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new lots

Currently I'm working on two new lots. Just some experimenting with pools.

This is it!

I've been dreaming of getting my own mini-site for so long that I have trouble believing this is actually happening. So, if you happen to stumble upon this page by accident, drop me a line or two so I know this is the real thing.

Happy simming everyone! :)

Kitchens

Good morning! Ok, so I'm not really a morning person, but it's saturday. On Saturdays, I get my husband up for work early, then start laundry and work on my creations for TSR/Simaholics.

My Spring Chicken Kitchen was released earlier this week, and I got the most wonderful comment on it from CVScorpio! In addition, she requested a bunch of recolors for this kitchen - dark blue, lavender, yellow, white, peach, light orange. Hmm...I'm not much for white (too bright), and yellow might be ok, but the rest I can definitely do. Since I start my college classes on August 30th (in addition to working full time, with a husband and 4 kids), I won't have as much time as I'd like to devote to creating, so I'm on the ball!!! I have a blue texture picked out, so that one will be next.

If anyone has any requests, please, let me know! My greatest inspiration comes from YOU! I may not be picasso, but I will give it my best shot. I'm not a mesh artist (yet), but I can do a mean recolor when given direction and a little time. Sock it to me!

Upcoming recolors

Well, finally, the Glamour Life items are done in mission match woods. Have had a request for Pets, Atomic Age furniture. So I have started on that. Just the grown-up stuff for now, not the kids stuff. These recolors will also recolor Simaddict99's Atomic Nursery meshes & her Add-Ons Meshes woods. Enjoy!

Recolors To Be Removed

Due to a lack of response from the former Sims2Luxe owners, my recolors of their sets will be removed. I hope those those who have the meshes and my recolors are enjoying them. **sigh** I will miss that little site.

I appreciate your understanding in this matter.

Sim Beans Coffee House Uniforms

I finally installed Open For Business a few weeks ago. I've been having a lot of fun playing at shops but found that I was disappointed with the choice of uniforms for my staff and decided to have a go at making some alternatives. Here is my first offering: a set of coffee house uniforms for elders, adults, young adults and teens, with matching baseball caps.



This is just a very simple recolour of the standard Maxis apron and baseball cap. You will need to have OFB installed in order that the aprons show up amongst the everyday clothing choices. If you don't have OFB, the apron mesh came with the base game (I think) for use by NPCs, so you could probably use my aprons as replacement NPC skins (the NPC Replacer utility makes this very simple). The baseball cap is base game compatible. It shows up under hairstyles and replaces the Sim's current hairstyle. For the girls, the hairstyle changes to a baseball cap worn over a short ponytail. Unfortunately, it isn't possible for your Sim to wear the cap over his or her current hairstyle. Perhaps in Sims 3...

Garden & Farm Tools

Inspiration for this set is thanks to Sk8Iowa - she made a request in the forums for buyable versions of the Seasons autumn leaves and while I haven't been able to get those objects to work exactly as I want them to (yet), I did decide to go ahead and bundle up these hand tools for you all to enjoy with the approaching autumn.

Set includes hanging, dropped and leaning versions of a fan rake, hoe, spade, scythe and hedge shears, plus a watering can. To cut down on file sizes, I've made all the hanging versions master texture files and they will be required for the dropped and leaning versions. All objects are base game compatible and I've also included a collection file so you can quickly and easily find everything. :) Look for this set this coming Mon., Aug. 20'07.

TC Showroom

I just wanted to let you know about a forum thread where you can show screen shots of your homes that are decorated with the Texture Challenge items. It can be found here: http://forums.thesimsresource.com/showthread.php?t=339284

I hope if you have downloaded TC items, you will visit and show us what you do with our creations!

On another note, still no word about Sims2Luxe. I'll keep you posted.

Non-Charmed Fans

As i continue in My Quest of making all things Charmed, I realize that as the show is now only seen in re-runs that there will be fewer New Charmed fans out there.
I still watch Charmed, mostly on my computer, as we have marathon Charmed days here where we will watch Charmed all day.
But i also have a few new shows that i have come enjoy almost as much, Medium & Kyle XY.
Anyhow to my point, although i do make more Charmed related Creations rather than any other i think you can use them anyhow, The Charmed ones just seemed to have such a great wardrobe.
So Enjoy!

It's My Birthday!!!!

I know i only wrote in here yesterday but the excitement of my own mini-site still hasn't worn off. It's my birthday today so i'm extra happy. What a wonderful present in being able to have my own mini-site. I turned 24 today - another year older. YAY!

As you can see i have updated my page also. I was a little tired of the Cyan colour so i decided on Blue and i'm happy with the result. I also made my Avatar and Banner to match.

I have some new creations coming out tomorrow. It's another Athletic Set - but this time Adidas and some more dresses. I haven't got anything new waiting to be approved so that's what this weekend is going to be spent doing - making more clothes. So expect some more items from me next week sometime. Happy Simming! Louise.