Wednesday, October 9, 2024

Shopping and Hopping

 Hiya everyone! Tonight we are returning to the Halloween Shop & Hop, for a scarily good time of exploring 20 designers' displays per region. There are 20 full regions for a total of 400 mini stores to check out, with discounts and free gifts for all in every display. I'm focusing on the Delphinium region tonight, and I simply must offer a shoutout to FabFree and their guide for being an extremely valuable way to see what gifts you cannot live without :) The offerings are mostly themed to the season but not entirely, so if you are not a fan of this spooky time of year you can still find sales offers and gifts. No need to Boo-hoo about it ;) Sorry, weak attempt at a seasonal pun, it's still early in the month for that for me I guess. That's okay, I'm sure I'm about to get lots of practice...


First up, I'm enjoying the neve gift - halloween '24 (kirstacie) dress, and can you blame me? This lovely slip dress has a slightly asymmetrical ruffled hem, bare back other than the slender ties, and delicate cobweb pattern on your choice of 4 colors via HUD. There are sizes for Lara X, Petite X, Legacy, Perky, and Reborn mesh bodies provided. 


Next I slipped into the HORL - Cross Outfit, a fantastic gift of cropped knotted t-shirt and shorts that have a shiny zipper in the front. Both pieces fit Legacy, Perky, Maitreya, and Reborn mesh bodies. Silver and black is such a sleek and classic combo, and this style is flirty but still modest.


Ramping up the sex appeal is [C.YFashion] with their *SET WOMAN HALLOWEEN*GIFT. It is worn as one piece with the look of two, in sizing for Erika, Gen X Classic, Gen X Curvy, Kupra, Lara X, Petite X, Legacy, Bombshell, Perky, Reborn, and Waifu mesh bodies. The main orange fabric is crawling with spiders, but the black bows on top and skirt are decorated with little pumpkins so we have lots of seasonal fun happening :)


I also couldn't resist the Witch In A Box // Galatea Swimsuit gift, as I am always so pleased to see this store at any event :) The playful one-piece suit is provided in sizes for Freya, Legacy, Maitreya, Petite, and Reborn mesh bodies, with a HUD that lets us select from 9 textures. All have black backgrounds, and a couple have a little ornamentation on the panty portion like the eye on the right above. If your inner goth wants to come out and play, hurry over to this display! *wince* didn't mean to rhyme there but not entirely sorry because I'm cheesy like that.


My final look of the evening comes from BlondeQueen, a duo of dresses called BQ::Rowan Mini Dress:: Black & Purple. These t-shirt style dresses have cap sleeves and a short hem, fitting loosely with intriguing images on each. We receive sizes for Erika, Gen X Classic, Gen X Curvy, Khara, Kupra, Legacy, Maitreya, Lara X, Reborn, and Waifu mesh bodies. The black has a pair of lips and a bony hand, with a suspicious finger raised in what I initially saw as a "shh" gesture 🤫, while the purple one has a bony hand flashing a peace sign with "Creep it Real" written beneath. Did you notice the bats and spider helping that skeleton hand keep things real? 

It's easy for me to tell that it's October, not just because of the seasonal SL events but because I'm watching hockey :) The Utah Hockey Club (no nickname or mascot this season) is playing their first ever regular reason game, and currently winning so congrats and good luck to them. I'm genuinely confused as to their existence, LOL, as the Arizona Coyotes lost their arena and 'moved' but not quite. I think I read that it is a split, so some of the players are in Utah and eventually a new arena in Arizona will be built and another team (Coyotes name perhaps?) will play there. Usually if a new expansion team comes in, there is a draft where they take a player from each existing team, but that didn't happen in this case. I know that teams moving happens in a lot of pro sports, and some leagues expand to add teams, but this seems to be somewhere in between. My team's season starts Friday, and I am eager to watch of course :) I am planning on going to the park with my mom tomorrow afternoon, and in SL it's time to visit another annual event with seasonal gifts. I hope you're all having a good day/evening, many magical magpie hugs to everyone!!

Credits:
All Gifts from Shop & Hop - Delphinium Region:

Photo 1:
Dress: neve gift - halloween '24 (kirstacie) $0L Shop&Hop Gift

Photo 2:
Outfit: HORL - Cross Outfit $0L Shop&Hop Gift

Photo 3:
Outfit: [C.YFashion]*SET WOMAN HALLOWEEN*GIFT $0L Shop&Hop Gift

Photo 4:
Swimsuit: Witch In A Box // Galatea Swimsuit $0L Shop&Hop Gift

Photo 5:
Dress: BlondeQueen BQ::Rowan Mini Dress:: Black & Purple $0L Shop&Hop Gift

Head: LeLUTKA Fleur Head 4.0
Hair: TRUTH Collective / Audacious - Essential
Skin: .::WoW Skins::. Almond LILLY SKIN
Ring: {Carter} Wedding Zoe (Marketplace)
Body/Hands/Feet: [LEGACY] Meshbody (f) Special Edition (1.7)
All Poses: Verocity  (Various Sets)

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