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Hey everyone. No, I'm not going to start writing again just yet, because I've got alot of concerts, after school projects, reharsals, adutions, ect., ect.

I have written the next part of The Telescope, but I haven't got the pictures and I know they're going to be hard to find. Oh, but I do have some exciting news about why this might take a while to finish.

At school today, a proffesional author (I'm not sure if you have read any of her books, but her name is Vivian Vande Velde. she wrote the books Remembering Raqueal (reaaaally good book!!), Stolen, Now You See It..., There's A Dead Person Following My Sister Around, and a ton others. here's her website: http://www.vivianvandevelde.com/bookLists.cfm?BookCategory=3 ) talked to all students who had an A in Literature (Yaaaaay im special! And in advanced literature! :D) about her books, making books, ect., and while she was talking, she came told us about a publishing company who publishes books written by people 18 and under. As soon as she said that, my adreanilne pumped in and I started thinking about the book I just started writing, Cooper Island. I was thinking of maybe puting it on TSR, but it'd be a lot of work-even more work than The Telescope!-because it involves a plane and a plane crash. (You can probably guess where my story has gone with this, but I tried to add originally with to it, so don't judge me!) I know I'm being ambitious, but I am going to give this all a shot. And don't ask me for the name of that publishing company because I don't know the name. She's sending my school library a list of publishers like that and I'll try to get anyone whose interested in that the names.

So yes, I'm very very busy now but I will try to squeez in as much time as possible for TSR.

Thank you so so so SOO much for being patient and being understanding in this.

You are all so awesome. :)

-Allyson

More than 1 M downloads!

Thank you all for downloading my stuff! It's been a pleasure designing especially for the male sims :D I'll keep posting really cool stuff so stay tuned!

Louis Vuitton Inspired Beauty Pumps!!!

Louis Vuitton inspired "Beautypumps!" . It's really expensive in real and it's high fashion. New season, and famous people's choice!

It's not classic pumps look. It'll make your sims cute and smaller, high heels, ribbons and new pattern.

Would you want to download it for your sims? It looks really good with formal dress also good in everyday clothes.

Landra

Yes, Landra is up and ready for downloading. I think it's the last of my small lot floorplans. If I find more I'll surely do them. I really think this one came out well. For such a small lot it offers enough space for a family. You can always lop on another floor or build out a breezeway in back to add in some basement stairs. There's room in the yard for a garage if you want one. Instead of a color theme I stuck with neutrals and earthtones. No pink or blue. A little yellow in the master bedroom but that sort of falls into the earthtone category for me. Maybe you think the wallpaper and floors are garish. I was experimenting with the palettes and colors. I like to find uses for the ugly stuff EA gives us. I mean really, would you put those patterns in your house in their original colorschemes? God no! Some are completely worthless but some are worth fussing with to get a decent color palette so they can be used and not make your eyes bleed.

Alas, my vacation is almost over. Today is officially it. Then the weekend and I'm back to the grind on Monday. I thought I'd have time to create more but I was out and about a lot more than I planned and the weather has been so nice. A rarity for Northern Illinois. We actually HAD fall this year. Oftentimes we only have two seasons here. Winter and summer. And it's not odd to have them both in the same day. I'm not kidding. Just a week or so ago we were swinging 40 to 50 degrees during the day. 30s in the morning with frost and 80s by early afternoon. You actually have to dress for two seasons. It stinks. You do have to follow the weather here closely because it is so odd. The farmers have been blessed with a beautiful harvest this year and I do hope they get their pokey butts off my roadways soon.

Ah, as for future plans... I dunno. I had really hoped to start on patterns over my vacation but it didn't happen. Nor did creating worlds. I want to dabble in that too. Sure, I can download what others have done, but I wanna learn to do it myself! That's just how I am. I crave to learn new things and you can't really gripe about something authentically unless you've experienced it yourself. I'll keep doing lots of course. That's my forte anyway. Always has been. Someday I hope to do a really fancy, impressive, impractical lot that will never be used because it's too ornate and messed up architecturally to actually use. That's so not me. If I'm not going to use it I don't make it. Period. If I had time to kill, to really explore building mechanics, eh, maybe. But I have to choose between throwing caution to the wind and making something that will be useful in my game with the limited free time I have. And honestly, EA provides me with more than enough stuff to just sit in my hood and look at. I can at least save the planet and give everyone something useful. Call me crazy. I know, I'm such the rebel. *eyeroll*

I guess I'll leave you for now. I don't have much to say that would interest you and I'd rather be playing. I started a firefighter sim the other day and he's been a blast. Woo! Woo! Woo!

Return to TSR

Hola Simmers I'm nearing the end of the season here on Mallorca, It's been a blast, but I'm glad to be going home soon..... As of today friday the 22 of oktober I only have to work for one more week and then it's holiday for me. I'll be flying home on sunday the 31st of oktober early in the morning. I hope to be soon on TSR and share my creations/ designs with you. Not an easy job to do when you first have to pass by all the relatives that haven't seen me in 8 months, but I'll be back very soon. Hasta pronto Amigo's y Amiga's

and look who's back!!!

Hey there fellow simmers!

It's been a LONG time since I last got in here! Lots of new changes and I am doing my best to catch up!

Anyways, this shall be brief.

I'm back to creating for sims 3 once more, only this time, I'm trying to expand my horizons! :D

And I really hope that I haven't lost my touch. :D

Happy Simming,

Alyosha! :D

Just to say a big thank you

Thanks everyone I have achieved over a thousand downloads. Please remember to say thank you for my items. This will determine what you downloads like so I can create more amazing things that you like.

xxxx

Why I hate lacking feedback in a help forum

Sometimes I like to give advice by posting in the help section of the forum. Probably it's worth a separate blog entry why I am doing it, because IMHO this is the one thing you shouldn't do if you're going for easy kudos or mass production. Maybe I want to help, maybe I want to keep sharp on my knowledge, or is it only for showing off?! Honestly, I do not know for sure. The explanation I like best is based on something I saw in a signature of some help forum moderator years ago. I hope this translates well into English: "Do not pay back, pay forward!", meaning if you get helped, return the favour by helping not the same person, but the next one in line in need of help. What a cool idea!

Posting an answer to a problem thread in the help sections takes time. You can't fire away a "great, I like it" and be done with it, but you have to understand the problem, check the facts, look up some details, maybe even try something yourself before giving it as advice, and then you have to put it into words that leave not much room of misunderstanding. Most of the time it's an iterative process, too, because you have to verify some details the OTC (original thread creator) didn't mention. Oh, that's another topic worth of a blog entry. Some people just write "my game doesn't work. I need help" without as much as giving a clue about the circumstances. Anyway, what's important here is that answering to a problem thread usually involves some kind of obligation to walk through the solution process over several postings, too, so you have to check back at the forum every now and then.

Which means: helping involves time and implies an obligation.In an ideal world, the problem thread finishes with a "thanks, this or that worked" or at least a "no, that didn't solve my problem, but thanks anyway".Such endings have the advantage that other people reading it know whether something worked, too. People with the same problem can search the forum months later and learn about right (and wrong) ways to solve their problem without starting at point zero again.

Unfortunately, in the real world most threads finish with an advice and the OTC is never heard again. This is not specific to my advices, but a general behaviour. I hate it. Not even the person that gave the advice learns whether his time was well spent.

A short while ago I answered a question about network connectivity problems at the TSR General PC help forum. It was not very Sims-specific, but as the problem description was quite detailed, I offered some advice, including some hints on what the OTC should check. That took me maybe 15 minutes of my life. The OTC never wrote back. This time I got curious. After two weeks or so I used Google to check if the OTC had posted his question somewhere else as well. It turned out he had. Google came up with more than hundred different forums he had asked the same question word by word (copy and paste is cheap) over the course of a week! I checked only a few of those hits, but it seems about a third of the forums had a reply (often with additional questions, too) and the OTC never replied once to any advice giver.

The strange thing was he posted in some German forums, too, but with the english text. Did he expect an answer there? And he posted a few dozen of his identical question each day, several days in a row. That doesn't sound like a spambot either. Why would someone do this? Imagine 100 different forums having this thread, each causing one guy to spend 15 min for an answer, and you come up with 25 hours wasted on helping someone who didn't care to check the replies or comment on them. Lacking feedback shows lacking manners sometimes, I think.

I have a poll for this topic, too.

Trick or Treat

Treat when cooked

Pieces of Me Story Finished

Upon posting chapter 20 of pieces of me, I forgot to include that it was indeed the final chapter of the story, I want to send a big thank you to everyone who read the story and enjoyed it, I appreciate it very much! I am now in the middle of working on a few new stories for you all so keep a look out for those to come soon!

XOXOXO-

NyGirl08