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First Creation as a SA

I would like to thank those 11 subscibers who have downloaded my first creation as a SA today.  Your support is much appreciated :D

Gimping.

Ohhhh today has been a nightmare that I felt the need to document.

WELL FIRST.

Gimp crashes on me in the middle of making a gorgeous dress that I would have been quite happy to upload for once....

So, I check on the problem, seems as though my DDS plugin wasn't right. SO I re-install the plugin. Now I'm missing an entire folder from the original Gimp files!

This is why I hate windows 7.

It's taken me all day to get it working again.   GRRRR.

On a lighter note, I'm slowly working through my backlog of sims and half-finished lots to upload! Which is making me incredibly happy and keeping me amused.

Loves and hugs-- Isla  xoxoxo

Sept. 12th, The Kentworth Bedroom

The Kentworth bedroom set features the following antique furnishings: a half-tester bed, two-drawer nightstand, two-globe table lamp, tall dresser, decorative jewelry box, and a hope chest. All set items are recolorable.

I did not plan on creating another bedroom set so soon, but I saw a picture of this incredible bed and I just had to create it! The creation of the bed led to the modeling of a dresser, fully animated, nightstand, hope chest, and jewelry box. The two-globe lamp was intended for another set, but I think it goes perfectly with The Kentworth Bedroom set.

The Kentworth Bedroom set is scheduled for publication on September 12, 2010. Here's a picture of the bed that inspired the set...

Carolyn

the kids at sim state

138 Almond Rd. = Neila Lotherio

Neila settled into her little rental house quickly.  It had some basic furniture and with what she brought from home it suited all her basic needs.  Since her rent costed her most of her scholarship money, she got a few money trees to supplement her income.  It only took a few days til she could get some cool new cloths.  House cleaning was a breeze, all she had to do was influence the annoying Lama mascot to do it for her, every

other day.

When she wasn’t studying, she was entertaining guest.  She had a get together of all the sims she knew on campus already, and had them bring anyone else they lived with.  She had all her teen friends over a few times to meet the other college kids.  She even made time to have her Aunt Dina over for lunch.  She was working hard on getting her reputation up.  As a popularity sim she wanted to be big on campus.

*****

Sim State Dormitory =  Brandon Roseland & Bobbie Happiness

Brandon was ready to go.  He had one class left before his final exam.  Even though Bobbie considered them friends, Brandon was still a little upset over Bobbie dating Lizzy.

Brandon graduated with a 4.0 and through a great party.  Bobbie had invited a few people as well.  One of which was his little sister, Love.  Brandon struck up a conversation with the pretty blue eyed teen over some caffatera food.  He found her very intresting and couldn’t help but hope they have strong chemistry when she grew up.  Brandon seldom had any chemistry with other sims and none ever went past one.  Now that he was sure Lizzy was no longer interested in him, he was hoping to find someone.  He wasn’t even apposed to marring a townie.  His mother had been a townie.

Bobbie hated seeing Brandon go.  He had come to enjoy talking with the older boy.  He felt bad about stealing Lizzy Fancey from him.  Bobbie wasn’t sure if he wanted to pursue a relationship with her right away.  Only in his sophomore season in college, it was still a little soon to pick who he would eventully settle down with.  Bobbie’s lifetime aspiration is to graduate 3 kids from college.  He was a family sim, but he had a secoundary romance aspiration.  So he wanted to play the field before settling down and having those 3 kids.

He asked Sindee Crazy out on a date.  He’d known her from his teen years, but never thought of her much before.  The date went better then he’d imagined.  They seemed to have a lot in common.   It was a dream date that ended with woo-hoo in one of the two roof top hot tubs.  She surprised him the next day with a DJ booth.  He put it in storage since his dorm room wasn’t big enough for it.

*****

Pinenut Plaza = Kitten Lames & Sindee Crazy

Kitten was thrilled to have her Aunt in the same dorm as her.  She invited everyone over to meet her, including her cousin Dianna Phoenex.  Kitten wished Dianna had been in the same dorm too, but she planned to have the girl over often enough that it would feel like she lived there.

“we need some cool college threads.” Kitten said as she woke Sindee in the middle of the night to drag her cloths shopping.  The two got just enough cloths to get them through the fall and winter. “we can come back for our spring out fits when we get some more cash.” Kitten reasoned, more to herself then her Aunt.

Despite Sindee already falling head over heels for Bobbie Happiness, Kitten wanted to introduce her to other elegble sims.  “You never know who could be your 3 chem. Match.”  Kitten winked as she made phone call after phone call.

Sindee was a knowledge sim, where as Kitten was a pleasure sim.  It annoyed her that Kitten didn’t focus more on her studies.  But when they finished their first freshmen semester, Kitten seemed to have done OK getting a 3.8.  Sindee however got a perfect 4.0.

Sidnee appreciated her niece trying to play match maker, yet Sidnee was sure she wanted to get engaged to Bobbie Happiness. 

*****

Landgrabb House = Dianna Pheonex

Dianna had wanted to be in the same dorm as her cousin Kitten Lames, her mother however had a different dream for her daughter.  As a rising star in the culinary world Angela Pheonex often cooked for the college dean at the restaurant and was able to get her daughter not only in the same dorm as she had been in, but the same room.

Dianna was lonely surrounded by so many townie students.  She invited friends over as often as her studies permitted. 

As soon as she got her hands on some extra money she went cloths shopping.  She was so excited to ditch the pink jogging suite her mother had sent her to college with.  Along with her new cloths she changed her hair style, dyeing her hair blonde and flat ironing out the waves.

Happy with her new look she invited Dean Caliente over for a visit.

“I had that room right next to yours” He said. 

“that was my Aunt Lilith’s room,” Dianna giggled.

“Bell Goth had your mom’s room and on the other side of me was Brie Goth,” He pointed to the room next to the bathroom, “Baue Broke was there.”

Dianna followed him around the dorm like a love struck puppy.  She’d met Dean when she was a teen and they had become best friends quickly.  Now as a young adult she realized just how much she liked him.

“I’m glad they got the phone working again.” He said when they entered the cafeteria, “we had a lot of fun here.  Renting the big house was a blast, but this place was full of a lot of laughs.”

Dianna smiled.  It was late and no one was around.  Sure the cafeteria wasn’t the most romantic spot but she didn’t care.  Dean was still in his police uniform with his long blonde hair pulled back.  She couldn’t resist him.  She leaned into Dean for her first kiss.  It was magical.

Large House = Donelle Lothario & Sam Fancey

Donelle couldn’t wait to graduate.  She didn’t want to spend another minute under the same roof as Sam.  The House had been a lot more fun when it was crowded.  There’d been 8 of them living there at one point, With lots of graduations and other parties.  Almost everyday the house was full with other sims partying down.  Donelle had gotten so caught up in it all that he’d missed her first sophomore final and she found herself on academic probation. Slowly everyone else graduated leaving her in the 5 bedroom 3 bath house alone with Sam.  She kept mostly to her room upstairs studing or she tended her garden.  She wanted to plant more seeds but she would be leaving soon so there was no point. 

Sam stayed out of her way, he mostly puttered around the house cleaning.  He was always cleaning.  He would even make her bed when she wasn’t in the house.  They both stopped serving meals and started polishing off the leftovers.  She hadn’t stocked the fridge for a while, Keeping most of her harvest for herself.  Though she felt a little guilty when she saw Sam fix a broken sprinkler for her and he even pulled some weeds.

There was almost no getting completely away from him.  He had the same major as her and was in all her classes.  They just had finals a day apart.

She was over joyed when she finished her last final.  She managed to save her GPA enough to graduate with a 3.6.  not as bad as she had feared.  She quickly paked up all her stuff before throwing her graduation party.  She kept the guest list simple.  Mostly family with a few friends.  Not caring what Sam or her mother thought, she invited the twins, Clyde and Claire. 

Nina spent the entire time sitting at the kitchen table.  Claire, huge with baby waddled around the house talking to old friends and siblings.

“who’s the pregnant girl?”  Nina inquired when Donelle sat down to eat.

“that’s my sister, Claire,” Donelle replied.

“Did her husband come, too?” Nina asked half interested.

“She’s not married,” Donelle answered through a mouth full of food.

“And she’s having a baby?” Nina asked disapprovingly.

“Yes mother, she is having Sam’s baby.”  Donelle rose from her seat and walked away.  She was starting to wonder if she really wanted to move back in with her mother.

The house seemed even bigger to Sam after Donelle left.  He stayed downstairs as there was nothing in need of cleaning upstairs anymore.  He looked in on the garden.  There were a few weeds and some plants where ready to be harvested. 

One last class before final.  He’d gotten use to going with Donelle and it seemed weird her not attending class with him.  After class he finished his term paper and took a nap.  His final was scedualed for 3 am.

Sam graduated with a 4.0.  His party was nothing like the quite gathering as Donelle’s. too many sims were kissing other sims that they shouldn’t have been and a lot of slapping started happening.  Seemed Claire got it the worse.  Sam’s brother Mel had a few choice words to say to his fieancee. Sam stayed out of it.  The party guests were making such a mess leaving buffet plates, chip bags and juice cans every where.  He was having a tough time keeping up with it all.  The downstairs toilet needed to be cleaned twice.  He checked the upstairs bathrooms and discovered someone had taken a bath leaving the tub slightly dirty.

As the party drew to an end Sam gathered up the rest of his things, as well as a few things he wanted from the house.  Including the Piano.  With little fanfare he jumped in the cab and headed downtown.

Back to Business

Good news for all you sim fans! The Dragon Age obsession has passed. Well, more an obligation than an obsession really. I was merely prepping a save file for Dragon Age 2 and finishing up the latest downloadable content. I will most likely play off and on as work stresses me out. That kind of stress simply needs a release sims doesn't offer. C'est la vie.

Fast Lane arrived in my mailbox yesterday so I plan to install that tonight and dig in. I can't wait! And I'll probably gut my CC and game files and start all over again. I'm so OCD. It's annoying. LOL But hey, I'm dedicated. Doesn't matter what game I play, I'm always like this.

I still plan to do a series of smaller lots. I've got several floorplans picked out. I'm used to having a nice square to work with so I'm having a little trouble finding something pleasing to stick on a smaller lot. I want something your sim(s) can stay in for awhile. I'm sure you don't like moving your new sim into a one room shack just to get them started any more than I do. I just end up motherloding them up so they can move right away. Even better, the free real estate cheat is priceless. They still haven't worked out that imbalance between your sim's starting funds and a house the size they really need. We have loans. Sims are SOL.

Heh, here's my random ramble for this post. Forums with spoiler rules. I have never understood this. It's pretty simple. You don't want your game spoiled? Don't go to the forums. Period. I like to discuss things and discuss I will, spoilers or not. You decide what you want to read and what you don't. If you spoil it for yourself don't blame me. I honestly don't care if my games are "spoiled". I don't care if someone "spoils" a movie for me. I will still want to experience it for myself because my impression will still be different than theirs. And perhaps they got it all wrong. Consider the source. So forums that have these ridiculous NO SPOILER rules just baffle me. Here's the NO SPOILER section. Here's the SPOILERS ALLOWED section. Um... O... K... Are we going to talk about this game or play Jeopardy? C'mon folks. Alec, I'll take SPOILERS for 400. Having hampering rules like no spoilers is just asking for... well... SPOILERS! What is to stop someone that doesn't want their game spoiled from clicking the section that let's people spoil game events at will? Hmmm? Nothing you say? Exactly. And if they're searching the forums for help, well... it's likely going to find you the most useful information in the spoiler forum. Go figure. I'm evil enough that I'll run around posting spoilers in random places because I CAN. Nothing is stopping me from doing it. Ban me you say? Eh, whatever. I tend to expend my energy worrying about and solving REAL problems. I give a crap less whether or not some snot-nosed brat tells me my character dies at the end. Duh, the best characters always die at the end, if they're not already dead to begin with. Just play your role and shutup. I guess what I'm trying to say is people shouldn't take games seriously. It's... a... game. And if it has become your life instead of living your real life then... find a good therapist. My life sucks as much as the next person's but I never forget who I am, what is real and what isn't. So feel free to spoil my day, but don't play with fire unless you're willing to get burned.

TGIF. I just needed to complain about something meaningless. It makes real life seem less drab.

"Temptation lies in the forbidden."

Happy (not) Birthday!

Okay, so yesterday was my birthday. And what do I get now? A horrible case of the flu/fever, a crashed sims game, and a huge party mess I still need to clean. So exciting.

Anyways, I'm really sorry you guys. I actually have the next couple chapters typed and ready for my story, I just need the pictures. But my sims game has crashed so I am going to buy a new hopefully by later tonight. Well, if I start to feel better.

I'm really sorry for making you guys wait so long. It seems like I always have another reason I have to wait to post my story, and believe me, it gets annoying to me too. I know some of you are anxious to finish the story and find out what all is happening, and I won't leave the story with any doubts. I'm even thinking about making a sequal about her soon-to-be sister/brother (I'm pretty sure you've guessed the gender and the baby's name from the telescope visions). I will get to posting and finishing up my story as soon as possible. Which will hopefully not be long. Again, really sorry everyone! Thanks for the support!! -Allyson

Good and bad news..again

Issues with PC solved,but I loosed all user data I had=lost all upcoming creations =(

Good news-expect new awesome story soon =)

Its going to be a translation to english from russian but believe me,its really hard to translate a story keeping all the aspects and etc..last night I translated like only 30 % of first chapter,thought I know english well and russian is my native language..

Pic:

A Consideration

Hey everyone!

Sorry about taking so long to update Forgotten Redemption, school started around the same time and will end in two weeks. I've decided that once I've finished Forgotten Redemption and another horror story...I may retire from TSR.

It's just that my appeal in the Sims is sort of...going down hill ^^;

I'll probably visit every now and then but until then, I'm going to take all the shots for the chapter of Forgotten Redemption before I post the next chapter.

See you guys around!

-Warrayfinson

9th of September

Have just submitted  May Ching, Japanese Girl and Japanese Home( which i hope turned out ok...:-s ). Anyway, i'll be experimenting with Japanese housing styles, so keep in touch:) Hopefully i'll still be able to keep my submitting rate once school starts next monday:D