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*searching* The PERFECT home
I am finding it harder and harder to find my Sims the PERFECT home. You know, that beauitful house whose landscaping is amazing. The layout is easy and flows perfectly. Nicely decorated and has the right amount of bedrooms, bathrooms, and 3+ car garage, without being overly HUGE. I'm not a great designer, but maybe I should try. I can't seem to find the one house that I want my Sims to live and die in. That house that gets passed down from generation to generation. The ONE house that if I choose to add onto, it won't mess up the beauty of it.
I'm searching.
Not to say that I haven't found nice houses, but they haven't done what I needed them to do. I need a house that doesn't have to have items from the EA store, or a bunch of downloads in it to be great. Something breath taking, but simple. A house that fits ANYWHERE.
Building
I had started a house I really was enjoying building and couldn't wait to get on TSR. I was also using CC that wasn't subsriber only so everyone could download it. Well, I started building another house for a contest I was in and I liked that house so much better, I decided I wanted to finish that and submit it first! LOL So, with a little tweaking here and there (the contest had a money limit) I should be submitting the new house sometime later this week. I will have screenshots in my gallery for you to peruse, too. So, until then, have fun playing :)
The Skype Effect
Since becoming an FA I've gotten hooked up with our Skype groups and have been invited to offer my graphics perspectives in the site re-design group. So if my submissions seem to suddenly be getting a bit skimpy, that would be the reason. In the last two weeks I've scantly been seen around my build screen. I have a couple lots still hanging around that are yet to be submitted. I'll try to get those in the pipeline sometime soon. I've also got a unique holloween castle already done so be looking for that sometime later next month. I don't know how much longer I'll be in the mix other than to say the new site is slated to role out around Christmas. I can't imagine being needed right up until then but I can't say for sure. We will see. Thanks again for all your support everybody, you make it all worth while! Do share your thoughts.
No! NO! Stay in the Nest!
So . . . about the Little Bird's Home . . . yeah. Well, I decided I wasn't going to upload that. It tryuly is a magnificent house, but I would prefer for that reason and that reason only that I not allow anyone to upload it. It is almost a replica of the two houses next to it because of its spot, so I wanted it to look like its neighboring houses, but then I thought I should spice it up a little so I had a little garden planted in the front of the yard, with flame fruit and life fruit and death flowers, and an omni plant. Then sitting along the little garage and the old broken down truck(but is still drivible) were three little apple trees.
Well, I made the mistake of moving a sim family into it before uploading it and well, all the plants died. And because I am way too lazy to replant them(and since they moved out and sold the furniture, completely redecorate the house!) I decided that it would be best if I just totally forgot about uploading it. I am so sorry, but, don't worry because I am going to make a small madern home for you guys to enjoy instead.
I have no idea what it will be called but I promise you it will be just a wonderful as Little Blue Bird's Home! It will probably be up in a few hours or a day or two, since I have so much homework tonight. So, check back in a while for it!
Fast Lane
I usually don't buy stuff packs but I made an exception this time as there where going to be a few lovely cars.

My sim got a Cabriolet, it looks great I think.
I've only tested this one and the cheap Vespa. But after installing I have noticed a few 'issues'.
One is when playing my new sim Sylvia, I sent her to France and the tomb had already been 'used' although this was the first sim in this family. The treasures where there but the hidden doors and other stuff where already opened.

The other thing that happened (I think as I haven't noticed this before) is that I suddenly have furniture on 2 hills in Riverview like this!
Has anyone else seen this before?
Overall I'm a little bit disappointed as I had hoped there would be some more clothing, but now it's not that long before the next EP is here.
Back from vacation...
While it was good to enjoy some time away, a little longer than i had expected as well, its good to be back from vacation!! Back to work finishing up the next couple of chapters for Pieces of Me!!
Hope you all had a wonderful summer.
-NyGirl08
Sam Fancey : caught up in his own world.
household; Sam Fancey = adult
Sam bought a small two story house around the corner from Claire Kim in downtown Pleasantview. He wanted to be close to his child. He set about remodling the house. There where two bedrooms upstairs but the bathroom was down stairs. That needed to be changed. It took a lot of planning and replanning to get two bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs. The second bedroom was a bit small but he figured his child wouldn’t stay the night very often and wouldn’t need much.
He’d hardly settled in when Claire gave him the news. A baby girl named Samantha. When he fed his little girl a bottle he looked around Claire’s house. She’d done a good job remodling and making room for their child. He noticed she had yet to get a high chair. He knew he had one in storage and figured he’d never have a reason to use it. When he returned home he got the high chair and did some more shopping. He decorated the spare bedroom in reds and pinks for Samantha and put some play ground equipment out back for her. Just a slide and some monkey bars in white. Then he bought an entire play ground set in lavender to give to Claire.
He called his parents to tell them about the birth of his little girl and mom offered to be the one to tell Mel. Sam called his brother Steve and told him as well as ask if there was any openings where he worked. Steve worked in the music carreer and shared the same life aspiration to become a rock god.
“I was lucky to find my job,” Steve said, “Just keep looking on the computer, something’s bound to break, but if I hear anything I’ll call you.”
“cool, thanks,” Sam said to his older brother.
“I gotta get to work, congrads again on the little girl.” Steve said before hanging up.
No sooner had Sam hung up with his brother, and the phone rang.
“I’m getting some friends together to celebrate my new neice,” Snow Kim’s voice came through the receiver. “wanna go celebrate your baby girl?”
The cab dropped the group of at Crypto’s Night Club. Snow had invited along a bunch of her friends; Beau Broke, Bell Goth, Dan Crazy, Sydney Roseland and of course the new mom, Claire Kim. The group ran into Angela Pheonix who had stopped in for a bite to eat. A little while later Dude Lames also showed up. Sam tried his hand at working as a DJ and noticed Bell slap Sydney. He wondered who or what that was all about. He also couldn’t keep his eyes off Claire. As she danced with her sister Snow he noticed Claire was looking good for someone who had just had a baby. With a sly smile he let the house DJ take back over.
“come with me.” He whispered to Claire and led her to the photo booth. It didn’t take long til they had the thing rocking so hard sparks where flying from it like fire works. When they emerged from the photo booth without photos they were greeted with mixed responses. Most people were cheering but Bell gave him a hard slap. Dan also had a slap for Claire.
“I’ve been getting slapped a lot recently,” Claire sighed looking at Sam.
“Maybe this will cheer you up.” Sam said handing her a gift. “just a few things for Samantha.”
Claire smiled and tucked it away.
Sam played the night back in his head on the cab ride home. He smiled about his moment of bliss with Claire. He also pondered the cause of the rift between Bell and Sydney that had them slapping each other all night until eventully a fight broke out between them bringing the outing to an end.
The next day Sam hung out at home. He had a lot of cleaning to do. When he took the trash out he noticed Angela Phoenix walking by. He struck up a conversation with her. They talked for close to two hours out front his house.
“wanna have a date?” He asked her with a wink.
Angela jumped back and waved her hands at him, “Oh, no, I’m a married woman!”
“how about just having lunch?” he laughed.
“that I can do.” She said and followed him into the house.
“Wow! Who’s your maid?” Angela asked looking around.
Sam Paused by the fridge. “Why, something worng?”
“ah, why no,” Angela giggled, “I didn’t think a single guy would have such a clean house. I’m forever picking up after Jimmy and the girls.”
Angela hung out with Sam the rest of the day talking about different cleaning tips.
After she left he went through the house checking to see if anything had gotten dirty then called the taxi.
He went to Cold Issue Clothing and picked up some new cloths. He ran into Alexander Goth and struck up a conversation. Alexander didn’t seem to have much to say other then Gina and the twins were fine. Thanks for your condolence for Cassandra, and a quick congradulations on the baby girl.
As Alexander walked away heading for the door, Sam thought he heard him mumble something about “womanizer” and “cad”.
Spotting a group of people by the changing room Sam wandered over to see what was going on. He found Claire and his brother, Steve playing kicky bag with some townies. Sam hung back and cheered them on for a bit. He wanted to watch longer but he was getting hungry and tired. Plus he didn’t know if Claire and Steve were on a date or not. Steve was also a romance sim. Sam didn’t want to interfere on their night, just incase, so he headed home.
Climbing from the cab Sam saw something that sent chills through him. Alexander Goth was kicking over his trash. Garbage lay every where. Sam was stunned. How could anyone want to delebratly make such a mess. Sam decided to prevent anyone from doing that again. he would just compost his trash in the yard. He bought a composter and cleaned the garbage up leaving the empty can laying on the ground. He grabbed a plate of leftovers before going to bed.
After work the next day he realized he hadn’t seen his sisters much and decided to have them and some of their friends over for a small house party. He invited Dan and Mellow Crazy, Dude Lames, Heart and Bobbie Happiness and Justin Kim. Both his sisters, Lizzy and Stacie came. Apparently he needed to spend more time getting to know them. Justin Kim jumped into Lizzy’s arms causeing a big ruckase. Heart slapped Justin. Bobbie slapped Lizzy but Lizzy wasn’t going to stand for that and she slapped him back. Sam quickly served a meal and the food seemed to distract everyone except for Dude, who spent the entire party in Sam’s room on the computer.
After everyone left, Sam cleaned up. As he was scrubbing the counter the phone rang.
“Next time, ask us who our friends are,” Stacie scolded over the phone. “Don’t you ever pay attention to what’s happening in your own family?”
“Well..I..I don’t understand…” Sam mumbled into the phone.
“You’re so clueless,” Stacy sighed. She explained what had happened as a result of Lizzy dating Bobbie. Sam found himself repeating a lot of, “Oh, wow” and “I didn’t realize” along with a few, “I’m sorry”.
Got the Build Bug
Good news! I have a new lot. Yep, finished it last night. I still have to let a sim run around in it for a bit, make tweaks if necessary, and then get photos and do all that techie crap to submit it. It's adorable and girly. Sort of. I do not do girly well. It's really hard for me, but I don't think I did too bad. Anyway, be looking for new lots from me soon.
It feels good to be back in simland. Even my son was relieved to hear I was building when he stopped over last night. I didn't know he was coming over. Gee, maybe my Dragon Age devotion was bothering him. LOL Nah, he just never got into the game that much and he likes me to do what he does. I'm such a bottomless well of knowledge when it comes to sims that he loves tapping my brain. I haven't gotten into Fast Lane yet. I looked at some of the stuff as I built but nothing more than that. I try to use as much base game stuff as I can when I build to keep it simple for people that download my stuff, but... some EP and Stuff Pack stuff sneaks in here and there.
And as I stated in an earlier post, I gutted my game files and started fresh after I installed Fast Lane. Ah, nothing like a fresh game. I'll start installing CC again soon. I do love that new game smell. MOODLET!
I don't have a lot of time to chat so this is a short post. I just wanted to reassure everyone that more will be coming from me again soon.
Star Trek Voyager: Seven of Nine
By request, I am releasing a series of items to create the character Seven of Nine from Star Trek Voyager, including a skintone (if you would like to make her as an actual unique "species", capable of passing on her attributes), make-up (if you would rather just throw the odd Trekkie-themed costume party for your existing sims), a special eyebrow set, and the silver version of her infamously impractical skintight "uniform".


