Moderator Spotlight - February: Jillyson

Mica: Hey hey boys and girls and welcome back to another edition of the Moderator Spotlight!

Daijah: This month we’re roasting someone everyone knows so without further ado, here’s Jilly!

Mica: Uh…Jill?

Paula: We’re coming!

Jill: No we’re not! I know how these things go and there’s always something bad waiting on the other side of those doors, remember our October Rebel?

Mica: That was a special circumstance and DJ’s love of horror. You’re safe plus YOU’RE the one that suggested the Mardi Gras theme.

Jill: Ah so that’s what it is then? You’re gonna make me flash someone aren’t you?

Daijah: Well you are a drinker aren’t you? *giggles*

Mica: You’re wearing a dress, I think that would be a little more than a “flash”. You should be happy, this is like the first time you’ve ever had a full outfit before!

Nancy: I don’t think that she cares about that.

Daijah: Tell her about the free drinks and the naked men in the other room.

Jill: Naked? Pass me the bottle and get out of the way!

Nancy: Well that certainly did the trick!

Paula: Good because we have a fun day planned for you Jilly!

Jill: This looks like pool and fully clothed women. Where are the men? This is a set up!

Daijah:  No set up but you know how this works. We have some questions for you and if we give you the drinks and men first well all is lost for the day.

Jill:  Fine but make it quick! I have some partying to do.

Mica: Ok well I’ll start off with a question sent in by Ivory. She couldn’t make it today sadly. Rain or fire or both, either way crazy weather in the land down under prevented her from making the trip. She did want to know if you could have three wishes, what would you wish for? Excluding the usual angelic 'world peace' wishes, these wishes are just for you.

Jill: Aw, Man! I was totally going for World Peace!...Ok, well, one would be a job, or to have enough money that I wouldn’t need one! (Does that count as one? Screw it! I’m counting it!) Next, to have a fully paid-off house, and finally, to throw a huge party and be able to fly everyone in for it!

Paula: Nice wishes. Where is a genie when you need one? Ok I have one for you since we are both pug lovers. Are pugs the best dogs ever?

Jill:  Hands down, the best dogs ever. I could go on and on about why I feel that way but I won’t bog you all down with that today.

Paula:  Have you ever had a black pug, do you intend to get one?

Jill:  Yes, I have always wanted one of each, and if I didn’t have 3 cats, I would absolutely have a little black pug – a boy this time.

Nancy:  How does it feel to be a published author?

Jill:  It feels great, but I think it would feel much better to have a publishing house behind me.

Daijah:  Was it easy getting published? OR How much work went into your first publication?

Jill:  Well, it was easy for ME, because someone else did all the work! Ha ha! I did the editing on a few of the stories in addition to my own, but another member of the writing group I belong to really handled the whole thing – cover, uploading, formatting, setting up the paperback publishing as well as the e-book, all of it. Now that I have a nearly ready manuscript that’s all me, I want to lean heavily on him, but he’s demanding that I buck up and learn it myself.

Nancy:  Do you have any advice for the writers here hoping to have their work published?

Jill:  Yes! Find a writer’s group in your area. Look at local or community colleges, libraries, book stores, anywhere writers might gather. If you can’t find one, start one. The help I’ve gotten is invaluable. The critiques, editing, real-time feedback, all of it is SO vital. Plus, you’d be shocked to see the errors spell-check doesn’t catch when you read something out loud. Our community college has a Writer’s Conference twice a year. At those events, they have seminars on how to contact editors, agents, publishers…the whole nine yards. I really believe you aren’t ready to be published until you’ve done these two things. Join a group to hone your writing, then go to a conference.

Daijah:  Speaking of being published how is your novel progressing?

Jill:  Sadly, not at all. I was really motivated while I was working, but the longer I was out of work, the more I kind of lost my muse. I’m four chapters in, and found that because it starts when the heroine is a child, that it was sounding like a YA novel, and that’s entirely the wrong tone. I have a giant binder filled with notes and research, but I think the worry about money & not having a job just finally overtook my creativity. So it sits there staring at me every day, waiting for me to get a job and go back to work, where I will ironically wish I had more time to write! I DO have a nearly finished manuscript of short stories that just needs some final edits, so I was glad I was able to accomplish something on all this time at home.

Mica:  Have you been able to finish collecting up your short stories for your next book?

Jill:  Yes, they’re all finished except two that I mentioned the ending issues with earlier and the last one, which is undergoing a massive rewrite. It’s a great premise, but I took it in a wrong direction. The guts of it will be the same, but I’ve given it a new beginning and it will have a new end. I have the rest of them emailed out to friends who do some free editing for me, but I think they’re kind of sick of looking at my things. I can always use more proofreaders, so if you want to help a Rebel out, just let me know!

Mica:  I would love to if only I could spell. Thank goodness for spell check or you all would read some terrible stuff from me.

Nancy:  That makes two of us. So Jill how did you start your writing?

Jill:  I’ve always told stories in my head since I was a child. I can remember being 3 or 4 and giving Lon Chaney Jr’s Wolfman a backstory in my head. (yeah, the black and white one!) It wasn’t until grade school – maybe 6th or 7th grade that I started writing things down, but I was in high school before I ever got brave enough to show people what I’d written. I had a whole notebook FILLED with horribly mushy love poems (which I showed NO ONE!), and someone stole it! I was horrified! Months later, I found a note in my locker that just said. “I love your poems and I’m not giving them back.” No idea who it was, but I never did get them back.

Paula:  That’s terrible that they never gave them back. 

Jill:  Yeah well it sucked but at least they enjoyed them.

Paula:  Do you do any research for your stories?

Jill:  I’m a bit of a research junkie, and I do WAY more research than I need to. I keep pages and pages of notes on a unique topic from a story, and I almost never have to refer back to them because it’s just overload. No one wants to read 3 pages of how a certain formula is mixed – they want to know what happens when you drink it. It’s always a fine line between interesting info and overkill. Sometimes I think I enjoy the research more than the story!

Daijah:  I can relate to the overkill part. I often worry about that in my own writings. I think getting the little details correct make all the difference and enjoy the research as well. How long does it take you to outline a story idea?

Jill:  That depends on the story and where the inspiration came from. If it’s something that was gifted to me on a mental silver platter, it moves really quickly – a day or two. If it’s something like “Clockwork”, it’s something that I spend a long time turning over in my head, then plotting on paper could take up to a month or more.

Mica:  Speaking of Clockwork, what was the inspiration behind “A Clockwork Heart”?

Jill:  I’d been reading lots of Steampunk stories at the time, and one struck me as particularly deep. In ‘Steampunk II: Steampunk Reloaded”, there’s a short story called “The Steam Dancer, 1896” by Caitlin R. Kiernan. A saloon/cabaret dancer was found wasting away of disease, and had the rotten/infected parts on her body replaced with mechanical appendages. A man who loved and cared for her would take her parts in regularly for upkeep. Between “Steampunk” and “Steampunk II”, I’d already started percolating some ideas, but that was the story that pushed me over the edge.

Mica:  I had and have no clue about steampunk outside of your story. I’m still hoping it will make a comeback!

Jill:  I know I know. But the hood is all messed up. My jump drives are missing.

 Mica:  Well knowing the amount of trouble the game causes you, would you ever try a short pictureless story?

Jill:  If there was a market for that, I’d FLOOD you guys with pictureless sim stories! You’d all be taking restraining orders out on me! Lol! I just don’t think there’s a really big interest in that. I have about a thousand or so in my head – my favorite involving Ruby from the Halloween collab. She has an awesome story in my head, but the pictures…the pictures!

Paula:  Ah Ruby, the short bit we got to see of her in that was nice. She sounded like she has an interesting back story that needs to be told. So it would be a safe guess as to what you find most difficult about writing Sims stories is the picture taking.

Jill:  YES! Pictures, pictures, pictures! If I could pay someone to take pictures for me, you guys would be FLOODED with stories from me! You’re seeing “Legend on the Mountain” because you are AWESOME enough to take those shots! We collaborated on “simifying” a short story I’d written, agreeing on direction and finer points. And bless your heart, you took it from there!

Daijah: Well thank you Paula for helping bring that story to life. You said it was a short story you had already written, what was the idea behind Legend on the Mountain?

Jill: I have no idea. That one just popped into my head, and I wrote a story. When I looked at what I wrote, I instantly saw that it would be so much better if I changed one major thing, so I did. When the SN expansion came out, the ability to illustrate it became possible, and the idea of a sim story kept tapping me on the shoulder. Then Paula mentioned collaborating, so I sent her the story to see if she thought it would work, and the rest is history!

Daijah:  How does the western setup work with the story's mystery element?

Jill:  I think it’s really helpful in that you have that feeling of isolation. In that era, there’s no cell phones or cars. You can’t just ask for help or go get something you need. Letters or riders could take days to arrive, if they arrive at all. You’re kind of left to your own defenses. I think that feeling of alone-ness is a wonderful element for mystery, suspense, and my personal favorites, dread and fear.

Daijah:  Does the Supernatural EP play into Legend on the Mountain at some point? Werewolves, Zombies, Witches etc.

Jill:  Yes, it absolutely does! It would’ve been possible without it, but it would’ve required lots of cc. Now, not so much!

Daijah:  You've done a great job thus far creating the mystery surrounding that mountain top, are there any hints or clues you can give us about what's up there?

Jill:  Actually, - and I think we’ve all had this happen – where you write something you think is SO unique, and along comes something famous and blows your little quirk right out of the water. There’s a VERY similar idea out there right now, and I’m a little pouty about it! Lol! I SWEAR, I wrote it first! But that’s all the hint you get, because I believe the next chapter or two is going to answer those questions for you!

Mica:  More mystery to keep us on our toes, looking forward to finding out what’s going on up on that mountain. Well I don’t know about you ladies, but I’m getting a bit thirsty.

Jill: Thank goodness. I suck at pool and wasn’t sure how much more I could take.

Daijah:  Well ladies off to the bar in that case.

Mica:  Cheers.

Jill:  Cheers to you as well. I take it I’m not done just yet.

Mica: Not quite but soon. We promise you will get naked men tonight, just be patient. Now next question. If you could run off with one famous person who would it be?

Jill:  Can it be dead or alive? If I can pick from that field, it would be Vincent Price. When I was a little girl, I wanted to grow up and marry him. Alive…probably Johnny Depp or Tim Burton.

Daijah:  Tim Burton? Do I even want to know why?

Jill:  What? Isn’t he every woman’s fantasy man?

Daijah:  It’s your party Jill so yeah if you say so.

Jill:  I do so...hey bartender filler up again please.

Paula: Do you ever start a story and then think otherwise?

Jill:  Ha ha! All the time! With sim stories, you’re putting things out there that haven’t actually been finished yet. So I have something all plotted out, get to chapter 10, and think, ‘Man, I wish I would’ve told this from so-and-so’s POV instead!” Sometimes in the process of writing, a minor character turns out to be much more interesting than you planned them to be. But you have to be true to what you’ve already published, so you adjust what you can, but continue down that original path. With a text story (at least in my case) I can rewrite the whole thing a million times if I want to before putting the final product out there.

Mica:  I can totally relate to that. Wishing you could take it back and change things. Sucks when you can’t.

Jill:  Yes, yes it does but that is the down side to writing in a forum such as this.

Daijah: Very true, but we live and learn and are mostly forgiving when things change along the way. Do you have plans to finish your Pinn story?

Jill:  Oh my plumbob! I forgot about Pinn! I really liked the premise and felt there’s a lot of potential there, but I wrote that around the time my old pc started doing Very Bad Things. My main concern was saving as much of Clockwork as I could and poor Pinn and company got pushed to the wayside. For now, I don’t see that happening, but never say never…

Daijah:  Well if you can get your computer issues straighten out you can always do a retake like I am.

Jill:  That is an option. I just need to win the lottery so I can buy a new system and not have to worry about the issues as much.

Paula:  Yes, don’t we all!

Nancy: What is your favorite story on RWN?

Jill:  No fair! You can’t ask me that – someone will feel bad! I love all the stories that I’ve read so far, and there’s some I still haven’t gotten to yet. Each one has something awesome that I love about it. There’s a few stand outs for me, based on my own personal bent, but I feel like mentioning them would make someone feel that I didn’t enjoy theirs just as much. So nope. Not telling!

Nancy:  Ok fair enough. Here’s an easier one. Who is your favorite author and book series?

Jill:  That’s tough because I have A LOT of favorites! The standard, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Dean Koontz…and their respective series, The Darktower Series, the Taltos series (and Vampire series) and the Odd Thomas series. My current favorites are probably Kelly Armstrong – the Otherworld series and her series about a female hitman. I Love, love, love everything she writes! And also Joe Hill, who if you didn’t know, is Stephen King’s son. I’ve read the LA Banks werewolf/angel/demon series, The Brian Lumley Vampire series…the Dexter books by Jeff Lindsay, so, so many! Kind of sorry you asked now, huh?

Nancy:  Hahaha nope not at all.

Paula:  Well since we are talking books, what is your favorite type of genre for books?

Jill:  Oh, horror, hands down. I do read a bit of everything, but there’s nothing like a great scare!

Paula:  So what book are you reading now?

Jill:  I’ve got 3 of them going right now. I’m reading the second Richard Castle book, “Naked Heat”, a book of Fairy Tales redone called “Snow White, Blood Red”, and a book of short horror stories called “Poe’s Children”

Daijah:  The Castle books, I thought that was just a TV show thing. Interesting. Hey earlier you mentioned a writing group, how many writers are in your group?

Jill:  We have 6 active members right now. There’s 3 more, but they live really far away, and I don’t know if they’ll be coming anymore.

Daijah: Do you find that your stories are different in genre and plot over theirs?

Jill: Absolutely. As it turns out, there’s only one writer of each genre in our current group! I’m the horror writer, and we have a children’s writer, a comic book writer, a nostalgic old-time story writer, (when I was a little girl in the 40’s type stuff) a historical romance writer, and a poet. She writes dark, twisted dirges, and I could just eat her up with a spoon! We’ve also had bloggers, erotica, and sci-fi writers. It’s a real treat to go once a month and hear what everyone has brought!

Mica: That does sound like fun. Is it easier for you to get your words to flow when you're in group or do you work best alone?

Jill: I get lots of great ideas from the group, and I’m definitely feeling very creative when I leave to go home. I often find I do most of my writing after a meeting, but as far as actually doing the writing, I like to be alone. When my hubby was working longer hours, I got a lot more done, but now that he’s more 8 to 5, not so much! He really can’t stand to see me sitting there at the desk and not paying attention to him! Lol!

Nancy: Do you like writing different genres?

Jill: That’s a tough question. I like writing certain genres, but I suspect the ones I WANT to write aren’t the ones I’m best at. I’ve written some really well received romance stories, but I don’t LIKE to write romance per se. I would LOVE to be known as a horror writer, but I don’t think I’m as good at it as I’d like to be. I have a comfort zone, and I try to take myself out of it every now and then. Sometimes I’m pleasantly surprised, and sometimes…well, let’s call it NOT so pleasant! Lol!

Mica: Haha, yeah I can understand that. You do a good job trying to read everyone’s story on RWN. Is there anything you absolutely refused to read? Meaning the genre or subject matter of the story.

Jill:  I’m really open to all genres. Spy books are really something I never bothered with, but that’s about it. Clive Cussler is a terrible writer in my opinion – it’s possible he ruined the genre for me! The story may have been great, but I couldn’t read his horrible writing for one more minute. There’s only a handful of books I didn’t really get into. I think Discworld was one of them. I can’t remember the first book in the series – it’s by Terry Pratchett. There was a lot of changing of POV and very similar names for the characters, and it got hard for me to follow. The only book I recently hated was 50 Shades of Gray. I finish even really terrible books, because once I’ve invested the time, I need to know how it ends. I wish I could delete that one from my mind. SO poorly written, so CLEARLY a Twilight copy. Someone was paid to edit that book, and they should be shot. There’s really good porn out there; don’t waste your time or money on this mess.

Daijah:  Speaking of porn....

Jill:  YES!!!! NAKED MEN FINALLY!!!!!

Paula:  Oh my...when you said naked, you meant NAKED.

Mica:  Yes, DJ was in charge of planning this party so we all know what that means.

Daijah:  Hey I don’t hear anyone complaining.

Jill:  Nope, no complaints here.  Shake it baby!

Nancy:  Now I know why we rented out the whole place.

Daijah:  Yep! Enjoy ladies, enjoy.

Paula:  Jill? Psst, Jill

Jill:  Huh? Can’t you see I’m busy.

Paula:  Yeah and you might want to wipe the drool off your chin. 

Jill:  Oh thanks.

Paula:  While I briefly have your attention, if you could visit any Sims 3 world which would it be? And why?

Jill:  Easy! Moonlight Falls! I would totally be a witch and find myself a hairy werewolf boyfriend!

Mica:  Good job getting her attention Paula, I thought we’d lost her for sure.

Jill:  Almost. That one in the glass over there is looking very tasty. 

Mica: Well I better make this quick before you go jump in. If you could live anywhere, where would it be?

Jill:  I’ve always said Hawaii. That has been a dream of mine for, well, forever. But with the odd things happening with the crazy weather in the past few years, I don’t know if that’s such a good idea to be out there in the middle of the ocean. So my next pick would be Georgia. I love the history of Savannah, but there’s many beautiful areas there I’d love to settle in.

Daijah:  Georgia, that’s Meek’s neck of the woods. I am a bit of a CC junkie, how often do you download CC?

Jill:  Ugh. I don’t do it often, but if someone uses something that catches my eye, I’ll ask where they got it. Then I go to that site, and black out. When I wake up, I have a whole desktop filled with downloads and no memory of how they got there! Now if you ladies will excuse me for just a minute, I think that hunk in the glass is calling my name.

Paula: Remember you are a married woman Jilly.

Jill: Hmm? Sorry you ask me something?

Mica: I’m beginning to wonder what’s in that glass.

Daijah: I think Jill’s already ahead of you Meeks. That gives a whole new meaning to ‘you look so good I could drink your bath water!’

Nancy: Should we stop her then? If there’s something in the water she may never want to leave!

Paula: Well it is sort of her birthday present right? Let’s see how far she goes before she needs to be stopped!

Daijah: Plus we could get some nice blackmail shots for later if all else fails!

Mystery man:  Would you like a drink.

Jill:  Only if you come with it.

Mystery man:  That can be arranged.

Nancy:  Hey guys someone might want to go get Jill, I think she’s climbing in with that guy.

Daijah & Mica:  Jill NO!!!

Jill:  ***looks innocently*** What?

Paula: Maybe it’s time to get some food in her system to combat those drinks.

Jill:  But...I wanted to go for a swim.

Daijah:  Not right now, you get in that glass and we will never finish.

Jill:  **Pouting** fine!

Paula:  Man this is spicy, I think the server’s taste buds must be broken. He said it was mild.

Nancy:  Mine isn’t that bad. Jill are any of your children writers as well?

Jill:  My son actually wrote a stick figure comic book that’s very darkly humorous. I’m probably a little biased, but I’d call it kind of brilliant! He definitely inherited my dark humor and taste for the macabre.

Nancy:  That’s cool that you two share an interest and similar tastes.

Daijah:  Seeing that many of your stories are set in the horror genre, do you find inspiration for these from movies, news or other media or are the ideas just spur of the moment?

Jill:  Ideas are everywhere. They’re in people I meet, on TV shows or movies, books – even just one word. A friend of mine who travels on business mentioned an item he saw at a sales convention that was called “The Housewife’s Chainsaw.” Hello? Instant Story! There’s sounds you hear through the apartment walls, things I see when walking my dog in the park, really, they’re everywhere, even in my dreams! The story I think is my best, “Equestrians of Mount Megiddo” came to me in a dream. Plus, I got to do research in the Book of Revelations…always an awesome playground to run around in!

Nancy:  So basically your mind turns everything into a possible story.

Jill:  Yeah I guess so. You can’t really control when the creative light bulb goes off.

Nancy: How much time a day do you spend working on your stories?

Jill:  Not nearly enough. When the bug gets me, I’ll spend all day pounding on the keys, but when I’m in an in-between place, I kind of get lazy and ignore it. When I was working, I think I actually spent more time writing than I do now! (at least a steadier pace) but I do spend the time I’m not writing kind of working out places that I’m struggling with in my head.

Daijah:  It’s a cycle all of us writers understand. Are there any stories in the future you'll write and share with us?

Jill:  You know, I feel really bad about that. I have enough short stories written to fill a manuscript, but I always feel like they’re too long to post here. Who wants to look at a giant wall of words on their pc? It’s one thing to sit down with a book, but it’s another to look at a computer screen that’s nothing but words. If you guys really want to see them, I’ll try and put some of the shorter ones up.

As far as Sim stories, my dh has been piecing together some upgrades to my old pc, and I’ll eventually have to move my sims over there – this one may not hold another EP. I think I need to just take that giant step back into the world of taking those pics, because I have a few Sim stories I’d love to tell. I just hate to get so invested in it, then have my pc, a virus, an EA glitch, etc destroy what I’ve worked so hard on. Lettie Mae is tapping me on the shoulder, and her story has been with me for years. People responded well to her section on the Passengers collab, so maybe she’ll get some more time in the spotlight.

Mica:  We would love to see Lettie have more time. She has a very intriguing back story and her journey is clearly just beginning. I’m curious to know what is the most difficult story/scene you have ever written?

Jill:  Wow. That’s a great question. Let me see…There’s difficult as in I just can’t seem to get it right, and difficult as in the death of a main character. I probably struggled with both of those in Clockwork the most. Since the Steampunk genre is new to me, I found myself falling into familiar writing patterns and forgetting to include Steampunk elements. (Note my infamous rewrite of chapter one!) As for the death of a main character, I have one written, but it hasn’t been published yet. It’s someone I actually had bigger plans for, but in the scheme of things, it worked out better for the story if this person died, so I went that way. If all the Good Guys win in the end, it doesn’t feel very true. So a sacrifice was made. (And I still hope to finish that story, so I’m not telling!) The only other struggle that comes to mind is an ending - that one is in my text only stories. I have two where a similar ending works best for both, but I can really only use that ending once. So I’m still struggling with choosing between them.

Nancy:  Well hopefully you’ll get it figured out. What’s your favorite and least favorite EP?

Jill:  Wow…I’d say my all time favorites were probably Sims 1, Makin Magic and Vacation. I love SN, but I miss the amusement park from MM. And the vacations from Vacation to me were the best. WA is pretty awesome, too. Least fav…Hmmm. Superstar, Pets…OFB…probably one of those. I have to work for a living. I don’t want to spend all my free time running a sim business! (Same reason none of my sim homes have a laundry room!) Lol!

Paula:  Why did you start playing Sims?

Jill:  I don’t remember what made me buy that first Sims game. I think I was looking for something the whole family could play. We’d had console games forever, so we were pretty new to pc gaming at that time. It didn’t take long to become obsessed!

Daijah:  How quickly this game can become an obsession. Speaking of obsessions, how did your fascination with graveyards develop?

Jill:  Always, ever since I could remember, I was drawn to them. My mom would take us when we were little to visit relative’s graves that I hadn’t met, and while she paid her respects, I wanted to check out the stones with the giant markers or the mausoleums. I would read the names and years, or even sit down under the giant angels and put my hand on the marker. Needless to say, this did not thrill my mother. When I was a teen and finally old enough to go on my own, no one was happier than me, except maybe her! I would just love to sit and write there; feel the history and the peace. There’s just nowhere like it!

Daijah:  Interesting. I never looked at a graveyard in that light, but I guess I can understand the quiet and peace part since it’s not a place people typically hang out.

Jill:  Exactly.

Mica:  What is your most favorite possession?

Jill:  Wow…I used to be a bit of a collector, so maybe my Phantom of the Opera and Beauty and the Beast collection. I have them in my grandmother’s old half-round curio cabinet, so the whole thing in one bundle, the cabinet, and both collections, would probably qualify. Honestly, I think it’s really my pug Stella!

Mica:  Since you mentioned collections, how many dolls do you have in your 'Living Dead' collection?

Jill: How did you know about them? Did I talk about them before? I loves them. I only have a handful. I really want Beauty and the Beast, and once I’m employed again, they will be my next purchases. I have three official Living Dead dolls, plus some others that are similar.

Mica:  Yes you and Kate I think talked about them on the forum before. You posted some pictures and things like that. What made you start collecting such creepy looking dolls in the first place?

Jill:  When I was little, Barbie didn’t fall for Ken. She fell for my Universal Monsters collection! Ken would die tragically at the hands of Dracula or Frankenstein, who would then carry Barbie off into the sunset. I kid you not. So to answer your question…brain damage?

Mica:  What’s the oldest doll in your collection?

Jill:  Her name is Emerald the Enchanted Witch. She has green hair and purple skin and green alien eyes that flash when her batteries are in. She was created by the Milton Bradley Company, and has a whole slew of outfits you could buy, each one coming with a magic trick. She had a little evil castle dollhouse. I had every single piece, but my older sister threw everything in the trash that I had saved at my mother’s house after I got married. They didn’t sell very well, and Milton Bradley dumped all the remaining stock in a landfill in New York in the 70’s. She was my favorite doll – here’s a pic! Isn’t she awesome?

Daijah:  Well Jill that is the last of your questions.

Jill:  Really?  Are the dancers still here?

Mica:  Yeah I think they are on break.

Jill:  YES!!! Ok ladies thank you so much for this great day. I had a blast hanging out with you all. And thanks DJ, the one time I wouldn’t mind being half dressed you have me fully clothed!  Isn’t that ironic.

Daijah:  Well I do aim to please hahaha. Well Rebels that’s all for now until next month.

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Jill's gifts: Sims Briar Vinetree and Maddox Gould, eleganza drapes, and ultra lounge ceiling lights