HEY!

I have a "Simblr" now: http://themalle.tumblr.com/
So if you're on Tumblr follow me. ;) I just needed a place where I could dump all my pictures that usually just rot away in my print screen folder.

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HI-HOHOHO

Please bear with me as I'm eagerly working on releasing all the stuff.
I have a whopping 220 files to wade through (and that's without meshes, yes) and pack in to little christmassy gift collection files, so I have absolutely no idea where to start! There's the dungeons, the Great Hall, the dorms, the common rooms, the class rooms, the hospital wing, the library aso....HELP!

Anyway, if you're one of those people like me who always kind of thought "Gosh, a Harry Potter neighbourhood that would be rad, but where do I even start??" here are a few links that helped me tons while building my own Hogwarts:

Basically everything Adele has ever made - YOU.WILL.NEED.IT, believe me!

Kativip's stuff was mighty useful, too.

Since the magical world is kind of set in this pre-electricity time, medieval stuff was needed, lots of it!

The go-to source obviously, they have LOTS of great stuff.
Lama has the best walls and floors.
This list was a lifesaver!
An alchemy set with some quite useful knick-knacks, fireplaces and my fav book cases, too.

Then there is the whole lot of Sims Medieval conversions, Roman did lots and so did Chimerical. Clutter-a-holic has the best, well...clutter.

Bodyshop stuff for your Hogwart-lings that I like:

Cloudlessnights made a very good uniform with cloak at MTS.

I really love this suit with the jacket by Yuxi in combinations with one of Daislias Hogwarts scarfs! (they're adult only obviously, my students are YA since I built Hogwarts as a university)

Chaz' Hermione has a neat Hogwarts sweater/tie/shirt combo included
(I'm not very talented when it comes to Bodyshop, but I should tackle this thing at some point and make it unisex and in all house colors)

If you've got all these things you are basically ready to go, but keeping an eye open for sets with little knick-knacks that could be useful and potentially magical is a must! ;)

Then there's always the difficulty of actually building Hogwarts. Lots of people have managed to do so, I tried to build my own, more or less successfully. I wanted to have it as one lot without my laptop crashing and burning, so I had to scale down a bit. It's not perfect, cause I'm horrible at building but it does the job (the entrance to the Slytherin common room is through the potions class room, cough, haha). Personally, I would give it a try and build it to your likings and at a size your computer can handle, otherwise have a look at the ones I linked.

Alright, bye for now, I'll hopefully have the first set up next week, so stay tuned!

HIYA!

Well hello! I'm actually still around and lurking, so this didn't go unnoticed.
Thanks so much secret-maker, I feel flattered that I'm not completely forgotten yet, even though I never update, haha!

Truth be told, I'm actually working on a gigantic, way too demanding project of building my own "little" (kind of a contradiction in itself, no?) Hogwarts. In the process quite a few things needed to be created which always went something like this:

Lets make those dorm rooooms! Woooh!

Wait wait wait. I don't have any four poster beds in the house colors?

Great! Now I have to make some...

Maybe I should make some flags too. Oh and I need lots of paintings.....

Firing up the game! I'm awesome!

NOOOO, I don't have any matching drapes!

Anyway, look, this is my trio and the common room. :D


I'm not really sure yet how I'm gonna do this thing, release the stuff while I'm working on it or put everything up for download once I'm done with the whole thing.
We'll see, stay tuned. Peace.

obsessing over pride & prejudice again

I made some nice bargains at the flea market: sunglasses, a cool bowling-bag, a cute little silvery clutch, a head band, a nice picture frame for my collection (recognize the picture? haha) and this cute bracelet. :D
And I started this kind of Victorian/Regency inspired Pride & Prejudice style neighbourhood.
My first house is this summerhouse for Noel & Portia Withersfield.


(click to enlarge!)
The second house, I started some days ago, is for Daphne who's living with her aunt. They're obviously not that wealthy, but the plan is, that Noel falls in love with her (sounds familiar, eh?).

YES!

YES YES YES my iPod fnally arrived!
So, to celebrate the occasion I have a pack of 20 Ipod Touch/Iphone backgrounds for you, that I actually made for my personal use, but I thought someone might find these useful anyway.

DOWNLOAD!

I take absolutely no credit for these, since all I did was cropping the pictures, but in case you like any of them in particular I included the the names/links of the creators in a little read-me.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend! :)

PS: It's snowing!

excited excited

I finally had the guts to spend my birthday money and a bit of what I saved up to order the Ipod Touch (3G 32 GB) I've been meaning to buy for some weeks and now I'm so happy and excited for it.
Still 2 class papers to go, but the Ipod adds some hope on the horizon. :D


Hm, sims-wise I have some stuff in the making but I didn't have the time yet I was too lazy to take any previews yet, sorry, and in my spare time I'm also eagerly working on my SS gift. :)

picspam

Okay, as promised here are some more pics of my tiny house.
Btw, I didn't build the house myself, I'm a horrible builder actually, great cc4sims did.
Here's the original.




(click to enlarge them)

I'm excited. I'm off to vote in my first election ever. (okay, apart from the European election this year)

random blah-blah

Since I l-o-v-e furnishing tiny, tiny houses, cause I love challenges, I decorated this one today and actually wanted to share it, but now that I tested it (stupid idea to do that after decorating...doh) I noticed that I failed miserably at making it tiny and cluttered, but playable. :(
(I will add some pics of the inside of the house later.)


Happy End - Kaze Wo Atsumete
(Damn, it was seriously hard to find a proper video for this song)

DAMN

My first time in the 'press' and they misspelled my name, now everybody will think I'm a girl who calls herself 'male'. XD
BUT I don't really give a damn anyway, cause MIRA said I'm an EXCEPTIONAL DECORATOR! :D (havin' major freak-out rightnow)

But I have to admit that I haven't really shown any decorating pics lately at all.
The problem is that I'm a freaking perfectionist and that I hate most of what I do the next day already anyway. This is why often completely decorated houses end up in the 'house bin' without being shown to anyone at all. But I digged out some older and newer pics from my screencaps folder for you of rooms I obviously liked well enough. ;)

(my attempt on a modern males home, which was challenging because I usually can't really decorate this clutter-free)




Peaches (new album btw!) - Why don't you talk to me