I HATE SPORE!

Well actually I don't it's a really good game, what I hate is the fact that my laptop is the fastest machine with internet access in the house so it's been hijacked by both my son and husband to play Spore on so now I don't get a look in and my Sims are suffering.

Witches in Tights

Crow made these fabulous outfits from the Charmed Episode "Witches in Tights" I've used them to make a new banner for the site!

The Sims 2 Mansion & Garden Stuff

One of the members of CS2S sent me this... Looks like it's now official.

Author: Maxoid_Hydra - Rank: Big-Mouthed Bedlamite
Date: Sep-11-08 10:49 AM PDT
Subject: New Mansion & Garden Stuff Forum

We’ve officially announced The Sims 2 Mansion & Garden Stuff. Our first 4 screenshots are now on the homepage for you to check out

As many of you know, this information was leaked a few days ago and most of you have seen these screens. Boo !

BUT, the stuff pack items and other screenshots for this pack are AWESOME and we’ll be sharing them with you very soon! This is truly a stuff pack the game team has created for our community members.

Stay tuned for more updates!

Homecrafter Plus

What is it with this stupid program!!! and Bodyshop, they're both pieces of c*@p!

They run slow, they take ages to load and then every now and again they refuse point blank to work. I've been trying to run Homecrafter to make some walls for a request on the forum and it just won't load. I can watch the process in Task Manager and then it just disappears.

Why can't someone invent something that doesn't need to load every single file before you run it so you can just load the package you want to work on - you know like SimPE for walls and floors.

I'm getting the grrrrrrrrrr again!!

Yet another Stuff Pack

Just when I thought I'd nearly got them all EA go and do a new stuff pack!! Still at the rumour stage but it looks like there will be a Mansion and Garden Stuff Pack out in November!!

Looks like the rumour started with this link... http://videoeta.com/game/15549

and it looks like someone might have caught EA accidently putting it on the EA store - if you click on the image above you can clearly see it refers to SP8 and SP9 - I checked - it doesn't anymore!!!

More EPs!!

I think I mentioned this before but Apartment Life is going to be a must for all Charmed Sims fans. I got a £30 Amazon voucher off one of those earn for click sites so I've bought Free Time and AL. Now I am only short of the IKEA pack.

I keep bidding on Ebay up to £5.... will win one eventually!!

Latest Creation!

Jeff has been working on a version of Paige's apartment, I helped him out with a door recolour (oooh LOL!) and held him up quite a bit while I got it right. This is now in the queue at CS2S

Parlour Rug

Forgot I'd done this one this week, our lovely obsessed friend with the Manor Prints also had a very good image of the parlour rug...

South Bay Social Services

One of the members has very nearly finished a sims version of the South Bay Social Services offices that Paige worked at. She's done a stirling job - it looks fantastic so far. Just making a few final additions and she should have it ready.

I've just done a couple of wallpapers for her and a column recolour to finish it off!! I can't wait for this one!!

David Carter Brown

One of my missions for charmed/Sims is to redo some of the paintings that Aimoss did with better graphics but after wading through pages and pages of Google results for "American Folk Art" I came up with a big nothing. I decided to get high resolution images that were similar to the originals and do those instead. It's a project I started ages ago and then left (I have a habit of doing that!).

So anyway I was really really pleased when we got a new member at CS2S who actually owned some prints like the ones in the manor and provided us some more information so I actually do these properly now. A lot of the folk art in the manor is by David Carter Brown, if you Google him you'll find the cat prints and the balloon prints from the manor but not much else. He also did the moon/star ones and the cockerels.

So a big thank you to azriel! and watch this space for new paintings for your sims!!

Oh and I finished the Oval Pics they'll be available to download at CS2S shortly. I redid the baby one with a sepia tone over the top.