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Designing!!!!

I have been bitten by the "Design" bug. While I am addicted to buying empty lots for my Sims and building homes on them, I never share these nice homes because I can't remember everything I put in them.

That being said, I am going to design a home with basic wall coverings and basic floor coverings. I will also use a kitchen set done by either EA games or a TSR Artist who allows re-uploads.

Wish me luck!!!!

- Cyn

Story

My story is on the way! But, it's so many things to do 'till it's done... :) I need to build tons of houses and comunity lots... :P I just have plot and a family which will this story be about.... So many things to do....

Creating a lot!

Hi there, 

As you can see, news houses comming up!

Don't forget to answer on the poll for me to know what you would like me to create!

Have fun!

BIG hurdle

Talk about hitting a HUGE roadblock! 

I was making the walls for "Seashell Melody" & all was going quite well.....I had (just not the collage portion) made & packaged up ALL of the walls with MOSTLY wallpaper, ALL the wallpaper + tile, ALL of the walls using Coral paint including the tiles & wallpaper combos, ALL of the walls using Sand paint including the tiles & wallpaper combos.....just fine, then came the color Sea All but ONE wall went into HomeCrafter & packaged up AOK (ALL the paint/wallpaper combos, all the tile/paint combos, and all but ONE of the paint ONLY walls) so 13 of 14 Sea walls went OK. 

I've tried shutting down & restarting Home-Crafter, I've tried re-resizing + resaving the image used IN Home-Crafter (which by the way when I veiw the image through the folder.....it LOOKS just fine) but HOME-CRAFTER is showing it as a BLACK wall instead of MY pretty "Sea" blue wall. :(

I'm not exactly what one would call "a wall making newb" here so I'm not sure why this is happening.

NOW the question is; #1 just keep making the walls & exclude PAINT4 of each color?  #2 make all others & JUST the "Sea" will need to have a notation of "missing ONE wall" (doesn't seem like the BEST alternative to me)? #3 hold off til someone can help me figure out what's going on so that ALL of the walls can be published?

just a moment

Hi guys

I'm on a break for a few days... First of all, I am truly sad of the tragic bus accident in Switzerland that happened to children and adults of my country... I still cannot believe it. I hope all victims and their family and friends make it through this terribly sad period in their lives, my thought go out to all of them!

Secondly, I'm having surgery on Tuesday and I will be on bedrest for 7 weeks... But I will be able to play some Sims 3 from my bed.

And last of all I'm totally re-installing my game and all CC to get rid of those terrible pet bugs which keep me from uploading certain furnished lots.

I still have lots for upload untill the end of April, so you can still download new lots. I will be back in a few days, maybe a few weeks. So if I don't immediately respond to your comments on my lots or pictures or entries in my guestbook, I am sorry.

Thanks for understanding.

Ceramic

Ceramic

I'm new ... but

Hi everyone!

   My subject line is not exactly accurate.  I've been a member of TSR for many years and have played all of the SIMs variations over the years.  However, when it comes to building content and submitting to TSR, I've just begun.

   I'm a little different in my approach.  The Sims 3 offers lovely and CLEAN worlds, lots, and everything else and I really would like to create a dark and dank world with falling down structures, dives populated by dark creatures and the potential for many untoward things to occur.  My first step and the one I have begun to build is to create a world based on this premise.  It will be called Nightmist.

   I am using a variety of concepts in building Nightmist including TV shows such as True Blood and Lost Girl for the landscape and buildings.  I really like the idea of a swamp leading into a 'city' and the diversity of play areas this allows for.  But overall it's the darkness that's important.  I want our friendly and happy SIMs to be nervous and uncomfortable in many of their life experiences and since the uncomfortable options in Create a Sim can give those personality traits, it's my goal to create paranoid characters for my own playworld.  I don't know where it will lead.

   Anyway, I am at the earliest stages of this project and have decided to upload some of the lots I am working on.  The first of those was a swamp house and the second a poor family starter.

   I'm open to ideas and thoughts about how to make this world the best it can be.  I hope to hear from you!

   Blackfyre

Testing Showtime

I have been testing some of the windows on my recent house. I don't think I will be using them again. Limited use for those. They very clearly say concrete to me, and that's not really my thing. Perhaps they would work in an underground eco house? 

Anyways I have started on a lot I can't upload here because of Awesims cornices. It's a villa I saw in Rome. I'm making it a Showtime cafe if that's going to work with performers. I'll have to playtest a lot. 

See the building before decorating on my blog: http://www.volvenomtullarask.com/

Seashell Melody

Seashell Melody: 132 coordinating walls & floors with a pretty seashell theme.

OK so I'm done with the 1st step of making these walls & floors.

This set has 10 colors; Coral, Sand, Sea, SeaSnailBrown, SeaStoneGray, ShallowBlue, Shell, Starfish, WetSand, WoodenHull (all colors are named after something SEA-ish). Several painted walls for accents, several with wallpaper/paint combo, & coordinating tile.

There are several tiles each named for the hieght of the tiles; ("SeashellMelody HB75 ShallowBlue TILEpotty", "SeashellMelody HB75 ShallowBlue TILEsink", "SeashellMelody HB75 ShallowBlue TILEtub", "SeashellMelody HB75 ShallowBlue TILEtrim", "SeashellMelody HB75 TILE FULL" .  2 floors; "SeashellMelody HB75 TILE floor1", "SeashellMelody HB75 TILE floor2" (same tile just in 2 different sizes).  For each wall that isn't FULL tile it will have 1 of 10 paint colors OR 1 of 2 wallpapers.

I have not decided how I'll be packaging up these 132 walls & floors......hard to show them ALL off in one pic/package.......but on the other hand people may rather ONE BIG SET rather than a bunch of smaller sets.....dunno yet.  Feed back while I'm still in the creating PROCESS?

Spring Break

Hi everyone! I'm on spring break, but I have a couple of nice items ready for you to download. For Sims 3 I've a wonderful old stone farmhouse, a play park and for Sims 2 three adorable dresses for that special little girl (or in the case of my poor family, triplets). -- Smiles and lots of hugs, Ceri