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A few more days ...

Finally! In a couple more days i will be able to play sims again! What a horrible time without them it's been! :(

  As soon as i get the game running, i'm going to take all my screenshots and post the next chapter of Save Me - The Rescue, i've got it written so it should be up next week, hopefully no one's forgotten it haha. I feel so inactive from this site when i'm not playing sims, which means i've barely read anyone's stories which makes me sad :( but since the holidays have started i will have much more time for my sims :D yay!
so i'll leave you with a few shots i took way before my break from sims. :)
again, if you want to see more, check out my photobucket: http://s309.photobucket.com/albums/kk376/stephyslayer/

Verona

It's not often I dabble in wall and floor creation, however I am in the process of planning a new bathroom in real life and thought it might be helpful to create some Sim versions of the kinds of tiles I am considering to give me some idea how my bathroom might look. Is there no end to the many uses of The Sims? It isn't just a lot of fun; it also has many practical applications. ;-)

The tiles I have made are all marble and come in seven shades with matching wall and floor tiles in each.

As for the name, I visited Verona once and I seem to remember marble was very big there. All the streets in the city centre were paved with marble. It was really beautiful.

Looking for Sims 2 characters

I am looking for the Criminal Minds main characters. If you know of a site  I can download them or if you are willing to create them, please let me know. I don't really know if I can or how to make requests for sims, so if you know a better way, please give me a heads up. THANKS!!

Just as a side: Criminal Minds characters I'm looking for:

Aaron Hotchner (actor: Thomas Gibson)

Dereck Morgan (actor: Shemar Moore)

Emily Prentiss (actoress: Paget Brewster)

JJ (actoress: AJ Cook)

David Rossi (actor: Joe Mantegna)

Spencer Reid (actor: Matthew Gray Gubler)

Penelope Garcia (actoress: Kristen Vangsness)

Jason Gideon (actor: Mandy Patinkin)

Admission of Guilt - Actually Playing the Game

I am sure many other creators are guilty of the same, you get caught up in that Lot design, or mesh, or texture, Sim, pattern or paint, and instead of playing Sims you find yourself constantly loading up that 'test' neighborhood.  The place where you don't have to worry about accidently breaking your favorite family with a whacked out experimental hair mesh or new counter.  (did you know that sometimes those hair meshes LOOK like counters?) <Boggle>

So here I am, with tons of my fellow creators objects downloaded, but not necessarily installed, always putting off Loading that legacy neighborhood I spent so much time on.  Never really taking the time to appreciate all that other have done and contributed because I am so focused on my own.

I ask myself how did I end up this way, Legacies and the family trees I used to lovingly create used to be my only pleasure with the Sims, why now do I ignore them for spending the Majority of my time in Photoshop?

Maybe it's because of the multitude of bugs that cost me two of my largest legacies. Maybe it's because I get frustrated that I have to use a Mod for true story progression.  Or maybe it's because I've discovered that there is just as much joy to be found in creating for the game as I once found in observing what occured in the game.

Whatever it is, someday soon I promise the Drew Family, The Harlson Family, the Myzer family and the Pocketz family that someday I will return and they will once again be able to babble away at each other and at me while I watch and guide them through their daily lives...

Oh wait, that home looks pretty blah, maybe it needs a good face lift, you know that texture I saw the other day at Joanns would look really nice here.. hmmm...

A big thank you to all the other creators here on TSR, when I do get back to playing, your creations are another reason I find such pleasure.

<hugs to all>

MY SITE UPDATED! CHECK OUT LINK BELOW! :)

Hei there lovely ppl! I'm bringing some good news :) I finished updating my sims 3 site few min. before so go check and have fun :)

As you already know I like creating, so I decided to create for Second Life, too ;) On my Sims 3 site there are also my Second Life products available from now on  :)

YOU CAN FIND ME WITH NAME NEO ICANADI :) IM me and we can hang out sometimes ;)

YOU CAN VISIT MY SIMS 3 + SECOND LIFE SITE HERE :

One of my second life creations: :)

Incentives points ROCKS!

Woohooo! Today I reached 40,000 incentives points! :) Maybe I´ll buy a free day or wait till next artist news.. :D:D Have a nice day!

creating again :)

Yes I'm creating again, I needed some time to relax because I wasn't fun creating anymore.
Yesterday I've done a few things which had been so long in my head and I submitted something and I really hope it will be published soon! :D
Have a nice day guys

Coming soon!...*Caf� Break Set...

Finally it's finish. I'll upload it as soon as possible.

You can find 21 new mesh in this set. Counters, counter OMSP, chair, table, snack rack, snack displays, popcorn machine, popcorn cups, soda fridge, soda machine, paper glass, coffee machine, menu board, and wall art. You can use soda fridge and coffee machine as real.

Fancy Grilled Cheese

You know, sims aren't the only ones that can end up with grilled cheese aspirations, but there's only so much they can do with grilled cheese, you know? I'll admit it. I like grilled cheese, but why have just regular grilled cheese when you can have...fancy grilled cheese!

Aside from just regular sliced cheese, which is okay sometimes, and maybe velveta, which I think I've used sometimes, I also like to make grilled cheese sandwiches with swiss cheese and cheddar cheese, and would probably like provalogne cheese too if I tried (I think I had a grilled provalogne and swiss cheese sub, but it's not exactly the same). Sometimes I also like to add mayo or miracle whip to the grilled cheese sandwhich and then grill it, or put some ketchup and mustard and relish on it and then grill it, or grill up a grilled cheese and dip it in tomato soup, or even ketchup, or ketchup and mustard! Sometimes I might go all out and put onions, tomatoes, or lettuce in it, or all that plus mayo or miracle whip! But you know what's really good? Grilled cheese on garlic bread!

Today I made grilled cheese. I made two. I think one of them was on wheat, and another was on 12 grain bread. I think white's better for grilled cheese, and also better for garlic bread, but this was okay too. I guess wheat and 12 grain's healthier anyway ^^. I put garlic powder and parsley flakes on the top two pieces of bread that I used, and made the grilled cheese with cheddar cheese. I  cut them in half and dipped them into mustard and ketchup. It was really good! It would have been better though if I had made spaghetti sauce to dip it in, or had some tomato soup. Yum!

Now I think for dessert I'm going to settle down to about half or so of a movie I started watching a few days ago with some hot chocolate with whipped cream, and some of those cinnimon sugar cookies that I baked a few days ago. Mmmm-hmmm.

...what to write...

dear oh dear, what ever should I write for a new sim story?

I wrote one and everyone seems to love it, but I don't know how to shoot pictures for it @_@ nor how I could make characters. It seems like I lost the simming ability I had lol

Besides that story, I'd like to know what you guys want from me next. Mystery? Romance? Horror? Random Comedy? *__* I gotta do something!