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Downtime Ended

I've received some kind messages asking about me during my prolonged absence from TSR. Thank you.

Well, I eventually moved house - twice - (its a long story!) and I now live in wet and windy Wales. I have also finally rebuilt, upgraded, and re-installed my main computer. Since then I've been ill for quite some time, but I now really do expect to be back and contributing very soon, and the first step was to purchase and create this new mini-site.

Now, what colour to choose - Blue: its too much like the rest of the site, Pink: not really me, Grey: a bit drab maybe, but it sets everything else off nicely - Grey it is. Now what else is there to play with here ...

Skull Guitar

Coming on 6-25, I will have up my first new instrument mesh. I call it the Skull Guitar.

Trust me it wasn't as easy as I thought! But thankfully there are a lot of people out there who know what they are doing as don't mind helping.

But before I get into that, there is something about the guitar I want to make sure you all know. You need to down a hack from MTS2 and put it in your download folder under The Sims2 directory to make it work. You can find the hack here:

Custom Instrument Hack V 4.0


Now on to the thanks you's. First off I want to thank Paleoanth. When I told her about my idea, I asked since she did a skeleton if she had a skull mesh. She sent it to me right away. I owe you big time!

I also want to thank Two folks over at MTS2. Echo and atavera. Echo helped me figure out what to do to bring the guitar to life, and atavera made the Hack and a tutorial on how to do cutom instruments.
Sure made my life easy!

And finally I want to thank Cyclone Sue, AnoeskaB and Birgit43. For willing to answer my PMs and try to help out the best they could. You all ROCK!!!!

I hope you all enjoy my guitar. I know I think it's cool!

SAD News

I'm sorry to announce that I no longer have time to make new stuff and I don't know if in the future I'll be able to get back to making Sims 2 creations . But I will still be a active member of this community and visit this site almost everyday . I want to say thank you to all the people who appreciate my work and leaved me all the nice comments and messages .

More Sintesi colours

The two other recolours of the Sintesi living room, matching the bedroom, have just been published. I think it was about time, since pink and blue aren't the most suitable colours for a living room.

I know nobody will care, but I'm going to tell you why I called those sets Sintesi. This is the italian word for the english "synthesis" (quite similar) and I thought that those items were the perfect (?!?) synthesis between different materials that blend together, in most cases two different woods, and in some items wood and glass.

Someone asked me to make more Sintesi items, but I don't know yet if I will add more rooms or other recolours. Maybe a matching study or dining room can be done, but that kind of curved surfaces don't work well on every piece of furniture.
Let me know what you would like to see and I'll try to make it.

A Little Bummed/Creative Block

Well, I finally had to do it....I had to get rid of one of my expansion packs to make room on my computer, not to mention, getting rid of a very annoying bug with buying clothes on community lots (which I couldn't do). Plus I deleted all of my downloads and am starting entirely over again downloading things from TSR. And I have to say, that I'm being very picky now when it comes to downloading. I still don't have some of the things showing up in my game that I have downloaded, like windows and doors and some other things, so my lots are going to be a little blah for a few submissions, but I hope to be back up to speed in a few weeks. With the onset of having to get rid of my downloads, it makes it really difficult for me to create lots of the kind that I previously was submitting, but I hope in the coming weeks that they'll be as impressive and creative as before!

NOT old!

I have a birthday imminently.

It has a zero in it. I am NOT pleased about that!

And yes, just ONE zero in it, thank you!

Awesome Lots!!

As you can see from my "About Me" section, I like to promote others' art. As an English major, this has typically been the wonderful stories from some really good storytellers here at TSR. I'm not above pimping my friends when they make great creations and Quengel is no exception. She works hard on her houses and is one of the few to take special care that she only uses *free* custom content in her lots so that everyone can enjoy them! Her lots are unique and excellently designed. If you're reading this and you have a minute, why not stop by Quengel's page? I know she would really appreciate your comments and support. She's one of the sweetest people I know too, so you're sure to hear back from her.

June 25th, OUAT Nursery Extras

The OUAT Nursery Extras collection is scheduled for publication on June 25th. The collection includes a toy train, toddler's table and chairs set, 2-tile curtains, dresser, desk, desk chair, bookcase, and toy chest. The toddler sized toy train and table set (2-tile objects) are cloned from Maxis' potty chair. The bladder motive was removed, while fun and energy levels were increased for both objects. The OUAT Nursery Extras are a collection of furnishing that will grow with your child. I hope you enjoy the set! Happy Simming!

All Hail the Superman!

Yesterday I went to Six Flags New England and went on one of the best rollercoasters ever, the Superman! Here's a pic: I love rollercoasters and I had come to the point where they made me laugh. But this one made me scream. The first drop was about 220 ft. It was so much fun, it was worth the hour plus wait in line. I also went on the Batman which was fun and I laughed along the whole time. Now New England also has the Cyclone, named after the one at Coney Island but I don't know if it's the same model. It's an old wooden coaster and my friend and I thought, "Oh, this will be a breeze," as we watched the wooden structure wave and buckle under the weight of the train. Well, for an old coaster with shorter drops, it still made me scream. The drops were fast and steep and banged you around. It was awesome. Oh, on my 2 hour drive down to Siz Flags, I thought out Chapter 14. I already knew of 2 of the surprises, one of them I've been building up to since Chapter 7. It is the ultimate twist of the story. The other is an added surpirse that will help lead into that ultimate surprise. I'm excited. I pretty much have it written out so I'm hoping to play it out today and have it uploaded tonight!

I'm baaaaack!!!

Whew! I'm back from vacation. I had a wonderful time in Las Vegas, lots of sightseeing, people watching, shopping and a little bit of gambling. It's great to be back and now I have time for the important things in life, Simming!!! LOL!

I hope to release a new set soon. Take Care, Carolyn