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Moving on up

well, not really up, but more to the left. Haha. I won't be able to submit for a while, as I'm moving across country :P Well almost. Over half way there! Ontario bound I shall be. I will be working on stuff on my spare time, but once I'm on the airplane internet usage will be to a minimal with me. You can expect lots of stuff when I get back from my voyage.

Next Please...

Well, it looks like O-Ring is doing well, so now I introduce Ornamental! With it's softly flowing waves and teardrop design, this is sure to bring on the '70's flashbacks (hopefully, in a good way). Ornamental in Iced Rose: and Ornamental in Mint: As always, have an AMAZING day!

Sintesi Bedroom

I've been away for a while, but I hope you'll find the result worth the waiting. My new project is a bedroom; not a common bedroom, but the bedroom I actually sleep in every night (or at least most of the objects you'll find here come from there). It gave me some problems, but I wanted it to look exactly like my real one. I made both single and double bed, bedside table with a glass shelf and some books on it, a dresser with a similar glass shelf and some jewel boxes, a wall mirror with a small bracket and perfumes on it, table and floor lamps. I completed the set with the bedding and matching wallpaper and a neutral wood floor. There are some minor fixes I want to make and some more testing, but I think I'll be able to submit it in a couple of days.

New lots

Hi everyone, Things have been a bit hectic on my side for the past few weeks but its finally settling down and I can get back to building again :-) Here is a preview of the next two lots I will be uploading as soon as I finish testing them to make sure there are no problems. Till then I hope you are all keeping well. Happy simming :-)

April 19th, Victorian Nursery Collection Folder

A collection folder for my Victorian Inspired Nursery set, will be published on April 19th. Happy Simming!

This Goes With That - Curtains & Rug Sets

While laying out my sets lately - people have been asking about the fixtures in the rooms I have used, which were sometimes not from TSR. So to give you more bang for your TSR buck - I have recoloured Padre333 beautiful curtains and Echo's rug. You can download the curtains from Padre333 here. I would also (if I were you) take the time to download all versions of the curtains as my one file will colour all three: single, double and triple size curtains. I also recoloured Echo's rug. This has got to be the most recoloured rug on the net so I thought I would throw my lot into the mix! You can download the original mesh here. hugs Nancy xx

nVidia DDS utilities updated =)

DDS Utilities version 8.31.0225.1745 released - please update your software

Note: If you are looking for texture compression tools, please take a look at nVidia's new GPU-Accelerated Texture Tools, which provide a 10x performance boost if you have a GeForce 8 Series GPU.

This installer includes four separate utilities:
* nvDXT - convenient command-line access to nvDXTlib functionality and more
* detach - extracts MIP levels from a .DDS file
* stitch - recombines MIP levels into a single .DDS file
* readDXT - reads compressed images and writes .TGA files
* nvDXTlib - library for working with .DDS files

The latest release includes several improvements:
* Support for Visual Studio 2005 and 2003 libraries
* Texture sizes up to 8k by 4K are now supported (previously 2k x 2k was the limit)
* Support for DXT5_NM (compressed normal maps)
* The "Fastest" quality mode has been significantly improved
* Internal calculations are now performed using floating point arithmetic, resulting in higher quality textures.

Download link: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/dds_utilities.html

Help me decide....

My latest poll has to do with the color scheme for my mini-site. There are so many great colors to choose from, I just can't make up my mind.

So thats where all of you come in. I am letting all of you that visit my mini-site decide what color I should use.

I have already had a few votes on this, but I hope for some more. I am planning on keeping up for a least a month, so let you voice be heard and vote.

The only thing i am going to do, is when I check it the leading color will become my color for now. So when you see it change you know I have a lot of votes for that color.

I hope more of you will vote on this and help me make up my mind. This may be my mini-site, but in truth it also belongs to all of you that come to look and download my creations.

So again, LET YOU VOICE BE HEARD! Vote in my poll

Modern Apartment Living

Now for a complete change of pace and era, modern apartment living this will be a whole set of rooms and build objects all interchangeable when finished

The Real Life Thomas and Jessica

The recent story that I submitted was based (somewhat) on my experiences during and after the time that my long time boyfriend was deployed overseas to the war in Iraq. We're not actually married yet, (we've been together for several years) and I didn't have a baby with him, but a lot of the experiences I wrote about were things that we've been going through since he got home. Anyway, I thought you all might like to meet the "real life" Jessica and Thomas......which is actually me (Robin) and my boyfriend Dan. My Sim "Thomas" looks so much like my boyfriend, that it's uncanny! I didn't do so well on making Jessica look like me. (she's much prettier!) This first picture is one that we took right before he was deployed. We were able to spend several days at the beach before he left. This is the "real" me. This is the "real" Thomas. And this is Dan when he finally came home. And this is a picture I had a friend of mine take of me while he was in Iraq and I sent it to him.