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Wood For Sims' Barn Living Room (Nostalgia Living Room?) curtains have been helpfully texture-referenced by HugeLunatic and come in 82 Pooklet Project Mayhem natural, CuriousB Any Color You Like, Aelia Autumn over a rather felted-looking wool twill (originally from TS3 but I shrank it down too far for scale... and still liked it), 8 selected Aelia Eco fabric colors over Magpie's linen texture, and 60 wood textures-- 20 Pooklet Project Mayhem naturals over my now-favorite blend of Piggi Wood 03 and SDA's castle kitchen in Plain Wood, Kativip's LS City Bench/Chair carving, and Kativip's LS SD02 bench/chair carving.

Please note that the curtain box recolors are labeled WOOD, so the wool curtain recolors are labeled TWILL, to reduce confusion. ( This way for more! )

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In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'

The Parsimonious Oggs & Ends Souvenir Shelf by K8 requires Bon Voyage, has five slots, and comes in 20 Pooklet Project Mayhem Naturals over the Piggi Wood 03/SDA Castle Kitchen blend I've gotten so attached to.

Though there is some shading to add detail, this is not a carved recolor of the shelf; I may revisit it someday but I wanted to start with straight grain wood and the mapping was puzzling enough that by the time I figured out the back of the shelf tiles, but doesn't tile in time, as it were, with the shelves themselves, I just wanted to move on to the easy button-pushing part of the process.

( Is this a historically accurate piece? )

Behold the Tip Jar!

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'

This Gara Sofa & chair were texture-referenced by Darkmoon (very kindly and in violation of Gara's policy, but that's why I upload to my own blog so nobody can yell at anyone but me if they come back from hiatus or inactivity and go WHAT), and use Piggi's Wood 03 blended with the original textures, recolored in (of course) 20 Pooklet Project Mayhem naturals.

( See more! )

Behold the Tip Jar!

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'

So there I am, going through my Buy Mode catalog trying to figure out if there's anything I need to delete, move, reprice, fix, maybe write an entertaining item description for, when my nephew (who will be eight this weekend) invades and takes over.

Behold, what he did to my swatch lot:

I'm not saving that, I need my swatch lot, but. I had to at least immortalize it in a screenshot. He says this is its finished form.

I don't remember (and can't find) whoever texture-referenced the Parsimonious Pirate Bay set, but I deeply appreciate them. The original meshes are by K8, and come in 20 Pooklet Project Mayhem Naturals over a combination of Piggi Woods 09 and 03, with cloth in 82 Project Mayhem Naturals, Aelia Autumn, and CuriousB Any Color You Like actions over TS3 twill, PLUS my 8 Linen (selected actions from Project Mayhem, ACYL, and Aelia Autumn) over Magpie's linen textures.

( I did definitely want a more rustic look for this set, just... a little less rustic than the salt-encrusted original. )

Behold the Tip Jar!

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'

Oh man these have been in the works for a WHILE.

Back in Ye Olden Days, Gwenke graciously filled a request of mine on Garden of Shadows-- a slice of a TSM skirt attached to the waistline of a Cynnix top, made top-only in two groups, so's I could paint chausses onto the feet area and have them covered as socks by skirts and shoes (or pants and shoes, whatever floats your boat) but so the skirt and bodice of the gown wouldn't get covered up by bottom textures.

Years and years later, when I finally got around to recoloring them, I realized one of the purposes I had for them wasn't going to work-- pantsless bottoms clipped right through the butt, and even the skirt it was designed to go over (that Oph3lia Liana mashup I've retextured twice now) clipped right through on the fat morph. Simborg graciously fixed that for me, too late to get into the credits tooltips, too.

( Maid Janet's tied her kirtle green/above the knee and not below )

Behold the Tip Jar!

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'

For those still hoping for more Epiphany posts, I'm having some trouble with my graphics card (I have one more thing to try myself, but can anyone recommend a good registry cleaner/editor that works on a Vista box?) which, every time the game goes 'oh hang on a second,' decides to fuzzy up my clothing textures.

This is not conducive to taking nice in-game title cards for clothing posts.

VERY frustrating, especially after lagging through CAS to get more than two Sims in my testerhood.

That said, I did have two more big cross-Body Shop sets almost ready to go-- they just needed title cards-- so I have unhidden...

Mage College with a random very old picture of technically a Matchmaker default but it's the same textures used (man, look at that thing, I wasn't even using skyboxes yet)

and

Castaway Completionist (part one probably), which has a terrible placeholder image.

... I really wish I had a better title, but. For a couple weeks there I was legit obsessed with this project. So.

For Reasons, I need to be able to make a Sim into an eldritch forest god. With antlers and one eye. Luckily, Midgethetree took Danie's Simsational bottom-only conversion of Savant Inamorata's satyr mesh, added morphs, and age and gender converted the thing, and then Simborg fixed a weird shadow issue carried through from the Savant Inamorata original, and now I I have... far too many cervid pants, really.

( The Lord of the Forest is gonna get drunk off windfall apples and fight a tree... again. )

And once again it is entirely likely I've messed up a link or seven somewhere (I like big sets and I cannot lie, but I'm only passable at HTML), so please, let me know and I'll fix it-- but in case I don't fix it fast, the Sims File Share folder for everything is here, if you can't download something you want, check there first.

Behold the Tip Jar!

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'

So, last year, when I released mermaid tails and a few tops, I had... a reasonable number of things. THIS year, though. This year got a little nuts, because Magical Girl Sandbox made me some fantastic much-needed meshes, and then I found some old meshes that gave me Ideas, and THEN.

Then I noticed, while I was making some new tops using "my" original textures (the ones I adjusted from the TS4 originals that definitely Gryning and... possibly Meduza? I have a PDF credited to her but I can't find where I downloaded it), when I was cutting and pasting and stretching those TS4 textures to fit onto TS2 mapping...

I had adjusted ALL of them CROOKED.

( Here, just look at this-- )

Behold the Tip Jar!

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'

Castaway Completionist, Part One

So! I love the look of Castaway Stories stuff, I like the amount of it, I like that people keep expanding and upgrading it (you know, pregmorphs, toes, all that). Three recent-ish upgrades led to this project.

1. Digitalangels' Castaway Separates Project, which provides limitless mixing and matching but wipes off the white bodypaint...

2. DeeDee's Castaway Stories Tattoos, which turns the bodypaint/tats into an overlay box (though I think you don't get the teen options, but ah well), and...

3. Jellymeduza's Shaman and Shells necklaces as accessories.

And you should go check out all that cool stuff before you come look at my stuff.

( Maxis kind of did something really satisfying with the aesthetics on Castaway Stories. )

Behold the Tip Jar!

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'

This is... not a terribly original set, but it's a set I made to please myself, and if there's one thing I know, it's that if I want something? At least ten people who keep an eye on this blog also want the thing.

So what you get here is, uh, Magic Uniforms, basically: if you took the Apartment Life witch-wizard-warlock stuff and designated it as the Official Magus Uniform, that'd be what this is. Stuff I made, stuff Skell made, stuff Digi made, stuff Ghanima made, stuff Neder made and ElfPuddle edited, stuff that didn't really NEED to get made but I did it anyway, and all of it except the hatless hairs a) pinned to Apartment Life and b) BINX-edited so they stay together at the very front of the AL section of the catalog, and all of it heavily texture-referenced.

What do you get? Well!

Some of this and some of this and of course this and a little of this and a few changes to this and some tweaks to this and some new stuff entirely!

The interesting thing about 'witch' and 'wizard' is that they both stem from the same root word-- wit or wise. ( However! )

And that's all I've got for the Mage College.

Behold the Tip Jar!

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'

So I'm right in the path of this storm.

Progress continues apace, but if the power goes out, it's gonna get really hard to post anything-- and this poor old box has been through enough, if we get the promised lightning storms on the eighth? I'm unplugging everything. (I am not concerned about flooding, exactly. I live on a flag lot on a REALLY steep hill; water doesn't flow down to us so much as around us, usually, and if it rises UP to us we've got bigger problems than 'oh no the house might flood.' Like 'oh no the only way out of our subdivision, at the bottom of this hill.' And 'oh no the freeway has become a new river.')

Also, current 'yeah, I think I can get that up,' includes Mage College, Faraday Tunics, more underwear separates, rucked kirtles, at least one more installment of Buy Mode Blitz (I also need to install a bunch of new stuff), and possibly more mermaids. Maybe a little jewelry, probably some seasonally-themed accessories.

Also also, texture-referencing hairs is terrible. There are so many property sets. (There's hair in Mage College. I would like to have a hair dump ready, but that requires naming the hairs. We'll see.

Just a quick heads-up:

There IS some kind of Large Early January post bonanza coming. Much content.

Will it land on Epiphany?

I sure hope so. But possibly not.

Reality started kicking my ass right around the middle of August, and my post bonanza will include a state-of-the-Hat ~~vent~~ post about how many ways it has done that, but.

This is just a warning: There WILL be fresh content. It may not be on the sixth, but if fortune smiles it should be before the 10th.

In the meantime, please enjoy a video break!

( Lemme just wheel that AV cart in here... )

Okay so

magical_girl_sandbox remapped someone else's 4t2 hat for me (so that there wasn't a ton of wasted space, because TS4 is... like that?), towards my goal of making some halo bonnets but. I am thwarted by some very TS2-basegame-esque Maxis mappping.

The dang brim blurs.

Not enough to not DO the hat (I have encountered a few where the textures make recoloring look easy but whatever underpaid modeler made the thing did not account for anybody ever wanting to put a pattern on it), and I can definitely do solid contrasts on the underside of the brim and a nice bit of banding around the edges, but I wanted to trim the HECK out of them, so I am slightly bummed I can't, like. Add brocades and ouches and criss-cross trimming and otherwise going hog wild the way I did on my crispinettes. The underside is too blurry for anything but Very Straight Lines to look okay, but the top...

I seek opinions. Would that edge trimming be worth it in a contrasting color? That's as good as it gets, and I can still sorta tell what kind of trim it's supposed to be, but.

Would you download that?

(Also I had to settle for very plain brooches on this hat already. Every time I tried to fancy them up, either the mesh's math and Medieval math did not want to cooperate, or they fit the mesh but looked like delicious cookies. The things I do for hats.)

The accessory technically works fine with 256x256 textures. The original textures are 256x256! The details I wanted to add looked perfectly decent from any reasonable distance... but if I need to zoom in, I can see all my pixel crimes. So despite the accessories being DONE (to the tune of 140 recolors, thankfully of two accessories so only 70 textures... "only" she says), I went back and re-made my details at 512x512, because I could actually see what in the heck I was doing.

Hopefully I will want to take in-game pictures before next mer-May, but I go where the hyperfixation takes me.

(Also I made a photoshop action to warp a slice from the side fins of the tails into the right shape/flow for the arm and back fins, and I am very proud of myself for that.

( One more pic and another project behind the cut )

So here I am, sitting on a pile of things, hoping for mesh fixes...

Okay, no, not actually sitting on the pile, I was making progress taking Body Shop pics for swatches, which is a gateway to taking in-game pics for Proper Download Posts, and BOY don't you hate it when you retexture an accessory a bunch of times and it's fine on the age/gender where you first messed with it but you didn't think to check, say, toddlers?

I am having that issue, and I am willing to barter still-unreleased content for fixes.

First, and most annoyingly, thus outside the cut:

Bloom's Glove Accessory hates separates, and also, MtF conversions. (I'm sure there's no "fix" for Bonehilda, I just got to her in the catalog and went 'why not' and it's probably an alpha thing.) JulieJ's men's version also clips a little bit on most of my meshes, which bothers me but somehow LESS than 'this fits fine on most things but not on a bunch of stuff I want to use as outerwear.'

Anyone willing to enlarge the gloves a bit and be rewarded with 82 recolors, men's and/or women's? I have plans for more textures and heraldic devices and hawking gloves (though those might not work on a lot of clothes... hm) and stuff, but if the glove won't fit on my danged separates, it's hard to want to get that done. I have other things I could trade, but, one pic outside the cut, you know?

( So, more nonsense behind the cut. )

So!

My Photobucket account is paid up (in a grandfathered-in plan before they went insane and started asking hundreds of dollars for plans) until June 15th. I will be canceling before then. So, I think I've got everything (on this blog. I do not have anything fixed on Garden of Shadows, because I think I need to bug a mod about my password, and the stars are not yet in alignment for that), but I'm only human and could've missed stuff.

So! ( Scavenger hunt time? )

Do my in-depth proofreading for me and I shall reward you!

1. Hair Dump XI: The Long-Awaited Beard Dump
2. Hair Dump XII Part One: Amazon Hair Dump From The Moon!
3. Hair Dump XII Part Two: Mars Needs Hair Dumps!
4. Hair Dump XIII: Rise of the Hair Dump
5. Epiphany 2013 Scraps Post
6. Epiphany 2014 Scraps Post
7. Epiphany 2016 Stealth Hair Dump (this stuff hadn't even made it onto SFS!)
8. La Esmeralda (And never mind that I'm not exactly proud of those pics now)

I think that's everything.

Stay tuned, I'm about to host a scavenger hunt.

The following Hair Dump posts have been updated with imgur pics and Sims File Share links:

1. Hair Dump VIII: Bride of Hair Dump
2. Hair Dump IX: It Came From Beyond Hair Dump Part 1
Hairs that only have working SFS links because Mediafire is being cruel to my antique Firefox on my Vista machine: Wide Awake, Worth It To Try
3. Hair Dump IX: It Came From Beyond Hair Dump Part 2 (this part kicked my butt. Imgur is a delicate beast if you have more than 50 photos in an album, I guess)
Hairs that only have working SFS links because Mediafire is being cruel to my antique Firefox on my Vista machine: Playing the Fool
4. Hair Dump IX: It Came From Beyond Hair Dump Part 3
5. Hair Dump IX Part One: The Franchise Reboot
Hairs that only have working SFS links because Mediafire is being cruel to my antique Firefox on my Vista machine: Get My Best Side
6. Hair Dump IX Part Two: Hair Dump from the Black-And-Blue Lagoon
7. Hair Dump IX Part Three: Nobody Expects the HAT Dump!

1. Hair Dump VII: Revenge of Hair Dump part one of three
Hairs that only have working SFS links because Mediafire is being cruel to my antique Firefox on my Vista machine: Tumbledown
2. Hair Dump VII: Revenge of Hair Dump part two of three
Hairs that only have working SFS links because Mediafire is being cruel to my antique Firefox on my Vista machine: Wild And Free, Seven in One Blow
3. Hair Dump VII: Revenge of Hair Dump part three of three

I wanted to get a lot more done tonight but Imgur decided to test me. ... And/or I found out imgur doesn't like it when you think 'oh that's three parts of one hair dump, I can put all the pics in one album.' I cannot. It does not like that. Errors errors everywhere and I lost the album itself (not the pics, just the album) repeatedly.

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