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Stupid eyebrows!
So I was sitting here one day, playing my game, when I realized that none of my custom hair matched their eyebrows. It drove me nuts, so I decided that I was going to create custom eyebrows that match every custom hair I make. They may not come out right away, but I will definitely do them. Normal colors, weird colors, everything! :D Hopefully other people like this idea, let me know if you do or don't!An apology
I owe all of you an apology. Since the fall, I haven't been nearly as active as I'd like to be. For a number of reasons, my time to build and create has just vanished as of late, and I can't say I know when I'll be able to create on a consistent basis. The holidays are really eating at my schedule right now, so I hope I can be pardoned for my hiatus from now until the New Year. The rest of the time, I can't do anything about. Even after the New Year, I may not have as much free time as I'd like. It will opened up, hopefully to allow for some time.In happier news, I'm actually going to buy a new PC, that I've so longed talked about. That is being put in motion after the New Year to get ready for TS3!!!! I'm very excited about this game, and I'll be dying to play it. That may be one reason for my hiatus, anxiety towards TS3. But, I know that I won't be able to stay away from building on TS3, so fear not that Daman is gone for good. If things don't open up before TS3, they certainly will after its released. (I'll MAKE things open up!!)
Happy holidays to all, and best wishes for the New Year!
D'oh!
So yesterday I had problems uploading the sets I had made. They're submitted now, and there's even a master set! Yay! I feel better now. The Holidays always make me feel nostalgic, and while we've been decorating the apartment and shopping for Christmas we've been doing our traditional little things like listening to carols and drinking hot cocoa/tea and reminiscing about past Christmases. This year I have to work Christmas Day, and though I'll miss my family on that day I will get to spend it with friends from work that in two months I may never see again. Our centre is closing in February, we just found out, and though I know many I'll keep in touch with there will be some who won't reply or be able to keep in touch.How do you celebrate the Holidays?
And The Knee-Bone's Connected To The Thigh-Bone...
I've been asked a couple of times to explain to people how the items in my Victorian build sets cross-link with each other. Ie, what ones you have to have (or make sure your downloaders know to get) so you don't end up with flashing-blue objects in your lots.So here's the list of what is stand-alones, and what is connected:
Stand-Alone
- fences (requires any EP)
- modular stairs (which have special installation requirements)
- circular stairs (requires Apartment Life)
- gate
- column
Dependencies
- all windows and doors get their wood texture from a base game window, but require the Standard Straight window mesh for the stained glass textures
- all doors require the straight glass door with transom for their door handle texture
- the offset column and all window boxes need the regular column master mesh for their wood textures
- all window boxes get their soil texture from the 1-tile oleander straight window box
Hope that helps some of you solve any problems you're experiencing in using or recolouring these! I'll update this post whenever I add more objects to the set.
New projects pending approval
So i have been a little busy .. yes with life but also with creating. Because it is so frigid here in Southwestern Ontario, Canada right now i have little else to do at night except recolor and build lots :)So here is a list of some new stuff:
1. Twilight movie bedroom set.. consists of 2 posters and bedding
2. Outdoor furniture recolor set ( i hated the light wood/ whitish outdoor chairs etc ) so i made a very white set.
3. 3 new lots
4. White vinyl shower recolors with plain colored curtains ( 10 of 'em so far)
5. Single blind recolors.. the blind colors in the game are so lame .. they never match anything really ..so i made 9 VIBRANT recolors
PLUS a load of other recolors that are published and coming out this week!
Hope you all enjoy these and please give me feedback .. i always appreciate that!
Seasons Greetings!
Hi everyone, Just wanting to say Happy Holidays / Merry Christmas to all. :)New Stuff Soon...
Yes, I know it has been awhile. I've been very busy with school, so I have not created anything new since September. However, by the end of the week, I should have a brand new set submitted (I won't tell what it is yet). However, it won't be until at least Wednesday, after my last Final Exam, so this is just a heads up. I've had the chance over the weekend to make a couple of meshes, and I hope you will all enjoy them :)That's it for now!
Happy simming!
~simmyfan2852~
Hair?
Yep, I've recolored some hair. I have a set of five coming out soon.
They aren't perfect by any means - I'm new at this whole thing - but thanks to the unending patience of MsBarrows, I have four colors I'm reasonably happy with.
Four? But wait, there are five??? Yep, the fifth one, the Barak Blue that is the one in the set preview, was done for me by MsBarrows. Barak de la Sangre, the oldest sim in my legacy (he's from generation 2...I'm on Generation 12) has had blue hair since the beginning, and I wanted a better blue. I adore the K&B Gel Rock mesh, so MsB kindly obliged by recoloring the texture...but she made me assemble it into a package. She went on about how it's 5 minutes work to do the recolor....so I decided to try it.
Two months later, I have four colors. (Yeah, it's 5 minutes work if you know what you're doing!) With the exception of the "Blimey" color, the point of these is to be obviously a dye job (although some of these will work well on alien/fantasy sims) but not glaringly bright...and actually even the Blimey color isn't as bright as some I've seen. :)
They're binned custom, because...well, there isn't really a green, purple, or blue bin, now is there? They're adult/YA/Elder only, I've removed the other ages as the original mesh just has the short 'fro for those. (Thank you, Windkeeper, for the tutorial on that!)
Anyway, hopefully someone will find some use for them. :)
Finally!
Well, those four days off turned into covering shifts for others for two days, and then two days of running around helping my mom shop for Christmas and doing some of my own shopping. Then back to work. But I took today off, have tomorrow off, and will go back Wednesday. I spent the morning making some festive walls and floors that I hope you'll like! This amongst the cleaning and washing and decorating I'm doing. LOL There are three sets that are all part of a master set. Let me know if you like them or not!Preview, Regency RED Collection
Happy Holidays! I've posted a few screenies of my next set release, Regency RED Collection. The set is a recolor of fabric textures, from the Regency Dining Collection. Additionally, two new meshes are included with the set and maybe, a couple more new meshes, if I have the time. Take Care and Happy Holidays, Carolyn
New Poll and recolor
I added a new poll and will be uploading a Hallway recolor from Shakeshaft this week. So stay tuned.
A voice from the grave...
That's about how I feel, like something dead revived. I won't bore you with details, but 2008 has been a long rough year for me. I have come to discover that many things that used to annoy me are now counted as less than nothing when held up and measured against the real world. You see things very different after you spend any amount of time staring at your pulse on a heart monitor wondering if these will be your last moments on Earth. All the crap sort of peels away and you see what really matters. I finally realised that the Internet is the paramount venue for drama creation and propagation and that there is no way to fight it without being dragged on to the stage as a principal player. Something I candidly never wanted and am more than a little disgusted I didn't realise it until far too late. So I have started listening to my cat. She gives great advice, as cats often do. She sees the world in a very clear and concise way, it's all about her, which is only right, since she is the centre of the universe as far as she knows. Maybe I will make more things for The Sims 2, maybe I won't. But for the first time in many years I finally remember why I did all this in the first place. I did it to have fun. That's what I aim to do with the time I have: Have fun. Something I haven't been able to do for longer than I care to remember. So consider me retired from the thespian craft; my interests lie elsewhere, as they always did. Drama, like worry, benefits no one, achieves nothing, and is a paramount waste of everyone's time.
Serious Case of Insomnia
...'tis true. I am struggling with insomnia lately, especially tonight. It's 3:15am and I am still awake. I just get so frustrated when I go lay down in bed to go to sleep and I'm not the least bit tired.On a lighter note, I have an Andretti Update awaiting approval, as well as two new sets coming soon (Wednesday 12-17).
I am working on another recolor of Jope's Bedroom 8, a truly fun mesh. I'm going to start doing more sets with different textures other than the Texture Challenge textures. Not that they are bad...but, it seems that that all I'm putting out is Texture Challenge Sets.
Anywho...see you around, perhaps I'll go try and get some sleep...
Tin Can Alley
Hello! I'm so sorry not to have been around much and thank you so much for the wonderful messages of support you have left for me - can't tell you how much they mean to someone like me who lurks unnoticeably behind piles of rusted metal.
I'm popping back briefly with a new lot - my first-ever winter lot too! Normally, when icy weather hits Britain, I can't think of anything more appropriate than a beach or jungle lot(!), but this year I've finally managed something snow-worthy for you. It's a two-bedroom home, fully furnished, with plenty of room to expand...
So, is there a catch?! Well, of COURSE there is! It's sort of, well, outdoors... In fact, your poor Sims will be living in an alleyway littered with junk and the worst of furnishings. However, I'm not a total meanie (much)! Most of the outdoor areas are, in fact, sealed indoor rooms, thanks largely to AnoeskaB's invisible doors and windows and a few 'crumbling-wall' windows of my own. Only the sofa/TV area is truly outdoors so your Sims won't suffer too much (just a little bit...cackle).
But it's not all bad, you know. I've been playing this lot for an entire, gruelling winter Sim season now and I experienced just one case of hypothermia with an ancient Sim who has nothing better to do than play 'snow angels' all day long. Adding a fire to the main bedroom soon toasted him! Anyway, now that I'm happy that an outdoors-looking lot actually plays properly in Seasons, I've put it up for release. I really hope you enjoy it (even if your hapless Sims don't)!
Free house choice
I wanted to put a free house over the Christmas Holidays...But, I was going to leave it up to you guys on which one will be free. (The house must be 3 months old or longer) So leave a comment here or PM me with your choice. The house with the most votes is free for that week!sims2supernova.com
Latley I've been sharing more of my creations on http://www.sims2supernova.com The reason being, they allow for some secitons that thesimsresource.com does not like CAS screens(which I love to make) and non-celebrity sims.S2S is a very fun place to be it's a great forum with tons of excellent downloads from very talented creators.The only thing is in order to view custom content and download you must first sign up.But it's very easy, much like signing up for TSR.It has features like a section for stories, and screenshots, as well as chat about the sims 2 or 3, and also spam chats about any topic.They also have a whole bunch of smilies that you can include in your posts, I mean tons, and tons of them.You can upload photos and also creations.For creators it's very great because there is no moderation queue.The only thing is you must upload using a third party site such as zommshare.com by clicking the insert link button on sims2supernova in your thread selecting http: and erase the http:// in the little area and then copy and paste your link given to you from zoomshare after you upload on zoomshare.And insert photos using photobucket by clicking on img code after it was uploaded to photobucket and pasting it into your thread.The photos in the threads are great because they are full size.I hope to see some of you there on sims2supernova.com in the future.Bye for now, and happy simming!Busy busy
I have got loads of houses to put on the site, I just don't seem to be able to find a spare five minutes to do it. Having a nearly nine month old baby seems to take away whatever time I used to have to do things and I seem to have even less time now than I did when I was working!Anyways, this is just a small heads up to the minute number of you that actually bother to read my blog :)
I'll be heading down to Devon on the 19th and won't be back until after Christmas so I'd like to wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and hope you all have a lovely festive season.
Merry Christmas!!
I would like to wish everyone here at TSR a very Merry Christmas and hope everyone has a happy and succesful New Year!Fingers Crossed!!
Me Again!Just to let anyone who's interested know that I'm up and running again, albeit rather slowly!
I've got my computer in a kind of test mode at the moment, so if I don't have any further problems over the next day or so, I'll be back and you'll have some goodies in time for Christmas!
So keep your fingers crossed - that's if you want any more stuff!!!!
Optimistically Hopeful Mad Cow!
Underworld Vamps
With a prequel just around the corner, now seems a timely moment to do something I've been putting back for ages, and make costumes for Selene and Viktor from the "Underworld" series. These will be from the first film ("Underworld" 2003) and will not require any EPs to download ... which also means they won't be 100% accurate, but that's the price I pay for not using custom stuff, alas.Name Change
Yes, I changed my name from Bortai_Degera to just plain Degera. Having to type the full name all the time was too much for my lazy self. And this is actually my second name change since I started submitting to TSR five years ago. My original name was Nethie and I lurked around the forums for a long time before I got up the nerve to post anything. Some of you may know that name from my old website, Spiffy Sims. Now I'm off to make a new banner image! More to come, as always! -- SaraJust a quick mention...
For my 2008 Christmas wall designs, I would like to credit the various giftwrap websites that I re-created these from.Hi everybody.
Real life and Christmas has come over me and I haven�t got so much time right now to play sims. I hope it will be better soon.
Elut
It's a Vintage Xmas!
At least it will be if I get these cards finished, lol. Currently working on a set of vintage holiday cards that can be placed on shelves and fireplace mantles as well as the usual surfaces.
There will be five new meshes in total. Not sure if I'll get to recolors because I also want to do some for hanging on walls on ribbon.
J
Free Download - The Clifton
My house The Clifton will be free to download from Dec 11, 2008 to Jan 8, 2009. :)
I'm working on a Christmas sets
Hello, I'm so sorry about not updating for a while. I'm currently working on several Christmas related clothing as well as some cowboy outfits. Some sets will be uploaded this week. :)I want to thank all of you wonderful people who have download my recolors. If I haven't replied to thank you for your comments please forgive me. I do several almost everyday but when I had gotten so far behind, it seems difficult to catch up with them. They are very much appreciated. :D
Problems w/ computer
Hey,you all....I just wanted to let you know that due to some problem in my computer,I may not submit any creations in the next week or two.I'm sorry for the inconvinient,I promise I'll create some great stuff when I fix the problem!!Selected Artist!
Wow! I am so happy to be chosen as a Selected Artist! I'm so excited and feel so honored, so thank you! I'm really looking forward to being in the SA-family :)Creating Again!
I know I haven't been creating for a while, but I got 2 new expansions, and I'm creating again. So look for new creations soon.Midland_04
THREE MILLION!!!!
This is just tooooo wonderful! I hit 3 million downloads this afternoon (Dec 9, 2008). I never dreamed it would be possible when I first started out! I want to thank each and every one of you who has downloaded and enjoyed my creations. Without you I wouldn't have any downloads at all!!!!!I am almost speachless today! Thank you all so very much!!!!! Merry Christmas to all!
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I can't believe I hit 2 million downloads day before yesterday! ...March 21, 2008 .. Thank you to all who have enjoyed my files! This is wonderful!!!!!!! I remember thinking to myself when I submitted my very first item....wonder if I ever will hit 1,000 downloads? LOL Hugs!..................................................................................................................
OMG! I hit a million downloads today! Sept 13, 2007 I can't quite believe it! I want to thank each and every one of you who has downloaded my things. I owe it all to you guys! Hope I continue to make things that please you...MANY HUGS!!!! Thanks again! * A VERY special thank you to a certain someone...without her, I wouldn't even be here at all! Thanks hun!
Comments
Thank you so much for all the lovely comments, but unfortunately I don't have time to answer them all right now:(I also have a lot of creations ready, but didn't have time to make previews yet.
Kate
Not around a while.
Well, things have been busy, busy, busy at work so I had no time to do anything! Literally came home, ate, and then went to bed. But I have the next four days off ~~ starting today ~~ so I will be making more walls and floors!Christmas is coming faster than you think. So I'll try to make some nice Holiday walls and floors.
Skool iz harrd
Sorry for the complete and total lack of updates. This semester has been the most intense I've ever experienced. I've had almost zero time for anything other than work and school since mid-October.I had hoped to upload the MH Kitchen set before the end of the year, but between my exams and the 3 week vacation I'm being dragged on with my family, there's no way the MH set will be uploaded this month.
In fact, I will be leaving for my vacation this weekend, right after the end of my exams -_-
I will be returning in early January, so depending on whether or not I have murdered my entire family after being forced to endure 21 uninterrupted days in their company, the MH Kitchen will be uploaded around then.
Another One Bites The Dust!
Hi All,Just a very quick message to say that, after a few weeks of on-going problems, my computer has finally succumbed to the workload I've been putting it under, and given up the ghost!
Unfortunately this means that until I can either fix it or replace it, I won't be able to upload anything, and my visits here will be limited.
Hopefully I'll be able to sort something out soon, but I just thought I'd let you all know the situation as it stands - I'm not deserting through choice, and I will be back!
Mad Mad Cow!
Free Set for December
Sabrina Set:
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