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Nightclubs for Nightlife
I had a Nightlife-ready version of the 'Black Hawk' a month ago, but illness buried it until now. Some downloaders have enthusiastically converted the original Basic Game version anyway - I'd love to see any pics you may have! :D
And baby Makes Three...
Well I jumped the gun a little and made a nursery set even before I did a bedroom, kitchen, or bathroom!! So for those family oriented sims this is a good thing! Look below and you can get a sneak peak of this new set. It is based on the very wonderful nursery created by Carol over at 4esf. On behalf of simmers worldwide Carol, thank you, thank you, thank you.I will also point out (should you not have noticed), BetterBeSims new set . As you will know now...those of you who download some of the things I have made...that I am quite fond of green :P And I love this set!! Green!! Tulips!! What is not to love?!?!
hugs
Nancy
Oriental Walls
Hi,This is my first entry, here's hoping the site doesn't explode!
I have eight Oriental walls ready to be published January 23, 2006 to add to the Featured Artists theme week. I am working on coordinating floors. I hope you like them.
A HUGE thank you to Dot, for all her humor, help, and support.
judi ~jsf Designs~
And now for something completely different...
In addition to my skinning and face making, I have decided to try my hand at building houses and lots too. My first submission in this field is my SimCity Mall. It's a Maxis-only, scaled-down version of the Mega Mall that I built for my own game. For those interested, you can find pics of my Mega Mall on page 2 of this thread in the Sims1 House & Building forum here at TSR: http://forums.thesimsresource.com/showthread.php?t=280746And here are some previews of my submission, the SimCity Mall:
Rivulet
Here is a first pic of the rivulet I am working on. It is made of tree parts. 2 2-tiled and 1 4-tiled part. The rivulet is animated for a realistic look.
Contempo Living Room Recolor Set
Hi everyone, I feel so happy I have my Mini site. I hope all of you like my creation too :D Here is my new recolor living room set, mesh from BetterBeSim. Coming Soon !!
Euro bathroom
Finally! I have had the time to finish the bathroom set. It will be relesed 28 jan. I have started to make an animated rivulet. I hope I will get the time to make a romantic set for valentin
Work in progress - more fences
I made a shorter version of my wood and lattice fences. They will come in three colors just like the original. Also tried one new metal work design. Hopefully I can come up with more and make it into a set #2.
Little Pleasures
I've been so excited by the next FA theme week!Last month I asked if we could do an oriental theme week for this month to celebrate Chinese New Year which is on the 29th January. Little did I expect so many of the FAs to produce SO MANY amazing creations!
Following in the Chinese vein, 1 and 2 Fortuna Court are both traditional Chinese courtyard houses. Windkeeper was generous to make me some fabulous bamboo blinds for Mineko Hanamachi - my row of Japanese Okiya (Geisha Houses), and I got creative with Homecrafter and Sim PE to make some custom stuff to put in my new Chinese Restaurant - Xinran (Little Pleasures).
I hope you enjoy them as much as I have enjoyed making them!
Starter Castles!
I made a few Starter Castles! I fiqured our Medieval Neighborhoods could use some economy housing for those Medieval Simmies just starting out! Hope your simmies like them! :)Me? A Mini Site?
Well, welcome to all who visit here. I am so chuffed to have this mini site as I have admired those of our fabulous and wonderfully creative FAs.This mini site contains a few items and lots I managed to make last summer. No promises when the next ones will be as I am currently in the last few months/weeks of my Primary Education degree - but this looks like a jolly good excuse to take time off a make a few more!
Spring teaser
Here is a little teaser: a preview of the Early Spring set, as mentioned in my post at Jan. 15th. Fresh green, light wood and tulips.... I hope you like it. I need to finish some details, but I think it will be up this weekend.
Product Recall (!)
Did you download one of these three items before 17 January 2006?
The Art of Misinterpretation
It wasn't Pinecat.That story below - about doorless garage doors. It wasn't Pinecat's idea.
Well, not exactly anyway. You see: Pinecat's idea was not THIS idea. Pinecat meant a see-through door (see-through in that you can see the wall itself through the door, so in theory you could paint your own door designs on wallpaper using Homecrafter). When I reread Pinecat's idea, it was very clear what she meant. Therefore, I can only conclude that my horrible, destructive nature overtook.
She was very nice and polite about me ripping the garage door off completely though.
Privacy screens updated
I've done a little texture fix work on three of my latest privacy fences. You can download them again from this page. The older version will work just fine if you choose not to update :).New Room Sets
I'm busy recolouring 2 new room sets, a Kitchen and Bedroom, both include free items from 4ESF, who have kindly given me permission to recolour them, the set's also include items from creators at TSR, here's a quick peek.
New Fences
Hi guys, I'm back with..... more fences. Love to make them and ofcourse a matching gate. Here is my next one..Higher ones. So your sims have more privacy.
Have fun playing....
Valentine's 2006 theme
With Valentine's Day looming, I have decided to postpone submitting my next set of skins in the Fashion Fever series. Instead I'll be submitting some Valetine's themed skins. So be on the lookout for my TSR 2006 Valentine's skins. I'll be posting preview pics as I complete each outfit. To view the pics, simply click on the "About Me" link to access my profile.Zen-sational meshes
As I have gotten several PM and comments I thought it was important to mention this here. Please, be sure to donwload the "Zen-sational Living Chair" mesh! As all the files state in bold red print,that file is required for the texture by all the other pieces with wood and/or the cushion texture as it is the MASTER file of the set. Without this file the others will FLASH BLUE in your game!!
High Chair Madness
The Bentform high chair is eluding me - after trying several unsatisfactory models, I've devolved to the point of just doing a Bentform-based recolour of the Maxis high chair. Even this is giving me grief though, as I haven't been able to get the tray animation working, and most attempts to do so have resulted in a high chair that crashes the Sims as soon as I try to purchase it (doh!). I may put aside the nursery set for a while, or at least release it without a high chair.Middle Earth
The mountain for the Mines Of Moria is done. Looks really neat, it is lines, so if someone chooses to uild a lot inside of it, they really don't need walls. It has a dark rocky interior inside.A Blog Entry
Welcome to my TSR mini site. I was tired of it saying that I have no blog, so here's a blog entry.More to come as I figure out what to do with this ;)
IVF
As I mentioned earlier, I'm in the middle of ivf treatments. Well after much stress, tonight I get my stimulation shot and Wednesday the eggs come out! Then Friday or Saturday, depending on how things are, they will be put back in. So I'll know by February if a little one is on the way :)And now, INVISIBLE items!
Thanks to Pinecat (yes, I must blame anyone but myself, and this time it's dear Pinecat; Pinecat who thought up this idea and who must take the credit for its brilliance), I have now made......[cue drum roll]...An INVISIBLE GARAGE DOOR!
Pinecat must be applauded for her brilliance! Yes, Pinecat is brilliant anyway, but I'm talking about her IDEA being particularly brilliant. If you are an advanced lot builder, you already know this - you won't even have to think about why. For everyone else, including lot builders who haven't yet ventured the integral garage or underneath parking conundrum, a potted explanation...
What if you wanted to build parking underneath your lot (as in my Gunther House apartment block), or an integral, open-fronted car-port without having to use a garage door? Try it. Lay a driveway and extension, then draw the two side walls and the rear wall only, but leave the front open. Now try adding floor tiles on top. It can't be done, can it? Sure, you can trick the game by placing temporary columns in the centre of the garage upon which to add the tiles, but as soon as you remove the underneath columns, the floor tiles on top become unusable - unless you add a front wall to your garage, which means using one of those garage doors.....aargh!
If you're a dab hand with the CFE cheat, you can work around this problem by inserting a hidden in-between floor (that's how I built Gunther House). For this lot, the perceived higher level of the ground floor space looks fine, but it would look more obvious (and odd) in a smaller house. Therefore, if you want integral parking, you'd do better making it into a full garage and (sigh) adding one of those garage doors... Or darn it, just keep the parking separate.
But now you can thank Pinecat who asked if it was possible to have a garage door that had NO door. So, an open-fronted garage at last! It's not possible to have it entirely frameless, so I've bundled in five basic recolours and for all you recolourers out there, it's simple as anything to make more colour options. But I think it looks cool and allows us to make a garage with NO door that we can now build ABOVE.
For those of you already bored silly with my creations, you'll know this isn't my FIRST invisible item. I made an INVISIBLE DRIVEWAY some time back after tiring of the choice of grey concrete or red brick for my medieval cart parking! It means we can use floor tiles or terrain paints (as in my piccie above) to make our own driveway designs. So, with the driveway AND doorless door, I bring you: Cyclonesue's invisible parking solutions!
The Cyclonesue Mandatory Small-print
Of course, you can't expect anything I make to be perfect (there are other Featured Artists here recruited for perfection; I'm just here for entertainment value). And the little imperfection with the doorless garage is that it STILL makes the clanking door sound. I couldn't see how to remove that though. There were no separate audio references from what I could see.
Well Here We Go Then...
Well I have started. I have recoloured BBS living room set. Really lovely set to recolour actually, the bowl is a real work of art - masterfully done and it made it very easy to recolour (frankly I prefer the vase that BBS did :P) lol. I also used MangoSims curtain mesh (I love these!).Well here is a preview of the set, I have uploaded it and it should be ready on the 19th - enjoy! Oh yeah and by the way the lovely wooden wall was done by around the sims as was the brown potted plant. The one on the table is of course by BetterBeSim. The glass of wine and book is by SimGedoehns. Enjoy!
Huggles, Nancy
Spring is on it's way!
It's only January, but Spring is on its way already, because to get us all out of the winterblues, I am doing a fresh green recolor of the Arcadia set.No pictures yet, but I tell you, you will think Spring! when you see this set! And ehh.. there are tulips in it ofcourse. Me being Dutch and all, I had to do some tulips sooner or later :)
After this set, what's next? A kitchen? A bathroom? I am not sure yet, but my hands are itching to make some new meshes.
Busy Bee
Gosh it is quite hectic here in the Shakeshaft camp this week, busy creating new lots like 3 Holly Drive a family home with 4 bedrooms on a small lot, a set of very colourful contemporary art prints in Pastels ans some new wall sets of Fieldstone in various shades.
Grizzelda
On Monday, January 16th, my recolor creations of Grizzelda's new teen mesh will be published. I'd like to recognize Grizzelda for adding awesome mesh options to the Sims2 game. She is very talented and rates right up there with all the other FA's who's meshes I often use for my Creations... Dr. Pixel, NeptuneSuzy, and for those I haven't used yet but will be in the near future, ChazDesigns, and Sunair...hope I didn't leave any great talent out.Happy Simming!
I will be good...Honest!
I am in the process of recolouring BetterBeSims absolutely lovely Contempo room set, when suddenly I had a brainwave! I should do a furnishing for a house in the same neutral tones. A man's house. A postmodern man's house. So this is my little promise to you. I will be good. I will finish this set. Just to get the ol' juices flowing, below are the textures I plan to use. So go on. Get BetterBeSims living room as that will be the first I recolour! BetterBeSim's Contempo Sethugs, Nancy.
Hoorah!
Special hugs to Per who has now enabled external linking (mmmmmm Per hugs)! And just to celebrate I have uploaded the Cabana set I teased you with last week. Things have just been mental at work and I come home weary and tired - longing for a lovely glass of wine and propping my feet up on the deck in the fading sunlight. So sadly I haven't been recolouring. However for your edification (I love using words that are no longer in the common vernacular - words kind of like well er um like vernacular :P ), I have made a new mesh. E-gads! I know... a little outrageous but really only one mesh. A sushi platter - so enjoy!
Tip Of The Day
So, you make objects?In which case, you generally clone something that BEHAVES roughly in the same way you want your finished object to behave. Therefore, if you wanted to make a decorative, static object, you would pick a decorative, static object to clone from the game. And if you wanted to make an outdoor object, you would probably clone a handy outdoor object with the same set of behaviours...
DO bear this in mind when selecting the humble garden gnome as your base object.
(unless you want one of your pesky, light-fingered Sim neighbours trotting off up the road with your shiny new object!)
Making new fences
I'm in the process of making a whole new collection of fences for the game. Got a dozen already :). My January calendar is full, mostly with oriental stuff. This set will probably go up in February.*Edit* Can't wait that long! I'm moving this set to be published on January 15! Want to see how they will go. If people like fences, I will make more.
Work in progress
I've got oriental fever, lol! There are several oriental decor sets that are coming up towards the end of January. Including some shoji doors and windows. You can preview most of them at my calendar already.Japanese bronchitis
Not another version of bird 'flu! The 'flu has led to bronchitis for me, so I'm coughing all over the screens at the mo' - oh well!I've enjoyed starting to work on the Orient Express theme, and have added a small set of Japanese villas with pagodas - more to follow. They're all for the base version of the game - so you won't need EPs to use them.
I'll also aim to add a community lot for the theme.
I'm So Bad!
I'm so bad about not updating my blog. I'm just as bad about not writing or calling friends and family.I will try to get better. I've been trying to come up with ideas for dressers that don't look like dressers. That's when the coat rack and luggage originated. If you have any ideas, let me know. Hope you are having a wonderful 2006. Debra
CSH Decontract set
Most of you seem to have problem finding the mesh (MESH_SimChicFullBodyBootcut5-05-05) for this set, though it's not so difficult to obtain for FREE. I admit you have to dig a bit to get it if you don't want to pay membership to SimChic.com, but it's worth it 'cause this mesh is incredibly great and looks marvelous in the game...All you have to do is go to all-about-style.com : just download the skin placed in ADULT SECTION, page 3, named "Ethnic Cami". The mesh is included for free with the skin in the zip. And now, long live boot cut pants with heels !
Here is again the direct link : http://www.all-about-style.com/adult_feca3.html
Hope you'll manage ^^
Sims Resource Problems
My apologies... I am trying to get TSR to enable external links - but with no luck. I promise to update when this is sorted. :(thanks
Nancy
Oops! Accident!
Krigshot74 wondered if I could make a prettier version of the basic Maxis car...
As is my style of late, I've made it utterly unusable, ripped off the wheels, smashed the glass, put a few dents in the roof and hood - oh and burnt it a bit.
I don't think I'll be releasing it separately, but if you would like this limousine gracing your palatial lawns, it will come as part of my "Boston's Garage" (residential) lot being released on 13 January.
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Wow! Thanks again!!!
Lowering the tone
Yep - the junk set is out. Cyclonesue lowers the tone of the Sims community one step further with filthy toilets et al. You'll find it here (oh, and as usual, THAT is an order!).
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