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Santa Claus Is Coming to Town: Part II

Sat, 11 Jan 2014 15:05:50 GMT

The second part of my gift is a whole bunch of content inspired by the lots posted above, but obviously can be used in other contexts too.

( All sorts of odds and ends and bits and pieces... )

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California Dreamin'

Mon, 09 Sep 2013 11:34:01 GMT

Did everybody find these? My TBTO Summer Challenge gift for jensmustles...

( Fun in the sun... )

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Anything Goes

Wed, 04 Sep 2013 13:38:00 GMT

Long time no see...

( In olden days a glimpse of stocking, was looked on as something shocking, now heaven knows... )

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The Unbirthday Song

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:14:31 GMT

It's probably no secret that I think shasatakiss is altogether delovely, so when she asked me to make these meshes, and I discovered that it was her birthday, all in the same week, how could I resist? Unfortunately, I'm as slow as slow can be, so this is at least a month late, and probably more... so it's an unbirthday gift, for an unbirthday.

Included is my usual gold recolour for the frames. The meshes are slaved to Maxis 'Bella Squared' for the painting texture, but the frame texture is independent.

There are base-game (nothing special to say about this) and AL-friendly (will appear at the bottom of the wall when selected from the catalog and can be shifted to the desired height) versions included in the download; please select the correct one for your game and discard the other.

Since on their own the frames looked a little lonely, and as shasta seems to appreciate a cute print as much as I, I also made a handful of recolours of 'Bella Squared' to go along with them:

{preview courtesy of shasta herself}

And then I just went mad, and made some additional recolours for the BV travel poster too (because I came across too many cute pictures that were unsquare, but that I wanted to use anyway!):

{these will work with HugeLunatic's base-game version of the Maxis mesh, if you don't have BV}

DOWNLOAD SHASTA'S UNBIRTHDAY GIFT!

CREDITS:

Maxis for the original meshes
Various artists at Society6 for the artwork

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Better Late than Never

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 09:59:44 GMT

I'm so behind on posting stuff! Anyway, if there's anyone out there who missed the GoS Advent this year, here is my contribution:

( Previews, swatches and downloads... )

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Who Needs Sleep/BTO for Jacci: Updated!

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 10:51:41 GMT

While I was making the new default and custom bedding that I posted yesterday, I noticed a few little things that bugged me about the two sets of bedding I had made previously. So, I have updated those two sets - mostly just in terms of rescaling the patterns slightly to fit better, and tweaking the shading overlay (which was a little off-centre before).

The original download archives have already been updated, but here are the files again - just redownload and allow them to overwrite the old versions:

DOWNLOAD BTO FOR JACCI UPDATE

DOWNLOAD 'WHO NEEDS SLEEP' UPDATE

Au revoir!

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Project Default: Secondary Phase

Sun, 04 Nov 2012 19:16:48 GMT

Feeling crappy today, suffering from my second cold in less than two weeks, so I'll let the pictures do most of the talking on this occasion...

( My defaulting obsession continues under here... )

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Who Needs Sleep?

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 08:12:59 GMT

It seems I never shared these on my blogs - shocking! ;P

Anyway, here they are now, my contribution for the GoS Treasure Hunt earlier this year (in case anyone didn't find them, although given the number of downloads I think that unlikely!) - 25 patterned recolours of the Maxis bedding:

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The Big Trade-Off: Gift for Jaccirocker

Sun, 06 May 2012 11:55:02 GMT

I'll just leave this here...

GO HERE TO DOWNLOAD!

P.S. Isn't Trapping a genius? :)

CREDITS:

Included in download

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Friendship Is Magic

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:52:12 GMT

Something very simple for the current GoS theme (hopefully I'll have time to make something a little more exciting before the end of the month comes around): just some default-replacement textures for the OfB girls' blouse, in three different flavours (please choose just one), plus customs. I used Huning's 'Pony' colours, supplemented with a couple of concoctions of my own (also based on My Little Pony colours), plus a handful of print patterns:

( All the pretty swatches and download... )

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The Pandorica Opens

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:03:15 GMT

This is pure self-indulgence really (but even if you're not a Whovian, there might well be something else for you under the cut). I can, however, think of one - maybe two - other people who might want this particular piece of art for their games!

( Vwerrrp, vwerrrrp... )

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Up the Ladder to the Roof

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:58:58 GMT

Nothing new here I'm afraid: just a joint effort by myself and zerographic, in answer to a GoS Wishing Tree request from a little while ago, that I thought I would chuck on here for completeness; it might be new for some though.

I was hoping to have a little New Year gift ready, but nothing is going right, so I'm sorry but it seems unlikely. :(

In the meantime, have some old stuff...

( Re-roof your house for New Year, under here... )

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The Gift

Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:06:14 GMT

It's that time of year again! Yes, Christmas-in-July at GoS has come, and gone, but the goodies remain.

Firstly, I was lucky enough to have Sentate as my santa, and if you haven't already done so, you must go and grab my amazing gift:

Also, since both my own santees decided to share their gifts, I thought I might as well post them here too.

For Eva (eefje00704) I made a set of medievalish-themed stuff, including 'hood deco, walls, floors and terrains, and some recolours of the Maxis roof:

For Izza (sims_by_izza) I made a set of dresses with stompy boots, Pook'd makeup and vintage wallpapers:

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( More pictures and downloads of everything under here... )

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Sale of the Century

Sun, 03 Jul 2011 07:11:31 GMT

( Sale now on! Come on in! )

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The Flat Earth

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:05:04 GMT

OK, herewith my last offering for this month's theme at GoS...

I have a thing about old maps - I think they're beautiful and fascinating (and I figured that I can't be the only one who feels this way?). So, when I recently came across some wonderful textures, I had to put them in my game. The problem was, so few Maxis meshes were the right size or proportions (why so many square pictures, Maxis, and so few rectangular ones?!), and I was too lazy to hunt down exactly the right custom meshes. And, call me crazy, but I actually prefer to use Maxis meshes whenever I can. Hence, this idea - stolen partly from Fantasyrogue and Graverobber - was born.

I ended up with 14 new meshes, which all started life as Maxis meshes and have now been stretched and cajoled into different and more useable, shapes, sizes and proportions, all slaved to Maxis textures. Plus my map recolours.

Of course, if you don't happen to be into old maps, you can just use the new meshes as a Maxis add-on set, and a convenient way of re-framing any existing recolors of the meshes to which they are slaved.

Some of the new meshes are slaved to Maxis pictures from various EPs and SPs, but for those who don't happen to have the packs in question, I have also created base-game versions of the Maxis meshes, so the EPs/SPs aren't actually required (just remember to download the extra base-game-friendly meshes if you need them).

( Maxis add-ons and cartographical goodies under here... )

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My Camera Never Lies

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:03:54 GMT

My first contribution to the GoS clutter theme (more to come later): as requested a couple of weeks ago by Casiotone, single polaroids for the wall!

( Walk this way, you know you want to... )

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Merry Xmas Everybody

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 09:39:02 GMT

This is nothing new, but just for completeness I thought I'd sling the GoS Secret Santa gifts I made for last year up here, so that I know where to find them and just in case there is anyone who might want them who still doesn't have them.

Firstly, for Almighty Hat, a selection of medieval-themed stuff, including walls and floors, door and ceiling beam recolours, and three new barrel meshes:

WALLS SWATCH // FLOORS SWATCH

And for Mr. Sullivan, Maxis Bon Voyage vintage travel poster recolours, distressed wood floors and a small wall clock:

CLOCK PREVIEW // TRAVEL POSTERS 1 SWATCH // TRAVEL POSTERS 2 SWATCH // WOOD FLOORS SWATCH

More info and credits are given in the downloads.

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I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday

Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:16:43 GMT

In case anyone hasn't yet found it, don't forget to have a look at the GoS Advent Calendar 2010, including my own contribution from Christmas Eve, which includes makeup, AF undies, walls and floors, Maxis and custom furniture recolours, an update of my slaved version of DOT's Satinistics add-on meshes, fences and gates, and neighbourhood deco:

( There's more under here, come and see! )

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Bedshaped

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 08:13:02 GMT

This is another of those projects that just got a little out of hand...it started as a fairly simple request at GoS by DiscoNinja, and then just seemed to develop a life of its own.

Anyway, after much cajoling of SimPE to behave properly, it ended with an unholy number of recolours (errmm, I lost count to be honest) of HugeLunatic's quilted bedding, in all sorts of mix-matchy combinations of all Aelia's colours ('Retro', 'Autumn', 'Jewel' and 'Lonesome'):

To preserve everyone's sanity, somewhat, they are split into three separate sets: quilts with complementary coloured sheets/pillows (as originally requested by DiscoNinja); quilts with contrasting sheets/pillows (including 'Coastal + Summer Skin', as shown in the preview above, and also a few rather, errr, more colourful combinations); and quilts with plain white sheets/pillows.

MEGA-SWATCH OF COMPLEMENTARY SHADES

MONSTER SWATCH OF CONTRASTING SHADES

(No swatch for the quilts with white sheets/pillows, as I'm pretty sure you can imagine what they look like!)

The swatches show the colour combinations in alphabetical order, so you should be able to match them up fairly easily with the files, and delete any that you don't want (and I'm sure there will be many).

DOWNLOAD QUILTS WITH COMPLEMENTARY SHEETS/PILLOWS

DOWNLOAD QUILTS WITH CONTRASTING SHEETS/PILLOWS

DOWNLOAD QUILTS WITH WHITE SHEETS/PILLOWS

As a bit of a bonus, just in case I haven't made a particular combination that you would have liked, you can also download the PSD file - it has one quilt layer and one sheet/pillow layer for each colour (plus a white texture for both quilt and sheet/pillow), so you can mix and match to your heart's content!

DOWNLOAD PSD FILE

CREDITS:

A combination of HugeLunatic and Maxis for the original texture (with a smidge of editing by me on the pillow texture), plus Aelia for all the splendid PS colour actions.

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Winter in July(ish), Part I

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:47:40 GMT

I've been meaning to do this for a while, and kept getting distracted, but since it's very nearly September... So, my santee for the GoS 'Christmas in July' fest was Aquilegia, and since she very generously decided to share her gift, I thought I'd pop it up here as well. I'm sure many people who want these will already have them, but just in case.

Anyway, it's early morning and I've not had a lot of sleep (or enough tea), so less wiffle and more downloads, yes?

( Pook'd and Aelia'd walls, Maxis-match floors and recoloured Maxis build mode sets, all under here... )

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Doctor! Doctor!

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:51:02 GMT

I have a new set (eyeshadows!), which I hope to post later today, but I need to re-do my screenshots as I wasn't happy with the first batch.

Anyway, in the meantime I have a very small offering: a poster that I made for myself, but that I thought might just appeal to a handful of other people as well...

'Tis on the Maxis 'Surfing the Universe' mesh from University (I believe), and as you can see comes in three flavours: vanilla, lightly worn and grungy. (If anyone would prefer it on a different mesh, then please do say so as I would be happy to oblige.)

By the way, this has had a slight revamp since I posted it a week ago - the lightly worn recolour is new, as are the nice rusty drawing pins on the grungy recolour.

Geronimo!

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Tribute

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:40:13 GMT

A small helping of copypasta for you today; or in other words, a bit of fake Pook'ing on my behalf.

I love CrabOfDoom's Pook'd Maxis build mode stuffs, especially the Apartment Life spiral stairs, so I really wanted matching fences to go with them. And so, thanks to the wonder of copypaste (I simply slapped CrabOfDoom's textures onto the Maxis fence mesh), here they are. They come in natural flavours only, as I'm afraid I wouldn't really have a use for the neons.

CREDITS:

Full credit to crabofdoom for the scrummy textures and to pooklet for the equally scrummy colours; I just clicked the mouse button a few times in SimPE.

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Straight Up

Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:45:53 GMT

The third and final(ish) grand opening set: HugeLunatic's recolourable version of the Maxis Chic stairs, plus matching fences, in Aelia's colours. Yes, I may not be able to 'Pook' (my poor aged version of Photoshop can't cope with it), but I can 'Aelia', so I'm making the most of it!

I haven't included a separate screenshot of the fences because, well, they look just the same as the stair-rails!

DOWNLOAD STAIRS AND FENCES

DOWNLOAD STAIRS

DOWNLOAD FENCES

HugeLunatic's meshes for both the standard and open-underneath versions of the stairs are included.

In case you're not familiar with them, they work in exactly the same way as Numenor's recolourable deck stairs: the standard stairs will override (but not permanently overwrite) the Maxis Chic stairs (simply remove them from your downloads folder if you want the Maxis version back again), and each step must be recoloured separately with the design tool once the stairs have been placed. The open-underneath stairs are repositoried to the standard stairs, so they take the textures from them, and come with a script file (also included) for installation via the Scriptorium.

Oh, and when I say this is the finalish opening set, I mean that I am intending to attack the AL wooden spiral stairs and matching fences with the same colours, plus grunge up some wrought iron spiral stairs too, when RL allows...

CREDITS:

HugeLunatic for the stair meshes and aelia for the colours; thank you, both!

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Sugar Coated Iceberg

Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:08:53 GMT

The second set of opening goodies: as requested by pinketamine at GoS, DOT's add-on sofa and chair slaved to the Maxis Satinistics loveseat for textures.

Since this is way overdue, by way of consolation I have also rustled up 18 recolours of DOT's texture using Aelia's Photoshop actions. These are recolours of the Maxis loveseat, but by the magic that is the repository technique, will also apply to the modifed sofa and chair too, as will any other recolours of the Maxis loveseat that you happen to already have kicking around in your game.

Speaking of which, can I also recommend Ja's fabulous recolours, which I believe were the inspiration for the original request (hence the name of my set is also a small homage to the name of Ja's set, as well as being a tongue-in-cheek song title reference, as usual).

There is one teeny issue with the sofa to tell you about: textures with a non-symmetrical pattern (such as one or two of Ja's) might not work terribly well on the sofa, due to the way it is mapped, and I'm afraid I couldn't do anything about this. Plain and symmetrical textures however, look just fine and dandy. And all textures work perfectly with the chair.

Also, these have different file names and GUIDs to DOT's original versions, and so won't overwrite them - you can have both in your game at once if you want, but you will need to find and delete DOT's files from your downloads folder if you don't.

CREDITS:

Full credit to DOT for the original mesh and texture, and to aelia for the colours; I just did what I like best, and mashed them together in Photoshop and SimPE. :)

And thanks to pinketamine, for the splendid idea.

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Dog Days Are Over

Sun, 28 Feb 2010 16:49:31 GMT

Yes, it's opening day - welcome to the grand opening extravaganza! And to start off, my contribution to the GoS theme for February of 'Build and Urban', with an exclusive extra.

( Come on in... )

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