French Chateau

View slideshow of house and grounds: French Chateau slideshow

Download and Rec: French Chateau in Brunettesimgirl's Studio

Extracting RAR files using Jzip tutorial

Step 1: Open Jzip

Step 2: Click on the "Open Archive" folder

 Step 3: Go to where you saved your file that is to be extracted.  In this tutorial I am using Ladyfrontbum's Naughty and Nice Skin which Chrome automatically saves to your downloads folder. Click on the file once so it highlights (like in pic) and click "open".

                       You should see something like this (depending on what you are extracting you may have more files showing up under "Name"):

 Step 4: Click on the file name(s) you want to extract, then click once on the "Extract" folder to open it.

Step 5: Go to your documents folder...

 Step 6: ...Electronic Arts Folder....

Step 7:...The sims 3 folder...

Step 8: ...mods folder...

 Step 9: ...packages folder...click the extract button in the lower right corner and you're done!

Confessions of a Simaholic

Simming Confession #....13?

I am terrible at CAS-ing objects.  This is my weakness.  When I say it takes me 1 week, or more, to build a house, it's not actually taking me 1, or more, weeks to actually build the house. It's taking me a week or more to CAS the objects (including walls) in the house. This is why I google each individual room  (as stated in Confession #8 ) as a reference, or guide.

Real Life Confession #13:

I love John Goodman.  Not like "in love" with him, but I think he's an awesome actor.  He pulls off being the tough guy asshole so well, and then in the next project he's the big teddy bear that is sweet as can be.  Love that he was/is the voice of "Sully" in Monsters Inc. and Monsters University, and "'Bid Daddy' La Bouff" in The Princess and the Frog, but my favorite character that he has done is "Dan Conner" in Roseanne.

Yellow Farmhouse

Downstairs is done~

Not done--just showing update of the WIP. :) 

Thanks to Wibs for her wallpaper (in the bathroom and walk-in closet)which can be Found here

Confessions of a Simaholic

I know I've already done 10, but I decided I'm going to keep going until I run out of confessions (or decide not to do them anymore :P )

Simming Confession #11: I hate, HATE, that we cannot place stairs on angled foundation, or at a 45 degree angle.  I hate that my only option is to either place them straight on, or make the area an illusion so it looks like the stairs are at a 45 degree angle.  I wish they would allow us to place the stairs on angled foundations.

Real Life Confession #11: I still love the band "No Doubt" and was bummed to hear they preformed here in Seattle in 2009.  I was about 8 months pregnant when they came and couldn't go.

And my favorite song of their has always been, "Just a Girl".

I love Gwen Stefani's voice.  And also love her "What You Waiting For" song.

AOK Ranch

Passes Custard test:

There are a few empty rooms you can decorate yourself if you have a large family, and lots of options to change things around on the second floor (as far as rooms go)

Download here
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Confessions of a Simaholic

Simming Confession #10: With the exception of two sims, I have never played any of the "celebrity" sims I've made.  Meaning, I have never played a household with my: Snookie sim, Tracy (from "Jerseylicious") sim, Harry Potter character(s) sims, Jennifer Aniston sim, Lauren "Lo" Bosworth sim (from 'Laguna Beach and The Hills), Edward or Alice Cullen sim etc.

The exception to this confession is my Kim Kardashion V.2 sim and my Kate Middleton sim.  I have played both sims before.  Kim didn't last long, and Kate (whom married a very quick and badly made William) made it as far as having a child.  Then I got bored of them and stopped playing them.

Real Life Confession #10: I hate being late.  I hate people who tell me to meet them at a certain time and they are late.  Five minutes late is fine, but 20 or more minutes is unacceptable in my book. If I agree to meet up with someone at 10am...I'm there at 9:50am or even 9:40am.

 I had a friend once who could never meet me on time.  It annoyed me to no ends.  Her excuse was always, "The traffic was really bad".

  Because I came from 40 minutes away and managed to make it here 10 minutes before the time we agreed on. You live in the same city we are meeting in and are 20, sometimes 30 minutes late--so tell me, why is traffic really bad where you were, when you are only 10 minutes from the meeting place, but the traffic was good for me when I was 40 minutes away from our meeting place, and I managed to make it here 10 minutes early?  If the traffic was as bad as she used to claim, shouldn't it been I who was late?

I  hate when I have an appointment, that my bf is taking me to, and we leave 10 minutes before the appointment when I know it will take us about 15-20 minutes to get there, making us 5-10 minutes late.  Drives me nuts.

Confessions of a Simaholic

Simming Confession #9:  I have only ever entered 2 contests.  The first one was a "sim-celebrity" modeling contest that I used my Kim Kardashian V.2 sim for.  The competition died after the 3rd or 4th assignment.

The second was more of a "show" for MummyGaga/x_MG_x's "The Battle of Mummification". This is still going on, but I was voted out a few weeks ago.  It was fun while it lasted and I still enjoy reading each episode.  :)

Real Life Confession #9:  When I make hot chocolate at home, from the packets like "Swiss Miss", I add two packets to my coffee cup.  Not because I like it to be more chocolaty, but because my mugs are bigger than a standard mug.  The package says to add 6oz of water to the cocoa powder.  6oz is not even 1 whole cup...literally.  1 cup = 8oz.  I know not a big difference, but when you have mugs that hold 12oz of liquid...you feel like you are being cheated by only adding 6oz of water to the cocoa, and if you add more water to only one packet...it waters it down; therefore, I add two packets to my mugs.

Confessions of a Simaholic

Simming Confession #8: I am terrible at decorating and color coordinating the rooms in the houses I build, so I go looking for pictures of rooms that resemble what I try to do for each room.  I use google images to find each room and when I find a room I like I use it as a reference.

So for instance.  I'll google, "sitting room", and find this picture:

So then I try to make my room in my game look similar to that (which obviously it's not going to look exact to that pic, but it's just a reference to get my imagination going), and this is what I came up with:

Real Life Confession #8:  I love photography and have 2 cameras (I used to have 4 but I broke down and sold one and the other one died so I threw it away--it was a cheap little camera). Now I have a Cannon Digital camera that my dad used to have (he gave it to us) and my Nikon FM 10.

I almost decided to pawn this one recently due to us desperately needing money for Christmas.  The camera alone cost me $500 (this doesn't include the bag, filters, flash, film, or lenses (which I have none of, lenses I mean--I have 4 or 5 filters, the flash etc.--but if I did have other lenses...it would make it more valuable).  I just couldn't do it.  I would only sell it if I were getting a better camera than this one.

And my digital:

Between using the digital camera and using my graphic design skills I was able to make a really good picture of my daughter during Christmas time last year.

We have it enlarged and framed in our living room, and everyone who see's it asks where we had it done.  

Jennifer Aniston

I had already done her before, but I decided to take her back into CAS and do some tweaking.  Well, what do you think?