No video today it is roasting hot down here and I have so many fans going full throttle it would be a very noisy piece indeed. I mentioned in my last post that some of the build items at Shop n Hop did not have demos available, prim limits, size of location etc, so be sure to visit the booth, check out what you like TP to their store, have a look and go back and purchase. I was so hooked on the event though I logged in an alt to do the demos at the build and then just stayed still to buy, that is some serious shopping logic right there.

I am in a skybox at the moment by Minimal,  I tend to buy skyboxes and smaller builds as backdrop options in the future, not to live in, but to use the great detailing that they may have as a prop for a photo, or a corner in this sense for a chair I also picked up at the event by Peaches. The chair has great poses for female and male, and the chair comes with a sofa and texture change HUD, and with the reduction the price is crazy worth it. There is so much going on in this loft that I will easily be able to get a half a dozen pictures easily out of it, if not more, so definitely take that into consideration if you like taking pictures.

Speaking of options, this mug by Schadenfreude is one of an adorable set (can be purchased individually) that come with not only multiple colours but also options of beverage, it is just a great set to have and with a bit of resizing to fit my hand (took seconds) I was all sorted and cozy in my chair. The more I am typing the more I am wanting to video and talk talk talk, so I am going to end it with that because I may just let this sit now, and come back to it when it is cooler, you never can tell.

The clothing are pieces from Shop n Hop, Tres Blah items most of them I had, but this sweater I missed somehow and love it with the bit of bra peeking out. The pants are part of an outfit set that Addams has available and they are just perfect jeans for chilling and have belt options and so much going on with the outfit itself. With the reduced prices on all things, they are must haves.

I made some alphas for the pants and the top, more of a sitting bending leg issue on the pants and a tiny bit of inner thighs, the top just armpits as is the case most of the time, a bit of arms etc. Because I have made them and they are actually placed in the folder of the items in my inventory, if you need them shoot me an IM if you are bakes on meshing like me.

Wearing another older Pink Fuel skin, this one is Harley and it is a gorgeous skin, has many additional options and I seriously just had this OH NO I CHANGED SKINS moment on crediting, and realised HA I got info from worn tab last night before I logged and because I am all system layers and mesh not HUDS and the like now, I have the information at hand, though I did know what I was wearing, but I get so excited every time I realise how much easier life is now with Bakes on Mesh.

Aurelian Region
Gilded Region
Gleaming Region
Golden Region
Halcyon Region
Tinseled Region

Equipment Used:

Photoshop

VR Studio 4.2 and HUD and Library for location shoots

VR Foundry Mainstore (adult)

VR Studio @ Winx & Flair (general)

VR Foundry Marketplace

Behaviour Body Poses

FATE Hand Poser HUD

LeLutka Axis HUD

Skyrne Palette Set Chair – Peaches@ Shop n Hop Gilded Region

Industrial Loft skybox – Minimal @ Shop n Hop Gleaming Region

Owl Creature Comfort Mug – Schadenfreude @ Shop n Hop Halcyon Region

Skin & Body Parts Worn:

Chloe Head – LeLutka

Physique Hourglass Bundle REDUX (bake on mesh compatible) Slink @ Shop n Hop Tinseled Region

Extra Long Add on Nails Ballerina – Slink @ Shop n Hop Tinseled Region

Nails Appliers – Flair 

System/Bom Layers:

Body/Head

Harley (System Layers Skin and Makeup Layers included) – Pink Fuel

Bom Nose Fixes – Izzie’s

Clothing

Mesh:

Hair:

Aura – Exile 

Clothes :

Maddie’s Cardigan – Tres Blah @ Shop n Hop Gilded Region

Frida Ripped Jeans (part of set Frida) – Addams @ Shop n Hop Halcyon Region

Shoes:

Margot Slippers – Slink

I wanted to give a heads up to those on the look out for some Bom goodies, with Pink Fuel adding toe and finger fixes to their store for any system skins that you may have previously. They come in all tones, and I am wearing with the Mori System skin and with the addition of the Izzie’s Bom Nose fix, I am adorable. Showing in the video some little tips you may not know with your LeLutka head HUD and just rocking out some more of the great purchases I made at Shop n Hop that is open until January 6th 2020.

I grabbed a fair few of the Minimal backdrops/builds the feature picture is using the Soho build, the demos are not on location so if you are not familiar with their builds check out the store first, and then go prepared at the event.

Aurelian Region
Gilded Region
Gleaming Region
Golden Region
Halcyon Region
Tinseled Region

Equipment Used:

Photoshop

VR Studio 4.2 and HUD and Library for location shoots

VR Foundry Mainstore (adult)

VR Studio @ Winx & Flair (general)

VR Foundry Marketplace

Behaviour Body Poses

Soho Build – Minimal @ Shop n Hop Gleaming Region

Skin & Body Parts Worn:

Chloe Head – LeLutka

Physique Hourglass Bundle REDUX (bake on mesh compatible) Slink @ Shop n Hop Tinseled Region

Extra Long Add on Nails Ballerina – Slink @ Shop n Hop Tinseled Region

Nails Appliers – Flair 

System/Bom Layers:

Body/Head

Mori Skin (System Layers Skin and Makeup Layers included) – Pink Fuel

Bom Nose Fixes – Izzie’s

Clothing

Frilly Little Underwear Set – Whippet & Buck (Marketplace Only) 

Mesh:

Hair:

Witchy – Lamb

Clothes :

Relay Top & Pants, Outsider Parka – Toksik @ Shop n Hop  Aurelian Region

Christie Heels, Minnie Everything Cami set, Annie Sweater – Vanilla Bae @ Shop n Hop  Gilded Region

Featuring the stunning bakes on mesh (appliers included) items by AlaskaMetro at Shop n Hop, everything at the event is reduced, and every booth has a gift from now until January 6th. I hope everyone has a Happy Holidays, and gets to spend the time with as many important to them people as they can.

I am using my Izzie’s Bom Nose fix again, this time with a Gatch skin from Tres Blah, so old, and cannot be found which is making me so sad, I need more, the Tres Blah skins look amazing with a bit of nose fixing and I want more and no brows options, I even changed hair colour as only brown brows where available in the skins I had, the commitment was real.

Aurelian Region
Gilded Region
Gleaming Region
Golden Region
Halcyon Region
Tinseled Region

Equipment Used:

Photoshop

VR Studio 4.2 and HUD and Library for location shoots

VR Foundry Mainstore (adult)

VR Studio @ Winx & Flair (general)

VR Foundry Marketplace

Marukin Poses

Starstruck Photobooth – FoxCity @ Shop n Hop @ Gleaming Region

Skin & Body Parts Worn:

Chloe Head – LeLutka

Physique Hourglass Bundle REDUX (bake on mesh compatible) Slink @ Shop n Hop Tinseled Region

Extra Long Add on Nails Ballerina – Slink @ Shop n Hop Tinseled Region

Nails Appliers – Flair 

System/Bom Layers:

Body/Head

Gatcha Skin – Tres Blah (not available)

Bom Nose Fixes  , Babyhairs Hair Base – Izzie’s

Clothing

All Lingerie items – AlaskaMetro @ Shop n Hop Halcyon Region

Mesh:

Hair:

Heather (Updo) – Exile 

Angelina – Exile @ C88

Clothes :

Elise Maxi skirt – Just Because

This post was more of a showing you how to get the most out of your Bakes on Mesh system skins if you have tried them and they failed to look as good as you hoped around the nose area. Izzie’s has released nose fixes that take care of that, and with some time you can revive those older skins and feel anew. I am so happy this is an option, it gave me a chance to get back into an older skin, and I hope you all get the same chance, this may also work on skins that are created for a different head than you wear, always worth a look.

I took the main picture in this wonderful train station scene that is also at Shop n Hop by FoxCity and is reduced during the event, as are all things there. It even includes a snow prim animated and with that and the great gift hair by Magika, some make up by Izzie’s I was that perfect blend of Australian that does not know how to dress for really cold weather, but still loving it all. When I was in the US in the past when the weather was cold, I could never dress warm enough, for one thing even if I managed to take wintery clothing we just don’t have the real stuff down here, then on top of that with all that central heating and crazy double doors etc stuff you have up there, how can you know before you are outside how warm you need to be. I would be drowning in clothing, gasping for air, and then go outside and my breath would fall to the ground and shatter. I gave up, it was just easier to be cold, and snow is the best thing ever. I did add a bit of red to my hands and my upper lip for the picture, I also blurred out the snow on the hair as it was a bit too crisp compared to the snow falling, I hope you like.

Make sure you get on over to Shop n Hop if you have not been yet, you need to, and if you have, go again, I have been three times so far.

 

Aurelian Region
Gilded Region
Gleaming Region
Golden Region
Halcyon Region
Tinseled Region

 

Equipment Used:

Photo Booth – Old Station – FoxCity @ Shop n Hop @ Gleaming Region

Photoshop

VR Studio 4.2 and HUD and Library for location shoots

VR Foundry Mainstore (adult)

VR Studio @ Winx & Flair (general)

VR Foundry Marketplace

 

Skin & Body Parts Worn:

Chloe Head – LeLutka

Physique Hourglass Bundle REDUX (bake on mesh compatible) Slink @ Shop n Hop Tinseled Region

Extra Long Add on Nails Ballerina – Slink @ Shop n Hop Tinseled Region

Nails Appliers – Flair 

System/Bom Layers:

Body/Head

Lana System Layer Skin (Old) – Glance No Longer Available

JuliaEarth Small Upward MixedColors – Simple Bloom

Bom Nose Fixes  , Babyhairs Hair Base – Izzie’s

First Snow Makeup, Chevron Tights – Izzie’s @ Shop n Hop Gilded Region

Mesh Clothing:

Brea Skirt, Brea Sweater – Miss Chelsea @ Shop n Hop Aurelian Region

Hair:

Phoebe, Sierra, Aria, Let it Snow GIFT – Magika @ Shop n Hop Gleaming Region

 

 

I decided to split the showing my purchases at Shop n Hop into smaller videos. This is the starting point, and I feature Lunar, a new to me store at the event, that really does so much to make their clothing as versatile as possible. With everything reduced during the event, the fatpacks are the way to go if you love colour and print options, and the versatility of these pieces. Having a love affair with the lime, it was too much fun to have materials on and use lighting of my VR Studio to carry that lime across my hair and really make it all pop. In the video I show what can be done with the items, as well as talking about how I shopped the event and I am sure you really want to know how I broke my headset and am now using my Yeti system finally. I have replaced my headset with another newer Sennheiser but did want to get proper use out of the yeti, so have left it in the box for now.

Loving being able to shop with bakes on mesh options, the freedom to me is bliss, and the stores that are starting to cater to it, three cheers for them, will be showing you more in other videos. In my final picture, you will see I am using some Zibska make up options and she put the lime in the coconut too.

 

Aurelian Region
Gilded Region
Gleaming Region
Golden Region
Halcyon Region
Tinseled Region

 

Equipment Used:

Photoshop

VR Studio 4.2 and HUD and Library for location shoots

VR Foundry Mainstore (adult)

VR Studio @ Winx & Flair (general)

VR Foundry Marketplace

 

Skin & Body Parts Worn:

Spencer Head – LeLutka

Physique Hourglass Bundle REDUX (bake on mesh compatible) Slink @ Shop n Hop Tinseled Region

Extra Long Add on Nails Ballerina – Slink @ Shop n Hop Tinseled Region

Nails Appliers – Flair 

System/Bom Layers:

Body/Head

Alessa BOM Skin – League 

JuliaEarth Small Upward MixedColors – Simple Bloom

Babyhairs Hair Base – Izzie’s

Concordia Lipstick, Noir Pack eyeshadow – Zibska @ Shop n Hop Tinseled Region

Dear Ones Bikini – Whippet & Buck

Mesh Clothing:

Chanty Top & WIndbreaker, Nami Pants – Lunar @ Shop n Hop Gilded Region

Hair:

Hoshi – Sintiklia @ Shop n Hop Gleaming Region

 

I have spent hours recording a post on this event, I shopped for 5.5 hours and got so many things the video ended up at 2 hours in length. I do not even know where to begin on that, but did not want to not put out the information now for people to get their own Shop n Hop excitement. Every booth has a gift, and every booth has reduced the prices of their items by a minimum of 20%. This is definitely the time to get your shop on.

Even more exciting is that with everything in most stores on a vending system, and the event being until the New Year you could totally start your gifting early or just make a list, check it twice and then go back to the event just prior to Christmas day and start sending gifts to everyone. A lot of items and gifts have a Christmas theme, but that does not by any means mean you cannot get your shop on even if it is not your particular holiday. I loved it, I loved it 5.5 hours worth and many hours of video of me on my posestand talking like a crazy person. I am so out of practice, but I will work something out, not even sure how long a video I can upload to YouTube.

The stores involved in this event are great, the range is wonderful and while there may be many things you already have, it could give you the moment to stock up for the alts, because they deserve some love too.

The Moles put in a great amount of work making it look as beautifully festive as possible, and the stores themselves did a lot to make you really feel it was the season and reason to be Jolly, so fa la la la la your awesome selves over to the event.

Aurelian Region
Gilded Region
Gleaming Region
Golden Region
Halcyon Region
Tinseled Region

 

 

Years ago, four in fact, I wanted to do a post discussing capping and the information on offlines to emails, and how nothing should actually be missing, if done correctly. There will be times when SL does something odd, or when you are logging in and someone IMs you and you may lag out or even crash and that would not be saved, but all in all my 13 years in Second Life, I have probably missed less than half a dozen things in all that time. Offlines to email are so much a part of my every day, I even check them when I am in world, because sometimes sim crossing glitches can cause an IM you are in to send part of it to email, weird but true.

I hope the video helps assure you of how SL does work with offlines and how you can be confident in knowing how or what is the best way to communicate with someone. Whether it be IM or notecard, the reality is, all get through it is just up to the receiver how they collect the information.

This tank dress with bra option and customisable sneakers are by Baiastice and at this round of c88 I love them so much, I even did a colour change part of the way through the post.

Equipment Used:

Photoshop

VR Studio 4.2 and HUD and Library for location shoots

VR Foundry Mainstore (adult)

VR Studio @ Winx & Flair (general)

VR Foundry Marketplace

Furniture in Background of image – Tarte & Soy (Whimsy’s home)

Skin & Body Parts Worn:

Slink Visage Redux Amelia Mesh Head – Bakes on Mesh Only – Slink

Physique Hourglass Bundle REDUX (bake on mesh compatible)  Slink

Visage Redux Ear Augment Long Point – Slink 

Extra Long Add on Nails Ballerina –  Slink 

Nails Appliers – Flair 

System/Bom Layers:

Body/Head

Erin Skin – League 

JuliaEarth Small Upward MixedColors – Simple Bloom

Ocean Sunset makeup palette – AlaskaMetro

Mesh Clothing:

Penny Tank Dress – Baiastice @ C88

RSX Sneakers – Baiastice @ C88

Hair:

Tease – Lamb

Accessories:

Dedicated 2 Collar – Cae