Happy Valentine’s Day, simmers. Love is in the air! We’re proud to share with you our latest project. With over 70 items, this fan-made stuff pack is sure to bring some rustic charm to your sims’ wedding day. All items shown above are either EA, PTS content, or in the pack, so download and enjoy!
* Only a fraction of the content is pictured, check out the index below for everything else! *
Firstly I know what you’re thinking; “Have we really only had to put up with him for a year?”
But yes, next Friday marks the one year anniversary of our-dazed-sims’ creation, and six months of @elements-of-ellamint. And it coincides with the release of The Sims 4 Laundry Day Stuff, so here I am, giving back to you for all you’ve given me, thank you, I love and appreciate you all, so much! ♥
WHAT YOU WIN:
Unfortunately there can only be one winner, but if you win you’ll receive one copy of The Sims 4 Laundry Day Stuff!
RULES:
You must be following this blog, this is a follower gift.
You must reblog this post, likes won’t count.
You can reblog this post twice, no spamming to keep it fair.
If you’re under 16 please get your parents permission before entering.
THE WINNER:
A winner will be chosen at random at 9pm GMT (4pm EST) on Friday 26th of January and will have 24 hours to respond before a new winner is drawn. Good luck! :)
Firstly I know what you’re thinking; “Have we really only had to put up with him for a year?”
But yes, next Friday marks the one year anniversary of our-dazed-sims’ creation, and six months of @elements-of-ellamint. And it coincides with the release of The Sims 4 Laundry Day Stuff, so here I am, giving back to you for all you’ve given me, thank you, I love and appreciate you all, so much! ♥
WHAT YOU WIN:
Unfortunately there can only be one winner, but if you win you’ll receive one copy of The Sims 4 Laundry Day Stuff!
RULES:
You must be following this blog, this is a follower gift.
You must reblog this post, likes won’t count.
You can reblog this post twice, no spamming to keep it fair.
If you’re under 16 please get your parents permission before entering.
THE WINNER:
A winner will be chosen at random at 9pm GMT (4pm EST) on Friday 26th of January and will have 24 hours to respond before a new winner is drawn. Good luck! :)
do you have any tips for not getting bored playing a single sim for a while? i always rush things and marry everyone off and that kind of spoils it for me :-(
ok i might not be the best person to ask but i’ll give myself you some tips!
when making the sim
give them fun traits and aspirations: i found that i get quite easily bored with perfect sims. try to give them traits that don’t work very well together, or give them two negative traits. if there are traits you’ve never/rarely give to sims, try them out! similarly, give your sims different aspirations too, try out the ones you rarely use, and then try to complete them. you can use this random trait and aspiration generator if you find yourself giving every sim the same ones over and over again. or you can do it the nice and sloppy way (which is, obviously, what i usually do), look away from your screen, and click around like a blind bat until you’ve accidentally clicked on a random trait/aspiration.
come up with a character sheet: don’t rely solely on traits and aspirations when it comes to your sim’s personality. come up with entire characters, for example, you can make a health-obsessed sim, give them the vegetarian and active traits - and then make them run every morning, do a yoga routine every night, make them eat only organic (aka make meals only for which you have fresh ingredients for from your garden), make them meditate. or you can come up with an always tired, slightly alcoholic writer character: give them the loner trait and the writer aspiration, and then make them get by on coffee, pull all nighters, drink a glass of wine every night, make them interested in maths (max out the logic skill), while completing the writer aspiration, etc. you can even use character generators, like this one.
gameplay
choose an active career: if you have get to work, choose the doctor, detective, or scientist career, and go to work with your sim. there are plenty of challenges in the workplace, lots of things you can do or have to do, and it’s very rewarding.
try different careers: once again, do stuff you never do. i have at least five careers that i haven’t tried before, and i only got to the top of one… give your sim a job that you’ve never played with/never made it to the top of; or give them a job that doesn’t work well with their aspiration/traits and come up with ways to make them work (for example, make a good sim become a criminal, or a gloomy sim be a comedian; choose the writer career for an the aforementioned health-obsessed sim and play like they’re writing self-help books, etc.).
or, don’t have a career: try to live off the land, by making money only through foraging and farming. or make money only by selling paintings or books. or, if you have city living, make money only by selling random stuff at festivals/singing and playing an instrument in the city.
challenges: challenges save lives, to be honest. while many of them focus on legacies/multiple sims, you can find a lot that require a single sim. here you can find a huge list of different challenges. whenever i’m stuck with a sim, i usually go to the box of chocolates challenge, though; you basically roll one/two events per sim week, and you have that week to complete them. it introduces a lot of things that you might never think to do, and they can eventually become something in your gameplay that you do a lot (like the thing with only cooking meals with fresh ingredients - i do that a lot when i need a bit of quick challenge for myself).
complete aspirations: this is quite straight forward, i’d think that they came up with aspirations in the first place for keeping things from getting boring; but working towards an aspiration milestone definitely gives you something to do - especially if you chose an aspiration that you’ve never completed before.
complete whims: try to make your sim’s every wish come true! if they have a whim to buy a hot tub, work towards having enough money and get them a hot tub. if they want to hang out with someone, let them. this gives you an array of fun things to do.
start a business: if you have get to work, you can try starting your own business. i’ve had countless flower shops, but you can have your sim manage a fancy clothes shop, a thrift store, a museum that sells paintings, etc. it takes some getting used to, and it can be difficult at times, but that’s what we’re going for - difficult is not boring, at least.
manage a restaurant/pub/coffee shop: if you have dine out, you can have your own restaurant (though this is something i haven’t tried before). you can even build it yourself, and make it fit your sim’s personality - to be consistent with my examples, you can have a health-obsessed sim open a small vegetarian brunch place with lots of plants. or you can have a fancy restaurant that serves experimental foods, if you have a rich/weirdo sim. or you can open and manage a small coffee shop that also works as a library with lots of book shelves and couches. i don’t know much about managing such places, but i’d expect it’s fun!
have a garden: i guess this is pretty personal, i just love myself a good peasant… a small garden gives you something to do every day, and it’s quite rewarding to see plants grow and evolve. you can also experiment with grafting, and learning herbalism if you have outdoor retreat!
go camping: another fun thing to do, if you have outdoor retreat, is to go camping, and collect insects and wild plants, meet other sims, marry the ranger, fight bears…
find the secret lots: there are four secret lots that you can visit, if i’m not mistaken and count sixam, too. you can try finding and exploring them, make friends with the hermit, meet aliens, etc. building a rocket ship to go to sixam is also quite time consuming and fun, and exploring space gives you many new, fun things to do too!
have a cowplant: because they’re a pain in the arse so much that only keeping a cowplant alive should tie you down a little…
throw parties/social events: try out every kind of social event you can hold at home, or other locations. have dinner parties, fancy dress parties, brunches, house warming parties, pumpkin carvings, weenie roasts etc. better yet, try to achieve a gold medal in each of them!
start a club: clubs aren’t something i’ve explored before, but you can start all kinds of clubs and gather club points, try to make them as fun as possible.
build and master skills: building skills doesn’t only give you something to do, but they introduce new activities and social… things to do/talk about (my english is failing me but you get what i’m saying). so the higher your skill points, the more new things for you to do!
use skill building items: the obvious option is an easel, of course, i love looking at the paintings they make and discovering new ones! also, try out the woodworking table and make your own furniture. or try pumpkin carving, or buy a waterslide and look at your sim’s funny faces.
don’t forget aspiration rewards: these will give you some new ways to play your game, it’s definitely worth exploring all kinds of fun stuff and custom traits you can get for satisfaction points! there are things like ‘incredibly friendly’ which comes in handy if you have a social aspiration, or ‘beguilling’ which is extremely helpful for a serial romantic, but there are so many options to explore.
give them a makeover: every now and again, when i get bored of my sim, i give them a little makeover to freshen up the experience a bit, like a new hairdo and hair colour or a new outfit. it seems quite basic, but it really helps make things a bit less boring on the long run!
download custom traits: there are many super fun custom traits around for you to download and explore, have a look around here.
add more CAS traits: there’s this mod that allows you to give your sim more than three traits, so they can have a proper personality. i suggest you read through the description on how to use it!
bonus 2: build
this is not really about gameplay, but whenever you feel uninspired with your game, take a break, go outside start building. you can try filling up empty lots, or delete all lots and townies (or download an empty world save or a different world for a change of scenery - though i suggest you do this before starting a game) and fill up the world with houses, community lots and your own townies.
bonus 3: start a simblr
ok, this is kinda different, but i’ve found that taking screenshots of your game really slows down your gameplay - but in a good way. you’ll find yourself doing all kinds of stuff you haven’t done before for the sake of a good screencap, haha. looking at other poeple’s gameplay and stories also keeps you inspired; and you can even try writing your own story and then making it happen in the sims.
phew, this turned out to be a lot, i wish i could follow my own advice, haha. anyway, i hope you find this helpful - and everyone else, if you have any ideas and suggestions, feel free to add them!
Uh, yah, yay, more sweatpants. No honestly. Like the children have way cooler sweatpants than the adults, so I keep taking their textures and smashing them on my pants-mesh, and here you go.
These are base game compatible and come in 9 colors (and yes, same as my jello shot pants the name comes from the musical Heathers (next sweatpants are so going to be the “dang dang diggity-dang-a-dang pants”)).
I’ve never done anything skin related before, but this is a skin blend I made for myself. It is a mash up of my personal favorite skin details / defaults, so it may not be everyone’s cup of tea but considering how flexible and generous the TOU of all the creator whose content went into quickly making this I figured maybe someone else would find enjoyment out of it!
Firstly I want to add this is a skinblend, none of the textures used are mine, and all the credit goes to their respected owners (listed below with links to the textures used).
Secondly, I use @motherofdeathclaws‘s EA skintone overrides for a smoother base. I have no idea what this skin will look like without it but i suggest picking it up regardless.
@tamo-sim‘s eye bags, specifically the first swatch. I put the first swatch on ALL of my sims, no exceptions.
@heihu‘s nose shine from their xiuga overlay. I couldn’t grab the exact texture from it, but I did my best to re-paint it, and i lowered the opacity slightly.
@pyxiidis‘s ‘we are electric’ default lips. It seemed kind of redundant to include pyxis’s lips in this skinblend but I ever so slightly fidgeted with the texture, regardless just like the rest of the details on this small list, I can’t live without it.
@pyxiidis‘s nosemask from their summer skeletons v2 skinblend, I forget which bulb nosemask i used (whether it was the sk-sims or madmono one) but I lowered the opacity of it a bit, since I like my sims to have defined nose bulbs.
The skin blend it available for all ages, toddler to elder. 100% credit goes to @madmono, @pyxiidis, @heihu, and @tamo-sim for their hard work and generous terms of use! ♥
If anything if wrong message @ayoshi or @aharris00britney depending on what is broken. For example: do not message ayoshi about the hairs since he did not make them
Download along with the Sims used// Other CC used in previews below
These took much longer to make than expected but I hope they are helpful! The Gimp and Photoshop versions are slightly different but both should work for what you need. I used these icons for the template, in case you are looking for more! The download will have the family tree and then an add-on for traits if you want them. Hide anything you don’t need and duplicate things to make more! :)
♡IMPORTANT♡
- You will need to download the LEMON MILK FONT
- To change colors in Gimp go to Colors>Colorize
♡TOU♡
Do not redistribute or upload to any other sites
No credit required, enjoy and tag me if you would like to :)
do you have any tips for not getting bored playing a single sim for a while? i always rush things and marry everyone off and that kind of spoils it for me :-(
ok i might not be the best person to ask but i’ll give myself you some tips!
when making the sim
give them fun traits and aspirations: i found that i get quite easily bored with perfect sims. try to give them traits that don’t work very well together, or give them two negative traits. if there are traits you’ve never/rarely give to sims, try them out! similarly, give your sims different aspirations too, try out the ones you rarely use, and then try to complete them. you can use this random trait and aspiration generator if you find yourself giving every sim the same ones over and over again. or you can do it the nice and sloppy way (which is, obviously, what i usually do), look away from your screen, and click around like a blind bat until you’ve accidentally clicked on a random trait/aspiration.
come up with a character sheet: don’t rely solely on traits and aspirations when it comes to your sim’s personality. come up with entire characters, for example, you can make a health-obsessed sim, give them the vegetarian and active traits - and then make them run every morning, do a yoga routine every night, make them eat only organic (aka make meals only for which you have fresh ingredients for from your garden), make them meditate. or you can come up with an always tired, slightly alcoholic writer character: give them the loner trait and the writer aspiration, and then make them get by on coffee, pull all nighters, drink a glass of wine every night, make them interested in maths (max out the logic skill), while completing the writer aspiration, etc. you can even use character generators, like this one.
gameplay
choose an active career: if you have get to work, choose the doctor, detective, or scientist career, and go to work with your sim. there are plenty of challenges in the workplace, lots of things you can do or have to do, and it’s very rewarding.
try different careers: once again, do stuff you never do. i have at least five careers that i haven’t tried before, and i only got to the top of one… give your sim a job that you’ve never played with/never made it to the top of; or give them a job that doesn’t work well with their aspiration/traits and come up with ways to make them work (for example, make a good sim become a criminal, or a gloomy sim be a comedian; choose the writer career for an the aforementioned health-obsessed sim and play like they’re writing self-help books, etc.).
or, don’t have a career: try to live off the land, by making money only through foraging and farming. or make money only by selling paintings or books. or, if you have city living, make money only by selling random stuff at festivals/singing and playing an instrument in the city.
challenges: challenges save lives, to be honest. while many of them focus on legacies/multiple sims, you can find a lot that require a single sim. here you can find a huge list of different challenges. whenever i’m stuck with a sim, i usually go to the box of chocolates challenge, though; you basically roll one/two events per sim week, and you have that week to complete them. it introduces a lot of things that you might never think to do, and they can eventually become something in your gameplay that you do a lot (like the thing with only cooking meals with fresh ingredients - i do that a lot when i need a bit of quick challenge for myself).
complete aspirations: this is quite straight forward, i’d think that they came up with aspirations in the first place for keeping things from getting boring; but working towards an aspiration milestone definitely gives you something to do - especially if you chose an aspiration that you’ve never completed before.
complete whims: try to make your sim’s every wish come true! if they have a whim to buy a hot tub, work towards having enough money and get them a hot tub. if they want to hang out with someone, let them. this gives you an array of fun things to do.
start a business: if you have get to work, you can try starting your own business. i’ve had countless flower shops, but you can have your sim manage a fancy clothes shop, a thrift store, a museum that sells paintings, etc. it takes some getting used to, and it can be difficult at times, but that’s what we’re going for - difficult is not boring, at least.
manage a restaurant/pub/coffee shop: if you have dine out, you can have your own restaurant (though this is something i haven’t tried before). you can even build it yourself, and make it fit your sim’s personality - to be consistent with my examples, you can have a health-obsessed sim open a small vegetarian brunch place with lots of plants. or you can have a fancy restaurant that serves experimental foods, if you have a rich/weirdo sim. or you can open and manage a small coffee shop that also works as a library with lots of book shelves and couches. i don’t know much about managing such places, but i’d expect it’s fun!
have a garden: i guess this is pretty personal, i just love myself a good peasant… a small garden gives you something to do every day, and it’s quite rewarding to see plants grow and evolve. you can also experiment with grafting, and learning herbalism if you have outdoor retreat!
go camping: another fun thing to do, if you have outdoor retreat, is to go camping, and collect insects and wild plants, meet other sims, marry the ranger, fight bears…
find the secret lots: there are four secret lots that you can visit, if i’m not mistaken and count sixam, too. you can try finding and exploring them, make friends with the hermit, meet aliens, etc. building a rocket ship to go to sixam is also quite time consuming and fun, and exploring space gives you many new, fun things to do too!
have a cowplant: because they’re a pain in the arse so much that only keeping a cowplant alive should tie you down a little…
throw parties/social events: try out every kind of social event you can hold at home, or other locations. have dinner parties, fancy dress parties, brunches, house warming parties, pumpkin carvings, weenie roasts etc. better yet, try to achieve a gold medal in each of them!
start a club: clubs aren’t something i’ve explored before, but you can start all kinds of clubs and gather club points, try to make them as fun as possible.
build and master skills: building skills doesn’t only give you something to do, but they introduce new activities and social… things to do/talk about (my english is failing me but you get what i’m saying). so the higher your skill points, the more new things for you to do!
use skill building items: the obvious option is an easel, of course, i love looking at the paintings they make and discovering new ones! also, try out the woodworking table and make your own furniture. or try pumpkin carving, or buy a waterslide and look at your sim’s funny faces.
don’t forget aspiration rewards: these will give you some new ways to play your game, it’s definitely worth exploring all kinds of fun stuff and custom traits you can get for satisfaction points! there are things like ‘incredibly friendly’ which comes in handy if you have a social aspiration, or ‘beguilling’ which is extremely helpful for a serial romantic, but there are so many options to explore.
give them a makeover: every now and again, when i get bored of my sim, i give them a little makeover to freshen up the experience a bit, like a new hairdo and hair colour or a new outfit. it seems quite basic, but it really helps make things a bit less boring on the long run!
download custom traits: there are many super fun custom traits around for you to download and explore, have a look around here.
add more CAS traits: there’s this mod that allows you to give your sim more than three traits, so they can have a proper personality. i suggest you read through the description on how to use it!
bonus 2: build
this is not really about gameplay, but whenever you feel uninspired with your game, take a break, go outside start building. you can try filling up empty lots, or delete all lots and townies (or download an empty world save or a different world for a change of scenery - though i suggest you do this before starting a game) and fill up the world with houses, community lots and your own townies.
bonus 3: start a simblr
ok, this is kinda different, but i’ve found that taking screenshots of your game really slows down your gameplay - but in a good way. you’ll find yourself doing all kinds of stuff you haven’t done before for the sake of a good screencap, haha. looking at other poeple’s gameplay and stories also keeps you inspired; and you can even try writing your own story and then making it happen in the sims.
phew, this turned out to be a lot, i wish i could follow my own advice, haha. anyway, i hope you find this helpful - and everyone else, if you have any ideas and suggestions, feel free to add them!
- 40 swatches
- new mesh (EA edit)
- tuck in version
- base game compatible
- maxis match
- real in game shine
- everyday, formal, party
- teen to elder
- stand alone
Hi everyone, your girl here is back with another EA mesh revamp. A lot of you have been asking for wavy or long hair, so here is the first of the many more yet to come. I am going to include an override version of my revamped hairs from now on - they will have no custom thumbnails. Remember to pick only one package when downloading. Enjoy 💙
BGC
Teen-Elder, Female
18 EA swatches
custom thumbnail
hat compatible
enabled for vampires & aliens
Check the before (EA) and after (my edit):
♦ ♦ ♦ DOWNLOAD ♦ ♦ ♦
Pick only one!
Separate version [SimFileShare]
Override version [SimFileShare]
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