Back at Square ONE in recoloring & creating

So I received my new Sims2 game and it has been a slow start LOL. I hadnt played the game in 3 yrs so i spent the last little bit searching for sites besides TSR for custom content ( cuz Sims2 isnt any fun without CUSTOM CONTENT! LOL) and was playing the game.

I started recoloring and creating a couple of hours.. geesh i feel like a newbie amatuer all over again! its been so long that I have to re-learn everything.

So I have indeed had a couple of successful recolors that i am uploading today. They include:

- 3 houses for Nightlife... one a larger home, 2 starter homes. All complete with working NL driveways and garages

- one wall paper

- one recolor of the NL Maxis cheapo Hatchbak ( ack! the maxi colors are rude !!) 

- one bedding

- and some other various recolors that I am not really happy with so i most likely am NOT going to upload them afterall.

To top it off I am buying a better pc today.. one with better graphics and more hardrive etc and am thinking of getting Sims3 also. ( been wanting to try it for 3-4 yrs now)

i still plan on creating for Sim 2 ( as i have NO IDEA on how to create for Sims3 at this point! is there a Sims3 type of SimPE?? )

So any fans of my work.. please look for new uploads in the next couple of days. With this new computer I will have to transfer files from this one to the new one.. sims sites and applications for creating. UGH. I was just getting started too... more time lost!

I'm Baaaack......and shocked to see i have 2.2 Million downloads . WOW!

After 4 years of Sims ( 3 yrs playing ~ 1 year less a day creating) I retired April 2009 ...Hope you find something you may want to download amongst my creations and thanks in advance for downloading.

After this 3 yr hiatus in retirement I am BACK! I have started creating again and hopefully soon will have some worthy creations to share with the fans of my creations. Honestly  i retired due to many family issues, personal emotional issues, a car accident and work stress stuff. Pretty much my marriage and kids were suffering due to obsessive Simming  and I went through a time of emotional breakdown as well and got a little flakey to say the least .I sold my Sims games, my awesome desktop ( a quad processor! omg!)

 Back at that time  I had began trying to learn 3D object meshing.. I am hoping this time around to finally master meshing and finally conquer clothing!! So many ideas in my head STILL after all these yrs. I just gotta get them out! LOL So I have bought the Sims 2 again ( this time with Nightlife so i can build houses with REAL garages) and found SimPE online and went hunting for some of my fave custom content Sims websites for meshes and I am excited and nervous to create again.

I also want to say THANK YOU!!!!!! to all the awesome Simmers out there that have downloaded 2.2 plus million of my creations! In 2010 when i thought i was coming out of retirement but I didnt -as  life got even MORE stressful with a couple of rebellious teenagers at that time after the death of my two daughters bio father- at that time I had 1.5 million downloads. Just two short yrs later with no new creations since 2009 I have almost another million downloads added on. I just stand in awe! Kisses to all my fans ! you rock and you make it all worthwhile! 

Creating again for fans of my houses

Hi Sims Fans and fans of my stuff!

Last April ( 2009) I decided to retire from creating and I got rid of my games my big computer everything. It was necessary at the time as i was a little too over obsessed.

But lately I have been missing creating - it was a great way to kill time when bored ( especially during winter) and release my creative side! Also i really missed the fellowship i had on here... I had made some great friends and I was sad to leave. I had been doing the Texture challenges and loved the fellowship and feedback. I was soooo borred last night ( playing boring Facebook video games lol) and my hubby said to me - " Why dont you just create for Sims again. You have proven you can indeed give it up and you arent addicted. You had fun and you loved creating and were good at it so just do it - who cares"

So this morning I ordered a used Sims2 base game on Amazon and am downloading Simpe after I clean up my laptop of unnecessary files to make room! Once my game here in a few days I will be busy creating again! Yippee!

Gee I hope i remember how to recolor? LOL its been almost a year. But I am still getting pms from fans and tonnes of comments and I have 1.5 million downloads! WOW!

I have a tonnnnnnnnnne of ideas and the funny thing is all that creativity didnt go away when i got rid of the game. For months afterwards i would drive by a house and think to myself - hmmm I could make a really great simmie house OR I would get an Ikea flyer in the mailbox and would lament that i couldnt recolor anymore!!

Look for a TONNE of new Sims2 stuff from me!! I think i will take the weekend to go and redownload custom content for houses and also 3D textures for furniture re-coloring .

Feedback would be terrific!

Happy Simming!

Jackie

A million downloads!

Just want to say thanks to all who have downloaded my creations! I just reached a million downloads! WOW!

WOW! 750,000 downloads!

Just a quickie blog post to say a HUGE thank you to all my downloaders! Just a minute ago I reached 750,000 downloads!! Incredible!! And a milestone i never thought possible when i began to recolor back in October 2008. Gee it hasnt been that long - just 5 months or so! 3/4 of a million!! WOW! WOW! WOW!

None of it would be possible without all of you who download! AGAIN THANK YOU!!!!! You inspire me to keep creating! And even with SIMS 3 coming soon - i dont intend to stop creating for Sims2 - gee I just am getting started!

This just totally made my day!! <* I am blushing and grinning ear to ear like a fool ..LOL*>

Big cyber hugs and high fives to all......

Jackie

On the horizon

On the horizon are 2 new livingroom sets by Angelamveliza (Her Safari livingrm and her Modern Splendor set) and A Jope bedroom 9 recolor. I am uploading those today - hopefully they will get approved quickly! I have some beddings ( from almost 3 weeks back that kept getting rejected) to put into sets for upload. I have some half finsihed sets ( room sets) I would like to finish this weekend and upload. I downloaded a skad of Sim_man123 meshes and I am just itching to recolor some of those!! I have so MANY ideas in my head and not enough time to get it all created!!

Hurray! I have a nice long weekend ( that will surely go too fast for my liking!) to accomplish all the recoloring stuff i aspire to do.. as well as all teh RL stuff I NEED to get done- such as clean the inside of my van  (what a wreck), clean the dickens out of my house and also my back yard!! Go thru and get clothes for donations ( as my kids all have way too many clothes they dont wear and are taking up space) - me too - i am guilty of the same and need to get donation bags together.

its sunny and mild this weekend here - so yipee! Great weather for outdoor work!

BLOG POST - In desfense of TSR

Just wanted to let you know I had another TSR hater make a comment on my In defense of TSR blog post so I have officially closed comments on that blog and am not allowing any on this one either.

I have said my piece on the whole thing and I dont want to hear about it any more - neither do I want any one leaving comments in my GB,blog posts or on my creations regarding that matter that are negative or against TSR. If you are not a friend to TSR then leave! Anyone who does post negative comments on my things or page in anyway will be reported to staff.. in order that they may be banned from the site.

Enuff said.

Please be patient with me...

As some of you may have noticed lately with my creations - i havent had as much coming out . Part of this is because Girls from Mars ( submissions manager) was away for two weeks so i had a tonne of creations sitting..sitting..sitting in Pending for most of the time ( well a few got published and quite a few got rejected - then i re-submitted only to get them rejected again etc etc) Now that Girls form mars is back I have 46 items coming out this week FINALLY! Basically 3 bedroom sets.. plus two bedding sets..

Another reason for the delay is also from the fact that i have moved onto more difficult meshes and it takes time to recolor these. Example: the past 48 hours I spent on two different Dining room meshes - one from Jope at Simply Styling ..another from OM at Avalon. Both are terrific meshes and my recolors would of been fantastic ( not trying to toot my own horn but i thought the colors and textures i used were brilliant) I wont be able to tell you if they really WERE fantastic as neither the meshes nor my recolors show in my game!!! ARRGH. Neither website said i needed any expansion for these specific meshes so i assumed they are base game friendly. I have no clue as to why they wont show in game... as the jope dining #6 I did have the table and sideboard show up but no chairs or anything else! So these have now become scrap and I know not to use these meshes again. All that time wasted.

So please be patient with me okay... i  have tried in the past to have something new come out at least every other day.. but life doesnt always go according to my will ..LOL

So starting tomorrow 2 sets will be out and then on Friday and I am getting busy today getting some new stuff created and submitted so that throughout the weekend stuff may be available. I also have a new house i need to submit. I have a totally full week work wise with everything crammed into two days now as Friday is Good Friday. Look for a SPECIAL easter blog posting from me this weekend too!

As for my blogs I want to spice them up and make them interesting so i am going to take a poll asking some questions on what people would like to read about from me. I am attempting to make my page interesting and will also be putting some albums up in my photo gallery!

Have a terrific Wednesday people- here in SW Ontario it SNOWED ( yes you read that correctly) the other day and its like january out there right now - which is a reall piss off!! it is supposed to melt and I hope soon as spring had already sprung ! But we always have to get that one last snow fall...of course right after i had packed most of my familys winter gear away!!Its very depressing to say the least!!

Peace out!

~Jackie

IN DEFENSE OF TSR

Recently someone left a comment on one of my creations. It had absolutely NOTHING to do with my creation but rather was a slur against TSR with a link to a forum - where someone named Delphy was slurring TSR. In the postings frightened TSR members talked of changing passwords and closing their accounts. Its not the first time i have come across slur against TSR in cyberworld but IT IS the first time someone has left a comment on my things.. and I DONT APPRECIATE IT. I dont appreciate others downloading MY item and seeing that link in my comment section. So i have reported it and I WILL be deleting it. Because RL is so busy for me lately I havent had a chance but i intend to REBUKE the person who left that comment. They had no place leaving that comment on my creation when it had nothing to do with my item or me!

I joined TSR about 4 years ago as  new sims player .. looking for neat new things for my game. After many months of being a "downloadds" junkie i began to submit my own lots. I have always enoyed TSR and have NEVER had a problem. I have had some nasty people say things to me SINCE i began to create.. but otherwise i have made friends and i appreciate the fact that I have been a free member for 4 years ( mainly cuz my hubby objects to me paying due to our current finaincial situation and I must listen to my hubby) TSR has never hassled me in anyway .. but have allowed me to freely share my creations .

I personally really enjoy TSR and the fact that i can post a blog and submit creations or stories or screenshots - free!

To all those haters out there.. if you dont like TSR then LEAVE! Dont post hateful comments in someones else page. I have read many hateful forums discussing TSR - well i say 75% of TSR is Free Content. Only a small fraction is pay items. Geesh people - it costs money to run a huge site like this! Why shouldnt they make some items pay by asking for people to subscribe? And there are literally tens of thousands of AWESOME FREE custom content  on this site. So what are all thses people griping about?? If it were illegal EA would of shut this site down LONG AGO! None of the pay custom content is an actual MAXIS item!

Some of these haters - it sounds to me that they are just angry that they werent ingenius enough to think of a site like this first or they never were good enough to become a featured artist and are jealous ! Or maybe they are just evil and vindictive and have no life so they have NOTHING BETTER TO DO then cause crap. GET A LIFE!

 UPDATE:  I went to the person who left the comments GB and told them off  ( as graciously and without foul language). I hope TSR bans them. Thanks to everyone who left comments on this blog post . TSR is a great place and in the above blog I didnt even touch the surface on all that TSR offers- such as: tutorials, contests, forums with tonnes of help for any problem you might encounter, and on and on. It truly is the best Sims site on the net and none other even come close. All those gripers and haters out there griping about TSR being a PAY SITE- ---gimme a break..it must cost a fortune to run this site..the bandwidth and storage. And of course they are going to have to pay some people to run it .. its alot of work for petes sake. A year membership is what about $57 a year?? talk about cheap!! My 16 yr old son plays TIBIA ( a role playing quest type game) and its $30 for just 3 months!! So TSR is pretty darn cheap - considering the vast amount of custom content on here - plus tutorials etc. So LONG LIVE TSR!! I certainly didnt read in any of these forums anyone griping about all the other pay sites out there...

Although I cannot afford a membership I try to help TSR out by way off my creations- perhaps something i make will draw new members.

And as for  the whole Shakeshaft thief thing -  Only God knows the truth but I cannot see someone as talented as Shakeshaft having to resort to stealing some meshes. Who knows if the person who was stolen from doesnt have a vendetta against TSR and or Shakeshaft and did it deliberately to make Shakeshaft and Thomas look bad. Or perhaps SOMEONE else ( like one of thsoe pirates)And also to cause TSR to lose member-s which has already happened. There is already a pirate site that offers FA creations for free! Who exactly do they think they are? They offer any pay /donation item from not just TSR but all sims site out there and its totally disgusting! Who are they to do that? Do they make the rules? NO- they are just some whackjobs that are spitey and are willing to steal etc for thier "CAUSE". Get a life! its a friggin video game. Anyway I just wanted to add this...

Again THANK YOU TSR - for keeping this site up - for all you offer the Sims community- for allowing me to be a part of it!

Warmest Regards,

Jackie :)

**** I HAVE CLOSED COMMENTS ON THIS BLOG *****

Spiritual Beliefs Poll results

Well the scores are in and i have decided to end this poll. It was interesting to see the vast variety in belief systems here on TSR!!But that is one of the reasons I love TSR .. for the variety in people ( and also creations for Sims!!) TSR is a great place and I am very comfy here- its my first stop when ever I log onto cyberspace! 

So here are the results.. thanks to all who took part! I will soon post a new poll .. as soon as i figure out what i would like to ask! LOL

Question: What are your spiritual beliefs?