's Blog

Creative block

After all the excitement of being made an SA yesterday, and having vowed to myself on Monday I'd update 3 times a week, I'm suffering a bit of a creative block! Every mesh I touch turns into a chainsaw-haircut disaster. I have a whole list of ideas but I just can't seem to bring them to fruition. I think it's just the nerves of realising that my God, people actually look at what I put up here, and they judge it. It's put me under a lot of pressure, but I think that feeling will pass.
I'm trying to do a double-knotted updo with little curls and other flyaways hanging from it right now... but it just doesn't seem to want to go how it is in my head :(
Oh well, maybe I'll get something out of this at the end of the day... I'll just have to keep going and see where the meshing takes me.

My Busy Week

I have the greatest hopes of working on chapter 19 tonight. I need "erin" time and playing sims seems like the relaxing thing to do.

This last week my husband was away and so all the house chores were my responsibility and I had a really busy week at work and other activities such as working on the branding for my friend.

I decided to sacrifice my Saturday to my old job to help get some projects finished before their big seminar. Of course the toner is out so now I can't print anything.

This coming week at work seems like another busy week. We are getting a lot of new clients and projects. Which is great but everything seems to be due at the same time!

I'll notify people who asked about chap. 19 when it comes out.

Pyjama Party

This is a set of pyjamas designed specifically for young women i.e. teens and university students. The pyjamas come in two styles, with four colour combinations in each.



This set uses standard Maxis meshes and is base game compatible. All items are available for adult, young adult and teen females.

Outdoor Lamps

Some time ago, when I published the Cielo lamps for outdoor, someone made me realize that there aren't many matching lamps for gardens and outdoor in general. The same person suggested to make some lamps in a more classic style. Then it occurred to me that there are already in game some nice lamps: the only thing that's missing is a common style for all of them. And so I decided to make the missing matches for some Maxis lamps that came with the base game, and some more recolours (since there aren't many in our database). All the lamps work in base game and take the colours from their Maxis matchings, so that you won't have too many recolours in your (probably already full) Downloads folder. The three sets, one for every style of lamps, will be published in the next two weeks.

New Mesh Set

This is the mesh project and it's recolor that I am currently working on...

Current Project

Once again I thought I'd have a go at trying something new, this week I've been having a go at meshing a new Dining Room Set. So far I've made the table and chairs, they both contain glass which is something I haven't done before. I'm hoping to finish it over the weekend, I'll post a preview once it's completed and uploaded :)

Flags for BV Lots

Wishing you had some rustic and tropical flags to place around your new Bon Voyage lots? Wish no longer, they're publishing soon! In fact, I found so many gorgeous homespun-style flags I decided to pull them from the country theme and give them their very own collection and I must say, they're some of my absolute favourites! See for yourself:

The rustic country and homespun sets will be releasing tomorrow, Sun., Sept. 30'07 and the nautical set will release on Mon., Oct. 1'07.

Poll Results

Here are the results of my last Poll. I was finding out what your favourite colours were and whether or not you liked Plains, Florals etc. For a little while there my favourite colour (Purple) was winning but it just lost to Pink. Anyway here are the results:

Question: What's Your Favourite Colour?

Blue 12.2% (5)
Red 7.32% (3)
Purple 17.07% (7)
Black 14.63% (6)
Green 14.63% (6)
Pink 21.95% (9)
Yellow 2.44% (1)
White 4.88% (2)

Question: What Textures Do You Like?

Florals 24.39% (10)
Plain 39.02% (16)
Abstract 14.63% (6)
Other Pattern 14.63% (6)

Thanks to all that participated. It also now shows that i'm not alone when it comes to liking Plain Textures.

What I'm Working On.....

Hey Guys, Well i have an extra day off this weekend as we are having a long weekend here in Adelaide - Hooray for long weekends! So i'm going to get my butt moving and make stuff. I just finished some Accesories today and they are waiting for approval when the weekend is over. Here are some previews: I'm happy with the way they turned out. Thanks though needs to go to the 2 incredible mesh creators. Lianaa and Ulkrhsn. Just published today was some Nike Caps for Men - well i have decided i will make them also for Females - and i will also make Nike Beanies. It's just for something different as i'm always making clothes and i think i need something different for a change. I'm also going to make a lot of clothing for Teen Females. I have made a few here and there but think they deserve some more. Well i have lots to do and not a lot of time to do it. It's Saturday night already and i feel like i've done hardly anything. So it's off to creating for me. Bye, Louise

Devastated Eyes

After finishing my earlier Soft Eyes set, I found myself wanting to make a much more detailed eye. So, starting from the Soft Eye as a base and modifying just about every part of - hrmm, come to think of it, it was every part of it! - I created a layout that includes stroma detail (the radial lines in the iris), tear ducts, a softer shadow along the upper lid, and a less shaded-to-black schlera. The iris is just slightly larger then for the Soft Eyes, and the pupil smaller, which gives a little more room for the duotone colours of the eyes to be shown. That's right, duotone. These eyes incorporate two separate areas of colour, the main (outer) colour and a secondary colour around the pupil of the eye. And by just sitting there and playing with the HSV sliders, I can create pretty much any imaginable colour combination. I whipped up 25 different combinations for this set, and may make more at a later date. My main reason for wanting duotones? My own eyes are a muted blue-green with golden-brown around the pupil (aka one of the many combinations lumped into the "hazel" category) and I wanted to recreate them for in-game use on my self-sim, who is currently making do with a muted green eye colour. Not an exact match, but close enough! :)