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Oh Lord...she's a teenager now!

Jan 28/09 what a day! My youngest daughter, my baby has turned 13 as of today...and I really wasn't ready for that. Although she's a much sweeter & loving version of her older sisters, all I can think is, "Omg...can I - WILL I survive another teen-age girl?". All you mums out there with teen girls probably get what I'm talking about here.

Plus I'm starting to get that good 'ol empty nest thing going on. Only two minor children left here at home, all the others have flown the coop. I must look on the good side of this...hopefully now I'll actually be able to justify spending time with my Sims2, and maybe even get the three houses I've been working on uploaded to here at TSR!

what's next on deck?

here's a sneak of what is comming really soon.....

Shirley Manson of Garbage

Stuff for your twilight sims!

I found alot, so here it goes! 

Twilight books for your sims

http://iltrono.forumfree.net/?t=31194008

Cullen chocker necklaces

http://iltrono.forumfree.net/?t=35435323

Twilight outfits for you sims, (more like fan shirts)

http://iltrono.forumfree.net/?t=30627679

The actress who played Bella's premire dress

http://www.peggyzone.com/html/EN/ShopGift00074.html

Edward's jacket

http://www.peggyzone.com/html/EN/ShopGift00074.html

The actor who played Edward's premiere outfit

http://www.peggyzone.com/html/EN/ShopGift00066.html

Comments are back!

Just to tell you I'm so happy because the comments on creations, scrennies and so on are back! Thank you so much, TSR!

The Luxury Apartments is suddenly out

So I uploadedmy first Apartment creation, and there was no warning, they just published it, for which I am thankful, but it was a suprise. Normally there is an approval and a set publish date, but this time it was skipped. Strange. Anyway, I am just not happy again with the preview pictures, they are so blurred like this.

I guess I am just going back now to plyaing a little, and then the next project will definitely be the continuation of my painters series. Another Kandinsky, then a Klimt, and then I guess a Miro... (And so many others in the line.)

My real wish would be a hangable picture, but for some reason my Sims2 Body Shop keeps sending stupid messages, I just can't use it. It takes something like 20 minutes to start the program, and then it crashes, so I'm fed up. (Actually, sometimes the game crashes, too, sending a message "This Application crashed and will be terminated now" or something like that. All of a sudden, for nothing. I hate it that I have to save it every minute. Once I lost 5 tasks in an almost completed challenge (the garden one with Ivana Garten). And then the whole thing disappeared, together with all my custom sims in that neighborhood. Now, that is not fun.

I am really looking forward to Sims3 but I truly hope these technical problems will be sorted out by now and EA starts really focusing on quality issues, too.

Building frenzy

Happy Wednesday everyone- ugh! Here in SW ontario its dreary, snowing and damp @ 8:59 am today. I am in my robe and slippers drinking my morning coffee- yelling at the kids to either GET UP ( You 're LATE!) or Get GOING! Nobody wants to get up today LOL... either did I .. i am usually up by now!  ( Got two houses today - ugh again) I can hear my teens getting coffees together ( they are off as it is exam week and they are finished) Another day of messenger and hangin around ..oh the life!lol

Last night I was up til 1 am ( my bad) building lots. All week thats what i have been doing.. lots. Cant tell you why.. just got a hankerin for building lots. So I guess you could say I am on a building frenzy LOL ( hence the title of this blog) I hope everyone ends  up liking the new houses. I built some regular contempory ones... and some "modern-looking " ones. I am trying to figure out how some of these builders make their lots the way they do. One of my favourites is kissme87. I suppose it has something to do with the fact that i dont have ANY expansions. And I have been contemplating getting some more again.. just for the build stuff. But I have noticed in the past that when I had Nightlife & Celebration Stuff ( aka Double Deluxe) i didnt get near as many downloads as when I build with Base Game. So that is the main reason i have stuck with Base game only and just relied on Custom Content to add to the lots. ( And also the fact that with expansions I cannot use all the custom content) What do u all think? Should Iget expansions? Let me know please- i am hear for the downloaders.. for YOU.

I also really like Newtlco's houses.. and last week i downloaded two of his as i really wanted the CC he had used in them. They crashed my game!!!! I was soo mad. That happened before with his houses and I sent him a message cuz i am not the only one who has had that happen. And it shouldnt happen as i had a Dual Core QUAD processor with 6 GB DDR2 memory ( RAM memory) and 750 GB hard drive memroy - yes its a titanic!And fast as lightning!! I had to go and strip down my entire downloads folder and re-install everything. Pissed me right off and took an entire night! Never again will i download his stuff even though he has some incredibly nice lots. He really needs to fix that problem.. its just not fair to downloaders.. As a builder myself my goal is that people can ENJOY and PLAY my lots.

So anyway there are at least 4 lots coming out today and 2 more pending approval. i still have two more floor plans I drew up sitting here beside me in my creations notebook i have - where i keep track of my creations. I try to create my onw floorplans from my imaginatin. Sometimes i take a looksy at Coolfloorplans.com to get new ideas .. but I never try to duplicate exactly .. as i know i wouldnt be able to! LOL ( I am limited in somethings i can do within the game) And also i think people appreciate the fact that my lots are MY creations from my imagination not a carbon copy of someone elses idea.

I suppose i will get back to creating re-colors today or tommorrow- i have been busy and so the past two days i hadnt done anything ( and then last night I built two new houses)I have some ideas for new beddings and walls.. and i still have to finish that Bathroom Wall and Floor set i was working on before Christmas! LOL. I havent doen anything with that in 3 weeks - guess i should finsih that before i move on to any more new projects! Yes thats what i wll do- i wont start anything else until i finish the floors ( i think there are still 11 left to do ?) Get the previews pics done and upload it all and THEN i will move one to other stuff. I HATE - absolutely HATE - leaving projects half done - and really that is the only one I have done that with. Oh and I had started a set of recolors of MAXIS Contempto chair - i have one so far but then I left it and moved on- i will go back and finsih that one too.

Well ta ta folks for now- must get another coffee and have a shower. Got to go to work whether i want to or not. Paul and I have been researching into making mony at home online... Paul is a little green and naive ( or rather he was until I educated him) and so I have found a couple of LEGIT things we can do ( that involve work- doesnt everything??) If anyone knows of any - PM me or whatever. To bad I didnt make money from this - Sims- I love it and it takes up alot of my time. And although it is a hobby it would still be great to make a coupla bucks from it.

OK I am totally done rambling now.. have a great day and thanks for reading! :)

confusion/multiple accounts

yesterday i made a new account because i just wanted to start off the new year fresh. today, TSR switched my new account back over to this one because apparently, making new accounts is not allowed. i apologize to all TSR staff for making that mistake!
i didn't purposely mean to make "multiple" accounts, i was planning on abandoning this one since there appeared to be no option to shut it down and starting off new.

i submitted two new houses yesterday and tagged them with my new username. if you're thinking, "WTF",
yes, that's me, "sillyworld".

Various updates

We've done a lot of work behind the scenes for the last week. Here are some of the visible fixes:

- A whole new comments section. Open your Dashboard and check out the new comments overview.
- Download History is now working properly and has been reformatted to suit better.
- The poll feature is improved and now has tabs for you to easily understand how to create/edit a poll.

There are many other small bugfixes not mentioned here - but that's it for now! :)

The Very First (and most probably last...) Blog Post!

Heyarr!

For those of you that know me a bit already you'll know I can't keep a project going, my brain is like a grasshopper in that it hops here, there, everywhere. (I will not however, make a mess of your lawn)

I'm creating again a little bit now, so look out for some new stuff soon, a brand new lipstick (which I'm really proud of) will be released this coming friday!

Taraa for now!

MaskedRaider

First lot accepted

Well I have finally had my first lot accepted for TSR. It is a 3 bedroom family home in a late Colonial Style. It is a split level with attached garage. The lot I am working on now is a wedding park for lack of a better word. The screenies will also be submitted for Yard and Garden if done in time but, this is a Valentines theme lot and I want it to be perfect. It is close right now but, it really needs more flowers and I want to try and fiture out how to do some sort of roofing or something over the wedding area. i love creating gardens more than anything and really don't like the fancy or formal stuff so this lot will be kind of wild and overgrown. I intend to see how my first lot goes over first, and then I will try to get the wedding lot up and running. i was actually going to do an indoor chapel but the Maxis conical roofs are just stupid and the Conical Roof from Vitasims will not sit right so that one is out for now until i figure out a way to do things better. I think that I will also probably do some wallpapers and terrain paints as well. I had some ready to go but couldn't work out the bugs.