#@aroundthesims

[aspl1tl1fe]

Creating a Festival

When I was setting up for Conquer’s Isla Paradiso vacation, I created a community lot using @aroundthesims​​‘ Ruins objects. Originally I thought the lot would make a great secret party site. Later on, having still not used the lot (forgot it existed, had to search for it the day of the festival, lol), I shifted it’s purpose as the site for a Spring Break bash, giving my household something special to do when Glamour came to stay. Conquer was also learning to DJ and eventually got the moonlight want, so I figured the festival could serve as his debut. 

After playing in live for two years (IT’S BEEN TWO YEARS) I realized there were very few venues where the Central island sims socialized with the Little Sister folks. When it came time to get ready for the festival, I wanted to rectify this to some degree and prepared myself to be very hands on in order to really make the celebration Isla Paradiso wide.

If you’re thinking, this can’t get more complicated, ‘TIME TO MEET MY BRAIN:

My Brain: If Isla Paradiso has a festival every year there has to be a reason for it.

Me (because we’re separate): I mean it’s a tourist hub, so any excuse to get people to spend money.

MB: What attracts spenders more than a cultural festival?

M: Okay. 

MB: Something where people can wear skimpy costumes and parade around town merrily. You do have all those cc masks, headdresses and a bunch of costume make up.

M: That’s a good point. I’ve never used half of that stuff, plus I’ve still got a bunch of beachwear downloaded just for this save and that’ll probably never get used otherwise. 

MB: Excellent! You’re in?

M: I am!

MB: Why are they parading in the outfits, though?

M: What?

MB: Why? If it’s cultural there has to be a reason. You know, the history.

M: I mean it could have been established so long ago no one remembers why --

MB: But you have to remember... because that will help determine what their costumes look like.

M: Oooooh.

MB: And since you decided to be realistic and divide your island based on skin tone there’s going to at least be two different colored costumes.

M: Makes sen--

MB: Possibly multiple colors for different roles in the same faction...

M: Fa-factions?

MB: ...and two distinct styles of costumes to mark the separate factions. Maybe some costume variations depending on the household...

M: Oh, I --

MB: ...styles based on the colonizer group and the colonized group.

M: Umm --

MB: Because divided people will have divided cultures. Divided cultures mean divided histories...

M: WHERE ARE YOU GOING WITH THIS!

MB: ...or different versions of the same history.

M: ???

MB: You know? For the event.

M:

MB: The event being celebrated during YOUR festival.

M: What have I done?

MB: What have you done?

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So basically I ran that little sims wikia snippet about Isla Paradiso’s royal descendants through my head overlord and out came a complicated story of the Ichtaca family massacring people to colonize their paradise. This initially took place while I was flicking through clothes in create a sim, and was fleshed out a bit further over time. Eventually, I decided there would be three tales of the final battle that lead to the current Isla Paradiso, and serves as the event the festival is held to honor:

The “official story” i.e. the one taught in the history books that inspires the lighter wealthier population’s celebration. 

The “real story,” or the survival tale descendants of the archipelago’s original, darker and poorer, residents, pass down and celebrate. 

Then the truth, which none of the sims in the game actually knows at this point.

The costumes worn by the residents were based on their respective myths. Only one group’s costumes got captured during live mode, and only a little of their history will be shared in A Farming Town: Tropical Vacation since this is told mostly through Conquer and he’s an outsider.

Next up, the first festival CAS post.

[persimmonthusiast]

WIP Cleanout part III: ATS baby gym - animated

the Leka Circus baby gym from ATS, now with animated toys! that's it, just a very small mesh edit with a half-assed preview featuring Brian Broke. For the animations to function properly, you either need the original DangleMaster Deluxe (edited version available here) or the animation fix by @honeywell-mts

DOWNLOAD (SFS)

I wanted to do the bouncing chair from the same set as well but it kept crashing my game, so for now I gave up on this one…

Credits: original mesh by Sandy at ATS

[jinxxsims]

*Deep Breath*

Okay, so I started work on this download back when it was 100, but life got busy and when I was able to resume working on it, there were 150. Life got busy again before I was finished, and now there are 250 of you amazing people... but I’m actually getting this thing out there, so yay for that.

There are 61 meshes in this download, and hundreds of recolors. A quick rundown of what’s included:

Some of @aroundthesims 4t2 tattoo parlor set. The chair is cloned from pikkon’s tattoo chair, so it’s a double for the makeover chair. The single rolling drawer is an end table that is slaved to the double sideboard, so you need the double for the single to show up. 

High School Years’ Starry Eyed prom/dance set, which contains the balloon arch (sculpture), backdrop (sculpture), dining table, dining chair, and banquet table, cloned from a very similar table by @veranka-downloads

And finally, I converted at least one thing from every expansion pack and game pack from Sims 4 currently released that hadn’t been converted before, plus a few deco things from Sandy @ ATS that I really wanted in my game.

From top left to bottom right...

Girl Scout cookies (ATS, sculpture) • Pepperidge Farm cookies (ATS, sculpture) • Royal Dansk cookie tin (ATS, sculpture) • Teddy Grams (ATS, sculpture) • Arrrmed Dining Chair (Base Game) • Captain Rodrigo Dining Chair (Base Game) • Salyut Aeronaut Chair (Base Game) • Booping Shnoops (Cats & Dogs, sculpture) • Crate End Table (Cats & Dogs) • Town Statue 4 (Cats & Dogs Debug) • Town Statue 5 (Cats & Dogs Debug) • Fuzzread Article (City Living) • M.A.P. Most Amazing Player (City Living) • Chicken Competition Prize Ribbon (Cottage Living Debug, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and participation ribbon recolors included) • Food Platter (Dine Out Debug) • Party’s Over Chair (Discover University) • Polymer Chameleon Barstool (Discover University) • Very Impressive Lawyery Desk Chair (Discovery University) • Very Impressive Lawyery Desk (Discover University) • Fabric Sampe Book (Dream Home Decorator Debug) • Bougie Burlap Sofa (Eco Lifestyle) • Biochemical Medical (sculpture, Get Famous) • The Queen’s Gossip Chair (Get Famous) • Seat of the House barstool (Get Together) • Doctor of Medicine Diploma & My First Simolean (Get to Work) • Ever-So-Versatile Chillbox End Table (Get to Work) • Modern Metallic Illuminated Display Case (not illuminated, but functional table, Get to Work) • Stainless Steel Fab Slab (Get to Work) • Bubbly Barstool (High School Years) • Cheer Megaphone (sculpture, High School Years) • Clear as Crystal Coffee Table (High School Years) • High School Event Banner (High School Years) • Modest Marcel Dining Chair (High School Years) • Call Me Ottoman (functional living chair, Island Living) • Bug Bite Cure (Journey to Batuu) • Supply Crate (functional end table, Journey to Batuu) • Stool de Selvadorada (Jungle Adventures) • Fenwick the V Banquet Table (3-tiled table, My Wedding Stories) • Not Your Average Firewood Loveseat (Outdoor Retreat) • Timber Log Chair (Outdoor Retreat) • Brohill Barstool (Parenthood) • Magical Crystal Cluster 2, 3, and 4 (Realm of Magic Debug) • Violets are Blue Flower Arranging Station (functional table, Seasons) • Spirit Doll (Snowy Escape) • Pillow for Deep Thoughts (was a throw pillow, but I turned it into a functional bean bag chair, Spa Day) • The Sign Saw You (Strangerville Debug) • You Saw the Sign (Strangerville Debug) • Dead Hawthorn Tree (sculpture, Vampires) • Fenry Chompsalot Jr. (sculpture, Werewolves)

When it comes to the downloads, there are two options for you to choose from. One offers each of the meshes in a separate folder with its recolors and the textures for each so you can pick and choose what you want to keep. The second zip is all the recolors merged with their respective meshes, so there are 61 total files. You only need to download one.

I hope everyone finds at least a few things they can use. Enjoy! And thank you for following! 

Download Individual Files

Download Merged Files

[hancyan]

It's hot and humid every day, which makes me feel tired.

Well, when there is a vacant lot, I want to build something for the time being.

However, the praaven building is so perfect that my skills are not enough to catch up with it.

hey where are you guys going?

A small church on the mountain.I don't really like the roof, but I gave up.

Illuminated manuscript. The left is a laptop and the right is a deco.(I converted Luna Sims laptop.)

It's actually an "excavation site". Expensive and rare treasures are excavated, so you can make money.

This time, I used only the CC used in Praaven as much as possible, but @aroundthesimsさんの Church Set is necessary.

☆I can't write it all down, but I'm grateful to the many CC creators.☆

Thank you for always reading my posts！

Bye for now!

[budgie2budgie]

also, sandy, your table setting stuff give me and my restos LIFE /your forever fan 😘

[samkat10423]

A bakery and elixir shop

Since I have gardens all over town where sims can steal produce, I deleted that Azalea Garden lot EA created and placed my elixir store there. This lot came from Mod the Sims - Shadow something (I downloaded it ages ago for something else) - and was originally just a regular consignment store. But with a name with Shadow in it, I figured it would make the perfect elixir store. The original was also on a smaller lot, so I added parking in the back.

This is the ground floor of the shop. I got rid of all the regular consignment stuff and added some Supernatural stuff that I have.

And this is the 2nd floor. I left a few of the original things - like the fish tank, since I figured that's where they store all those newts for eye-of-newts. Or whatever.

Then right next door, I placed another lot that my good friend Manu created for her Bourgeneuf world. Thank you, @yourpicasso25! Anyway, this is where the town laundromat is located - along with a bakery. Again, her build was on a much, much smaller lot, so I added some stuff. I also redecorated the inside, mostly because this is an old build and a lot of new things have come out since she built it. BTW, that dome came from SimsKey and after my last computer died, I had a devil of a time re-finding it.

And here's the inside. Only the ground level is used in this build, since the upper floors all have that 'skip level' marker. Anyway, as you can see, the one end is a bakery, while the other is my laundromat. I used Sandy's Laundry set and some store items for it.

And that was all I got done today, because my whiney dog won't stop with her "You're ignoring me and I'm starving!!!!!" Liar.

[mspoodle1]

✨ @obscurus-noctem​’s character dress-up tag game ✨

Rules: grab one of your sims and dress them up as another character! Then tag 5 other simmers (or more, if you like).

I was tagged by @aroundthesims and @obscurus-noctem Thanks guys for tagging me.

Here's the conclusion.

[fckngannie]

I've almost finished building my island, I used CAW to build it, I made a simple and tiny island.

The island has a lake (64x64) where Sims can swim, my Sims don't do fishing because they are all vegans!

The island will have a park (64x64) with a roller coaster, a farm, a stage for concerts and other things.

Here are the links where I download customized content that I use in the game:

Store Content (free!!):

Objects:

Caw: (I don't remember the official site)

I use almost all the expansions, except World Adventures.

[bettergardensingnomes]

Acacia House // Outdoor Seating

CC  under cut

cc: (TSR) Glass prism, pillow 1, pillow 2, towel, rug 1, rug 2, fireplace,

(ATS) cushion, lighting (not pictured)

[cas-sims]

@aroundthesims

were you aware that the Dashboard shows your CC as conflicting with each other? Do you know what might be the reason? I don't want to remove it :(

[simmerfromhell]

And of course, what's a party without cake?

[aspl1tl1fe]

Setting Up Audre 5.2

Today we’re back at the PI Strip on 10 Pleasant Boulevard to take a look at the last retail shop that I fully renovated in @one-plumbob’s custom world, Pleasant Isle. As I mentioned in the first post for this lot, one-plumbob had 10 Pleasant Boulevard set up as the world’s elixir shop. The areas currently reserved for the unfinished housewares store, and the Audre African Arts Gallery were just shells. The only area that was furnished was the section of the building featured in this post.

This building I now call Sun and Sea Pharmacy, because the sign I used had those images on it, lol. While the structure was a multi story community space, I either cut access to the basement, or completely deleted it. I can’t remember with certainty which I did.

The front of the building pretty much remains the same; two entrances with yellow benches sat out between them. The changes I did make were mostly cosmetic. I moved the neon sign that was once above the gallery entrance onto the pharmacy’s outer front windows. I added some welcome mats in front of each entrance, although I totally forgot to recolor them. I also decorated the window panes with custom medical posters that I want to say came from @aroundthesims, but may be from another creator. 

If anyone wants to verify/correct me on this, just comment and I’ll update the post.

The original lot used a nice wood pattern inside that I decided to add to all the shelving. I also used it for the register/prescription drug section of the pharmacy. That being, the columns, the half walls, counters, etc.

I think I might have lightened the white of the windows, switching it from wood to a custom miscellaneous white. I also changed the color of the paint above the wall panel, but the floor is the same as the original.

Unlike some of my other games, where I have a sim dedicated to making potions, Audre isn’t meant to be played in rounds that allow me to make sure all my sims are contributing to world upkeep. Additionally, while @anitmb’s merchant mod sales potions fine, I think it can’t clone them, so I wouldn’t be able to load a sim’s inventory from potions made in another game and resale them using the clone option.

So there are no potions. Instead, the pharmacy carries all the custom soaps, bubble bath, and bath bombs (which I think are rubber ducks) by Sandy, @mspoodle1, and @phoebejaysims​ (I might be missing someone here, lol).

Sun And Sea also carries the shower in a can and mosquito spray bottles that came with World Adventures, and probably one or two custom recolors of those items most likely made by one of the already mentioned creators.

Of course, using the merchant mod means being able to sale the custom personal care and house cleaning items on display. So there will be plenty of other items on sale here.

Several months back I introduced a friend to TS3 by loading up this save and showing off my renos. They’ve heard me talk about the sims, and watched a few minutes of Let’s Plays, but this was there first time really getting a look around in one of my games. This friend lives in the area that Pleasant Isle takes it’s inspiration from. They complemented both Sunflower Fresh Market (the most popular reno from this series), and Sun and Sea Pharmacy. 

I guess these shops look the most like the places they visit on the daily.

Well, that’s it for now. Once I’m able to complete another reno for this world I’ll post more. Hope you all enjoyed theses posts and are having fun simming in your own games. 

[kitakati]

The Old Salt House Photography Studio

spent way too much time on this 🥴

I cant link everything but heres most of it: @charlypancakes maple & constructions pt 1, @littledica rise&grind coffee house, @ravasheencc photographic memory 2.0, don't lose focus cameras @syboubou imperium concrete build, loft brick build, catherine skylight, daguerre set, @astraeanevermore bits and pieces 3t4 university life conversion, @pierisim coldbrew pt 3, mcm house pt 5, @tudtuds ind restauraunt 3, wave living, @felixandresims florence pt 4, berlin pt 1, @harrie-cc baysic, brownstone, spoons pt 2, @sforzcc clutter-a-palooza 1, 2, @shushilda simulated sky, @simspirationbuilds umbar damaged concrete floor, @waekey infinity windows

[jinxxsims]

Here’s my thank you to my followers! I love me some clutter, so that’s mostly what you’ll find here... lots of odds that I personally hadn’t seen converted before. All the chairs, loveseats, and poufs are functional seats, and the dining table is a functional table. Everything else is strictly deco.

Lots of meshes from lots of different Sims 4 creators. Thank yous and credit goes to @simkoos @aroundthesims @soloriya @surely-sims @charlypancakes and redheadsims.

Each item is in an individual folder so it’s easy to discard any items you don’t want. As always, the textures for each are included in individual folders so you can pick and choose which recolors you want to keep. All original recolors of meshes are included.

Thank you for following! If anyone out there has clutter conversion requests and it’s something I can feasibly do, shoot me an ask or a message and I’ll try to get it in a future download. 

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[hancyan]

@rstarsims3さんのPine Spring Valley　part 2.　Part 1.

※The "さん" after the name is a Japanese honorific title. It's like Mr. or Ms.There are various honorific title in Japan, but "さん(san)" is common.

Since I downloaded this world as soon as it was released, I have visited it many times.

I didn't take a screenshot, but the winter scenery is also beautiful.

So, for the first time in a long time, I tried my best to create a modern architecture.

It's a record store, but the record itself was retro.lol

It's actually a "salon". There is a "stylist station" (fitting room) on the first floor, and a tattoo chair (I don't know the name) on the second floor.

I rarely go to the salon, but I tried to enjoy it as much as possible.

Record store custom items⇒@ziva-simsさん

Decorative instruments, bars, amplifiers, etc.⇒@aroundthesims さん(fun to find)

※After shooting, I discovered that there was also a "stylist station" here and replaced it.

The cute dress that Rena is wearing is @vmsims23さん⇒ here

☆I can’t write it all down, but I’m grateful to the many CC creators.☆

Thank you for always reading my posts！

Bye for now!

[simsmedieval-fantasy]

Tall Boots CF-AF by aroundthesims