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October

Happy October!

Can't wait to see what everyone comes up with this year!
Let the Sims Tricks and Treats begin!

Penumbra

eyeshadow-thomas. hair-newsea. piercing-me

Update

Well again I shall start off with an apology to everyone that follows my stories. I'm sorry I haven't published any in a while.

Everything's just been SOOO hectic round here. It's not through lack of trying though, everytime I load the sims up to finish my stories something always happens!! As well as the last few days were I physically couldn't even sit at the computer due to severe back pain that's caused from some virus and also had minor surgery on my foot. Where I found out i'm some alien freak...because the local anesthetic, well the normal amount of anesthetic doesn't work on me, so I had to have the maximum amount that's able to be given and even then I could still feel it a bit. I think it's something like the anesthetic is supposed to take 2-3 minutes to set in and last for about 40-45 minutes, which is for the normal amount. I had the maximum dosage, it took 10 minutes to set in and only lasted for 5 minutes. The doctor said that he had read about what happened to me, but in all his thousands of these surgeries, I was the first one he'd seen. So you know, it's always nice to be different.

Anyway all that stuff aside now I have officially made it back to my computer chair!!!! I've really been focusing on my Tomb Raider story at the moment, with the Good vs. Evil story on the back burner. But I will finish the Good vs. Evil story, I just want to take my time with it so it will be as good as it can be, and I don't really want to finish it until I've finished off the Tomb Raider story. I've already completed 6 chapters out of 14,  so nearly halfway through it.

Anyway the game's about to start now if it hasn't already started. Collingwood vs. St Kilda...again!! If you have no idea what I'm talking about, it's the AFL which is Aussie football. Which is very different from other football. Not to mention it's the grand final! They did play the grand final last week but it was a draw, so they're playing again this weekend!! Which there's been a lot of controversy over because when it's a draw they're supposed to play over time, but the rule wasn't changed for the grand final. So people were annoyed that they had to play again the next weekend.

It's starting now so I must be off!! Be sure to look out for my stories in the next coming week/days.

Adios xox hope you all have a good weekend!!

My very first blog entry

Hi everyone:) This is my first blog entry and I'm not quite sure what to write. It's 3:30 pm in sunny Southern California. I just got off work and T.G.I.F.  I can say that all I thought about today was my next lot build for Sims 3. Not sure what to build. But that's part of the fun. Thanks goes out to all who have downloaded and enjoyed my lots. I greatly appreciate your kind words, also. Well, I'll leave it at that for now. Talk to yall later:)

Doubts...

I started creating stuff back in 2008.Since mts wasnt and isnt begginner-friendly i stopped creating stuff..In may of this year I started submitting to tsr-a really nicer community.But difficulties began aswell-since 90 % of clothing creators are either using photos of clothing or photoshop brushes to create clothing and rarely modify results to make them personalizied sometimes things do look 100 % similar even if creators never downloaded stuff of each other.While working on topmania I started noticing this,now I'm accused of stealing-when me and creator simple got textures from one site and it leaded to almost identical textures (in my version,textures are a bit unseamless from right side of front).You know, I really do HATE  drama.And never steal stuff because I think I can do my own stuff that will be tons times better and politer.And now I'm thinking of moving my stuff to my own site to stop seeing drama..And whats your opinion on this?

14 Days

My boss has approved my vacation request. Just 14 more days and I'll have 10 days of work-free bliss. That includes weekends btw. What will I spend all that time doing? Sleeping. Cleaning. Simming. Decapitating. LOL Of course I'll sim. I have some closets to clean out first but simming is definitely on the menu, creating and playing. The decapitating part would be Dragon Age. I don't play much now because it's basically over, but I still get the need to kill stuff so I play in spurts to get my fix.

Now I play the waiting game for the next decent RPG to come out, which will be in March next year as Dragon Age 2 and Final Fantasy XIV are slated for release. I haven't played a Final Fantasy since FFX. Uh, yeah, that's why ffx is after macgirl in my user name. Still my all time fav game. I haven't had a twinge of interest in a Final Fantasy game since. I've watched other people play them, read reviews, visited forums, etc. but nah, not interested. FFX was special. I do that with games. I could've never heard of it and I'll walk into a store or see it online and there will be this... this... PING inside me. The ping that means this one's for me. It's a weird sensation. As quick as lightning but the tingly feeling doesn't leave until I get the game. Then it turns into a minor obsession. Honestly, this last ping cycle had lots of dead space until the next one. Final Fantasy X... until... Dragon Age: Origins. Count the years. That is about how infrequently a game that really, really clicks with me comes around. Sims is kind of a hobby to my hobby and I got the ping for it too oh so long ago. It fills in the gaps between the really good stuff. Like snacks. I do play a lot of games but it's the RPGs that I'll replay for months, even years. I don't know if I'll get the ping yet for DA2 or FFXIV but we'll see come next year. But the tingly feeling is there when I watch trailers. That can totally be shattered though if a game company changes something too much between release and trailers. Sometimes they completely botch it and lose me before it's released. Xenosaga had me until Xenosaga 2. Wow, was that a let down. Huge botch job. Way to go Namco. The third game sort of redeemed the series but still fell short. Allen finally got his time in the spotlight so I'm happy. Sad when your favorite character from an RPG is a non-playable character. LOL Come to think of it though, it's like that with Dragon Age. You never play as Fergus or Teagan. They kind of tied. At least in FFX I got to play as Auron. Oh well, enough about my sad little video game life.

I went through my floorplans again and found a few more I'd like to do for smaller lots. The weekend is upon us and I hope to get some building in. It is most odd. I've mentioned this before, but if I play Dragon Age for a blood fix, even briefly, I want to build more. How does that figure? Um... spurting blood and dying gurgles are great fun but I'd rather be building? Weird. Just plain weird. But hey, whatever works, right? I think the next few lots will be sans pink. I've had enough. It will have it's day again but maybe just in a teen girl's room or some other utterly needless frilly zone.

I have considered uploading some sims to share. I make really nice sims. They make good babies and kill ugly genes. It's RAID for sims. But I dunno if anyone would want them. I think I've decided to make a website for my Sims 3 adventures and maybe I'll put some pictures and bios for all my sims. Some are just filler sims. Potential mates since so many of the existing ones aren't salvageable. And some are extra actors to just add some life to the hood. My sims can be pretty quirky too. I don't make everyone perfect. I don't do celeb sims. I have no interest in sims of real world people. I used to play sims of my friends because they wanted me to but it usually ended badly. Well, don't give me control of your lives then. Occasionally I'll make a character from a video game but most of my sims are completely original, out of my head, things.

I fiddled with the pattern tool thing again. I think I might be able to do it. Does anyone else find this tool clumsy and awkward? I guess I'm just used to Adobe software. There are a couple patterns I can think of off the top of my head that I would like to do. I'd use Photoshop but it's on my Mac and I play on my PC and I just don't want to deal with the back and forth of files. I already do that for my lot photos. And once you're used to Adobe stuff, you never go back.

Sorry for the long, drawn out post. Plenty of randomness in there for you people that love randomness. Perhaps you will see something new from me next week. Keep your eyes peeled.

Coming Soon - fancy living in a Snowflake or Pumpkin?

Novelty shaped houses for festival fun or a spooky place to live...

2000 thanks for my submissions

Now I have to say thanks for 2000 "thanks"!

My creations will be here soon! (updated October 9th)

Hi Guys,

I've FINALLY finished my first submit-worthy work! (yeeehaaaa). It's a set of 4 floral-print dresses and I have submitted them however as it was my first time submitting, I didn't do it correctly and so, I have had to fix my mistakes and re-submit them. Also, how do you prefer your preview images to be? Do you like it when then the models are on a themed background or do you like it when they are just against a wall? I am greatful for any help or suggestions ad your patience with my pace.

Jess,

P.S: I know no-one cares ,but.. I was very happy when I saw I had over 100 page views. (:

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Blog addition - 9th October 2010.

Hey guys, being the wally that I am, I've once again failed in submitting my work. This'd have to be atleast the 4th time I've stuffed-up the submission process so I'm sorry, but I'm not sure when my work will be up. I'm sorry for any inconvenience but if you'd like to view my up-coming work, I have posted the group image for my first set 'Find me Among the Roses' below. Thankyou for your patience.

P.S: thankyou to the 5 artists who have bookmarked me. I have no clue who you are, but thankyou for showing some interest in what I will have to offer in the future.

-Jess. xx

Legacy Rules?

Does anyone have a link for me where I can find sims 3 legacy rules? I am thinking I am going to start a legacy series, but I'm kind of flying by the seat of my pants when it comes to rules for it. Please answer the poll on my page and help me out with some questions about what I should do for my legacy. thanks :)

Giving Credit and Ripping Off

ok, so there has been some dispyte about hairstyles in the sims 3 download archive......... and then someone said that the hairstyle looks like a rip-off of NewSea..... no, i wanna take this time to say that NewSea is actually the creator that *rips-off* so-to-speak, creations, well, she mods them, is what i should say...... on check out some hairstyles like the fringe on, the smooth one, and compare to NewSeas Moon-Rider, and her Lady....... she is practic;ly the modder..... but she is still one of my favourite creators on the web, more-so on here........ back to re-uploading.... the creator Maya..... made an honest mistake.... and pwople are jumping down her throat..... and someone said that she is only doing it to get download points..... that is far from the reason...... she gave full credit... and also thought that it WAS ok to re-upload. It has not much to do with the people, so i think that the person who uploaded it made a mistake, and that people should let the site and the actual creators deal with it instead of being a hero....

ok, i meant no offense to anyone.... and please dont leave me angry comments..... THAT makes my sad....

Demi, TSR (duh)