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Under my thumbs

I see that some do like the alteration I did with the long hair with a wide wrap so I have decided to do another alteration with this mesh. This time the wrap is even wider and the hair is going to be short. Here is a picture from CAS, the hair looks a bit not to my liking so it still needs some work. I hope I will be ready to upload it for the weekend. I'm also doing another hair but I have no picture of it.

I have uploaded the last earrings for a while. Hopefully when the next version of the workshop I can import the new earrings I have ready. Until then I'll make something else, maybe a couple of lots too.

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No room for community lots?

I've been asked a few times now why a particular community lot cannot be placed anywhere. 

Community spaces are a bit scarce in Sims neighbourhoods, and if you have a community lot you want to place, you need to convert a residential space into a community space.  Unlike Sims 2, it is very simple to do in Sims 3.

1. Start The Sims

2. From the menu, select Edit Town

3. Click on the lot or space you wish to convert.  It needs to be the same size or bigger than the lot you want to place.

4. Click the icon that looks like half a house and half a bench (shown by the red arrow).  This toggles your lot between residential and community.

And that's it!  Some community lots play equally well as residential lots, so you can convert those too if you wish.

Oh no!! Help pls!!

OMG! I just deleted my screenshots on the Sims 3 launcher and I didn't realize that it deletes them in the screenshots folder too!! Arrgghhh, I'm such an idiot!! I'm so bummed that this has happened. I had some great screenshots that I wanted to use for my stories and now...well....I don't know. :(

Does anyone know if it's possible at all to retreve them somehow?? Surely there is a way?? Surely I don't have to go back and retrace my sims steps again??

Please help!!

Our new kitty

Well, it finally happened! We swore we wouldn't get any pets for awhile, especially since we aren't allowed to have pets here where I live, one of our neighbors from the complex next to us got a cute kitten about 3 months ago. This little cat showed up on our fence one day, stuck, and mewing for help to get down. I got him down, and brought him in, and promptly fell in love with him. He started coming around as often as he could, and has been neglected and ingored in the two months since they have had him, so he has adopted us, and we adopted him, we can't stand to see an animal go hungry, and being neglected, and now we refuse to give him back. We have named him Escape, which fits him prefectly. He is a beautiful little kitty, he is loving and sweet, and his eyes are crossed a bit, which just makes him cuter! He does have a tiny problem, when he is upset or nervous, he likes to nurse on our ears!!!!! LOL

A fantastic Sim!

I don't watch TV, although I know Star Trek of old. 

So when I saw THIS fella, I recognised Spock immediately!  Probably the only character I DO know from any sci-fi TV series, and he has become the first ever Sim I have ever downloaded in Sims 1, 2 or 3! 

Despite this dubious honour, Mr Spock is unfortunately not going to be seeing any amazing adventures in outer-space until I see my way to building some outlandishly ridiculous sci-fi lot.  Instead, he has the dubious honour of being my chief lot tester with idiotic "now try THESE stairs for me" missions instead. 

But isn't he just awesome?  You should hear his voice too!  A Sim that truly does look even better in the game than in Create-A-Sim!

Congratulations asakurastar for such a brilliant Sim!

Save Spock from menial lot testing today by downloading him from here - works perfectly in the default game and he's totally free too!

Download Mr Spock here

Wild Weather

We had some wild weather in Victoria last night (in Australia, for those that aren't sure where I'm talking about). I was typing away on my computer at work and it was getting windier and wilder outside, some people started leaving for the day because they have a long commute home. Never did I think that maybe I should have left early too.

Driving home on the M3 (freeway lol) on the way to feed my horse. The wind was trying it's hardest to push my car off the rd. I had to hold on tighter than normal to the steering wheel. I arrive at the paddock and it starts to rain heavier and then hail is pouring down too. I want to get this over and done with so I exit my vehicle and procceed to change into my gumboots and sort of waterproof jacket. Suddenly there is no time to change I have to get to shelter, the wind has picked up and the rain/hail is getting heavier. 'This is crazy' I think. I run to the small shed which is like 5mtrs away and I slip over! Ha ha yes I fell in the mud! Your all laughing now and yes it was funny for a sec. I curse and run to the corner of the shed. My heart is beating fast and I feel a bit shaky. The horse feed bucket has fallen over, my gloves, the feed and scoop have fallen out. I run to pick these items up and quickly chuck them in the bucket. The weather is not holding back it feels like there is a hurricane going over the top of me. There are claps of thunder and I see lightening in the sky. I look up to my horses paddock and he is not in his shed. Silly horse. He has his head hung low and the wind is almost pushing him over. Branches are literaly blowing off the gum trees. Finally it calms for a bit....actually calm isn't the right word. The rain continues but the hail stops and the wind isn't as harsh. I run up the lane way, then run up the paddock to safety in my horses shed. He gets his feed and I race back down to the car. On the way home there are trees fallen down on almost every rd I pass. Motorists are having to swerve from the branches and trees that have fallen. My driveway is in sight and the automatic garage door goes up. I give a massive sigh and am happy to safely arrive home and be ALIVE! 

This was the worst storm I have ever experienced therfore I would like to know of anyone else's 'wild weather' experience's.

Excited

Woot! I'm getting three new packs today. Thanks to EA's new University Life Collection Pack I get the University Expansion, IKEA Home Pack, and Teen Style Stuff a $60 value for just the price of one, $20! Did that sound like advertising? I wasn't I'm just excited. :P

Update Story/ Lots

Hiya all

I've just finished the story and submited it I hope you'll like it.

I've also finished most of the community area's, Workplaces, Commercial property's the first 6 should be out tomorrow and later this week 6 others. In my creation of riverview I also added the Dinner and Criminal workplaces that I created earlier they also can be found on my page.

The lots that I've already created can be found in my first story aswell that'was the whole idea behind idea of creating a new Riverview. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did when I created them.

Enjoy Liberty

First Creation is doing well!

It was only this morning my first lot was publish 'Beach Modern V1' and already I have a rapidly growing number of downloads. I'd just like to say thanks to everyone who has downloaded and thanked me. This has given me a real boost and the drive to create more and better lots in the future for you to download!

Thanks for reading, don't forget to check out my personal site/blog: http://www.josephsawyer.net

Setting a lot of my sims 2 creations free

I'm setting a lot of my sims 2 creations free, starting tomorrow. For example both Back to schools sets, the Tish set, and many more are going to be free.