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Lanvin Spring/Summer 2011 coming soon
I absolutely fell in love with the Lanvin Spring/Summer 2011 collection and I'm really really excited to make a little bunch of the dresses from the stunning creator Alber Elbaz.
COMING SOON....
All the Single Ladies!!!!
So as you can see I've been posting to my heart's content ;) and I've really improved with some goals that I had in the start(Photoshop, making sims, etc). But, I have to say my biggest feat is pictured below. Although I'm unhappy with the turnout of this picture because I feel like she looks jjust like her in-game(over-photoshopped, perhaps ;) ). But, since the Sims 2, I rarely see that many Beyonce sims, and at that good ones, or ones without masks ;) so I decided I would try to tackle that problem. Actually when I was attempting my Tyra sim for the first time, I copied her and realized she was looking more Beyonce than Tyra. Unfortunately, I was going slide-happy with the sliders and she didn't make the cut :P
I decided to try again this week, and after two attempts and several hours(ugh I need to study), I think I got it right. Again, I feel like somethings off in the pictures I've uploaded, because she looks much better in-game, but I guess you'd have to find out for yourself :P Actually, after pasting it, I just realized that the lighting effects/contrast are too dark.
Change of plans due to the big C!
Hi all,
I wanted to explain my lack of creations and general absence just lately. To cut a long story short, I haven't been well for a while and I am currently still in the UK because of this.
I was diagnosed about a month ago with pre-cervical cancer cells and started having treatment. But on the 25th of last month, my Consultant called to tell me that they have recieved further lab results. I do actually have Cancer of the lining of the womb, as the cancer cells are in lots of tiny patches. I am now on more treatment and am looking at possible surgery in the next few months.
I just wanted to thank all of the people who have constantly mailed me on here, Facebook and in email messages. Even though many of you did not know about what was wrong, it was lovely to know that I was missed and so many of you had noticed my absence. For this, I am truly grateful.
I also wanted to apologise for some of my patterns not working with some of the later games like Ambitions. I need to update them and hopefully I will start working on this soon.
I am also thankful to everyone who has left thankyou messages in the last month on various creations. I promise i will catch up and thank you all in your own guestbooks.
I really do appreciate your comments and it really does inspire me to carry on creating.
Hugs
Simonetta.xxx
After Dark Readers
Due to the hectic holiday season and trouble with screenshots I can't seem to find any longer on my computer (might have accidentally deleted them) I can't continue the story here. I have written up to chapter 17 on the offical sims 3 site, you can find and read all the chapters from my story forum HERE
Or from my sims 3 page HERE
I apologize that I can't continue it here but hope that you will follow the link and continue to read. If you want to comment you can post comments here or on that forum.
Kim Kardashian for Download
What up ya'll!
I hope everyone is doing great... and if not, then I hope you will, after I tell you that we have a new download.
Your not even going to guess who it is so I'll just tell you... It's Kim Kardashian!!! she was all over my browser\web\enews\ so I decided to give it a try, plus I like Reggie Bush... wait did they break up...?? Anyways now you can have her in your game! Don't be shy to let me know what you think!
xo RQ
Happy Downloading!
Time for natural recolours ;)
While working on dedication set for Irene i'm also creating natural recolours,party because my brain needs at least few days of rest from creating clothing :D
sneak-peak on natural recolours set 4: (set 3 is shown at sweetness set :D)
Aw, don't be like that...
Another weekend gone. Lately I've been feeling like I haven't had weekends. I think I have just had my fill of family gatherings and performances. My kid has another concert tomorrow night. And the snow dumping we got Friday night/Saturday isn't helping my mood any either. I don't mind the cold at all. I LOVE wearing snuggly clothes and lighting candles and curling up in blankets. It's the heaps of dirty snow everywhere that bum me out. Freshly fallen, untouched snow is pretty. But that lasts for about 5 seconds. Then you have kids tromping through it, dogs peeing in it, trucks shoving it around along with last year's sodding attempt, and just anything and everything to make it dirty, ugly, and rock hard. And anything you don't get cleared freezes and becomes your next hospital visit.
OK, enough whining about my crummy mood and winter. I didn't get to starting a new lot this weekend. I was too busy. I do have the build bug though so I plan to start one tonight, if I have time. Three loads of laundry and a sink full of dirty dishes are calling my name. Ugh. What little time I did spend with the game was loading families and figuring out what the update fixed and what it broke. Well, the only thing I can find that it fixed was the opportunities finally getting linked to the right spots and not some place in Sunset Valley. (for Bridgeport opportunities that is) The butler still leaves the dang car on the road. One of my families is missing their butler but her car is there. Oi. Another family has the butler right where I left her and the car is still there. Oh, wait, something else is fixed. The puking. I started a new Bridgeport to get a new vampire to play. So far no puking at all. I am relieved. I hope my hood stays puke-free.
So you might be wondering why I need a new vampire when I already have a vampire family going. Just because. My first vampire ended up married and now has 6 kids so I never really got to be a baddie of the night with him. He's perfectly happy to stay home with the kids, skinny dip, and woohoo whenever the wife walks by. LOL But their lot has always been buggy. New stuff pops up every time I play it seems. And now that the update deleted their butler yet left her car and the game still thinks she's there, I can't fire her and hire a new one. I'm stuck in butlerless limbo and have a useless vehicle on my lot. So I think it's time to move them out and into a fresh lot and see if that helps. The oldest is a young adult now and my vamp's wife just had a set of twin girls. Oh lucky me. So they have a total of 6 kids all under one roof and plenty of glitches. And, by the way, out of those 6 kids and a normal/vampire sim breed mix, all the kids are vampires. I'm pretty sure the twins are. They're still babies but they have the odd shading that all the other kids had. For a couple that isn't family-oriented at all they sure wanted a lot of kids. They only got a kid when they both had the want. The house is full now but I know if I moved a few out they'd want even more. Thankfully the kids aren't fugly so it's not a bad thing to populate Bridgeport with young vampires. Bridgeport just really isn't a family neighborhood. There isn't room to expand and most of the lots are small. The apartment buildings are annoying. But, whatever, I made a family anyway. So there. Anyway, I'll move this family to a fresh lot and see if their glitches go. If not, they'll probably meet the trash bin. I'll work on keeping my new vampire (have to get him turned first) single for a bit longer and play the darker side of things. I do love my vampires. They're a lot of fun.
My new Bridgeport is coming along. My to-be vampire has a nice place and is seeking a willing vamp to turn him. He's already had a couple romances though and I've only played him for less than a sim week. The game keeps stealing his women on him. Just when I get the relationship to max and am ready to invite them over for the move in opportunity the game assigns them a partner. Seriously. I had this girl prepped and called her over so I could move her in. She says she'll be over in a bit and then another message pops up immediately saying something suddenly came up and she can't come. I check her profile and now she has Alexy as a partner (I checked before I called and she was still single). WHAT? This was the first sim day I played the guy. I took him out on the first day to buy stuff and meet people. He hit it off with her really well. He took her to dinner and dancing. I asked the questions, she was single and unemployed. The NEXT morning I invited her over and got the stupid message. Was that really necessary? The game needs to stop meddling with my relationships. It does this a lot. What? I just wasn't moving fast enough for it? I should just pop the question after greeting someone? What?! Ridiculous. She didn't even have a chance to meet anyone else. She was with my sim the whole first day. He snagged her when she got out of a taxi in the morning. They talked all day on the sidewalk and then went to dinner and both went home in the red for sleep. They never ever met anyone named Alexy the whole time. In fact, she never talked to another sim the whole time. So unfair! Stupid game!
I haven't really explained my title yet. LOL Another one of this sim's romances is with Sugar Bijou. Usually she's dancing on tables with him. They hit it off outside the diner and then the next morning I called her over. Considered moving her in. He wanted to cuddle in the hot tub with her, skinny dip with her, hug her, what not. So since she's a party animal I figured I try the skinny dip thing for fun. Sims are so cute when they skinny dip. They get so excited. The pixelation must tickle. LOL Anyway, he asked her to go skinny dipping and she was all fine, well, and good with it. Just before she enters the house she turns around and leaves with a message of "someone in this group has some unresolved issues to deal with" and then she goes on to tell him how much she really, really, really likes hanging out with him and would he please, please call her again. What? Issues? You get invited to skinny dip with your main squeeze and get cold feet? My sim got the rude guest negative moodlet from it. I'd say so. How rude! Fine, just leave. I didn't want to move you in anyway. Why don't you go find Alexy while you're dealing with your issues! It was just... weird. I guess I'll just get on with his life and go find that vampire to bite him. Sheesh.
I've had this relationship stealing happen with all my sims. I'm getting quite tired of the game's meddling. It's especially annoying when you know that sim hasn't met anyone else and you've got a max relationship with the little heart and everything. Then it just assigns them some random yahoo? Jerks. I've actually started seeding my hoods with 6 or more singles so my sims have a bigger chance of finding someone before the game steals them. They usually give them someone they never even met before too, which is just BS.
Bah, I'm still grumpy.
Requested Screenshots For Pictures
Here is the first requested screenshot 'Bridgeport Awakenings' taken by fredbrenny:-
And here is the screenshot transformed into a picture for TS3:-
If you would like one of your screenshots turned into a picture for TS3 please read my previous blog. All the info is in there :-)
Lorraine xx
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