Homely Bungalow

I really enjoyed creating my first stop motion video from my residential build "Country Cottage" so I went on to do "Woodland Lodge".  My latest creation is "Homely Bungalow" where I feel  the video has turned out a lot better.  However, I did make a few mistakes (again) but edited them out as best as I could.

Watching a few more tutorials on YouTube helped me to gain a better understanding of camera angles and video speeds and I tweaked a few settings, as was suggested.

With this build, I wanted to use more of the DEBUG items to make it a little more unique and built it without a Sim on the Lot.  This enabled me to have access to items only available when the Sims reach certain points in their careers.  I also used some "fabrication" items from the Eco Lifestyle expansion pack such as tables and chairs.

There is no custom content in this build so as long as you have the expansion/stuff/game packs that I have used, you're good to go!

Before uploading to The Sims 4 Gallery, I play tested the build.  After making a few tweaks, I was ready to share it.

I hope you and your Sims enjoy this little bungalow in your game just as much as I enjoyed creating it!

Here's a small snippet of my stop motion video:

Click here to watch the full video on my YouTube channel!

- Minicart

Summer Party

During the hot months of Summer, it is only natural for Sims to want to get together and hang out by the pool.  Partying is on the agenda and what better than to do this with friends - drinking, dancing and lots of water fun is perfect on a hot summers day.

Willow is no exception.  Even our evil witch loves to hang out in the garden in the sunshine, especially since she loves the outdoors.

Unfortunately for Willow, she doesn't have a swimming pool or even a bar.  Neither does she have a radio or music centre.  To top it all, she doesn't even have any friends.  But this doesn't stop Willow from inviting other Sims over to her house and it doesn't stop other Sims from taking her up on her invite.  However, as I have said before in previous posts, Sims turn up to Willow's home but not all of them leave.

This year in Glimmerbrook, the Summer has been especially hot, to the point of a heatwave, so Willow decided to have a Summer Party.

She invited a few Sims over that she knew and low and behold, they accepted her offer.  These poor unsuspecting Sims thought they were in for a good time; lounging around in the Summer sun, drinking, dancing, water fun but they were in for a big surprise.

Willow took the precaution of locking her door so that her guests would stay in the garden to get lots of sun and fresh air.  And of course she made her speciality dish of Pufferfish Nigiri, just in case her guests became hungry.

Everyone gathered in the garden, chatting and getting to know one another.  A few picked up plates of food and struggled to eat it with the chopsticks provided but they persevered, to their detriment.

As you can guess, the inevitable happened.  And if the Pufferfish Nigiri didn't kill them, the hot Summers sun would.

No-one left Willows home that day.

Here is a snippet of "Summer Party":

Watch the full episode on my channel on YouTube!

- Minicart

Curses!

Encouraged by her trusty familiar in the form of a Raven named Fred, Willow tries out the potions she has learned by drinking them. She hasn't tasted them all but the ones that really help her are the Good Fortune, Plentiful Needs and Emotional Stability to name but a few.

Part of a Witches training is also to duel in the Magic Realm, either for knowledge, ingredients or just for the fun of it. Duelling helps with her knowledge of magic, pushing her orange bar up a little further but of course winning is the name of the game. Although Willow has managed to win a few of these duels, gaining magical knowledge in the process, she sometimes loses.

They say you can't have too much of a good thing but unfortunately for Willow, you can.

Even though she is getting stronger, she is not strong enough to cope with all of this power. Taking too many potions and losing a couple of duels in a row can take it's toll and this, in turn, curses our evil witch.

Willow is now stuck with two curses. One for taking too many potions and another for losing too many duels. The former causes her hygiene level to sink to rock bottom where no amount of showering will help at all. Even taking the Plentiful Needs potion will at first push her hygiene up but only for a short time. The stench causes her to “drip” green stinky puddles all over the floor inside and outside of the home. To make matters worse, the latter curse, the Curse of Awkward Embraces, causes her to hug people which is rather embarrassing for her and also for them.

The only way out of this is to learn the recipe for the potion of Curse Cleansing. And to ensure that she doesn't get hexed again, she needs to become more powerful in order to “earn” a few more points to “buy” Spellcaster Perks, namely, Hexproof, so that she never gets cursed again.

Here's a snippet of Part 10 of The Glimmerbrook Witch:

Click here to watch the full episode on my channel on YouTube!

- Minicart