beautiful! I'm sending it off in different directions with the colours for mine, but I love the cleanness of the feel of your version. 

  thank you for explaining that Emma and Keirra

Thank you for explaining that SnootCB.. I think it'd be fun to tackle another one next month. Mine is gutted and I've begun to decorate.

Zazazu mentioned a limit but I didn't spot it one.. are we working with a dollar limit for the challenge?

  I love this challenge and I'm going to do it.. it makes a nice break from working on Simmers Against Securom.

Out of interest why did you pick that house? I always thought that was one of their better houses. (I know the internal layout is a little illogical in places and the furnishings are a bit environment score deprived, but it's workeable) You should consider doing a challenge with the ugly row of white houses that don't have enough room for a doublebed too..  because that would be even more of a challenge.

Ok, this is the totally innocent, learning on my feet question.. Wouldn't your pc only contain Securom regardless of what you have installed IF you had tried to run your game without the nocd patch?

This is a question we're trying to work out over at SAS at the moment, so if someone gets a definite answer, let me know...  However we reached the same conclusion because EA's own information says that they're using Securom for their copy protection and doesn't specify just new games, the conclusion we've reached is that if it's a newly printed game, it likely has Securom on it regardless of which Sims game it is.