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A great day

I finally installed the Apartment Life-expansion and the Garden&Mansion-stuff pack i got as christmas gifts. So now my collection is compleate. Feels a little weird. But as always, I love playing it!

UM Modern Living Room Set reaches 20,000 Downloads!! Thank you!

What a great surprise! I'm really happy that you like this set so much! When I made it I never thought it will be such a success, because it was the very first object set I made ever. For my suprise, many of you like the modern design and the preview pic ...

Thank you for all the beautiful comments you left me and for all the downloads so far!

Peace, love and happyness to all of you for 2010!

With love! UM

The Year 2010

AS much as I wanted it to be normal, as much as I wanted to be happy with what is happening with my life.. there always seem to be the dark side of every success. I'm glad I have a wonderful, understanding, very loving husband.. a very sweet, thoughtful son.

What more can I ask for? To have that dark side be on the lighter side as well. That dark side means the envy, the insecurity that wraps every journey you take.

Wishing the year 2010 be more merry, happy and full of life.

Quirky problem with latest patch

Yesterday I finally took the plunge and patched Sims 3 up to the latest version (I backed EVERYTHING up first, of course).

It all seems to work perfectly except for one tiny little issue - if I try to recolour the frames of photographs my sims have taken it goes a little awry! The tiny portrait size recolours fine, no problems. The next two sizes bizarrely change to a frame that isn't solid all the way around - the frame only goes halfway along each side.

But the big issue is the panorama frame. If I try to recolour it, the game freezes immediately and there is no way to recover it.

I'd love to hear if anyone else is having this issue or if it's just a quirk of my own game.

Some New Year's Resolutions for you...

Happy New Year to you!  There, that's that boring old formality done with.  Now for the real purpose of a calendar date merely switching from one number to the next: the ridiculous excuse to make RESOLUTIONS!

But of course you haven't bothered with that.  Most resolutions (like dieting, giving up smoking, and resolving not to dredge up forum threads that are at least eight years old) are all completely phoney and you'll give up within two seconds of the last line of "Auld Lang Syne" (btw: can we PLEASE have a new dratted end-of-year song next year?!).  However, resolutions are what I'm good at (when selecting for other people, that is) and so allow me...

RESOLUTION NO 1: DOORS
Do not mention the word DOOR to me ever again during the remainder of this year.  In particular, do not come waving that grey modern door at me asking for clones.  Just don't - okay?

RESOLUTION NO 2: WINDOWS
You will learn to love inside-out windows.  They are unusual and uniquely authentic to the creator.

RESOLUTION NO 3: CONVERSIONS
It is no secret that there were some creators who were shockingly lazy and inept at Sims 2 creation.  It is therefore cruel and borderline harrassment to badger these witless creators with requests to convert their Sims 2 work to Sims 3 as it merely serves to remind them (and the rest of the world) of their ineptitude and make them a laughing-stock of the entire Sims community.  I would hate to be one of those unfortunate creators who took two months to convert some simple Gothic windows, for example.... 

RESOLUTION NO 4: HIDDEN TALENT
Resolve to understand talent like you have never understood it before.  To judge a creation by how it looks in the game or how useful it might be is such a gauche way to judge, these days.  If you find yourself looking at a questionable object that not only doesn't look very good, but also has little if any value or purpose (especially if it came from MY pages) assume that there is special hidden talent in the object's inception: some finesse, some miraculous touch to bring you an unseen level of quality that isn't cheaply obvious like those other so-called 'wonderful creations' you might hear about....

RESOLUTION NO 5: JUST LAUGH
If any creation (such as one from any of my pages) should send your game up in smoke, then it is etiquette to laugh about it.  The proper way to laugh is a light, tinkly laughter that is gentle on the ears.  You may voice appropriate words too like: "I never did mind about the little things..."  (such as Crash To Desktop and "Unable to start process..." messages).  Sims wearing their heads back to front, returning from holiday to greet themselves sat on the sofa in triplicate or a Sim suddenly married to their toddler are hardly shocking events in the world of EA at the moment, so a mere loss of everything is nothing really.  Just laugh - tinklingly.

It's Been Awhile

Well I guess it's been awhile since I posted any new creations, I'm terribly sorry for that but real life does take over sometimes, I have also been playing with  The Sims 3 World Adventures.  Well I will be uploading some new stuff very soon.  Sorry for the delay.

Thanks, Karen

I'm Baaaaack....

Hey Everyone,

Well, 2010 is here & it's time for me to get back to creating lots & neighbourhoods!

I've been using the break to gather a heap of new ideas & to recharge my batteries. I already have a few new lots on the go & will be devoting plenty of time to them. I will be continuing to create in the Sims 2 & hope to make a couple of buildings for the Sims 3. When the World Building Tool comes out for Sims 3 I'll be spending lots of time creating new worlds for the Sims 3 too! I had a blast playing with it at the Simposium & I can't wait to get busy with it!

Thanks to everyone - especially TSR - for their support while I took a break. I'm looking forward to 2010 being another bumper year full of practical lots that run fast on your computer & neighbourhoods that feel both realistic & are fun to play in!

Looking forward to catching up with you all!

Love & Hugs

Shaz

Wulle Tables Set soon!

I've created a new set of 2 new meshes:

• A coffee table.
• An endtable.

I hope that you like it and comment it.

Tell me if you want to view the rest of the

set.

All the best in New Year

I am not much here lately, I had a hard year, and it is not over yet, but I miss you guys and I wish to you all the best wishes!

In my kitchen...

I wish I could have herbs in little pots, and an onion braid on the wall... I already created a cookbook, and a bottle, and some stuff is awaiting to be accepted : two new wall paintings for the kitchen. I'm still thinking about a clock, and some stuff to let my kitchen look a little messy (like my real one, I confess... :)  )