Yes, We Can-Can!

Kathy Can Can-Can!

Again, some of us just start doing something reasonable, like a little inventory housecleaning (in Kathy's case, it was reevaluating the dances in her Chim) which leads to finding items we'd forgotten about (couples dances) which require testing (and a partner) ... and the next thing you know, Kathy had convinced Cal to go couples dance shopping.

Really this just involves going to a shop and hopping on and off dance balls for hours. And then Kathy's RL(tm) husband comes home and Cal is left dancing the same 30 second* dance over and over with someone who isn't even there. Apologies to Cal for leaving him there for so long.

However, before they even started, Kathy found a promotional item at A&M Mocap that she decided she just had to have. It's a can-can animation for one (copy version) and it was only 120L. As you can see, she had a great time with it. The regular Can-Can is a synced dance for two for the regular prices of almost 300L for trans and 650L for copy. There are more promotional items there, but this was just so cute. Even Kathy's RL(tm) husband thought the animation was particularly good.

Kathy almost bought the "Frozen" couples dance but Cal's connection failed and her sense of thrift kicked in. Also, she wasn't sure what that elbow-in-the-face maneuver was for.

*Longer dances are now becoming available.

P-P-P-Perfect for the P-P-P-Parsimonious

Piddler's Perch 10L sale! 

Piddler's Perch is having a Our Favorite Things Sales Event - 15 cute items for only 10L each for a very short time. Nice animations (singles and couples), some color changes, but no-copy. If you are at all interested, do not wait.

Park Place FTLOH and MAH hunt prizes.

Two of the Park Place hunt prizes in February coordinate! Woo-hoo! Lludmila loves it when that happens! Pity she's allergic.

Sorry, no "P" in Hanaya's recent group gift.

Hanaya's has a sweet February Group Gift of reversible wall art. Sorry it doesn't fit in with the "P" theme, but ... it was Pretty!

Dear Trompe Loeil

Beach house with nowhere to live.

Dear Trompe Loeil,

Please stop. I have enough of your houses and skyboxes now. I am unable to resist your Collabor88 offerings not just because of the delightful designs, but the price (288L).  I don't have room for these, despite their low prim counts, but I still can't see them without wanting them.  If you persist in this cruel temptation, I will have no recourse, but to punch your lights out.

Sincerely,

lludmila

Lludmila's been working out.

Our New Favorite Shop

[Editor's Note: The gist of this is: cheap but really nice/fun furniture at this location.  Sometimes we just can't get Lludmila's typist to STFU.  Look at the pix but read on only if you're bored.]

Just when I think keeping my inventory below 42K is a goal I can stick with, I return to the freebie blogs and see things that look interesting.  I was perusing this post on what's New in 2013 hunt and thinking, yeah, yeah, blah-blah, yadda-ya ...And then: Ooo!  A new little housie!  Now, it looked an awful lot like one I already had, but when has that stopped me before?  It's free, innit?  I must have it, even if it is similar.  This one looked like it had little window boxes.  Maybe Lludmila will want little window boxes the next time I deploy a little house by the water.  So I trip along to HC Creations.

I'm first to admit I'm a bit of a thickie.  Even with the hint provided from the hunt blog I'll have trouble locating the hunt prize, and even if I do find it right away, I'll look around to see if there is anything else interesting.  In the process of doing this at HC Creations, I ran across this punching bag and amused myself by punching and kicking it a few times.  Oh, very funny.  Wouldn't that be handy if Lludmila's typist has had a  bad day in RL(tm)?  Work off some frustration on a punching bag?  Ha ha, I thought.

Punching Bag 89L

I finally located the prize (confusing myself between US and UK definitions of "first floor" when I should actually be thinking German, apparently) so I was wandering among the beds and thought I'd look at one that seemed cute from a distance with colors I'm sort of partial to (aqua and brown combos) and had Lludmila sit on it.  It was set to jumping on the bed, which amused me.  So, because I have been looking for a new bed for a current skybox (and, of course, the dozens of other beds in my inventory weren't good enough), I thought I'd look at the price.

Letter bed with more textures than you could believe - 79L.

And that's when my whole world moved under me.  If it were possible, Lludmila would have fallen off the bed.  This bed, with singles and couples (and so some naughty) animations and texture changes was 79L.  Lludmila staggered up and down the shop wondering how they could charge that for a bed she thought might go for 250L (which would cause some real agonizing to pay, but could be worth it ... but please keep in mind that I have paid 3,000L for a horse - but that's a horse, for crying out loud, that Lludmila could ride and did all sorts of things and so far has not ended up in the water like all other vehicles she drives).

Lludmila and her horse Major chatting w/ her alopeciac landlord.

So, I'm afraid we went a teeny bit crazy there.  Then it was bedtime in RL(tm) and I had to quit, but thought I'd go back if what I unpacked today was worth it.

OMG.  And here it is:

" ... Kumbayaaaaa." Wicker set of chair, plant, tea set generating table,
rug, and guitar pillow ... 20L. Yes, you read that right.

Rezzing greenhouse that includes color change
accessories and plot of grass. Ummm, not many Ls - 79L.

Massage table, plant, accessories, & sequential anims: 129L.

Pillow pile that goes with the letter bed w/ one anim per  pillow: 9L.

I did go back.  I had to have that punching bag and wanted to confirm some prices before blogging.  It was hard to not buy a whole bunch of other stuff, so Lludmila just tried them out.

Hahaha - our view upon arrival.

Deck chair  with many, many anims - 15L

Innertube with anims and rotation: 39L.

Some of the reading material supplied.

I recommend this shop.  The items and textures are good, the animations are good animations, and the prices are more than just affordable.  Partially this is because some of the items are not copy.  So, if you want your bed in 7 houses, you'll have to buy 7 of them.  Lludmila and I don't furnish places to be identical, so that's not a problem.  I don't mind no-copy, as long as I remember to take and not delete them.  Not all items are no-copy, but just be aware.

Oh, and then while I was wandering around one last time, I found this for just 1L.  Don't anyone tell these folks they don't know how to charge for their furniture.  I beg you.

Sensual pose lounger - 1L  ... ONE?!  Holy shhhugar!

Addendum: Someone asked about primmage.  Items with more than one object will vary depending on how much of it you deploy, but here's the general breakdown:

Wicker set with guitar: 24 prims
Punching Bag: 11 prims
Massage set: 26 prims
Lludmila's bed (because they vary): 8 prims and 43 textures
Greenhouse set: about 33, the greenhouse itself is 2 prims and the primmiest item is the meadow with 8 prims
The hunt item cottage (not pictured) is 25 prims without accessories.  27 primsworth of accessories rez, but can be removed piecemeal.
Oh, and the massage table set was 129L. What was I thinking?! I must have just had a shopping fugue overtake me!

Virtually Charitable

Bag Lady Design Thrifty Store

Our Kathy loves a bargain as much as Lludmila and eagerly goes over the 60 Linden Weekend list photos to see what's up.  We often end up at Bag Lady Design but this was the first time we noticed the Thrifty Store sign.  What the heck?  We thought we'd check it out.  What a great place to pick up some trifles!  And there are many items 20L or 10L that go towards Relay For Life!  Kathy picked up a windmill!  She's thrilled.  Other items, 10L or less are available as well as some old hunt items as dollarbies.

But, back to Bag Lady Design ...

60L Weekend item

This weekend's theme seems to be music.  There are two pianos and a floor sit with a guitar.  The upright piano has many poses, but the grand has a playing animation.  The floor sit provides you with a guitar to play and if you click on it, it has sound.

Another 60L Weekend item

Liven up your area with some music!

"Cumbaya, my lord, cumbayaaaa ..."

No teensy weensy windmill this.  

Check out that windmill.  It's a 71 prim house with functioning sails and a door that goes "ding-dong!" when opened.  It has a hanging basket out front and a crow.  All this for 20L.

The Magic of the 60L Weekend

Lovely hanging basket with hanger.

 The 60L Weekend specials are what Lludmila lives all the week for.  Bored with clothes, she now collects houses, skyboxes, furniture, and tchotchkes.  She might have all she wants from Angelic Designs (even though she won a huge gift card in the photo competition, she has no idea where she'd put the Romantic Island. Darn.) and almost everything from Altya's, but there are still things from Bag Lady and some new places that might pique her interest.  Today it was the hanging basket.  It was reputed to be low prim and color (or, rather, flower) change at Luna Bliss.  There were only three items on the 60L list, but when she arrived ... Oh Em Gee, there was just so much more.

The Spring Skydome

For only 50L you can have a taste of the Luna skydomes.  They come with a transporter (in the form of a gigantic orchid) that you add the skydome to and then when you sit on the transporter, you can choose which altitude you want your dome.  It has security features (to prevent strays from visiting unannounced) and the patio rezzes props (food, beverages, candles, a little fire pit, various kinds of particle weather) and seats that rez as needed.

A little romantic fire pitkin or perhaps the candles instead?

It's a small skydome and has only one background scene; the more changeable ones run for as much as 2000L.  The skydome is adaptable - you can remove set pieces or add your own.  The transport orchid will change to a glowing moon when not sat upon.

"Come swing with me!"

Lludmila enjoyed the skydome so much, she went back and got another 60L item (that was not on the published list), the two-seater swing.  It certainly raised a breeze on that Paris Metro hunt item.  [Note the gigantic orchid/transporter to the right.]  The swing's cushions change color as well as the wood.

Little things like this make Lludmila happy.  It's that quest for novelty that seems to be innate in hoomans and their avatars ... and make their inventories soar to over 40K.

Weekend Specials

Hexagonal Gazebo with a pool.

 Lludmila loves the 60L Weekends.  They come with a notecard that lists not only the landmarks, but also a picture of what they're offering for this minimal amount.  It's like catalog shopping.  You don't even have to leave your sim or curtail your activities.  You can click and set aside the pictures of things you consider testing out later and then just zip in, and zip out again.  Lludmila always ends up wandering around looking at other things in hopes they will be only 60L next week.  We're not as interested in clothing as we were - so now Lludmila concentrates on furnishings, buildings, and props.  She couldn't believe that this Hexagonal Gazebo (weighing in at 50 prims as seen in this photo, but comes with a couple of accessories) at Meta-Meca Dimensions Shop was only 60L!  It comes with stairs, the deck with the umbrella, and a small pool.  There are 12 sits on a menu.  It's a good deal.

Grandma's Old Potting Shed.

 Zombies who live in glass houses - only pay 60L for them.  This one is at Sher's Cottage Gardens.  It was much bigger than I expected.  Now all we need to do is fill it with flowers and a trowel and some garden furniture.  Oh, wait a minute - it takes up 37 prims.  [Checks and finds she's already 9 prims over her limit.]

Climb My Truck tree deck with many sits and anims.

 Our new favorite place is Michigans Shack - where the small sailboat came from.  There are usually three items out at the 60L Weekend price and this week we went for the Climb My Trunk tree deck (25 prims) with some menu-driven sits and their broad assortment of naughty anims for any and all tastes (but you don't have to use them, you know).  And while you're checking out the tree deck, look around for the black rose:

When the Roses Turn Black hunt gift - End of Winter tree.

Kathy was all drow'd up for last night's fairy and elf fantasy, so this dark and brooding End of Winter tree was right up her alley.  Ooo, nice photo in the background there!  It's only 15 prims (not to mention my favorite color: free!) and fits nicely in Lludmila's skybox ... for when she feels dark and broody.  It comes with the bare tree, the log, the dormant grass, and a variety of poses.