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A New, Magical Place...

And there it is! The blue squares you can see are residential lots, the yellow ones are community lots. I haven't got round to building yet; world creating takes a very long time. Eventually, the hill will be scattered with luxurious gated mansions, while there will be cheaper houses downtown. I've got plans for a few especially beautiful ones overlooking the park!

The downtown area will host most of the rabbit holes and normal community lots; The Shops, Library, Art Gallery etc. The Military Base and Science lab will be located above the town behind the hill, hidden away from the beauty and glamour of Far Far Away.

Another area of the map will be the smaller Village, with medievil style homes (like the ones in Veronaville for Sims 2). This is where Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and Goldilocks all live.

But what would a magical kindom be without a few evil Witches and Wizards? The other side of the kingdom, across the river, hides a darker past...

Tell me what you all think of the layout so far! :D

cazarupt

A new Latis room

A new Latis room in progress...

After the Bathroom, living, Dining, Hall and Outdoors, i figuered it would be nice to have an office for it too..

Hooked on Sims3

I like the foreign adventures in Sims3 and have been playing them a lot. I also tried to make my first pattern for the game and managed to separate the channels ok, but the final colors were not even close to what they were supposed to be. Seems it requires a lot of patience to create stuff for the game... Hopefully I will find that endurance one of these days!

New Stuff

Hey, i am making some new creations for ts3 including...

My First Paintings

New shirts

And Any Requests Please Send Me A Message. Thanks Blake (:

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Ok so I finally decided to start this whole blog thing. At least on here. I dunno how often I shall keep up with it or even if anyone will read it but o wells.

First off I didn't even know you could have you own blog on here. Pretty nifty

I think what I shall do is after a day of Simming and such I shall update people on the things I have found or discovered in game that I did not know before or that I liked. So starting off yesturday I was playing the game in my test neighborhood and found out that your sims child can ask you to split up with the sim they are dating. How amazing is that I laughed for like 10 minutes at the thought because that is very much like real life. But if only it was as simpe as asking.

Also I have decided to make some base homes with no cc for people to dl so I'll be starting that shortly. I wont be useing any cc due to the whole I'm to lazy to look where I got it from though I do know where most of it is from. I may use the odd pattern cc and will say where it is from but wont link it. You can find it yourself. Sorry

ok thats it for now. yay for first blog post

The Rutherford Family

The Rutherford family didn't move into Old Town until after incorporation, but they bought a property in the older neighborhood, giving them a bit of status above the other newcomers.

Lance Rutherford, who heads the family, worked hard to get where he is in the world today.  However, much of his success is owed to his wife, Nancy, who supported his dream to become a Rock Star.  He had the talent and the skill to achieve his dream, but it would have been impossible if Nancy hadn't been there to bring in a steadier paycheck while he worked on getting ahead in the music industry.

Actually, it would have been impossible if his younger brother Jeremiah and his wife Collette hadn't moved in shortly thereafter to help out with the income and take care of his and Nancy's son.  But because they were there, Nancy was able to add her talents and skills to her husband's.  Together they found greater success as a Rock Star duo than Lance was achieving as a solo act.

Jeremiah and Collette are raising two children--their own daughter Roseanna and his brother's son, Clay--while they find fulfillment in their own occupations as Veterinarians.  As the only two vets in town, Jeremiah and Collette find themselves taking care of not just the pet dogs and cats, but also the strays, the animals at the Pet Adoption Center, and all the birds, fish, lizards, turtles, and everything else scattered around town, and even the exotic fish in the tanks at Studio Town.

The two kids, despite their parents' high profile jobs and the famous people who call on them for help with pets, are well-grounded.  They could care less about the rock stars and big names in fashion who sometimes call on their parents.  Besides, they're more amazed by their aunt, Natalie Smith, who has seen and done more (and is a better cook) as a Celebrity Chef and an Exorcist.

Recently Lance and Jeremiah's father, Samuel, moved in with them, bringing along his grandson--their nephew--Hayden.  Samuel's wife, his other daughter (Lance, Jeremiah, and Natalie's baby sister) and son-in-law had died in a car accident.  Incidentally, this was the same accident that claimed the life of Crystal Talbot's husband (which he had actually caused because he was drunk) and made her into a widow.  Samuel has taken over the cooking duties from his sons, getting up early in the morning to prepare breakfast for first Jeremiah and Collette (who leave at 7:00 A.M.), then for the three kids and himself.  Then, after doing those dishes, he prepares a late breakfast or early lunch for Lance and Nancy, who sleep in late because they get in so early in the morning.  Then he may make a phone call or two to meet with friends, but then prepares dinner shortly after four--usually right after Lance and Nancy leave for work.  After dinner it's time for a bath and bed--all by about 6:00 or 7:00 P.M. because he gets up so early.

The three grandkids love their grandfather, even if they spemd so little time with him each day.  Hayden misses his parents, but with the entire family working to include him and make him feel loved, the pain is gradually lessening.

ROFL!

... and I'm STILL laughing.  Laughing lots.

Welcome to the Asylum....

I'm currently working on a derilect Insane Asylum for my Stoneyville Collection & I also have another 8 or so lots in various stages of construction. I'm also planning to build some simple cottages - like the Mansfield that I've just submitted - using just the University & Open For Business expansion packs, so those of you without the later expansion & stuff packs, will still get to decorate or renovate my lots. 

Thanks to everyone who've participated & to those who are continuing to participate in my poll. It's because of these results that I'm creating the new cottages.

Love & Hugs to all

Shaz

The Little Things They Do.

I've noticed on free-will mode, that my sims do funny little things.

For example my sim did a "stuff face" in the fidge. How Cute!!!

I don't know what other things they do.

One other than I can think of, but have not seen, is they will wash the windows. Hmmmm.

Comment me back if you've seen them do anything. He he.

THaNKs

Dare I say it...?

Do I dare say it and risk jinxing the whole thing?

<whisper> Success!

I managed to put my new computer together last night.  After working through the setup and updating the pre-installed programs, I tried installing The Sims: Complete Collection.  The game installed--much faster than when I installed it on my old computer.  I didn't play just then, though...another issue came up called dinner.  And after that, another issue--although I got another printer (it was part of a package at Best Buy), it's an inkjet rather than a laser printer, and since the family prefers to use the laser because it is marginally more efficient, they wanted to install that onto the computer.  However, it uses a parallel port versus a USB port, and the new computer only had parallel ports, so now I need to go looking for an adapter.  Which brought up another issue:  we needed the CD to install the printer and we couldn't find it.  So that resulted in a 30-45 minute search.  Finally we found it.  We still need the adapter, but if we didn't have the CD, we wouldn't be able to install the printer, so we wouldn't have needed the adapter at all.  But now that we found it, I have to get the adapter.  And a USB hub too because now we're talking about four USB ports going to be in use--the keyboard and mouse use one port each, and between the laser printer and the inkjet printer, that's four, and that's all the computer has on the back (the ones on the front would be used for thumb drives, of course) so because we also have a scanner...AAAAH!

Sorry.

So, after the mad search for the CD (which we found), it was time for a TV break (NCIS and NCIS:LA, recorded on DVR).  Then, after that, I went through the process of copying my Sims files from the old computer onto thumb drive, then transferring them over to the new computer.

I tried playing one game--just start, to see if it would work--and it worked.  However, with a widescreen monitor, the aspect is slightly distracting.  I don't think the top and bottom got cut off, necessarily, which I heard might happen, because the menus on the bottom were visible, as were the queue items in the top right.  But what I'm thinking is this: on my old monitor there is a black border around the entire playing area, but on the widescreen monitor the top and bottom are cut off and go right to the border of the screen (or just about) while the sides are wider than before.  It will take a little getting used to, but I'm sure it will work out in the end.

So, tonight, I need to finish transferring just a few more files--I had made some paintings and stuff that are in some of the houses which I will now need to transfer so that the homes will open without problems.  Then, I can play!

Oh, wait.  Criminal Minds and CSI: NY are on tonight...were they new episodes?  I think they were...oh, well...I'll play after that for a little.

Well, back to work!