Remembrance of the Dead

Yesterday was a special day for us.
On the Fourth of may, our country commemorates the victims of the second world war.
For as long as I can remember, I would watch the solemn ceremony at the Waalsdorpervlakte (Plains of Waalsdorp), near the Hague where I grew up. It has been my wish for years already to go there on the fourth of May and pay my respects to those brave men and women who gave their lives for my freedom.
Yesterday was that day. We arrived at the Waalsdorpervlakte by six, spent a couple of hours waiting, until finally around half seven the silent walk to the momument began.




Being there, in that place, where so many people were executed, meant a lot to me - even though I was born years after the war. Because even though I was never in the war, the war has always been in me. Through all the stories my mother and grandmother told me, the pain I have seen in my relatives lives, in their eyes... it's always been a part of me. And it will be, forever.
I was in awe, as if I were standing on sacred ground - which, in a sense, I was of course.

New Tutorial

On request, I just posted my new tutorial on how to create a Blog with Bigger Pictures.



One advance warning: If you're afraid to experiment a little, this is NOT for you! =P
This tutorial was written with the more experienced blogger in mind.

Spring Bride 2008 - Round One

I just posted my entry for Round One of the Best Spring Bride 2008 Contest.
The Proposal



Rosella is definitely at her best here. LOL!

The Queen of Hearts - Chapter 9

Do you want to find who entered Cordelia's room?
The Queen of Hearts - Chapter 9 has just been published now.

Who entered Cordelia's room?
It looks like Cordelia isn't exactly happy with her visitor...

Again, I didn't take a lot of pictures, but I'm fairly confident that the quality of them, and the story itself of course, will make up for that.

Enjoy!

Do I creep you out

This one is for Cordelia... Have fun, girl!

Do I Creep You Out | Funny Jokes at JibJab

Best Spring Bride 2008

Yesterday I entered the Best Spring Bride 2008 competition at Insimenator.net with my beautiful, but bitchy sim girl Rosella Dalton.





The pictures shown here are not the ones I entered into the contest.

I hate MTS2

Yes, it's official now: I hate MTS2!

Not only are their servers more often than not so incredibly slow you can't even download anything from there, but after uploading SEVEN clothing sets, and having all of them rejected except for one (and not even the best one!), I made up my mind: I hate them.

I'm not saying my CC is fantastic or anything, but it's certainly better than a lot of the crap I've downloaded from MTS2.

Either they're blind, or they're snobist, elitist and what-not-all, but I sincerely doubt that I'll ever even try to upload there anymore. I don't mind slaving over my recolours for hours, but I hate to have them reject my uploads with messages telling me I should put in a little more effort and not do simple slider jobs, I should put in shading, and what not all.
WTF???
I did put in shading where appropriate and certainly didn't do simple slider jobs either. I spent hours creating my own textures. Idiots!

I think I'll stick with uploading my stuff to InSim and trying to become a little more popular over there.

What? Oh, you'd like to see some of my hard work?

Here you go:

A nice black Hello Kitty outfit for your Teen Sim girl:


And a beautiful leather jacket for your sim girl:

Created to look just like the new clothes I bought my 9-year-old daughter the other day.

Hello Kitty for Teens and the Black Leather Jacket for girls are available for download from Insimenator.net.

For more of my CC, please check my profile page at Insimenator.net, or my Downloads Blog.