Di's Victorian Vexes

I get the impression that I am once again trying to do too many things at once. I have a pile of mostly complete cc projects, a chapter in the works, a new writing challenge and goodness knows what else, so I thought I’d make a note of the ones I’m actively working on here.

( Things I am doing )

The postman’s uniform and hat is done, yay!


( A few pictures and some blather )


One last thing, Happy Birthday De!  I hope you're having a good day.  :D

My big project this past week has been hats!  It's only a fairly recent thing that we've stopped wearing hats as an everyday occurrence.  Nowadays, they are seen only on special occasions, such as at weddings, or Royal Ascot, but up until after the Second World War, everyone wore a hat when they left the house.  In fact the older generation (men especially) still wear hats.  My Grandad always wore a cloth cap when he went out.  Anyway the point is that all of my sims should wear hats when they're outdoors, but that there is a woeful lack of them, especially for my menfolk.  Up until this week I've only had two hats I've really used for my blokes, the base game top hat, and a bowler from Carnaby sims.  The bowler was only for teens, adults and elders, but a few months ago, I enabled it for young adults, and made several recolours using different hat colours I've found at AAS and xgoat's LJ.  I also planned to pooklet the base game fedora, since, I can also get away with using that, but even then, that mean I had only three styles of hat to use.  I want the new neighbourhood to be as accurate to the time period and country as possible, and having so few hats wasn't what I wanted, so I made some more.  Four styles of men's hat and one lady's.

( we have a range of up to date styles )

EDIT: I'm currently without internet at home, and will respond to the rest of the comments, either when it's back up, or in my lunch break at work.

Just a quick update today.  I've made a default replacement for the base game teen suit mesh (tmbodyopencoatlongpants) fixing the neck gap on the fit and normal state.  Click the picture of Ang's lovely Zane for details.

Hello everyone.  I've been more than a little quiet lately, since I've not been feeling particularly chatty.  I did want to get a behind the scenes post done, but I don't have too much to say about the last chapter and it's filming, so that's been pushed to the back burner for a bit.  And I know I also have to respond to comments over at Boolprop.  I will get to that, but I'm not sure when, because, believe it or not, I have been very busy.

( Things I've been doing instead of playing and writing )

Soooo, I'm writing the next chapter at the moment.  Or trying to.  I keep getting distracted by other things on the computer and in fact have written more long hand in a notebook than sitting here staring at Powerpoint.  I'm thinking that I might have to do that for the entire chapter at the moment, but if I do, I do.  It's not that I don't want to be writing, because I do, it's that sitting here, I start getting other ideas that I want to do too. 

( Distractions this way )

The door is done, done, done, and because of that (and fway being awesome), you can now haz.  Details and download link over here.

Wait, is LJ actually working for me again now?  Yaaaaaaaay!
( Wall of text )

I guess this icon is kinda facepalmy, so I'll go with it.

So, I keep getting distracted at the moment.  I have 90 pictures on Photobucket waiting to be put into an out-takes post, lots of pictures from the rotation to sort out, the rotation to finish (three more lots, woo), comments to catch up on, and a legaversary photoshoot to sort out.  So what have I done all evening?  I took cashcraft's Regency teaset, which was far, far too big and rescaled it so that it's a normal size.  I then separated out the teapot, and the teacups and did the same mesh edits I did for her Vanity Fair set.  Since the mapping is so similar to that set, I now want to see if I can recolour the set in all my Vanity Fair recolours, so I can finally have matching teasets.  I think I'm going to have to do some fiddling, because the vanity fair set squashes the texture slightly and this one doesn't, so we'll see if I get fed up or not before I finish them. 

But anyway, yes that is what I did, instead of what I'd planned to.  Made a new set of objects, and slaved them all to the original mesh.  *shakes head*  I just don't know what's wrong with me.

I am being so productive at the moment, it's amazing.  (Ok, so that productivity isn't extending to reading the couple of updates I'm behind on, but getting all my other projects done so I can do that and concentrate on both CreMo and the Spotlight Interview (all questions welcomed by the way) this week is very good going).

In that spirit, I have two new skintones to share with you all.
( Pictures and links under the cut )