Désirée Sims 3

After downloading the Savvy Seller mod I’ve decided to create this cute little flower shop. My sim is not the owner, I’ve set the owner to be a random townie and I love how the shop looks and works. I actually make my sim go there pretty often, I pick my favourite flower or plant, which is transferred to the family inventory once bought.

It adds a lot of realism, I change the flowers on my dining table weekly this way instead of simply buying flowers from buy mode.

After building the flower shop, I got the sudden idea of building a basement underneath the shop to turn it into a secret night bar.

I had no idea if this was even possible, but luckily the building didn’t have foundations so I just built it with the basement function which was pretty straightforward. Having to build the stairs made the flower shop much smaller, in retrospective I would have made it a bit bigger but I think it works, I like small lots anyway.

The way in which this works is that the Flower Shop/Bar is set as an Exclusive Lounge, the downside is that people will change into their formal clothes as soon as they enter the shop, but it’s not a big deal. The upside is that once you set the lot as an exclusive lounge and you add a piano, a pianist willl automatically show up and play.

I also wanted to restric the hours in which sims would be able to cross the door that leads to the stairs that go into the bar to make it really feel like a secret, late night bar. I’ve used Nraas Go Here, which allows you to set the times in which a door can be opened, and I’ve set it from midnight to 4 am.

Surprisingly, it works amazingly well. The door restriction doens’t work for hired sims which is brillant (thank you nraas) which means that the pianist and the bartender show up much sooner than the door time (I think they just follow the set times for the Exclusive Lounge type of lot as they show up in the late afternoon). So when sims show up around midnight the pianist is already playing and the bartender is ready to serve drinks.

A lot of sims show up both in the flower shop during the day and at the speakeasy at night, it’s really a lot of fun!

It has a reception room, where I added a register that sells potions which I find pretty realistic for a wellness spot.

I love that the waiting area in the reception room has massaging chairs

There’s a room with two jacuzzis and a pool, I wanted my sims to be able to swim while looking at the beach outside

There’s the functional massage room with a professional masseuse

A nice sauna

And a bathroom with two showers and two toilets

The child in my family has finally become a teen!

Tomorrow is his first day of high school, so it's the perfect time for a father-son Sunday.

First, a fancy lunch in Pines Bay (my custom world) restaurant "The Classic". I wanted to built a very classic and chic restaurant and I love how it turned out, with the view on the boats and the classic paintings (hence the name). I swear, I don't know if I would even play this game without the "eat outside" mod, I just love it, and I love that I can select different prices and food for every restaurant. Specialties here are Lobster and Crepes. They get there early as it gets very packed, and then they enjoy a dessert in the sun on the tables outside.

After a nice day at the beach they enjoy a movie at Pine's Bay Cultural Center.

Finally downloaded @zerbu Ultimate Career Mod and created my first school.

Once again, Pines Bay (my custom world) is tiny so this is both primary and high school.

There’s an art room, science room, generic classroom, lecture room with a podium, cafeteria and computer room.

I’m using a combination of Zerbu and the Social Club Mod to make it more organized, so I can divide school time in different classes. At the moment, children divide their school time between science and art class, while teens attend classes and use the computer room.

I know it looks all cute in pictures, but honestly it is quite messy in game 😂 I’m still figuring out how to make it work but I might have to give up the whiteboard, because a lot of random adult sims just keep showing up everyday and aggressively try to give presentations, complaining the whole time cause there is only one whiteboard.

The podium also doesn’t work that well, the option to listen to the lecture won’t show up. So what happens is that the adult sim gives the lecture while the teens are actually just doing their homework, it only looks like they’re taking notes :).

Showing off some of the lots I’ve built for my custom world Pines Bay. This is Pines Bay Museum of Modern Art.

At the beginning it was just the ground floor. So basically just decor paintings and statues, the lot is an art gallery so sims show up and just look at things. There is also a book register. However, Pines Bay is a very tiny world so I could not afford to have such a huge lot just for an art gallery. I love making munti functional lots and this world is really allowing me to do it! The sim that I’m currently playing with is a writer, and I’m always looking for new places where he can write instead of just staying at home all day. This gave me the idea of building a work/study area in the second floor of the museum. A contemporary museum in my city actually has something similar so it made a lot of sense to me. He goes there basically everyday to write and other sims show up to do their computer stuff.

I still had a lot of space and that’s when I remembered that the contemporary museum in my city also has a projection room for film screenings. So I’ve built this nice little cinema room, and now the museum is basically a cultural centre where you can enjoy art, study, reading or watch a movie.

I’m very happy with it and the cinema gets really packed which is also nice

Welcome to Pines Bay!

Working with Create a World for the first time was fun! It looked intimidating at first but I followed an amazing YouTube tutorial and it’s actually quite simple.

I liked the idea of building a tiny world where everything would be easily accessible and controllable. However, I’m realising that it might be a little bit too tiny and I could get tired of it easily :(

Anyway, my inspo for it was an Hamptons kind of vibe. I’ve never been to the Hamptons lol but I took inspiration from a vague idea in my mind of how the coastal cities and Islands around New York look like. I wanted to build a world that looked rich but not tacky, basically “old money”. Everything is very polished but also traditional. I think it came out pretty nice :). I’m actually Italian and I lived in Paris so inevitably there were also other influences. I liked the idea of pine trees near the coast, like you see so often here in Italy. And I’ve built a park that is inspired from Parc Monceau in Paris.

I have zero experience in modding and coding, but I really enjoy mod and I'm fascinated by the complexity of it. I have this extremely specific and long to explain (sorry!) idea for a mod and I just can't stop thinking about it. I know there's a lot of skilled modders her on tumblr, could someone at least tell me if this achievable, or if I'm just crazy? lol. I know it's never gonna happen but I need to know if it's doable.

I would like to enrich the experience of writing and painting so that sims that sell paintings and novels could do something that's not simply writing and painting at home. The idea would be to create a temporary exhibition event for painters and a book signing event for writers. The two events would work similarly. After a certain level of painting/writing there would be a new interaction on a specific rabbit hole lot (museum?), something along the lines of "hold temporary exhibition/book signing". In my mind, this would work similarly to when you invited the headmaster to get admitted to private school in sims 2: the success of the exhibition/book sign will depend on a series of specific interactions that the sim will be able to do during the time of the event. For painters: they would simply hang their paintings in a room in the lot from their inventory, and then, for the time of the event, they should get a new interactions with sims present in the room such as "explain artistic vision". Something similar should happen for writers, with interactions such as "discuss literary influences".

I would also like for something alcohol related to give points that will determine the success of the event, something like toasting, but I don't think that's possible in sims 3. Maybe a bar should always be present in the exhibition/book signing lot so that the artist can get points for getting drinks for everybody. Both painters and writers should get points from giving a speech on the podium which should have a custom interaction such as "introduce exhibition", animation would stay the same. Since it's a book signing, I would love if writers could sign books, maybe it can be done starting from the autograph animation. If it's too complicated, introducing plain autograph signing for the time of the event would be good as well. Success of the event will be determined by: how many of these activities the sim was able to carry out during the event, the sim level of writing/painting skill and level of charisma. The artist sim will get paid at the end of the event based on his/her performance, and they would get one of the usual sims message such as "oh no the event sucked, Mark didn't sell any book" or "The event was a big success, Lucy sold multiple paintings and earned xxxx simoleons" . Would be cool if sim with low writing/painting/charisma skill that also do not successful carry on the interactions could lose money from organizing an unsuccessful exhibition or book signing.

I’ve built this functional boutique months ago but I’d never use it because it relied heavily on omsp and they kept showing up all the time! I had to go to edit town, build/buy and then resend my sim to the lot every single time, which was so frustrating that I’ve stopped using it.

I’m know enjoying it again thanks to @id-element0 invisible OMSP 🙏🏽

Once again thanks to @phoebejaysims social mod mod my sim now goes to the gym two times per week with a group of friends.

There, they either do some fitness thanks to @olomaya “get pumped”mod, yoga thanks to @twinsimming yoga mod or they have a spin class also crated by @twinsimming.

They always enjoy a post workout snack with @olomaya vending machines and then my favourite part… spa time! The sauna and the mud bath are from @aroundthesims

All the sims showed are pre-made sims made by creators, I should be able to link them or any other cc item showed in the pictures if someone is interested in downloading them :)