Quick(ish) Announcement

Not Quite a 100 Followers gift...

...But i guess you should be rewarded with something, right?

Anyway, i'm glad GOS is back to normal, unfortunatly they lost a lot of downloads after they had to return to a previous backup, one of those might have been a pair of rug recolours someone requested:

Unfortunatly for Sims 3 users, this rug is for sims 2, some might ask "How about you livejournal for sims 2 stuff" Well, bodyshop and cas went quite buggy a while ago, so i haven't been playing a lot of sims 2 actually...

Anyway, here are some rug recolours for sims 2 players (The mesh is by Sandy and it's included, so thank her for her generous policy):

Links:

Mediafire: http://www.mediafire.com/download/s9f4cbt1n4sywz6/Precious_and_Not-So-Precious_Rugs.rar SimFileShare: http://www.simfileshare.net/download/1969852/

heart balloons!

This is the second upload for the anniversary. Go here for the Plumbob Cake

Go here to download

Go here to see on my Wordpress

@staff @support, have you considered fixing your bot for once, it hasn’t been almost a week since the last account purging, and you’ve hit more blogs again, reinstate back @riekus13 and @lolitarecolors

ANOTHER SIMBLR DELETED?

I’m pretty much a nobody in the sims community so I doubt this would get around that much, but considering the latest events with tumblr randomly deleting blogs, I’m pretty sure riekus13 got deleted as well, since their blog was there last night, but isn’t today anymore (morning time for me when I’m writing this post).

This is a great idea, I love it!

I know that people who follow me probably don't care for a medieval playstyle, or are maybe too scared by how daunting the task of gathering all the CC is.

Well regardless, I'm creating a carrd that provides links to many defaults so that it would be easier to find and download default clothing, functional items, food, jobs, and other things !

Given the vast amount of defaults available, I'm open to allowing people to join the carrd and help to make finding medieval CC a whole lot easier.

If you want to join, DM me. You will need to make a free account on the carrd website, use an email that you do not mind sharing with me ! You may also need to join Plumb Bob Keep.

Sims 2 Medieval Defaults

Sims 2 Medieval Defaults

A site dedicated to easy-to-find defaults for the historical simmer.

The carrd is a work in progress, and I'm currently focusing on clothing defaults. Starting with Adult Female. I hope that this will be useful to someone in the future !

You can’t break that which isn’t yours…

And Now for Something Completely Different…

After coming back into contact with Stas, Sunni's widower, the plans for the Keep have changed. Disregard most of what was posted above.

We WILL be remaining open for the foreseeable future, accepting both new members and new content. The site will remain a historical- and fantasy-focused Sims 2 forum.

Going forward, the Keep will be managed by a "Regency Council" instead of just one Regent. This will consist of PBK moderators CelestialSpider, Davina Ojeda, and rugrat0ne, as well as Discord moderators Fire_flower and Sonikku3.

Fractured Moonlight will be stepping back into something of a "silent partner" role so she can focus on creating. We thank her for her years of service running the Keep all by herself, especially out of the blue. We know it was not easy.

We are already establishing better lines of communication with Stas in hopes of avoiding the annual early March panic, and reminders have been set for February fundraising.

There will be annual fundraisers on GoFundMe or similar sites to offset the cost, and to provide more transparency than we've been able to provide in the past.

Meanwhile, archiving efforts will continue until the site is fully backed up, as a failsafe. We will also periodically archive new content in the future.

Many, many thanks to those who pitched in on the archiving project, to those who donated, in this year and previous ones, and to everyone who supported and continues to support Plumb Bob Keep.

Get dressed action on towel racks

A while ago I started using @episims' wonderful towel lite mod that makes our Sims put on a towel or a bathrobe after they shower or bathe. It adds a delightful touch of realism that is really fun. But as much as I enjoy taking my rich lady from her fancy bathroom to her walk in closet in a towel, sometimes I don't want to send my Sim past their bedroom to get dressed. When I shower I usually get dressed in the bathroom, putting on clothes I hung by the towels before getting in the shower. I thought, why can't my Sims do the same? With a little imagination, I re-purposed the actions of the Seasons coat rack to add clothes-changing animations to the towel racks that most of my Sims already have in their bathrooms, so that I can pretend they too put out their clothes on the towel rack before getting in. I wasn't sure if it was worth uploading but you guys loved the idea so here we go! :)

I only added everyday, formal and pyjamas because those are the three I thought it likely I would ever want. Shower during the day? Everyday clothes please! Girlies got ready for a night out? Get glam with your formal wear! A shower before bed? You'll want your pyjamas. The other categories seem unlikely, but I am open to updating it if there's a persuasive reason :)

As you can see in the video Sims are pretty decent about using the towel racks, even if they are on a wall behind stuff. I haven't altered the actual code to navigate to it, it uses the same slot as viewing the deco object did previously, which in my test has worked well. In the end I had to use different animations for children because the coat rack uses a step stool which needs a slot that the deco objects do not have and I could not figure out adding one. It was either different animations or floating in the air, so different animations it is :)

I've edited three of the Maxis towel racks. "Towel on a Metal Rod", "Towel on a Wooden Rod" and "Towel Hanger Plus Plus". I'm also sharing one edited CC towel rack by Simply Styling, which I discovered through @gayars recolors found on her website here.

Get maxis towel rack add on on SFS | Get Jope towel rack on SFS

If any creators would like to add these edits to their own towel racks, please feel free to do so. To make it easier on you, or any simmer that simply wants to update things they downloaded, I prepared a download package with the resources you need and some basic instructions. It's not step by step, it assumes you are familiar with edits. Should anyone want or need more detailed instructions, I am happy to help when I can :)

Conflicts: The maxis towel rack add on are global plug in for those objects, which means there is a potential for conflicts. HCDU+ will find any conflicts, but I doubt there are any. Indirect conflicts may also occur if you have mods that add additional interactions to deco objects, they would not show on the towel racks because I have overridden their usual pie menu.

Credits: whoward69 at @picknmixsims who taught me how to edit event trees in animations, @episims for the towel lite mod that inspired this, @gayars who taught me how to repurpose animations between objects and for introducing me to the jope towel, and all you lovely people that encouraged me to post this with your enthusiasm <3

Petition: Dedicated TS1 download section on MTS.

With the release of the Legacy collection, the original The Sims game has seen a resurgence in its modding scene. While much of the modding community is currently located in places like Tumblr or specialized sites such as Simblr.cc, most sites don't have the sort of infrastructure, history, or community that MTS does. 

While other sites such as TSR had a section for The Sims, they've recently locked them and prohibited new submissions. Additionally, TSR has a history of being driven primarily by profit while MTS is almost entirely driven my fans. It seems wrong that one of the oldest, and most established, Custom Content aggregate sites doesn't have it's own dedicated section for The Sims as so much of the games' original custom content from the 2000s disappears. 

MTS having its own section would make it one of the only custom content aggregate sites to have a functioning download section for the original game.

Change.org

This campaign needs you now

Fully Functional TS1 Section on MTS

ATS3 Update | Ilona’s Kitchen Accessories

Finally the last part of the Ikea kitchen, with accessories, and tiny pieces of furniture, like kitchen cart or step tool (both usable at surfaces). Next time, I’ll probably make the bathroom. And then… well, it might depend on how you’re fed up or not with that theme! ;D

Update of the Eco-Café Counter

Silly me had tested that counter with the only sink that caused no problem with, but with any other sinks, ugly pieces of the counter showed up. It’s now fixed. I’m sorry about that!

You can redownload directly the counter from here.

I hope you’ll enjoy! :)

ATS3 Update | Ilona likes IKEA: the nursery

Another IKEA set, this time, that’s the little Matylda’s bedroom, the nursery!

It includes the TROGEN bed that I have also shrinked into a crib; PS 2012 shelves that are stackables, the PS SURRIG bumbleebee armchair where you can put also stuff on the “wings”; the BESTA shelves, that are shamefully simple, but so very efficient! The full one has a slot, the empty one has two. You can adjust them along the wall as you want. Did you know that you could move up and down very precisely an object against the wall with the ALT key?

I still need more IKEA furniture to complete the house, with desks and bookcases, and then, I should be done. I’ll make a big Collection file for the whole theme when it’s completely done. But I had so much fun with this theme that I’ve decided to make an IKEA advent calendar this year! ;)

PS: I’m completely behind my Tumblr browsing, and this time, I won’t even try to catch up! I’m a bit busy with RL and all my free time goes into meshing! *facepalm* I can’t prevent myself! Anyway, thanks for sticking with me, even if I’m soooooooo silent! I MISS YOU!