This post may seem a little odd and it is -- but there really isn't a better way to explain how my brain works its creative process, so...for those of you who haven't known me longer than I've played the Sims (and that dates back to Sims 1) -- I have a colony of "muses" and "plot bunnies" that live in my imagination and while most of the time they are very handy and cooperative, they seem to be in a battle right now.
It started when Midnight Hollow came out and infused my HP/Sims muse with a level of excitement that reminds me of ADHD. I will be blithely working along on some project or another or even trying to fall asleep at night when I get ambushed by a steady stream of ideas. **** annoying it is -- especially when the thought won't leave me a long until I resolve it some how. Long story short -- I spent some time since my last post messing around in my hibernating HP world trying to work out using stuff from MH in that world and how to make certain locations work. Not exactly what I intended to spend my time on.
Alas, my creative process got hijacked again late last week. It seems a plot bunny from a Twilight inspired story I been outlining for a year now got really annoyed when it got bumped back even further and decided to team up with my Twilight/Sims 3 muse. The good news -- I spent lots of time this weekend working on Port La Forks. Bad news, it was spent working on an unintended lot that has little to do with Stephanie Meyer's twilight or Forks, WA and much more to do with an original story that may not get written that started out as an outline for at Twilight fan fiction story.
Is sad. I know.
However, you might find it fun -- and if you don't you can always delete it ...
So, without further rambling about stuff you really don't care about --
The "It Used to be a Gypsy Caravan camp."Once, a while back, a family of gypsies moved to Port La Forks and set up a fortune telling business. They built a small camp of their caravans but quickly realized that the rainy (and cold) didn't suit well to having to walk through the open muddy field to get to their room or the bathhouse (okay, bath caravan) -- so they built covered walkways between each caravan -- and then they built a great room to gather in (since you can't really sit outside at a campfire when its pouring).
This is a shot of the two of the caravans and the great room (and a long hall). yes, I know -- its a really odd lot.
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5481/10136347573_17e9fb5412.jpgAnd here is a view from the other direction --
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7440/10136132184_a74b816588.jpgAnd a few interior shots -
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3667/10136223145_4edb22546c.jpghttp://farm8.staticflickr.com/7439/10136224915_6ce1db8d45.jpghttp://farm8.staticflickr.com/7383/10136225495_f4fea80aa7.jpgI did get some work done, though -- not much:
Here is a house that is somewhere in La Push -- it needs help. Any one want to do some interior decorating and landscaping?
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5547/10136352093_d28039387a.jpgAnd I went in and did a little work on the Vault of Antiquity lot -- aka the Cultural Visitor's Center --
Here is the overhead:
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3701/10136229475_ea216e1084.jpgand some interior shots:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7409/10136229085_74b27b66e1.jpghttp://farm8.staticflickr.com/7455/10136138254_1b002152de.jpgIt still needs the finishing touches and I need to sculpt the back terrain a bit to make it better for fishing, etc.
