The Modest Lady (Sherahbim's Lady gown edits)

Kicking off (or finishing up, depending on how you look at these entries) my back-from-hiatus posts is something I decided I wanted when I started playing with Sherahbim's textures.

I really, really like Sherahbim's Lady gown. The textures are awesome, it's spiral-laced, the neckline lends itself well to either winterwear or drapey headcoverings, but it was only available in a dark red and the heavy trim at the cuffs and hem was a little daunting.

So I cut off the trim and fought with saturation and lightness and contrast until I had something I could run through various color actions. Then I did it for teens (who are not pictured because I forgot). And now you can have seventy-two recolors if you, like me, feel a need for simple High Middle Ages gowns in far too many colors.


( 'It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.' --Ninon de Lenclos )

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In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.

And... Back.

Okay, so that took a lot longer than the few weeks I thought it would, but I've been in Lurker Mode for a long time. Lots has happened out in, you know, non-internet reality (including a kitchen remodel that Mom and I have been wanting for ten years, guys, do not remodel your kitchen if you aren't absolutely positive you have other places to put all the stuff that goes into your kitchen for at least a month, and also plenty of food that can just go straight from the fridge to your mouth), but this is a Simming blog and you guys deserve Simming posts. And boy oh boy, do I have Simming posts for you. I didn't actually stop CREATING while I was on hiatus, I just sort of stopped keeping up with... lots and lots of things. And in the last week or two, I finally started posting them-- I just decided to keep the posts private until I'd uploaded everything I had ready to go. If you don't want to scroll through my DW, you can just click these handy dandy links:

1. Hair Dump X Part One: The Franchise Reboot, Part Two: Hair Dump From the Black-And-Blue Lagoon, and Part Three: Nobody Expects the HAT Dump!
2. Sign of the Plumb Bob (Nichellerj's Plumb Bob Necklace with way too many recolors)
3. I Feel The Earth Move (selected Yuxi Oblivion, Druid Wow, and Kativip MS and LS floors as terrain paints)
4. The King Is In His Counting-House (Non-depreciating face-value coins on Worship4ever meshes)
5. Du Lac Cotehardies and Tunics (TF-EF recolors of Cynnix's Laced-Sleeve Gown and TM-EF recolors of Cynnix and Oph3lia's edits of Aligeth's Robin Hood Tunic)
6. Never Enough Thatch (Bon Voyage Thatched Roofs in select Project Mayhem and Any Color You Like actions)
7. Through A Glass Darkly (Medieval leaded recolors of Mustluvcats's Privacy Film)
8. Hangerock (twelve very simple Viking apron dresses on a Trapping mesh)
9. Invoking the Spirit (Bonehilda-as-Spectral-Assistant defaults (with faechangeling), Bonehilda outfits, and K8's Fairy Witch gown EA'd)
10. Le Chausseur, la Deuxième Partie (Chausses and braises for Aquilegia's Androgyny, Aquilegia's Improved Fatmorph, FantasyRogue's bottom-only chausses, and Cynnix's age conversions of FR's bottom-only chausses.)
11. Bonne Nuit (A dozen chemises with ZoeJ textures)
12. The Modest Lady (Sherahbim's Lady gown simplified a bit)

So there's that.

I will also still be in lurker mode for a while in terms of the general Simming community-- I do love and I have missed the social aspect of Sims 2, but it's actually pretty daunting to say 'today I will start keeping up with everything!' I will be trying to keep up with comments and private messages here a lot better, and I still have a lot left on my to-do list, so it should be a lot easier to get in touch with me. (I do not promise prompt replies, but I promise I will reply. Unless I can't tell you from spammers. There've been a LOT of spambots on my DW lately. Some of them have actually said quite complimentary things, even if they are halfway to incomprehensible.)

Like an idiot, of course, I decided to post this on a day when I'm planning to run errands, but I'm out of ready-to-upload content and I don't want to make you guys wait any longer.

I'm also looking for someone to help me with object creation-- recolorability and indoor shadows in particular. I think I've almost got that buyable-toybox-toys project licked, but the indoor shadows are giving me fits and I'd hate for folks to have to clone a new toy every time the world needs a recolored rocket ship.