New Files Overwriting Old Files with Same Name...Or My Plug for Sims2pack Clean Installer!!

It was brought to my attention that not giving "Individual Items" in sets separate names was confusing and this person was afraid that the new lace walls might overide the older lace walls (the darker ones). As I am not entirely sure one way or another I am renaming the new ones, I started with the ones that were approved but not published yet, those are all done now. I will slowly continue to work on the ones that are already published, this is much slower as I have to do each one individually, instead of being able to do a batch edit. In the meantime if you install using the Sims2pack Clean Installer it will make installing a lot easier...it will ask if you want to overwrite a file with the same name, answer "NO" and it will rename the new file...so both files will be able to coexist in your game without conflicts. In the future I will strive to give items in sets separate names to avoid any confusion.

Even if you didn't have any problems installing these new lace walls...I still HIGHLY recommend Sims2pack Clean Installer and it can be found at: http://sims2pack.modthesims2.com/
Thia is the program I use to install everything into my game...I also use it to weed out empty packages, hacks I don't want or need, most everything...or you can just go browse your "Downloads" folder - with preview pictures! It's a great program and it's FREE!!! ;-)

GOOD NEWS!!!

I am in the process of submitting the walls and floors tonight, I don't know why everything always takes longer than planned...but it usually does. Hopefully these will be published in a couple days. My wish is that everyone will enjoy them!! There will be all 14 of my usual colors as well as: Cottoncandy (pink), Buttercream (a pale yellow) and Sunshine (a somewhat brighter yellow). The following is a preview of the violet color... NOTE: I will be uploading the plaid and stripe textured walls with some NEW* laces soon. *New...as in no one has seen these designs yet! Stay tuned...

Lace Walls & Floors

Hello Everyone!

I am going to be submitting my new sets SLOWLY. Usually I rush to get them all up on TSR and then don't have anything ready to submit for a month or so; so this time I am going to be releasing only 4 to 6 sets a week approximately, it may be more, but hopefully not less.

I have one more month of this college session and then I have a short break, at which time I will start submitting some new things.

In the mean time I hope everyone enjoys these latest sets of lace walls and floors.

Take care and stay healthy & happy!
May :o)

Lace Sets will be perfect for the Glamour Life Pack!

As I stated in my last blog entry I started Graphic Design school on August 2nd. I had forgotten about the amount of time needed to go to college. When I graduated from X-RAY school 23 years ago I was still young and energetic, heck I was only 28 years old with all my future ahead of me. Now I'm 51, with a lot of my life behind me, a serious lack of energy and a pain level that is sky high. Oh, I'm NOT giving up, don't get me wrong...it's just a lot harder being able to do it all like I used to.

Which brings me to the lace sets I am working on. First of all there are a lot of them; 466 walls and 131 floors. I wanted to give an update to my progress with them. I still have to package the floors, the walls are finally ALL packaged. After everything is in packages then I will make my preview pictures and after that I can start submitting them to TSR - hopefully this week. That is the goal I have set and will be working on.

After these sets are done I will definitely be limiting my future sets to more manageable sizes! ;-) And I will be doing something other than lace!! LOL!

FINALLY....

For all of you that had just about given up hope of seeing anything new here on my site, the wait is almost over! I have everything in HomeCrafter, but I still need to package everything...which doesn't take quite as long to do. These last lace sets feature three different wallpapers (as you can see below; there is a paisley, a plaid and a stripe) in many colors and 7 different laces, in many different combinations for a total of 466 walls and 131 floors! I don't know why I make such large sets of walls and floors...except for the fact that I just want people to have their choice of colors and some variety of the designs. This will be the last set of lace wallpapers that I will be doing, at least for the time being as I am all "laced" out! :) Here is a preview picture of some of the walls: I am working on some recolors of BitzyBus's Mirror Floor Tile and also some recolors of some of the Maxis pictures. I want to try my hand at some new and different things in the future; although my first love will probably always be walls and floors, I need to broaden my creative interests. To this end I have decided to go back to college to learn some new things, mainly graphic design and multimedia. Today is my first day of school, needless to say I am very excited, but also somewhat nervous. I have chosen an online college environment, as it best suits my needs; as I spend at least 30% to 40% of my time in front of my computer anyways I might as well get an education while I'm sitting here! :) Please wish me luck. Have a great day! May :)

Happy Birthday America!!!

America is now 230 years old! In celebration of America's Birthday I made some simple "Independence Day" walls and floors; they're not real fancy, but they are festive lookiing. I hope you and your Sims will enjoy the bright Reds, Whites and Blues! They will be published and available for download tomorrow, July 4th. Here is the preview picture:

My Apologies

I just want to apologize for taking so long to get the new walls up. I had some issues with the quality of the stripe texture I was using, so I changed it and then decided to redo all the sripe walls. Then there were some walls that were incorrectly done and I wanted to redo them as well. I am very picky about details, I want the end product to look and be as perfect as I am able make it.

To make matters worse I am a pick and peck typist, which means everything takes forever to type. My solution to this problem? I have engaged my wonderful daughter Katie to type for me. So now she types and I man the mouse, we did some practice tonight and things were speeded up by at least three times as fast, if not more. Now with Katie's help I(we) should have these walls submitted by the first of this week. Tomorrow, we are going to be diligently working on getting all the walls into HomeCrafter, then packaged and finally into the submissions.

Thank you to everyone for your patience and continued support, I TRULY appreciate it very much. :-D

New Colors ...Coming soon!

Here is a preview of the new colors and "textures"* I am working on right now. There are so many nice laces that I want to use, which means lots of walls and in the end that gives you, the user, many color choices! Remember that - "Variety is the spice of life"...for us and for our Simmies!!!

*Yes, that is a monochromatic plaid and stripe that you see in the picture.



I hope you will enjoy using these new colors of lace walls (and floors) as much as I have enjoyed creating them!

HAPPY SIMMING! ^__^ May

What do you think about these colors?

What do you think about these colors? What do you think about these colors and others in lighter/softer hues to coordinate with the vibrant colors of the lace sets? Tha Lilac, which is on the left would coordinate with and is shown with Plum. The Mauve, which is on the right, is shown with its color coordinate which is Burgundy. I would really LOVE to hear from anyone for some feedback...thanks...

Today..Brown, Burgundy, Gray, Jade, Turquoise & Wine...

BEING PUBLISHED TODAY: Please Enjoy!! To be continued...