The Back Story
I feel like I need to come up with a acronym when I talk about what I’m about to talk about, maybe we call it “Before the loss” BTL. When we moved from Texas to Colorado in the Summer of 2025 a series of things happened that caused us to lose all of our stuff an entire two bedroom plus office worth of furniture, electronics, memories, clothing, everything. Well, everything but the tiny little bit of stuff we fit into my MINI Clubman for the drive from Houston to Colorado Springs. I’m getting teary eyed thinking about it so I’m moving on.
During the BTL I lost my computer, external drives, recolor files, and creative stock illustrations (I had tried to back it all up but the OneDrive backups kept failing). I’m super lucky to that I had so many images on my website, Instagram, etc, and that almost all of the recolors I’d worked on had been published on CurseForge, MTS and SFS, and that my Sims screenshot folders on iCloud. I did lose my recolor of RVSNs Simmerdown Kitchen, my first CAS recolor that started my down the path, and the new meshes I’d been working on in Blender. All of that said, I’m missing saves and tray files from 25 years of The Sims and I don’t have words for how that feels.
My CC Recolor Screenshot Set
That brings us to this gallery and this rebuild project. Believe it or not, one of the hardest parts of sharing content is taking all the screenshots. Once I got my process down I was a little embarssed by the images I used to share my first few recolors – but everyone has to start somewhere and I am the WORST at relaxing into that truth.
Now that I’ve finally got a new gaming & creative PC I should be diving back in to The Sims, BUT – I was really happy with how I’d setup my little warehouse to take screenshots in and my brain refuses to start recoloring until it knows there’s a place to take those photos without stress.
Where Am I Going?
So… after some thought I realized it would be easiest if I could use my reference images as I rebuild. And, a swipeable gallery would be easiest and HERE WE ARE.
This gallery will be easily viewable on my iPad or iPhone and swipeable. Okay yes, there might seem to be easier ways but I’m in the middle of reorganizing my cloud content so that’s not an option. I’m also going to try to live stream some of the build on YouTube (I’m terrified but see my comments above about everyone starting somewhere). I’ll add a link to the video(s) when I’m done.
