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If you are interested in seeing what I'm working on this thread in the forums is supposed to let me know your feetback on ongoing projects. See you there. :)

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Screenshots of Vintage Charm Dark

I just uploaded a few screenies of my current project, Vintage Charm Dark. The set is a recolor of my Vintage Charm bed and bath rooms meshes and features dark woods, green and white textures, with accents of apricot...er, not the fruit but the color.

Vintage Charm Dark is almost finished, I have a few more objects to recolor and if time permits I may create 1 or 2 new meshes for the set. I hope you enjoy the preview shots.

Take Care and Happy Simming! Carolyn

You want to make unreasonable demands?!

Now that the signs set is out but you think there is a sign you would like that wasn't included in the set, then let me know. If I receive enough requests that will amount to another set (I'm thinking 4-6 as a minimum), I'll make them.

And any joker who thinks they're hilarious by asking for a nice Welsh town name sign along the lines of LLANFAIRPWLLGWYNGYLLGOGERYCHWYRNDROBWLLLLANTYSILIOGOGOGOCH (yes, really - look it up if you don't believe me) will find that THEIR sign will say something infinitely more rude than anything I can write here and I won't be held accountable for it!

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All of my items are TSRAA enabled - please use freely anywhere you want. The only thing I ask is that you don't repost my creations as your own work or host my files anywhere. Other than that, if you like something enough to want to use it in a lot or screenshot, please do! No need to credit (but if you want to, link back here:)

Featured Artist...ME?!!!!

I have had many surprises in my life that will always be with me...and being granted the status of Featured Artist here on TSR is certainly one I will always cherish and remember!

I don't really have the words to express how proud I feel today! Thank you all so VERY much for your kindness, support, and wonderful compliments that just made me want to build more and more. I am stunned, happy, excited, REALLY nervous, and extremely thrilled! Oh my goodness!!!! *Happy dance!*

Thank you to Steve, Thomas, and all the staff at TSR for their help, and for the honor I am being given today. I shall certainly work hard and try to do my very best...after all, just LOOK at all the talent around this place?! Yeah...no pressure here. LOL!

Thank you to all of my friends I have made here on TSR! The list is so unforgiveably long, that I shall spare the space and just give you all (((MEGA HUGS!!!!))) Your support, encouragement, waggling fingers, and broad shoulders mean the world to me! Thank you all!!!!

Thank you to my son for kicking me in the tuckus and telling me to just TRY uploading a house and see what happens, instead of worrying so much about the technical stuff.

But most of all...thank you to all of you who have downloaded my homes. :D It is really YOU that has helped me get to this point. It is the people who download homes, community lots, and tutorials that encourage artists to create more. So thank you to everyone who has ever downloaded one of my creations...no matter what it was! YOU are the real reason I love to build...and title or no, that will NEVER change! Thank you!

--A VERY grateful,
Illiana

My Laptop Died...

After two years of bearing with me, my laptop has taken its last breath on the eve of my birthday... so.. that means i can't make anything for you for quite some time... but I do have some sets that I was able to recover, so I have some stuff to release soon!

*sigh*... I just can't believe that this had to happen... on the eve of my birthday...

Don't Give Up On Me Yet

I know I keep promising meshes and I haven't delivered, but don't give up on me just yet. You won't BELIEVE the weird problems I keep running into! I won't go into details, but they all have to do with getting certain file extensions to open in certain programs. Well, just for an example: TGA and SVG files are not editable in photoshop, and have to be converted to JPEGS. How come I have TGA and SVG files in the first place? They are the only file extensions UV maps unwrapped in Blender can be saved in. OBJ files from SimPE do not open in Blender, and have to be renamed. The renamed OBJ files will not import back into SimPE. To name just a FEW of the problems I have had! So I still have to figure out how in the heck I am going to get my OBJ files from Blender back in SimPE. Probably will have to regroup in Milkshape somehow. This isn't supposed to be this darn hard! So you see I HAVE been working on meshing; I'd have had my lamp, table, chair and bookshelf finished a LONG time ago if my darn programs would just COOPERATE with me! But I am hannging in there, I'll figure this out if it kills me! :D

I'm Still Alive...

Just caught up in trying to finish off my Soup Legacy in time for it's third anniversay later this month, and being distracted by my other addiction, Everquest. Never fear, there will be more objects, I've got a couple of things I've started work on but progress is currently at a crawl.

A sign of the times...

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Now released!

About time we had another corny title, but at least this time it goes a small way to describing my next set!

I was looking at an old photograph of a derelict street where once-majestic buildings were boarded up, plaster falling away (usual sort of pretty building I like to make) but what perhaps stood out most is that the once brightly painted signs had corroded too. Badly.

I figured therefore that fellow urbanites might like some corroded signs too, so I've made a set comprising both rooftop and wall-mounted signs that not only come in corroded and rusted colours, but there are a few more cheerful paint colours too. I've made the following for this set:

BAR
BOWLING
DINER
GARAGE
GYM
HOTEL

By the way, that awesome crumbling plasterwork wallpaper in the top picture is by our very own MsBarrows and is an essential ingredient to any down-town building kit! It looks fabulous in the game and I'm hooked on it!

Being much shorter words, the BAR and GYM wall-mounted signs come in a small as well as regular size. The regular size of these smaller words looked a tad peculiar unless used on a higher floor, so I made a smaller size so you can choose which fits best. And I've actually made a collection for them too (I know that makes a change, but you might be glad to know I'm making collection files for older sets too - thanks to Jenova who prompted me into action).

These signs are scheduled for release on Friday 15 August. And do not assume you will impress me by pointing out any spelling mistakes in them!!!

EDIT: two new BROKEN signs added for GARAGE and HOTEL!

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