For Chrysame - first born of Charlie and Tulip

 Once upon a time, we had Tulip Tomesi - youngest daughter of Marta and Thomas Tomesi. And she had a baby with

Charlie Grant - first son of Sam and Amelia Grant.

Their first born is Violet Grant, now an adorable toddler.

A quick CAS peek says the Marta is strong in this one. Clearly a Tomasi with Grant hair.

More Leman-Hunter spawn for Sue

Clayton as an adult

And with his wife - a lovely simself

The baby of the family. Bob grew up at some point. Not married though
Damn, he is adorable

Poor Zayne, elder tends to hit females very hard.

Random pics for Sue

Over in Art Flows Through, I threw in the family of Zayne and Thomas Leman and their three sons - Derrick, Clayton and Bob.

I don't have a recent shot of Bob at all - he is a teen now.

Here's the oldest son Derrick

A bit on the thin side but he's had the good taste to marry Brooke and Hans daughter

Elizabeth Grant - who did grow up well herself.

The last pic I have of Clayton, he was a teen

But you can get the idea here that Zayne and Thomas make lovely kids together.

Would have been nice if they'd had a daughter but what can you do?

Thomas is an elder - Zayne probably is too but I'm afraid to look.

More of Sam's progeny

Yay! So there ARE still people here ... sort of ...

I haven't even given Dragon Valley a look, as normally I'm not a fan of medieval or high fantasy Sims ... still ... how can anybody resist raising a dragon?

It's good to see some of the Grants again. I'll play along. I just made a CaS love child of Sam and Zayne. He's quite a cutie.

Random Dragon Valley pics

So, it's been a very long time since anyone posted to the group blog. I hope no one dies of shock.

I've decided to share some random Dragon Valley pics. Mostly because a) it's not a story in any form and b) the Sims I sent to explore my new world and dragons.

I sent Tulip Tomasi - Chrysame's lovely daughter of Marta and Thomas along with Charlie Grant - son of Sam and Amelia (kaleeko's) Grant. They moved to the neighbourhood with Charlie's family but Tulip's family was left back at Barnacle Bay.

 Charlie is a fisherman.

 Tulip is architect designer.

 I was worried that it was going to be hard to do the dragons. The tiny house they bought came with a dragon egg and so our first dragon was easy peasy. Named Draco.

 "Tulip, will you be mine forever more?"

"Of course I will. Didn't we do this before?"

"I thought so too but let's do it again."

 Going on a date in Dragon Valley. Learning archery and

 playing violins.

Well, Tulip can't complain that it's what they've done before. :)

 Then we got our second dragon, Iggy. Short for Igneous.

 Charlie wanted a bachelor party but since they don't know any in town, they went straight to the wedding.

 "Dude, what is wrong with you?"

"I" [sob] "never get to go to weddings."

"You should chill."

"I'm so" [sob] "happy to see them marry."

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Sam was the only one to cry at the wedding. I had no idea he would, it's been forever since he's had a grown child go through a formal wedding.

 Presenting Mr and Mrs Grant.

And here is Emerald (called Emmy). Green dragons can harvest your garden and can find treasure. Damn, I think I love Emmy.

I should be able to get a black dragon too, since I have the required set to unlock it. We will see.

Twallan's Mods have moved

NRaas industries had to find a new home when the current site owner decided it was time to stop hosting NRaas. So the mods have moved to a new wiki http://nraas.wikispaces.com

One advantage will be the http://nraas.wikispaces.com/Update+History update page for the mods. You can subscribe to that and know when there have been updates.

From the words of Roy - The IT Crowd

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

I've been getting increasingly frustrated after installing Pets. AFT save didn't give me any problems but WAG froze time and time again. Then the new save for Sammy also froze during the night.

The worst day of all - trying to load WAG. First try, Disc verification fail. Have to try again. Finally loaded save, when I went to save I had an error 12. What I should have done is restart, what I did was quit to menu and reload. That's when I had a crash to desktop. Next try, Disc verification fail. I think I played all of 5 minutes that night.

Add to this the general frustration of having although the blogs have more readers than ever, my blogs are also getting fewer comments.

While installing Skyrim on the virtual PC on this Mac, I was doing heaps of other updates and restarted both the virtual PC and finally did a few Mac updates and restarted it.

Low and behold, WAG is working. It's gone nearly a full day with no freezing and no problems saving (I'm saving ever few Sim hours.)

I don't tend to restart the Mac much. The manual says just put it to sleep when not in use and that's what I do. But if I start having problems again, I think turning it off and on again is now *way* up on my to try list.

And if you've never watched the IT Crowd, just do it. Too funny for words.

I am in mourning - Sims 2 site is gone

I think it actually happened some time ago but I wasn't paying attention. I am mourning for 2 things. The first is that I didn't get a chance to copy some of my material from the forums for reposting to the little Sims 2 blog I have. Damn. Nor do I have a spare copy of my Sims 2 bachelor challenge story.

But the main thing I mourn is that means that Candi's Uglacy is no more. That uglacy was the first legacy story I ever read and one of the funniest Sims stories around. Last time I had checked, Candi was still working on a Apocalypse challenge which was done in the same style. And it's all gone.

Cool new blogger feature

One of the updates to blogger is adding a 'lightbox' facility to all blogs. Basically, if you click a single image in a blog post, you get to scroll around all the images in that post in a separate window at a larger size. A nice way to concentrate on the images and easy to use.

Some of the recent changes to the blog interface are good, a few are annoying. Like some of the advanced settings aren't available - you have to go to the old interface to choose if you want people to type in the word verification or not. But this one is cool in my books.

Hi there people

It's been quiet and I've been missing all of you heaps.

Anybody still out there or am I by myself in Sims world these days?

PiB/Nicarra stories - not Sims related

A few of you will know by now, I've started digging out my old old old stories.

If you have some desire to read those stories, let me know. If I have your email, I'll add it to the Share list for each story. Those of you on Google+ are probably already in the right circle to get the story links.

Be warned, one thing is my first novel - which isn't going to be the greatest thing you ever read. Possibly not the worst but definitely not the best.

Also, will be doing NaNoWriMo this year and updates on that in November will be happening.

i'm almost back!

so after months and months of my computer being broken, it's FINALLY fixed!!! the good news is i have a better hard drive and have recently purchased generations... the bad news is that all my sims games are lost forever. no rojos, no katalina. but i'm kind of excited about starting fresh. i have yet to install the sims 3, because i literally have just taken my computer out of the box. but i already have a new town in the planning phases and within the next couple of days i should have my game up and running. it's going to be awhile before i officially post anything, because i don't know who my blog will be about, and i have a lot of setting up to do. i'm thinking about using twallan's mods instead of awesomemod, so if anyone has any tips on that or which of twallan's mods you like let me know! :)

New upload - the wedding chapel

For those that liked it

The wedding chapel is now up.

As was featured in Penny and Nick's wedding with a few modifications - like landscaping.

Twallan's Relativity and a new page for Sam

Twallan's Relativity mod has changed a lot in the most recent incarnation. You have far more options like having skilling rates set relative to age length. So your Sims might be able to skill up even if you do a speed legacy. :) I'm a bit overwhelmed by the changes, it was so ultra simple before.

And I wrote a new background page for Hi Mum, It's Sammy. It's just a page about his various spouses and their creators. At which point, I realised how much I adore Tomasi women. Cause they rule Sam's life - mostly. LOL

Some of the new generations stuff is so cool

So when your Sims asks a parent for the offspring's hand in marriage, you can get this.
Mind you, since they are engaged anyway, whether or not Em or Brad approves isn't really going to stop me from marrying them. But this is sweet.

I think I've blown the chance for Prom or graduation for Penny, Ronnie and Nick. Sorry kids.

Oh, and a new option (beyond Reminisce about the old days) for Vanessa on chatting to child aged Miriam was Pinch Cheeks. :)

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Parent blessing is +20 for 10 days. Wow!

Just ranting for the moment

I'm really really tired of number of 'new' challenges in the Story forum that are 'acy'

They aren't new, they are legacy challenge with a new rule or two. Back in Sims 2, you can find people doing Uglacy and Prettacy but no one claimed they were 'new' challenges. There was just a goal of breeding uglier or prettier Sims in each generation. And some of the current 'acy' things no one tried to pass as a 'new' challenge. As far as I can tell, rainbowacy wasn't called new, it's just about the colours coming into the family with each generation.

But now there is traitacy, wishacy, careeracy, houseacy, ad nauseam. Each one declared to be a new challenge - use the legacy rules plus... THAT'S NOT NEW!

ok, rant over. Feel much betterererer now. :)

My New Uploads

Ok, I know this is going to be a surprise but no Grants no Lemans.

Presenting
Cyclone Sword and his family, Trina, Nicole and Rock BTW - why Rock? Well, in one of Chrysame's blogs, Cyclone had a son called Brick. And that got my brain on the track that ended up at Rock Hudson (Don't ask, it is a very twisty track.)

And the Harkness family Jack and Ollie Mayweather Harkness. The twins Stuart and Lizette. The youngest Tyrone.

Give them a reccy if you get a chance.

SILC - reader choice poll one up

http://officialsilc.webs.com/readerschoicepolls.htm

Best short - how about that, I was beginning to doubt they were ever going to organize anything.

One thing that Sims 3 blogging is teaching me

Namely, I write light fluff. While I can write a few intense scenes, murder a few Sims, break the occasional heart - you know if it's my blog, it won't happen for long.

Guess I'm just a hopeless romantic at heart. :)

So I can envy Kaleeko and Amelia and their ability to keep writing intense - heart wrenching stuff. I just have to admit to myself, there is simply no way I'll ever write like that.

On the other hand, I also love reading light fluff so this is probably not the most surprising thing on the planet. We've recently started watching an old old tv series "Jeeves and Wooster", which makes me want to go back and read PG Wodehouse again. Light fluff at its best.

Real Sim Weddings (Sammy spoiler warning)

With arches and guests seating themselves and wedding cake

Makes PiB a happy camper.