#I mean I'm sure Smiler likes the view but XD

[victorluvsalice]

We've hit Fall Saturday in the Chill Save, and instead of more store times today, we instead have a party! Because Smiler needs to have more parties, and I wanted the specific rewards you got from this specific party. :D However, before we had party times, we had to get through a few things --

-->Firstly, Victor had to discharge again upon waking up -- wouldn't be good if he magically exploded during the party! He and Alice hung out with the cats for a little bit -- Victor getting a song from one of the kittens by the phonograph (as said kittens are very Talkative) and Alice giving Kelly some time with the laser pointer -- then I sent Victor to the mirror to make an important change. Not to his wardrobe --

But to his, and everyone else's, last names. I THOUGHT I might have to go into "Manage Worlds" to change this, but as it turns out, you can update a Sim's name right from the mirror. So everyone in the household is now surnamed "Van Liddelton," like their grocery store! :D I was very happy to be able to do that -- while I wasn't exactly UPSET with them all ending up with the last name "Always" from the web of weddings we've had in this save, I genuinely prefer being able to give them a name that reflects all of them. :)

-->With THAT sorted, it was time to get to chores! Smiler set up the party, then popped into the greenhouse to make some sadness alleviation lotion before heading back to their robotics bench to tune up Bugs and Elmer. Alice spent a little more time slathering Kelly with love (gotta make sure mama cat is content), then headed to the computer to start a new Playful book ("What's One And One And One And," a book on Wonderland mathematics -- think those Wayside School math puzzle books), and Victor bought a bunch of dyes and started making more candles to put in the store later -- before getting distracted by Shadow wanting some attention. Victor felt the love from the dog, then decided to continue "Play Dead" training. As you can see, Shadow's got it down pat! :) Good girl, Shadow!

[victorluvsalice]

We've hit Summer Saturday in the Chill Valicer Save, and since we just had a wedding (and none of the participants are busy with college this time around), it's time to have a honeymoon -- but first, would you like to see JUST how overboard I went on the in-game wedding photos from last week's Valice Vow Renewal and Van Alton Wedding?

*points upward* THAT overboard. Yeah, there are wedding photos all over the house now -- plus I took the opportunity to move around a few other pictures and paintings that I thought would look better in different places. In order, we have --

Living Room: One of my favorite large wedding shots made it behind the phonograph (after I'd adjusted the other painting slightly), and the trio of the best wedding selfies went between the two windows, over the side table with the bunny statue. After struggling to fit another wedding photo on the wall between the window and the phonograph and not liking the look, I realized I could put Alice's surreal painting from the trip to the Celebration Center (the one with the apple-faced llama and the cat in a bowler hat) in that spot, so I did. Looks good, right? :) And one final wedding snap went on the table between the two chairs in front of the fireplace, along with Victor and Smiler's wedding centerpiece flowers (recolored purple, because purple is a Smiler color and also I love it too).

Art & Music Studio Room: While no wedding shots made it into this room, I ended up moving the painting of Victor at the piano and the photograph that Victor took of Alice at the easel at their old house (sized back down to its original small size) in here from the attic chill-out room -- obviously, the painting of Victor went by the piano (with me moving Victor's little illustrative painting above said piano, between the Bramblewood snaps), while the photo of Alice went by her easel, right under her picture of Rory. I also moved the Poppy MySim that was on Victor and Alice's desk in their bedroom atop Victor's piano to go with the other two up there. Maybe I should find them their own display, but for now, this works. :)

Bedrooms: Smiler of course got a shot of themselves and Victor in front of the backdrop for their wall, going between their two windows by the video creation station, and the silliest shot of the trio for their desk (I moved the old college acceptance letter that was there to the decor spot on the video station). Alice and Victor, meanwhile, got their dresser area turned into wedding central, with the two wedding certificates on the wall (Alice and Victor's is the light-wood-framed "wreath" one; Victor and Smiler's is the dark-wood-framed "pillars" one) and a trio of wedding pictures on the dresser itself, with the big kiss moment for both Victor and Alice and Victor and Smiler underneath their respective certificates (with frames recolored to match said certificates), and another silly trio shot tying it all together in the middle.

Smiler's Party Barn Room: Look, I had two GIANT photos of the big kisses as well, and I wanted to put them somewhere! So after moving the posters on the far wall closer to the karaoke machine in the middle, I set up a Valice Vow Renewal collage featuring the giant Valice kiss picture and two other shots of the actual ceremony on the left, and a Van Alton Wedding collage featuring the giant Van Alton kiss picture, a shot of the actual ceremony, and a shot of them in front of the backdrop (I didn't like the other shot I'd gotten of the ceremony, too zoomed in) on the right! I think they look pretty good. :)

The Attic Chill-Out Room: After a little rearranging, I discovered that I could indeed put all the shots of the Plumbite Pier Love Day date on the side table there if I put the two photobooth shots in the middle, and the two ride shots on either end. That freed up the wall above it for one last large snap of the trio looking their wedding best. :) Then, on the other side behind the bubble blower, I ended up making a colorful collage of the selfies of them on their Granite Falls vacation (moved from Victor and Alice's dresser), the shots they got of each other at the Humor & Hijinks festival, and the shots they got of each other at Geekcon. Though, after looking at it, I was like "wait, these are a little unbalanced, because the shots of them at the festivals are all solo shots, while the Granite Falls selfies each have two of them in them...also, not sure I like those Humor & Hijinks shots that much, they don't really show anything of the festival." Made a promise to myself then and there to get some good "dual selfies" on their honeymoon and rearrange this to be a little more balanced! And later get some better shots of them at a future Humor & Hijinks festival.

Miscellaneous: And while I was hanging all of those pictures, a couple of other things got moved -- namely:

1. I ended up putting the snow globes that were on Victor & Alice's and Smiler's desks respectively out on the suitcase shelves in the upstairs hall (because in Smiler's case I needed the room for photos, and then was like "hey, actually...")

2. While I sold the appliances that Victor and Smiler got from their wedding (they did not need another fridge), and quickly found a home for the wedding pillar outside by the fence between the chicken coop and cow pen, I wasn't sure what to do with the decorative tea set that had also ended up in the household inventory. I didn't want to sell it, I liked it, but there wasn't a heck of lot of counter space left for it in the kitchen...after a little thought and some careful rearranging, though, I found that the best thing to do was to put the tea set on the counter where the pet treats used to go; put the pet treats on the counter next to it where the fruit bowl used to go; put the fruit bowl on the side buffet table with the candy dish and the picnic basket where the VIP bucket used to go; and then move the VIP bucket out to the back porch onto its own little table by the couch. Because, honestly, it does actually look better out there (or in the bedroom, but there's not a lot of space for it THERE either).

So yeah, that's the current state of the house. Lotta pictures.

I may have a bit of a problem. XD