The Great Freebie Room Challenge Part 3

The Modern Home

I keep changing my mind about this one, still feels a little bit like there is something lacking. Not sure, maybe its just me. Anyways ;) This is my stab at a modern style home.
The gorgeous skybox is free but it may be a tiny weeny cheat (hey my challenge = my rules ;) ) as its a special item from the Lithium Gacha Gacha. When you have collected all 6 items you can click and get this for freeeeeeeeeee. Plus the gacha items are great house items which I wanted anyways so for me it was win win.


The beautiful picture is by Skip Gaffer and is free from Patron, I picked up a few sneaky free items whislt I was there looking at Elizas lovely store and sim. Wall sconces are free lucky chair item from low prim high style. Their lucky chairs are great as they alternate between lots of the full price items that are in the store. So if you wait about long enough you could get an entire furnished house \m/. The candles in stone pots to the right and the ornament on top of the green dresser are free or $1 from The Loft. The Loft has a lovely discount section with a few items free or $1. SCORE! Dresser and plant are the current group gift from Clematis <3.

The rugs are free still from the lovely Y's House store and are just so well made. The stools are free from Urbanized and are in the group notices as a preview for their lovely spring/summer collection. There is also an awesome valentines gift in the stores too, they spoil us they do <3.>

Loverly pictures on the back wall are all from DARE poses but I snagged them from their display at the Urban Arts Gallery. There were 2 more paintings that were also free (not pictured) XD!

Under the window are the candles in pots from The Loft accompanied by the gorgeous free book from Neom Gruts gallery and a mug of steaming coffee which was another freebie from Patron.

Just to show you a lil peek outside as the sky home has an outside area too! The cushion stack are from WF on SL Street. She is selling her contents for free while she can and has a ton of cute stuffs so go and support this generous person.

Finally, a close up of that MMG table with another of Neoms books which is actually hidden in that scent bottle! REALLY, its like a genies bottle I swear ;) The Trailor Park Fairy Tales book is also by Tiger's Bookshop and the lovely key is also a freebie from Patron. PHEW! Once again a massive THANKYOU to the generous and talented designers in SL. I will be back to spend some $ lindens very soon <3 <3 <3

Muu Muu

So, as you may have gathered from my previous post I LOVE MUU hahaha. There are lots of other places I love too but I am blown away by her cute style and insanely cheap prices. Not only are there loads of freebies at her store but she also has tons of really low priced items. I never feel my pics can do justice but I shall try to show you just a handful of some of the luverlee goodness found at some of her stores. She has a rezzer so most items can be previewed live! YAY! Trust me, my pictures do not show how cute the items are.

You can win the kitchen and the bookcase in this set.

YAY purple sofa (not free) but so cute n texture changes.

The cutest skyboxes for $1. You just gottago see em I mean 1 teeeeeeeeeeeneeeeyyyy linden ;)

I think this ones my favourite cos its got 2 floors and lots of built in bits and a bed! FOR $1!!!!!!!!!!!

$1 and low prim and with some furniture built in WOWEE!

The Great Freebie Room Challenge Part deux ;)

The Vintage Home

So my next mission was to create a vintage style home that was also totally free, well ok free or dollarbies ;P. The main thing I had problems with here was deciding what to use, meaning I was literally spoiled for choice. So respecting a low prim limit of 137 prims here in my latest offering.

The skybox is the beautiful cecilia that was a stunning group gift from the lovely Jordan Giant. Its so pretty and only 19 prims so it was the perfect place to start.

NOW, we all know I am partial to more than a bit of purple but for this project I gave myself an additional challenge of trying to choose more muted tones of greens, browns and pinks. WELL OK so a bit of purple loveliness WILL sneak in cos well, I love it ;))
The desk is the wonderful new desk and stool 1 prim meganess from MMG's. Its still on their lucky board in both colours <3>

The fancy frame is part of a dollarbie from freestyle & the russian doll is also $1 from there. The calender is from the extraordinarly talented Kalavinka ;)
The lovely tree, lamp, cup of coffee are all free gifts from Jordan Giant at her nodari store <3>

Cupboard, planter, CUTE bunny seat, sparkly star hanging, lampshade in middle, bookcase and cupboard on left AND sofa (group gift) ALL yes ALL free from Muu <3>

Lovely lamp also free from nodari, orchid picture 1 of 10 that are $1 each from The Golden Oriole! AND Pink n purple and black n white rug Freeeeeeee gifty from Y's at the Albero sweetheart fest YAY!

Moving around a little we have a adorable lil kitchen with accesories from wait for it ........... FREE FROM MUU'S WORKSHOP ;) Here I am doing the washing up, so domesticated ;) The blue milk pan
with white flowers is another freebie from a cute new store, well new to me, called moustique.

There aren't tons of items but the ones that are there are so cute.

Swinging (Oo) to the other corner, I love the group join gift from Not So

Bad especially as it has some gorgeous textures and a free book YAY. I hope Jordan doesnt mind but I turned the bottom of her gift and. birds into some rustic wooden shelves and placed another pot from the free picnic pack
on top. This ones my fave pot as it has a cute lil sparkler sticking out of it. The candle is another freebie from Herbalys and can change to 4 gorgeous colours AND has a big small in the pack.

YAY for the free rugs at Y's. The lil stand in the middle is a freebie from JE*Republic, or at least it was still there yesterday so am sure it is. ITS so cute and has poses BOOYA! Above is one of the many many framed fine art prints that are free from the luckyboard at the amazing NN Museum. The chair and table are another lucky board gifty from *HP* Park and is just adorable.

My work here is nearly done, time for a relaxing glass (or bottle) of wine for free from the lovely Drobak.

Lamp is yet ANOTHER from Jordan at Nordari <3>

Maybe I enjoyed the wine a lil too much THANK GOODNESS for a nice comfy cushion free from Urbanized *g* *g*

Ahhhhhh I am tired now, who needs a bed when you has a big bunny cushion ZzZzZ.

The Great Freebie Room Challenge Part 1

STOP! FREEBIE Time!

Freebies! Love em or hate em they are no new thing to SL and are always the topic of much heated debate. Personally, I love a good freebie and cannot thank the generosity of the designers enough. PLUS through hunts and blogs I have found some of the most amazing places that I go back to time and time again. What I DO NOT like is when I see people grabbing up freebies for the sake of it. You know who I mean, the ones you spot who you know are only taking something because its free rather than because they want it. Saying that, they may wewll go back to buy stuffs at some point so yeah...... ANYWAY! This isn't going to be another of those discussions.

I spend alot of $ lindens in SL. I am blessed with an awesome SL job that pays me comfortably and a great RL job that lets me buy in some sl cash to play with. I am by no means flush but I am happy to spend a little bit of RL money buying things for the lil virtual me who is named Nimue. I digress.

So anyway, there I was sitting on my gorgeous bubble chairs (freebie) oggling my new MMG desk (I paid for mine cos I couldnt wait but both colours are in her lucky board for the patient folks) in my sl home that it occured to me. I had created a slhome I adore with the help of alot of linden dollars and some amazingly generous freebies, group gifts n dollarbies.

"Would it be possible" I mused "to create a home you love without spending lots of lindens? Just the odd dollar here n there?"

As I sat n pondered, SLfate intervened and I received a group notice from Magic Nook (<3)>

Room 1 - STUDY TIMECREDITS! Gorgeous lil sky room/box from the ever talented Drobak. Its sooooooooooo cute and mod and low prim and well made and IS FREE on his lucky board! Desk and accessories by Ayumi Cassini of Magic Nook (group gift) SO AWESOME, 37 prims of books n pencils and lovely stuffs. Lamp is one of the beautiful free lamps by the lovely Jordan Giant. Map of Old Nautilus City by Katati Noel (Just one of the many lovely things she makes and is FREE) and finally the stunning and well loved Y's christmas group gift that is still in her store.

There arent really any rules but I guess the ones I stuck too were items had to be available NOW! (or at least were when I posted this) and cost no more than $1. Items you have made are allowed but I am guessing to keep them at a minimum to be fair. <3>

Feed The Birds!

TUPPANCE A PAAAAHHHHNND!

OK I promise I wont sing...*often*. I only discovered Picnic fairly recently but absolutely adore everything they have made so far. This birdhouse is so adorable especially with the poses. I love cats in sl and rl so I couldnt resist these statues when I found them at .:SHD:. ;) (there were 6 in the pack for dirt cheap but these 2 were my faves).





The birds are from the OHSOMUTHAFUCKINTALENTED Aikea of Plastik fame and are a gacha gacha radom prize, these ones are Midsummer n Abel but there are loads n all are luverly. Plastik has been one of my all time fave stores in sl for ages, not just because I fall in slust and spend far too many lindens every time I go there BUT also cos Aikeas designs are creative, eyecatching and come in so many colours I swear she must get as over excited when she designs them as I do when I am attempting to decide which colour to choose. <3

Other credits Hat n hair Friday, Yumyum BF jeans (modded) Perquita pumps & Breezy top at The Sea Hole <3

Collage

“A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album.”

<3

Home is where the SLHeart is

Aha so, I just got into this whole idea of blogging and blew off the cobwebs from my flickr page after getting a yearning for a home of my own in SL. Its no secret that I am a notorious gamer geek chicka and a constant amusement to my hubs for my love of creating homes in virtual worlds. In fact my only real beef with WoW is "WHY AINT WE GOT HOMES YET BLIZZARD"! *shakes fist at them*!

AHEM, anyhoo, so fortunately SL is a place where a gorgeous home can be created and OMGS the options are endless. After endless blog n SL trawling I finally decieded on the gorgeous from y's BUT I swear I am still hankering for one of Jordan Giants stunning homes, Oh and that Studio in itutu, as well as Turnips Tea House or that church or a cute sky box and pigeon coop from Molto Bene or or or orrrrrrr that especially cute studio from reek, OH and that lovely sky box at Rucott and not forgetting picnic's new building they JUST RELEASED ARGH SEEEEEEEE what a hard time I had choosing!

Choice made (for now) I set about the fun part of decorating. In RL my home is lots of white, ethnic wooden furniture, big blue cord sofas and loads of interesting knick knacks from our various travels around the world n days spent at craft fairs, festivals and antique shows. I guess its like a shabby chic meets retro vintage rock n roll n hippiness. I wanted my SL home to kinda reflect that without being a carbon copy.

This was my original version, since then it is going through various metamorphoses in a few short weeks cos as soon as I get happy with it I spot something new! But that is half the fun I think. More pictures can be found HERE !