Journaling our sims

[joandsarah]

You can put a link here if you like Dez or you might prefer the story/picspam alert board. desirablediscourses.proboards.com/thread/2905/pic-spam-story-alert?page=55

[Dez PhoenixphyreAu]

Thanks Jo! Went and popped a link over there!

[amylu1988]

These are the pictures I took in-game about 2 weeks ago and still haven't got around to sharing. It was engagement season in my Eco Neighbourhood, which was rather bizarre, because I played these the week before my boyfriend's sister got engaged in RL!

Jacob and Samantha are a couple who made the move over from my old laptop (Jacob has an alien son called Leo who he had back when I had FT):

Samantha gets to propose as she's a Family sim and she rolled the Want. Only one picture of them because they already got engaged once, in my old game.

And Marcus and Bea have 3 bolts. I love them, they're so cute together! As they both rolled the Want, I let Marcus propose, because he'll be taking Bea's surname, which I like better. I got a bit carried away with this one, and took lots of pictures!




And earlier this year, Charlotte and Alex also got engaged (again, Charlotte is a family sim, so she proposed), so it should be wedding season for that neighbourhood very soon!

I'm not sure whether to age up Alex's plantsim toddlers to adult before the wedding or not. As toddlers, they won't have much interaction with it, but as adults, they'll be the same age as their Dad, which might be a bit strange. Not sure.

[joandsarah]

Aww, they all look so happy. I remember Jacob and Bea and I think Charlotte, they were up for download right?

[amylu1988]

Yep, well remembered Jo! All 3 of them were up for download at various points last year, along with Elsa, who is in my signature with Charlotte.

I have a lot of sims that I still haven't played at all, the poor things. This is the neighbourhood as it is at the moment:

I went through a real phase of making sims, and then building houses...but not playing them yet.

[joandsarah]

So this is a different hood to your steampunk one then, how's that coming? The way I do it-because I'm impatient is I decide who needs to be next, download a house (I've done that for most houses in my medieval hood and then tweaked)make the sim/sims put them in and play a day or two before moving onto the next one.
I now have Royal family
High ranking noble family
lower ranking noble family (restaurant owners)

merchants:
Tavern owner
Blacksmith
Stone mason
Taileress (sp?)
baker and wife
DR (who is not a barber as many were)
large farm owners

peasant:
Poor serf family
Free small farm family

Other:
Monastery with vineyard. I posted some pics on Leefish here: www.leefish.nl/mybb/showthread.php?tid=5790

To be made: Barber who is also Dr/dentist
Wizard

I'm guessing that is all for awhile. I did start building a barrack dorm which I may put up for download if I can do it without too much cc. It does have something like 9 levels though due to the tower.

[amylu1988]

One of your monastery pictures made it onto Leefish's tumblr, it looks really good! The vineyard is so pretty. I like all the different jobs and classes, sounds like an interesting 'hood to play.

My Steampunk neighbourhood is kind of stuck at the moment, I need to make more sims, as I have a lot of single sims with no chemistry, so I can't really do much with them. I started building a couple of businesses, but I come across cc that I need but don't have every time, so I've been playing the Eco Neighbourhood a lot more lately. It's so, so close to being baby time there, and I can't wait to finally have some babies and toddlers in my game again (other than the plantsim twins, of course)!

I'm trying to play in a rotation, but I do seem to play the ones I like more often, so there's a few that are already couples, and obviously it took a while to get the 2 plantsims.

[joandsarah]

If you download the sim manipulator you could tweak their chemistry as you can change zodiac signs and turnons and aspirations with that.

I'll have to go look at her Tumblr and see which one that was.

It's funny how families you really like it's easy to go over a rotation but some families 3 days feels like a whole season.

[amylu1988]

I actually had time to play last week, but not time to upload, so here's wedding 1 of 3 from my Eco Neighbourhood, Bea and Marcus.









This was the first wedding in my game, as far as I can remember, since my Psychologists. So that means it's been at least 2 years!! I had so much fun, and hooray for co-ordinated smustles.


I want to do the other weddings, but I'm stuck for the right dress for Charlotte (on the left in my signature). Does anyone know of a wedding dress with a full, floor length skirt and sleeves or straps? I wanted something like the top one on this list but as these are separates, it turns into the Maxis wedding dress under the arch, and I don't have the skills to mesh it into a full dress.

[joandsarah]

Wow two years. it looks like it was a lovely wedding.

How about asking on the GOS wishing tree and maybe someone will turn it into a dress for you.

modthesims.info/d/312776 Too slim line?

I'm sure Skell has other dresses like that, I'm sure I have some under formal.

[amylu1988]

Penguingirl found the problem for me, it was the arch that was doing it, not the separates. Silly me, not checking the arch first! Luckily, I have a deco version of that arch, so I used that one with the invisible arch underneath.

Eco Neighbourhood Wedding Two: Charlotte and Alex











I'd forgotten that Alex's plantsim twins were due to grow up that day, so they had their birthday in the middle of the wedding smustle. Anthony is fortune and Chloe is romance. It worked out quite well really, they were able to join in more as adults, but I still got the cute toddlers watching the ceremony.

[joandsarah]

Yah, glad that worked, she looks lovely. On first glance I was thinking, now where is the grooms head? Then realized that was his head and not part of the garden. :lol: Yes, I really do need new glasses. How cute but kind of strange that his kids got to be toddlers and adults at his wedding.

[amylu1988]

Finally got Squinge's pregnancy wear hack to work (I was using the wrong EP version), and I am so happy.







I am such a family sim, I'm really enjoying playing this neighbourhood.

*edit* Oops, apparently I didn't post Jacob and Samantha's wedding on here, if you're interested, the picspam is here

[joandsarah]

I love that mod. So I am guessing you aren't to impressed with Sims 4 either Amy? The whole object baby tied to a ugly bassinetes to jump out as a kid so many days later thing?

Looks like they had a great time at that wedding. WCIF that strawberry dippy chocolate thing?

[amylu1988]

I've hidden most of the sims4 news from my Tumblr now, I won't be buying it until they add toddlers and proper babies, etc. That sounds really bizarre!

The chocolate fountain was by Honeywell, and uploaded to Leefish here. It was great for the wedding, the only problem I've found with it is that it seems to have made every 'viewable' object (paintings, statues, etc) have the added option of 'dip strawberry'. I haven't clicked on that for any other object, and I won't be, just in case!