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The Town Green

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Now for the town green…it’s actually two lots, bisected by a sidewalk, but I tried to make it look like one long park. Since most of the New England village greens I looked at are pretty sparsely landscaped (here’s one example), I don’t have much in the way of flowers, shrubbery, pathways, fences, etc. It’s mostly just trees (which I hope will look awesome in autumn! :D ), benches, a few monuments and deco, and a gazebo.

I don’t imagine my Sims doing much here except for maybe reading a book, playing catch, or maybe having a town celebration. I really have no idea how that Seasons marker will work for transforming lots with the seasons, but I might end up putting an ice rink here in winter or something like that (in which case, I’ll have to move some stuff around). ANYWAY! Sorry for the ramble…on to some pics!

Whimsett Cove

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Emmeline’s Galley

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I worked on a few relatively simple lots in Whimsett Cove/Matkooskee Saturday night. The first is called Emmeline’s Galley, and it’s a restaurant/bar (not a Late Night bar, though) using the diner rabbithole from Barnacle Bay basically as a giant piece of deco. :-D I had way too much fun taking pics…

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Whimsett Cove – Town Hall & Church

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Now for something completely different…

I’ve had a couple of different ideas for projects swimming around in my head for a couple of weeks now — one of them was “Fran goes to college”, and the other was “New England village that will look good when Seasons hits”. (Actually, I’ve been wanting to create a New England village for ages — I’ve been gathering inspiration pics for it since before Sims 3 even came out!)

Since I only have so many hours in the day that I can devote to Simming, I decided to combine the two projects. (Hey, at least I’m efficient in my fickleness! :-D )

After a disastrous attempt to make my own world in CAW, I ended up choosing to build my village in Johnnywr’s beautiful world, Matkooskee. Awesims’ Pounawea was also a serious contender, but in the end I decided I didn’t want to mess with the unique New Zealand thing it has going on, so I’ll either play it on its own or use it as a vacation destination. Matkooskee seemed a logical choice since Johnnywr based it on islands off the coast of Maine…perfect!

I probably could have kept most of Johnnywr’s lots, as they were lovely, but I really wanted to build a town from scratch (because I’m framming insane), so I deleted everything except for the pond/fishing lots…I don’t really enjoy building those. ;)

So, after that long preamble, here’s what the map looks like:

Whimsett Cove

I’m calling my version “Whimsett Cove”, and I may never finish it, but I’m really enjoying it so far! I’m working on it in my “low CC” save, which is rapidly becoming a “medium CC” save, mostly because I’ve been downloading colonial window sets like mad. :-P But hey, variety is good!

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