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Ok, today I'm really pissed off.

Why? Because TSR rejected some of my new creations. I do not consider myself as the greatest goddess of sim-making kind, and do not think that I'm always right, because that's not true. But his time, I think I'm right. As a kid I was teached to be always sincere and to feel free to criticize stupid actions ("it's not people You criticize, it's what they do" as my grandfather always told me). The reason for rejection was: "the pattern on your tiles does not "tile" correctly, and it looks broken". Really? I checked it in game twice, and I admit it doesn't tile perfectly, because the pattern is quite complicated, but at least it gives the impression of tiling. But the funniest was the justification: "we do it to to maintain quality downloads". Oh really? How many creations from TSR actually have more failures than that? I remember downloading some hair that crushed my game, plenty of meshes that didn't work, not mentioning the riddiculous neon-green or barbie-pink hair (why the heck they let people upload SUCH horribe things?!?! where is this quality-download policy in these cases?!?!), and ending on completely non-tiling flooring, that really looked as if a yeti spewed on it. But it was all here, available for download, for everyone. I'm really pissed off. Right now I started to understand why people delete their creations from here and move to Mod the Sims 2... Here's the picture of the set which will not be uploaded by TSR staff because of it's horribility. I will not correct it - I hate smashing something that was already completed... But the point is that I really loved this set of tiles... Maybe I just add a very thin white frame around every tile - it will not look as if not matching any more. I'll do it and tell you how it worked. If they reject it also this time - then I'll report it as an example of the most riddicule and absurd action that I've ever encountered... Take care, Hannah

New upates are comming

I would like to thank all of you who download my creations and for all of your kind words and patience. I know it has been a while since I've uploaded consistently, so I wil try to explain what happend; My computer has the Vista operating system, wich gives problems with IE and a sertain security update. It looks like there's something buggy with IE explorer and his updates, wich giving me huge problems to submit my sets. It also don't let me update anything on my Ministe, or write something nice to you on my blog. I went to the official Microsoft site and found out that a lot of webmasters are having the same problems, just like I do. I'm still in the process of tracking and looking for a solution. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Maybe I found a way to upload? A few days ago I was very happy, after I discovered that I am able to write on my blogg when I'm using my Hubbie's laptop. His pc works on XP with Servicepack3 and not with Vista & Servicepack2 like my pc does. The next thing I am going to do this week, is to try if I am able to upload some new sets wich I have created at the past weeks. I have made some nice creations, so lets hope it wil go wel. EDIT: Yes!!! I submitted a set and it worked out fine!! Here's a little previeuw. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The updates for this week wil be 3 new lots. 1 starter - 1 commercial and 1 family lot. Pics wil follow. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And finaly... Here are the results from my latest Poll, with 110 votes. Poll Question: For wich age would you like to see new recolours? Toddlers 19.82% (22) Children 27.03% (30) Teens 22.52% (25) Adults 32.43% (36) Thank you all for taking part of it, it's very much appriciated!! Grtz & Hugs Dirtdevill

Submission Problems

These days I have a few problems with my SS.I am trying to undo what I did.Hope you still enjoy my creations :) ~~Newtlco ;)

Not Submitting But Still Alive...

First of all I want to say LOL!!! :D I am not submitting for now but I am still trying to reply your wonderful comments and GB entries.I know that this is a short BlogEntry but I do not have a lot of time to visit this site.Have fun!!!~~Newtlco ;)

Writing

I've been so busy with the job search that I just can't seem to get motivated or inspired to write stories of any kind - Sims wise or otherwise. I have a new story in mind that I might start. Unfortunately, I think Behind Closed Doors is going to be put on a back back burner because I don't know where that story was headed anymore. Hopefully once I find a job, I'll be able to get the creative juices flowing.

Until then,
Happy Simming!

New Project.

Hi All,

I haven't posted any homes for awhile because I have been working on a huge project since July 10th and it still has aways to go before it is finished. I posted a screenshot of my new project. I am recreating the town of Colorado Springs from Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman and am making it a community Lot. It will feature a store from each expansion pack up to Free Time. Once it finished I will upload it here for download. Bt watching the intire series is helping me construct the town.

GB

Do you prefer furnished or unfurnished lots?

Just wondering, when you all download lots, do you prefer, furnished or unfurnished? Let me know!

About my lots

My ubloaded lots are something complex... I want not only to build all possible Buildings, such as castle, church etc. but also to built the pretty Buildungs so that they together looks wonderful.

2 million downloads!

WOW! I have never imagined that I would reach this huge number of downloads!! I am really excited!!Thank you everyone for your support and feedback and for all those lovely comments. I have been lazy responding to them, but for a good reason. I am working on my first alpha mesh *yay* and I want this set to be perfect. Thank you once again for this lovely birthday gift *my b-day was on the 3rd, yesterday*. Have a fantastic day!

New creations!

At last! New creations are scheduled to appear on Aug the 6th, and my inspiration seems to be back, as well as a month of free time! Yay! But from September I will not have so much time, unfortunatelly...

Because I made it! I finally made it! After so much time, all the times I failed and feel like an idiot, I finally managed to be accepted to study my dreamt-of major, Japanese! And to one of the best schools in Europe, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London! I'm still in a slight shock - it is ironic that I'll be studying Japanese in English while I'm Polish, but it turned out to be this way. I tried in Poland so many times, but each time I got rejected from more funny reasons and considered "unapropriate", "not good enough" and "not strongly motivated". Me?!? Not strongly motivated? I dream of studying Japanese since elementary school when I saw the first anime in my life, Sailor Moon! I entered the exams so many times, and managed to make through each marathon only for my dreamt-of major, I also learned to live despite not having my dreams fulfilled. And that means not good enough? I love languages, I don't have problems with kanji, I have nice ear for languages and I have the knowledge about Japan that I build for 8 years, and that's not good enough?!? I know that there are only limited numbers of places - it can be studied only on 3 unis in Poland, and each uni has only about 12-15 places, while there are up to 30 candidates per place. But while the recrutation process favor only those with very high grades from English?

Is there any proof that knowing tricky gramatical structures from Shakespeares dramas means having heart for studying all those signs and complicated culture? The statistics show that only 75% of all accepted graduate from this major, where are these 25%? Ok, 5% would be people that were forced to quit because of some family disasters or other difficult life complications. But remaining 20% consists of people, who just lost their hearts for studying, or saw that it is more demanding than they expected. These people are the proof, that the recrutation process is wrong, and eliminates good candidates on the begining. Not only does it eliminate them - it often anihilates them. If not my parents, that can afford me studying for couple of more years and don't force me to finish studying and finding a job, I wouldn't have a chance to study Japanese whatsoever. When I think of how many people studied something they hated, and now do the job they hate simply because they haven't been given a chance to do what they like. By whom? By stupid professors (?), or somebody who makes a recrutation.

So I'll be studying in London, UK! Monogatari ga hajimaru - a Japanese phrase that means "the story (or: a tale) begins". I'll be reporting while creating in London, I hope... That would depend on my mobile computer, whether creating anything on laptop is possible and comfortable... Here I have my precious computer with everything, there I will have only a laptop, I'm not sure whether there'll be enough space even for all Sims and Expansions, not mentioning Accesory Packs... My... I wish I could take this computer with me... And - I will not have a mouse. I need to buy a proper mouse! What a pity I can't take this mouse...

And that's why I don't like changing places - you have to leave it all behind, starting from the scratch... But I know it is worth it!

See you next time, and take care, all of you!

Hannah