More Uploads at CS2S

Here are the latest downloads uploaded to Charmed - Sims 2 Style

Paige Matthews Career

Stairwell Wall Cover

Halliwell Manor Conservatory Windows

Kitchen Island

There's also some new clothes and a new set of conservatory furniture. 

October Charmed Finds from SimalongaMeemo

I have a Yahoo Group also called SimalongaMeemo where I post some of my non charmed related downloads and links to Charmed content that we can't host at CS2S because we don't have permission (either haven't asked yet or been refused).

These are some of the links I have uploaded recently...

http://www.thesimsresource.com/downloads/sims2/objects/furnishing/seating/122744/


There was a gas hob for the kitchen but turns out it's only for worktops, it floats over a table. Will try and see if we can do something about this.


A new Alyssa Milano with 7 tattoos by X-tin at InSim.
http://www.insimenator.net/showthread.php?t=94503

Meshing...

I've decided to teach myself how to mesh, I spotted this free software in one of those money savings emails you can subscribe to and I've decided it's about time I learned. The software is called trueSpace (small t large S!) and it's free from http://www.caligari.com/ No idea if it's any good but there are lots of tutorials so I'm going to have a play.

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.

Every Soddin' Time!!

So when I said I was two stuff packs short that was because I'd already bought Teen Style stuff but hadn't installed it.

So now I've installed it and my lots won't load. This happens EVERY TIME I buy an EP or stuff pack. I have to move all my custom content out and put it back bit by bit, eventually it all works again after months of messing about; unloadable lots, blue flashing items.... grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Roll on Sims 3!!!

Current Project

This was a request from the CS2S forum. So I'm making the two oval pictures from the stairwell.

When someone requests something on the forum it's a real joint effort. One member suggests a mesh, another finds an image, then I usually volunteer to do the recolour. I like doing them. We actually fight over doing them!!

Anyway one member found a photo of the actual painting on the left (a lot of the props were sold off at the end of Season 8) and I found an auction for an old victorian baby pic which is very similar to the one on the right.

Here's my effort so far, not sure whether to call it quits or tweak the baby one a bit more.

New EP

I can't wait for Apartment life to come out... Magic Finally!!! I've heard you can freeze time just like Piper too, the video makers will be pleased with that. It's out in the UK on the 29th august and I have a decision to make... I am still missing 2 stuff packs and Free Time. I'm usually pretty strict about buying and installing them in order so do I wait until I've bought IKEA, K&B and FT or do I skip them and go straight for apartment life... I think I'm going to end up waiting. BUT I CAN'T!!!

dilemma dilemma.

An Introduction...

I play the Sims, yes I know it's aimed at kids and as the mother of two grown ups I should really know better but there's something about the game I love.

I don't know when I came across the custom content side of the game but it's a fair few years ago while playing the first incarnation of the Sims, it was a cow print sofa from Mall of the Sims, I thought it was the bees knees! To be able to change something in a computer game was nothing I'd seen before and I've been playing games since the days of the first Leisure Suit Larry and Prince of Persia games on an 8086 XT computer. As far as I can remember custom content back then was mostly recolours, and rabbits, I remember lots and lots of pooing rabbits.

So along comes the Sims 2 and after playing it for a while I remembered the custom content and a whole new world was opened!! To start with I frequented the EA website, the Exchange and it was there I came across a version of the Halliwell Manor from Charmed and an obsession started.


I don't know what it is about the combination of Charmed and the Sims, I think it's the house. Halliwell Manor is just the most beautiful building. We don't have clapboard houses like this in the UK.


And then after searching sites like TSR and MTS2 I found a kindred Spirit! the lovely Aimoss from MTS2 who made a whole range of Charmed items, a book of shadows, a spirit board, the dining room chairs, lots of pictures, a P3 neon sign and awning. Unfortunately she's no longer active in the community but there's lots of people taking up the challenge (me included!).

Just to give you an idea of what I'm talking about

Sims Version









TV Version










So there are loads of nutcases like me out there 1000s and 1000s of us!! Not just for Charmed either, I've seen Stargate, Scrubs, Star Wars, Star Trek, Greys Anatomy, Buffy and Sabrina Sims just to mention a few, but it's the Charmed nut cases I wanted to "reach out to" so we'd have a little home of our own where we could stand up and say "Hi I'm Meemo and I'm a Charmed-Sims-aholic" without fear of ridicule or judgement! There are a few that have tried and failed, the Charmed Theme at MTS2 got shut down because of idiots that take and just don't give. There's the German effort that started off with good intentions but soon ran out of steam. Two years ago I started up a Yahoo group called SimalongaMeemo (you old English folk like me might remember Singalonga Max on the TV in the 70s!). The idea behind it being to collect all the Charmed content in one place. Some creators are funny about their creations and don't like it being posted on other sites so I figure if all I'm posting is links then no one can complain!!

So there I am trawling the internet for new Charmed content and I come across someone with a similar idea. At first it was just a forum but a year down the line it's a full blown community with downloads, if you want to join the fun it's Charmed Sims 2 Style.

It's attracted some great creators and we've even got brand new Charmed stuff that no one else has!

So this is my Sims blog, what I'm working on, what's new at the site, what's happening in my little world of Sims.