's Blog

New Tutorial in the works!

Hi everyone! It's been a while since I've been around, I know! My old computer started randomly shutting down at the most inopportune time, and I had to buy a new one. Trying to save money, I decided to buy a new-but-refurbished computer. After about a day it got to the point where all I got were "Windows has failed to boot" messages. Most unhelpful. Now, 3 computers later, I finally have one that works quite well.

I just finished installing all my programs - one of which is the new 2.5 Beta  release of Blender3D. After some poking around, it appears that most functionality has been restored - most importantly, the "Bake" feature that was missing (or extremely well hidden!) from the initial 2.5 Alpha release.

And thus, I have begun dissecting the new Blender UI and have started writing a tutorial on baking in Blender 2.5. I'd guess I have roughly half of it written, and should be finished with the rest of it in the next few hours. When I will get around to publishing it, however, is another story...

VOTE FOR ME

Community I need your help: to vote for my submission name for a condo in Toronto,Canada. It's jsut for fun so here is the link:

http://www.nameourcondo.com/entry/664

World Cup Aftermath

Ok the World Cup is way more than over I know. Now I'm trying to pick up the pace and start designing cool and unique stuff. If you have a request, please private message me or write on my guestbook because sometimes I rarely check the comments on past creations.

Start working next week

Next week I'll start creating again. I couldn't create because of my illness, now I feel myself much better. I've found a lot of cool textures, so, please, be patient!

~Christina

Pieces of Me Chapter 2 finished...

Chapter 2 of my sims 3 novel "Pieces of me" is finally done after a gurelling day. I have submitted it and its awaiting approval.  I hope all who is reading the story will enjoy it. Chapter 2 is a little slow moving, as we learn more about Dani's thought process and how she is coming to deal with the durastic changes in her life, and adapting to her new surroundings.

Chapter 3 will be out sometime next week as i won't have time to work on it much this weekend.

New Lot

Ok guys, I stopped making custom content for the sims 2 because I was so busy for the past 6-7 months. My father had a massive stroke and was laid up in the hospital, clinging to life, for two months. Then after he got to go home I was taking care of him and my 5 year old son. So now that my 5 year old has the chicken pox and I am stuck in the house for a couple of weeks, I thought that this was the perfect time to start creating again. 

Anyways, here we go 1st custom content created since January, it was approved today so I assume that my new lot will be available for download soon. 

Crime Scene Chalk Outlines - Please Read!

There's nothing wrong with the files uploaded to TSR, the actual chalk outlines...those are fine.

I had uploaded some 'add-ons' to my own site, that I share with BlackGarden (simfulpleasures.com) and it turns out the actual files themselves did not upload correctly. I am sending them to BlackGarden right now, so that she can upload them directly to the server. I apologize for all of you who have tried to download them and couldn't, they should be available within the next 24 hours or so.

SORRY!

Sims 3 novel in progress: Pieces of Me

So I decided I would try my hand at writing a story in Sims 3. I love writing, it’s been a hobby of mine since I was a pre-teen, though I mostly wrote poetry and short stories, the ideas for this story just came to mind one day, I thought I would illustrate it through Sims 3. When I sat down to begin writing “Pieces of Me” so many ideas and twists and turns came to mind that I knew it wasn’t going to be a few chapter short story so I guess I’m calling it a Sims 3 novel. I hope that all who read it enjoys it.

I am working on the 2^nd chapter as we speak and its coming along quickly, since the beginning, middle and end plots are nearly already in place, I’m in the process of working on the in between details. Might make it a bit more interesting and allowing it to be an interactive story, and allow fellow simmers to change paths and courses in young Daniella’s life.

For those who are reading the story and want to follow along with it, I’ll leave you with a more descriptive intro to the storyline.

Daniella always had the best of everything in life, her mother was an amazing artist, painting and sculpting were her strong points, but she was also a very practical woman, who enjoyed the finer things in life, such as fine cuisine, gardening, theatre and the way the air around their beach front property always smelled after a fresh rain. She wasn’t always well off, in fact before she had Daniella she struggling to pay her bills and put food on the table. Daniella adored her mother and her mother adored her, they didn’t always see eye to eye on things, but they shared a very close bond.

Daniella’s father was not in the picture; her mother told her that he took off not long after her mother learned of her conception. She never talked long about the subject, it was mostly off limits. The morning after Daniella’s 18^th birthday her mother passed after getting into a car accident just outside the home.  Daniella was forced to make the ultimate decision “Should I stay or should I go” when Daniella decides the only thing to do is leave and start over, she quickly finds out how things in life really work.  Will she ever get past her mother’s death and allow herself to live a happy productive life? Or will it consume her entirely? Only time will tell….

My screenshot's featured

Could I  imgine a day before, that a nice picture with a lighthouse would make me so proud? :)

Brie (Goth) & Clyde Kim ; can they build a normal family?

Household; Clyde Kim = adult, Brie (Goth) Kim= adult, Rob Kim= toddler+child

Clyde wants nothing more then to be the perfect family man.  His asperation to reach the top of the law enforcement field was just a small part of his larger plans. His own childhood had been for the most part very normal. Sortly after the birth of Clyde and his twin sister, Claire, their parents, Robert and Cynthia Kim decided to buy the "Family Farm" house. it was roomy enough for the pets and the three kids. Justin had become a teenager when the twins where toddlers, and had doted on them. Justin had even moved to the large spare room down stairs so that Clyde could have his own bedroom on the second floor. It wasn't til after Snow was born that Clyde discovered his family had a secret. Robert wasn't the really father of the twins. After Justin went off to college, Clyde became an emotional teen. he took his rage out on Snow's dollhouses. as soon as one was replaced he would smash it. Durring one of his angry outburst, he smash the urn of the family's cat, Cheech before anyone else knew the cat had died.

Claire had taken the news about Robert much better then her twin brother. She even began talking to their real father, Don Lothario. Her relationship with him was strained by her twins anger.  It had been from Claire that Clyde came to learn the full story.  When Robert and Cynthia first moved to Pleasentville, they befriended a couple, Don and Nina Lothario.  A friendship that nearly destroyed their loving marriage.  While pregnate with Don's child, Nina began flirting with Robert which soon lead to an affair.  Outraged at his friend's action, Don sought revenge.  He invited Robert and Cynthia to dinner.  While Nina flirted with her lover in the kitchen, Don persauded Cynthia to join him in the hot tub.  He told Cynthia of their spouses' affair and talked her into having a fling of their own.  Trusting Don to a woo-hoo in the hot tub he double crossed her by trying for baby, resulting in the twin.

It was his time at Sim State that Clyde began to get his emotions under control.  He had lived in a five room dorm along with his twin, Claire,  a slightly older boy named Brian Broke and a sweet tempered girl named Saturday Goth.  It had been Saturday who had made the bigest difference in Clyde's life.  It was hard to be angry about anything with Saturday around.  She was always turning the radio on and getting Sims to dance.  She told Clyde, "every family has it own twists and secrets" , then shocking him by revealing her and Brian were sorta cousins through marriage.  She even introduced him to Brian and her's shared Aunt, Brie Goth.

Brie's own tragic tale made Clyde feel a little better about his own messed up life.  Brie's own family had had it's dealing's with Don and Nina Lotherio, as well as Nina's sister, Dina Caliente.  Brie's older half-sister, Cassandra, had been engaged to Don at one time but had caught him out on a date with Nina several times.  Brie's father Mortamer had been dating Dina with plans for an engagement, but had caught her woo-hooing with Don.  Heartbroken by Dina's action, Mortamer had gone for a stroll and met a young widow with three sons.  Brandi Broke helped him pull himself together and Mortamer felt a desire to help the young mother.  He asked her to bring her sons and move in with him.  Brandi and her sons had just climbed out of the taxi when Mortamer met her at the gate and married her on the spot.  Cassandra, wanting more for her life moved out as Brandi and her kids made themselves at home. 

Brandi and Mortamer were deeply in love and when Brandi became pregnate, it seemed life couldn't get better.  The happiness was short lived.  Dustin, Brandi's eldest son grew up poorly, not getting the chance to go to Sim State like all his friends.  Feeling as if he had done to little to late, Mortamer feel sickly and two days later he passed away.  Brandi suffered a nervouse break down in the bathroom as she watched the grim reaper take another husband away from her.  Finding herself a widow and pregnate agian, Brandi ran to the phone.  She wanted to adopt a pet to fill the sudden void she was feeling.  The shock of watching her husband die had been to much and before she could even pick her new kitten up for the first time Brandi gave birth on the side walk in the snow.  She promply put the baby down, ignored the kitten and took to her bed.  Dustin fetched his new born sister from the snow and carried her to the house to be fed.  As the first few days went by, Dustin had cared for  Brie but he couldn't take it any more.  He told his brother, Beau and step-brother, Alexander to watch over Gilly and Brie.  Scooping up the kitten, Dustin moved out.

Her brothers Alexander, Beau and eventully even Gilly looked after her, as well as, each other.  They all did each other's homework, cooked meals and cleaned up when the maid wasn't around.  one by one, her brothers went off to Sim State and Brie found her self alone in the big house with her mother.  Brandi, not being able to take care of her daughter herself used the money problems her step-daughter Cassandra and her Husband Bengimine where haveing as a reason to inivite them to move back into the big house.

For the first time in her life, Brie was part of a regular family.  Even though she had to share a room with her niece Bell, Brie made the best of it.  Even when Bell would wake her up by coming in their bedroom turning on the radio while she checked herself out in the mirror.  Family dinner's togher around the large table was her favorite.  Her niece's felt more like sisters and her sister was more like a mother.

Brie got accepted into Sim State like her brothers had.  As she walked out the door for college, a sad heart broken Brandi died in the dinning room.  Brie focused her energy on her studies.  she'd hardly thought about dating until she met Clyde. 

After graduating, Brie moved back to the big house with Cassandra and Alexander.  she focused on her carrer as a criminal.  She hadn't been back home for more then a season when Clyde graduated and asked her to move in with him at the farm house.

Clyde felt loyal to the man who had been more of a father to him then his own Biological father.  After finishing at Sim State, Clyde returned home to care for an elderly Robert and an elderly dog, Leroy who had once belonged to Snow.  Robert welcomed Clyde and his bride to be Brie with a warm open heart.  He helped the couple plan their wedding and honey moon.  Shortly after their return home Leroy and Robert both passed away. 

A season later, Brie gave birth to a little boy they named Rob.  Brie did her best to be a better mom then Brandi.  Clyde became a highly attentive father.  He would take over his sons care as soon as he came home from work, insisting his wife get lots of rest and to take the time to work on her skills. 

Brie was thankful for her husband's help and no sooner did she return to work did she find herself with a carrer decision to make.  She was working as a counterfieter for the local mobsters when she discovered she had a rather large supply of counterfiet simolions.  Though she was tempted to launder some for herself she thought it would be more impressive to bribe so town official's.  She got a promotion on Rob's childhood birthday. 

Returning home to a birthday party in full swing, her mood was lifted higher when she discovered who had came to celebrate her son becoming a child.  Her sister Cassandra and brothers Dustin and Gilly where there.  Clyde's older brother Justin was flirting with girls in the kitchen.  Even Danny Lothario, Clyde's half brother from his real father had came. 

Clyde was feeling the love of family in the air and decided it was time to start thinking of bringing another baby to the family.  Brie wasn't sure if she was completely ready, but she told him she would consider it.  the next day however, things didn't go well for Clyde.  A coworker challanged him to a tumb war match, despite it seeming childish, Clyde thought it would be great for a laugh.  His higher up's used it as an excuse to demote him.  Feeling depressed over his lower rank in the police force, Clyde couldn't help but wonder how much of it was really about something so silly as a game of thumb wars or was it due to his wife's recent promotion that got him the demotion?