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Sims 3 Ambition Preview (Nederlands)

Op vrijdag 21 mei mocht ik met Angela mee naar een Nederlandse preview van Sims Ambitions. (<3 Voor haar en natuurlijk EA Nederland om haar uit te nodigen).

Ik heb het gevoel dat EA een nieuwe weg heeft ingeslagen met De Sims 3 uitbreidingen. Met Sims 1 en Sims 2 breidden ze het spel uit maar het originele spel was nog steeds DE manier om het spel te spelen. Met Sims 3 voegen ze compleet nieuwe manieren van spelen toe. We zagen dit al met Wereld Avonturen en het is weer gebeurd met Ambitions.

Sorry als ik sommige dingen niet de goede titel geef in het Nederlands, ik heb thuis een Engelse versie van het spel en tijdens de preview waren we met een Nederlandse versie aan het spelen. Het is allemaal wat verwarrend!

De nieuwe beroepen zijn nog maar het topje van de ijsberg, Blackgarden heeft een goede preview van alle beroepen in haar blog. Aangezien we maar 2,5 uur hadden om te spelen, had ik geen tijd om alles uit te proberen, dus ik bespreek alleen de dingen waar ik zelf mee heb gespeeld of grappige dingen van andere mensen tijdens de preview.

Beroepen

Wat als eerste opvalt is hoe het carrière menu is weergegeven. Je kan geen negatieve prestatie meer hebben maar je bouwt nu ervaring op en gaat zo naar volgende niveaus. Er zijn nu ook simpele icoontjes die aangeven wat je kan doen om meer ervaring te krijgen in plaats van smileys.

Het meest leuke dat ik heb gezien, het was echt zo enorm grappig, is op de uitkijk staan als de Privédetective. In een tv serie of boek betekent dit dat de persoon in een auto zit en uren lang naar een gebouw of persoon staart, heel saai. In de Sims betekent dit dat je sim in het midden van een kavel gaat staan en twee takken pakt, elk in 1 hand en heel subtiel haar hoofd erachter verstopt en klaar! Verstopte sim! Zelfs als de telefoon gaat zien andere Sims jouw Sim niet. Hier moest ik echt 5 minuten om lachen…was zo grappig.

Informatie van Blackgarden: Grant had tijdens de Engelse preview verteld hoe ze met dit idee waren gekomen. In San Francisco is er blijkbaar een man verkleed als struik, in het midden van een leeg park.

Het beroep van privédetective is verder net zoals een avontuur in WA, maar dan in je eigen buurt. Daarnaast verbetert je ervaring ook door je skills te verbeteren.

Ik heb ook als brandweer gespeeld, voor het grootste gedeelte van de werkdag zit je gewoon te loungen bij de kazerne. Kletsen met collega’s, stuiteren op de trampoline (vertel ik straks meer over, en nee het is niet springen!), de wagen onderhouden (wat zou er gebeuren als je hem niet onderhoud, gaat het dan kapot onderweg naar een brand en brand je huis tot op de grond af? Moet ik eens proberen) ALARM!!! Dit is echt heel luid, pas op dat je niet doof wordt.

Je springt op de wagen en gaat naar het huis waar de brand is. Toen mijn Sim aankwam was ze een lieve engel en bluste het vuur. AnoeskaBs Sim was niet zo lief, hij stal van het slachtoffer. Het kan nog erger…in plaats van het vuur te blussen kan je Sim het ook stoppen door de objecten kapot te slaan met een bijl. Nog steeds effectief... alleen niet zo aardig.

Dumdi dum GHOSTBUSTERS! Something strange in the neighbourhood.. Who you gonna call? GHOST BUSTERS! Deze film moet je gewoon gezien hebben, anders moet je je schamen! Je kan dus op jacht gaan naar spoken in dit spel! En het is heel vergelijkbaar met de ghostbusters film. Je Sim wordt door de huiseigenaar gebeld, hij heeft last van spoken (die op de groene spoken lijken in Casper). Je sim gaat naar dat huis, zapt de spoken en je hebt dan 1 spook in je rugtas. Dan kan je het een naam geven of vrij laten.


Dan komen we bij de uitvinder, hier heb ik niet echt veel mee gespeeld, maar mijn buurman bij de preview wel (cheetah). Hij kreeg zijn Sim op zo’n hoog niveau dat hij dingen kon opblazen om schroot te krijgen. Dit zijn geen kleine explosies! En hij vond het zo leuk dat hij langs de hele buurt ging en alle auto’s opblies! Een keer werd zijn Sim weggestuurd omdat hij zich niet netjes gedroeg ... Dus toen maar tafeltjes opgeblazen bij een restaurant. Hier kreeg hij een boete voor! Niet gearresteerd... geen politie...

Een andere jongen bij de preview had een tijdmachine gemaakt en daarin een kind verwerkt, die geboren werd als tiener! Ik wou dat ik meer tijd gehad had, dan had ik ook nog de uitvinder geprobeerd, klinkt erg leuk!

Voor de andere beroepen verwijs ik je naar de Engelse preview van Blackgarden, ik heb er zelf niet mee gespeeld. Ik begreep ook niet helemaal hoe de Sims betaald worden, per week en per klus.. ? Wie betaald het wekelijks loon dan?

Andere nieuwe dingen

Ik heb met verschillende objecten gespeeld, zoals de trampoline. Een waarschuwing voor ouders, laat je kinderen niet met de trampolines in het spel spelen. Het zal ze het verkeerde idee geven! Het ziet er heel erg grappig uit!  Je Sim springt wel erg dicht bij de rand..

De was is een schattig detail dat ze hebben toegevoegd aan het spel, er is zelfs een wasserette. Je kan ook beeldhouwen om geld te verdienen, ik heb er niet veel mee gespeeld maar ik wil wel even zeggen dat je Sim een ENORM blok klei krijgt en uiteindelijk maar een klein standbeeldje maakt, typische Sims humor.

Ik heb in de buurt rondgekeken, het heet Twinbrook. Het heeft een meer donkere atmosfeer en er zijn  moerassen! In totaal zijn er 5 nieuwe openbare plekken:

Wasserette

Brandweerkazerne

Schroothoop

Schoonheidssalon

Hangplek (niet echt een goede naam naar mijn mening, geeft voor mijn gevoel een negatief beeld) maar het was bijvoorbeeld een café

En een kringloopwinkel, waar je Sims hun uitvindingen of kunstwerken kunnen geven. Pas als een andere Sim dit koopt krijgt je eigen Sim het geld. Het is dus niet automatisch geld voor je Sim wat ik weer een geinig detail vind.

Als je Sunset Valley of Riverview laadt krijg je een pop-up om deze openbare plekken te plaatsen, dus daar zijn geen problemen!

In CAS heb ik leuk haar gezien voor vrouwen, niet echt leuke kleding maar van Blackgarden heb ik gehoord dat er ook kleren in de salon zijn. En ik heb iets gevonden dat ik altijd wou hebben maar was vergeten te vragen aan EA: Make-up heeft een nieuwe slider: transparancy. Je kan dus hele felle kleuren wat matter maken :D het is erg handig!

Iets voor de mensen die huizen bouwen: pilaren kunnen nu 3 niveaus hoog zijn! Ik heb ook nieuwe terreinverf, bomen en planten gezien. Je kan ook individueel de hoogte van verschillende daken veranderen.

Je Sim kan ook openbare kavels kopen, hiervoor kon je wel rabbit-holes kopen maar nu koop je de kavel zelf. Je kan dan de naam van het kavel veranderen of dingen bouwen/kopen. Een kavel heeft nu 3 niveaus, je krijgt meer winst van een hoger kavel. Maar ik vraag me af hoe dit werkt, want een park is gratis – hoe kan je daar dan winst op maken?

We hebben een geweldig tool, create-a-world, maar het kost moeite en tijd om het goed te leren. Om het makkelijker te maken kan in het spel een paar kleine dingen gedaan worden, kavels kunnen worden toegevoegd (ik neem aan ook verwijderd), bomen, planten en stenen  kunnen ook overal in de buurt geplaatst worden.

En als laatste, je Sim kan nu ook het onderwijs in!

Fantastisch

Ze hebben dingen gegeven voor bouwers, spelers, ontwerpers en hebben het allemaal gedaan met humor. Ik ben blij dat ze bij EA weten dat niet iedereen het spel op dezelfde manier speelt en ze voor elk type speler iets toevoegen. We kunnen allemaal erg blij zijn met deze uitbreiding ^_^ EA heeft het weer gedaan, fantastisch!

PS. Je kan ook een gat op je kavel plaatsen... En dan weer opvullen, ik heb het nut daarvan nog niet gevonden.

PPS. ALSJEBLIEFT EA geef ons weer collecties, we missen dit echt in The Sims 3!

Collections

Some new collections named Zoma and Simple.

Zoma is a modern collection, and Simple... Yah, its simple ^^

I have plans making some more of them, so Peitit has become simple, as i think its a better discription of them. And i make 1-5 bedrooms in every collection now. I am also planing to make some screenshots of the area where i am building this new collections, so you can see how it looks in the game. I have not forgotten about my trailer life, its on my to do list, i am going to make some new ones.

Oh yah, almost forgot, but i do not use subscribers items in the houses for this collection. But i might make a collection including thoose items, and they are going to be small houses as they have the habit of being to big to submit here.

I do make some vid's for youtube, and you might notice that i have changed the houses for them ^^ Some subscriber items to make them look more like a real home.

Well a bit of new things for now, i will submit my Simple collection tomorrow :)

Too Sick to Sim?

I have barely done anything for the past couple of days.  I woke up Friday morning with a very bad chest cold and have coughed so much that my ribs and back are aching.  Finally I got some sleep last night and woke up a little better.  I'm anxious to load up my game and get started on a new story.  Haven't decided what to call it yet but I have some ideas.  And thank you Margo for lighting the candle for me...I'm a firm believer in the power of candles!

Office set nearly done!

Hi hi! It seams liker I will publish the office before the clutter set! Because today I finished four new meshes, so it´s almost complete! Which is very good! But I can promise that next week it´s finished. But tomorrow I can´t mesh anything cause I have to practice for a examination, and I forgot the books in school :loook And the examination is on tuesday!! Opps... 

See you!

Downloads

I am so happy with the amount of downloads i am getting with my creations!  Would just like to say a huge thank you to everyone and hope you like/enjoy the items!  I will keep trying to improve my creations...there are so many lovely things on this site that it's inspired me to do better!  

Take care! 

Lockjaw

The last four days were awful. I had a big problem with a wisdom tooth. First,  my cheek swelled like a balloon and secondly I could not open my lips for more than half a centimeter. The result was the loss of weight (which frankly made me happy) and the terrible pain. Fortunately, everything slowly disappear. My face looks normal and in August will be miserable eight surgically removed. Whew :D

Welcome (new meshes)

I have added a carpet, paintings, and a cabinet;

Happy Birthday

Hi Everyone

We have had some gorgeous weather this weekend in Manchester and also its my Birthday today.

I am now 28 years old.

I am out later this afternoon with my family for a meal to celebrate.

See you around TSR :) x

Northern Lights

Northern Lights

My New Minisite Design

I changed my minisite design.

FINALLY! I know how to use Photoshop

I've always wanted to create stuffs like objects or makeup and clothing. But the thing is I didn't know how to use Photoshop! I used mostly Paint Net. for my first five creations. I've tried hard to understand all the process to make a simple custom dress, but I knew then that there were no chances for me to succes.

After few experiences, I said to myself relax and take your time, it's like learning how to ride a bicycle, you always fall the first times.  I start to re-read all the tutorials about the sims 3 and memorise about the most important things. I've ''experimented'' a lot with photoshop, modify pictures, learn about the contents..etc.

And finally, I made some paintings and makeups! It's not a huge work like a bed or a bride's dress, but I'm quite proud of what I've acomplished in a month.

The Sims 3 not working.

Unfortunately , my The Sims 3 is unable to play because my computer is slower , it had a few problems , aaaaa , I can't play it ! But i want sooo much !

May 24th, Sims 2 Country Kitchen Stove Set!

Sims 2 Country Kitchen Stove set is scheduled for release on May 24th, the set includes base game and Seasons 2-tile stove mesh (with 3-decorative slots on its surface) and 3 recolors for each stove, and a decorative pots & pans rack with picture mesh and recolor. So, grab your favorite recipes, it's time to cook!

I created this 2-tile country kitchen stove several months ago for Sims 2 and I finally decided to release it! The stove is one of my favorite meshes, as it brings back fond memories of my maternal grandmother's country kitchen and its mammoth wood-burning castiron stove. I can almost smell her chicken and dumplings!

Happy Simming,

Carolyn

thank you all

thank you all so very much for your continual support.  1 Mirabello Road has in fact exceeded 600 downloads :o)  shall we try head for 700 now or am I pushing too hard ... lol

Meshing - I was introduced to George today

I am playing with meshing.  Since I haven't opened up a mesh tool since Lightwave 6 (a college class that required me to recreate my car) I am a bit behind the eightball.

I have Milkshape and Blender, and for me, blender is more intuitive.  Don't ask why, it just is.  So I'll put up with the extra import export pain in the ascii later.

In today's tutorial I got to meet... well I call him George.  The Blender Wiki has such fun tutorials. (http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro)

George started out as a simple cube, then something that resembled a bad day with scrabble ending with a cherry on top.  Finally his George ship began to take a really rounded shape.  The poor man's hips could put mamma Sincinelli to shame, and that belly! His feet were a bit short and his head defintely askew.  But he was my george in all his glorious jelly belly yumminess.

Now off to more challenges, supposedly next I am to create a hat, I wonder if George likes flowers?

<walks off whistleing>

600 ???

will my creation, 1 Mirabello Road hit 600 downloads ????  I'm soooo close !!!

I need your help!

I saw something on Facebook, I can win a Lenovo! But I need your help,

http://apps.facebook.com/benimlenovom/index.php?page=home&task=result&facebook_to=780187727&message=done

If you are using facebook, please click the link above and click the green button.It is in Turkish and says "I am supporting Ibrahim" .

Thank you so much! :):)

Ok----actually---Just a break :D

Ok Ive decided im not finishing my story atall!!!!!! :D but I am taking a break mayebe a few weeks so not too long But I am startin a new story on the official sims 2 wbsite :D coz I want to try it out TBH ok? yeh so I am continueing I may give u the link once it is published Thank you :D ! 

First Few Creations

Hello i have submitted Published my first of many creations, please tell me what you think by either commenting below or commenting on my items!

I would just like to say hello to everyone and i hope you like my creations!

here are pictures of my first creations.

my first creation

Whoopee, I've uploaded my first creation in tsr.

I hope you like them.

new item!

hi everybody may 21st

ive just finished a lot ive been working really hard on and i hope... it will be approved but it does have firearms so i might have to remove that... i hope not! :D happy playing!

333 days with TSR

Today marks my 333rd day on TSR. More than anything that just makes me feel like I'm uninvolved. I only post in the forum if I have a question or problem with the game. I will go weeks without signing in. Then again, i'm a college student and I work, so I guess I can't be too hard on myself.

I have new screen caps of my legacy to put up, but I've been lazy.

I'm still in my 4th generation of my legacy. All of the 3rd gen sims have passed on. Ian's wife is currently pregnant, so the 5th gen is about to start. I hate baby sims though...

New Makeup

I've been working on makeup alot lately and trying to come up with some that I feel is worthy of uploading. Its really hard! I know exactly what I want the finished product to look like, but it seems like I spend hours getting it to look only slightly similar to my vision. I'm really close now though. I like bold, bright, colorful makeup. I also am going to finish up some lots I've been working on soon. These lots will have fully mature gardens with some special plants in them, and some lifetime rewards objects.

long time no see/ EA games problems

I havent been uploading new lot since a long time because of school that had taken all my time(and when i say all it is ALL!), and i wont be able to do it anymor because i cant play any games of the sims 2 that i have bought. Writing license data impossible!, it says. it seems to be a problem that ea games are unable to repare and every time i ask for help they make me believed that they will answered back and fix this #!!x*##$%!!!!!Until they REALLY fix it or untill i buy a new game (thing that i will certaily dont do...)i just can play my games anymore. If anybody have been able to fix this probleme please tell me how you did it, i so want to play right now, i miss my sims 2 lol!!Anyway i hope everybody will have a great summer and i hope no one will have this probleme with there games! ciao xox

I've Been Busy Again! - Another Sneak Peak!

I like long weekends - gives me time to get all the boring stuff out the way and get on with creating, which is exactly what I've been doing!  So just to keep anyone who's interested in the picture, here's a few more sneak peaks at my upcoming paintings.

Firstly, a set of four gorgeous chickens - great for your country cottages and kitchens:

 Secondly, a set of rather sophisticated flowers - great for those snobby sims!

Thirdly, a collection of dancers:

Fourthly, two sets of rather delicate flowers - great for bedrooms:

And fifthly, a set of four traditional drinks recipes - great for the kitchen or behind the bar:

 I have lots more paintings in the pipeline, but if anyone has any particular suggestions, please let me know.

Enjoy!

Drive-By Blogging and Big Weekend

Hey guys and gals, just a quick update blog entry from yours truly.

As some of you have probably known ( especially all you stalkers, you know who you are.. ), much of my time is pre-occupied by my studies and social life here at university. Generally struggling to keep my time divided between drinking, working and sleeping, I get very little time on the computer..

And when I do, I tend to be exhausted and tired. Not exactly the two main moods you need to be creative.

And make Sims houses.

And all that jazz.

So, yeah. Instead I spend my time on Skype. Most of the time. Either that, or Spore seems to be getting most of my computer attention these days. And before any of you ask.. Its not exactly a "100% legal " version, so I can't post my creations online. Though that may change soon.

Anyway, back to the main topic.

In short, my time is very limited. Exams, project proposals and Radio One's Big Weekend on my doorstep, all distract me from my time usually dedicated to this site. But as soon as its all over ( by the end of next week ) I should get back into a regular routine. 

So if anyone has any requests, feel free to leave a comment. Or drop me an email, I'll gladly respond as soon as I can.

Well, there you have it. Another blog just about wrapped up.

'Till next time!

Sims 3 Ambition Preview

On Friday may 21st I was very fortunate to tag along with Angela to the Dutch preview of Sims 3 Ambitions (much love to her and of course the Dutch EA for inviting her in the first place).

We played with a dutch version of the game so the English translation may be wrong, tell me so that I can fix that :) Also this was not the final version of the game, so there were bugs (fog inside the house?).

I have a feeling EA is going a new route with The Sims 3 expansion packs, with Sims 1 and 2 they expanded onto the game but the original game was still the main way of playing. With Sims 3 they add completely new angles of playing. This was shown in world adventures and has happened again with ambitions.

The new occupations are just a tip of the iceberg that they added, Blackgarden has a very good preview of these in her blog. As we only had a 2.5 hour preview, I did not have time to play with everything, so I will only discuss the things that I played with myself or either amused me severely that the other people played with.

Professions

The first notable difference with professions is how the career menu is shown, work progress bar has changed, you cannot go into the negative! Technically, you build up work experience now, instead of performing well or not. And instead of smileys for each thing that influences your performance, you now get simple icons explaining things that improve your work experience.

By far, very FAAAAAAR and maybe even further the most amusing thing I saw was from the private investigator profession. Your sim can go on a stake out, this in every detective tv show I have seen means you sit in a car hidden and just watch a building. In the humorous world of EA this ‘stake out’ means your sim stands in the middle of a lot, displaying all the subtlety of an elephant in ballet shoes, gets a branch with leaves in each hand and holds it in front of him-/herself and voilà covertly hidden sim! So hidden that other sims do not even notice your sim when her phone rings. I was laughing for like 5 minutes about that, it is so funny.

Side information from Blackgarden:  Grant told them at UK preview how they came up with the stake out, apparently there is a guy who dresses up as a bush and stands in an empty park in SF. And it's like a TOTALLY empty park, no foliage anywhere.

The rest of the private investigation profession is similar to an adventure in WA, but in your home hood.  You can also increase your work experience by building up skills.

I also played with the fire-fighter profession, for a lot of the working ‘day’ you sit around and just lounge at the firestation. Chat with co-workers, bounce on the trampoline (more on that later), maintain the fire truck (I wonder what happens if you don’t maintain it, does it breaks down on the way to a fire.. and the house burns down? Something to try later...). ALARM!!!! Seriously, it is super loud, do not get deaf from the fire alarm. EA should add warning signs about that in the game.

You jump onto the big fire truck and go to the house that is on fire, when my sim arrived there she was a good girl and put out the fire. AnoeskaB’s sim was not such a good guy, he started stealing from the poor sim!  Can be even worse, instead of using a fire extinguisher you can also destroy the object to put out the fire... effective I suppose, not very nice.

Dumdi dum GHOSTBUSTERS! Something strange in the neighbourhood.. Who you gonna call? GHOST BUSTERS! If you think I am a fool here spraying nonsense, be ashamed of yourself, it means you have not seen the brilliant ghost busters movies. So yes, there is ghost hunting in this game! And it is very similar to how it is done in the ghost busters movie. Your sim gets called by the owner of a haunted house, sim goes there and finds the ghosts (who look more like the green colored ‘bad’ ghosts in Casper), your sim zaps it with a cool looking zapping gun (I am sure it has a more proper name, but I did not check) and then has 1 ghost in his inventory bag. You can then give it a name or release it.

Then we come to the inventor, I did not play with this much myself, but my neighbour at the preview did. He got his sim to such a high level he could blow things up to get some scrap. This blowing up of things is not a small thing, blowing up car is BOOM! This neighbour was a guy (cheetah)  who thought blowing things up was so much fun, he went around the neighbourhood and destroyed everyone’s car!! He got caught once and was asked to leave for misbehaving... just a minor behaviour problem. Then moved onto a community lot and started blowing up tables, at least he got some punishment for this, a fine. His sim did not even get in touch with law enforcement.

Then another person at the preview made a time machine and created a baby that started at teen years. I wish I had more time to play with the inventor myself... it sounds very funny.

For the other professions I refer you to Blackgardens preview, I did not play with them. There is also a confusing bit about how much your sim gets paid, they get paid for each job but.. also get a weekly salary? Something to check.

Other new things

I did play with some objects, like the trampoline. Warning for all the parents who have a trampoline at home, do not let your children play with the trampolines in game, it will give them the wrong idea. The sim regular jumping action on the trampoline is already hilarious! But they can also fall off (I think I saw that once, it went fast), somersault and it looks just hilarious. But I noticed the sim jumps near the side of a trampoline instead of in the middle.. very safe....

Laundry is a cute touch that they added to the game, there is an even a laundromat where you can wash your clothes if you don’t own a laundry machine yourself.  You can also sculpt and make money that way, I did not play with this so much. I did find it funny how enormous the block of clay is that your sim starts with and the eventual object can be tiny... very typical Sims humour.

I did look around the new neighbourhood a bit, it is called TwinBrooks and has a more darky/dirty bit to it (aka, swamps – cyclonesue is going to like them). This darky mood is also created with a fog object, from the buydebug menu. In total there are 5 new community lot types:

Laundromat

Firestation

Junkjard

Beauty salon

Meeting point? Dutch translation was hang plek (literally 'hanging about spot') in game it was like  a cafe but in Dutch hang plek means a place where (bad) kids hang about do nothing/skip school... they should change that name I think.

Last community lot is the Consignment Store.The Consignment Store allows your inventor/sculptor/painter to sell their goods, they give it to the store and when another sim buys it, your sim gets money. It’s not an automatic sell, which I personally found cute. It’s a small detail that EA did keep in mind.

If you load sunset valley or riverview, you will get the option to add these community lots, so the neighbourhoods are still compatible.

In CAS I found new hairs! Very cute hair for females, not so much cute clothes – but blackgarden has told me they may be in the salon in game not in CAS. And I found something I wanted but forgot to ask EA! You got influence on your sims makeup with the use of transparency! No more fighting with the colors to make the makeup not THAT bold.. just use the transparency slider.

Something for the builders that I found: columns can be 1, 2 or 3 stories high, just by changing a slider. I also saw new terrain paints and trees and possibly plants. You can adjust the height of each roof individually, allowing more freedom with them. You can also add ceilings now and that was all the build stuff I found, there could be more.

Your sim can also buy community lots, there was something similar before, you could own a rabit hole. Now you own the entire lot, this means you can change the name of the lot, and build/buy on it. Also, a community lot has 3 levels. The higher the level the higher the more profit from that lot your sim gets. I do not know how this works exactly, cause in my mind – a park is free to use so no profit from that. This is something we will have to see when we got the game.  

So we got the wonderful create a world tool, but it is tricky to use and some real effort needs to be put into it to learn it. Now you can also edit the neighbourhood, add trees everywhere and new lots of different sizes with the in-town editing tools, very useful if you just want a little change.

And last there is a new education career, did not play with this but I am glad they added it.

Fantastic

They gave things for builders, players, decorators and did it all with humour. I am glad to see they know on how many different ways people play the game and catered for all of them. We all can be very happy with this EP ^_^ EA went all out yet again, fantastic.

Ps. You can put a hole on your property from the buydebug menu and then your sim can fill it up ... I am not sure how useful this is.

Pps. EA please give us back collections, pretty please, I miss collections.

It's Friday

I'm honestly very happy that the end of the week is here. Though chances are I'll have to work on Sunday (and had to work today), Saturday is my day off and I want nothing more than to relax in the house under the AC. More than likely I'll read some of the tutorials. I really wanna create a skirt. Lol, or change the logo on an exsisting shirt. Wish me luck.

Old Fashioned Community Lots

Finally I have begun to upload these lots! The Arts District will come out first, beginning with Theatre in the Park, followed by the Museum of Historical Societies and then the Theatre Royale. Next will be the Victorian Grocer's Market, which is funny since it is the last lot I started! But it is finished and ready to go. After that will be City Hall and last will be the six main street lots. I'm stilled tweaking those. I have changed a few of the buildings around, like putting the spa next to the lady's shop and a fitness center next to the gentleman's club. There are eleven lots altogether in the series. I may add others later, but these will be it for now. I have made a park in place of the graveyard, but it it very sparse and simple. I have also taken out the center lots and made them into old fashioned paved streets. If anyone wants those lots, I will certainly upload them as well. I'll post pictures of those in my gallery.

poll

thanks to fobmroweczka and Sandra for filling out my poll :o)

My Thoughts on The Sims 3..

I have been playing The Sims 3 since it first came out i find it brilliant!! but there are a few things that i think should be in it im not saying it should be like Sims 2 but there are things missing that will make it a i lil bit better. Firstly i think the Sims 3 should have a diving board and should be able to dive there should be a tool that lets you have round corners on the pool. i love the fact you can create a sim exactly how you want it but i miss going to clothes shop and buying the clothes or having woohoo in the changing rooms..

My favourate bits of the sims 3 are been able to move around the neighbourhood going to other sims houses having a picknik in the park or fishing i miss getting sun burnt or freezing and sweeping the leaves up all though i love the fact you can go to other countries and have different adventures and i cant wait untill ambitions comes out.

Clutter

Before the old styled office will come, I will publish a breakfast clutter set! Here the loaf.. ((:

hey ya!

Hiya all, it's pretty warm here in the UK for the time of year, I have been doing some work outside today, laying the foundations for a wall I am going to build shortly..if only life was as easy in the real world as it is in the Sims world, I could just drag and drop the darned wall without as much as a care in the world for foundations. Wonder if there has ever been a case of subsidence in Pleasant valley?

I dont know if our friends in other parts of the world have to suffer scrap merchants trawling the neighbourhood in a lorry looking for scrap..we do here in the UK  and when they are in your area they blow a flipping trumpet to let you know that they are about. My god what a racket, not one note in tune! you would think that with all the practice that they get during  their 'career' they could go on to perform 'En fermant les yeux '  at the Royal Albert hall when they retire, but so far I have yet to hear of one. If the one who has been around here this morning keeps it up I am gonna shove his flaming trumpet where the sun don't shine.

 okies my lovelies, thats my moan for the day, catch you guys real soon!!..happy Simming!

Weekend.. full of promise

Not much planned. Except probably clean the house and then catch up with a friend.

Lady Antebellum -Need You Now- in simlish

It's incredible! Watch video on Youtube.

Poll Results

Well, well, well, it's that time again. I think it's time I posted the results of my current poll and put up a new one. I got a great response from my Sims 2 or Sims 3 stories poll and as you can see, the results are below:

Thank you to all the participants of this poll and I'm very glad that I have a selection of both Sims 2 and Sims 3 stories to satisfy those with preferences. And for those of you who don't like to read the stories, I guess my site isn't very helpful for you ;-) But thanks for visiting!

I now have a new poll up called Story Chapters which I hope will help me understand how you prefer to read stories. If you have time, why not pop over and put forward your opinion?

Thanks again!

Romance Bedroom & Pictures Uploaded of New Bheliom Family

Yay! I was able to purchase the Kudos Romance Bedroom today! I'll be able to try it out tonight, which should be nice. According to the reviews, it should be well worth the 5,000 Kudos points I spent.

I also uploaded a couple pictures of my newly re-created Bheliom family. I put them in a new Neighborhood (MUCH larger), re-created the Sims and added one more adult, so that I can try out another career (as well as making the game a tad more difficult). Plus, with Ambitions coming out...I may want to try out some of those new careers. I am already planning on having the two teens, Alean and Lyla taking on the Inventor and Ghost-Hunting Careers, respectively. We shall see. Only two more weeks until release! (and my birthday is Saturday! - not that I expect anything - no $$$ for the past few years, and that hasn't changed this year, but that's ok. I will be getting Ambitions when it comes out. Sucks that my wife's b-day is the 26th and I have no $$ to get her anything...and the 30th or 31st - I forget - is our Anniversarry... - oh well. Life goes on. At least we are together and surviving).

The Drifter - Finale Published

Yes you read right, the final part of The Drifter has been published. I just wanted to write a short blog post to thank everyone who followed The Drifter and all the wonderful comments that everyone has left. Your support has been over whelming and I really appreciate it. That goes to TSR as well, for the opportunity to have our stories published and featuring them on the front page.

I have become quite fond of Will & Eliza and think that I'll continue to play them right up until they pass on. (Not sure when that will be though as I have aging turned off! lol) I probably won't do a follow up story as I have a couple of new ideas that I'd like to start on soon, but I will upload some snaps later to update everyone - if you are intrested.

First though I will take little break from writing. I have created a couple of new sims and a new lot that I'd like to submit (which I have been working on since February), but I'll be sure to let you know when I have another story out.

Thanks again everyone,

~ Jen xo  ;)  

1st entry in storytelling

My first story submitted. Come back for more :))))

My Latest Projects - Sneak Peak Time!

Hi all!

Yes, I've been busy doing some more paintings and thought I would post a few sneak peaks of some new sets I've been working on that will be uploaded very shortly.

The first set is ideal for all those sports loving, athletic sims, especially the teens:

Secondly, a little something aimed at those teen girls with a bit of an attitude, or who just like to express themselves!

Then I have two homely paintings:

And finally for now, it's 'Time To Unwind' after a busy day:

Hope you like them - feedback, comments and suggestions are always welcome!

Enjoy!