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creating

well it seems that myself or ea games can get the bodyshop working but i will try to ceate other stuff if i can.

sorry everyone

Friday's my Birthday

Just a quick reminder to those of you good enough to visit my page, I will not be "here" this weekend. Friday is my birthday, and since I'm spending this entire week shuttling my kids back and forth to their testing sites, I will be rewarding myself (and them) with a big "nothing" Friday. Consider me dead that day. I'm sleeping in, will not answer the phone, will lounge about in my pj's watching my Angel box set, and eating mass amounts of junk food. Saturday I'll be out at the Home Show with my mom, and Sunday I have the obligatory birthday get together. (I realize that makes me sound ungrateful, but I'm exhausted and need a time out.)

I'll be back Monday if anyone needs to get in touch with me for any reason.

I do not make clothes...

Why? Because I'm awful at it. Believe me, I've tried plenty of times to make something for my Sims to wear. I have great ideas when it comes to an outfit, but when the time comes to actually put it together, my skills are not up to the challenge. "Dodge" here, "burn" there... it creates shading and adds realism. Let me tell you what happens when I take a stab a realism, it turns into one big mess. To prove a point, I posted some of my creations here recently.

Please, I beg you, don't ask me to make clothes anymore. It pains me to see how sloppy my artistry is in this area. :)

Busy with making meshes!

Hi to all!
Well, not so long ago I've tried to make my own meshes and I've found this occupation really interesting and exciting. I'm trying my best to learn how to make my own objects 'cause I've always felt lack of it in my game, lol! I know that there's too many meshes now but making something by yourself is really amazing. I don't want to do smth else now beside making meshes&building houses...But it's really hard to make everything at the same time)) So I think that I'm taking a small break now...
Hope you like my published creations! Good luck to all!~~

Marina

New Poll

I am an avid builder and wonder if more of you, if you had to choose one, would class yourelf as more of a builder or a player. I am trying to get a new poll added, and it may be a bit goofy until I get it figured out!

Hey, where is the smiley face I need? LOL

Tropical Home

A while back a commercial stirred my creative imagination but I wasn't able to doing anything about it because I was busy elsewhere. Then Sesame put out a set that spurred me on even more. I didn't use any of the objects in that set because she made the Ma Kai Lanai set using the same furniture style that was just as gorgeous and in even livelier tropical colors. I still plan to use one of the recolors from the rustic set and create the house with the conservatory that she and I talked about. I think of it as my "Cabot Cove" Cliffside home. In my life I've had two homes in my head that I always wanted to own in real life. One was a Japanese style home, but furnished in a style that was sort of hodgepodge of Japanese and Chinese style decor. Mostly Japanese but with the little touches from China. Black lacor with red dragons and gold leaf sadly that is what I still have in my head. One of these days my sims will definitely have that. The other home was cliffside home. I have the clearest vision of it and I intend to use Sesame's Rustic set to decorate the main room that looks off over the ocean. It's a bit dark, dark woods and colors but the room itself is very cool (temp wise) and peaceful. If I can actually create that in the sim home I will feel like I've really accomplished something perfect.

Sorry for the largest delay known on TSR

sorry for the big delay but some reason I am having problems with the homecrafter on my computer, I am trying to figure it all out.

The Paintings are Coming!

Finally I have preview pictures for my new paintings set that does it justice, and I have just uploaded them , so fingers crossed they'll be accepted (this is the first time I've attempted paintings!). I'm really pleased with the way they have turned out and am thinking of creating some more - possibly snow scenes (we had over six inches of snow on the south coast of England on Sunday - come on, it's April not December!!) Mad Cow

What's New

For the past few weeks I've been working hard on something other than recoloring. It's about time to take a short break from it to recolor something, though, because I'm kinda itching to. :D Anyway, I am working on learning a program called Blender, which is so complicated it's insane! You have to take it slowly, a bit at a time, first learning what its tools will do, then learning what you can do with them! I think it will take me years....:D

Good news & Bad news.

Because of the bad patch I did have problems with my game. I uninstalled FT because of it and thats also the reason for the less uploads of my creations past week. I uninstalled my expansion not only beause of the bad patch, but also because this game never did get started up fine, or running on my pc like it schould be. I've noticed I am not the only one with the irritating start-up problems. There are a lot of people who are complaining about this issue to. This bad up starting was a irritating problem to me, because when I wanted to play this game, I have to put the disc 20 times, or even more than that in the discdrive!! For that reason it costed me lots and lots of time to create a previeuw for my creations. It took me about a half hour, or even more, before I was able to play the game. Past week I lost a lot of recollours I did create for FT. I have no fun annymore to play or create with this expansion. For that reason I decided to uninstal FreeeTime, and I am waiting for the day when EA gives us a good & decend and a wel tested patch. Well.. enough of that! After the bad news I have some Good news to! I'm back playing with the BonVoyage expansion and buissy with a whole bunch of new recollours for toddlers, teens and children. I also have a little previeuw of 3 FT dresses for girls wich I kept apart before I installed the bad patch. (Yes, I backed up my files). Beside that, I've also played one of the new downloadable challenges from TSR, Alien Breeding, created by cwykes. It was the first challenge I've downloaded ever. I had a whole lot of fun playing it, and completed it yesterday! Here's a picture of Dogone and one of my breedings. Not only the dogs were breeding, there was another kind of breeding to!