Off-White Witch – Halloween 2024

So no more Orange. Which means more Black and dark stuff, yay!

You’d think it’d be great having your own creepy castle and lots of spooky stuff, right? Well yes, but heating all those drafty corridors…a lot of wandering travellers and local peasants need to be sacrificed to keep the insulation wards in place.

Credits:

  • Dress: Luas Aradia Fatpack – Mainstore
  • Hat: [Cubic Cherry] {The Watcher} witch hat BLACK – @ Panic of Pumpkins
  • Skin: Dae SKULLPTURE SKIN EVOX BOM BONE – Booth @ Shop & Hop
  • Lip gloss: +KP+ Slick Lips // Lel Evo X 3 – Knife Party Store
  • Throne: DRD – Bloodcroft Castle – Throne – DRD Mainstore

Location: Bloodrose Bay.

This is my private Adult-Rated Homestead. There’s a Tavern with some prop market stalls separated from my (barely-furnished) Castle by a small strip of woodland. The place is a little barren, but do have a wander if you want. Please be nice and you won’t be one of the sacrifices.

Orange Witch Overload – Halloweeen 2024

Halloween is my favourite celebration of the year. However it can be a bit overwhelming with the Orange! You can never have too much Black, but during Halloween season the combination really does get a bit tiresome by the time the 31st actually comes along. I thought I’d do this post and then exclude Orange from the blog for a while.

This duo is combining my freebie Witch and my regular self in last weeks Sale outfit from S&P.

Credits:

Dunking Witch:

  • Head: BeSpoke Faun (with Drow ears)- Mainstore
  • Shape: BeSpoke – Date Night Shape by Mewtenie (I think she needs to eat a few more pumpkins!)
  • Outfit: [C.YFashion]SET WOMAN HALLOWEEN – Booth
  • Hair: Hana from Sintiklia – Booth
  • Hat: Exquisite Enchanted Halloween Hat – Booth

My Outfit:

  • Gloves: S&P Penny gloves & collar black pumpkin
  • Black & Orange dress: S&P Penny dress black pumpkin
  • Orange Boots: AXE-GIFT HALLOWEEN 2024 SHOP & HOP – Booth
  • Skin: .::WoW Skins::. Milk ELIANE skin & shape (EVO-X) from WoW Skins
  • Head: LeLUTKA Avalon Head 3.1
  • Hair: Tsveta GIFT – Sintiklia

Location: Cornerstones Club, Halloween theme set: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Black%20Lion/153/130/3001

Jailed Juice – Halloween 2024

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetl- … nah maybe that’s not such a good Idea, best leave her there!

Outfit Credits:

Note: I’m wearing Got The Juice on LaraX, but the leggings and boots are for Legacy, also GenX & Reborn sizes included. It’s a pretty good match except for a tiny clip at the back. Both the S&P set and the leggings have texture change HUDs.

Location: Liddell Correctional Facility (Prison Roleplay, SLURL located Outside the walls.)

The Freebie Daemon – Halloween 2024

Following on from my Freebie Witch, I’m continuing the theme with a Freebie Demon using the BeSpoke Faun head again and the red skin I found at Shop n Hop. It’s that last part I want to focus on here, the skin is Amazing! The store Dae Boutique is new to me and I’m loving the quality and details on the skin, loving their prices too. I was amazed that their fullbody Evox skins were under $L500 each, I’d usually expect to pay twice that or more from some fantasy skin creators. I think it does a fabulous job of turning the BeSpoke Faun into Demon.

Credits:

Shop n Hop items:

  • Skin: Dae Daemonique SKIN EVOX Full Body BOM Diabla EvoX – Booth
  • Hair: Hana from Sintiklia – Booth
  • Crosses Top & Shorts: HORL – Cross Outfit – Booth
  • Pose: Gonna Get you pose – Booth
  • Background: Halloween Skybox_32 – (Scenes 5&9 of 60) – Booth

The Freebie Witch – Halloween 2024

I renamed an old account with the Last name “Witch”. However they didn’t have much of an inventory, let alone Halloween stuff, so I took them to Halloween Shop & Hop. With 0L balance I wanted to try and make a decent Witch avatar from the gifts and other free items. It was surprisingly easy using the FabFreel  chart that listed them all. By “not much” I mean they literally needed Everything including basic mesh body parts.

Since I intended to use the Free version of the Legacy mesh body(only because it’s free), that allowed me to narrow down clothing to items that would fit that body, I still ended up with too many outfits!

Trickier things were body parts like a mesh head, skin & hair. I only found a couple of stores offering these items on the list, a red skin & a green skin.

That left me with the final piece,a mesh head. Fortunately BeSpoke still has their Faun head out as a freebie. Also since I started this Freebie looks idea, BeSpoke have released FREE Hunan heads as a permanent freebie too. Since both those heads come with a skin too, I now had plenty to work with and decided to make a few avatar looks instead of just one. I’m going to spread those over a few posts because the credits list got insanely long!

Base Credits:

Shop n Hop Items

  • Background: Halloween Skybox_32 – (Scene 13 of 60) – Booth
  • Cauldron prop: Cauldron – Booth
  • Black & Purple Hat: SK *Halloween 2024 Shop & Hop – Booth
  • Dress: BQ::Rowan Mini Dress:: Black – Booth
  • Green Skin: Ex.Umbra The WITCH Skin – Booth
  • Hair: Hana from Sintiklia – Booth

Haunted Labyrinth – Halloween 2024

It’s that time of year when lot of spooky fun places appear all over the Second Life Grid. This being the first of however many I get around to visiting and writing about. This location is also a store hunt setting, although I didn’t participate in that, I’m here for the Spooky! I’ve pictured a few of the areas in this place, but there’s plenty more to be seen.

Remember to accept Experience prompts, turn up the audio and graphics sliders for the best spookiness.

Arrival point: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Fort%20Santiago/125/249/23

  • Outfit: ABSENCE – Merild [Noir] – Engine Room
  • Boots: PIXEL BOX – Gothic Vintage Boots Gloves Legwarmers
  • Hair: Sintiklia – Hair Destiny – Blondes&Reds – Engine Room

Burlesque at Body Shots

Right after releasing Western Rider featured in my last post, Salt & Pepper released another outfit, simply called Burlesque. It really does speak for itself.

Credits:

Photo Location: BodyShots Gentlemans Lounge (A Rated region)

The Taur Rider

The store Salt & Pepper released a new outfit recently called Western Rider at the Teegle Dog & Pony Show. This obviously resulted in a slew of photos on social media of people wearing it, usually on horseback.

While that’s all very well and good, I felt like trying a different take on it. I got an idea when at a Western theme party not long ago I heard the song lyrics “Save a horse, ride a cowboy”. It made me think; any woman can be a “cowgirl” she just needs the right kind of ride….

While that might have been fun, I like to keep my blog PG rated, so I veered away from that train of thought,instead I thought “Why ride a horse when you can ride a Centaur?”

Imagine if Centaurs weren’t the graceful beings we see them portrayed as in stories and Second Life community. What if they were as Wild as the old West? Could they be tamed, made civilized? Intriguing questions that may lead to an interesting story in the future.

I want to say a big thankyou to Tori Landau for playing the part of the Centaur in the photos and suggesting the idea of Wild.

Rider Credits:

  • Clothes: Western Rider by Salt & Pepper at Teegle Dog & Pony Show
    (Western Rider does have a matching hat you can purchase)
  • Hat & Hair: TRUTH Montana – Redhead with Hat – TRUTH
  • Skin: Milk ELIANE skin (EVO-X) – WoW Skins::

Centaur Credits:

  • Hair: NO_SAVIOUR by NO.MATCH
  • Top: Malefic Top by Scarlet Fey (group gift)
  • Centaur: JINX CenLighTaur – Jinx Store
  • Tail:Fluffy Light tail – Jinx Centaur by CINNAMON
  • Skin: SANDY CHLOE’ NB BODY MAITREYA*-Lelutka evo X – WoW Skins::
  • Freckles: LeLUTKA.EvoX.Freckles.013
  • Scars, mud, blush and scratches from Izzie’s
    Izzie’s – Body Aged Claw Scars 6
    Izzie’s – LeL Evo X – Face Aged Claw Scars 6
    Izzie’s – LeL Evo X – Dirt & Mud medium
    Izzie’s – LeL Evo X – 04 Ear Dirt more (dark)
    Izzie’s – LeL Evo X – Winter Blush (light)
    Izzie’s – LeL Evo X – Scratches Nose (light)
    Izzie’s – LeL Evo X – Scratches L Cheek (light)

Avatars posed using the Jinx Passenger System for Centaur.

Location: Copper Canyon created by Camilla Runo, now sadly closed.

Real Steampunk

I’m breaking from my norm today and including some Real Life in my post. Last weekend I was at a Steampunk Festival, a real one, near where I live. It was the first time there’s been one near me, so it’s the first one I’ve attended too, it was amazing.

People went to so much effort with their costumes and some fun entertainment. I only attended for one afternoon but there was events running the whole weekend, so next year I’ll be attending more.

(Yes, that is a lifesize Dalek and a TARDIS in the corner!)

Event Website: Isle of Wight Steampunk Festival

In Second Life meanwhile the steampunk themed Engine Room event had opened the day before. So inspired from the Festival I went on a shopping spree and put together this outfit to put myself virtually into the header photo of the actual event.

Outfit Credits:

Engine Room Items from:http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Syndicate/172/189/28

  • Outfit: Wicca’s Originals – Raili Outfit (PBR)
  • Hat: [piXit] Wind Me Up Hat (Add)
  • Hair & Goggles: Sintiklia – Hair Destiny – Blondes&Reds
  • Leg Belts: Tentacio Joly belt leg black
  • Backdrop: What’s Lost Spirits – ETHEREAL WORKSHOP

Other items:

Slacking off blogging

I’ve been a little slack lately in my blogging, but it’s not that I’ve not been doing anything. My blog is after all to tell the tale of my Second Life, I’ve just not written it down. But I did take pictures, so rather than have them just sit on my laptop, I thought I’d do a recap of what random stuff I’ve been up to recently.

Firstly I went to an event at Belliseria Bureau of Bureaucracy (BBB) that I’d never heard of until my friend Tori invited me along to thier Western themed event.

We also went out to Muddy’s Music cafe another time, picked randoly off the Destination Guide. I’d never been there and it had been a long time since Tori had too. However you won’t see either of our avatars in the photos. We thought it’d be fun to have an “Alts Night Out” and take some secondary avatars out for the evening.

Last night I went to a Petites Party at Centauria, home of the Second Life Centaur community. However since it was an impromptu decision, I was the only “biggie” present, but it was good fun for an hour.

There were a few other places I visited, but nobody wants to see photos of shops! I’ve a few ideas floating around for future posts, so hopefully I’ll get those done soon and there won’t be such huge gaps in between me writing here.