I'm STILL making that dratted toilet!  Well, I've finished it, sort of - in a way.  It's finished, but not ready.  It needs other stuff, and it needs looking at to see if it really IS worth uploading.

I still seem to be in a ratio of 1 success to 60 failures with Sims 3.  Everything takes so long to perfect, but when you finally DO think you've made something good, it looks hideous in the game and you know you must do better - somehow (except it never happens).  It's been like that for weeks now.  My upload queue has remained empty whilst I toss mesh after mesh into the scrap folder.  I have been meshing night after night after night.  Nothing to show for it.

But I have finally made something that will soon be ready for release - and it's STILL not a toilet.  It's a mega-set of 23 castle-building pieces including large and small crenelation walls (that's the up-and-down-thingy-whatnot wall to you), some stackable turrets (cloned columns that conceal the necessary floor tile to make them stack), gothic leaded windows, castle defence windows, cloister doors and arches, portcullis door and arch, and a few decorative banners and flags to finish it all off...

I had made some crumbly stone steps too, but they didn't want to work properly at all.  Possibly a Workshop bug, but with recolourable stairs in the game, they're hardly essential now.

A big and special thanks to Arenaria who found me the very site I needed to make my arches more gothic and less Lego!  The doors and arches would not be anywhere near as great had it not been for the links she gave me, and it might have been another set joining my 'meh' pile. 

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I also have coming your way a whole heap of updates.  Hopefully, the site's automatic update alert system will kick in as the Colonial windows are updated so they display properly in neighbourhood view, the gravestones have improved sunshadows thanks to the wonder of the Workshop and its automatic shadows, and one lot that used the Colonials will also be uploaded with the revised windows.  You WILL need to patch your game if you haven't done so already, otherwise any new or updated items will not show in your game.

And that toilet IS finished.  It's in my game and working.  It's just lonely without other items.  Maybe I'll pop up a screenie so you can admire - or something.