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Polls on my page

I have just spent some Kudos on the Poll feature. I have a Poll on my page now. This is a feature I have wanted for some time. I hope when you vist my page, that you can spare a moment to just check out my Polls and take a vote. It's always good to hear what others think on here. I am constantly having Ideas for creations and would love some input on what people want. I have just got Photoshop CS for meshing, I do have the Latest Maya too. A very talented Creator, i came across, works with the photoshop CS, so he has Inspried me to have a go with that. I am thinking that maybe I can try out stuff like cereal boxes for all our Simmy Shops as it's very basic. I think that would be an easy choice for my first mesh. We will see how it goes!

Competitions

Hi All,

I entered my first Competition on another site last week. (Sim Enems). You had to create a banner for the site. Either 1 for the whole year, or 1 banner for each calender month. I had so much fun playing around on Photoshop that it gave me enough confidence to enter the current TSR Competition. "Yard and Gardens Theme".

I have been busy setting up gardens and taking photos in the game. I have uploaded 3 or 4 so far. I see that there is some really lovely submissions. Looks like people have been working hard and having fun too. There is some great prizes up for grabs! Good Luck to all who are entering. xx

My First Blog

Hooray is all I can think of to say! I am thrilled to death about this new version of TSR. The biggest reason is this new Blog. I litterally spent months pining over my lack of kudos and my inability to gain more. (I just don't have the time to create thousands of items.) Anyway, now I get the blog and the customized profile page for FREE!

That is so super awesome!! I can spend my kudos on more intesting things, like polls and color themes. Speaking of the color themes, I tried changing my page to pink, but it doesn't want to work just yet. That's okay though, there are a few bugs for TSR to sort out. Woo boy am I glad I chose to subscribe to this site...gosh that was almost five years ago when the Sims2 was just a gleam in our eyes.

Anyway, maybe I'll be able to make some friends on this site, people I actually know about. It'll be nice to know someone as obsessed with this game as I am. My husband thinks it's a bit of an addiction, but I've had the sims even longer than I've had him so...hmm..

-Keri

My Tutorial is Out

Hello guys. My tutorial has been out at the exact day TSR upgraded to v7. You can download it as pdf file now. I doubt if it will get noticed or even make it on frontpage like the articles published in v6. I'm not sure if I like this whole new lay-out. It's hard to navigate and very slow. I had a profile page counter before, now gone. I don't like this really and or it may take a long time before I get used to this...

This is the link to the tutorial. Download here in TSR.

If you find the images to be of low quality you can refer to my Flickr copy for all the tutorial's screencaptures' actual sizes...

View from my Flickr.

Happy Editing!!!

This is interesting... :)

The new v7 has all sort of new bells and whistles. I'll have to get accustomed to them. I will post pictures of my latest lingerie for adults that I'm working on after I get them together.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank each person who has downloaded my creations. I also want to thank everyone who has left comments. I�m still behind in showing my appreciation by letting you know in your guestbooks. I will eventually get to everyone. Thank you again.

Expansion Packs filter back

The Expansion packs filter that got missing in the transition to v7 is now back on the downloads pages. Enable it by opening the "Advanced Search" in the right column (make sure Full Screen mode is disabled), tick the "Only My Expansions" box, and hit the Show Results buttons.

In the advanced search you also find a lot of other useful options. Some of these are specific for different types of downloads. For example, in the Residential Lots section you'll find a lot of filters for price, num bathrooms, num stories etc.

Post feedback on the downloads search functionality in general, and the re-enabled Expansions pack filter specifically, as comments to this post.

New Years Resoultion

My new resoultion is to become a better artist to make make better clothes and to expand my creations.

happy new year.

just wishing everyone a safe and happy new year.

First Blog: Introduction, Random Thoughts, and Things to Come

Hi All!  My name is Crystal.  Most people here call me Nicole due to my user name, which is fine by me if that's what you prefer.  It's actually my middle name, and the story behind Msnicoleking becoming my online moniker (here and a few other places) is a silly one from long ago, but I won't get into that :-P. 

I've been playing Sims since the Sims 1 base game came out.  It all began when my best friend, Bobby, got the game and we'd stay up together until the wee hours of morning playing it.  The rest is history.  I started creating stuff when Sims 2 came out.  Nothing major, just lots, walls, and floors mainly, and some tee shirt recolors.  I always wanted to try the harder stuff like object recolors or meshes, but I don't think I have the patience to learn, but moreso I don't think I'll get too far with mspaint :-P  A few years ago I was into making music videos with Sims 2.  Unfortunately all those were lost in a harddrive mishap and I never got back into it.

Lately I've been mostly playing the game.  I do have a community lot ready to upload here soon (a flower shop).  Also, This weekend I'm going to be starting on a project I've had in my head for a few years.  I won't give too much away, but I'm really looking forward to adding these lots to my fairy/fantasy area of town.  They'll be made with Sims 2 base game and University only so more people can use them.  And thanks to my boyfriend, Mario, for letting me take over his computer and install those two games on it to make them.  :-)

I can't believe that Sims 3 is almost here!  I have mixed feelings about it, because I'm still enjoying Sims 2, but overall I'm pretty excited.  I'm really looking forward to a lot of the new features.  I'm a little leery of the new aging system.  But, I'm keeping in mind there will probably be a way to turn it off if I totally hate it.  I'm going to miss some of the great CC I've accumulated over the years, wings being high on that list.  But mostly I'm really excited for it, and I'm sure I'll still play the Sims 2.  At least for a little while, for I'm still enjoying Apartment Life a great deal!

Also, I love the new TSR!  Great job on the new site devs!

Take care & Happy Simming!

~Crystal

V7 Issues

Judging by the way things are moving on the TSR site, it doesn't look like the v7 redesign is going to come out of its beta stage for a while. There are a LOT of bugs and it's going to take the mods/staff here a while to sort it all out.

I'm not happy. I really enjoy posting my creations here on TSR and the great feedback I get from all the members, so I won't say much about the new design other than to say I do not like it. At all.

My hope is that I'm not alone and that the TSR staff will take in the criticism and feedback to refine the design so that it is able to serve the needs of all members.

As far as the MH Kitchen goes, I'm still continuing with my plan to release it either this weekend or early next week--but not on TSR. I just don't see how they can possibly work out ALL the bugs and ALL the issues in that short a time.

Uploading to TSR has always been a bit of a fussy process (which I can understand--keeping hundreds of thousands of downloads organized is NOT easy), but the site issues would make uploading a set a headache I have no desire to deal with.

Some of you know that my creations are also available elsewhere in the Sims community, so keep your eyes open for the MH Kitchen.

I look forward to being able to upload it to TSR, but as of now I can't say when that will be.