I’ll be honest: the “Chiclettina” counter was never one of my favourites. But apparently my downloaders see it differently, because a while back I got not one but two requests for Chiclettina completers. One of them also asked for completers for the Club Room counters. This one was never one of my favourites, either – even less so than the Chiclettina – but what can you do when you have great downloaders and they ask so nicely? So… Chiclettina and Club Room completers it is! 
Category: Misc. -> Misc.
EPs Required: None – base game compatible
Cost: $1,450
Poly Count: 
(3842 = 1921/tile)
Backstory: a while ago (a long, long while ago 😳 ), I got a request from the wonderful Tiff a.k.a. ekrubynaffit for an invisible recol for the cauldron of the TSM Jacoban fireplace I’d converted as a stove earlier, so it can be used as, you know, a fireplace without looking out of place (as Tiff put it, “a cooking pot in the ballroom won’t work”). Me being, well, me, I offered to make it into an actual fireplace instead. And here it is, at long last. Sorry it’s taken so long, Tiff!
I know, I know – I have some explaining to do here. I’ve… installed TS4. 😮 Not to play, mind – to be able to convert CC. I’ve played it exactly once, just so it would spawn everything it needed to spawn, but that’s it. I’m staying true to my beloved TS2. ❤
Anyway. When I was playing with S4CASTools and Sims 4 Studio to get a feeling for how they worked, I came across this adorable pair of ice cream earrings for AF (that I'm sure have been converted before – I mean, they're base game), and I also found a cute strawberry necklace for CF. They seemed like an easy enough project for my very first 4to2 conversion… so I converted them. And then I made some add-ons, too, because of course I did: earrings for the strawberry necklace and a necklace for the ice cream earrings.
So since it’s summer – have some ice cream and strawberries!
As I said in my scrubs post, I’ve made accessory box versions of the insets, to save your sanity and space in Bodyshop and CAS. And here they are! 😀
Title, of course, from here.
Background: I’m writing a story, that isn’t Star Trek-based for once, where most of the characters including my two main characters are doctors and I needed some nice scrubs for them. (The Sims in the title pic are all story Sims, BTW.) I’m not super keen on the (hidden) scrubs in game, so I was very happy to stumble upon Skell’s improved scrubs project (where Skell made new scrubs based on the BV masseuse uniform). There are some nice recols for it out there already, but as always I wanted my own. I was just going to make a few… but if you know me at all, you know that I never, ever stop at “just a few.” 😅
(Lite version also posted at Tumblr.)
New year, new uploads.
Not quite my usual, but over at Tumblr, DeeDee-Sims has made a top-only version of Trapping’s peplum dress that I quite like, it’s perfect for a certain story Sim of mine who needed a nice dress for a first date (and then again for a special but somewhat hurried occasion). I wanted it with a longer skirt, though, so I ripped the skirt off another one of DeeDee’s top-only dresses, her romp dress, and put it on the peplum dress instead. Then I slapped ZombieJill’s six recols on it, and also made nine more (eight Aelia and one ACYL) using ZJ’s textures.
DeeDee’s dresses are for AF and TF, so my dress is as well. Seems only fair. 🙂
Yes, I’m alive and simmin’. Have plenty of stuff to upload, too – watch this space, as they say.
Fanseelamb’s Sookie hoodie is one of my favourite AF tops of all time, and even though it’s more than twelve years old by now I still use it a lot for my Sims. I recoloured it recently for my Mattie Sim… and then I thought I’d make some more recols while I was at it. Just a couple, you know, by way of variation.
So today I bring you 30 recols from Aelia’s Jewel and Autumn palettes (I picked and mixed my favourite colours), in three variations: plain, with hearts, and with polkadots. Oh, and I thought it would be great to have them for teens as well… so I converted Fansee’s excellent mesh for TF (Keisha in the middle is a teen).
Just a couple of recols. Right. 🙄
As per always I’ve got about a tonne of other things I’m working on, but this happened.
A while back, I made WSOs for Consort’s heavy male (which is one of my favourite bodyshapes for male Sims – and yes, I know there already are WSOs for Melodie9’s fat family and that’s all good and well, but personally I’ve always liked Consort’s shape better. And IMHO, if there can be a bazillion different bodyshapes for all kinds of bodybuilders? Then there can be two for heavy-set Sims). But I was never really happy with the WSO for clothed meshes in particular, I think the morphs came out too bulky, so I tweaked it and tweaked it and then tweaked it some more until it had a shape I liked (basically smoother and with fewer folds and love handles), or at least felt I could work with.
But for some reason I never got around to upload the updated WSOs here, it kept slipping my mind. But now here they finally are (at absolutely nobody’s request, but anyway).
Category: Lighting -> Table Lamps, Wall Lamps
Cost: $39
Poly Count: (2156)
EPs Required: None – base-game compatible
I was browsing the IKEA catalogue (as one does) and came across this adorable children’s table lamp (that also has a Japanese wall version, and knew at once that I had to have it for my little Simlets. So I simmed it. 🙂
Category: Counters and counter sides: Surfaces -> Counters; wall cabinets and cabinet sides: Decorative -> Wall or Surfaces -> Shelves
Cost: Counters $200; wall cabinets $100
Poly Count: 
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EPs Required: None, base-game compatible
It feels a bit odd to be posting Sim stuff as if all is well in the world when it really isn’t, but these have been finished for quite some time and I really wanted to get them out.
This is my fourth counter completer set (the previous ones can be found here, here and here) – and there’s more to come, too. It wasn’t the plan, but what’s a creator to do when she’s got great downloaders who make great requests? ❤
And before someone from MTS goes "but MaryLou and Numenor!" – yes, I know they made add-ons for the “Counter Culture” counters several years ago, but I wanted them made in my style and with my counter variations. (Also, M&N made theirs in 2006. I know that some people at MTS think that no two creators can ever make similar items ever, but to say that nobody is allowed to touch a Maxis item because someone made add-ons sixteen years ago… honestly, I think that’s a bit over the top even for MTS. But that’s me.)
So have a set with “Counter Culture” completers! 😈
Category: Lighting -> Floor Lamps, Table Lamps
Cost: $75 – $350
Poly Count: (same as sculpture)
EPs Required: 
First post of 2022. To quote Forrest Gump, that’s all I have to say about that. 😛
Anyway. A while back, when I was playing the game for once and not just play testing stuff, I came across the PETS “Shapes in Space” sculpture (that I’d quite forgotten existed)… and was a little disappointed it wasn’t a floor lamp. I thought it would have made a perfect lamp for space-minded Sims like the Curious brothers, so… I made it a floor lamp. (I made a floor lamp that looked like the sculpture, I mean. I didn’t turn the actual sculpture into a floor lamp.) And then I made a bigger one, because options. And also two table lamps, so you can have lamps that match.
I give you Lamps… in… Space! (And yes, you’re supposed to read that in a “Pigs in Space” voice 😉 ).
Category: Counters and counter sides: Surfaces -> Counters; wall cabinets and cabinet sides: Decorative -> Wall or Surfaces -> Shelves
Cost: Counters $800; wall cabinets $400
Poly Count: to
EPs Required: None, base-game compatible
I wasn’t going to make any more counters. I mean, I’d already made two completer sets (found here and here) and that’s enough counters to last you a lifetime. So no more counters for me. Nope. Never.
But then this nice Tumblr anon asked me if I had any plans to make completers for the BG Chez Moi counter? Anon really liked this counter, you see, and they also liked my other counter completers (insert warm fuzzy feeling here), so they thought they might as well ask.
I wasn’t going to make any more counters. Really. I wasn’t. But the more I thought about it, the more I liked the idea. The Chez Moi is one of my favourite counters, and anon was being nice about it – and nice will go a very long way with me (especially on Tumblr). So… well… I made some more counters. 😳
Hope you like them, anon!
These have been sitting in my WIP folder for quite some time. I’ve been dithering about uploading them since I know this top has been recoloured to death already – but then I thought, bugrit. I like how these turned out, and it’s my blog, so there! 😛 If you don’t like them, well, then you don’t have to download. It’s as simple as that.
So, here you have the BG sweater set in Aelia’s Autumn. It’s not just one of my favourite palettes, it’s also a very fitting one in my northern corner of the world. 🙂
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