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	<title>porkypine's Journal</title>
	<id>tag:https:,2006-08-20://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=syndication&amp;j=174&amp;type=atom</id>
	<updated>2026-04-20T22:58:03Z</updated>
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	<author>
		<name>porkypine</name>
		<uri>https://modthesims.info/member.php?u=429491</uri>
	</author>
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	<entry>
		<id>tag:https:,2020-11-30://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=7763</id>
		<title>I must be insane.  lol</title>
		<published>2020-11-30T07:34:54Z</published>
		<updated>2020-11-30T07:34:54Z</updated>
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		<summary>?????  !   Well darn! This wisiwg won't print Korean so I'll have to give an image instead.
https://thumbs.modthesims2.com/img/4/2/9/4/9/1/MTS_porkypine-1974312-hello.JPG  Hello !

A journal update!  Nov. 2020  (about time  lol )
I've been making stuff for sims since Sims2 and have been a...</summary>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>tag:https:,2020-11-30://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=7762</id>
		<title>Shamelessly accepting donations for my cars.  ;)</title>
		<published>2020-11-30T07:10:27Z</published>
		<updated>2020-11-30T07:10:27Z</updated>
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		<summary>My IONIQ EV

https://www.hyundai.news/fileadmin/eu/models/20200831_bts_ioniq_song/hyundai-bts-ioniq-song-01-1610.jpg

My Bugatti
https://hips.hearstapps.com/hmg-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/images/2018-bugatti-chiron-1545074660.jpg

Yea, I had a paper begging cup with a sign that asked people to help me...</summary>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>tag:https:,2020-10-14://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=7747</id>
		<title>New project in the works</title>
		<published>2020-10-14T16:09:22Z</published>
		<updated>2020-10-14T16:09:22Z</updated>
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		<summary>Well,  I've been gone for over a year due to personal issues, but I am BACK!  and this journal entry has turned into quite the ramble. 

This last month, I have been working on some sims.  If you've seen my earlier comments on this site,  (I've been around here for 14 years or so), You'd know...</summary>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>tag:https:,2015-02-23://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=7172</id>
		<title>Sims 4 meshing</title>
		<published>2015-02-23T06:04:40Z</published>
		<updated>2015-02-23T06:04:40Z</updated>
		<link rel="alternate" href="https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=7172" />
		<summary>Well, I dove into the deep end of Sims 4 meshing and am coming up for air.

I wanted to make a simple Keds tennis shoes that was easy to recolor. I cloned something that was close enough in shape but the UV map was terrible - it was not suitable for prints and patterns which is what I wanted.  So,...</summary>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>tag:https:,2013-02-04://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=6521</id>
		<title>Cultural diversity</title>
		<published>2013-02-04T23:41:46Z</published>
		<updated>2013-02-04T23:41:46Z</updated>
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		<summary>Well,  Making a jingle dress for multicultural has been an adventure.  Good thing the upload queue has been on hold.  Gives me extra time to finish the dress.

Originally, I made individual jingles for the dress but SimPE burped and tilted at the vertice count so I had to remove the 3D jingles.  ...</summary>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>tag:https:,2012-03-08://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=5988</id>
		<title>hmmm.  I like Lunar Lakes</title>
		<published>2012-03-08T17:28:05Z</published>
		<updated>2012-03-08T17:28:05Z</updated>
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		<summary>Lunar Lakes has some pretty wild-looking trees.,  It inspired me to make an Integral Tree house lot.  I like how it came out.  It mostly floats in the treeline with just the spiral stairs on free form platforms going down to ground level. Of course, I used a ton of CC. and even made some aliens to...</summary>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>tag:https:,2012-01-07://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=5873</id>
		<title>Time to get busy...</title>
		<published>2012-01-07T19:45:26Z</published>
		<updated>2012-01-07T19:45:26Z</updated>
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		<summary>As usual,  I get interested in making stuff and then get side tracked by real life.  lol   We've got a few of the original N8iveSims mod group people back in the group but they mostly like sims2 stuff.  I haven't seen what they've been up to over the holidays so I'll have to check in on their...</summary>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>tag:https:,2011-10-23://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=5746</id>
		<title>TS3 PETS!  I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the horses!</title>
		<published>2011-10-23T19:12:01Z</published>
		<updated>2011-10-23T19:12:01Z</updated>
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		<summary>TS3 PETS!  I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the horses!  I've wanted rideable horses in the game since TS2 and the TS3 horses gallop and jump and race!  WONDERFUL!  My horse loving sim is already galloping around town bareback. 

This inspires me to wake up N8iveSims mod group and get busy making some Palouses ...</summary>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>tag:https:,2011-06-11://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=5537</id>
		<title>Derailed, yet again.  lol</title>
		<published>2011-06-11T22:30:25Z</published>
		<updated>2011-06-11T22:30:25Z</updated>
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		<summary>Yes,  I have been derailed, yet again.   :P   I still plan on posting the contest, got the judges going on that for now but then this THEME idea came up so I am making some 'fitness' stuff for Sims2.  Recolors of Maxis stuff and a new toddler mesh.  But before I could do that,  I 'had' to update...</summary>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>tag:https:,2011-02-27://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=5353</id>
		<title>Learning how to make TS3 hair</title>
		<published>2011-02-27T02:38:37Z</published>
		<updated>2011-02-27T02:38:37Z</updated>
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		<summary>Ok.  Converting TS2 objects to TS3 was successful,  Now I am trying to make my 1st TS3 hair.  The goal is a toddler girls 'palm tree' hairstyle.  You know the kind, that little pony tail on the top of the head that sticks straight up.  :)

Then if that's successful,  I'l make a toddler girls...</summary>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>tag:https:,2011-02-08://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=5330</id>
		<title>Learning how to convert TS2 objects to TS3</title>
		<published>2011-02-08T16:46:31Z</published>
		<updated>2011-02-08T16:46:31Z</updated>
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		<summary>I've been busy learning how to convert TS2 objects to TS3. I'm almost done with Macarossi's Desert Landscape conversion (the whole set) and am in the process of preparing it for upload moderation. 

Because it took me a couple of months to figure out how to do it all well, using bits and pieces...</summary>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>tag:https:,2010-05-12://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=4822</id>
		<title>Computer keeps dying.  *grrr*</title>
		<published>2010-05-12T21:14:18Z</published>
		<updated>2010-05-12T21:14:18Z</updated>
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		<summary>Hi,

I've not been here very much lately because I have had a lot of computer problems with my home computer.  Lacking spare parts, I am trying to find out what keeps dying and crashing my computer.  lol  Is it RAM? Video Memory? Hard drive?, Motherboard?   Anyway the crashes makes it difficult to...</summary>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>tag:https:,2010-02-27://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=4683</id>
		<title>I am dabbling in taking requests!  EEK!</title>
		<published>2010-02-27T04:34:27Z</published>
		<updated>2010-02-27T04:34:27Z</updated>
		<link rel="alternate" href="https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=4683" />
		<summary>]My QUEUE is FULL -  Temporary halt to requests

 I can't take any more requests until I finish what I've already accepted.
There are several that I have not had a chance to post here - I think 4 to 5 others, I'll get them posted after I upgrade my home...</summary>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>tag:https:,2009-05-24://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=3885</id>
		<title>I'm going to be a gramma!</title>
		<published>2009-05-24T04:27:49Z</published>
		<updated>2009-05-24T04:27:49Z</updated>
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		<summary>I'm going to be a gramma sometime in July!  I've been busy making stuff for my grandson so that's why you haven't seen me around much lately.  Well making stuff in between other real life requirements like working, cooking, cleaning house all that kinda stufz.

Waiting on Sims3  just around the...</summary>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>tag:https:,2008-11-28://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=3172</id>
		<title>AACK!  We are all getting so excited about our soon to be published top secret!</title>
		<published>2008-11-28T18:56:59Z</published>
		<updated>2008-11-28T18:56:59Z</updated>
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		<summary>AACK!  We are all getting so excited about our soon to be published top secret that it's getting to be a problem to prevent some of us (me :lol:)  from blabbing too soon about it!

Such a difficult task to sit quietly and pretend like as if one of most fabulous themes ever created is not  about to...</summary>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>tag:https:,2008-09-19://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=3002</id>
		<title>Thanks for your good wishes.  :0)</title>
		<published>2008-09-19T22:05:30Z</published>
		<updated>2008-09-19T22:05:30Z</updated>
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		<summary>Thanks to all  the people who've been so kind and have wished us well.  I appreciate your support and good thoughts. My hubby is pretty much back to normal and is working full time again.  :)   So, now that the killer heat of summer is passing, my brain is starting to work again. 

I am making a...</summary>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>tag:https:,2008-07-21://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=2812</id>
		<title>Been gone mostly....</title>
		<published>2008-07-21T20:33:27Z</published>
		<updated>2008-07-21T20:33:27Z</updated>
		<link rel="alternate" href="https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=2812" />
		<summary>Sorry not to have been participating much on this site for the last few months... I've been gone mostly this spring.  My husband has been seriously ill - in and out of the hospital and the emergency room several times, so I have not done much as far as creating content or working on themes, etc....</summary>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>tag:https:,2007-11-20://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=2117</id>
		<title>Hhmmm.. Echo is starting up a High Rollers  Theme.  I'm IN!</title>
		<published>2007-11-20T21:46:47Z</published>
		<updated>2007-11-20T21:46:47Z</updated>
		<link rel="alternate" href="https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=2117" />
		<summary>Hhmmm.. Echo is starting up a 'High Rollers' Theme proposal.  I've just signed up! This is right up my alley.  I get to play and work with experienced modders and maybe learn how to do basic bhav's and animations.  Then I can put all this cool Vegas stuff into my future N8iveSims casinos and other...</summary>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>tag:https:,2007-11-05://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=2066</id>
		<title>Been gone for most of the summer</title>
		<published>2007-11-05T19:58:47Z</published>
		<updated>2007-11-05T19:58:47Z</updated>
		<link rel="alternate" href="https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=2066" />
		<summary>HI I've been gone for most of the summer and came back to find a game that would not open.  So....  I uninstalled everything, and managed to reinstall it again (after several attempts.)  Finally got it working and added Bon Voyage..

Now, I am working on my TOP SECRET contest entry for the November...</summary>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>tag:https:,2007-04-23://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=1286</id>
		<title>We have submitted our first Mod Group theme for publication.</title>
		<published>2007-04-23T18:57:22Z</published>
		<updated>2007-04-23T18:57:22Z</updated>
		<link rel="alternate" href="https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=1286" />
		<summary>Well, We've finally submitted our theme for approval.  Now all we have to do is wait.  

There is a lot more content that we have in the works for the Seminole theme but we were dragging out the publication date so we decided to publish and post the other items as they become available.

The next...</summary>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>tag:https:,2007-04-13://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=1232</id>
		<title>Coming Soon to a FREE site near you!</title>
		<published>2007-04-13T21:27:26Z</published>
		<updated>2007-04-13T21:27:26Z</updated>
		<link rel="alternate" href="https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=1232" />
		<summary>Hey!  I've gone from zero to 40 in meshing! and have only left a few major pileups in my wake.. :D

Our Mod group is getting ready to publish our premiere theme! It's so exciting!  We've gathered a great team and made some unique stuff for your game that no one else has done (at least that we were...</summary>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>tag:https:,2006-12-20://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=860</id>
		<title>Only blew up a few dozen meshes....</title>
		<published>2006-12-20T23:19:15Z</published>
		<updated>2006-12-20T23:19:15Z</updated>
		<link rel="alternate" href="https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=860" />
		<summary>Well.... It's coming along nicely.  I only blew up a few dozen meshes before I got the hang of it... 

Now!  On to the 'Frankie' part! - Chopping off a bit of this mesh and adding it to the other bit.   :lol:</summary>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>tag:https:,2006-11-29://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=772</id>
		<title>Meshing</title>
		<published>2006-11-29T19:53:26Z</published>
		<updated>2006-11-29T19:53:26Z</updated>
		<link rel="alternate" href="https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=772" />
		<summary>I'm having an adventure - learning how to mesh.  Tiggy's &amp; Hystericals' tutorials are really well done - now if only I would follow them correctly instead of jumping around, grabbing the bits I want, I may end up with a proper garment instead of a Morticia special for cousin Gretchin. (3 arms &amp; 2...</summary>
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>tag:https:,2006-08-20://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=364</id>
		<title>Learning how to make wall hangings</title>
		<published>2006-08-20T21:44:55Z</published>
		<updated>2006-08-20T21:44:55Z</updated>
		<link rel="alternate" href="https://modthesims.info/journal.php?do=showentry&amp;e=364" />
		<summary>Hi!

Well, when people asked me how I decorated my Palazzo di Venezia and wantd the art, I had to figure out a way to do it. My game had crashed due to blotation of the download folder. :rofl:  SO, after I rebuilt my game,  I ended up redoing the central atrium, which I like much better.  Along...</summary>
	</entry>
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