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I'll be back

Sorry I haven't been around folks, PC issues. Got one thing sorted then had to get another thing fixed, I haven't reinstalled all my games yet because they are all packed away for moving. I do intend to come back and create for you again, I promise. Life is just.........................

#real life

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Thanks for tagging me @wanderingsimsfinds

🖤 Favorite Three Ships 🖤

I don't have favourite ships

🖤 Last Song - I surrender - Eddie Holman

🖤 Last Movie - Lost City - Sandra Bullock. I was bored

🖤 Currently Reading - these questions

🖤 Craving - An end to the constant Scottish windstorms we are having this year.

🖤 Relationship Status - Single

🖤 Last Thing I Googled - a location on google maps

🖤 Current Obsession - hmmm, lol

🖤 Tagging - everyone who follows me

#tag games

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Yay!

Update on my PC. He saved all pics and docs by cloning the hard drive but I lost all my installed software. Have the saves for TS3 but need to reinstall it all. So annoyed that Office 2010 got lost and I can't find the disk, I'm not paying monthly for that 365. If I can't find the disk I'll go round my friends and ask if they have it. So happy right now but days of installing to be done, I lost all the good fonts I had too which is a bummer.

#pc problems

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RIP Harddrive

My hard drive died last night, data recovery will be attempted tomorrow but it looks like I might have lost all my game saves as well as all my stored graphics and WIP folder. Not to mention the fact that I've been digitising all my old photos for months and haven't uploaded them anywhere to save them yet. Had to pull out the old Win 7 PC and realise it has Origin on it and only Sims 2 and 4.

#dead PC

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Scottish New Year and Hogmanay traditions. Bliadhna mhath ùr (Happy New Year)

Scottish New Year

We all know around the world that the Scottish New Year is highly significant and steeped in traditions. Mostly stemming from pagan and even Norse traditions and customs, they are ingrained in us, well us old folk anyway. You all know this because our song 'Auld Lang Syne' (times long past), by Robert Burns, is used all over the world, which has always surprised me. There are many traditions at New Year but I'll stick to the ones I know about and practiced through my life. Auld Lang Syne, do it properly. You should be in a circle around the dancefloor to sing it, holding hands in the normal way, at the last verse you cross your arms over your chest and take hands with those on either side of you again, I see foreigners crossing the arms all through and that's wrong. When the song ends everyone should run onto the dance floor still linked together, then you all have to twist under your arms without letting go so that you face outward from the circle.

Haud Hogmanay

Hogmanay is our biggest night, the above is how to say Happy Hogmanay in Scots. This happens on 31st December as midnight approaches. Major preparations are in place for this event and right now people are scurrying about making sure their houses are absolutely spotless, Redding the House, that all the dirt from the old year is out. You should have all debts paid before the bells too but this is nigh on impossible in todays economic climate. We also call this 'The Bells' When the bells ring at midnight you should be doing several things. Here where I live we do still have the horns from the shipyards going off at midnight but usually you hear church bells too. As they ring you should be spotlessly clean, house clean, food ready for guests, you should be holding a drink in one hand and food in the other, you must have money in your pocket. This is to ensure food will be there all year long. Whatever you are doing at the bells is what your year will bring. Once the bells have rung out, signifying the start of the new year, you should open a window to let the old year out and the new year in. This is when people step out of their homes and go 'first footing'. Also as soon as the bells ring you must turn your calendar over to the new one. My new one is currently on the wall under the old one, I will remove the old one when the bells ring.

First Footing

Your first foot is the first person who will cross your threshold in the new year, it is hoped that this person will be dark haired, I wasn't allowed out of the door until we had a first foot because I was blonde, just in case I came back before a first foot, a dark haired person brings luck, a male is preferred. Obviously in old times dark haired people were few and far between in Scotland and the Norse areas, which favoured blondes and red heads. Now this person is also charged with traditions and they must have 3 things. Food, drink and a piece of coal. It is also lucky if they bring a coin with them. This is them bringing prosperity to your home. Never turn up at a Scots house in the week after New Year empty handed, on the off chance you are their first foot.

Food for Hogmanay

Many things are traditional, cock a leekie soup, even Cullen skink (fish soup, yuck), Haggis Neeps (turnips) and tatties (potatoes), most commonly steak pie is made for the bells. This came from a time when Hogmanay wasn't a holiday (it still isn't) and there was no time for food prep so often the steak pie was bought from the butchers. A meal will be enjoyed with the family and there should be enough for any unexpected guests, never run out of food or drink at New Year, yes we do have a whisky. Shortbread of course and my favourite 'bun', this is a type of cake, we have Madeira (plain), sultana or my favourite, which I just had, cherry bun. Clooty dumpling is also very much a part of it all, the leftovers from this can be fried in the morning for breakfast, I don't think many people make the dumpling from scratch now but I do remember my gran and mum doing it. The dumpling would have a coin in it , wrapped in greaseproof paper, it was considered lucky to find the coin. For some odd reason as a kid I always got the bit with the coin from my grannies clooty dumpling, I was the first grandchild, it was rigged. At that time it was a sixpence, which I called a wee shilling, if you don't get that, you never will.

Bonfires, yes we did but not sure this still happens, old pagan thing. Fireworks are loud just as the bells ring and they go on for too long in my opinion.

The celebrations can go on for a full 3 days and sometimes still do, people in a family pick a day they will host, we always did the 2nd when I was a kid. I remember in the morning waking up and finding the living room full of sleeping people while my mum would be in the kitchen making French toast for them all, along with some of that fried leftover clooty dumpling. It's not as busy at New Year as it was back then, with many people just staying up to hear the bells and just going to bed, like I'll be doing tonight, don't worry I do have my cherry bun and a wee dram of Jura Whisky to 'bring in the Bells'.

Ramblings and memories of an old Scottish Woman.

Translation of above Scots

May the best you've ever seen be the worst you'll ever see. May a mouse never leave your (pantry, larder, food cupboard) with a tear in his eye, May you be healthy and strong until you're old enough to die. May you always be as happy as we wish you to be.

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Reblogging my Scottish collection seeing as it's Hogmanay. Here's the link to the missing paintings I forgot I had done to match.

The Scottish Collection

100+ followers gift, thank you for liking my stuff.

Patterns and paintings. I see these in homes but also in cafes and restaurants. I was going to do a room set up to show you how good these things all look together but this has taken me days.

The patterns. The floral ones are lovely as half walls with wainscoting below or as full walls, matched with tartan table cloths, etc they are a winner.

The paintings. I did some paintings from some lovely illustrations I got to match the colour scheme of the patterns. Each painting started as a .png with transparency and the backgrounds were done separately.

Animals in Tartan

Scottish animals

Sadly some we don't have here anymore and there is one that's unique to Scotland, the Capercaillie.

Set 1

Set 2

Set 3

Scottish Illustrations

Set 1

Set 2

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Merry Christmas all who celebrate

#sims 3 christmas

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yep

4 Disney Christmas Paintings

I've had one of the Tinkerbell ones in a folder since 2009, lol. It came out when I recovered my old hard drives.

4 Disney Christmas paintings for Children. EA mesh 4 in 1.

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I know, lol, lazy me

Xmas Paintings Collection

Making this the end to my Christmas contribution for 2022, just couldn't resist doing these ones.

2 sets of 4 Christmas Paintings and 2 individual wreath paintings.

To all Scots, Blithe Sowans Nicht.

Xmas Paintings 1

Xmas Paintings 2

Xmas Wreath Painting 1

Xmas Wreath Painting 2

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Children's Xmas Paintings x 4

4 paintings on one EA mesh. Move up and down wall.

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3 deer paintings

3 Christmas themed paintings of deer on one mesh, cloned from Hi End Loft HE Tech, in UK this is Design & High Tech.

Move up and down wall and frames are recolourable.

Artwork by Betidraws on Pixabay.

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yep, another one

Children Christmas Paintings 1

Slide up and down. 4 paintings one frame.

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yet another self reblog, sorry

Christmas kids Paintings

slide up and down wall. 5 paintings one frame.

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Another self reblog, I know I'm still not doing anything. Had a bad year with a back injury, dog died and now I'm trying to clear my house a bit because I'm expecting to move soon.

Christmas Ribbon Christmas Decorations

Today I bring you two sets, it's probably best to download both because you will use them together more than likely. I really wanted those dangly decorations to hang at the front door in the side lights, so here they are. Also some decals for the windows. You definitely need MOO to place them in windows and doors. I haven't play tested these to be sure Sims can get through doors so if there's an issue let me know. One or two of them have left side, right side and centre so you have options, others are just single. The window ones are individual, I just put them like that for the screenshot. These slide up and down to help you place them on most windows using 'alt'

I'm making more of these Christmas stickers so if you like them come back later for the rest.

Christmas Ribbon Decoration (part one)

Christmas Ribbon Decorations 2

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another self reblog, sorry

Snowmen Decals Large

These can move up and down. They can be placed on windows, stood in the garden and made to fly over roofs by using MOO and alt. Large size decals 5 in 1.

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self reblog again, from last December. Just trying to recover from my back injury from May, getting there but not enough to sit in one position long enough to make much. I'll get back to it as soon as I can.

I think this link takes you to more decor from last December https://fluttereyes.tumblr.com/archive/2022/12

Window Cling Snowflakes Large

Made these for my shop windows, maybe one or two of you want them. Will do smaller residential ones when I get a bit of time. Use MOO to place them on windows.