When I start swapping featured content around my minisite page, it's usually a sign of something else gone wrong: either a distinct lack of creating ideas, or lack of a creating PC! This time it's the latter. My PC has disappeared for a little upgrading holiday (it's innards are being transferred to a new case approximately the size of my 'Terbaine Towers' high-rise block of flats so that the searing-hot graphics card can stop being so asphyxiated by all the stupid wires entwined around it (and for anyone thinking of buying a PC where the power supply sits at the BOTTOM of the case, be warned)!

So, now that I cannot play The Sims, create for The Sims or do anything else Sim-related (I can't even download anything on this donkey of a PC I'm using now because there is no writable media drive - bah). I'm hanging on in miserable desperation to TSR to at least feel close to Sim things. And yes, you may well think this is very sad. So do I, and there we all are.

But I DO have new things coming your way soon (March). The swings (mentioned in my last novella) have been fully tested with a perfect result (and yes, the Maxis swings are still in the game too), so they're queued up for release, but I also have, by request, four new ceiling tiles for our very own Judi (JSF Designs) to match some very lovely wallpapers she's made.

And a brand new set of Alpine Windows - made for Illiana who needs some suitably triangular windows for her spectaular mountain lodge so I decided to give those a shot. The whole set will allow triangles of any size, with even and odd-numbered window widths possible - totally versatile in a range of colours (and with matching doors and rectangular windows too).

There will also be a very short and easy tutorial for those of you wondering how windows have been placed directly under that gabled roof! Illiana already knew how to do this, but in the hope that I am not the ONLY person in the world who didn't know how, this beginner's tutorial will show you how. Note that the technique doesn't work in the base game only though, so if you can, grab an expansion pack if you want to use windows directly under roofs!