gift with purchase

Hey guys, it's my birthday today! Is that pathetic, that I'm sitting at home on my computer on my birthday? I think it probably is, but I'm not big on parties or anything at the moment. My parents are bringing KFC and a cake home tonight, and then we're going out for lunch on the weekend. I'm getting a new computer for my birthday because my current one is slow. It takes me 20 minutes to start up the sims, and then sitting around for an hour waiting for CAS to load... I don't really WANT a new computer (they're so freaking expensive), but I do need one.

I also got some perfume. It was a limited edition of 'G of the Sea' from the Harajuku Lovers collection. It's a mermaid! I think that I might have mentioned by obsession with mermaids before. And I also got a bento box makeup thing which was a 'gift with purchase'. I don't wear makeup much, but it's so cute, I'll have to try it. Wait a minute, I'll take a photo...

...or two. I got other things as well, but I don't want to be boring!

Chouxie asked me to do a clothing tutorial, which I shall do within the next few days. I'm kind of addicted to watching movies today and tomorrow I'm going to see the Dalai Lama speak (cool, right?). I'll try and get a photo taken today though so I don't have to go back into my game later.

Also, I mentioned in my last post that I'd like to start a berry legacy. I changed my mind to making it a normal legacy, and that should start once I have my new computer set up.

Hope you're doing well!

the light is going out

I have some...stuff going on at the moment. To be truthful, I'm probably in one of the worst periods of my life, and I'm not saying that to be dramatic or anything, but I need people to understand that I'm not just deciding that I'm too busy and dropping everything to live a happy, dandy life.

So, the point is I dropped my competitions, I'm getting out of all of my online commitments because I cannot handle anyone putting pressure on me at the moment.

I'm not leaving though. Oh no. I am going to live a life of blissful self-mediated simming. I want to start a berry legacy when Generations comes out, and photoshop pics of my heirs and stuff. I'm already working on the neighbourhood. Here is a picture of the bedroom of the house I'm decorating at the moment (it's the only finished room so far):



I'm going to take my time, do some yoga, not rush. Do something without the pressure to win or please people, but because I love it and because it's a new world.

I don't know how well I'm explaining this, but I hope it makes sense. I might go back to modelling next year or when things aren't so tense.

Love! <3

high flying adored

This will not go at the top of my list of 'edits I'm satisfied with'. It bothers me how careless I am and I'm scared of having reached the stage of not being able to improve. I can't wait to do my entry for The Gentlemen's Club. I hope to push my boundaries and really challenge myself.

At the same time, it's really sad that Little Black Bra had to finish prematurely. It was lots of fun and the people where really great (although most of them dropped out - why do people do that?).

I ended up practically redrawing the underwear. It was originally dark blue with white polka dots because I was going to do a sailor picture, but changed my mind. Also all clothes seem to mesh themselves to the sim's skin which looks really strange, so I got rid of that too. I like how the hair came out. It's taking less and less time to draw the more I practise.

I got my learner's license the other day, yay! I should have gotten it a year ago, but I'm lazy. I've gone driving twice and have had 1 minor accident (I expected the steering wheel to be a lot more sensitive...) on my first go. I'm hoping that I can go out some more this week.

My current song obsession:

this is the party

This is where it's all at, guys. My new blog. Now that it's here, I'm not quite sure what to do with it. I mean, do I start posting every single edit that I've ever created?

Okay, I've made up my mind in the space between this paragraph and the last. I'll introduce myself. And then my header model, who is brand new and needs an introduction to the world.

Hai, this is Miss Harlequin here (which I assume that you already knew since this is my blog). There's an About section which gives you a quick briefing of About Me.

On a more personal note, I'm currently wearing my new pajama pants which have little peacocks on them. I really love peacocks. It was strange, because I saw the pajama window display, and as I was walking over to it I was thinking, "You know what would be really cool? Peacock pajamas." And then 2 minutes later, I realized that one of the pants had little peacocks on them.

I think I'm kind of psychic or something. I have many similar stories.

Like the time I was walking home from school thinking about mermaids and all the different parts of my childhood which nurtured my love for mermaids, and when I reached the door step, the pool salt was there (which the pool guy delivered - we don't leave pool salt on our doorstep) and the brand was 'Mermaid'.

Persephone is a new model who I created for The Gentleman's Club. She's as pretty as a picture, definitely my prettiest Sims 3 model, which makes sense given she's a goddess.


I didn't get to fully give her back story in her application since I was mainly focusing on introducing her as a character. Basically what has happened is that over time all pagan gods have been losing their power due to lack of belief, sacrifices, etc. Hades has grown so weak as to not have the power to keep his wife in the, now deserted, underworld any longer. Not that I think Seph is abandoning Hades because she hates or resents him since later myths do suggest she did live up to her title of Queen of the Underworld. Anywhoos, Persephone leaves the underworld to experience life as a 'human'. She's still immortal and she still has powers, they're just not as...much.

Andandand, I just want to take this moment to point out that I know that the Persephone myth is very popular. I promise that I'm not someone who has just read a version of the story online and ran with it. I love learning about different versions of the story, different details, origins, perspectives. I have literally put hours upon weeks of research into this myth. Not because I'm particularly thorough though. I'm just a bit obsessed, haha. Also I'm getting an A in Ancient History which says so much.