non-C88 Items:
Shoes- N-Core Group Gift (Comes Black with white dots and white with black dots-hud option!)

Nifty Thrifty Fifty Linden Friday

I love 50L Fridays. They always get the best of me! While I'd love to run around and grab it all I restrained myself a bit this time, after all it *is* rent week!

Worn:
Dress: Berries Inc. - Dahlia Dress- 50L Friday
Hair: [e]- Charmed Essentials Pack (comes with multiple colors. I tinted the darker brown to suit me better) 50L Friday
Shoes/Jewelry- Pixel Mode- Previous Subscribo Gifts

PS. Thanks to the amazing viewer that is Firestorm I can now show some glitched out shadows for pictures. Yayyy!

LOTD- July 18th Utterly Clueless

Have you ever been trying on an outfit and had some odd flashback to a movie character? While trying on some of the adorable freeness I got over the weekend I was overcome with memories from the movie 'Clueless' circa 1995. I had this odd memory of Alicia Silverstone when she was trying to impress "Christian" (aka. RL actor Justin Walker). Perhaps it was a the hair combined with the dresses? Who knows.

It seemed fitting to channel a bit of old school "Cher"-the character not the singer!- into my LOTD.

Worn: Circus Noir- Floral Dress and Bracelet- Greedy Hunt gift (Look for strawberry!)

Worn: Acid & Mala- Halter Dress- Flowers - TOSL group gift in store

I think the hairstyle from Catwa is probably what brought on the memories. I normally abhor hair that is made from way too many flexi prims, but this soft messy up-do is a keeper in my book!

Worn: Catwa- Hadeya Hair-Espresso- Previous group freebie

If I learned nothing else from today, I now know my search abilities need help. I was hoping to grab a snap in a cute school setting to really add to the movie reference, however that didn't happen. I did manage to tp myself into a fetish club though. However named girls over desks didn't really fit the look I was hoping to grab. Oh boy..