I decided to crop the pics on the characters from "Vampire Diaries" so that they resembled the pics from "Smallville" (and really made a sloppy job of that, I realize now, but now I'll leave them as they are), and then I messed up everything and had to struggle with Photobucket for a while. This information is intended for those of you who might have read my last post in the few minutes it existed before I deleted it again.

Anyway, I'm a big fan of various teenage/young adult series on TV, among them "Smallville" and "Vampire Diaries". I tried to make some of the characters from Smallville before and actually posted pics on my old Main Blog over at Blogger. It doesn't exist anymore so I'll repost them here. After I had made a family for the little red house I got from my niece, I felt like making some more simmies and decided that I'd make an attempt at the characters from "Vampire Diaries" as well. I dont' know how much any of them resembles the original, but at least I've got some interesting new sims to take into my game (I just can't stand the townies ...)

But let's start with the Smallvillers

And first of all of course Clark




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... but at last I've gotten my act together and made a family for that red little house my niece made for me. I think I'd better take it all from the beginning:

About this time last year, I asked my niece if she would perhaps like to build some houses for me. I thought it could be fun to make something together. "You build the houses and I try to imagine the families living there." It took a while before I got the houses and then it took a while before I made the first family. I hope this project will continue now without too much time passing between the updates.

I brought all my niece's lots together in their own little hood and I am going to start with the red little house up to the right: "Mysig trädgård" = Cosy garden.




( More this way ... )

Or - as it is called in Swedish:

In RL lots of different things are taking place, so it kind of takes all energy right now. Therefore my activity here on LJ has been limited to reading and commenting on the blogs of others, but even so I am a little behind with the reading. There is just so much good stuff!! I am very much into storytelling and using the sims as actors, but it was not until recently that I stumbled upon the first link to the sims community here on LJ - where a lot of amazing stories have their homes. At least now I am beginning to get used to the level of artistry that can be found here. At first I was kind of overwhelmed, and even if I personally really liked the feeling, I think my comments got a little overwhelming too. ;) At some point I'll probably get jaded ... :D There is still so much to read and see. So many great creators.

I haven't been playing much Sims lately either, but when I play I'm working on my new RBH, which is evolving nicely. Haven't felt up to taking any pictures though. Just playing for fun. Next time I post something here I hope to be back with the joint project I have with my niece. That little red house of hers is still waiting for a family. I already have a clear picture of the sims living there, so it is just a question of pulling myself together.

And now it's time for lunch.

Going through a badly organized DL folder takes some time and effort, and that of course is why I kept postponing it until I got to a point where realized I had to. I am sorting through the old saved DL folder and adding to the new one - that seems to work better for me than deleting. Some things were easy to find: neatly labeled and easy to regognize - as were the memories of using or not using this or that particular CC. Many of my favourite things though, it seems that I've gotten through downloaded lots and that it just got dumped in the DL folder when I installed the lots, without me even trying to sorting. There are whole sets of very nice things I could easily do without - but my most beloved CC are tiny bits and pieces here and there, like a particular stone flooring that was incredibly hard to find in the old DL folder. At the end I had to put a whole shoal of unlabeled files back and then I finally found it. Now it has gotten its own little folder with a nice little pic to go. As far as possible I've tried to find things on the sites where I originally got them, so I could add pictures to the folders. That of course ended with more downloads, but even if I found some new nice things for that folder and added as well as removing, I really got rid of a lot of things that I never used. But I am still looking for some bathroom tiles that must be in the old folder somewhere. Now, where did I put them ...????

The thought of building without cc doesn't click with me so my playing is on hold until I get somewhere with this... But it's all my own fault. And these are just the walls and floors. Sigh! I should be done with them soon anyway. Then on to the furniture ... SIGH!

Before I decided to reinstall my game and ditch all saved lots (due to the fact that I want to start over with my DL folder), I was planning to show some pictures from the lots I was the most pleased with. Well - they still exist on my computer, so it will be possible to put them back in the game. It might prove impossible to resist the temptation. I have been known to fall victim to those before ...



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Sadly enough my story about Pleasantview will not be continued. This is the consequence of years of download frenzies which has resulted in an overblown and very unorganized DL-folder. I have zillions of downloads (including a lot of mods and hacks) and not half a clue where I got it all or even what much of it is. I've had a lot of trouble with my game lately so I decided to make a completely clean start: no saved hoods, no saved lots, no saved sims and CC will be added slowly. That way I hope to create a game that I can continue playing. If it also could load a lot faster, that would be an extra bonus ...

The good thing about not continuing this story is that I had started to regret some of the decisions I made. I will probably give this another shot later on and start from the beginning again - but keeping it much closer to the original setting.

To those who wanted to see this story continued, I want to apologize and say: Thank you so much for reading!