Happy 2009 T-shirts in black, brown, and dark grape, on shirt or jacket layers.

Canimal now has Subscribo! And this little nautical dress is the first gift. You can find the board right near the lucky donuts.
It's still chilly at the beach, so I'm wearing a shrug and knit tights from LaLa FooFoo, as well as rain boots from ETD, all items purchased on sale for a ridiculously low price. The ETD sale is extended to January 9.

Canimal has two luscious lucky donuts out with several really cute dresses and jewelry. These are just two.
Hair: ETD, Roxie. L$30
Shoes: Kookie, Snow pearl shoes at Black Swan, L$350 (for charity)
Leggings: Sn@tch, part of a previous free outfit.
Scarf: CE Cubic Effect, L$110, a CSR item.

This reading stump is one of our most favorite things. Hot chocolate, book, three poses, and texture changing ground. A fabulous freebie made by Haruka Ackland at Off Brand Furniture, it's a Picks Reward.And while you're over there to add the store to your Picks, you might as well get this free packing box with fun poses, too! It's lying right outside the door.

Love Soul has new items in the lucky chairs. This is the pink Princess hair with cellophane-wrapped lollipops. There are also blue hair, more pink hair, prim nails and bags of cookies and candies. There are actually two chairs across from each other.
The skin I'm wearing is Romola-Christmas from Soft Touch, found with other freebies in the shop that I had not seen before.

and to all a Good Night!

Then all the regular places.
[KA] is at the foot of the lampost to the right of the snowman in the landing area.Nothing new here. Just relaxing and enjoying our Christmas corner.
Skin Within sent us this Christmas pretty.

Pretty and fun. This copper and glass ornament with mistletoe can be found at Obscura. Milani is showing us one of the two poses inside the ball.

Sway's is "rych".
Wrong is under the left side tree.
artilleri is a magazine rack (huh?)
Loco Pocos is a snowflake winter hat.
Sari's is a cute patchwork blouse.
[KA] is right on the sidewalk directly in front of the mainstore entrance.
Atomic Kitty is currently giving me a "no parcel found" error, so will check later.

Go toward the seawall, away from the main building, and [KA] is in a snowbank at the corner of the buildings on the right.
Atomic Kitty has an adorable gift today. I leave you to be surprised.While hanging out in front of Sway's Advent board waiting for someone to drop the keyword (hehe), my letter came up on the lucky box under the tree and I got this awesome sweater. Then I went home and found that Milani had dropped some cute gift opening poseballs from Juicy in front of the house.
Then I went back to Sway's and spotted the box right away, next to the news boy. Jeez! Keyword is "amer".

I never know what to say about four Yip's amazing art. I can't wait to get home and start playing. This is the Snow Tiger, available at the Halfmoon Gallery, along with a gazillion gifts from various artists and creators.
In addition to the Snow Tiger, she has given us the Snow Bear. Beautiful, beautiful. How does she do it?Both animal avatars come with skin and shape as well. My pitiful photography does not do Yip justice. You'll have to go get your own if you want to see just how pretty they are.

Contest Pro Board (Classic) v1.07 shouts: It's a 3-way tie! The winners of contest "Christmas Cheer" are Fidella Faulds, Tyssen Laville, poo Turbo with 2 votes each! Each one wins 333L.

[KA] is next to the snowman in the courtyard, to the right of the Christmas tree.
REDLIC at Tabby Cat has this very nice grey knit beanie with blonde hair for free.
Then hop over to Rosy Mood for the same beanie in another color.

Mrs. Santa and and Elf, caught at the fishing hole at Ivy Falls, one of the most enjoyable and beautiful shopping sims around.

This is what I spent my fishing money on.And this is why. Pure magic.

Crush Row has a red stocking hunt, with tons of goodies along both sides of the street. Snowflake t-shirt and Santa bag full of gifts from Aitui. Tonic - smokey skin from *CC*, in a bag with a red hoodie, not shown.Cute little holiday dress from Boom.

This fur-trimmed coat is at artilleri in the big box on the stage, today's gift. I'm sure that's fake fur, so wear without guilt.This is today's [KA] gift, on the left side of the main shop, in a snowbank near the tunnel. Lingerie with giraffes on it! (My first undies photo, too)

A sweater parka from Rebel Xtrvaganza called "winterproofed," available under the tree at Axis Mundi for L$25. There's another version of this sweater in the QRI Hunt.

Sway's keyword is "ays" for this Santa sweater.

This group gift skin from Romi Juliesse doesn't run to my particular taste, far too young. But I do appreciate fine work and the difficulty of creating a delicate, translucent skin like this. I will certainly tuck this away for photo opportunities.

My hair is from *DP* Yum Yum, not free.

Celebrate the opening of Little Fish new store by wearing this comfy cableknit black turtleneck. Available only through Saturday, you can find it at the information desk at the back of the store.

SD Wears gifted us this Peace Not War scarf in POE Globe #093. A nice item to wear beyond the holidays.Milani sports a knit cap and scarf, gift #5 from Battle Fairy.

This kind of cute should be illegal. Ding blogged this today and I really thought, nah, I don't need another tiny girl. I have a folder full of Loco Pocos. But, I went, I saw, I melted. Pick it up here, it's a TEENY box behind one of the displays on the wall. To make matters even worse, there's a whole SIM for tinies there. And to really top it off, they're having a HUNT! Stop me now. After I swing a little.But I did find Magika. Go past the Fortune Teller and it's just beyond the white trees. It's hair named Biatch, so I don't hold out much hope.

Another hunt, and I was so exhausted I passed out on the train tracks. Luckily, Santa saved me and was I able to go on.

The B@re Rose hunts starts here. The easiest way to complete each step is to mouse around until you find a clickable item. Inside each folder you receive is an English note (or other language) with a link to the next Chapter in the story. The first stop has two folders, and you will have 5 at the end, with two complete outfits, typical of B@re Rose.This is Black Santa.
This is Red Flurry. Even if the style is not to one's taste, the textures and craftmanship are quite remarkable. The bits and pieces are certainly wearable for a mash up outfit.

Spikey red buckle boots from Wrong, under the right side tree.
Sway's is "olid".
Loco Pocos is out.
Don't forget Sari.
[KA] is in the snow right outside the MAD store to the left of the main building.Puffy skirt from artilleri.
Atomic Kitty has a raggedy kitty doll today.

Milani with Christmas neko ears from the subscribomatic at Chat'Teigne!

By the time we finish unpacking the POE Globes, it will be next Christmas and time for another gazillion things to hunt. So, doing a few a day to find what's worth keeping. Above, PixelDolls Globe #004.

Globe 008, Sn@tch tattoos.

Globe 278, Pixeldolls corset.

Globe 343, Extreme Skins. An unusual costume skin, but eh.

Bear with me, I'm really trying to find some nice things...

Ok, this is promising. Globe 009 from Earthstones has a nice torquoise peace bracelet. Extra points for using the peace theme.

A spinning globe bubble flying floatie thing from Fire Good! in Globe 026. What? Okay, okay! I'm still looking.

Globe 031, Lina skin from Dernier Cri. This is the ginger tone. That's more like it!