Exploring a Bit of Los Aniegos

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I’ve been building and designing and taking pics right and left, but I keep forgetting to post any here, and dead blogs are pointless, so…here are some pics from my gameplay in Greater Los Aniegos last night. GLA is a custom world created by Coasterboi, and one of the amazing things about it is that it doesn’t require any custom content. That fact is even more amazing when you take a look at the world and the sheer variety in buildings and landscape. This world is huge, very detailed, and feels very southern California (even though I’ve never been there). The lag wasn’t too bad on my computer, though I did run into one routing issue which froze my game (I’ve let Coasterboi know about that one).

Here is my Sim, Morna Fitzner, on her first day in Los Aniegos. Like many Sims before her, she has moved to the big city to see if she can become rich and/or famous. But really, since her Lifetime Want is to be a Renaissance Sim, she wants to explore and learn stuff — the rich/famous thing would be just a bonus.

Los Aniegos
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Small Quarters 4.0 – The Sound of Little Feet

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Hey folks, even though I’ve been quiet on this blog since the release of Late Night, I’ve still been Simming away, mostly working on Living Sims forum challenges and building some homes for Rflong7’s Winter Wonderland world. At the same time, I’m also re-doing Riverview and filling it almost entirely with my own houses and Sims. I don’t want it to have rabbitholes, so most of the inhabitants will be self-employed. Here’s where I’m really missing Open for Business…*wistful sigh*

Anyway, more on that later! For now I wanted to share some pics I posted at Living Sims for the Small Quarters 4.0 – The Sound of Little Feet challenge. The challenge was to design a home for at least one adult and one child, and the footprint of it had to be a specific size and shape. It could only be one story, and it had to contain a playspace for the kid/s out in the living area, as well as a “grown-up” space for the parents.

I’ve been wanting to try my hand at a 1950s-style Storybook Ranch for a long time, and I thought the layout given for the challenge would be just about perfect.

Small Quarters 4.0 Challenge
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Late Night – Buy Mode

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Late Night Buy Mode

Hey folks, today I bring you the new Buy Mode items in Late Night. But first, I missed a couple of things from CAS Mode – two new Sleepwear pieces that are actually underwear. I just didn’t scroll down far enough! Now I get why we have the garters…

Sleepwear underwear #1
Sleepwear underwear #2 (with hosiery added in Accessories)

Cute, huh? OK, onto Buy Mode! I’m going to list the item names after each picture, including occasional commentary as we go.
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Late Night – Build Mode Items

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Late Night Build Mode
(This picture has nothing to do with Build Mode, but I needed a nice pic to put here!)

Happy Late Night Day, folks! I took pics of clothing, hair, and build items, but I’m only posting build items tonight because I’m a tired puppy with a crappy cold. ;-p I hope to post clothing/hair tomorrow and perhaps Buy Mode the day after. There’s just a lot of STUFF. And yet, it never seems like enough. Why is that? Oh yeah! Because I am a greedy little monkey.

Anyhoo, here we go with Build Mode…
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Fast Lane Stuff Walkthrough

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Hey all, some Simming friends of mine were curious about the items included in the Fast Lane Stuff Pack, so I took some pics. (Yes, I bought Fast Lane Stuff, because I am a drooling EA zombie robot and must purchase any SP or EP they release.)

To help show off these objects, we have Lexi and her boyfriend Steve, both Handy Vehicle Enthusiasts with a need for speed. They like cars so much that the whole first level of their home is a 5-stall garage.

Fast Lane Stuff
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The Pomeroy

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The Pomeroy is a house I built for the “Challenge me to build 2.0” thread at the Living Sims forum. I enjoyed the challenge immensely and decided to put the house up for download. One caveat: it requires several CC items for the exterior, since I was trying to make it look like the original drawing that sebausten gave me. However, the interior consists only of base game items and patterns (hopefully nothing from Ambitions or WA slipped in!). At the end of this post I’ve listed the CC you will want to download if you want the exterior of the house to look like it does in the pics.

The Pomeroy

This Florida-style house was built on 4 Bayside Drive in Awesim’s Redcliffs, so it looks best there, but it should be fine on any lot that is 35×45 or larger. The lot is much bigger than it needs to be for the size of the house, but I guess that just gives you some extra room for expanding, building a garage, or adding a pool. The cost is around §60,000 furnished.

The roof is a bit wonky and has some odd gaps — it’s the only way I could think of to make it look like the picture. However, you can only see the gaps when the roof is up and you’re looking from the right angle. It doesn’t affect the view from inside.

The Pomeroy

More pics, CC list, and download link below!
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Still Simming Away

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Hey all, just thought I’d do a quick post about what I’ve been up to lately. As you may have noticed, I ran out of steam with my Wishful Living Challenge family, sadly. Generation 6 (Jules’s heir) reached adulthood, moved into Goodwin Goode’s old house, and married a lovely woman. Last I left them, they had engaged in some post-wedding woohoo which resulted in lullaby chimes. For some reason, I never went back after that.

Wishful Living Challenge
The last pic I took of the Shanleys

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