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Look For The 'Bear Necessities'!!

Hey Folks! I've finally finished my 'Bohemian Black & White Set' - after quite a few alterations - so I intend to upload that in the next couple of days - that's gonna be fun! In the meantime, the 'Bear Necessities' paintings have been submitted and approved and are due out on the 29th & 30th - I know it was a long time ago when I first mentioned them, but I've finally got there (kept getting distracted by other things!). Also, to go with the paintings, I have produced a set of rugs! . I've only done 12 as I thought another 38 would be a little over the top!!, but they will co-ordinate with any of the paintings, so hopefully you'll like them! I've been doing a lot of experimenting with re-colouring and following the relative success of my black and white sofas, I've created some more of them - two sets in fact! Personally, I think they've turned out really well - but maybe I'm just a little biased! . I WILL get around to uploading them at some stage, along with some more curtains, floor tiles, and rugs - once I have satisfied a certain person's addiction for paintings (if that's ever going to be possible - which I doubt very much!!!) Anyway, just thought I'd keep you posted with what's been going on! And remember that if you feel like commenting on anything or making any suggestions, I'm more than happy to listen! Over-worked Mad Cow!

Are you sick of it yet?

My Savannah series, I have people begging for more, and then today, I get one person who tells me enough already, on the savannah series, so tell me what you think. Is it time to quit on the series, or should I keep bringing them out, because I have so many others I want to share. Let me know what you think.

Something Big You don't want to miss this

Hi Everyone, As you can tell by my banner that we have something big coming up. For those of you who are not aware of it, if you go to the forum there is a thread called Texture Challange. It is a lot of fun and a great place to be. It is a place where you get a lot of help and encouragement from all who take part and it's an AWESOME way to learn, and like I said everyone there is awesome. I would like to encourage any one interested to stop in and check us out. TC100 is going to be GREAT and you don't want to miss it. You don't even really have to recolor we use to have a girl in there that was like our cheerleader. She would give her imput on our stuff, make suggestions, and even a request once in a while. Any how it's a lot of fun Check us out.

I still have HUGH and continued Thank You's to all who download my stuff. I have said it before and will say it again, I would not be here if it weren't for all of you. Soooo Thank You, Thank You, Thank You your the greatest.

Derbyshire

Hey there!

I started playing this new hood, with a bunch of rules. Well actually, I took the Royal Neighborhood challenge and modified it to fit the way I like to play.

I decided to keep posted the on-going actions of that hood on FreeWebs, so anybody could take a peek. I only play one day at a time per family, so there's not that much there yet, but it has started (well, I started playing officially yesterday! :P )

You will notice that all my sims are living in the houses I have uploaded recently to TSR. Useless to say that I pick those house to build for that hood, and then decided to share them with you.

Find out more here : http://www.freewebs.com/nanamouskoury/

P.S. the last few houses I built for the hood are not on TSR yet, simply because I rush to finish them so I would get to play, but they aren't furnish pretty enough for download. But they will come ;)

African hotel

I've been to Africa and love it. Now your simmies can go there, too. I've uploaded an African hotel, built like a traditional village, but with all the comfort and luxury your simmies could wish for. There are four huts, all with a double-bed, so this resort is suitable for couples.
I first built it with all kinds of wonderful exotic plants from our TSRAA artists, but the file ended up mega-sized! So I took away almost all plants, leaving an acacia tree, banana tree, jurassica palm plus one climbing plant that's on the statue. Besides this, there are some large rocks and a log seating. Also, I love Murano's floor mirror that makes floors look high-polished. If you don't want to download the mesh needed for this effect, then you can just remove all the floors that look black without the mesh. You remove them at the edges.
If you don't have Celebration Stuff, this will only affect one small dining table in the Simba theme hut.
I'm very pleased with the spa that is sited on black rock and combined with the huge statue, I think the effect is very dramatic!
I've played the lot and everything should work fine. Hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

DentileEgg Wainscotting

A new moulding, based on an old favorite of mine, transformed into eight fully wainscotted panelled walls using lighter pastels. Let me know what you think. The image has been compressed and will be in the right proportions in game. These will be published August 9th.

Holiday!!!

Hi all!

I want you to know that tomorrow I am going on a holiday.(From 28th Jul to 20th Aug).

I will try to reply comments and GB entries but I might not answer all of them.

You can still send PM or sign my GB.I will see them all.

Happy Simming!~~Newtlco

Updates & What's Coming Next!

Hi all I thought i would let you know what is coming next. Well the Esprit Curtain Collection is almost finished. This set includes Full Double Wide Curtains, Single Full Curtains, Single Short Length Curtains & Double Short Length Curtains. Just finishing testing. A second recolour of the Santiago Lounge Collection will be released sometime next week and the Santiago Dining Collection recolour will follow shortly after. Downloads of the Esprit Venetian Blinds seem to be going well, i am glad you like them. I have updated these to include diagonals, however the updates have not been published yet. I am hoping to update the mesh-file over the next few days and release the diagonals once the mesh-file has been updated. I would imagine i will probably release some metallic recolours of this set. Once i have got the above published and out the way i will probably be taking a couple of weeks away to get university assignments done and dusted. First year of Uni is finished September! Second Year starts Oct! At the moment the Esprit Bedroom Collection has been put on hold. I really like the bed and have made quite a lot of improvements to it, however it still isn't right yet. I wouldn't like to submit something that i am not completely happy with, just for the sake of submitting. Anyway that's all for now. I will post again when the Venetian Blind Mesh files have been updated and diagonals released. Take care Debs. Below is screenshot of the Esprit Curtain Set. The set has one master file which all other curtains get the textures from, this will reduce the over all filesize and make recolouring much quicker. Thanks go to MsBarrow for her Repository Tutorial and the Matrix window's pictured in the Screenshots.

Polls and New Lots!

POLLS Well, with 101 people voting, here are the results of my latest poll... What is the average size of your sim families? 4 - 45.54% - (46 votes) 3 - 20.79% - (21 votes) 5 - 14.85% - (15 votes) 1-2 - 12.87% - (13 votes) 6 or more! - 7.92% - (8 votes) Good. That was pretty much what I figured, and I just LOVE being at least partially right. LOL! Thank you all SO much for participating. Every poll helps me learn what people want so I can make better homes for everyone! Thank you! ----------------------------------- NEW LOTS Have 2 new lots on the way, and they couldn't be more different from each other. ;) ILLUSTRA - The first is a Modern home that I am REALLY proud of! Illustra is a 3 bedroom home designed to take in views from the ocean or a cliff top. It is NOT a beach lot, but would look great near water. It's a 3 bedroom Maxis only home, and will be available on the 29th (Tuesday). THE AVU DRIVE-IN THEATER - The second is a flash back into the past! I have created a 1950's retro-styled drive-in theater! It is lacking cars though, since it is...as usual...Maxis only. These you will have to add yourself. It is a community lot with a small cafe/snack bar, place to buy video games, bathrooms, swings, etc. It is designed more as a park with a small eatery. It would be great for screenies, stories, teenager hang-out (for those sneaking teens), or just as ambience for retro hoods. It is due out August 3rd (Sunday). ----------------------------------- I cannot thank you all enough for your support and encouragement! I have met some of the most wonderful people here, and have to thank my son and rose-maman for talking me into uploading my homes in the first place. LOL! Well, guess I'd better get cracking! Homes to build, and sims to make happy you know. Thank you all...you make building SO worth it! -Illiana

July 28th, Vintage Charm Bath

The Vintage Charm Bath set is scheduled for publication on July 28th. The bathroom is a companion set for the Vintage Charm Bedroom. The Vintage Charm Bath set�s major furnishings are linked to a dresser (see picture below) which is part of the previously released Vintage Charm Bedroom set. Some of the bathroom objects were linked to the Vintage Charm Bedroom dresser to make recoloring of the major set pieces easier. You MUST have the dresser in your download folder to use the bathroom hutch, sink, 3-drawer chest, bath shelf unit, console table, and medicine cabinet.

The bathroom hutch, sink, 3-drawer chest, bath shelf unit, standing towel rack, picture with shelves, and console table all have 1 or more decorative slots. FYI, you can use your keyboard's "M" key to move through the slots.

The Vintage Charm Bath also includes base game and Seasons versions of the vanity mirror. Some of the decorative objects like the basket of roses, basket of soaps, and tissue box are recolors of my Vanity Fair meshes.

I am currently creating recolors for the Vintage Charm collection. So far, I have created pink, yellow and white, dark and medium wood recolors for the collection.

Take Care and Happy Simming, Carolyn