New Year, New Things

So I've decided this is to be my final post on Love/Hate until or unless the owner, Wrenja returns. (It's been over a year, I'm so faithful. x: ) Thank you to anyone out there still watching for updates.
I'm going to be continuing the freebie thing over on my own blog, realistically at about the same rate (one post a month, go me!) but optimistically a little bit more (let's make it two!). I'll be throwing in some fashion posts, observational rants and questions and some other stuff. Possibly. Many thanks if you wish to follow me in my Second Life over at Trickett Blogs Stuff.

On to the good stuff...
Priss is a store I've been watching lately. The clothing is earthly-hippy-bohemian, sometimes comfortable and modest, sometimes elegant and vintage and all impeccably made. As far as I can tell, all the textures are unique to Priss.
The stock is spread out in stores across the grid including the main store at Taejin and satellite stores at Warrumbungles and Cupcake. You can find all the stores in Erin Winterwolf, the designer's picks, for future reference. :3


This is the prize for The Millenium Hunt, which ends on the 31st and is hosted by the For The Love Of... (or FTLO for short) hunt collective.
This hunt is different to most hunts in Second Life. In each participating store, one of the vendors has been repriced to 1L. Your task is to mouse-over the vendors and find the 1L thing. :3 This means for the awesome price of 1L, you can get the original item being sold and the bonus hunt prize. :D
For a list of all the participating stores and the prizes hidden in the vendors you can check out this post at The Rumor blog. (Er, The Rumor is going through some renovations so some of the picture links are broken but it does list all the stores and if you see stores in there you like, you should definitely drop them a visit. x: )


I was browsing the forums a few weeks ago and I came across a post asking for free faun stuff. One of the comments helpfully provided a SLURL to the store In The Fur Enterprises.
There is a male and female version for 1L each. The box contains hooves (in leg and hoof pieces), horns, a tail, a skin and shape and prim eyes. The legs are mod/copy but the horns and skin are no copy/no mod.
The skin wasn't especially flattering on me so I've opted for another sin in my inventory and a pair of tinted white socks, however it does include the original fur for the legs, which goes up to the hips.
The hooves have invisi-prims but you can remove these by rezzing them, going to edit mode, selecting "edit linked", going to the build menu at the top and selecting "unlink" and deleting the invisi-prim. Then deselect "edit linked" and pick the leg/hoof back up. :3 You will need to provide your own alpha layers, I advise checking in folders of boots you may already own. I did have to shrink these legs (actually it might have been just the hoof part) to fit me but I do like the shape a lot. The hooves themselves have rather long dewclaws suggesting, to me, these would be well suited to deer, as I think goats tend to have more subtle, stubby dewclaws.
I also really like the horns, they're an attractive shape and the texturing is quite beautiful. :3
The dress in this picture comes from Priss too but is set to full price of 160L. An alpha layer is provided for the Priss dresses to help combat the avatar mesh moving outside of the prims however if you have an AO that moves quite a bit, you may experience some ghost legs. x: I found the prims fitted me very well and didn't need to be resized although an avatar with a larger stomach may have problems and need to mod. This outfit came full modify for me although some others (such as the dress) may have resizer scripts.

And on a final note, I recently joined the Second Life Roller Derby Association and have been helping out as PR Assistant. :3 The Second Life Roller Derby Association (or SLRDA) is SL's first roller derby league and we aim to replicate the fun and community of roller derby within Second Life. :3


Currently we are in between seasons and in between HQs so I'd advise anyone wanting to sign-up to join the in-world group and sit tight for a few more days. :3 In the meantime, we have a Facebook and a Tumblr you can follow and more excitingly, we have a mash up bout tonight and you're welcome to come watch the punks battle the disco divas! 6PM SLT at Mad Hell Razor rink. :3

TL;DR

Mustard dress and bag // Priss // The Millennium Hunt (1L)
Cream dress/ Priss // 160L
Hooves and horns // In The Fur Enterprises /// 1L


Oh, hey, this thing has spellcheck...

Tricketts or Giraffes?

I'm not really that into Christmas. x: Everyone on the grid is suddenly a seasonal deer so I suddenly feel protective of my "individualtiy" and all the shops are full of snow and baubles and trees and extra things my computer is not too fond of. x: So I'm going to hide out here and dress up as a giraffe. :3

It's kind of hard to resize but it's cute. :D You can pick it up from !Go!'s lucky chairs which change letter every three mintues.

I meant to do some quick hunt previews of hunts finishing on the 15th but my friends called on Skype and my photography settings weren't happy. Sorry blog, friends first but maybe I can get them done tomorrow? x:
If you're looknig for antlers I always suggest Illusions. :3 She also puts out special edition ones for Christmas. You can also try Rue (who has a pack out for 55L Mondays) or Down Down Down. For more tig-like antlers, you can try Needful Things or Sweet Leonard or Epic.
For legs / full avatars, mine are from Titania's Court. Other stores you can try are Epic, Visavi and Atomic.
Or you can combine the two in one avatar and buy Dodie's Deer avatar. :3 I have this avatar in pink, the textures and sculpts are very unique among faun although the fitting is a little tricky.

Bah-Humbug-Giraffe-Tricketts
Eyes // Chus! // Lucky Board
Giraffe Vest and Arm Warmers // !Go! // Lucky Chair
Skirt // Y&R // Group Lucky Board

The Flesh Game

Today I learnt to take all the photos in one sitting. Or at least try harder to do so. x: Small camera angle discrepincies aside, here are a few prizes from The Flesh Game, the interactive game running on the Sn@tch and Pulse sims until November the 14th. (Post is not on last day, be amazed. o: )


The Flesh Game is not a hunt. Having said that you will have to hunt for the prizes. x: When you land, you will be prompted to buy the HUD which will help you navigate the game and gives you a horror-based story to follow.


Hover over everything. Buy anything with the Linden dollar cursor and touch everything that brings up a hand cursor. If you see any numbers, take notice of them because they will help you break the codes to the next room.
You'll need to set aside a decent amount of time to complete The Flesh Game. As the slowest avatar on the grid, I have no idea how long it took me but I did have to nap before I could finish it. x: Should probably take the advice of friends and take an interest in that super food known as coffee.


Most of the prizes are hidden in small, repeated objects such as notepads and coffee books. Theres several more outfits and goods out there. Some of which I didn't photograph, some of which I didn't find. x:
As a note on the prizes: the Sn@tch boots have colour changing laces and socks as well as a no sock option. The Gauze boots also have colour change laces. Yay. :D The Forsaken cowboy boots only come in 'complete' form so you'll need to mod them if you want them under your jean cuffs.


The Funky Junk sykbox and furniture is sperated into four boxes. I was going to take all the pictures in the skybox... But then I took a nap and changed my mind. x: Naps: they solve all my problems, except when they generate problems such as crashing my viewer. x: I think I'm officailly polyphasic this week.
I don't really remember where most of the prizes were located now but if you have missed a specific prize and are desperate to know it's location, drop a note before the 14th and I'll try to help out.

All clothing, shoes, accessories and furniture from The Flesh Game.
Skin is by Mother Goose and is free at the Lavenda location.
Additional styling (antlers, hair, tattoos) is not free.

-Initiate slight nausea at not being sure how to post item lists.-

Purple Outfit
Purple Top/Skirt Set // Sn@tch Satine (Grape)
Eyes // BC Bestial: Crave
Make-up // Beauty Killer Forced Smile Make-Up
Choker // Sn@tch Bat Choker
Ring // Sn@tch Raven Ring (in Sn@tch Grab Bag)
Socks // Sn@tch Bordello Stockings
Boots // Gauze Myaku Stomps

Green Top Outfit
Green Top // Somnia Sexy Sweater Vest (Green)
Jeans // SWAK Web Jeans
Belt // FORSAKEN Leather Strip Belt
Boots // Sn@tch Drucilla Boots

Skirt Outfit
Top // Sn@tch Home Run Tee (Orange)
Leggings // LeBloom Swapped Orange/Black
Skirt // Sn@tch Plaid & Corduroy

Jeans Outfit
Top // Somnia Striped Queen (Orange/Black)
Ring // Sn@tch Raven Ring (in Sn@tch Grab Bag)
Jean and Shoes // LeBloom Teal Striped Shoulder Sweater Outfit

Sack-Girl (part-time crime-fighter, part-time lingerie model - we're not sure how good she is at either)
Swimsuit // LeBloom Blood Red Gown
Sack + Bruises // Gauze Contestant Set
Boots // Sn@tch Drucilla Boots

Cowgirl
Top // Animalistic Corset (Cheetah Dark Black)
Jeans // Somnia Basic Jeans (Black)
Make-up // Beauty Killer Forced Smile Make-Up
Hat // Sn@tch Kickass Hat (Death Valley) (in Sn@tch Grab Bag)
Belt // FORSAKEN Leather Strip Belt
Ring // Sn@tch Raven Ring (in Sn@tch Grab Bag)
Boots // FORSAKEN Step on my fuckin' boots. I DARE ya!

Sack-Boy
Outfit // Sn@Tch Doom (For Guys)
Sack // Gauze Contestant Set
Boots (modded) // FORSAKEN Step on my fuckin' boots. I DARE ya!
Sybox and Furniture // Funky Junk Haunted Skybox and furniture (scattered in four boxes)

And A Petrichor Revisit

I did have a post pre-written in Word but my computer went crazy and ate it. x:
I really wanted to blog the Dura/Lantern Evoultion hunt but I don't think I have time. x: Basically grab all your mens and go find the pumpkins. It's a pretty easy hunt but as a hint: remember to check outside too.
This post is a lot of words and not enough pictures. :/


(If you crop your antlers too much, they will look like antennae.)
This is a quick revisit to Petrichor, who I blogged last month. I thought I'd change up the face because this one is pretty and it suits these skins better than Tricketts do. I think there are other hunt skins available but I forgot to check in before I went into photo-mode. x:
The eyes on the top line are from the R1C3 lucky board. They're shiney-pretty and they're actually melons. (x
The grey eyes are from Chuus. Once again, another store I blogged. Originally T&P they have rebranded to Chuus. The creator is very generous with her subscriber and there is a lucky board in store.
For some reason these gifts are lacking teeth and tongues. x: If I get the time/courage I'll drop the creator a NC incase she messed up a base because all her other skins have been fine. It's not something you will notice unless you use emotion HUDs or animate when voice chatting. x:

And finally, incase you were unaware, somehow...
All the hair in this and the last two posts is from Elikatira. Today is the last day for the 70% off sale. I love Elikatira not just because of her beautiful sculpts but also because she offers an essentials pack containging one or two tones of all the "natural" colours. You can buy this pack for 75L. I think the regular packs and shoes are 55L and fatpacks are 360L. I'm somewhat terrified she's going to relrelease everything in mesh but I bought a lot anyway. x:
If you're going to do this last minute my advise would be:
1. Buy demos from X-Street. (Although that has taken over an hour to deliver to me previusly.) Try on and select favourite ones.
2. Down-prim. Take off all the prims you can. No jewellery, clothing attachments, I even think this may call for shoes-ditching. Wear your shortest hair with as few flexis/alphas as possible or even just a tattoo base.
3. Turn on minimap.
4. Teleport and MOVE AWAY FROM THE LANDING ZONE. Doesn't matter which direction, just go. o: The minimap will help you manouver through the people. :3
5. If you end up outside the windows like a pretty little creep and can't rez the vendors (that's what I did :D), there are pose stands you can use to teleport into the store.
6. I recommend Ctrl+Alt+Shift+4. x: It hides all the avatars so the game won't try to load those. You can't however walk using it so toggle it again to move. x: Type it again to reactivate avatars. (If it doesn't do anything, make sure you have advanced/develop menus open first by pressing Ctrl+Shift+D.)
7. Buy hair and run. o:

And I think that's everything. Happy Hallowe'en. :D
Next week is "attampt something productive with a photoshopping programme" month, so you don't have to spend weeks camping for Lindens and can be some sort of creative asset to Second Life and not a mooch. x:

tl;dr

First Skin // Petrichor // Bootiful Disaster Hunt
Second Skin // Petrichor // The Unknown Hunt: One (1L)
Third Skin // Petrichor // Charm Potion Hunt
Melon Eyes // R1C3 // Lucky Board
Grey Eyes // Chuus // Subscriebr Gift
And don't forget last day of Elikatira sale. o:

The Return of CStar (also featuring Rue)

CStar Limited is another skin store that has reopened this month after closing earlier this year for redesign.
Both the skin and dress in this post are lucky chairs/boards and I think they will be removed / switched over in the next couple of days so apologies for being so late on this one. x:


CStar operates a unique system. As well as having a permanent line of skins available, they offer limtied quanities of new make-ups.
The latest skins are very different to the last line. I think the shading and the tones are very different and I assume the bases are new but I'm not a skin expert. x: I think this has made the skins a little less recognisable but a lot more universal. I'd never been able to get these skins to work too well with my shape but the newest releases is very flattering on it. :3
The dress is from the lucky board at Hello World. It comes with a big witche's hat but I have replaced it with another set of Rue's Hallowe'en hunt horns. :3


I've only managed to grab pale, natural and bronzed so far. x: This is pale and bronzed. All the skins in this chair are transfer as are the limited editions so you can gift and trade them if you have duplicates. :3 If you don't manage to win these skins but are really itnerested in them, I think they'll be available for purchase in November.
My personal method of lucky chairs is to hop between them, either alternating the chairs or just popping in while I'm TPing somewhere else. I guess they're like people, they don't like being stared at. x: If you're on a V2 version of Second Life, you will have a favourties folder. Drop the lucky chairs you want to visit into that folder and the stores will show on an additional tool bar at the top to make hopping between them easier. :3

Another post or two later but for now I need to get ready to have my blood taken, no vampires required. I think I'd prefer the vampires though. ):

tl;dr

Skins + Eyes // CStar Limited // Lucky Chair
Horns // Rue // Hunt
Dress // Hello World // Group Lucky Board

The Return of Frick (featuring Rue)

Apologies for not blogging.
Complaints about computer.
Apologies for being late.
Excuses about needing money.
Apologies for general blandness but I like to explain. |:
And that's about the jist of it. x:

I've got a few posts for today. I've decided to split them up because I think it makes things easier to read. Unfortunately they're all pretty much ending tomorrow. x:
I'm expecting my image sizes to be all over the place, I knocked the camera a few times. x:


First off: Frick has reopened. :D This was a store I blogged a long time ago. I wore Frick almost exclusively around then. I've worn a few other brands and randoms since but I always like how my avatar looks in those skins and prefer them for some of my signature looks.


These skins and the outfit are from the reopening-Hallowe'en hunt. There are seven pumpkins containing two styles of dress and five skins (in freckled and non-freckled) priced at 1L each. If you're looking for last minute creepy skins and tattoos, Frick has several. :3
Rue is also another store I blogged way back who has also recently re-opened. She is currently part of the hunt on the Ctrl Shift H sim and is offering numerous horns in this colour. She also has exclusive Hallowe'en colour packs for all her horns at her mainstore for 75L each.
The horns are mod, which is why I'm missing the alpha layers on my hair in the second picture. x:


This was a quick shot to show you the set of freebie skins she has out too. I think the cocoa tone could probably benefit from recolouring however. x: I think the tone is a little too orange and the shading is a little bit green looking.
The eyes featured are a from The Sugar Garden's subscriber.

tl;dr

Skins // Frick // 1L Hunt / Freebies
Outfit // Frick // 1 L Hunt
Horns // Rue // Hunt
Eyes// The Sugar Garden // Subscriebr Gift

Welcome To The Land Of Long, Explanitory Text Walls :D

(There will be no humour, only explanations. |<)
As I don't know where the rest of the team are (well, actually Narita is loving life without the computer and seems to be doing awesome, according to her Plurk, yay (: ), I'm going to start dual posting with my personal (and not actually used) blog Trickett Blogs Stuff. I intend to have free posts, regular fashion posts and more social and personal based posts on it but we'll see how it goes, it may just be dual posts at this rate. x:
On to actual post... I thought this would only take me an hour or two, turns out it took me all day. I don't know, something about finding the correct poses, the right hair and falling asleep twice in the process. x: Actual post is incredibly long because I'm walking you through everything and giving you useful info. |:



I also had to redo this picture because I left Bubble out of the box. x: I made a switch from my regular Illusions ears to a free pair of guaged and pierced ones from Bubble available on the Fallen and Depraved hunt. I guess that's why you don't try and list all the stores on the picture. x:
The nails shift through a rainbow of neon colours and are an anniversary gift from Ni.Ju, available at the store for a couple of weeks. Congrats on one year to them and I'm pleased she stuck through it because she's coming out with some really nice stuff. :3
The outfit is from Roawenwood and is part of a mini-hunt Roawenwood is holding in addition to the Twisted hunt. The Twisted hunt finishes on the 30th, I'm unlikely to be blogging much else from it because I'm spending a rediculous amount of time sleeping and scrounging money to buy as much as I can from Collabor88. Yay Bletaverse. x: I also think SL Freebie Hunters already did a great job. I love this blog, it's a defintie time saver. x: And remember, all boxes ar within 30m of the landing point.


I wanted to base this post around a couple of stores I've seen in hunts this year. Namely Petrichor and Repulse. If you're regularly doing hunts you're probably already familar with them. x:
Petrichor is a skin and shape store. It doesn't have a large selection but they have been very generous with their hunts offering up whole avatars in some cases, which they later set up for sale. They have a small range of colourful and animal-based skins currently available. This skin is also from the Twisted Hunt and also comes with the purple mask on a tattoo layer. :3
Repulse is anotehr incredibly generous store specialising in really unique, alternate and gorey eyes. It also has a large selection of wounds and scars and things that just generally ooze and bleed. x: The eyes in this picture are from the Fallen and Depraved Hunt too. This is a hunt I defintiely intend to do next month, I think.


You can slightly see the guages on the ears here. x: My original Illusions ears are purely texture change where these ears are purely tinted. They work with a very useful HUD. I think managed to match them up a lot better than some of my previous posts but I also like the ability to add a base texture so the ears don't get washed out.
The skins are from the Stalker Trailer Trash and The Macabre Hunt (TMH). I especially love the clown one. x: The eyes are from the Twisted Hunt and again, The Macabre Hunt. I'm going to watch out for this hunt, too, I think. I haven't really been itnerested in doing it the past couple of hunts but these prizes make me think I might this time.


These skins are a lot more universal. The green make-up skin is from The Unknown Hunt (TUH) and therefore costs 1L. It comes in all tones though. :3 The confetti make-up is from the American Bazaar Birthday Hunt. I'm pretty determined to do this hunt but it does end on the 30th. x:
The eyes in these pictures are instead from XYR. They have several freebies on the marketplace. I managed to find their in world store, they sell low price skins and eyes at 5L although I think some of them might be included in the packs.
Also, blonde Trickett. o: I bought this hair, I shall use this hair. |: It doesn't get used for everyday wear because I don't have blonde hooves yet. I find mismatching hair/outfit/fur colours odd. <.<

(tl;dr)

First + Second Pictures
Skin // Petrichor // Twisted Hunt
Eyes // Repulse // Fallen and Depraved Hunt
Ears // Bubble // Fallen and Depraved Hunt
Nails // Ni.Ju // Freebie
Outfit // Roawenwood // Twisted Additional Hunt (Click the Easel for direct TP x: )

Third Down
Skin 1 // Petrichor // Stalker Trailer Trash Hunt
Eyes 1 // Repulse // The Macabre Hunt
Skin 2 // Petrichor // The Macabre Hunt
Eyes 2 // Repulse // Twisted Hunt

Last Pictures
Skins 1 // Petrichor // The Unknown Hunt // 1L
Eyes 1 // XYR // Freebie
Skin 2 // Petrichor // American Bazaar Birthday Hunt
Eyes 2 // XYR // Freebie

Related Links You May Find Useful
SL Freebie Hunters for hunt prizes
The Twisted Hunt - the official merchants list page - finishes September 30th
The American Bazaar Birthday Hunt - official merchants list and hints page - finishes September 30th
The Unknown Hunt - blog with merchants list and hint - finishes September 30th
Fallen and Depraved Hunt - official merchants list and hints page - finishes October 15th
The Macabre Hunt - official hints blog - finishes around October 15th
Stalker Trailer Trash Hunt - official hitns list - I don't know when it finishes but I assume October 15th x:

-Collapse.-

Also, I totally forgot to mention Creator Stamp Rally is back. :D I'm going to try and write up a post documenting the cheap things you can buy to get the cards but we'll see if that happens. x:
P.S.: If I managed to mess up, leave a comment and use search/Google. x: Blogs, they're a lot of work. x:

Last Night For Horror Night

So some time in April my cache corrupted itself and I haven't been able to operate my usual photographic settings because it no longer saves preferences when you log out. x: I think you can achieve this bug by switching between viewers. You can fix it by uninstalling and doing a clean reinstall but I procrastinate so it took me a few months. :3
I think I'm finally over my MMO episode sort-of-somewhat so I should be around a lot more and hopefully posting a lot more. x: I don't know when or if anyone else is coming back, I'm going to wait around for a bit and see what happens. x:

Anyway, in news more useful to you. Today is the last day for the Horror Night sim and sale event. :3 If I have managed to write "Hoor Night" during this post, apologies, it appears to be an unfortunate typo I have developed. x:
Horror Night is a sort of Japanese school murder mystery. You teleport in, grab a HUD and look around the old, abandoned school for scraps of paper. When you pick up all the scraps, they are added to the HUD and when you have all the scraps you find the shrine and click on it.


The prizes are this cute uni-sex (yay, no boob shading x:) watermelon T-shirt and a rather awesome little bracelt. I thought the bracelet was just plain brown beads but if you click it, you get skulls. o:

The build is very nicely done. The scraps are easy to find, they are on the walls and floors (don't forget to check the pool) and there are poseballs you can interact with to create some scarey scenes. :3 It would make more sense to take photos there but studio conditions make lag easier to control. x:
If you enjoyed this sim you'll also enjoy the Bakumatsu Obakeyashiki build. :3 I think they are a related project.


While you're hunting the hallways, hiding in rooms and avoiding the ghosts you'll notice a few vendors out. I bought the Dimbula Rose (this URL takes you straight to the stall) skin because I thought it was cute and creepy and I think it's limtied edition and limited edition makes me panicky. x: It's also very nicely priced at 77L. :3


The skin also comes with matching eyes, which you can pick up beside the demo vendor for 1L. :3

And I think that's about it. You didn't read any of that. Yay words. :D I think I have to go save my "Social Sims" sim now... <.<

Skin // Dimbula Rose @ Horror Night (SLURL to stall) // 77L
Eyes // Dimbula Rose @ Horror Night (SLURL to stall) // 1L for 3
T-Shirt // Rude Rebel // Horror Night Hunt prize (SLURL to start)
Bracelet // Naminoke // Horror Night Hunt prize (SLURL to start)

In the name of every Heretic

Psst

...

Yeah.

Hey :x

So here I am. I've been gone for a fair bit and I'm sure those that loathe me hoped the worst, though they will forever be disappointed. I am currently very busy, but in the past few days have been missing the blog. It's hard for me to be present right now, because I'm waking up every morning at 5:45 am, and not home until 6 pm, and in bed by 10 pm at the latest. Not much time for blogging. I also messed up my ankle something fierce and contracted the Mongolian death virus that's been sweeping the PNW. Exciting times. Anyway, I'm sure this isn't new, but when I saw it I instantly fell in love, and want to wear it every day forever.

Osakki 'Guerrilla' set - 300L

The outfit is from Osakki, and is beautiful. It comes in like six colors, and the sculpt work is ridiculousawesome. Of course I had to get the black. Don't judge me. It retails for 300L which is totally reasonable. Mmmm Military. Gimmie more.

Osakki 'Guerrilla' set - 300L

I've paired it with my favorite J's boots, my favorite Lamb hair, and my favorite Tres Blah skin (which isn't available anymore). Also the darker cross legging are unavailable, but, that's a small detail really. What's more important, is how amazing this outfit makes my ass look. Lookit that crisp line. Perfection.

Osakki 'Guerrilla' set - 300L

Anyway. I'll try to be around, I am totally incapable of being any sort of prolific right now tho. Thank god for Tricky :d she's amazing *hart*hart*hart* See you soon! (maybe)

A Post Without Antlers

Do you ever write stuff in your head and then when you come to sit in front of the comptuer, it all dissapears? That happens to me just about everytime I sit down to type something... x: I'm going to try to reassemble whatever I had written in my brain for you...
I'm still very into the game I joined last year so I haven't been in SL much. x: But I managed to catch a post on the Japanese blog Misty Night featuring some cosplay outfits in the lucky board at Luna Sabia and thought I'd reblog a couple here.

This outfit comes with a sword, although I couldn't figure out how to make it visable. x: It also comes with a chest plate, that I left out.
I think some of the textures depend on the intricacy of the prims a bit too much but I do like the prim work in most cases. I think a lot of the pieces can be used uniquley. :3

The outfits are very prim-y so wanting to avoid the fun of readjusting prims, I modded the shapes provided by the creator. x: (I'm a shape freak and they needed thicker/longer arms, bigger hands and thicker legs on the maid shape, in my opinon. I also messed with the chests but I left the faces alone. :3)
As it wasn't my traditional shape I figured I'd mix things up a bit and use the ears from the Illusions lucky chair, which have been around for some time now but it's Easter so it's a good time to add rabbit ears to the feeds. :3
There's a whole lot of other outfits available in the lucky boards in cluding more casual outfits. :3

I forgot to use windlight in these photos and for some reason high resolution snapshots aren't working and won't let me adjust the resolution but it's O.K, it's not the end of the world. :D But I do need to figure out how to fix that because it did that last time too. >.> Maybe I need to give in and figure out how to change a graphics card? x:

First Picture
Outfit and shape // Luna Sabia // Lucky board
Rabbit Ears // Illusions // Lucky Chair

Second Picture
Dress and Shape // Luna Sabia // Lucky Board
Rabbit Ears // Illusions // Lucky Chair

Salt Group Gifts (or Sporadic Posts on Quiet Blog)

So... Happy New Year? I don't know where everybody's gone. x: I suspect they're being normal and having in depth and useful first lives. :3
We're lucky I didn't find anything rabbit themed or there might have been a lot of Watership Down references in this post. (Find me an Inle mask? ): )
But I did find some very pretty group gifts. :3 They come with a dull story, the gist of which is that I saved a notecard a very long time ago to a store I thought looked very pretty but might skip off the radar and someone on my timeline asked if anyone had a landmark to that store recently so, I decided to investigate. It makes my estimated 20k+ notecards worth it. :3



The umbrella and skirt/top set are all group gifts at the lovely Salt. I love the skirt sculpt especially. :3 The store has very small selection but this reopening gives me hope that the creator is working on new stock. :3

My photos appear to be somewhat back on track, I think I had my hardware settings too high, I noticed my last ones were pretty grainy. This ones just kind of grainy. :D I wish I kept track of which settings I was using for some of my old ones... I still like my paint boxes. >.> Must be more consistant...

Top/Skirt/Umbrella // Salt // Group Gifts

STOP THE PRESSES ;-;

THE APOCALYPSE IS COMING, CANIMAL IS CLOSING! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO *cries*

I come back from my break to this. THIS. It's not fair. Other than an overwhelming urge to end it all in the face of this news, I have to say I am enjoying the sale. Everything in the store is 50L or less. I can smile just a little bit through my tears as I fill the holes in my collection. I'm not sure I can take another store from my noobdom closing, first ~Momo~, now Canimal. I just can't do it anymore. Canimal was the first store I fell in love with. I will still stand by my claim that this shop has the BEST flippy prim skirts you can get. And my Punk Rock plaid skirts will NEVER leave my inventory. Ever.

Canimal 'Body Graffiti' (Suicide Girls) tattoo - 50L
Canimal 'Deadly Lullaby' Necklace - 50L
Canimal 'Cutsie Tanks' (Rainbows) - 10L
Canimal 'Punk ROck' Plaid Skirt (Pink) - 50L for the fatpack

Canimal is an older store, she hasn't had an update in ages, and about a month ago I was discussing with Narita the possibility of it closing. Sigh, it didn't have to happen THIS soon after the conversation happened, but what do you do? Sure, Canimal really stopped creating ages ago, but it still feels like a huge loss. From casual, to punk, to goth, to naughty, there is so much to love and so much that we as a community are losing with this shop closing.

Canimal 'Lust' lingerie pieces - 20L each

I honestly can't tell you when the closing date for the shop is, but you should get there and buy it out ASAP. There are also some freebies hiding around the shop, a could of jewelry sets, some stockings, so make sure to keep an eye out for those.

Canimal 'Kawaii T's' (Happy) - 50L for fatpack
Canimal 'Deadly Lullaby' Necklace - 50L
Canimal 'Omina' pants (green) - 50L for fatpack

So Goodbye Canimal, you're definitely going to be missed. Thank you for all of the awesome you graced the grid with, and making my noob ass look hot. I'm more than positive I'm not the only person you helped with that, and we're all going to miss you. Like desperately.... Ohmygodpleasedon'tgoooooo :[

Canimal 'Fashion Militia' jacket - 50L

The One Where Trickett Forgets How Wide The Blog Is, Again

And has to unhappily rescale her pictures which she spent a surprisingly long time measuring out the pixels on but is too lazy to redo them all. (This is why I like Paint, I can count the pixels. This is also, partially, why it takes forever.)

Anyway. A couple of weeks ago, before my computer died from dust overload, I decided to download Viewer 2 because I wanted to utilise the tattoo layers and because every other viewer that uses them hates me. I am taking the ability to rez things over the rubbish interface. Since then I've been looking out for tattoo layer freebies across the grid. :3
Also: free hair. :D



If you're sick of all the antlers and hooves on the grid you can adopt a seal-like disposition with this seal tattoo, a hunt prize from T&P. :3 There's a lack of interesting head gear and feasible tails for seal-people though. x: It was a store I found browsing through some Flickr pictures. It sells a lot of big shiny eyes. :3 There's a couple of clown make-ups out for 5L but officially-broke Trickett decided she may come back for those another day.



Elegant Epiffany was a store I found a last month. I think it was through a blog but unfortunately I don't remember which. x.x Since then the owner has very kindly gifted a lot of skins she's been working on and several make-up packs to her group as well as regularly changing her midnight mania (group only) board. These were a couple of the latest ones. The top ones are part of a pack available in the archive for a few more days and the bottoms ones are Christmas freebies available to everyone. There's also a Christmas themed lucky chair. :3

The back of the tattoo reads "...don't club me" but it was difficult to get a pose showing both the make-ups and the back without looking like my mother was part-seal, part-owl. Slight-fail blogger moment. You could club me for it but I will be using my antlers in self-defense. :3

I copied SLURLs from map so hopefully they're not messed up, they look suspicious. <.<

First Picture
Hair // Yuna's Hair // Group Gift (Fatpack)
Seal Make-Up / Eyes / Chest Tattoo // T&P // Winter Animal Lovers Hunt

Second Picture
Hair // Eha // Store Gift (Fatpack)
Eyes // T&P // Subscriber Gift
Top Eye Make-Ups // Elegant Epiffany // Group Gift
Bottom Eye Make-Ups // Elegant Epiffany // Christmas Gifts
Chest Tattoo // T&P // We Love Animal's Hunt

Here comes the Rooster

One of my favorite stores, Likka*House, is celebrating their 3rd anniversary! I remember when Likka was just starting out with her line of cheapy Alice dresses, that we all coveted. What I love even more is the daring and fun designs she's released as she's grown as a creator. The gift that she has out for her 3rd anniversary is definitely no exception. Check that tail out. I love it!

Likka*House - 'Papagena' dress - Free gift in store

I don't know how long it will be out, But Miss Likka is generally pretty generous with her gifts so it should be out for some time. Grab it now though, just in case. And if you don't see much of me this week, it's cause my birthday is on Friday, so yeah. :P

Likka*House - 'Papagena' dress - Free gift in store

'Ello Poppets! :D

"Where have the Tricketts been? o:" You may ask. Well, I got sucked into an MMO for a while and didn't really log in properly for a few weeks or months, I don't really remember. x: Then I had some fun messing about with friends and then I had a completely different experience messing about with viewers, which all hate me. x: I'm currently contemplating downloading Viewer 2 because tattoo and alpha layers are great and Emergence isn't a very reliable rezzer...
Alternately you may ask "What is a Trickett?" which is a question without correct answer, really...



Today's post is brought to you by skins from Ello Poppet by Tala Swan and eyes from Esuga by Eilfie Sugarplum, both of which are participating in the Little Big Shop Event. :D
I was pretty happy with my Paint-happy pictures but I have to say Wren's last post is looking pretty awesome. (x



This skin and the eyes are a cheapy available at the Little Big Event Shop Event. The skin is priced at 10L and when you buy it you will also recieve a NC about a photo contest you can enter. :3 The eyes were designed by Esuga to match the full-price season-inspired skins available. There's four colours and they are 5L each untill the end of the event when they will be repriced in her store, which also sells skins you can find at the booth.
Once you're done in the Ello Poppet/Esuga booth you can hop outside and you'll find many other stalls. :3



I also thought I'd show you some of the freebies available at Ello Poppet's main store. These adorable card-deck skins are from the Mad Hatter's Hunt. There's also still a Hallowe'en Hunt prize out too and another 10L skin.
And as a final note, according to Tala's profile, the Ello Poppet store will only be on the grid until the end of November and after that all items will be moved to XStreet. Marketplace. That place, where they sell stuff and you don't have to leave your SLHouse/studio-platform/rabbit breeding empire. Her usual skins are very healthy-tanned with colourful make-ups so if you weren't so sure on the pale skins and the Fae skins, you can still give it a look in. :3

Eyes // Esuga at the Little Big Event // 5L, other colours available
Pink Fae Skin // Ello Poppet at the Little Big Event // 10L
Deck of Cards Skins // Ello Poppet // 0L, Mad Hatter Hunt prize

Edit: I screwed up the HTML somehow. Awesome. :D Hopefully I fixed it though. >.>

Edgy + Sweet

I had so much stuff left over from Jewelry fair that I didn't get to and I felt terrible about, including these gorgeous pieces from Bliensen + Maitai. I remember the first necklace I got from the shop, like over two years ago, as a dollarbie. I wore it SO MUCH, and have since always kept an eye on the jewelry there. Probably my favorite of the releases for jewelry fair was the Rustique set, a generous and affordable collection of edgy and fun jewelry. The set comes with bracelets and a collar, and in leather and metal. I love the rough hewn edges and the leather lacing.

Bliensen + MaiTai 'Rustique' set (leather and metal inc.)- 270L

If you're looking for something a little more romantic, you definitely need this necklace. La Belle et La Bete is one of the most beautifully sculpted pieces I've seen recently, and besides the beautiful craftsmanship, and textures, this necklace is scripted for color change. There are a pile of different colors available, not just for the flower, but for the claws as well.

Bliensen + MaiTai 'La Belle et La Bete' Necklace- 300L

There was also a pretty large release of painted shell jewelry that is gorgeous, two of my favorite shown below. I love that it's taken from such a unique perspective, with the tryptic necklace, and the lovely metal work. Bliensen + Maitai have a lot of really lovely new releases out that you should check out if you didn't have time to run jewelry fair.

Bliensen + MaiTai 'Dawn' Necklace- 290L
Bliensen + MaiTai 'Zen' Necklace- 300L

Fancy Chic

Hey! I kinda ran away for a little bit, I'd been sick, and had a lot going on for a few days there so I just needed a little time to myself, but I'm back, and I have an insane backlog of pretties to show you. We'll start today with the last two releases from ~*The Black Canary*~. When Morrigan dropped his last set on me, I about died from how perfect it was. I have no problem saying it is among the top he's designed. This is Sovereign Rose, and it COMES with that gorgeous crown and scepter. Eyepatch does not, though, that's just something else I had kicking around in my inventory.

~*TBC*~ 'Sovereign Rose' - 400L

Morrigan has been on a tear recently with making more period regal pieces lately. 'Providence' is another recent release that is lovely and sets a standard among ~*The Black Canary*~ pieces. It comes with two sleeve options and looks beautiful in a severe, restricted way, which is really the distinct opposite of Sovereign Rose. I look like I could be a villain in a Disney movie. Kind of awesome.

~*TBC*~ 'Providence' - 300L

Taking a more full look at Sovereign Rose lets you see just how detailed and beautiful it is. I put it in and left it on... for a couple of days at least. Along with that new Elika hair, that literally everyone on the grid now has. But it worked, and these are sets definitely worth your consideration. The releases from ~*The Black Canary*~ are getting better and better, and I can't wait to see what's next.

~*TBC*~ 'Sovereign Rose' - 400L

Cutting through

I remember finding Lou Lou & Co. for the first time a very long time ago, right when the store was first opening. Accessories, cute accessories, I liked the accessories, but I'm so fickle about these things that I was never able to commit to buying anything. Well, in the past month, the proprietress, Lolly Carlberg, has left me reeling. Why's that? She's making clothing now, and I can't ignore it. It started with a top release during Rockin' Friday about a month ago. There was a corset style top available in a variety of styles in black and red. I got the promo piece without even thinking about it.

Lou Lou & Co. - Charlie's Angel (Green) - 175L (Stumblebum exclusive)

I didn't think much of it at the time but at the next Rockin' Friday showing, she had out an amazing dress, and again, I bought it without questioning. Then I started to think about it. These pieces are so great, and she's just starting out with the whole clothing thing. I'm so excited about it I can hardly stand it. Then came this week's Stumblebum. It's one thing to buy the cheapy day sale pieces, but this is different. Oh yes I bought it. Without thinking about it. Look at that, like I could say no. It's like that outfit was made specifically for me. It should be called 'Wrenja' really.

Lou Lou & Co. 'Urban' outfit - Sassy City Hunt gift (4 pieces to find)
Lou Lou & Co. 'Striped' outfit - Paradisis hunt (3 pieces to find)

She also has two outfits out in hunts right now, one at Paradisis, and the other at her shop at Sassy City, both are darling, but I'm especially fond of the socks involved. Also, she has a bunch of stuff on sale at her Sassy City store, so really, you should stop by, two of the corsets from a few weeks ago are 55L and 60L respectively. Yes, I did buy them. Thank you very much. I just felt like I needed point out to everyone that we have a new clothing designer that is fucking KILLING it, and you should really pay attention over here, cause, really. Wow.

Lou Lou & Co. - 'Spiral' (red) - apparently not out for sale anymore :<
watch soon, she'll probably put it out eventually.

Shades of Awesomeness

It's been a while since my last post, so hi again!!! Today I decided to go for a non-Goth look because, after all, I have some non goth clothing in my inventory, and they are so adorable I can't help but slapping them on every now and then.
Here you have a picture with little closeups on what I have on... man that cloth on the ground was so very comfortable on that lovely sim =D



The lovely lovely boots are the Hai boots by Miel, in Red. The amount of detail in them, a usual deal when it comes to Miel, is just outstanding. I never miss a chance to wear those boots.
The Cute hair is Lovage, by Lamb, and I got it during this 50L Friday. A great deal if you ask me. What I love about Lamb's hair is the textures on them, and the feeling of movement you get from every style, they all look so natural too.
As far as the clothes go, I'm wearing a knitted top by MNK*SHOP, and jeans from [AvB], both very cute basic pieces of clothing that can be combined with numerous accessories to create different styles. Versatility is always a plus when it comes to clothing if you ask me.



I'm also wearing black glasses by Cobrahive, one of my favorite accessories shop, and they go so well with the scarf and mittens from Reek... those are a must if you need to amplify your cuteness ---> mittens = massive adorable-ness

Last but not least, my very favorite: The skin... anyone that knows me knows I'm a skin junkie, specially when it comes to hand drawn skins u.u gosh!!! This one is by Rosy Mood, and it's absolutely amazing!! It's from the Mayu line and the makeup is called Bisque/Rock.



aaaaanyway =D I hope you liked my post and this time I promise it won't be so long till the next one <3 (I'm hoping at least one post a week)

huggs and kisses and muffins to everyone!

Ghanima Uriza