Spring4Sims – The Best Finds, Downloads & Hints for Your Sims

My dearest fellow Simmers,

I would like to wish you Very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I hope this magical season will fill you with love and joy and bring peace to you and your family.

I hope you’ll share these precious moments with your friends and fulfill all your dreams with their help next year.

Last but not least, I hope you’ll enjoy playing with your Sims even more and keep coming to my site for more inspiration and fun.

Happy Holidays, guys!

P.S.: I might take a few days off during the holidays, but definitely stop by to see what’s new–I won’t stop updating completely.

Hey guys, how are you? I hope you’re all well and finally enjoying the Holiday Season. I’m so excited it’s December again. I already have all the Christmas presents so for me it’s all about baking now–or at least I hope I’ll be baking a lot this year.

Otherwise, I’m quite busy. I’m working hard on my novel almost every day and write on my other blogs. Recently there’s so much new custom content for The Sims that I almost can’t keep up with it. My selections are really aiming at the best stuff right now, so I hope you all enjoy. Also, I’m sorry about those bad tags whether it’s for The Sims 2 or The Sims 3. I’m doing the updates usually at night when I’m pretty tired and that just happens sometimes…

My game is not working again. I’m sure you remember that it was lagging really bad. Well, when I solved that, it has started to crash. It happens about every 30 minutes, which is not that bad, but I also have trouble with saving. I almost always get Error 12 and the game can’t be saved (even as a new world). Honestly, I don’t know what to do. Reinstall? Again? It’s depressing. I was so excited for Pets, but I only created one cat in the game and that’s all I’ve tried so far.

So right now I’m taking some rest from Simming. It might be for the best, though–I really need to finish revising my novel. Maybe when I have more time during the Holidays, I will reinstall.

Meanwhile, have a great weekend!

P.S.: I tried it with no custom content and yes, it still crashes. I’m playing Sunset Valley, not Appalosa Plains (I haven’t even tried that world), and I have the world maps updated.

So, I intended to write a small update on all that Pets trouble that seems to be taking down the whole community–or custom content at least, but meanwhile WordPress has decided to go on strike and left me with posts that were actually impossible to publish. As confusing as it was, it seems to be gone, but unfortunately, the problem took me almost an hour to solve and now it’s just too late (1:01 AM as I’m looking at the clock) to do any further research.

Anyways, one of my dear readers, Paulo, has informed me that TSR has already came up with a solution to fix this. Yay! Stay tuned. I’ll be researching tomorrow. Meanwhile, good night and Sim hard!

I wish I could say I’ve been more “around” when the new computer era has started, but for that I’m too young. I can still clearly picture the first iMacs, though, so pretty and colorful, made in 1997. The day I saw them I knew there was something magical about them and that behind their pretty face, there was a good heart. I was definitely Apple-stuck for good.

I woke up this morning early to go to my doctor when my parter called me to make sure everything’s okay. Then he told me Steve Jobs has passed away earlier that day. His voice was so low and I was pretty sure something terrible has happened. And the truth is, this is pretty terrible. The world has lost a visionare, an inventor, a great successful leader that changed the way we use computers, mobile phones, tablets and MP3 players.

Perhaps I can’t say I’m the most excellent Apple fan out there. I’ve never owned a Mac, because I’ve never found that much money in my pocket, but I do have a small family of iPods, which I love. Four years ago I wrote about them passionately as an editor at a local Apple weblog. Sometimes I think I still miss this job, because to me, iPod has always meant something special (as stupid as it can seem to many, because it’s just a “thing”).

Rest in peace, Steve Jobs.

Photo via Wired

Maybe you’ve noticed, maybe not, but I’ve made some small changes in the right sidebar. I deleted a few dead links and added a few new ones that I think are always handy, like the Compressorizor, S3PE etc.

If you have any ideas for new links that you would like to see in the sidebar, let me know and I might consider them.

I just wanted to let you guys know that I’m not feeling very well these days, because I’m taking antibiotics and feeling just plain tired and a little stressed (nothing worth mentioning, it’s just gross what’s happened to me…). I need to take a few days off, even off this blog, but I’ll be back due to Sunday, because I know how much you like to make your weekend download sprees.

All I feel like now is to play the game and clean up my downloads folder. That’s my plan. Happy Simming!

If you’re a regular visitor of Spring4Sims, I’m sure you know I’ve been doing donation drives for the past couple of years except this one. I’ve decided I should pay the hosting myself, because The Sims and this site is still my personal hobby which should be on my expenses. I’m not against donating and even if you still consider doing so, I’m very grateful, because this site still does take a lot of time to update and of course, the hosting is not free.

That being said, I’m not asking for donations now. Donating is still possible and appreciated, I just don’t want to create any pressure.

However, for those who want to help out, I’ve started an Etsy shop with baked goodies. My family and friends have always loved my chocolate cookies and kept telling me I should try to sell them, so I’ve decided to give it a try. My shop ChocoAvenue is now ready for first orders and I’ll be happy to see some of you buying my cookies. I think this is even better than donating–this way you get a sweet treat for your money.

I will also soon open a new blog with the same name, which is going to be about all things sweet. I’ve had a passion for chocolate and all kinds of baked goods for a long time and I thought learning something new about this topic would be a good thing to do. I’ll let you know when it’s ready, meanwhile check out my shop and let me know what you think. Even if you don’t buy, your opinion means a lot to me! Thank you!

Hey guys, Spring4Sims Giveaway #1 has ended and we have the winner. I chose the winner using Random.org. Thanks to all of you who have participated (57 people in total)! Maybe you’ll have more luck next time.

And now for the winner. It’s Sage who commented as 56th:

Wow! I love those keychains! Just a way to show that whoever has it loves sims! I hope you keep on doing this site because its awesome and it helps make my sims lives richier (even if they dont notice

Congratulations, Sage!

The winner has been contacted and if I don’t get a reply within 72 hours, I’ll chose somebody else.

It’s here! My first tiny giveaway!

Like I said, it’s nothing big, but it might make somebody at least a little happy. Here it is: it’s a small keychain with The Sims 3 logo and Plumbob on one side, the other site has also a Plumbob on it and it reads “3rd generation Prius”. (Just a note: you only get one keychain–it has two sides! There are two keychains in the picture–one of them is mine.)

These keychains were exclusive to E3, so you won’t get them just anywhere. I found them on eBay and I wanted to buy one for myself, so I thought, why not buy one more and give it to one of my readers?

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Hey guys, first of all I would like to thank you for your comments and voting in the poll about how you browse the finds at Spring4Sims. It has really helped me and I hope to make the search even easier for you in the future.

Also, I would like to thank you all for visiting, your sweet comments and of course, supporting my site. It really means a lot to me and I could not continue doing all the work (and of course having all this fun!) without you.

I’ve decided it was a good time for a small giveaway. Don’t expect anything too big or fancy, but I’m sure any Simmer will like the price. The giveaway will be open for all countries. I will set some simple rules, but don’ worry, it won’t be anything too difficult. I’ll keep you posted, so stay tuned!