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More great gifts to pick up at The Bunny Hop!

This is a post also going up on the official Bunny Hop Blog. Please go there for a Japanese translation. I also tend to be a bit wordier in the posts on this blog than I am on the official Bunny Hop gridwide hunt blog. If you’re wondering about the title to this post, it relates to Bob Dylan in the first photo and answers in the second photo!

Wondering what that egg is hanging from my belt in these two photos? Well it comes with a belt latch so you can alway have it handy. Ask the Uncanny Egg from Grimalkin Workshop a question, touch it, and it will answer you - like the 8-ball you had when you were a kid! “The answer my friend…” 

I’ve been crazy busy real life, but I’ve taken a little time to help when I can with the Bunny Hop Gridwide Hunt. I helped review some stores and am posting on The Bunny Hop Blog. So I’m putting up a post here I wrote that went up on that blog earlier today - sans Cutey Magic’s Japanese translation. Here it is:

With 300+ stores in The Bunny Hop, I did not expect to want to keep ALL the prizes I found. But I have not only been delightfully surprised, but STUNNED by the extreme fantasticness (yes, I know that’s not a word, but words just escape me I’m so thrilled) of the prizes in this Second Life hunt.

So even if you rarely hunt, have given up hunts or have never hunted before, you will want to do this one. Here’s just a few of the great gifts to be found.

From K’s House Shop - W&B Sky House with the garden - 91 prims
K’s House Shop

A view in the garden of the W&B Sky House from K’s House Shop. The pose is one from the Cute Poses minipack by Mela’s.

Outfit and specially made Cutey Magic bunny egg by TOAST! The egg opens and closes, and the bunny moves, and opens and shuts its eyes! The Priscilla hair I am wearing in corn blond is by Hal*Hina, and it also comes in almond. This is a view inside the house featured above.

Still inside our Bunny Hop gift house from K’s House Shop and wearing the TOAST! outfit and Hal*Hina hair, you can get a look at the oh-s0-darling pumps by Duh! They gave us both a black and white pair. Duh! also has some shoes for the guys, but they are not shown.

I was planning to do a travel post, when in sailed these thigh-high pink boots and leather jacket from the Coquette subscribomatic. And that belt on the jacket is prim, by the way. I can’t tell you how much I love this Valentine’s gift.

Not only is this still in the suscribomatic history, but so is the gorgeous Ice Queen gown, a fairy confection gift from the holidays, complete with wings, skin, shape, shoes and jewelry. AND so is the darling Instamatic necklace, which enables you to insert two photos. I’m not going to show these older items here as they were blogged all over at the time. Just take my word on this and get to Coquette, cause these wonderful gifts won’t be there forever. And look around while you’re there, ’cause this is a great store. The boots and jacket in other colors are also very reasonably priced.

Other stuff I’m wearing is listed below. (and I put this here mainly so I can find it in inventory again, as I’ve had the rest of the items for awhile and don’t know if they are still available.)

Pants by artilleri (not free)

Pink stud choker by B&T Atelier (not free)

Lace tank top, part of the Intriguing Big Pack outfit by Awesome Designs (not free)

Had a bit of a tiff with the BF, and apparently he was too upset to think to send me flowers, chocolates or a Nicky Ree dress. Instead, he sought a darker solution and sent me these photos of his angst (reprinted with his permission, of course).

Stax sought out a wasteland filled with toxic gases, and there contemplated his foolish mistake - and his destiny.

In despair, feeling he could never make amends, he suddenly leapt the rail and plunged to his death!

It was not a pretty sight as the elements took what was left  of Stax.

Well I got to giggling so much over the second photo, where he’s diving head-first into the abyss, and the offense was so clueless, that I decided I better salvage the remains. So I asked my friend Devi Moonbeam to work a bit of fae magic to bring Stax back to life. (She’s a California fairy, so you’ll have to excuse her unorthodox methods.)

As untraditional as Devi’s methods are, they are effective! And here’s Stax, good as new, dancing with me a couple days later.

All photos except the one of Devi were taken at the Court of Inspiration. The one of Devi was taken in a highly secret location!

Devi’s using the Elste Handy Dandy Emoticon Wand that everyone has been raving about on the blogs for weeks and is available for free at Rivendell.

Devi is also wearing the new group gift from Evie’s Closet. Don your group tag and tp over to pick it up. And STAY in that group, for heaven’s sake. Evie’s Closet gives some of the loveliest gifts in SL, and gives them often!

We at SL Shameless Gossip luvz the Greenies, and I blogged the Greenies over a year ago. Naturally, I visited for the holidays.

When I stopped by the Greenie Home to wish my little friends a Merry Christmas, I found some gifts under the Charlie Brown style tree! Here you see me standing on a present looking up at it. So let me show you my finds!

Hat and Greenie love particles

This hat was among the gifts, and I wish you could see it, as it’s the best Santa hat I’ve seen in SL. Also included were wearable Greenie love particles! Don’t mind my friend here, he’s still finishing up his Christmas list. (The outfit was an Advent gift from artilleri that is no longer available.)

Bee Queen costume

In one of the unmarked boxes I found this free bee queen costume, complete with hair, eyes, glowy skirt and bees that buzzed all around me. (Here I am standing in front of a different gift box.) There’s a shape in there too, but sorry, I only wear my own shapes. No matter what, I want to look like me.

The prim top came in two attachments,  left and right pecs. Now when your AO moves, that can leave you a bit exposed, as it doesn’t move with you. So I did a bit of editing and attached one to my chest point and one to my spine point. Since my own shape is bigger than the one included, I also increased the size of the prim top. I then moved the bee attachment (it was a spine attachment) which makes all the bees buzz around and moved it to my right hip. If you can edit prims at all, you know all of this only took a few minutes. If you don’t know how to edit, wear the included shape.

Little bird avatar

Next, I found the gift of a little bird avatar! Yep, that little blue bird in there is me!

Greenie slippers

Back home at my Damiani Christmas room (blogged earlier) you see me relaxing in pajamas by Damiani. Though these came with very cute little red house slippers, I have replaced them with the greenie house slippers I found as a gift under the tree at the Greenie Home.

As you might have expected on Christmas Eve, some of the free Advent gifts were quite stunning today. This is going to be a quick show and tell, and I have a lot of running around to do before the RL party tonight. But I want to show you a few of my faves.

Damiani treated us with a complete Christmas living room complete with romantic pose balls by the fire. The gift includes everything you see here, including a Christmas tree with sparkling stars that give off a fireworks effect, and, needless to say, champagne chilling in a bucket.

It’s not news that Damiani has given away some fabulous Advent gifts - and that they remain available to group members, as well as a darling Santa Girl outfit and skin in group notices. It’s not too late if you missed out, but joining fee is now $250L. And well worth it.

Ivalde outdid herself with this tartan gown today.

And the Ivalde gown came complete with this formal back pearl necklace and matching earrings. All included in today’s Advent gift.

We always love artilleri, and today the Advent gift was this charming holly necklace and earring set.

I continued my exploration of winter showcase sims today at Wintermute. Wintermute is described in Search as “a poem inside a mystery wrapped inside a metaphor.”

At Wintermute

Poetry flows through Wintermute. This sign says "All of our tears are frozen."

An unexpected refuge from the bitter winter

Free skating dress from Nylon Outfitters. Bunny ear muffs match the fur-cuffed skates; both from Chapeau tres Mignon.

Contemplating the meaning of life and death

This cute little skating dress is in the women’s freebies package you can find on a sign right inside the wall at Nylon Outfitters. Three different colors gloves are included, as is a red skating dress and, well, just all kinds of other freebies.

These may be my fave color combination of the Chapeau tres Mignon skates - black and silver.

Have you scattered snow all over your sim, put up your tree, turned on your Christmas lights and still have that nagging feeling something is missing? Maybe it’s that personal touch. Head over to Beck’s and order some personalized Christmas stockings displaying the names of you and your friends to hang by the fire. These are made using original sculpties and needlepoint textures.  While you’re there, you might want to pick up some holiday cards for all the people on your list!

Personalized Christmas stockings hanging by the fire

There are eight different styles of stockings. Creator Miles Beck can often turn them around in a few minutes if you catch him online - but it should not take longer than eight hours in any case.

Don’t have a traditional fireplace to hang your stockings on? Me either. I live at the beach in a tropical climate, and I like it that way. No problem! I hung mine on my rattan wall either side of this painting depicting a Balinese scene.

To put myself in a holiday mood, and to have someplace to wear all these wintery holiday outfits I’ve been collecting (You see me here wearing a free LVS outfit I have previously blogged),  I decided to hit a few spots on the Winterfaire Second Life Grand Tour. These are primarily private parcels that have been turned into winter wonderlands.

This snowman throws big snowballs at gingermen on the ice below and knocks them down!

I invited the never-dull Evo Witte to accompany me to the first destination on my list - Blythe Bracken and Wulfric Chevalier’s Second Life home at Samhain. Blythe says, “Wulfric builds the homes, and then i work around on the rest of it.”  These kind souls keep their acreage open all the time, and they change it with the season. So go now to see the icey paradise described here!

Trail to unexpected discoveries. Notice the dragon in the water to the left.

Sapphire Jetaime: they leave no detail undone. Who ARE these people?

evo Witte: crazy winter supporters

(Evo’s from the north and is already tired of the cold this year!)

evo Witte: these people are way too productive, i’m sure we’d clash

Spring is coming! The end is near!

We ran across some rather depressed snowmen.

I was charmed when we happened upon tiny bears and tiny snow people dancing upon a frozen pond. Evo? Not so much.

Sapphire Jetaime: winter munchkin land!

evo Witte: they look dangerous… like evil ewoks

evo Witte: this is the horror part of the sim

Has anyone else noticed? Every other sim I go to these days is heavy into meditation.

evo Witte: i think buddah is smirking. its a trap!

Sapphire Jetaime: hahahahahaha

Sapphire Jetaime: The ewoks are coming! The ewoks are coming!

evo Witte: we might be sitting on a sacrificial altar

I saw light and color pouring through a door in a stone wall…

Sapphire Jetaime: It is SPRING OVER HERE

evo Witte: they are already planning 6 months out!

(Actually, it was more like autumn on closer inspection.)

Sapphire Jetaime: The mushrooms are multiplying

evo Witte: oh yes, those are not mushrooms… it’s an ewok factory

Sapphire Jetaime: omg.. they are like ewok pods

When I talked to Blythe later, she said that even as she changed the landscaping every season, “I have to have my mushrooms, I always have my mushrooms somewhere!  :)))”

We found an igloo!

For those who are so inclined, there were some very snuggly looking pose balls inside.

Wearing my Chapeau tres Mignon bunny earmuffs by the waterfall. This beautiful skin is free from Dernier Cri for the Peace on Earth hunt.

Evo, who apparently can scope out everything that’s on a sim in 1.5 seconds, found a hidden cave.  Below you see what we found inside.

Blue room inside a hidden cave

Evo, of course, jumped on the bed.

evo Witte: The bed is  sneaky. the pose balls are protected!

Sapphire Jetaime: lol

evo Witte: guess they don’t want strangers making a mess

Sapphire Jetaime: Understandable.

So since the pose balls on the bed were protected, what else was there to do? You got it. Ohhhhmmmm…

I am very impressed with what Blythe and Wulfric have done here, and I encourage you to go. They love visitors! If you feel you want to help support their efforts, there’s a little donation box inside the mansion, but all are welcome. I was expecting a skating rink and a few snowmen. But this place is phenomenal. It has everything from Stonehenge in the distance to sunken viking ships. I’m mentioning these things ’cause you’ll have to go see them for yourself, as I only have so much room for photos here.

If you’re wondering, I’m wearing fur-cuffed silver and white ice skates and matching bunny ear muffs from Chapeau tres Mignon in this post. I LOVE these skates. I’ve had them since last year, and one of the joys of the season is gliding around SL in them again.

Since unlike RL skates, I can go up and down steps with them, I’ve been wearing them for a couple days now! They come in all kinds of colors, and you can also get them in gold.

Evo is wearing their blue men’s hockey skates. Both men’s and women’s skates are very detailed, and I mean everything from the blades and laces to the fur. That’s the kind of detail which makes all the difference in Second Life fashion.

• Skates and bunny earmuffs: Chapeau tres Mignon
• Sapphire’s skin: Free skin gift from Dernier Cri from the Peace on Earth hunt. And you can get it HERE.