Thursday Advent Treats

 Hiya everyone! This morning I have some more Advent calendar gifts to share with you, all available today (Thursday the 17th). Some of them are from calendars for free group members, with others completely free with no group tag required. This is such a special time of year, and it brings out the generosity in the designers in SL so much that we can almost forget how rough this year has been otherwise. 

First we visit NoShot, who have a 12 days of Christmas calendar for each, male and female, right next to each other. This is the beautiful ~NS~ Strapless Dress With Flouncing Outer Skirt Dress Ice, which is a perfectly descriptive name to tell you about the star-covered dress. It comes in sizes for Freya, Isis, Venus, Maitreya, Hourglass, Physique, and TMP mesh bodies. 

Next I combined two different gifts, so I will start from the top ;) The sweater is from Go Frock Yourself, their adorable ~GFY~Gingerbread Man Sweater. It is provided in standard mesh sizes as well as Freya, Isis, Venus, Maitreya, Hourglass, and Physique versions. No group tag is needed to click the Advent calendar in the back of their store. The pants are from [JUSTICE], whose free group you will need to belong to in order to claim their Kylee Leggings - Snow. You will receive two versions, cotton (shown above) and leather texture, each in sizes for Freya, Isis, Venus, Maitreya, Hourglass, and Physique bodies. There is also a HUD for the studs down the sides, 5 metals to choose from. The neutral color means they will go with so many different tops, so versatile!

I changed into the leather texture of the JUSTICE leggings, which turned out to be a fun pairing for today's gift from -[ vagrant ]- called Ashley Hoody - Red. It says "Queen of Hearts" on the front beneath a crown, and the cropped style is so tantalizing! The vagrant group is free to join, and you'll need their group tag active to claim this gift in sizes for Freya, Legacy, and Maitreya bodies. There is also a HUD provided with 7 metals, 21 colors for the strings, and the same 21 for the sleeves. I am ready for anything in this beauty!

I also visited Sands Design this morning, where their free (no group tag required) Advent calendar gave me this lovely SD TONI DRESS. It looks terrific in pale blue with a watercolor type design on both front and back, and I am loving the peekaboo cutouts and high thigh slits. It comes in sizes for Freya, Isis, Venus, Maitreya, Hourglass, and Physique mesh bodies. While you are here, please don't forget to visit the TrendZy Apparel store that is two doors to the right when you walk out the front door, for their free calendar too :)

For my final look of the day, I changed to my Emerald Couture group tag (free to join) and found box #17 on their display of Advent boxes. I clicked it and was excited to claim their EC Phoebe Outfit v2 Dark Night Gold. The top and skirt are included in Freya, Isis, Venus, Maitreya, Hourglass, Physique, Tonic Curvy, and Tonic Fine sizing, with matching heels that fit Belleza, Maitreya, Slink High, and Tonic feet. The golden trim adds a chic touch, especially on the very short skirt hem.

My area got a few inches of snow, and it is still falling so I am not sure of the grand total yet. They were predicting 5-9" which is a fairly substantial amount, and I have heard snow plows out there at least twice during the night. Otherwise my day was quiet, and I am not planning on going anywhere until my dinner at my parents' tomorrow. I've been listening to Christmas music to try to get more into the holiday mood, and sometimes it works :) Anyone else do that? All the decorations I see in various stores in SL help too, and we visited a Santa Village sim while waiting for today's Advent calendars to start so that was really fun. My next blog post will be tomorrow evening rather than morning, to give me time to get rest after and go to dinner. I hope you're all having a terrific day/evening, many magical magpie hugs to everyone!!

Credits:

Photo 1:

Dress: NoShot ~NS~ Strapless Dress With Flouncing Outer Skirt Dress Ice $0L Advent Gift

Photo 2:

Top: Go Frock Yourself ~GFY~Gingerbread Man Sweater $0L Advent Gift

Pants: [JUSTICE] KYLEE LEGGINGS - SNOW $0L Advent Gift

Photo 3:

Top: 17. -[ vagrant ]- Ashley Hoody - Red $0L Advent Gift

Photo 4:

Dress: Sands Design SD TONI DRESS $0L Advent Gift

Photo 5:

Outfit: Emerald Couture EC Phoebe Outfit v2 Dark Night Gold $0L Advent Gift

Head: GENUS Project - Genus Head - Classic Face W001 - Mocap 

Hair: TRUTH Brazen - Redhead

Skin: 7 Deadly s[K]ins - CHRISTMAS HOPE LIPSTICK apricot (BOM)

Ring: (BENTO)~~Ysoral~~ .:Luxe Ring Lyanna 4:. (Marketplace)

Body/Hands/Feet: Maitreya Mesh Body - Lara

All Poses: Verocity  (Various Sets)