park life

…and no blog posts

but i’m going to show off some pics of my new build in thistle, and whatever else i might be working on, just for fun. stay tuned!

i’m working on some garage designs that compliment my houses. they’re just some simple storage spaces for cars, between 7 and 15 prims. for prim-savings, the car area for each one is 10×10. i parked a little nissan sentra, along side my huge cadillac, and both fit nicely. i can’t guarantee your jet turbine-laden batmobile will fit but most sl cars should.

along with those new “accessory” builds, there has been a free beach deck available. and i plan on making more of these little builds that go with houses. if you have any ideas i’d love to hear ‘em

i’m wrapping up a new version of the park life house script, which has a bunch of little things done to it, and one main new feature: the ability to use buttons to access the menu. this means you just click a button instead of typing “/99 menu” to bring up the house menu.

if this feature would be useful to you, send me an instant message and i’ll send you a copy to put in your park life house. i’d love to hear any feedback about it!

here are the exclusive designs i made for the expo. if you like them, come show your support. after next saturday the design schemes will be retired!

here’s what my display looks like. come say hi! it’s been nice to meet everyone that stopped by; i hope to see more of you

please come out to support relay for life

the home, garden and patio starts this saturday, may 3. i will have a spot in the north of the map, and will have some custom items you won’t find for sale anywhere else, including a new house and a clock design. come check out two sims worth of builders, donate some lindens and get some great stuff

location: rhodium 100, 180

…to make these:

i enjoy designing and building clocks, and definitely something i want to do more of. makes me feel like an eccentric shop owner hunched over a desk full of obscure little tools, chuckling when the customers are startled by the cuckoo jettison which i don’t even notice anymore. stay tuned for more!

i finished a set of furniture the other day, and i’m going to start photographing and boxing it up for sale. it’s a beachy chair/couch/umbrella table set, which i envision going on outdoor decks. it’s called “breezy” for now, and if i don’t come up with a more imaginative name, we’re stuck with it! i’ll post pics when i get some.

also, recently i started working on clocks. the script is done and i have two or three models in various states of progress. the first one (which is just about ready) is a black, white and red wall clock called “futura.”

i enjoy working on these. making clocks has been something i wanted to do in real life, but haven’t really had the time. a clock is such a simple device, with just a few constraints to keep the design real. there is a lot of room for creativity and opportunity to dig into the details. so far they have been made of four prims, relying more on textures. i can do it in three, or i could go the other way and make them more dimensional with more prims than i’d normally use. why not? after all, my houses are low prim so you can fill them with all the primmy personal things that make your space unique.

this is a 1024m sized house made of stone and wood, for L$750. available now, get more details here
  

just about all of the houses i make are modifiable, which means you can tweak, bend or completely renovate your house to fit your piece of pixel paradise.

it also means it can break.

the problem usually comes from unlinking the house. the windows and doors rely on and expect the house to be linked the same way it was when it was fresh from the factory-packed cardboard box, and unlinking is the exact kind of thing you or i would do before modifying.

so the house is broken right off the bat. well, not really. it just can’t communicate with itself, and doors forget which way to open. if you have try to open a door and it skitters across the floor and opens out on your deck, unlinking is likely the culprit.

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sorry it’s been so long since my last post. i’m going to post all my new houses here, including one i did recently, and i plan on posting more often.i finished  up a 1024m sized house called danic, which is anchored around a big brick column with a little skylight at the top.

right now i’m playing with some wood and stone textured house ideas for something warmer. i don’t feel inspired quite yet but i hope to have something done soon!