Member Blogs

A New Day....

A new banner. I didn't like the pink in the background especially since I decided to stick with the basic blue from TSR. I like this one much better. I do love it when a plan comes together. ;p I'm happy with the mini-site now. It's got everything I need and what I wanted too. I'll keep it updated just like I did the other. I'll be glad when I get my downloads file cleaned up and can play again a little. I want some knew screenshots for my screen shots section. ^____^

New Patch for Free Time online

Hi everyone!

I've got good news for you.

The official German E.A site did put a few minutes ago the Patch for FreeTime online.

I am so happy for the people who can now get rid of 30 bad glitches!

The patch for FreeTime is here:

http://www.diesims2.de/files.list.asp?id=583

BTW: I'm buissy with a lot of creations.

You wil see a previeuw of some of them in a few days.

Wish you a Happy Simming!

New Set on the Way

First, I want to say "Thank You" to everyone who has downloaded any of my recolors, and thanked me, or commented on them. I appreciate that very much! My new set will be published tomorrow, and I have already got my eye on what I want to do next, so watch this space for a preview.

Up and Running!

Hi Everybody,
I'm finally back up and running and I'm hoping that I will have a new set uploaded by the end of the week so stay tuned.

Thanks,
Maegen

New Series: Down on Main Street

I just uploaded the first in my new series of Main Street shops. Two others have been built--I just need to polish them off. More will be on the way in April. I hope you enjoy them! Here's a preview of Main Street in Trenton, so you can get an idea what these shops look like when they're lined up. Feedback and constructive criticism is always appreciated.

Good news and bad news

Hi everyone, I'm back from my vacation in Spain! I had a lovely time there and I'm still adjusting to the hard life here.

The good news is that now I'm overloaded with work, which is something I didn't think possible a few weeks ago and represents something really good in my life. Also, I read the news that TSR improved their filters (YAY!), so I took the opportunity to update my lots so they are now easier for you to find.

The bad news is that now I have a very limited time to create for the Sims and I'm having trouble keeping track with all the good stuff going on in this community. I feel bad for not responding to all your great comments or reading all the stories, but I will get to them all eventually!

Happy simming guys! :)

THANK YOU ALL! (COUNTDOWN to 1,000,000 Downloads has begun!)

Thanks everyone for all your continuing support! Today, I have officially begun my countdown to the biggie, 1,000,000 downloads!

Happy Simming!

God Bless,
Alyosha

AH Completed, Flowers of May Day Started...

The last three sets of the Autumn Harvest Series have been published for download. They are the Chestnut Dining Room, Bath and Bedroom. I'm sad and yet glad to let it go. There is so much more I could do for it but I know that would be overkill. Anyway, it was time for Autumn to end and Spring to begin.

Yeah after all that talk of not doing a spring set I did it anyway. The Build set that I've made is under the featured items right now. It's not been submitted for approval yet but it should be in submission by next weekend.

This set is giving me headaches because I want to go all out and do different colors for the furniture etc. like I did for AH. On the other hand this series will have a lot of pieces that the AH set didn't have, including the doors and windows that I recolored for the build set. Anyway now that the first sets are in we'll see how the rest goes. Then I'll start thinking about some summer time home decor.

Oh and yes I will stop posting 3 and 4 updates a day to my blog, it's just nice to be able to do it without having to get rid of the last piece I wrote before I was really ready to.

Finished!... For Now... ;p

For the moment my mini-site is complete. I did finally go back to the TSR Basic color setting because it goes the best with my avatar picture and banner. Just in case the last blog entry I made really doesn't come through the last color I had decided on was the rosey pink which is a nice color frankly. It's just not my favorite, irregardless of the backgrounds on my Autumn Harvest previews pictures. I think for the Flowers of May Day preview picture backgrounds I'm going to set the blue I like and stick with it. I'll just change the color of the text to represent the colors of the series I'm working on. Ah I think I know what I did wrong. I'm so used to clicking the first action button at the bottom of the TSR pages to 'update' that I hit cancel instead of save. -_-;;

New Mesh for Next Saturday

I've loaded a recolor set based on the mesh for the wedged pant mesh I loaded last week and a new mesh set for little girls for next Saturday. Also, the following Saturday a recolor set based on THAT mesh will be published. I bought Bon Voyage and spent some time playing it; it's pretty fun. I'll get Free Time, I'm sure. I was away from the game for so long, I didn't even know there were 2 expansions and all those Stuff packs. LOL I sure missed out!

Finally, My Own Mini-site!

Well I've finally reached the point where I can have my own mini-site. I'm currently waiting on the email with instructions and thought I'd just type up this my first entry for the blog section. The poor site looks pretty sad at the moment but as soon as I get a look at the email for instructions then I'll fix it up properly. I'm really rather excited about this because now that I'm creating for Sims 2 I'm always doing little updates and stuff to talk about my new projects, what's been uploaded recently and what is about to be published for downloading. I hated having to take out old updates because then I never remembered what I'd talked about last or what I hadn't mentioned at all. So watch for changes to my page over the next few days as I get time to do things and make changes!

Thatcher Cottage

Just a simple little country dwelling. I was practicing doing the barn-look roof using Nohan's great tutorial over at The Sims Crossing and I liked how the house turned out so I added all the necessary things and decided to upload it. I have been busy trying to learn how to mesh. I know it is very late in the game to start with this since Sims3 will be out in a year ... but I feel I need to at least give it one more shot. I am not quite sure if meshing agrees with me or not. Can't seem to find too many tutorials with the details I need. But I will keep at it .... Have a good week!!!

Modern Elegance

This is a new lot that I am working on, although it's filled with custom content from artists who prefer to not have their items published on "pay sites", so I don't know if I'll be submitting it or not. I would have to clean it up to "substitue" some of the things in it. It's my first attempt at an all modern lot. I've seen several modern lots and am blown away by some of them so I wanted to try my hand at one. I hope you like it.

The Unsung Creator

I've been away for a time, enjoying my site, Simaholicsrus.com, and it has really been an eye-opener! I'm truly grateful to have been given the chance to play with it (Thanks Ricci2882!), but realize it's alot of hard work running your own site.

On that note, I do read the profiles of all the folks that comment on my creations. I look at their creations, if they have any, and sometimes download a thing or two. I find the neatest things that way! Because of this, I've invited a select few creators to Guest Spot on my site. Please note that I do not choose SA/FA creators (they've already got their recognition!!). I'm after the "Unsung Creators" of TSR and other sites.

Do you know of any "Unsung Creators" that may like to Guest Spot on SRU? If so, drop me a PM!

Thanks for reading, see you next time!

Requests and other matters

This week I am finishing work on some requests for some very patient people(and I thank you folks for your patience) that have been made through both the PM system here and the Skinning forum. Previews will be posted soon.

As for the "other matters"...Since us Sims1 artists now share the automated submissions system with the Sims2 artists, I will be updating more frequently. I am shooting for once a week, with publish day most likely on either Friday or Saturday.

Nicole Scherzinger at the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards

Bathrooms!

Thanks to a request from MisfitChicks, I have finally gotten motivated to publish a bathroom set. The Designer Bath series launched yesterday! I tried to focus on Maxis recolors for most of the stuff, but also threw in rugs and curtains to complete the set. I've got a few more Bed in a Bag sets lined up, but after that I may have to retire that series for a while until some fresh inspiration comes along. If spring ever shows up and the rain EVER stops, then maybe that will happen!

Spring FREEBIES

I haven't had much time to update the blog lately, but I've updated the freebies all the same.
The free stuff during the coming Spring will be as follows:

From March, 24 to April, 21 the free sets will be:
Cielo Outdoor Lights
Cielo Outdoor Lights - Recolour set
These outdoor lamps have quite un unusual shape, taken from an Italian designer, and are perfect for modern homes or futuristic settings.

From March, 25 to April, 22 there will be another free set:
Modena Pastels - Set
simple walls and floors that look definitely better in game than in the preview.

From April, 21 to May, 19 the free sets will be:
Modern Staircase Set
Modern Staircase Recolours Set
This staircase, together with the recolours, was one of my "best sellers", when it was first published. Hope you like to see it free again. And I'll probably add a surprise set to these later on. You'll have to check my minisite.

From May, 20 to June, 17 the free sets will be:
Altitude Attitude Add-Ons set
Folding Staircase set
Softened Stone Set
Another very appreciated, and unusual staircase, plus some Maxis revamps and some stone floors.

After this period, I think I'll change the kind of free items, just to be sure you don't get bored of staircases. That's all. Enjoy!

Climbing Wall

New Item upp for download today. A climbing wall for kids. i made the animations myself and I am quite proud of them.
I made a lot of recolours so they will match my other palyground items.

MH Info

Reading some of the comments to my last blog entry, I may have mistakenly given the impression that the Manor House Collection would be out by now.

I'm sorry if I did that, because that's obviously not the case!

To clarify, I AM working on releasing the MH sets, but that involves alot of extra work. Adding shadows, correcting textures, fixing problems, etc. etc.

Judging by my progress thus far with the Garden set (the first set to be released), I should be ready to release it within the next couple of weeks (likely much, much sooner) =]

New Computer! Woop!

Who got a new computer? Me, thats who! And that means mooooooooore walls! >:D

Poll Winners

1st Place : Adult female clothing
2nd Place : Adult male clothing
3rd Place : Teen male clothing
So my next sets will be for adult and teen males and 1 for adult females :P
Regrads , Francisco :)

The Prisoner

Next due: another lot from my Portmeirion / The Prisoner collection (Chantry Cottage - a residential lot for 4 sims). Would that some kind soul would now custom design a Mini-Moke for the driveway...

Birthday!

I had a great birthday! It was awesome! No one but LaurieR was TRULY evil, and her EVIL wasn't even that bad! She sent me 40 e-cards to my work email (which was pretty funny and the hag sent some sappy ones that made me cry at work!) We had to wait for payday to really do anything for my birthday, which was okay. Mike took me, Heidibear and her mom out to Macaroni Grill (my favorite), and I got my awesome computer suitcase I wanted! I got a couple of movies, and got to go up to my moms house. My big brother and his wife came down and my mom fixed cornbeef and cabbage (YUM!). At dinner the other night, Mike and Bear teased me and egged on the waitress to tease me. It was fun. My rear end has survived the no spankings though!! YEAH and PTTTTHHH to those of you that wish EVIL on my butt! You know who you are!!

If you like my writing...

If you like the Andretti Legacy, or any of the other stories I've written...you may want to take a trip to the TSR forums where I have two other stories. Desperation and also Far From Perfect.

If you need help getting there, or would like links. Please feel free to PM me.

The PlayStation Series

That's right, I've started on the PlayStation series now!

As before, I plan to release decorative items with my consoles, any suggestions for additional decorations that you want for your game would be welcomed.

The PlayStation 1 is now completed and uploaded, and will be releasing on:

March 28th: Non-Free Time version.
April 4th: Free Time version.

Watch this space, as I will be adding more dates here as I complete the consoles!

Welcome!

Hi Everyone,
Welcome to my new minisite. I'm so excited to have been able to upgrade my page and its because of all of the wonderful support from everyone here at TSR, so thanks to all who have downloaded my creations.

Computer Crash!!

Hello Everyone,
Due to a major computer meltdown new uploads will have to be put on hold for a while. I'm hoping to be up and running soon so please be patient.

Les Miserables d'Arles

Hi!

It's almost midnight but just a few words before I go to bed:

I've just submitted a new lot, fully furnished and wornout, specially designed for your young & poor sim family.

Thanks to MsBarrows, who's Poorhouse set gave me this idea today! You know, I have a warm spot in my heart what it comes to poor sims & poor people! Since I've been quite poor myself at some point of my life, I know what it is like. This house, though, is also wornout, ugly and messy, and that � mind you � has nothing to do with being poor!! I actually love to be able to make things look nice without that much cash� But never mind, I have submitted this new lot today after making a sketch at work during my lunch break!! I hope you�ll like it!!

Credits to MsBarrows, Cyclonesue & Maxoid Monkey.

Happy simming!
Tiina:)

Recreated Sponging Sets

I have finished recreating the sponging sets that I had accidentally deleted. They're as close to the original ones as I could make them, but may be slightly different, seeing as how I had to start from scratch.

I will be uploading them tonight and tomorrow, and they should start to become available for download by next week.

Hopefully you all enjoy them. I put a lot of work into them. :)

Cris

SAM 12 Aug 2001 - 22 March 2008

We all finally arrived safe and sound at our new house in Salalah in the Sultanate of Oman. We had two really good days settling into our new home, Sam had a great time chasing the feral cats that live on the compound and exploring his new surroundings. Then on the 21st March tragedy struck. We went up to the roof terrace to have a look, Martin opened the door and Sam pushed past him with a wild look in his eyes, he ran across the roof and jumped the wall, he fell two storeys onto the concrete below. He broke both his front legs and he couldn't stand on his back legs, it was confirmed by x-rays on the 22nd March that he had broken his back, the vet gave him a 2% chance of recovering as he had some feeling in his back legs and sometimes he moved his tail and back legs, but she said if he did recover he wouldn't be able to run and jump which is pretty much all Sam did. He was such a lively bouncy dog, always running around and jumping around that we decided it wasn't fair to put him through that so we asked the vet to put him to sleep. We found a lovely quiet beach cove near where we live and buried Sam on a hill overlooking the sea. He was my best friend and my constant companion. I am totally heartbroken. The house is so empty without him, I miss him dearly and I am so thankful for the wonderful six and a half years that I had with him. R.I.P Sam my angel, you will always be in our hearts.

Hello!

Hello everyone! I know my site looks really empty and bad right now but I'll be adding stuff more because I just started! Thank you for all of your support!

Archived!

Now that I'm an FA again, I had the option of moving some of my creations off to the TSR Archive if I so desired. So a few of my older and odder creations have now been shuffled off into relative obscurity. Not very many though, as I am inordinately fond of several of my oldest (and strangest!) creations like my Toad Eye colour and Fruit Baby sculpture, and am in no particular hurry to disown them. As you can see from the Fruit Baby, I was using the repository technique even that far back in time. I owe undying gratitude to Windkeeper for explaining to me what I was doing wrong in my attempts to get it working on those first few experimental meshes!

Moving things has, however, had the side effect of dropping my downloads counter back under two million. I guess some time in the next few weeks I'll get to have the fun of re-dinging this recent milestone achievement, hahaha!

Coffee Shop

As some of you may know I am struggling with a putter that's just not up to the job of playing Sims However I am still trying to play and have found some inspiration in this challenge http://forums.thesimsresource.com/showthread.php?t=321606 am having great fun, however as others of you know, I struggle to string two coherent sentences together, so no there won't be a story LOL however I have been inspired to create a series of pic's just for this lot and have more to come upload soon, promise Dawn

Mira's Oala Teen Room in TC73

Finally I couldn't let my hands off Svealyn's textures for Texture Challange 73...they are light blue, I had no chance -:) ! An updated draft - the curtain pattern should be smaller, the cushion roll needs a better pattern and the bedding pillow needs some work to come up less blurry. How do other creators manage to do a set in some hours?

Working on things...

I am still working on my next projects. Sometimes I'll start on something, decide I don't like how its going, and either change it a little, or a LOT. Nine times out of ten, it ends up being a lot! Like I start on one set of meshes, then totally change to another set. But I will have something new ready soon!

Gargoyles and Mags

I have two projects going at the moment. The closest to being ready for submission is a magazine rack that fits on the front of counts. The mesh package is complete, I just want to do some recolors to make a set. One thing I've always wanted is Gargoyles to put on the corners of my old buildings. But not just sitting on top of a corner, actually coming out of it properly at an angle. So far I've figured out how best to do that and have roughed out the idea. Now I have to work on the mesh and get it looking the way I want. This will probably be a long project.

James Alexander Lawrence

Hey guys, quick update for the small number of you wondering where I'd disappeared off to.

I went into hospital to be induced as my baby was nearly two weeks overdue and James Alexander Lawrence arrived at 00.02am on Sunday, March 16th weighing 6lbz 15oz.

We're both home now and doing well and so with a bit of luck I'll get some spare time to do a bit more creating :)

I'd also just like to say thank you to everyone whose popped by my Guestbook and sent their best wishes.

Poorhouse Set

Got distracted from my other ongoing projects (such as more stuff for the Pipe Dream set) by a nice texture I found while making some photo frame recolours. It suggested things to me... Hence the creation of this set of worn and abused furniture items, my Poorhouse set. Just a few items for the living and dining room - tables, coffee tables, chair, desk, bookcases, and a TV. I may do some additional items for it, once I finish the Pipe Dream add-ons.

Simsville Gym

Coming soon for your athletic minded sims is my latest lot. Featuring lots of workout machines on the first floor and ballet barres on the second with a large custom pool in the back. Seperate showers and bathrooms round out the second floor also. WARNING Lots of mirrors on the second floor may cause lag on slower computers. If you think it may cause problems then turn off reflections in the graphics option panel or remove the mirrors before you play the lot with sims on it.

New Mesh for Monday

I uploaded a new mesh for Monday. It's 1/2 of the mesh I was working on. I just kept running into problems with the alpha layer. I haven't given up, but I'm going to rework it and hopefully get it up for next week.
I'll be uploading some meshes that I have on other sites, but never uploaded here as well. Happy simming until next week. :)