On the Fifth Day of Christmas Decorating Leticia Segall sent me some help

Thank Meep for the Freebie Telegraph and Leticia Segall!  When I sent out my urgent request for further Christmas deocrating ideas to the Freebie Telegraph, Leticia Segall was one of the people who threw me some Christmas Cheer.  Leticia has a whole notecard of Xstreet SL free gifts for the holidays that she said I could share with you.  Be sure to send her an IM of thanks!

I've already reviewed some of the items on Leticia's notecard in some of the previous posts on The Twelve Days of Christmas Decorating series.  For the rest of the items on Leticia's list I'll post some of the Xstreet images and a link so you can find them easily.  Happy Holiday Decorating!

The first item is a set of three Animated Winter Paintings by Luthien Unsung.  Not only has she provided this wonderful freebie on Xstreet, but if you click on her name and look at her picks you can see that she's also got a 

Money Tree for new avatars!  Purrrrrr!   Here's the link to her animated winter scene paintings on 

Xstreet SL, http://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=528934

Double Meep!  This box of Christmas decorations created by Alzahra Ames is a lovely find be Leticia.  If you're a business owner, not only can you use it to decorate your store, but Alzahra has also given permission to resell the decorations!  I especially like the candles set in the poinsettia.  You can find this on Xstreet SL at, http://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=983535

You can get a cute snowman texture to set or hang on the wall from DarkDharma Daguerre which you can find on Xstreet SL at, http://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=1040. 

Here's a nice elf stocking freebie texture that Leticia found on Xstreet SL.  This freebie is provided by Melly Huldschinsky from Striker & Mellys Designz for personalized cards, decorations, gifts and garden.  You can find the elf stocking on Xstreet at the following link, http://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=1018027

Meep! How time flies while you're decorating for Christmas.  There's still a long list of items from Leticia and I'll have to cover them the next day. In the meantime, if any of you have great suggestions for Christmas items, be they freebies or for sale, please use the comments to suggest them.

Live a luxurious holiday inSL

~CultureCannibal Zilz

Take your picture with Santa from Dec 1 through the 25th.

It's always fun to see the little ones going to see Santa and to tell you the truth I miss it! I wish I could crawl right up there beside Santa and have my picture taken too.  Course I'd rather be curling up next to a sexy Santa with my tail wrapped around his finger while I purr away in contentment. 

Meep!  Did I just say that out loud? 

Luckily we can do in our Second Lives what we might be a lil too shy to do in our first ones. And to make that possible we're offering free photo opportunities with Santa at The Forum Shops mall.  We've set up three different areas with a special backdrop and sleigh so you'll have your choice about what type of Christmas photograph you want to take.  You can take your photo with a sexy male Santa or you can use the empty sleigh for you and a friend to have your photo taken together.  Best of all, you can find me in a sleigh when I'm not out and about.  

You can teleport to The Forum Shops,  http://slurl.com/secondlife/Stanlee/4/231/2056, and look for the Sexy Santas!  We're going to try to keep two models on the sleighs at all time so you can drop by anytime with friends to get your photo taken.  You just hope on the green pose ball above the sleigh and you'll be ready to start snapping your holiday photographs.

Zak Escher, from Forma Designs, explained to us how to run the METAbolt non-graphics browser to keep our avatars logged in 24/7.  If you don't see both our Santa's sitting on the sleighs, please IM me, CultureCannibal Zilz, and let me know so I can arrange for another model to take the place of whomever is missing.  Using models is great for people who are selling skins, shapes, or clothing.  I'll soon write a post explaining how to do this for yourself.

Happy Holidays!

~CultureCannibal Zilz

On the third day of christmas decorating my true friend gave to me...

On the Third Day of Christmas Decorating my true friend gave to me a Cask of Christmas Cheer, a teddy bear Christmas t-shirt, and started following my blog!  That's a three Meep gift!  For a girl starting out in the big wide virtual world of business, my friend Orinoco Beresford has been full of helpful tips for the business avatar.

Orinoco owns OB Designs, where he puts his RL graphic design talents to 

use creating the most fabulous textures for his furniture, decorative arts, and Shabby Sheek Sheds.  For the holidays he made this fabulous freebie Cask of Christmas Cheer that you can get 

at his store or on-line at Xstreet SL. He also sells a fancy-dancy version that serves drinks full of holiday cheer to people. Perfect for any holiday parties that need a little excitement added to the mix. You can find the Cask of Christmas Cheer on Xstreet SL here, http://xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=1041507

A winter wonderland needs snow!  Glorious piles of pristine white snow drifted into corners and piled up in small mounds.  A beautiful way to add a wintery touch to your holiday decorating.  I found this nice freebie pile of snow on Xstreet SL made by Quark Yifu.  Meep!  Now I can be a snow kitty too!  You can find the pile of snow at Xstreet SL here, http://xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=1005940

Once you've got the snow drifted in all the right places, you can add some snowy trees to your winter wonderland.  I found some beautiful freebie one prim snow covered trees designed by Sonja Kowalski.  If you look at her profile, it looks like she has wonderful plant and garden things for sale.  If you go to Xstreet SL, you can find the snowy trees here, http://xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=995637

Happy Thanksgiving and stop back for more days of Christmas Decorating!

On the Second Day of Christmas Decorating

It's been a busy day in Real Life getting ready for Thanksgiving tomorrow, but I still have time to get in a little freebie shopping to spread Christmas Cheer.  So let's see what wonderful treasures nice people are making available for free today on Xstreet SL.

Some people have a nightmarish vision for Christmas and you can find some very dysfunctional Christmas decorations very easily.  This first one is the Melty McSnowman from Boo Wobbit.  The poor dear doesn't look like its in too much pain as it's melting into a big 

puddle. The carrot nose is a disappointing cone, especially when you've got these fabulous sculptie stick arms as part of it.  It also comes in a very nice newspaper wrapped/ribboned box that would look great under a grunge Christmas tree.  You can find this on Xstreet at, http://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=1015293

If you're a returning reader then you already know that I love cuddling!  There's nothing more fun than crawling up close together and sharing a little warmth on these cold winter nights.  The giant sculpty Christmas Cupcake by Minke Bailey is perfect for this.  The cupcake itself is amazing and it lets two avatars crawl up and cuddle.  A wonderful holiday backdrop for those Christmas pictures you need to send out to your friends.  This is available on Xstreet at, http://xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=1036755

Meep! Since this is the second day of Christmas decorating I only need two items, right?  Unfortunately Second Life seems to be messing up and while items are being delivered almost immediately from Xstreet, it's taking forever to move something from my inventory to rez it in-world so I'm giving up checking out anymore items for tonight.  I have to usually go through several items for every one that looks worthwhile.

Goodnight and Happy Thanksgiving!

The Twelve Days of Christmas Freebie Decorations

If you're a new business owner like me, you know you've got to pinch every Linden!  I'm not talking about behinds.  One way to extend your advertising dollar is to find the many wonderful holidy freebies and put them to use decorating around your place of business and home.  To get you help get you started I'm going to review some of the Freebies I found and have put around The Forum Shops mall.  Over the next twelve days I'll be reviewing freebie Christmas deocrations and blogging about the ones I like with links on how to purchase them.

Meep!  I'd better plug the Culture Cannibals store too.  We have a selection of inexpensive Christmas decorations placed around the store too. Plus a special surprise freebie that will be unveiled during The Forum Shop's Christmas Holiday Kickoff Party this Sunday, November

 30th from 5:30-7:30 PM [Click to see the SL Event listing].  Sponsored by 7 Minds Web 

Services, Peer Shapes, Fora Shapes, and Wedding Elegance. 

Now off to the Christmas Freebies!

The first thing I've found is a wonderful sexy Santa outfit freebie by Ruffian.   As you can see, this isn't something you'd normally wear for a business meeting. It's more suited to casual sex Friday attire when you're tired of wearing jeans.  If Mrs. Claus wore something like this the Christmas presents would have never been delivered. This outfit is a freebie by Ruffian and also includes boots and bangles.  You can find it on Xstreet SL at 

 http://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=1028138

The hood in the outfit above is a bit much for me. Plus it covers up my cute ears and not even dogs want to wear something to prevent their ears from being scritched.  I had to search for a hat that was the right colour and also allowed me to adjust it enough so my ears would poke through.  I found this wonderful freebie Santa hat designed by Luthien Unsung that fits the bill perfectly.  It's the right colour and the right fit.  Boys can even wear it!  Here's the Xstreet SL link for

 it, http://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=529031

Speaking of boys and what they can wear....let's find a nice Santa suit for the male avatars reading the blog.  Meep!  I got sidetracked by all the fantastic high quality Christmas decorations available for free.  Boy's, you'll have to wait for an outfit because this North Pole sign is the kitty's meow!  It's a little prim whorish weighing in at 17 prims, but you can't beat the quality for a price of L$0.  I had it delivered to The Forum Shops mall in anticipation for the upcoming Christmas Kickoff party and it looks grand by the entrance steps. You can fget it for free from, http://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=999224 

For those with prims to burn, here's another lovely holiday, an ice skating snowman!  It's an adorable well-made creation, but 44 prims!  I sat hypnotized by it's slowly circling figure for about ten minutes before I

 returned him to the inventory heap.  Just too many prims for The Forum Shops mall, unfortunately.  I hope someone can find a good home for him.  Until then, here's the link where you can go to adopt him, http://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=371902

Gosh, I could be here all day!  Here's one last review of some nice freebie decorations for you, including a single prim wreath, candy cane, and Christmas tree.  There is also a very top drawer looking toy soldier and a cute snow man with a corn cob pipe that are under twenty prims each. These freebies were created by Alicia Stella Design and I've set them out at The Forum Shops if you'd like to take a look.  You can get them from Xstreet at, http://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=154117

Tomorrow as I continue this series over the next twelve days,  I'll try to find a nice Christmas outfit for the male avatar.  If you have any favourite freebie Christmas deocrations, feel free to add them to the comments to share with everyone.  Don't forget about our Christmas Decorating Kickoff Party on Sunday, it would be lovely meeting some of you dear readers!

Living a Luxurious Holiday,

~CultureCannibal Zilz

More Xstreet SL: Finding Freebies for your Second Life

One of my favourite things to do in Second Life is to find nice freebies.  But this kitten's legs get tired running from store to store and sim to sim sorting out which freebies are keepers and which ones get buried in the kitty litter box.  Xstreet SL is the purrrrfect way to shop for freebies from the comfort of your own couch.

Freebies, Freebies, Everywhere!  There are two ways to find freebies on Xstreet.  The first is to look at the marketplace freebie list and the second is to do a marketplace advanced search and limit your maximum price to L$1.  When I checked earlier today the list of freebies, excluding non-mature items is 1,000 pages long.  That's over 10,000 freebie items! Enough to keep me purring all night long, and the next night, and the next...well you get the idea.  You can even find some naughtie freebies by enabling mature content.

However browsing through 10,000 items doesn't exactly make our shopping life easier...and that is my intended goal.   Using Xstreet's marketplace search not only helps you find a particular item you're looking for, but can also tell you if that, or a similar, item is available for free.  One of the first things I do when shopping on Xstreet is click on the advanced search button to expand the search options.  Along with the search words I set the maximum price to be L$1 and then we're off.  If there is anything matching the search words that cost L$0 or L$1 then they will be returned.   If nothing interesting is returned then I remove that and go about my search normally.  

Quite Easily Done.  The 12 days of Christmas ain't got nothing on Xstreet's list of freebies.

Living Luxuriously inSL,

~CultureCannibal Zilz

Pssst! A free spot to throw a fashion show...

If you're friends with Steven Colbert you may think we're a bunch of socialists like those librarians who let people use their libraries and books for free.  That's not why we're offering designers and modelling agencies a free venue to put on a fashion show.  The real truth is, I love to shop.  

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that having more fashion design mavens and divas out there creates a better shopping experience for us all. 

I'm pleased to announce that we Culture Cannibals and The Forum Shops at StanLee are offering a free venue for fashion shows and other creative presentation formats.  This is part of our on-going effort to encourage designers and content creator inSL.

Our Graeco-Roman themed grand plaza is perfectly suited to give your audience and press photographers a clear view of the runway while being surrounded by timeless elegance inspired by the ancient world. Please feel free to visit the Fashion Show Venue space and see if it fits your needs, http://slurl.com/secondlife/Stanlee/46/207/2050.  Click on the box by the pool to rezz the parts of the fashion show venue.

If your agency or clients would like to reserve this free space, please contact CultureCannibal Zilz with a notecard specifying the date of your event, the time it starts, the length of the event and a description that can be used to advertise your event on the SL Events page.

Fashion Show Venue Pictures and Descriptions

Imagine a runway surrounded by the quiet waters of The Olympic Pool, providing an elegant open space to give your audience and press photographers a clear view of your models. See an actual fashion show utilizing the space in the photo slide show below.



Thank you designers, creators, and agencies for improving our Second Lives. If you’d like to reserve this free space for your use, please contact me, CultureCannibal Zilz, with a notecard specifying the date of your event, the time it starts, the length of the event and a description that can be used to advertise your event on the SL Events page.

And thanks to The Forum Shops at StanLee for making this space available.

Living Luxuriously inSL,

~CultureCannibal Zilz