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I'm in the middle of a huge, huge project that really prevents me from going in-game to take preview pictures, but I really, really wanted to make something for the July 2013 GoS monthly theme (Historic), since I've been hoping for it (or something like it) to come up for ages. So I figured I'd give everybody some walls that could be useful for historical and rural buildings.

I took Goat's Sergeant wood (chosen over the others for it's knottiness), shrank it, and overlayed it with Maxis' Advanced Clapboard to turn it into siding. Then I recolored it oodles of times...and I do mean oodles. This set includes Pooklet's naturals and grays (plus Hat's Smoke Bomb), Aelia's Eco Naturals and Lonesome sets and select other Aelia colors, iCad's woods, shadofell's Wild Wood, Io's colors, Digital Angels' colors, and some of CuriousB's Any Color You Like. Most of these are either wood tones, charred wood tones, mossy wood tones, or weathered wood tones with a small amount of white, yellow, and red. In other words, paint colors common in the early-mid 1800s. There are 125 walls in total. The in-game name is "New Hampshire Clapboard." They cost 5 simoleons and are categorized under "Siding."

So what's behind the strange name of the set? When I was in high school, I had a history teacher who grew up in New Hampshire in the 1930s. When he was a child, he was given the stereotypical kindergarten assignment to draw a picture of a house. He used a blue crayon. His teacher called him stupid and told him that there were no blue houses in New Hampshire. While this is no longer true, I thought it would be a good name for the set.