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Lack of houses

Hi everyone,

I had some issues with my personal life that took a lot of my time. Now I am back to concentrate more on Sims. I am trying to build up a variety of Sims 3 houses. I am still going to be building for Sims 2. I have a lot of great houses to be submitted for Sims 2.

Congrats to all the FA and SA who were selected for the Sims 3 panel  of artists. :)

Which is kinda good news for my submitters...My lots will be free for some time now. I plan on keeping the same and/or better quality to what you are used to with Sims 2.

becky

Hey i'm new to this game. i'm learning fast hope to hear from you.if you have any pointers to help me on making my game better, then leave me a massage. i have 2 kids ages 3 and 22.i'm just learning the computer and game so feel free to help.

New Countryhome

My flu is a little bit better - no runny nose and only a small cough. I hope it gets better every day and until wednesday the flu is gone - and comes not back this year!!!

I had an idea today and build a house for a new series called "Countryhome".

Here's the first house, it has a attached doublegarage and a wintergarden. It's still not furnished! But it would be avaiable for download until friday of saturday!

Sorry guys

my comp is down yet again, and of course right when i was going to post stuff.  i dont know when i'll get it back....im very sorry!

5km sponsored run - 38 minutes

Ok so it's not a fast time! But I did complete my 5k Race For Life event, and I did keep running the whole way, and that's a pretty big achievement for me. When I started training for this a few months ago I was unfit, really out of shape, and I could barely run for a few minutes at a time.

(I'm still £20 short on sponsorship, contact me privately if you're interested in sponsoring my run in aid of Cancer Research UK - it's an official page for the Race For Life event and it's powered by Justgiving, so you can be sure your donation is handled securely.)

So now that that's over and done with, I'll be heading back home on Wednesday, so I should be able to create more patterns when I get home than I have been doing while I've been here at my parents' house.

Have a great week everyone!

Ahh Paintshop Pro!!

I have today made a little girl sim, with a very punky theme. And a cottage style house which changed more times that I can think of. It started off with a white picket style fence country cottage theme with white doors/ windows,the finished house looks totally different.

As I take screenshots of my clothes/Sims and houses, I won't be putting the above on TSR until tomorrow. My computer crashed in the middle of using Paintshop Pro, and now it wont start up. I do have an older version on disk, but can't get hold of it until tomorrow afternoon.

So....until then :)

Waterfalls

As you may have noticed from several of my lots, I love waterfalls!  Now that I've finally figured out the game's "tides,"  I'm hoping to never experience "backflow" again! Live and learn...some days I'm a little slower than others!

I will be uploading more lots soon...just need to test them out first, I'm sure you understand!

Modern house on a slope

I've always loved those luxurious houses you see on TV, where the pool has a view down over the valley. So that's what I tried to do when I built this house. Plus, I wanted something else to go on those sloped lots. This house is available for download.

New Blog...

I've finally decided to blog...haven't before because..just never had enough time,I've always been downloading but i think the Sims3 community has caught my eye and of course, its much easier to change and create too. Iv'e been designing clothes just recently, a mix of downloaded patterns and ingame patterns, for the Octane Suit which is one of the more recent store pieces. Its a great suit because the jacket and trousers are recolourable separately and that makes for lots of customisation. I'll post some pics soon.

Missing Stories o-o

...the title says it all. The other stories are kinda missing in the story section @-@ dear Lord what happened, this time?

Oh and...lol I accidentally deleted the whole cast of my story @///@ which is no problem since I got them in body shop HOWEVER - not all of them, x_x I deleted the minor character templates so I can have more space *cough*laptop*cough* then it turns out that they're not minor characters at all D: geez.

How am I supposed to clone those guys? *sigh* especially Greg @_@ he was a "Random Miracle"...yeah I got him of random in bodyshop, tweeked him a bit and voila! =3= OTL

What to do? What to do? I still have the houses and the buildings - thank God. But the characters!!! @A@ what am I gonna do?!

OH BTW, I "deleted them" by removing them from the house since I want to move them to another neighborhood (smaller custom) AND be able to keep their memories. So I got them all set up at the family bin and I took all the houses in the lots bin. That usually works when I move them but...when I got to my new neighborhood they were gone! SAY HELLO TO THE TRAVELLER FAMILY! and nobody else...D:

Don't tell me I have to move them in before deleting the previous neighborhood? @_@ oh crap.

The blasted chimney tutorial!

I'm really, REALLY sorry about the tutorial on the front page.  All you can see is the first of eight pages - and all that contains is waffle...

At first, I was tempted to say "yes, that IS the entire tutorial", but I've been told by my therapist that I must be KIND to people.  So, in my forced kindness, I am going to inform you that something in TSR's natty new tutorial gizmo is broken (the page numbers are missing and so also is the ability to comment - which is probably good given that you'd be screaming and cursing at me).

I have reported it and I have my fingers crossed.  We'll be zapping red chimneys very shortly.  In the meantime, why not fire up your wrath by adding horrid, bright red chimneys to all your lots and we'll go on a mass chimney-killing spree together as soon as the tutorial displays properly!

Thank you

I want to start by thanking those of you who have left me some positive feedback and ideas to improve what I have begun to submit since Sims 3 came out.  I am taking all comments into consideration as I continue to create for the game :)

Upcoming on my agenda will be:

• Resize and set Enchanted patterns to themed  (should have 8 more uploads out of that)
• Create more baby themed patterns with the bears, and perhaps others too

Please feel free to keep offering suggestions and like to sees.  The support I've gotten right from the get go here has me motivated to do more :)

Thank you all again!

New walls and floors coming soon

I have just finished making more sims 2 walls and floors sets, I will upload them today, and I have uploaded more sims 3 patterns, you can look for those soon also.

Solution found! Hooray!

Thanks to Illiana brainstorming with me it looks like I have found a solution to the terrain level annoyance in some of my lots. I am now going through all of the homes published so far with a fine comb and checking them for anomolies. Hopefully the solution will work for all the lots so I can revise them. My latest five houses/bungalows with this issue are currently pending approval for a revision version. So just sit tight and I will work towards making them all right again!

:wub: Illiana :wub:

Sometimes kisses & chocolate cake doesn't make the hurt go away.

I miss the days when my daughter's hurts were easier to fix.  When she was little & fell down a kiss made it better.  When she got just a bit older & her interests went from dolls to a different kind of "doll"..........for every up there is a down & for every boy who broke her heart there was a mother & daughter chocolate cake baking session to go with.  But how do you help you baby deal with loosing her baby?  She was pregnant.  She lost it a couple days ago & today she called up crying because her milk had come in.  She was 10 wks pregnant & I guess her body didn't know there is no need for any milk.  Yes I can hold her & be there for her.........but I can't make this one go away...........I miss the days when kissing a boo boo or baking a chocolate cake and talking about what a good thing the boy was missing out on still worked.

Update The Old Ranch/ TSR Site/ Weekend

First of all I finisht the Ranch that I was working on the last few days. I upload today it just turned 01:35 here in my country.

I enjoyed creating it, furnishing was a challange on it's own. I hope you all like it just let me know what you think of it.

The discription plays a big part for this lot, so don't forget to read it. It's a bit of history and background information about the property. I did my best to make the place look old not only the wallpapers and flooring but mostley I focused on the furniture. That was my challange with this lot. The wallpapers are easy just try to get everything together wallpapers, doors/windows & furniture. To bad EA doesn't supply us with broken windows broken/old furniture and stuff.

The TSR Site I'm happy with it with the new mainpage I don't have to click on the Sims 3 anymore it became standerd for me.

I think my next challage will be to clean out one of the 2 towns and create a whole city. but I'm not sure yet???????

Have a great weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have been selected! :)

I am a Select Artist from now. :wub:

Thank you all!

Summer Vacation

I am on a short vacation until July 20. I have some TS2 lots to upload, but was hoping to having the color warp issue resolved soon. 

I'll be back in two weeks!

Happy Simming!

Subscription Update

I hate to bother anybody, but I signed up to receive TSR newsletters with my email, and I have not received any in email yet.

Frustrated!!

I really can't understand why lately my houses all have lowered terrain. They're not supposed to have it and when I build them they don't, No matter what I do now I have this problem with my houses and I think it makes them look really ugly. I have been trying to solve this problem for the last 3 days, which is why I've not uploaded any new lots. But I can't figure out what it is that is going wrong. It doesn't matter if I use foundations or cheats, it'll still lower the terrein upon (re)placement. I am so frustrated by this problem now that I am considering just giving up building all together, I just don't want to pass this problem on to my downloaders :(

If anyone knows a solution to this problem, PLEASE tell me!!

Taking photo's in CAS?

Hey there simmer's, this may seem like a silly question but would anyone be so kind in telling how you take photos while in CAS? I've got sims I'd like to upload and it would be nice to have some snapshots that I can play around with before submitting them.

Thanks so much! ;)

Incentives Points

Hi

Today my incentives points makesence again!!!!!!!!!!!1 whoeeee now I just wish that we only needed 15000 instead of 40000.

I must say the points are changed again for example 120 point for a Sims 2 lot and 8 points for Sims 3 lots. This is really not fair why is there such a big diffrents between those 2 further you we can't get any point's for other stuff of the Sims 3.

Why is this?????????????????????????????????????????????????????

I  WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE OPINION FROM OTHER TS3 PLAYERS I ALSO PUT IT IN THE FORUMS AS SOON AS I'M ABLE TO. at the moment I can't post a new tread if some one can please do it and let me know thanx.

Mike

Wow Selected Artist *happy*

Haii everybody,

I just wanted to say that I'm so happy and feel so honored to became a selected Artist for Sims 3. :) Thanks for all you comments for my houses. I'm really happy that you like them.

I will upload a new house this weekend I think, at the moment i do the furnishing.^^

Hugs, Anne

The Sims 3

Hello :)

I noticed there are some catagories in the Sims 3 downloads are really undeveloped...

So I'll be sumbiting some new metals, rubber and stones soon :)

Hope you enjoy them :)

Love..

Danny

Avatar

Inspired by Diamond Sim I thought I would change my avatar.  Now Im a little fancier for sims3 .... but of course cant wait till sims222 comes out so Im more in fashion! LOL :p

Influenza

I'm sorry that i can't submit new houses at the last two weeks :(

I'm ill! I have a heavy flu with cough, runny nose and all the other stupid things which belong to an influenza :(  I'm lying in my bed the whole time, read books, watching tv or whatever.. it's boring! But i can not play sims3 :( i can't sit long on the pc or concentrate on the game.

I drink every day a lot of cups of tea, i can no longer see. When i'm healthy i hide the tea far back in the cabinet!

There are one house waiting for furnishing (see the picture) and many ideas for new houses i want to build! But first i must get healthy...

[Upcoming] Dress Set and Skinny Jeans Set

Hi,

In a couple of days i'm going to upload two seperate sets.

Dress Set {'Dressed' to Impress}

and a Skinny Jeans Set...

Happy Simming :)

xox jjDJ

[Check it out] MidNIGHT Party Set

Hey Guys,

I Just added this Set a couple of days ago. 

There are three different outfits, I hope you like them.

Happy Simming :)

xox jjDJ

Re: REPLYING TO COMMENTS

I have been busy lately and did not have that much time to get back to all the wonderful comments that you all have been leaving on my creations! I have around 961 comments left to reply to, and I promise that I will do my best to get to all of you as soon as I can!

Happy Simmin'!

Alyosha

Why I upload

Why do I upload?  Well lets see........  #1 great way of earning some kudos, #2 I love building lots anyway, #3 if my pets have made even one player heppy......I'M happy.  For now it is all 100% maxis.......& I've learned to think "outside the box" since being dethroned (I was the "Download Diva" until I started having all these computer issues). 

So pretty much I make tons of lots & pets because: it's fun, it earns me kudos, & from time to time I can spread a little bit of joy thoughout TSR......even if it's just cuz people can just move into a nice playable home & not have to bother, or cuz my pets nice & fun to play.

New Uploads

So I uploaded my second lot and I really like it. Be watching for when it is available for download. Right now it is in the Pending stage. Don't forget if you want a specific type of house but you feel you can't make it good enough, ask me. I will be happy to try and meet your needs!

Where I've been, and why I'll still be missing.

I hit my head on Friday. I didn't think it was too bad, but Saturday...I was basically dead. Sunday rolls around, felt WAY better and spent the day on the lake tubing and stuff...naturally, bouncing around some more. Monday, went to the doctor...he wasn't too concerned and told me that I did not have a concussion and to take Tylenol for my headaches.

By, Tuesday, I was still having horrible headaches. I can't focus on anything, I'm nauseous. I can't comprehend anything that is new to me. I can't read and understand what I'm reading. It takes me a really really long time to do things because I'm also having memory loss issues.

I called on Tuesday, and the nurse told me that I needed to wait until Thursday before coming back. By Wednesday, I absolutely cannot function. I leave work and go to the ER with my mom, as the receptionist cannot get a hold of my doctor because he is out of the office.

At the ER, I get a cat scan that shows I've no bleeding and no fractures. But, the doctor did tell me I do, in fact, have a concussion. She gave me some serious pain medication and told me not to go back to work until Monday. If I am not better by Monday, then I need to go to my regular doctor and be sent to a neurologist.

So, that will hopefully explain my absence...and I will probably be checking in for PM's and such, and I will of course slowly work on The Andretti's...and continue my pattern submissions. But, I cannot produce much as of now because just waking up and breathing is a chore... :(

New Series: Sunny Bay Blocks

I decided to start a new series of modern homes collectively called Sunny Bay. This would be a set of modern houses that may range from small to middle to large sizes, and will have different color motifs and styles each, all perfect for Beach lots! The first one has already been uploaded and is coming soon! So, hope y'all enjoy this series!

Alyosha

Delayed Again

Well, my PC has been delayed again. Now it is expected next Tuesday.

The good news is that it has shipped, so there shouldn't be any more delays.

So if you don't see me much next week, that will be the reason.

I must say I'm not looking forward to moving everything over.

But once I get it there I think that fun will definitely be had!

New Sims 2 Bathroom coming out soon. Happy Simming!

Playing around with Delphys stencil tool

I playes a bit with Delphys stencil tool and made that blouse. Would be great do get some feedback. :)

It´s a great tool and working with it it´s quite easy. :)

Another Pattern is Ready for Publishing

I just got everything finished and uploaded and I am waiting on the publishing date. This pattern is extra special to me cause I think it just turned out so well. There is not as much blue in it as I had wanted, so it doesnt look as much like a Union Jack flag on the guitar as I had intended, but, other than that, ROCK ON!!! :D

NEW POLL AND NEW LOTS AND SIMS

I have some new Sims and lots. I also have a new poll. So if you are in need of some more Kudos stop by and do the poll.Thanks **Wanda**

Wow.

I can't believe how much feedback I have had since starting my Sims 2 stories. My profile views has times by 10 since I started. I am over a 1000 views (which is a lot for me!) and my aim is to reach 2500 kudos to purchase myself more things!

So cheers guys xxx

July 11th, The Royal Collection

The Royal Collection is a set of furnishings inspired by drawing rooms in Buckingham Palace. The sofa and centre table are master files for the set and are required meshes. The collection features 3 recolors for the master sofa file, a vibrant bright pink and teal, and also a soft cream texture. The furniture has lots of gilt, which in the RL furniture is gilt covered mahogany wood. Who knew! LOL!

All of the lovely wall treatments pictured in my preview shoots are by Jsf Designs, (don't forget to download the beautiful wall set) and the Royal Collection set is also a little thank-you "gift"  for one of my favorite designers. Thanks Judi, this set is for you!

Happy Simming!

Carolyn

The Sims 2 Wedding Planner

Weddings have always been one of my favourite aspects of The Sims. There's a lot to think about when planning a Sims 2 wedding, so I decided to write down the main points to remember for my own use. This list grew and grew and I thought that perhaps it might be useful to other people, so I decided to turn it into a tutorial: The Sims 2 Wedding Planner .

This tutorial is really just me gathering my thoughts, making sure I don't forget anything in the run up to a Sims wedding. It starts with a summary of the different wedding formats available in the game and goes on to summarise how the various expansion and stuff packs added further options. I then compiled a list of all the various aspects to consider when planning a wedding, trying to include everything I could think of that one might wish to include, listed in roughly chronological order. I don't imagine anyone would want to include everything on the list - it's tricky, but it is possible!

I had a lot of fun setting up screenshots with which to illustrate the tutorial and these screenshots showcase a fair amount of custom content. The creators of this custom content are listed at the end of the tutorial with links to their sites (although unfortunately not all of these sites are still available).

I hope you enjoy my first tutorial - and that it helps you with your wedding planning. Please let me know if you think I've missed anything!