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Apologies...

VERY SORRY for the delay in publication of the next three lots mentioned in my previous blog post. I had to pull them temporarily before being officially published at the last minute, since I realized I had packaged the lots without emptying my downloads folder first. In addition to that, I had to go out of town and couldn't fix everything until I got back yesterday. Naughty, naughty, Canuckdiva! But all has been fixed. I repackaged the lots properly and they have been resubmitted for approval. With luck, they should be published this week. Keep your fingers crossed, and check back soon!

HA! (now with new fake edit! Wow!)

It's all back.  Yes, that vile heap of utter rubbish I make in the name of The Sims has been restored.  Ripped with rage from the servers last week by Spooks of Poshness who only want pretty things to stay, it has since been dredged back and hopefully you will at least now make a sorry attempt to enjoy some of these items once again...

WON'T YOU!

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Totally fake edit:  (well, not fake, but I just wanted to write that it was so as to look modern and popular)...

Lot links are still broken.  I've pointed it out in my usual carping manner to TSR and hopefully they will soon be mended - because it KILLS ME to think you're populating your neighbourhoods right now with pretty little cottages.  Stop it - immediately!

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Edit of the Fake Edit:

Lots are looking good again!  Well, mine aren't necessarily looking good, but the links are working once again, and so you should be able to download them once more.  Well, I can, and that's what counts! 

Heidi the fisher(wo)man from Volterra, Italy

So I uploaded Heidi's portrait finally. She is very sexy and very mean. And a cruel vampire. Well, not yet, I still have to turn her into one. That's going to complete I guess my efforts about recreating the characters in Twilight. It's high time now to really play with them...:D

And in the mean time, I turned back to the painters wall series, but it's really tough. It goes so slowly and sometimes I just run out of executable ideas. I mean, I know what I want to create but my graphics software skills are so limited. Also, I can't make the Body Shop work for me. It opens in like 20 minutes, and then when I try to start a project it gets me an error message, and that's it. I haven't found any useful solution in the forumes either. It's really a pity, because I have tons of projects on my mind.

Apologies.

Hello everyone, 

I just want to apologize for not uploading anything recently, besides preparing a little for the move I also had a bit of an issue with my game. It seems that I installed a bad piece of custom content, and in the pain of weeding it out, I vowed not to open my game again until I completely organize my downloads folder. I'm already a day into it, and don't see myself completing it until at least next week. Haha! I had a very organized folder once, then I just kind of piled it all in there in lazyness or impatience, and now, voila! A mess. But I've thought up a new system to keep organized, so hopefuly (fingers crossed) it'll stay that way this time. Anywho, yes, sorry. I've been working on a second set to my No Parking Tank Tees. Once I get my game up and running again, I'll take some preview photos, and get them uploaded. Thanks again! 

-Jess

My first attempt @ clothing

Hey everybody.. happy Sunday! Its snowing here again ( ugh- it has been for 2 days now. Everything had previously melted but now we have got it ALL back!) And so since its snowing I dont want to go outside! LOL And though I should be technically cleaning my house i am sitting on my rear end on my pc. On this mornings agenda- Creating clothing! So I made my first attempt using a terrific tutorial by Rockin Robin. I have a 30 day trial of Adobe photoshop CS4 ( and also last night I got myself a 30 day trial of Corel Paintshop PRO) so i was using Adobe photoshop to walk thru the tutorial step by step. I picked out a pair of ripped jeans and a tiger striped hoodie to make. WOW! its hard.. and though I was doing it .. I had to stop for now as I gave my self a headache LOL. So the clothing isnt finished yet but i will try agai later today - maybe this time I will use paint shop pro instead as Adobe Photoshop is incredibly hard to navigate- and since i have no previous knowledge of this software i think its making the task even more difficult. But i must say Rockin Robin does a great job of explaining with visual examples. I recommend that tutorial.. my problem is with patience! Clothing is way more work than objects , walls , lots etc!

The bottom line: you all WILL see a piece of clothing from me. Now that i have attempted it - i will try again. I think I will just start off making the hoodie NOT the whole outfit..I wont despise small beginnings :)

Last night I was up past midnight uploading some furniture stuff and extras I recently made. SimPE is a breeze now for recoloring. The very fact that I no longer am having problems recoloring Custom meshes tells me that I WILL figure out how to make clothing! 

So on the horizon this week will be some rugs, doormats, new Arizona sofa recolors, Bijoux wicker furniture by holy Simoly and some walls. Oh I also recolored a double front door by macarossi - there is no white recolor of this door ( that i know of anyways) but there is now! :) I wanted to use the door in one of my new lots.

As well i found some great new plants over at Parsimminous for free as i was getting bored with the ones I have now for landscaping my lots. Aslo got some new doors and windows too. I need variety when I am building!

Well thats all for now.. I presently have a massive headache LOL from trying to make clothes- i need to go take some advil and tylenol. Seriously!

Little Miss Dangerous Put on Hold

Well, the Sim I created yesterday which I was going to upload today has hit a little snag. Jackie (played by Fiona Flanagan AKA Little Miss Dangerous) has been put on hold because of her eyes. They were made by someone over at ModTheSims2 (I know, we don't talk about that over here). So, I've asked permission to upload them and with any luck Jackie should be up by the end of the week. No promises though, it depends if this person gets back to me. If not, Jackie may need (oh no! Not...) Maxis eyes.

Here she is:

Time After Time

I finally found time to complete the first part of what I hope will be an enjoyable series! It has been uploaded and is awaiting approval. I have started on Chapter 2 and am looking forward to it's completion!  Happy simming!

Poll results

The results to the question "Do you prefer when I make clothes" were:  22.22% mesh needed, and 88.89%, no mesh needed. Than you to all of you who answered the poll. :)

Friday night FUN!

So if you are reading this on Friday night then that means you have got about as much a life as I have got !LOL.

Whats on my friday night agenda? Well for the past hour I have been organzing my Sims folders...not just in game folders but also all my fabrics and textures etc. In my Mesh folders for SimPe I have been making plenty of sub-folders. I am up to my EYEBALLS in folders! LOL Talk about time consuming! AHH.. but the end results is that I will be able to find everything !

Tonight I am also uploading some recolors and walls I made last night but was oo tired to upload. And that is my night. I am sure by the time I am done organizing I will be ready for bed! As well i need to go into SimPE and fix some rugs I made .. i didnt totally like the way they turned out!

So have a great night...back to "work"!

On A Roll

Since I appear to be in the mood for making windows I decided to finally make a set I've always wanted, which is to have as thin a frame as possible and going floor to ceiling (AL) and wall to wall. There is a single window, plus side and center ones so you can make the window as wide as you want.

Still have the diagonals to do. Hopefully I won't chuck my computer off a cliff while trying to get the wallmasks lined up correctly.