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More "Prisoner" Lots

Next to come: the house inhabited ny Number Six in "The Prisoner", based on the Round House in Portmeirion. I have had to take a few liberties with this design (as the interior in the show is a lot bigger than the exterior), but I think I keep the spirit of it. :)

Yes, I've got a mini-site!

Welcome to my mini-site! I thank each one and everyone who dowloaded my creations and made possible to me to get enough kudos to buy this space! Thank you all of the great meshers who kindly share their meshes, Confide and LianaSims2, in special! I've worked a lot to get this mini-site and I promise you I'll be making many new skins and I do hope you will enjoy them! So...what else? I'm very proud to be here! Thank you again and thank you TSR!

STORIES~~DRACULA AND OTHERWISE

In the process of uploading the next installation of "The Van Helsing Chronciles" and it has been a real struggle to keep it PG-13!! I wholly understand and agree with TSR's guidelines for stories being posted. But I find myself chewing my fingernails waiting to see if each chapter will be OK'd or not! LOL!

A large number of storytellers have left TSR and started their own blogs because they felt constricted by the PG-13 guidelines. I am willing to work within the framework TSR has laid out. When I feel I no longer can, I will make a decision then.

Also I have rec'd some messages/questions regarding Dracula and vampires. Bram Stoker's Dracula novel is part of the public domain. 50 years after an author's death, his work becomes "public domain" that means I can do whatever I like to Stoker's characters, like changing the vampire mythology (like vampire's having children, etc)and using his characters in a story. SO I am making up my own rules (vampire-wise) as I go along, it's more fun that way! LOL!

Again, thanks for all the support for my little tales, it gives me the will to continue!! I am humbled by all the support!

Cheers~~Karen

EarthGoddess54: MIA

Good morning everyone! Unfortunately, I have to be the bearer of bad tidings once again. Seems to be a regular thing for me lately, actually. hehe

Here's the scoop: a friend of mine recently brought to my attention that some of my new meshes overwrite their Maxis counterparts. I have retested every new mesh and the Maxis items they were cloned from. Most of them are fine, that's the good news.

The bad news is that amongst the perpetrators are some popular downloads. (full list below) While they look and work fine in your games, the Maxis objects they were cloned from will not work until you have either deleted my meshes or replaced them with the fixed ones. :( And not to worry, no damage has been done to your game.

The reason this happens is because some items that allocate more than one tile in your game (such as beds and sofas), have more than one OBJD (object data). My fault here is that I only gave the main OBJD a new GUID, when I should have given each OBJD a new GUID. Because some of the OBJD's had the old GUIDS, they overwrote the Maxis items.

I have fixed this problem and retested everything. Problem solved! (big thanks to Spaik for helping me out with this!)

I am sooo sorry for this screw-up. I want to give you all a list of excuses but the truth of the matter is that I am new to meshing and I just didn't think to test this. I have been rightfully accused of being scatterbrained and this is no exception! lol

On a side note, I am busy in real life so I will be spending all of my allocated Sims time working on a side project & checking in here. You will not likely see anything new from me here on TSR for some time. (though I will continue filling requests when I can)

Again, my sincerest apologies. I hope you will bear with me while I am feeling my way through the meshing process. The good news is that now that I know this can happen, it won't happen again! ;)

Have a great day & take care.

- Stace

Already updated the following sets (they have been tested and are ready for re-download)

Simple Modern (sofa, loveseat, coffee table)
Spunky Retro (loveseat & coffee table)
Curve Appeal (bed, dresser, painting)
Royal Jewels (bed, desk, dresser)
Pure Ultramodern (coffee table, curtains, loveseat, TV)
Royal Jewels Nusery (crib, changing table)

Poll Resuts

Thanks to an interfering teen, who may possibly survive her next birthday lol! the poll ended earlier than planned, so I have recreated the same poll, results from first poll here, once the new poll is completed I will add any new votes to get a final result.

Question: What is your favourite theme?

Gothic/halloween 33.33% (14)
Modern 19.05% (8)
Medieval 28.57% (12)
Holiday 9.52% (4)
Space Age 0% (0)
Other 9.52% (4)

Beach House Windows, Doors & Arches

The new Beach House windows set is due to be published on Tuesday 18th September. It consists of plain 1-tile and 2-tile windows and shuttered 2-tile and 3-tile windows. Please note that the Master file of this set is the Shuttered Short 2-Tile Window - it is clearly marked within the set and on the set preview. The Doors & Arches and the Recolours set will be to follow.

My Wedding

Hey all!

I'm heading back home again, my father is starting his Kemo tomorrow and I need to help him out and drive him around for the next 6 weeks. I have also decided while I'm back down there, to get married and have my wedding at home with my whole family. So I've had to do alot of organizing with changing venues and all that wedding stuff.

I have also created some more outfits in my spare time as well, but unfortunately I have run out of time to do the previews and submit them. But as soon as I get the chance, I will definately put them on TSR.

My next collection will be sportswear and then I may do a ballgown set of maybe another Bridal Set. Haven't really decided yet!

Sorry for the long wait! But hopefully everything will go back to normal soon!

Back On Track

I'm feeling a bit better and have started uploading my Victorian Interior walls again. I sat here at the computer all day and just made new walls and floors. My husband probably thinks I have some form of OCD where Sims paint colors are concerned. I know it's not necessary to have every color fathomable, but I like having tons to choose from (even if I tend to use the same ones over and over).

I also have several new houses available. Which has yielded a new "garage wall" set. Not only have I taken a liking to build houses at odd angles, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to make a side garage. (Yes, I've downloaded and printed the tutorial here are TSR, and I still don't get it.) One day I'll sit down and try it again, but for now I'll use my faux garage wall. I don't think anyone has yet figured out how to place garage doors on a diagonal anyway, so I'm clear in that department.

Sept. 17th, Modern Laundry Extras

Now that you've installed a "Hi-Efficiency Washer and Dryer" does your laundry room need a redesign? The Modern Laundry Extras which will be published on September 17th will add style and organization to any laundry room. The set consisted of new objects, recolors and a collection folder.

Instructions for Downloads

Just a quick reminder that pretty much all of the sets I publish have instructions for use in the game.

For example, I think nearly all of my sets have 'Masters' and 'Slaves', where multiple objects (the slaves) are dependent on a specified single object (the master), so their textures show up in the game. The reason for using this 'master' and 'slave' technique is that it significantly reduces the file size of all those slaves. In my sets I always give the instructions for this with the red link that will take you directly to the master file.

Another example is with the GEA Build Set which contains modular stairs which require a script to place in your Scriptorium folder (an invaluable Numenor creation) or in the script files of your game. If you're inexperienced at the latter, I'd heartily recommend Numenor's scriptorium mod (if you don't know where to get it, drop me a PM). If you try and use the modular stairs in-game without the script, your game will crash.

Now, even though I've been thorough with the information I've given within the set downloads, I think sometimes I've been remiss in the lack of information I've given on the supersets especially. Not every downloader goes into the sets to look at the items individually thereby missing the information that has been given.

So, I'm going to go through the sets and amend the wordings on the set previews where necessary so that downloaders will know that there are special instructions for use.