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Updates!

Hi everyone!

I am still caught up in exams. They were so many and I still have 3 left + the graduation ones. I wanted to upload some sets a while ago, but I haven't had time until today. I hope you enjoy them and have fun!

Subway Tile Walls

The first of the subway tile walls has been uploaded. The entire set is broken into 3 parts because there are so many walls (37 I believe).

Part 1 - Neutral and Monochromatic
Part 2 - Green, Blue & Purle (my favorite color)
Part 3 - Red, Orange, Yellow & Brown

After these three sets comes *drumroll* the MH Washroom set!! w00t! yay! yippee-skippe! hooray!

There are a few finishing touches left on the Washroom (object descriptions, preview images), but the objects themselves are completely done, AND I made recolors of everything, so look forward to those, as well.

Simford City Houses

Submitted today: Simford City Houses "Hillside" & "Blue Studio" My latest project is Simford City. It matches quite well with my Grey Brick Collection lots. I have been playing with my city-sims recently and started to build airy, modern city homes. I intend to use a lot of TSRAA material and that also means checking, re-checking and even triple checking, because I must be certain not to use anything but items that I am allowed to use! So far I know that I will use creations of the following great artists: Cyclonesue, Lianaa, Spaik, Simtomatic, Steffor, Tabbylou... (Please note that the picture above is from my game and items in the picture have not been "TSRAA-checked". This lot won't be submitted as such!) I am also grateful to all of you who voted on my previous poll! Valuable information once again! Here are the results: What kind of residential lots do you prefer to download? Contemporary 10.81% Traditional 0% Bygone Days 5.41% Countryside 8.11% Rustic 2.7% Urban 2.7% Industrial 2.7% Sci-Fi & Fantasy 2.7% Famous Building 10.81% Other 2.7% Doesn�t matter 5.41% All kinds of lots 32.43% I build my own lots, thank you! 13.51% I prefer Maxis basic game lots! 0% Please vote on my new poll! Take care, Tiina :)

Family Emergency!

***Update - June 2*** This is the first real chance I've gotten to sit down and write to let everyone know how things are going. I'm still in MS with my family and my mom was discharged from the hospital last Tuesday, 27 May. She is doing better but not quite 100%. That's to be expected though. This whole experience was a big scare for the whole family, especially when I was called Monday while flying home and was told that during the night my mom's heart stopped and she had to be resuscitated twice. For some reason after being resuscitated her body seemed to reboot and she started to get better, slowly but surely. After a few days in ICU, she was able to be moved to a regular room in the cancer wing. The reason for her hospitalization was caused from a new chemo treatment she was given the week before she was brought in. Here's a short version of what happened to caused her hospitalization. The chemo caused her body to produce blood slower and since she's already anemic not enough blood started causing issues with her heart and caused it to stop. She also had a really bad infection that set in and started to take over her body. Anyway that's a short version. Right now, she's doing good but she's having trouble getting around (she's also an amputee) but me and two of my sisters are helping her out with that. My niece is also doing better. She was diagnosed with Leukemia this past February. I seen her last in November '07 so I was really happy to be able to visit her twice these pass two weeks. She also started a new chemo that seems to be working. The doctors are expecting her to start remission soon. If she does she'll be sent to Children's Hospital for a bone marrow transplant in the next few weeks. I want to thank everyone who PM'd me or left comments. I really appreciate all of the prayers and support. Thank you guys sooooo very much!!! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ ***11 May*** I just wanted to let everyone know that I won't be around for a while due to a family emergency. My mother was diagnosed with small cell cancer in October. She went into remission in January but the cancer came back in March. Last night she was rushed to the hospital with a severe infection and is now in ICU. The doctors are doing all that they can but still told my father that all the family needs to be contacted to know how serious her condition is. I'm flying home tomorrow on a one way ticket to be with my family in Mississippi. I have no idea when I'll be back to my home in Virginia. I have uploads already set to go out until the end of the month but I won't be able to reply to messages or comments. Thanks! Priscilla These ribbons are for my mom, Mary, who was diagnose with Small Cell Cancer in October '07. My 11 year old niece Hannah, diagnose with Leukemia in February '08. And my uncle T-Boy, diagnose with Lung Cancer in '04 (he was in remission until this past March)!

1000 Thanks! :D

Wow. Thank you all so much.

I have just reached the 1000 thanks mark. Well it was 1002 when I logged on hehe.

I am glad you all liked my creations and I wanted to thank you too.

Happy simming

Amanda

So, guess what...

On May 22nd, at 2 AM I became an uncle! My sister gave birth to a healthy baby boy and named him Leo! We are all so happy right now - I finally have an excuse to call my parents old ( "Hey grandpa!" " What�s up grandma?" ), and I get to teach my nephew how to drive my sister and brother-in-law crazy with 1001 questions starting with "Why?" I�m so going to be a cool, funny and good-looking uncle who�s like...well, cool! I can�t wait! As for now all Leo does is sleeping, eating and pooping (yea, a regular diaper filler. Kid�s got skills!), but when he starts walking and talking he and I are going to drive people into insanity. In 3 different languages!

As for the glorious world of The Sims, new uploads are on the way. You may have noticed that my recent hairstyles have a retro touch to them, and that will continue to be so. Both "Released" and "Picture Perfect" sets that will be released soon look similar to my "Lovely Affair" hair set, but were made from a different angle and look a bit more formal. Also, there�s "Organza" dress set that somewhat reminds me of "Breakfast at Tiffany�sˇ and all that vintage glamour. Pretty nice!

And in the end, I would like to thank all of you who sign my guestbook and show your appreciation. Your kind words really make all those hours spent working with Milk Shape and Photoshop worth wile. Thank you all!

And that�s it for now. Enjoy!

Free content calendar

For all non subscribers, here is the calendar with free content for the upcoming months. If you wish to download other stuff, as long as it's older than 3 months, please let me know so I can reschedule the calendar.

Item	Free during:
Hardford Mansion	May 28 - Jun 4
Domus Secretus	Jun 5 - Jun 12
Arterbury Manor	Jun 12 - Jun 19
Aegle Modern Starter	Jun 19 - Jun 26
Logan Modern Starter	Jun 26 - Jul 3
Vaughn Modern Starter	Jul 3 - Jul 10
Taegan Modern Starter	Jul 10 - Jul 17
Maxisland Castle	Jul 17 - Jul 24
Hotel de Chamberlain	Jul 24 - Jul 31
Sutton Coldfield	Jul 31 - Aug 7
Ballet Academy	Aug 7 - Aug 14
Downtown Victorian Center	Aug 14 - Aug 21
Sir Godric's Castle (Pottery Shop)	Aug 21 - Aug 28

Happy simming everyone! :)

Landscape Paintings Withdrawn!

Hi again! Since there has been another report of a missing file, I have decided to withdraw my 'Landscape Paintings Collection' for the time being to try and rectify this problem.

I intend to redo the files and then re-package them and hope that this solves it. Like I said before, I have no idea why this should suddenly happen as I have never had any problems with my previous submissions, and I really don't why this is happening now.

Anyway, I'll try again, and hopefully they will be successful this time.


Confused Mad Cow!

**Forgotten Furniture TC91**

I just got word that my Forgotten Furniture TC91 (all 4 sets) files are not working at the moment...I am sooo sorry, and I won't be able to fix this until I get home this weekend. I'm out of state on vacation at the moment, and I appreciate all your patience and reporting the files to bring them to my attention.

Still Studying

I haven't been around much lately, either here at my page or in the Texture Challenge forum, because I am still studying meshing with Blender, which has been taking up a lot of my time. Blender is a great program, once you get over "button shock". And there is so much to learn about it besides just how to use it for meshing. It is such a self contained program you don't need a seperate UV unwrapping/mapping or photoshop type program. It even has its own internal file system where you can keep folders full of textures and other images, as well as access any file, folder or other program anywhere on your computer right from within Blender! It isn't something you can learn in a few days, or even two months, which is about how long I have been earnestly studying how to use it. The first mesh I made with it is posted here in my blog, and I am proud of it, but I want to get a bit more familiar with all Blenders meshing tools, as well as how to UV unwrap/map, before I start experimenting with importing things into the game. But I will get there, and maybe sooner than I think.....