Picture day!

I've been wanting to take some fun pictures of my various sims. Lately, it's been ever present because of the song "I Kissed a girl" by Katy Perry which reminds me of Sofia just for the line "You're my experimental game/ Just human nature."

So here she is, the best pics I took last night I think.

I call this one "Empress" because it suits her. See her haughty smile? Yes, she is better than you, and if you turn your back she'll take your boyfriend and leave him a crumpled mess in the street for you to pick up.

There is a darker side to Sofia. She is pragmatic, and yet the occult fascinates her. No one wants a pragmatic woman with the powers of the occult on her side.


Sweet and innocent... yes that's her too. Sometimes I think that she doesn't really know what she's doing is wrong. As far as she's concerned the world owes her.

As bare natural as she'll get. I have to admit it was a little embarrassing getting this round of pictures because her raw sensuality just shined through. My boyfriend was in the room with me at the time and I was sure he was going to turn around at some point and accuse me of making pornography!

Yes, we're ending on a wink. That's Sofia for you. She just never quits.
Plans are in store for her. She's really just turning into a fun character to play.

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Profile Ashley Stratton

These events take place before Tierra De Legado.




I love watching children grow.



Ashley had her birthday yesterday and became a lovely teen. She went out right away and bought herself a new outfit (a tradition with the teens in my hood.)

Now that she's a teen, she has a bit more say in her style. For one, she's stopped straightening her hair. Two, no more pink room deco. And three, she's a messy little teen. But I enjoy playing her house a lot.






Now that Ashley's a teen, her mother had a talk with her and suggested she give Green a call. Green and Ashley hit it off very well on their first phone call. So the next weekend, they went out on their first date (with Kimberly's permission of course.)


Things went really well, and ended with Ashley getting her very first kiss! Now Green comes over and calls her constantly. He hung out with Ashley and her little brother, Aaron, this past weekend, playing video games. (Ashley kicked his butt-- see Aaron's face?)


Ashley also redecorated her room to match her newer more mature outlook on life, while paying homage to her childhood. The flowers are from Green of course.

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Ugly kids, but an adorable family

These events take place before Tierra De Legado.


Walter Mellon, Ann Mellon's twin brother, married the maid. It was not the most ideal situation, and most of the other sim in the community did not make much of an effort to hide their contempt. So Walter and his wife, Lucy (née Hanby) moved out to the country to raise their children.

All the kids started out cute, but once they reached teen years, it was clear their faces were doomed to be horribly misshapen!

Poor Stephan was their first child. Here he is as a teen showing the beginnings of the facial deformity that would affect the entire family. Stephan, knowing that no sim would truly love that face, fed himself to a cowplant.

Do not worry. I am not just killing their children off willy-nilly, although I had considered it, I must admit. But their family grew on me. Because Walter and Lucy are so much in love (three bolters, so if I leave them alone for a minute he's singing to her or they're slow dancing), I allowed them to have quite a few children before the oldest became old enough to highlight the deformity. By then it was simply too late. The twins had been born.

Family picture! Left to right: Aden, Lucy,Walter,Daniel Next row: Adam, Ariana, Phillip

I took a family picture of the family today so that I can make them a family portrait to put in their brand new living room!



I built them a new home to live in. It was silly for them to have to "commute" over to Daniel every day to help him with his farm. So now they live right next door to him! Thanks to Phillip's influence (he's our future entrepreneur) the family will now focus on live stock, including fishing.



For fun:

Hard to tell, but the puppy is watching TV. XDD

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Profile: Bonnie Stratton

Bonnie is one of those surprise break out sims. I didn't realize just how much I would love her that day her mother gave birth to her in the bathroom.

Even the delivery man ran in to watch

Bonnie's mother was single at the time of her birth, but she had her mother and step father there to help her out. Bonnie's mother, Christy Stratton, had been on edge for a long time. As a family sim, she wanted a big family surrounding her, but all her children had moved away. So having a young child in the house to take care of seemed to help Christy.

Bonnie as a child

Kimberly tried her best, but she was a young mother and she had needs also. I remember the day Bonnie came home from school to find her mother on a date. Kimberly had tried to leave when she realized Bonnie would be home soon, but she didn't quite call the taxi soon enough.

Bonnie threw down her homework in great distress and began to cry on the front lawn. It was then I realized she wanted to know who her father was. Her best friend, Daniel Mellon had a father.

After that, Bonnie was on the hunt.

Bonnie and her distant cousin, Water Mellon

Bonnie noticed how odd it was that she and a supposedly distant cousin looked so similar that teachers at school were beginning to ask them if they were siblings.

Bonnie began to wonder about Alec Mellon, the husband of the Legacy Heir. But she was quite unsure of how to approach the problem. She was only a kid afterall.


Alec Mellon as an adult

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Living vicariously through sims

These events take place before Tierra De Legado.



Sofia Stratton as a young adult

I love playing Sofia Stratton. Inteen was specifically picked up because of her.

Basically, inspiration for her character came from East of Eden's Kate. (Definitely the book, not the movie version.) Sofia's parents are both famous in their own rights. Sofia's mother is in acting and her father is a rock star. So when Sofia was younger her parents hardly had any time to spend with her.

Sofia as a child. She was quite precious and precocious.

To make up for it, Sofia had her own servo/nanny, Inge. But the two never really bonded. As a general rule, when Sofia saw someone out front of her house, she'd run out and greet them so that she could make friends with them. Most sims kind of patted her on the head with a chuckle until they realized she was serious! This girl knew what she wanted and would go after it with passion.

Sofia as a teen. Someone's trying too hard!

Imagine Sofia as a teen. She had a lot of years of lost affection to make up for. To make matters worse, her parents are a complete mess. They had another child since they were both at the top of their careers and they were able to devote more time to raising him. Until the divorce where Sofia's mother simply walked off the lot to not return (except to steal newspapers).

Her only gift from the one man she allowed to steal her heart

Sofia has truly fallen in love once and only once. She had her heart broken when he decided he'd go on the straight and narrow with someone who was not her. Since then, she's learned her lesson. What happened? Well... that may be another story for another time. Or maybe it is another story already. ^__~

Sofia is all about having fun. I just sent her away to college figuring it would be a good time to get to know people and see about making it on her own. Her first semester went well as she didn't do a lick of work. She's gotten friendly with her professor, and will only get friendlier next semester. Plus, she's already very influential with all the friends she's made.

Sofia getting friendly with her mother's new boyfriend

Sofia's been going on plenty of dates trying to eek by. She's also very close to the mayor, Richard Mellon. I hope he doesn't cross the line, but she keeps wanting to call him to chat and he keeps calling her up, and well... she's never up to any good.

I fear for her mother, to be honest. Her mother has never paid enough attention.

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My favorite sim

These events take place before Tierra De Legado.


My Legacy Heir, Ann, as an elder

Ann is just a stinker.

She's a popularity sim, and she's always had a mind of her own. She was the first sim that I actually worked with to grant her Life Time Want, simply because I knew she'd be unhappy if I didn't.

Ann as an adult. Pretty, no?

As most popularity sims do, Ann often came up with wants that were counter to what I wanted for her. At her wedding to a sim I had chosen, she had the want to get married to her professor who she had her first woohoo with. And for a while into her marriage she wouldn't give it up. She wanted to call Prof. Ron, flirt with him, kiss him until the day she became an elder. (Although, he still makes surprise appearances in her wants from time to time.)

Ann as a young adult. She looked wild, but she spent all her time writing.

The first time she had a want that coincided with what I had planned for her was when she was in Uni. I wanted her to be my writer. I knew she had it in her. As soon as I sat her down at the computer and had her start writing, she rolled the want to write a great novel. And she's been writing them since.

Ann holding Water Mellon when he was a baby

Since I've gotten Bon Voyage, she's become a world traveller. Her vacations give the two of us more time together and give her more time to work on her books. For that reason, she has a vacation home in every vacation destination.

Ann's Family as it is now. From left to right: Green, Andrew, Ann, Alec (her husband) Caliburst. Front: Water

I used to be terrified of her becoming an elder. But for some reason I loved her even more once she had her full on birthday. Now she's like that spunky grandmother you hear about. The one who travels to odd places and has crazy stories to tell. You know, the one who openly speaks her mind and then says, "What does it matter? I'm going to die soon anyway."

Although, she won't if I can help it. (I think I will be truly sad on the day she passes away!)

Ann on her wedding day

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