I've been a bit quiet lately, as you might have noticed, and I wish I could say that is likely to change, but the way things are, it is not. There has been so much going on for me right now that I could write a great long tl;dr rant about, but it would achieve very little and that's not what folks come here for. Suffice to say I have had a lot of problems in my personal life lately and they are having quite the impact on my mental health at the moment, and I am struggling to cope with everything, everything here being uni, family, people and unfortunately a little hobby of mine called the sims.

Right now I just don't have the motivation to do very much, and when I am actually up and doing things, the time to do everything I would like to alongside everything I need to. I am alright (sort of), I have been here before and know that I am damn well going to have to fight my way out of this lovely little pit I have found myself in but that I can do it, and that I am getting help to do that, and that it is going to take more time that I would like it to. I will probably be pretty quiet here on the occasions I am online, maybe with a legacy post here and there when I get the time, but I will be back, since I do still enjoy the sims and the sims community.

Reading that back it sounds really distant and disturbingly not like me, and I am genuinely sorry for that, but I felt like I've been quiet enough lately without just disappearing and not saying anything.

I am pretty lenient with what you do with anything I have made. In posting it, I'm releasing it into a public domain, so there seems little point in trying to say what you may and may not do with it. Simply put, you will never need to ask for permission to cut, paste, edit, mash up or anything. The only thing I have an issue with is crediting. Most of my things don't require huge amounts of work, but I would like that work to be acknowledged, even if only in a small way - I'm not asking for flashing lights and links and trumpets, just a name will make my day. Not just because of what I do, but because plenty of things I have made use work of other creators, and any credit to me is in turn credit to them for anything of theirs I have used, because I try my best to remember and make note of what I use from who.

As such, if you come across anything and I have forgotten to acknowledge someone's or your own texture/mesh/colour actions, feel free to let me know and I will credit you if I did use something of yours. I do try to remember everyone but I am not so great for remembering who made what mesh and such, and I'd be a bit of a dick if I didn't bother at all after asking everyone to do the same for me.

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So I disappeared for like, two months. Things happened, and I dropped into lurker mode because of them. Sorry about that! This is just something small to show I'm still alive and kicking.

Really something small, as it's more of a copy-paste-edit-y mashup. The texture on the jeans is swiped from some skinnies by Yuxi, which I overuse to hell and back, and the top is the original Sentate texture liberally poked and prodded until I was happy, though on reflection the difference is probably only something I'm going to notice. Most of the colours are by CuriousB except for like two. The swatch above doesn't show the difference between Milk and Oyster so well, but I promise it was enough to merit having both. In short thanks to:

• Sentate for the mesh and base texture for the top.
• Yuxi for the jeans
• CuriousB for most of the colours

I've also included a .png of the white top so if any colours you would like are missing it's easily recoloured.

I love anything with these boots on. Seriously. There's something I really like about dresses half-way between being formal or casual with boots of any description, and was just playing around when these were born.

Five sims made for the GoS Sim Challenge May-June. Pictures and Downloads under the cut.
( Gaia, Sober, Wrath, Secret and Pin Up )

I have the issue with the Aelia mesh shoe swap MOSTLY sorted, thanks to digitaldollies, but while talking (Read: rambling about my meshing inadequacies with some answerable questions) it occured to me that the feet were really small. Like, child feet. Sim looked about to fall over. The picture below doesn't do it justice, so if you want to see just how bad, see my last post. So I scaled them up a bit so they were liable to blow over in a stron



The previews are at slightly different angles, oops. Still too thin? I scaled them a bit more originally, but they looked a bit too big. Just need to check them in game and bodyshop again, and then I'm going to do some retextures. I considered just using the originals, but don't fancy duplicates because I will still use the docs original, because it is lovely, so I am going to do something new.

Other than the problem I am about to show, first attempt at meshing is going well. The mesh itself works well, it's just the mapping that will not behave itself.



I am new to meshing. This is the first time I have made anything that is not purely texture. The textures sat fine in Milkshape, and I am raging at how to fix it. To clarify: the black is texture, not a different problem because I have checked that. The only thing I can think of is at some point I decided to move that part (because Sentate gave the boots four separate parts) and forgot to change the UV Map, which, the more I think about it, seems increasingly likely. Will have a look to make sure.

Anyway achievements past two days: made something that is not texture, have the boots ready and widened to fit nude legs on other meshes without fiddling with them again, and when this issue is fixed, mapped so tights will go nicely underneath, a couple of ideas for retextures and textures/patterns hoarded, and more importantly, I have more than zero knowledge of what I am doing in Milkshape. Illness has been productive, at least.

Made for the Garden of Shadows November Project. The theme immediately made me think of the dungarees I made for the July Project and so with some playing around with the alpha of a mesh by Slar and some mashing and manipulating of the maxis textures these were made:


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Quick thanks to Kayleigh for pointing out I would be better off using Oph3lia's fixed fat morph mesh, which is now included.
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Made for the Garden of Shadows July Project 2009. There are 45 different colours (Pooklet's originals and Aelia's original retro) for the t-shirts underneath them, and I have given the dungarees a bit more denim-y fabric in a darker colour. I wouldn't recommend using all the colours, but at the time I thought it was a good idea to put the black (dynamite) in the pooklet folder and the white in the aelia folder.


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Again, the gift I made for Io was very kindly shared for anyone in this post at the Garden of Shadows.

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Mesh included.

Just posted these on GoS, so I figured as a Sim journal, I should whack them up here too. Mesh by Amaryll is included. 21 of Aelia's Jewel tones and uses Aquilegia's linen overlay. Will probably do Pooklet's unnaturals and attach them later because after thinking "oh that will be plenty", the below pink dress needs to be in Atomic. EDIT: Yeah. Did it.

I've actually made something I feel like sharing. Not sure I would go so far as to upload it to GoS because I am a wimp, but I will post it here.

I realised after naming these that there is a possibility Fainiel has a hair set named this because Robots in Disguise have awesome song titles. I did some snooping but I got so far and realised I deleted the original screenshot *face palm* so I apologise if that was a title you used, Fainiel. Blame my iPod.


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