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I'm started working on a story I came up with the idea when I was rebuilding Riverview. and ofcourse my dear friends Fred en Barb(spitsmagic) thanks........

I started to get Ideas for a story line I've already Created some of the characters in this story.

The house I'm gonna use for it is just finisht after some days of working on it some rooms aren't quite ready yet but I think it will be fine the house has 7 bedrooms 5 bathrooms  a huge attic roof terras with acces and a lot more. oh three towers or so to. There will be some famous from TSR passing by in this story you might know them. I'm not saying who. I believe the people already might know who...................................

Any way the story is about a the first house of Riverview so it plays in a old house duo the fact of some artists from the EA site I've got some materials. with these materials I could really make the house looks old very old I hope there will be more of that stuff. I hope to finish the storiy soon. It's my first so............

 Oh also vote on the poll

Back to school

New Object Set Coming Soon

I'm going to be making a Black Modern Living Set just like my White Modern Living set but with black recolors. I will also try and make a lamp to go with it.

New Hair Recolors

Whee!! I have eight new hair recolors so be sure to go download those.

Minisite!

Hello cuties,

Today I had a surprise: I was able to customize my page as a courtesy from the admin. I'm very happy! Now you can see my Upcoming Items & stuff and more items are coming, because i'm really inspired right now! *-* haha

See ya !

Downloads

Oh...My...Good...Lord...

I have over 20.000 downloads it says on my minipage... I'm overwhelmed. Next week I'm on vacation and will be back on September 18th...I hope you will visit my site from time to time...just uploaded two more lots. A nice Dutch farm house and Fred and Barb's place from our story Valley of Dreams.

Thank you ALL for downloading, reading and rating and especially commenting on my downloads, stories and screenshots. I DO so much appreciate that...Love you!

NEW STORY

I invite all of you to read a new story called "WITCHES". It has been written by my 8-years-old daughter, she loves writting. This is a 3 chapters story, and the first two chapters have been just published. I hope you enjoy them.

Your comments will be appreciate by my little girl.

She is very happy because her stories are published, and she is very thankful to all the ones left nice comments to her Cinderella 2009.

Thanks for your time!

Hello TSR! This is Corsetcrush checking in!

I'm a 30 year old Stay-at-home Wife who has been Simming since before the first expansion of Sims 1. At the time it was common to have box art that was MUCH better that the actual fact of the game. I remember seeing the Sims 1 at Walmart and thinking that the game didn't ACTUALLY look like that. I was shocked when my husband told me that it was the actual Sims. It all seems so laughable now because of how blocky the Sims were, but the only game series that I had played through on my own before that was King's Quest or maybe some Nintendo games...

I have been a gamer most of my life in one form or another but towards the end of Sims 1 I finally caught the modding bug after one of the sites I visited (now long forgotten) said that she used Milkshape and Photoshop Elements (because it had layers! *laughs*) I knew that I would like doing 'computer artwork' because I would sit for hours on the weekends, in my free time when I was about 12, shifting pixels in the paint program that we had on my mom's first computer (a black and white Mac Classic.) If you take a piece of computer paper and fold it in half width wise, the screen is smaller than that. I was really frustrated though with getting started so late into the modding for Sims 1 because there was a lot that I felt I was hugely behind everyone who had been doing it for years.

When I found out about the release of Sims 2, I was nearly bouncing off the walls for months. I was like a kid before Christmas, reading everything I could find about it in gaming mags. The only down side was we didn't have access to the net at that point in time and by the time we did, I felt completely lost all over again. Photo skinning was becoming a bigger deal, alpha layers we being used all over the place, and new clothes and hair that was unimaginable in Sims 1 could be found everywhere. I slowly came to realize that I wasn't necessarily behind everyone, I'm just bad a clothes! Once I started down the path of meshing, I've never looked back. I love it!

In all honesty, I was not looking for Sims 3 to come out. I liked the seamless neighborhood idea, but was revolted by the EA pic of the plaid car... Give me a break. I thought that they had ruined the objects and how they were made. The whole hood aging at once I was not fond of either because I like to micromanage all my Sims. So I actually waited two months after the release before having my husband get it for me as a 10th wedding anniversary present. *Grins* Addicted? Only if I admit it...

Now that I'm having a chance to look at the game I'm blown away by the possibilities. I made a LOT more meshes for Sims 2 than I ever got around to publishing, either because feeling that they wouldn't be good enough to get through other moderation ques, or having no idea what textures and whatnot would attract interest to my objects. Now with Sims 3 (once I learn how the textures work now) I am completely thrilled of how this has been reworked. I have been amazed in my own game of how I can truly make custom clothes for my Sims for however I'm feeling at the moment.

Why TSR?

#1) Beginners have a chance. From what I have read of the upload policy as well as some of the Sims 3 downloads available that I have seen, everyone is not forced into a mold of what we should like for our game. The list of 'guidelines' on Mod is enormous! I do not think that word means what they think it means. Guidelines are general boundaries, not high walls blocking in a vary narrow path. Mod has ceaced being friendly to the new players, or just the inexperianced modders. I like a mix of realistic and cartoony styles of Sim stuff, but Mod is getting so heavily into the 'Realism is better, non-realistic is crap!!' I just don't play that way. I have seen some stuff that has been rejected (by a new modder) that I would have LOVED for my game, but it was rejected because it wasn't realistic enough.

#2) TSR Workshop. I want to spend my time meshing and making things for our Simmies to love, so if something can be done easier and faster, I'm there! I appreciate what WesH and everyone else is doing on the objects front, but I'm getting SO tired of it being such a mess to get an object made.

#3) The crayons in my box have multiple colors. I have been on a lot of the major sites for quite some time and just recently realizing that they have their own color (in a metaphorical sense). I also realized that I have a different color that really is not the same as any of them, but TSR from what I can see at the moment is at least similar.

#4) Divide & Conquer. I came to TSR to check out the Workshop. Even though I had a month subscription back in 2004 I have not come here except a very few times since. This time I decided to stop and look around and was very surprised at what I found. Not only do they have a profile page for me, I can post my screenshots and a ton of other things. On Mod they have gone out of their way (it seems) to keep the social part of human nature seperated from the stuff for a game. That seems very silly to me and often made me feel very alone on a huge site. Everything has to be kept in a very strict box there, and if you veer from that, someone will grouch at you (it seems to me anyway).

#5) Snobbery & Camaraderie. The longer I spend my time on Mod, the less I feel welcome. All I want to do is to make stuff for the Sims games and share it with like minded players. What did I see when I was there today? Another modification to their rules for uploads. Didn't they think the list was long enough already? Being dyslexic, I can't read through the whole exsisting list and still comprehending it once I'm finished. This makes me feel like I could NEVER do anything that would be "Mod worthy" as I refer to it when I'm talking to my husband. Despite the fact that I know I can mesh exceedingly well, my problem usually is having to reduce the faces and vertices because to get things to look like I want them too, the counts are rather high. You can do either very high quality, or you can do something that will work for 'everyone' despite the fact that there are always people running the game on computers or laptops that are not up to the task. I'm also someone who could be called a texture snob, because I like higher quality textures that look great in the game, not pixelated. Even just the short time I've been on TSR, I feel completely welcome, and it has blown me away! I feel like I might have a chance again to do stuff for TS3 and be able to actually share it. So much stuff I kept to myself before because I was daunted (and honestly horrified) by the expectations of Mod. I feel like on TSR I have the chance of being part of a community, not just a gear in a download site. For being a free site, I'm shocked to realize how snobby they have become even in the last few years.

#6) The FUN of gaming. TSR has actually made me pumped about modding again, feeling like I am someone important. I can have a whole community around me and actually feel very welcome to contribute. For goodness sake, I uploaded four pictures and actually got comments on them! I posted a pic in a thread on the Mod social site and was grouched at because I accidentally made it the wrong size. I want my game to be fun, if it isn't what's the point?

Am I still scared about being 'sub par' on TSR as well? Sure, but that's only been because of the experiances elsewhere. I have two houses uploaded on Mod are not the greatest of things. Am I really that bad at building? It's not one of my strong points I admit, but both of the ones that are there are from requests that had very specific guidelines that the person wanted for the lot. I am rather proud of my 'family home for eight' because the person wanted a single floor house for her family of eight. It was rejected the first time I tried to upload it because the back corner of the lot was left undecorated. I had done that on purpose. I know I don't really download lots because they are too heavily decorated and I would often have to rip out half of the landscaping before I would be happy with it. I have been building lots again in Sims 3 and seeing how I can expand my building abilities and hopfully at some point upload them to TSR. I have made lots for myself in Sims 2 that were leagues beyond what I uploaded to Mod.

I have been modding for years but still feel like a noob. I'm hoping that TSR will give me the room to grow and learn that I need to build up my confidance to be able to do the stuff I hope to eventually create.

Thank you TSR for making me feel welcome as a modder again. I'll try my best. :D

Any Requests and thank you!

Heyy everyone i just wanted to ask if you have any requests for the sims 3 i have done requests such as robert pattison eminem obama and such others soo if you have any requests just let me know!! Oh and thank you for all my buddies on tsr for helping me and supporting me XD 

                                     ~ShOrTiE~

Interviewer

I've offered several people an interview, you know, maybe get some people to visit them and visit me. I want to be famous for interviewing famous people! XD Makin' any sense yet? I think it'd be a good idea. I just have to wait until the two lots I created upload, I mean how long do these things pend for?! .o. If anybody wants to be interviewed, drop me a comment in my Guest Book or whatever they call it here. Talk to you later~

Garden Cottage

My garden cottage is available now! The picture of it was featured on the front of the TSR on 8/18!It made me so happy! Enjoy and thanks again to everyone. 

please help me!!!

can someone please tell me how to get the items i have downloaded into my game?? i tried what my friend told me but it didn't work. could someone please help me out by replying or commenting on my blog?? thanks in advance!!

by the way if it helps I have the sims 2 double deluxe, apartment life, open for buisness, university, H&M fashion stuff,teen style stuff and seasons.

Johnny Depp Sim

I sat down today and finally made a sim I've been trying to make since June and I have to say I've very pleased with him, He has been approved and is currently waiting on being published. I hope you all like him xx

Story Delays

Well...assignment time has come around, again. :( My stories may not be coming out as often as they have been due to this, but I will still be writing them! The time between when I get each new chapter out will vary but I will be trying to get them out as soon as I can :D

Objecting to no objects?

I know.  No objects yet.   STILL no objects!!!  That's because there's no objects-ready Workshop released yet, and no discovery on the cause of those scaling textures either.  The wait is killing me (and I hope no-one just said 'good!'...)

The texture problem is a nuisance.  We don't yet know WHY some (most?) but not all objects are scaling their textures.  In the picture above, my oil drum tables have mapped perfectly (both shading and textures are just where they're meant to be) but the radio (I know - exactly the sort of crud I'd make!) has the texture scaling problem where the wood and circular speaker texture has stretched too far down and too far to the right. Same with windows.  A few are absolutely fine, but one or two in the set have their shading falling in the wrong places, giving window frames the appearance of inexplicable bruises! The only items that have been totally fault free to date are the stairs.

And an absent Workshop means that I cannot make Sims3Pack objects.  This is ultra-important.  Any creation you install as a basic package file (including patterns) will not package with any lots you intend to upload.  As a builder myself, I know what a pain in a certain rear part of the anatomy THAT is!  Given that when we install patterns as Sims3Pack files they DO upload with lots, I'm hoping like heck that the same will hold true for objects too.

And no, I DON'T know what I was thinking when I made that radio.  I had a collection of knobs and grids to play with so they were slapped together to make a box that looked like it should DO something - so a radio was born - badly mapped!

Clothing are coming!

Hello cuties,

Today I've submitted two clothing types : dress (new mesh) and shoes (new mesh too!) and it'll be posted soon (I hope).

Just wait! I hope all of you like it.

Bye!

A Few Issues

Hi Everyone

I am currently experiencing issues with the following:

- Uploading Screenshots to TSR (Not my Profile)

- Entries in Guestbook

I like to keep things organised and in order and my Guestbook is now driving me mad as it says i still have entries in it regardless of me deleting them all at one stage ? ? ?

Unsure whether its me doing something wrong with uploading my Screenshots to TSR. I don't have issues uploading the screenshots to my Profile? Am i doing something wrong? Do i need to download a Wizard or Package for this to take effect?

I have posted the Screenshot issue and Guestbook issue in the Forums but only really had responses in respect of the Guestbook as i am not the only person having this issue.

I have submitted to Support issues to TSR Help Centre and both of them have a status as Unhandled? What does that mean?

Can anyone help me... please...

Cherrybooboo :(

Thank you all!

I just wanted to express my thanks to everyone who downloaded my creations and wrote such nice comments about them. I’m so thrilled to be a Select Artist now and it wouldn’t be possible without all of you.

25,000+ DOWNLOADS!!

Wooo! Thanks you guys for downloading my creations and showing your support! It means so much to me. It's awesome to see that I have so many downloads in such a short time span! ;]

Thank You and New Sims 3 uploads

I'd like to thank everyone for their lovely comments!I'd also like to let everyone know that I've uploaded the garden cottage and my twilight sims. For now, you can view them in my photos. They will be published on 8/20.Thanks again everyone and happy simming!

Gone Again

I'm off on holiday for another few days and will be back on monday. Meanwhile my new lot: Wallaby Residence has just been published, so check it out. I'm proud to say that it's featured!

See you all on monday,

Alasdair

Thank you, thank you!

I just wanted to say a big thank you to all the artists that are creating for the Sims 3. I went on a little downloading spree last night and some of the creations are just amazing! Clothing wow! Lots wow! The game really is so much better with all the custom content. And I know it's only going to get better and better further down the track. I think we (and our simmies) are truly spoilt here at TSR. ;)

Contrary to popular belief...I am NOT dead!

Hi there all you simmers out there! *Waves spastically* I just wanted to drop you a note to let you know that I have NOT fallen off the face of the earth (as some have so fervantly hoped), but am merely dealing with "Real Life". ;)

For those who don't care. Stop here, and continue enjoying the site! Thank you.

For those that do, I have two children I am VERY fond and proud of. My oldest is 19 years old, and this week is his last week home before returning to college, so things have been a bit hectic. *Sigh* How DARE they grow up and move out on mama! :P My youngest is 4 years old...and he is ALL daddy. (Which means I have 2 four year olds running around the house. Hehehe!) So if I'm not taking my eldest out for college shopping and doing last minute checks and laundry...yes, the neverending job...then I am chasing after one energetic 4 year old and following the trail of clothing to my husband. ACK! Plus there's that real life job and all...man! I remember the days when I used to say, "Hey! I can be on the site all the time because I don't have a life!" Bah! Life-Schmife. I'd rather be building than going to work. LOL!

Anyhoo, what this means to YOU is that I have not forgotten that I owe a lot of people a HUGE thank you for so many wonderful comments on my lots, beautiful notes in my guestbook, PMs, and requests for assistance in my Cave Thread. (Yes, arwensmom, I am going to take a good look at your pictures and see what I can figure out...) I have just finished testing, pond stocking, and garden growing a new lot that will be available soon, and got it uploaded tonight. Now, I am just beat. So, if it's ok with you...or not, hehehe...I will be answering everyone tomorrow when I actually have a day off of work. YAY! Thank you ALL for your patience, and your encouragement! Without you...well, then there's really no point to me! (((Hugs!)))

Love and hugs -
Illiana

Back in the saddle

Ok, so it wasn't that much of a break but the last few weeks spent not creating that much seems to have done the trick and I'm now feeling refreshed and inspired to create once more.  Along with a new look I now have a series of new lots in progress.  Whether they'll all get finished is another question, I'm still waiting for someone to invent that 48 hour day!

I have been playing Sims 3 a lot more too and dare I say it but I actually went back and fired up my Sims 2 game and revisited some of my old pixilated friends.  I now find myself torn between the 2 games and enjoy playing them both almost equally despite Sims 2 loading times.  (I always make sure I have a good book at the ready while it loads up!)

One of the things I have noticed since I've been building for Sims 3 is that lots take so much longer to complete so I don't expect to be quite as prolific as before.  I've always been a firm believer in quality over quantity and I take pride in adding detail to my lots both inside and out and all that takes time!  If it's not good enough for my game then you won't be getting to play it, and I do play many of the lots that I publish here.

So, I'll be hanging around TSR for a while longer yet (sorry!) and now that I've bored you all to death I'm heading back to the building site!  Keep on simmin'!

... Proud to be a Select Artist!

Hey, everyone!

I just became a Select Artist for Sims 3 & the feeling's great! Thanks to CarpeDiem for even deeper help. It's nice to see how my work paid off. But you haven't seen nothing yet! :D Keep your eyes on my creations...you won't regret it!

~~~ RainSparkle ~~~

Liens sims 3 utiles :

http://www.modthesims.info/browse.php?f=38

http://www.lianasims3.net/index.php

http://www.peggyzone.com/Sims3Download.html

http://www.xmsims.com/sims3/ehtm/main/index01.html

http://www.all-about-style.com/sims3.html

http://www.ibayasims3.com/

http://www.lorandiasims3.com/

http://www.simenapule.it/

http://www.aroundthesims3.com/infos/links.html

http://hi.baidu.com/juiceshine

http://cazyxdarkplace.blogspot.com/

http://mysims3blog.blogspot.com/search/label/Hair?updated-max=2009-08-03T22%3A47%3A00-04%3A00&max-results=20

http://www.annamariasims2.com/Sims3/

http://www.sims3boutique.com/

Me?! On Broadway?! Holy S...sandwich!

...I feel pretty...

...Oh so pretty~

...I feel pretty and witty~

...AND GAYYYY~!!!

LOL XP So yeah, I auditioned for a school play called "Broadway Musical"...mainly concerning Westside Story. I actually had no idea what it was about and I did it for the lulz o3o...and well, I actually did pretty "well" IMO. I sing good - I know I do >_> buuuuttt like I said I did it for the lulz/experience and a part of me wanted to get a part and the other wants me to get rejected. Although the lady/directer kinda liked me...sorta o3o she remembered my number! (que number something like that)

I have a lot of stuff in my hands right now =_= a play would only take time...but but but...I MISS THE SPOTLIGHT SO MUCH! It's been years since I was on stage ;_; I duhno...I guess I want to and I don't want to at the same time haha

If ever I get accepted, I might make a sim story of this or a comic...who knows?

A very SIM birthday!

My friend Karen (you guys know her as Karie) made me a birthday cake & made it look like a cake the Sims use to celebrate birthdays with.....AND mine even had a bright green plumbbob on it!

Then the candles were lit.  Wow getting old is brutal.......twice baked cake. LOL

2 New Sets

I have two new sets coming up! One is my new idea of making a mask of matching makeup so you don't have to match lipstick and eyeshadow and all that. Those colors are in Natural Shades and I'm going to work on the Colored version soon. The second is a new hair recolor set of one of my favorite meshes by Raon Sims. I tried making the colors look more natural than my last hair set and I put the odd colored and natural colored in one whole set. Sorry about the blonde, I don't think I did too well on the blonde, but hey, at least I tried! ;)

Results from my first poll...

Question: What did you miss the most of the Sims2 expansions packs?

Welcome

Hi! I'm Jakub. I live in Poland in small town. I love sims 3 and creating stuff, Have a nice day

Evil Error 13 - Legacy Lost

Cry... It was just not me weekend.  My Myzer legacy was up to generation 6, it was getting huge as each child was having at least 4 kids of their own.  My current heir headed out to work, her husband sat in the park strumming away.  I hit pause, then options, edit town, do you want to save?  Yes... two minutes later up pops error 13.  Something about a post save issue. And the game is locked up.

Ok. Shut down sims, shut down computer, restart computer, load up game and neighborhood.  Everything is there, but the Sims themselves do not appear.  You can see them carrying things and the plumb bobs, chattering away, but everyone is acting like the invisible woman. <sigh> oh well, I'll just load up the back up.  erm.. same thing.  How about the back up of the back up?  Same thing.  How about my other neighborhoods?  They all work fine.  Gerrrrr.  Lost.. all is lost.  <Kicks Computer>

I won't upload on TSR anymore

Hi!

As you know, I had some problems with my TS3 submission area.

Unfortunately, the problem is still present and I don't know what to do.

So, I decided to stop to upload my creations.

Cippa

Models for sale.. Actually, okay, maybe.

Lately I have been contacted by folks who are interested in having my models in their game and asking me to put them up for download. I would love, love, love to do so; however, I am using them in a story I am currently writing and I would like them to be exclusively just for that. I am sure once I finish the storyline that I will place them up for download. How long that will be? No clue. Until then, I guess I will start making Sims for download with the hopes of you guys finding a few that you like just as much, if not more!

edit;

So, today's your lucky day! I changed my mind about using the models for the story I have been working on. I have created a similar version to them for the story because their looks didn't EXACTLY fit the characters I wanted them to portray. I will be uploading them sometime for you guys! As well as continue to make new sims with the hopes of you guys loving them.

2 New Patterns!

 Hey guys! 

I am really ecited because my patterns FINALLY got accepted. I was going for some more, but there is like an ENTIRE set, and it is hard to take and set up pictures for JUST that ONE pattern. 

Anyway, you can get a preview on these patterns by going to my 'Upcoming Items' under 'Sims 3' 

I really hope you guys enjoy them, because I am going to be featuring them in a few of my creations! I am working on some lots right now! :)

Take care,

LS3alexis

Maria & Mathias Approved!!

Maria and Mathias Johnson have been approved and published, My first creations!!!

I'm so happy that I can finally call myself a creator lol

I have since made 3 more sims, a male Vampire, A Asian Female and a Rock Star Wannabe :D

The vampire and the asian sim have both been approved and I am just waiting on them being published.

I hope you all like them

Thankies xx

New Poll - Creating Sims

Hey Simmers, I have a new poll out. It's in reference to creating Sims which I really enjoy doing. If you'd be so kind to let me know what you like or maybe you just need some kudo's then please take my poll. It was going to be several more questions long but it may've ended up being the biggest poll in history as there would've been 10 or more answers to each question. So I cut it down a bit.  

Hair! Hair! It's everywhere!

So, I keep hearing that my models are damn sexy. Well, of course they are: I made them! Duh! Haha, oh a modest one aren't I? Anywho, part of their sexiness goes behind the clothes that I put on them - it's the hair, baby! Many of you guys have been contacting me in regards to specific hairs I have been using. I have taken the time out to try and locate them on the web for you!

http://www.zshare.net/download/6421380379355598/

http://www.zshare.net/download/6392057927e40911/

New Poll about my New Riverview

I've been editing replacing, remodeling, designing new lots for Riverview one of them is already published The old Ware house. During this proces some lots like the Riverview Square are placed on a unique place in the town herefor other lots also have been replaced and upgraded. There will be a screen from the air soon so you can see where the lots have been placed.

My question is the new poll. If I get a lot of yes ansewrs I'll upload the community, workplaces & commercial lots aswell.

Just fill in the Poll Thanks I hope you like it.

first post

Okay. Here it is. THE BLOG.

Whatever... :D I've decided to try and make a few more uploads, maybe even in a regular manner, especially since I got Sims 3 a month ago, so I'll give it a try. The uploads will probably be houses and some minor items of clothing, some, like my favourite houses (which I haven't even uploaded at all), translated from Sims 2 to Sims 3. I suppose no one even reads this anyway but just to give cyberspace a general warning that I am about to pollute it with products of my mind :) That's it, and I sincerely hope that I won't forget this because I really like TSR and creating for it. So long! ~ Nawa