Anna's Sims

I'm alive!

an_nas — Tue, 29 Sep 2015 12:30:51 GMT

Hmm. Wow.

It's been two and a half years since I've posted anything. I don't know if anyone will read this, or if anyone even uses livejournal anymore. I did notice there were messages in my inbox (that weren't even a hundred years old) saying that my download links no longer work, so I guess that means people still play The Sims 2! (And I will see what I can do about the links asap.) I quit simming mainly because i was so fed up with my old computer, and it took me almost a year to get around to buying a new one. And when I finally did, I felt like it had been so long since I had played the game or posted anything I had way too much catching up to do... I did install the game on the new computer, though, even played some, and believe it or not, I still have it installed, along with my legacy family and everything.

Anyway, a lot has happened in my life since my last post. Most of it during the past 14 months. Long story short; I broke up with my boyfriend of 10 years, met the man of my dreams, got pregnant, got engaged, and had an amazing baby boy who is now 3 months old. Life is good :)

I don't know if I'll ever get back to posting here on a regular basis again (or simming, even though I do kind of miss it), I just wanted to post a quick heads-up. But I will read and reply to all the comments and messages, and maybe even open the game and take some pictures for a change!

The Younglove Legacy 3.3

an_nas — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 09:55:27 GMT

1.0 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.7
2.0 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5
3.0 | 3.1 | 3.2

Can you believe I'm actually posting a legacy update?! I meant to post this ages ago, but editing a billion pictures didn't really tempt me and I always found better things to do. But an update is here now!

What happened last time:
- Life was ~~boring~~ peaceful
- Lily and Wilford passed away
- Tessa met a boy named Cassius and they spent half a sim day in the hot tub
- Helen got a few promotions
- Tessa went to college

So here's Tessa as a young adult.

Ooh, a dormie! His name is Toby.

Toby realized he was wearing a base game outfit that wasn't going to make him very popular with the girls so he changed, and all was well.

Tessa: I love college!

Tessa's room.

Everyone really likes to study. Not.

This is Romeo. He's cute.

Tessa's flirting skills need work.

Back to reality.

Oh look, there's Toby.

Time flies ~~with the 'faster uni' mod~~ when you're having fun.

She can't seem to be able to decide who she likes more, Toby or Romeo.

~

Back at the house: Sophie and the blue screen.

Jane is still dreaming about Felix.

As you can see, life continues to be extremely exciting at the house.

Violet (if you remember her... from Felix's uni days) walked by and invited herself over.

Great.

Felix: BYE.

What a pleasant visit that was.

Helen's birthday.

Felix: My wife is getting old! I'm so excited!

Sophie: Yay cake!

~

Back to the dorm:

It might be too late now, Romeo...

Ah, he's so romantic.

~

Time to say goodbye to careless days of teenhood, Sophie...

Ahh, don't you just love the EAxis sense of style?

And here she is after a much needed makeover. She doesn't waste any time getting right down to the business.

Sophie's room.

Sophie goes to check out the hangout nearby.

This is Christopher, who works there and is clearly very enthusiastic about his job.

They instantly find things to talk about.

Back at the dorm she couldn't wait to call him.

The next day she invited him over in the hopes of getting to know him a little better...

Eh... that went well.

They played kicky bag. Very exciting.

Unfortunately, fireflies fascinated Christopher way more than Sophie did.

After another day of studying Sophie needed a break, so...

She invited Christopher over. Maybe things will be different this time...

Or not.

Okayy... so he likes redheads.

To celebrate Tessa's graduation, I decided to make the dorm a little less dreary.

As romance was clearly out of the question, Sophie and Christopher played chess instead.

Then his arm got stuck like this and he had to go.

Sophie went to the coffee shop and met Romeo.

He was struggling with his assignment...

...so Sophie kindly offered to help (no hidden agendas here at all, nope).

After they had finished the assigment Romeo took off (men...). So then I thought Sophie could try to get to know this guy... he's quite cute, right?

I guess not, then.

Back at the dorm... Romeo is starting the see the potential in Sophie.

And that's it for now. It will soon be heir poll time (hopefully by the end of the week), so stay tuned!

I finally have something to post!

an_nas — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:14:50 GMT

I've been playing my legacy 'hood lately, and I already have quite a lot of pics for a new legacy update, but before that... have some pics of a house I just built; the home of Elliot Younglove and his family (he got married and had a daughter, I'll post pictures of them later). They used to live in an apartment, but it was way too small for three sims, so I moved them into a house. Some of the rooms may seem a bit unfinished, but they ran out of money (and money cheats are strictly forbidden in the Legacy 'hood)...

O_o

an_nas — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:06:06 GMT

Oookay... I don't even know what to say. I haven't posted anything in seven months. That's a long time, and I definitely didn't plan to disappear like that for such a long time. I just didn't really feel like playing the game or doing anything sims-related, and the longer I was gone the less I felt like coming back. I miss the community though, so I kind of want to come back and start posting again, but I feel so out of the loop. I haven't been following any updates or my friends' page in the past six months, so needless to say, I have no idea what's been going on. I don't even feel like starting up my game because the last time I added or removed something from my Downloads folder was in May... (I kind of still want to play, maybe...).

If anyone has any good tips on where to start or could point me in the direction of the greatest new (or not so new) downloads, I'd appreciate it. :)

Flatwöud + Teaparty in Teak

an_nas — Thu, 17 May 2012 10:54:00 GMT

It's been a while.... but I finally have something to post, yay!

After I stupidly lost all my Photoshop actions I didn't really feel like doing anything sim-related for a (long) while. Now I've finally re-made the colour actions, and here's the first set of recolours I made using the "new" colours. I tried to keep them as close to the original colours as I could (with a few changes, the off white is now a little less similar to the pure white, for example, plus some name changes). I'm planning on releasing the colour actions too, but I think they still need a little testing before I do.

Anyway, on to the recolours... there are 30 colours as usual (for both table and chair), and I tried to get rid of the Maxis wood texture for a painted look.

FLATWÖUD
TEAPARTY IN TEAK

BG 'overhangtshirt'

an_nas — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 16:23:59 GMT

I can't stand the sandals on these outfits. I used the form-fitting replacements by mrlucas for a long time, but as I'm not a huge fan of the Maxis shirt textures I made my own replacements.

The awesome shoe texture is by mrlucas, edited a little by me. The shirt and jeans textures are Maxis/me. Custom versions of all 16 outfits are also available, for both adult and teen.

DEFAULT
NON-DEFAULT

facepalm

an_nas — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:06:36 GMT

I formatted my computer's hard drive. And forgot to backup my Photoshop actions. Crap.

Base Game Underwear for the Ladies

an_nas — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:07:01 GMT

I've had these ready for a while, just didn't have time to make previews and upload them. These are for AF only, I wanted to make recolours for teens as well but I'm out of time and patience right now so I'll probably do that later. Anyway, enjoy the huge preview pics.

DEFAULTS

I wasn't going to do anything about the 'grannypanties' because I kind of like them in all their maxisy unsexiness, but then decided to lower the pants just a bit. I think they look a little uncomfortable covering half the belly button.

NON-DEFAULTS

Two sets of recolours, bras and tanktops. 30 colours. You're getting links because the pics are quite big. Everything is in one rar, delete what you don't want.

Bras: 1, 2
Tanktops: 1, 2

DEFAULTS
NON-DEFAULTS

ffffffffuuuuuuuuuu

an_nas — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:32:45 GMT

I'm using a Zetaboards forum to host my images, and apparently there's been an update or something and they've changed the URL of everything that's been uploaded before January 1. All my images still exist, but all the entries in my LJ have the old URLs, so obviously nothing (except the pics I've uploaded this year) shows up here. I don't know what I'm going to do. Editing all entries to update the URLs of a gazillion pictures is going to take a lifetime. Fuck you, Zetaboards.

TS3 'Fawk' for Guys

an_nas — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:43:14 GMT

As promised, male version of the retextures I posted yesterday.

Same colours etc. as for the females. Mesh by trappingit included (she did make a toddler and children mesh as well, but I only made retextures for teen to elder, so only the teen-elder mesh is included).

NATURALS
UNNATURALS

TS3 'Fawk' for Girls

an_nas — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:33:28 GMT

I'm still pretty new to this whole hair retexturing thing, but I'm finding it quite fun. So here are some retextures of Marja's TS3 conversion 'fawk'.

Texture is by Neena Needles, slightly edited by me. 4 naturals, binned and familied, elder grey is linked to black. 8 unnaturals, found in the custom bin. The shaved part is brown in all unnaturals, elders keep their crazy colours except for the shaved part, which turns grey. Teen to elder, unnessary age groups removed. Mesh by le_plat_du_jour included.

NATURALS
UNNATURALS

Retextures for guys coming soon.

Base Game Swimwear for the Ladies (+ bonus)

an_nas — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 13:05:42 GMT

I spent way too much time on these, considering how simple they are. And I know the title says 'base game', but there are Uni ones too. So these are default replacements for the adult (and teen) female swimwear. The preview pics are kind of huge, sorry about that.

DEFAULTS

The default file replaces all of the above.

BG DEFAULTS
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The first bikini is actually a base game item, but because my replacement matches the Uni ones, it's included in the Uni replacement file. (Confusing?) I pretty much just added the clip thing in the back (that's why you only see the model's backside), and adjusted the colour in the orange bikini to make it match the rest a bit better.

UNI DEFAULTS
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NON-DEFAULTS

Everything is also available as non-defaults (except the underwear/swimwear ones, because I'm planning on making a more complete set of underwear replacements and recolours, so they'll be coming later. These two are included here because they stupidly show up under both underwear and swimwear). I also made some additional recolours for the bikini. Unfortunately the non-defaults are only for AF, because I got bored and didn't feel like making them for teens.

BG NON-DEFAULTS
(everything but the bikinis)

BG BIKINI RECOLOURS
(29 bikini recolours; if you downloaded the defaults you'll have to delete some of these if you don't want duplicates)

UNI NON-DEFAULTS
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BONUS

Annnnd I made some recolours of migamoo's wonderful boardshorts to match my replacements. These are for AF and TF. All textures are EAxis and mine, meshes by migamoo are included.

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Stuff updated...

an_nas — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:38:13 GMT

I was working on some new base game default replacements (that I'm almost done with, so hopefully they'll be up for download soon), and realized that I've had bump maps disabled for quite some time, because they're so awful in almost all base game clothing I didn't really want to see them. So, because I haven't been able to see them, I've forgotten to replace them. D'oh. That has now been fixed, so those of you who have bump maps enabled, please re-download the following stuff:

BG Undies for Guys
BG Undies for TF
BG Bella Outfit for AF

I think these are the only ones that had crazy bump maps, but if you come across any others, please let me know. And sorry for the trouble.

Base Game 'Bella' Outfit

an_nas — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:33:10 GMT

I know the 'Bella dress' is a classic outfit that's very recognizable and has been around since the beginning, but it still looks pretty awful if you ask me (just like everything else from the base game). My eyes hurt every time I see a townie walking around in these, so I just had to try and do something about it. The final straw was this dormie who had paired that red top with the fiery pants. I'm pretty sure nothing can make those pants look okay, but at least I tried...

I removed the silly jewelry, and as much as I love nail polish IRL, I don't want it on my sims, so the painted nails are gone too. I also blackened the shoes a little, and removed the tights because they got all pixelated and I failed to make them look nice and smooth. The textures are a blend of EAxis and mine, and yes I realize they're a bit floodfill-y but I'd still rather look at these than the original ones. And so that no one feels betrayed, here's a close-up of the seams. They're ugly and pixelated and you can see where the top ends and skirt begins, but it's not bad enough for me to be bothered to fix it.

I wasn't going to make any additional colours for the skirt, because I didn't think anyone would really need any, but you know how I like things to match... and then I noticed that they can actually look quite nice with certain tops.

11/12/19 FIXED BUMP MAP
please re-download

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This file replaces all five tops and the red skirt.

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The Younglove Legacy 3.2

an_nas — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:04:46 GMT

1.0 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.7
2.0 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5
3.0 | 3.1

So it's been... *cough* a while since I last updated.
You probably don't remember what happened last time (I didn't either) so I suggest you have a look the previous update.

Things are going nice (and rather boring). Everyone's happy.

Tired, but happy.

Uh-oh.

She cheated death! Go Lily!

Sophie seems a little confused.

But soon everyhing's back to normal (=boredom).

*dun dun duuun*

Cheated again! She obviously doesn't want to go. And is one tough grandma, I have to say.

The cats were all WTF, just like me. I've never had this happen twice before.

Felix is a bit like WTF, too.

But oh so cute.

Yaaaay.

I am so sick of these two 'punch you, punch me'ing all the time.

Minnie the meanie became an elder.

Whee!

Third time's the charm?

Bye, Lily. :(

...and before anyone realized...

Bye, Wilford.

I love the hula zombies (and really need some default replacement lipstick).

Sophie loves fitness and sports.

Tessa is more into computers and books.

And this is a townie named Cassius.

Sophie had just finished her workout and ran to greet him.

Poor thing tried to talk about her favorite things, but stupid Cassius didn't want to hear.

You would think that someone who dresses like this would be at least just a little bit interested in exercise. But I guess not, since he'd rather watch tv.

He really hit it off with Tessa instead.

They stayed in the hot tub until dark.

Tessa was getting a bit chilly so it was time to say good night.

The kitchen counter is the place to be, I see.

Aaand... Tessa's teen days were almost over, so off to college she went. We'll see her there next time.

Until then!

MMO: John Mole

an_nas — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:27:01 GMT

Long time no makeovers.

I finally had some time to do a new one. I don't really have much to say about this one, it's John Mole from Desiderata Valley. I didn't make very dramatic changes here because I didn't feel I needed to. He's a bachelor who doesn't really care if his house is super cozy or stylishly decorated, as long as it's relatively neat and he's got everything he needs.

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Stuff is included, except for the painting recolours by fantasyrogue, get them here.

Bernard's Botanical Dining

an_nas — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:34:46 GMT

Even though I don't actually play community lots all that much, I love making them over. So here's Bernard's Botanical Dining, which is originally pretty bizarre. I wanted to make it more normal, but also keep it somewhat 'botanical' so I just added lots of (potted) plants. Not very exciting, but it is just a restaurant, after all.

I recoloured several objects just so they would match the wooden parts of the aquarium. One might wonder why I didn't just recolour the aquarium to match everything else...

Excuse the not-so-great restroom pictures; the rooms are small so it was rather difficult to take decent pics.

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Again, everything should be included (I've also included two files to make the Castaway palm trees show up properly),
but I'm so tired right now that it's entirely possible I've forgotten something, so let me know if something's missing.

Nouk's 'Double Ponytails'

an_nas — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 20:58:32 GMT

I couldn't find a nice, Maxis-matchy retexture of this hair anywhere, so I had to try retexturing it myself. As this is my first ever hair retexture, it's not perfect and I hope I didn't mess anything up. If I did, please let me know.

I think the preview pic pretty much says it all... textures are by Neena Needles (slightly edited by moi), alpha is by ZombieJill and the mesh is obviously by Nouk. I removed the unnecessary textures for toddler and child. Four colours, modeled here by poor, unfortunate Tara Kat who has lost her spirit. Oh dear. Maybe I should change her name too, because clearly she's not really Tara Kat anymore, is she?

Also. I want to thank whoever made secrets #23 and #32. They made my day. ♥

Anyway, have a swatch:

HTML

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Mesh is included.

MMO: Kat

an_nas — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:16:13 GMT

I've always imagined Tara living in more urban surroundings, rather than the house she originally lives in (which looks like it belongs to an old lady with no sense of style whatsoever). So she and her kitties now live in 33 Mendoza Lane, Downtown.

The last room is sort of a spare room with only cat stuff (and plants) for now. Hopefully Tara won't end up the crazy cat lady whose only family are her cats for the rest of her life... in other words, this might eventually become a nursery. Or something.

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Everything should be included, except for the poster recolours by Ebbe and magnoliae. I suggest you grab the whole sets because they are awesome.

Uber-Megahood

an_nas — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:01:30 GMT

It's been a while (again)... I've been a little bored with my game lately, so I've just been waiting for more inspiration to play. To keep myself interested (and very much inspired by maranatah's wonderful Uberhood updates) I decided to start a new EAxis megahood using meetme2theriver's templates. My main 'hood is Pleasantview, and I have all the other ones as suburbs (and Downtown as... well, downtown + all the Uni 'hoods). I'm not sure if I'm going to keep all of them, though (I think Veronaville will probably go, I've never been a huge fan of the terrain). I'm quite happy with my old Maxis makeovers, so I won't be doing those again. Besides, I'm pretty sure I won't be running out of lots and sims to make over anytime soon...

I haven't really gotten started yet, so have a few pics of Pleasantview first.

P.S. The new rich text editor really does suck.

Clocks!

an_nas — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:37:59 GMT

These are nice clocks, but red doesn't go with everything.

The white and off-white colours look pretty much the same in game, and even more so in the swatch, but oh well (you don't have to put both in your DL folder, you know). The llama clock is from FreeTime and the PS clock from IKEA Stuff.

LLAMA CLOCK

PS CLOCK

The Comfy Critter Pallet

an_nas — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:08:08 GMT

30 colours, dirty state included.

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The Younglove Legacy 3.1

an_nas — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:19:35 GMT

1.0 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.7
2.0 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.5
3.0

I know it's been forever since I last updated, so no one probably remembered that this legacy even existed (you might want to refresh your memory by having a look at the previous update). Sorryy.

Helen and Felix had another baby girl! Her name is Sophie, and she has mommy's eyes and hair and daddy's skintone.

The Younglove ladies are so classy.

Tessa grows up.

Helen's LTW is to become a Hall of Famer, so she's been looking for a job in the athletic career since the day she moved in. No such luck.

Sophie grows up!

She's just as cute as her older sister.

[Sophie spam]

[/Sophie spam]

Jane was brought back to life...

...but she's still annoying and fails at cooking.

Felix fails too. He was fired. *facepalm*
It doesn't really matter, though, because he had already reached his LTW. So whatever.

He took it pretty hard, though.

Ollie (if anyone remembers her...which I doubt) came for a visit.

Why does this not surprise me...?

Unless I tell these two to do something else, this is all they will do. ALL. THE. TIME.

I almost missed Sophie's birthday... they grow up so fast!

Jane's cookings are not very popular.

Still no job.

I've never seen a sim read a child to sleep before. I didn't even know they could do that. So cute!

*sigh*

I was greatly amused by this.

Time for Tessa to become a teen!

Hello, gorgeous.

Post-makeover shot.

He looks so happy. :D

Helen: *worryworry*

Lily and Wilford, on the other hand, don't have a care in the world.

Watching the Yummy Channel.

Eww.

As you can see in the previous shot, their kitchen was kind of disgusting so Tessa went out to eat and possibly get to know new sims. She only met restaurant staff and some elders. Great success.

She's sooo pretty.

Child labour, part 1.

Child labour, part 2.

I knew one day this would happen...

And WTF is wrong with you two? Your pets are killing each other, how very entertaining.

Poor Leo. I don't like Minnie, she is SO MEAN. :(

Aww.

OMG finally. Not that they need any more money, I just want the poor girl to have something meaningful to do.

Random shot of an ugly, expensive sculpture.

Leo became an elder.

\o/

She aaalmost made it.

Sophie becomes a teen.

Obligatory post-makeover shot. I love her.

I haven't decided if I want to send the girls to uni or not. So what do you think? Should they go?

~

I'm off to a little vacation tomorrow, so I won't be reading any comments until I get back next week, but I'll be sure to reply to all of them as soon as I can.

Pollination Exploration!

an_nas — Thu, 05 May 2011 18:08:16 GMT

Featuring sims by iolesims, failhappens, lostdiaries, rhiannon_alexis, maranatah and freudroid.

I've been lurking pixel_trade for ages. The Pollination Exploration challenge looked like fun so I thought I'd finally participate. And fun it was! I took the liberty of replacing ~~some~~ most of the CC on the sims I downloaded (I didn't want to install a bunch of stuff I'd never use), I hope that's okay.

First up we have Asha by iolesims and Wolfram by failhappens. They had a son...

DOWNLOAD CUMULUS

Cumulus hooked up with the lovely Ilse by lostdiaries, which resulted in a daughter...

DOWNLOAD JYNX

Jynx was paired with Alfie by rhiannon_alexis. They had a daughter as well...

DOWNLOAD JADE

Jade's genes were mixed with the ones of the adorable Ois by maranatah, and they had...

DOWNLOAD CLAUDE

And Claude had a son with Fifi by freudroid. So the final result of the pollination exploration is...

DOWNLOAD ODILE

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And here are comparison shots:

More Sarhra Eyes...

an_nas — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 19:25:03 GMT

These have been lying around on my hard drive for over six months... I didn't upload them because I wasn't completely happy with them, and thought I'd do something to them at some point. Looks like it ain't gonna happen though, so here they are if anyone wants. Mostly natural colours, and a couple not so natural ones. Filenames make sense, so you can get rid of the ones you don't want, yadda yadda. I'm not going to make defaults (at least not NOW), feel free to make your own.

Original textures by Sarhra and Rensim.

(My even older Sarhra set can be foud here.)

Greys & blues:

Greens:

Browns & purples:

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