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Kitchen & Bathroom Stuff!!

Hi!

Now I have it:

- The fresh new Kitchen Stuff Pack on my desk!!

Can't wait to install it but I have to! I am dying to start building again, but I really have to finish with my garden first. We managed to build the major part of the terrace last weekend - and I was dealing with 3000 kg:s of stones to decorate the walls that surround our front yard. Every muscle hurts but it's only good after all this sitting by the computer! I will have to order more stones to get the right impression and with my husband we will continue to finish with the details of the terrace.

What it come to Sims2 building I am collecting ideas and will start bulding soon. I try to build some of the houses with only University, Home Busines and Nightlife EP:s so that the lots would be available for as many as possible.

Happy simming to everyone!

Tiina

I lost my little Chip Kitty.

Today was one of the worst days in my life. We (me, my hubby and hiedibear) had to take my little black kitty, Chip, to be put to sleep. He dropped a whole lot of weight, was not eating or drinking. Last week, I started giving him a kitty version of insure and water by syringe, until we could get him to the vet. His breath and pee smelled like fingernail polish remover. It turns out that Persian Kitty's are prone to kidney failure. And that is what happened to my baby. The vet tried to pull him out of it with i.v.'s and antibiotics and special kitty food, and an appetite stimulant. He seemed to improve at the vets, but went downhill once he was home again. I was up at my mom's house this weekend. By the time I got home, Chip could hardly walk at all. I kept him in bed with me (I called in to work and took the day off), and sang to him (he liked to be sang to) and brushed him (he just got where he enjoyed being brushed too, dang it!). Then, this morning, we had to take him in. It was horrible. We just took him in, said our sobbing goodbyes and we left him there. Our other kitties, Oreo and Prnacer seem worried about me and keep hanging around with me. Prancer is being a clown and playing with me (fetch, with his ball). Oreo is just being lovey. Sorry this is a downer..but I can't help it...I am so sad. He just turned 3 on February 25th. Just a baby still.

New week & New creations

Hello, dear friends! How are you? I'm fine and I enjoyed the day. The wetter in the Netherlands is really beautiful!! Past weekend, and also today, there were almost no clouds, it was just a little bit windy. Yesterday (Sunday) and also today on Monday, we did have a very nice temperature with lots of sunshine!!! Jippie, I love that! I really do!! With my family I went into the garden to drink a cuppa thee, with a little bit honey ( thank you bizzy bees!) and a biscuit to nibble. When I was sipping my tea, I enjoyed it very much to see to fly the first tiny butterfly's, and to hear those lovely singing birds. I love it and it made me verry happy and relaxed. When the evening has come, I've got an nice idea and I started to build a community lot. It's themed about relaxing from your everyday's routine job. We all need to do someting like that... Jep, Relax. It's very important!! Just sitting down, sipping your tea and enjoy the beauty of the annimals and nature! Today I submitted a fantasy dog and the community lot; "Auqa Del Fuego" with a swimmingpool. It's landscaped & surrounded with various tropical plants and a little creek to fish. Hope you like them... The Blue Diamond dog is a fantasy dog, wich I created for my Sims. I just wanted to share this guy and I hope your Sims wil have a lot of fun with him to. I Did! BTW: Please don't worry about the t-shirts for teengirls. They are ready to upload, but... I wasn't satisfied about the pictures wich I created at the past week for the previeuw and also the reason why it takes me a little bit longer. And thank you very much for downloading. You make me so happy with all the lovely feedback!! It gives me the inspiration to create a lot of new stuff. Thanks for all of your kind & great support!!! Have a wonderful & sunny week!! Grtz, Dirtdevill

For Katherine

As you may have heard, one of our Select Artists, Katherine (known here as My Lady Craven), died tragically on March 17th following a road traffic accident. I didn't know Katherine very well but we corresponded for a while as I helped her develop her preview picture style. She came across as a very happy, friendly, enthusiastic person who clearly loved The Sims. She was very supportive of the creators here and often left encouraging comments. I have decided to make a particular set of my gowns, Marquise, which she said she loved, freely available permanently in her memory. R.I.P. Katherine.

100 000 Downloads!

Finally I've reached a milestone - a small one maybe, but none-the-less, it means a lot to me, so a very big THANK YOU to everybody who has downloaded my creations, and an even bigger THANK YOU to all those who have left comments and thanked me - it's very much appreciated I've been working on some new ideas (as well as completing Challenges - they are becoming so addictive now!), and to start with, have three sets of textured carpets on offer - a set of light colours, one of mid colours, and the final set in dark colours - I hope you like them! I've also got some new walls and floors which I'll probably upload at the end of the week, and some more textured rugs - that's what having two weeks holiday does! (I needed something to counteract all the boring chores!). Mad Cow

Chapter 25 & 26 are written

So I spent most of Saturday afternoon writing chapter 25 and 26. I am very happy that I rewrote 25 and really like the direction I moved in. I even surprised myself.

I'll be going to Florida to see a friend next week and am going to try to get at least publish chapter 25 before I go.

Here's how the story looks so far:

Chapter 25: The Repercussion
Chapter 26: The Thoughtful Sister
Chapter 27: The Change of Mind
Chapter 28: The Happy Ending

FoMD Kitchen Approved

The Flowers of May Day Kitchen Set has been approved and will be out on Tuesday the 22nd. I'm going to have to get a move on because I don't have the bathroom done yet. But honest I have a good reason!! ;p I got Pets on Thursday and since I'm still fighting the crud going around Denver I thought it would be easier to spend a little time playing. I've been missing the chance to play my Sims game now that I'm creating anyway. I test everything in the game but that's not the same really as actually playing.

Anyway I thought I would be playing. But since adding Pets I've had more trouble with the game. Technically I think it's a download, the problem is I don't know which of the current downloads it is. Luckily I always keep a backup file of my The Sims 2 folder, good thing too. Whatever this download is it doesn't matter if I remove it from the folder. Once I've actully put my 'new downloads testing' folder into the download file and tried to start the game, nothing except removing the folder again and then reinstalling my The Sims 2 folder in My Documents will let me start the game again. It is very disappointing because there are at least three new downloads in that file that I really really want including Ceruleon Talon's new Oak set and Shadow66's beautiful Tropical paintings. Ohhhhh and CT's new bathroom! Darn it that's why it wasn't in my Buy catalog last night when I was trying to build that pretty green and white bathroom.

God I hate having to put every little individual piece in one at a time and testing the game. If I could just figure out which download was bad. They look fine and none of them say they have to have one of the stuff packs I don't have yet. Grrrrrrrr!

News about MyLadyCraven

To our regret we have to inform you that Katherine/Myladycraven has after a bad automobile accident in January this year, passed away. She was getting better for a while, but suffered more consequences after her injuries in the traumatic accident and after surgery she didn�t recover and she passed away on 17th March 2008. We have been in contact with one of her friends and she wanted you to know what had happened to Katherine.

We think of her family in these hard times, and we have sent our condolences to them through her friend to let them know we have had Katherine in our minds. We will remember her as one of TSR�s Select Artists and her lovely work will always be here.

/TSR management

Poor Hubby

I just want to say a big thank you to my Hubby Spike, who is bearing up well in the wake of my current creating addiction! LOL So, thank you honey, love you loads.

He is an Artist, used to using brushes, paints, pastels etc. So I have been asking him his opinion on items, as I tweak around with them :o)

He isn't really into Sims either, but his curiosity on the design front is starting to kick in. I'm hoping he will do me some designs soon that I can convert into a digital image to play with and render ready for interior designs.

Sims 3

I was reading an article in Microsoft Windows magazine about Sims 3. About the only thing I hated about Sims 2 was that you could play several generations in that one lot and noone else aged. EA did solve that a tad I noticed in later Expansion packs, not sure which one, as you sometimes get the option to age someone associated to the person growing up.

But Sims 3 will actually age the entire neighborhood together, nice. Though I have to wonder how their working marriages and pregnancies. I mean it makes sense for the whole neighborhood to age together. But without Sims in other lots getting married and have kids you can see that eventually the neighborhood would be a ghost town.

Still I can't wait till its released next year.