Yet another set of high quality scrapbooking textures! You may use these for scrapbooking (or other personal things, like a website). The 10 textures are all 256×256, high quality JPG files. If you want smaller textures, you can contact me.

I released the textures under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

I have been uploading photos (almost) every day to my dA (DeviantArt). I was inactive for about two years. We all know why. But I’m enjoying the activity again. I have made thousands of photos while in California. So you can imagine how many nice pictures I have that I want to share and publish on my portfolio/blog. I will continue to upload photos to my dA. Some of my latest can be seen here:

I’ve also started using Apophysis today. I am fairly tired, so I haven’t really taken the time to read and learn through tutorials and such. I just started playing around with the program and this was one of the things I created:

I’ve already informed you in previous blogposts (here and here), that we finally launched the SNWeblogs. And I also told you about the people who started blogging on these new blogs. Well, it’s time for a third post. Because four more people have started blogging!

The first was Rakki. Rakki has been a team member since 2004. And he started blogging about SNWeblogs and his new car! This blog is in Dutch. Click here to visit Rakki’s blog!

Paul was the second blogger. Paul already started a new (Sims) blog called River’s Hill. It’s a Dutch blog about the Sims in his neighborhood. But Paul was one of those people who really wanted a SNWeblog. And now he has one! Visit Paul here. His SNWeblog is in English, so our foreign visitors should be able to understand it

The third blogger of part 3 is Seth. Yup, my son. He started blogging too! :p Of course, we maintain his blog. He can’t even talk, let alone type. He will some day. He’s blogged in Dutch about his plush toy rattle called ‘Mr. Flower’. Clicky clicky for ‘Mr. Flower’, errr, Seth

The fourth and last blogger in part 3 is Tamara. Tamara isn’t exactly a team member, but she is an active member. And she’s been on SNW since 2004, which is quite some time! Tamara has blogged an introduction about her work as a volunteer at a veterinarian. She also blogged about her going to the hospital. This blog is also in Dutch. Do pay her a visit though!

Junior is also one I’d like to mention in this blog post. Junior started blogging in the summer of 2006, so he’s not new at all. But he has added a large (new) blogging section about ‘The Sims 2 FreeTime’ on this blog, all because of an event in Amsterdam in January! It is in Dutch, but I still think it may be worth the look. You can always take a look at the photos (especially his wall of fame!) Junior will try to (mo)blog more often about certain events in the future.

So basically everyone (except a few) have started blogging! That’s some good news! Let’s hope everyone can keep this up

As some of you may know, I run SNW. And with SNW, comes Simpedia. Simpedia is a big online Sims encyclopedia with articles, press releases, screenshots, cheats et cetera. It’s also a project that never really ends. Because it consists of the oldest Sims games and the newest Sims games. Also, EA won’t stop making Sims games! That’s okay, we don’t want them to stop or anything :p But it also means that we’ll always have something to add to Simpedia when new products are announced and released.

The reason I’m posting this, is because I’m currently working on Simpedia. Not only because a new expansion pack (Free Time) is being added. But I’m also designing a new Simpedia. Right now it’s very messy, it *needs* some good cleaning. I’m reorganizing the whole thing. And of course I’m adding loads of media. This takes up a lot of time. I figured it would be a good idea to share this information for those of you who are interested in SNW and what happens around it.

You can expect the new Simpedia somewhere at the end of January. Perhaps a little earlier, this kinda depends on factors like the amount of news I have to keep up with and, you know, my personal life. :p

In my previous blog post, I told you about Alex, who already started blogging. But more people have started to blog as well! Mogway and Mipas both introduced themselves on their blogs. My mom also blogged, well at least she tried. But she’s really new to all of this. So we can’t blame her for making a little mess of it sometimes :p She’ll learn more along the way And last, but not least, we have Hexer. He has already blogged on his SNWeblog!

Here are the addresses of their blogs:

Guinevere (Dutch), Hexer, Mipas (Dutch) and Mogway!

Now we just wait for the others to start blogging :p

I recently blogged about me being busy with the SNWeblogs. Well, they’re finally live! I will, when the team starts using the new blogs, update their old blog urls

For now, everyone has the same theme, personally customized here and there. In a while, I will make more themes for everyone using a SNWeblog. That will be somewhere around 10 themes. Until then, you can enjoy the SNWeblogs like they are now

Alex is the first to start his new blog. So I will hereby include his new blog url: http://alex.simsnetwerk.com Please do pay a visit to his blog! :p

Pssst, there’ll be new Junior downloads on SNW soon! :p

I started working for SNW again! This week the SNWeblogs will go live! For those of you who don’t know what on earth I’m talking about: SNWeblogs are blogs for the (team)members of SNW. Not everyone has a blog, but most of us do. The idea wasn’t new. I had this idea a few years ago. I planned to create a network where our team members, and a few steady members could blog. But I was usually too busy with all sorts of things or I was ill. I worked on the blogs in 2006 and 2007. I really wanted a special SNW theme for the blogs. I lacked time and inspiration though. And that was the main reason for putting things aside. But not anymore. The blogs will go live, even if I have to use a premade theme from another designer for a while. I will design a SNW WP theme when I have more time

The idea for these blogs is, that our team members can blog, without all kinds of restrictions. We’d also like to give our members the opportunity to get to know us better. Who knows, they might want to learn more about us, in a different environment than just Sims. Of course we love all of our Sims products, but talking about something different than Sims can be refreshing sometimes

Stay tuned for more SNWeblogs news!

The title of this blogpost might suggest the time period that SNW has been online (which is false, it’s been online since 2004) and that it’s closing down. But fortunately it’s not! No, that title is there because in 2006, the ‘looks’ and content changed drastically for SNW. I then also added Simpedia, where members could find everything there was to know about their games.

I’m currently working on SNW again. I’ve been occupied with many other things for the past 12 months and I just think it’s time to bring things back to life again. In the beginning of 2007 I designed a complete new website for SNW. It wasn’t finished completely, but if I had spent a few days more on it, it would have been done. Somehow, I was too busy with other things (being pregnant being one of them). And for some reason, I felt like the new layout was missing something. So I left it the way it was.

But now the time has come for me to create something new again. I won’t show you the all new SNW yet though. You’ll just have to wait for that to get published I can however show you what SNW looked like back in September 2005:

Not that bad, right? Well, I won’t be lying if I say that MANY people want this layout back. People used to be able to choose between all the ‘themes’ I created. For SNW, I created over 20 themes. I took all of them offline because of the new website (content wise), all the older layouts were outdated and couldn’t be used within the new website. Since the beginning of 2006, people haven’t been able to choose anything anymore. Almost every member was happy with the current SNW anyway (at least for a while).

The good news is -and I’ve always promised this to my loyal members- that I will be bringing the popular themes back. This silver edition was one of the favorites. So I’m currently creating a newer version that somewhat looks like the old one, but is still very different, new and refreshing. I’ve learned what’s most important for my members. And that is to keep the main navigation the same and therefore recognizable in each new theme. If members decide to stay offline for a longer period of time and come back eventually, they might not recognize the website because of its new looks. If they see something recognizable in each theme, they will know they’re visiting the right website.

I will show some screenshots soon when the new design is almost complete. I know my members are looking forward to it Besides the look of SNW, I’m also changing many other things within the website. But I won’t be telling what they are until it’s done :p

I recently got a new hairdo, but I haven’t made a photo of it just yet. And most of the people who visit my blog also know me well enough to know that I don’t like to have my picture taken :p so be patient, I will upload some photos soon.

I think I have an infected eye. It has been hurting for the past couple of days :yay: :grumpy: I might visit my doctor this week. Again.

I’m currently changing the international SNW. Maybe you’ve seen the Dutch SNW already? Well, that’s exactly how the international SNW will look, but it takes some effort to change everything into English and all. Oh well, it keeps me busy