Hi, My Name Is...The Landing Pad
Hello, and welcome to the Gift Gathering - Thank Yous & Gifting Thread of the Sims 3 forum. There is so much to do and see that it's a little disorienting, isn't it? Well, this is your one stop sh...
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Hi everyone, I'm Sandraelle (aka Sandy). My favorite thing to do in Sims is to build. I've always loved to decorate and my family always tells me that I've missed my calling, that I should have become an interior designer. In fact, I'm a huge fan of HGTV and when I watch programs on there, I say, hey, I just got another idea for a building!
I've been building since Sims 2 and I've had all my games registered with Sims 3 from day 1 (back in 2010), but never explored anything on the Sims 3 site before. I was a lurker in the "modthesims2" site because I loved looking at other people's creations for inspiration and I've downloaded a ton of CC from there. It's taken some getting used to not being able to use any of my CC in my builds, but now that I've received some store content and purchased a few things myself, it's not as bad. But I still miss some of my CC objects.
The only person I know in RL that plays Sims3 is my cousin, "wensimmie", and one day (towards the end of April) she started posting a few things about the sims on Facebook and asked me if I had ever visited the sims community forums before and mentioned a building contest I might be interested in. So that's all it took. I created my profile, then got hit with a bunch of gifts from some of wensimmie's friends, checked out the building contest threads...and now I'm hooked and I've entered about 5 building competitions since then (although I haven't placed in any of them yet, but I will keep trying). Of course, I was very reluctant to enter anything because I didn't have the confidence to share my stuff with others and compete with people who I thought were way better than myself. So it took some courage, but I've learned a lot about posting photos to threads and it's been a ton of fun.
Anyways, I'm rambling now, but I just want to say that I've met lots of great people and they have been so generous to me on here. And it's great to finally be able to share my creations and get excited about my stuff with others that share the same interest, as my family and friends just don't get it, LOL. My only complaint is that I can't keep up with all the contests...I want to enter every one, but time is a factor! :-)
Thanks to everyone I've met so far and look forwarding to making even more friends.
I've been building since Sims 2 and I've had all my games registered with Sims 3 from day 1 (back in 2010), but never explored anything on the Sims 3 site before. I was a lurker in the "modthesims2" site because I loved looking at other people's creations for inspiration and I've downloaded a ton of CC from there. It's taken some getting used to not being able to use any of my CC in my builds, but now that I've received some store content and purchased a few things myself, it's not as bad. But I still miss some of my CC objects.
The only person I know in RL that plays Sims3 is my cousin, "wensimmie", and one day (towards the end of April) she started posting a few things about the sims on Facebook and asked me if I had ever visited the sims community forums before and mentioned a building contest I might be interested in. So that's all it took. I created my profile, then got hit with a bunch of gifts from some of wensimmie's friends, checked out the building contest threads...and now I'm hooked and I've entered about 5 building competitions since then (although I haven't placed in any of them yet, but I will keep trying). Of course, I was very reluctant to enter anything because I didn't have the confidence to share my stuff with others and compete with people who I thought were way better than myself. So it took some courage, but I've learned a lot about posting photos to threads and it's been a ton of fun.
Anyways, I'm rambling now, but I just want to say that I've met lots of great people and they have been so generous to me on here. And it's great to finally be able to share my creations and get excited about my stuff with others that share the same interest, as my family and friends just don't get it, LOL. My only complaint is that I can't keep up with all the contests...I want to enter every one, but time is a factor! :-)
Thanks to everyone I've met so far and look forwarding to making even more friends.
