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Do you think that this pic has been photo-shopped?

Now this pic really had me look twice.........no three times.  It sort of freaked me out.  What do you think?

The Drifter - Part 4 Published

Hi Simmers! Just letting you know that Part 4 of my story, The Drifter has been published. I hope you enjoy it! ;)

more Blame! stuff and other stuff

Thank your for the interest in Blame! pictures.At the moment i'm working on some new wallarts.There will be Blame! pictures, tribalpictures and wallsticker in trribalstyle.

Been fiddling around with CAW...

...and Gosh! hasn't it been driving me nuts!! I'm on my second world, because the first one was driving me to distraction..some lots were not lining up no matter how much smoothing I was doing, roads had tears in...oh, and a million othere things that were making me tear my hair out!! I'm finally getting the hang of it though, I think ;-) ...

the pic above is my first effort..maybe one day I will go back to it, but for now I'm consigning it to the 'I've had enough' bin..

this one is my current effort...as you can see the lots I've placed on the right hand beach side I placed first and the sand texture that I mistakenly plopped on after is underneath never to be seen...so after deleting the whole lot and starting again :-o ;-) ...

...so now the lots are over the terrain..you can't actually see where I've placed them because for some reason you can't take a screenshot in edit mode..pah..anyway, there's lots of varying sizes all along the beachfront, I've tried to keep everything standard sort of sizes so that I can plop EA lots in if I can't be bothered to make some of my own, or fab lots off here..I still can't figure out how to place a bridge and have the road useable...but managed to get the trees on and objects..and this is where I'm at now..

  So, I think I'm about half way..I'm itching to play it, but I've got spawners to put on...more trees and all those lots that I ought to be building... :-D

But I'm taking a break, going to make dinner in a moment..I'm making plaice covered with cheesy breadcrumbs, and whatever else is in the fridge :-D ...and boy am I glad to be finishing this for now..it's well and truly worn me out!

Have a great week ahead everyone!

Requests!

Hey everyone!

If you've seen my sims and you liked them, I am now taking requests. Please send me a message in my guestbook stating the name of the person you want me to simify, and/or a picture you would like me to base the sim off of to my email [email protected]. Thanks, and sorry if your sim might take awhile, since I have school, I might not get to all of them as quick.

Love, Raina

Who says mirrors cannot be broken?

Tutorial done and foisted upon hapless beginners to try it out and point out the error of my ways, so back to the Sims 3 drawing board!

One set I am very keen to complete now is the bathroom set (well, the word 'bathroom' might be playing a fine edge to the real set I am making).  You've seen the toilets and the sinks now, so how about some mirrors?  The rust is in two recolourable shades.  I was going to make that non-recolourable but the mirrors can be made to look very different depending on the colour of that rust.  Four different designs (including a cracked, broken mirror) will ensure you'll have no 'repeat' effect when using more than one...

If anyone asks me nicely, I might even make a 100% boringly clean and rust-free mirror to complete the set, but we'll all know who you are!  Anyway, I'm sorry I was timed-out on creating.  Now that tutorials and other nonsense is out of the way, I can throw myself back into ruining your game - my favourite pastime!

Postscript: time for MY moment of shame.  Everything is this set will (unfortunately) clean up into pristine items too.  I've simply chosen the worst possible colour variations to show you.  Even the sinks will shine like mother came along and cleaned them in disgust!

new updates!

Yes, I'm still alive...

in a few days there will be a new update here @ TSR, @ my site I updated today new outerwear...

what do you think about this outfit?

No ice-creams...

I really just have to share this story with you all.

Last night, my fiancee and I went to the cinemas to see the new movie, Shutter Island. While the trailers were playing, Chris went to get us a couple of mint choc chip ice-creams. He came back with a mint choc chip choc top for him and a vanilla for me for some strange reason. Even he doesn't know why he got a vanilla for me but I think it was because we were talking about them before he went and therefore he had vanilla on his mind. So anyway, that was fine and I said I would just go get myself a mint choc chip one.

By the time I came back in, the movie was just starting and a couple were now sitting next to Chris, pushing us down one seat. As I sat down, he explained that while trying to move for the couple who came in late, he had dropped his ice-cream and it now lay splattered on the floor in front of us. So, I was willing to share mine but while he was showing me where his dropped ice-cream was so I wouldn't step in it, my ice-cream fell off my lap and splattered on the ground, too!!

We were just speechless. Three ice-creams later and neither of us got to eat one! Obviously we weren't meant to have an ice-cream last night. After the initial annoyance disappeared, we couldn't stop laughing about it. Luckily the movie was great - it has a surprising twist! - and it was still a great night. But, what are the odds?? :-D

Morningside

Available on Sunday Feb 21st. To get it just the way I wanted it to look I needed to use FA items therefore it will be a subscriber only download. To get a sneak peek check out my mini site's upcoming pod. All comments welcome and appreciated!

Bits N Bobs

A few projects under way right now, lights and blinds. Still experimenting with things, seeing what can and cannot be done at this point. My favorite lights I made for TS2 are the ones below, just couldn't live without them *lol*

In the background of the preview below you can see the blinds I am working on that fit with the Panorama windows. Not 100% happy with them yet, but getting close ;-)