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Return of the CloudwalkerNZ

Been away for couple of months. Got bored and tired with sims after doing my last poses.

Hopeful with Pet comeout soon. I won't get bored as easly.

Just finished an old project - Pirate Cutlass and uploaded it. And begin to try to finish another old project - Zeldar's Master Sword and Shield.

TTFN

Sims 3 Jump

Okay so I've been contemplating switching to making sims 3 stories for some time now, and I think I'm actually going to finally make the jump! I will however make my next 2 tomb raiders stories for the sims 2, but after that I'm moving to sims 3!

It's official!

What finally tipped my decision was that fact that practically everyone else has moved over to the sims 3, so not many people are making or reading sims 2 stories anymore. Because I'm a major nerd I just spent the last 5 minutes calculating the average comments of the first page of both the sims 2 and the sims 3 stories.

So in case you were wondering......

Comments for Sims 2 averages at: 3.0694 per story.

and

Comments for Sims 3 averages at: 8.5897 per story.

To really accurately calculate which one gets read more I should have averages the actual views.....but you know I thought of that after I averaged the comments and really couldn't be bothered to gather any more information than that, yes I know I'm lazy.

So to wrap all this up i'll be making two more tomb raider stories using the sims 2, then I'll start writing with the sims 3!

Adios all xox

Thanks everbody

I´ve been out of town for the last 3 days so I haven´t had a chance to thank you all for your congrats. I am happy and honored to be and FA and hope I can live up to it :). I´m a bit tired right now having a late night with a bit of party and a 9 hour busdrive so I´ll sign of for now and throw me in front of the telly :).

There's Never Really a Subject......

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Ah yes, you don't have to worry about the stupid idea of short stories......I regretted it as soon as I made it. :P and even if you wanted to read it (because yes i DID actually make it) you can't because I unknowingly freshly installed windows 7 and lost EVERYTHING yet again. I am just having the worst computer luck lately. But I've managed to fix most of my newly self inflicted problems........reinstalled sims 2 for.....what must literally be the 50th time.

Also I started writing again last night! :) So happy. I actually have my real proper desire to write again! I managed to rewrite the 6 chapters of my next tomb raider story. I really wasn't happy with what I'd written, but managed to correct it! Wooooo! So my current goal is to have finished writing the next tomb raider story before I go away on Thursday......which I think is do-able. Then next week I'll be able to start making them in-game and PUBLISHING them!!!!! How I miss publishing stories!

Hopefully the promised stories will be out soon!! :D

First Kanafas pattern is upcoming

I started to create traditional czech canvas patterns called Kanafas.

This decorative pattern is very popular for countryside houses in old traditional shape - strips and cubes always white and next second color, mainly red.

Modern pattern works with various colors and sizes of stripes. We can use it for bedclothes, tablecloth and curtains. Usually it is not using for clothing today, it is absolutely retro thing. In 50th years Briggite Bardot made famous this "vichy" pattern, when she used it for her wedding dress.

Born

Born In The U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen wanna be screenie...

Quest for Trib

Sorry about the long delayed folks, besides encountering some writers block and work place-loads blues, I have selected the screens shots to use in the final chapter of Quest for Tribulation. I have 53 in total with title page and closer included. There will be a epilogue which I think will be about 10 screen shots. I'm currently about half way done with the story on the screens and hope to be finishing up soon. Hopefully the computer don't explode with the upload.

Kate Part 3

My latest set, Kate Part 3, comprises another five items inspired by Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge. This time I've re-created four of her outfits plus one clutch bag. All items are base game compatible except the trench coat, which requires both Nightlife and Seasons.

Kate has the most amazing wardrobe. There are so many gorgeous outfits to choose from. This time I've gone for the following:

1. The very stylish Burberry trench coat with the frilled hem which Kate famously wore to toss pancakes in Belfast in March. It works pretty well using the Nightlife coat mesh, although Kate wore the coat fully closed whereas I've had to re-create it open at the neck. Ulker's scarves go very nicely with this coat. The very cute boots are by Aquatalia. To be pedantic, Kate didn't actually wear these boots with this coat, but rather with a customised Catherine Walker coat. However, as the mesh had boots, I used a little artistic license. Obviously, as the mesh comes packaged with the Nightlife EP, you will need to have Nightlife installed for this outfit to appear in your game. I have categorised this coat purely as outerwear, therefore you will also need to have Seasons installed in order for the coat to show up in your game.

2. The elegant Alexander McQueen military coat Kate wore on Armed Forces Day in June. This uses the same Ulker mesh I used for the Shola dress. Kate carried a beautiful Anya Hindmarch clutch bag to complement this coat and I have created a version of this bag to go with the outfit using NataliS's versatile clutch bag mesh. I have categorised this coat as both everyday wear and outerwear.

3. A couple of days later Kate wore a striking white summer dress by designer Alice Temperley for a visit to watch Andy Murray compete in the Wimbledon tennis championship. Finding a suitable mesh for this one was tricky as the dress has a distinctive tiered skirt. I went with an old Chriko mesh which I've used in the past, which was the closest match I could find. Unfortunately, the site where this mesh originated, 2-f0r-u.de, no longer exists, so I have included this mesh in the download.

4. A couple of weeks ago, Kate again wore a military-inspired Alexander McQueen ensemble to visit Birmingham. It's fairly unusual to see her wearing separates. Again, finding the right mesh was a challenge as I needed a non-skintight knee length alpha skirt to accommodate the two front slits featured in the McQueen skirt. I finally settled on a mesh by Liana.

A big thank you to all the talented mesh creators who give me the opportunity to re-create these real life outfits for The Sims.

All outfits are available for adults and young adults.

If you like these outfits, please check out my previous sets: Kate Part 1 and Kate Part 2.

New Creations on the Way

It's been a while since i posted my first two creations and i just want to let you know that they are more on the way. All my houses will be available here at the The Sims Resource, and most of my sims will be available at the Sims 3 Community. Thanks

TSRAA Lot

Here I am again! My latest lot is due out tomorrow. I'm really excited about this one. It's my first and probably my only lot using TSRAA content. I tried to keep track as I worked on it so I wouldn't forget to credit anyone. Hopefully I didn't miss anyone. There's also some store content in there too. Rowen seemed to be well received so I thought it wouldn't hurt. I say this might be my only lot utilizing TSRAA content because in my sorting of my CC I've come across some stuff from non-TSRAA artists. I hate to lose it because it's stuff I frequently use. But it kind of makes it harder to keep track of "safe" content and stuff I have to go track an artist down for permission. A hassle to say the least.

Garahel is a renovation of my Ayesleigh lot. I don't know if any of you remember, ages ago, I said I wanted to do a better version of it and put my spin on the architect's design. I never had time until now. Being unemployed is wonderful, even if it keeps me up at night worrying about money. I recently had to gut my game because, well, I don't know why. It just refused to work one day. Huh, worked just fine the day before. Anyway, I dumped my folder, generated a new one, and started adding back CC. That's when I decided to do a TSRAA lot because I had to reinstall all my CC anyway. Garahel would've been up sooner but I had a real bear of a time getting it uploaded. It just wouldn't go. I tried for days and finally it went yesterday. Sheesh. So it's a little delayed. I think I fixed everything I didn't like about the original. Some stuff just bugged me. Especially the roof. I altered some walls and gutted the entire upstairs so I could redo the roof again. I think this version is much better. A better roof, a little more room upstairs, a basement, lots of landscaping (which I usually don't do a lot of since I like stuff very simple and uncluttered), huge pool, reworked the master suite, and many little other tweaks to get it just right. I'm still not sure if I'm game for my orange master suite but I stared at it a lot and nothing screamed "redo me I'm gawdy". So orange it stayed.

I don't have plans for anything new yet. I'm still sorting stuff in my office from back when I moved. Always the last room to be done. I haven't found my house plans and written ideas yet. I might just go looking for inspiration online. So much paper to go through. And I hate doing it. I'll spend days sitting on the floor going through this stuff. Yuck.

I put my sim into the game and plan to collect some screenies. Maybe I'll update the look of my minisite with new graphics. Dunno. I do like the cookies. They make me drool. I'll leave you with that thought.