New Dimension Day - Plant Project

 (Year 225) Every year the New Dimension Day (commonly referred to as «Dim Day») is celebrated on 2nd Sunday of Fall. There is normally a community gathering in each district, perhaps including a speech by a Councilor or nobility person. This year was no exception, as a totally new project was introduced!

The Horticultural Society, in cooperation with Region 12's high nobility, this year ran a very symbolic event where each district gets a line up of 5 plant boxes, each representing one district, but in the local district's traditional color.

Download - 13 Curtain floral recolors

July 2022: Downloading from this blogger post no longer works, so please head over to a new page listing all my TS4  custom content. All free. DOWNLOADS

I always wanted more floral curtains in this game, so I created some recolors of the curtains that I use most often. These are the Simplistic Curtain from City Living, and the Billionaire's Hand-Me-Down Curtains from Eco Lifestyle. You will need either of those packs for these recolors to show up in the buy catalog.

13 recolors - all floral.

I did not recolor all sizes though. You get the short size for both, and the medium version for one. Probably not perfect, but pretty enough for adding some flowers to a room :)

Behind the Scenes - my Screenshots Folder

I constantly take loads of screenshots - we're talking gigabytes, and decided that I can share them! Luckily I have a routine for scrolling through them to delete duplicates or pictures that definitely are no-keepers. But there are always lots of files that I do choose to keep, although I don't plan to use them. Starting these days I'll share from my Screenshot folder in weekly Behind the Scenes videos!

In the long run the motives will be totally random, a mix of portraits, builds, landscapes and pets, but mostly everyday living. Some unexpected humorous stuff might occur, but mostly plain dull stuff. It might still be fun to watch, and there might even be ideas to steal.

Lady de Sür-Blyth married

 (Brindleton Y225) Elvira Leonora de Sür-Blyth (41), also known as Lady de Sür-Blyth, finally married! After a full year long engagement to Hugo Villareal (31), they are now husband and wife.

The wedding ceremony took place at Club Calico, and it was a sweet, although small, event.

Your Noble Life - 2 - Teenagers

I've made my own set of rules to guide my nobility through life. Most rules regard houses, peerages, heritage, economics and administration, although nobility naturally takes easier on this than the real royals would. Most of this can be used regardless of series (TS4, TS3, TS2). Here is the second of four guides based on a noble person's life stage - teenager.

Students at Chateau Cavalier have their private class room for homework and studies.

Not too serious, but not completely without purpose, either...

Region 12 - Community portrait

 (Year 225) Hey, why didn't I try something like this long ago? It's quite cool to see some of my families gathered for one huge community portrait, like a time stamp for my memory book. There are 70+ active households in my game, so they could not all get in, but I will definitely do this again in the future!

This group portrait is meant to document the start of Year 225. The most essential families are represented here, they are grouped by household, although it appears to be rather random and chaotic, LOL. Grown ups that already moved out are not included, neither are babies.

Here is the new Council

(Council House, Year 225) It's already been a while since the election, and it's time to present to you the new Region 12 Council. Bud von Kaching was not running for another period due to age, and the RIGHT party chose to withdraw their support for Victor F. Tangerin, probably as a result of him being sued for murder some yeas ago. Although he was found not guilty, the court case harmed his popularity.

So, for the next 5 years we have 2 new Councilors, representing Gloomville and San Myshuno!

The mix of parties is the same as before, RIGHT party has 3 Councilors, LEFT party has 2, and MIDDLE has 0. This does not mean that RIGHT party politics will win and MIDDLE party is not represented, because while some of the Councilors do represent one party, they might also represent a district where the main N.A.P. is from a different party. Silverbone represents the LEFT party while Brindleton Bay's main N.A.P. is from the MIDDLE party. Dougham represents the RIGHT party, while he is the Newcrest Councilor and Newcrest's N.A.P.s are dominated by the LEFT party. This will of course affect their voting, as it should be a balance between the party, the N.A.P. and their personal opinions. The other three will probably be stronger voices as each of them won't need to vote on behalf of several parties.

Charloman Au. C. Dougham (52), Mayor, Law & Justice
Party: RIGHT - District: Newcrest - BIO
This is Dougham's 4th period on the Council, and his 2nd as Region 12's Mayor. He has a background from a successful Business career, and is married to Corinne Dougham, Lady Crestville. They have 3 children (triplets) aged 14.

Family tree - huge update adds 225 years of history!

 (Year 225) Ha! - I just could not stop myself from going the full way! A week ago I proudly presented my new The Sims 4 family tree for all today's 70+ households, including 3-4 generations for most. Then I thought, why not add all that I know? All their known ancestors, siblings, aunts and cousins - whether I played them or not? Especially for my nobility I keep detailed notes of most of their family lines, and just because I don't have their portraits shouldn't stop me from adding them to the tree! Now there is even a touch of long gone royals!

The family tree grew rapidly, of course, as most nobility can be traced back to year 0. That's 225 years of family history. And I got myself a few surprises too, seeing how some of today's families actually connect a few generations back. That is the point of a genealogical tree, right? Seeing how they all connect. It helps understanding their background, and possibly also their presence and future. It's not only useful for locating cousins with a couple clicks, it will also help me finding a person's heirs.

Nifty Knitting - short review

(The Sims 4 Stuff Pack) Yes, I love this little community voted pack! It might not be adding the bold content to my game, but it's actually perfect for adding those small bits of realism. It really feels like a personal interest and hobby, or it could of course be seen as a way to make a very small living. I use it for both.

Pilots can knit, too!

Although this pack has limited content, I have not yet explored it all. It will take me a while to have sims reach the top skill level as I rarely play any house for more than a couple simdays in my rotational routine.

Your Noble Life - 1 - Baby to Child

I've made my own set of rules to guide my nobility through life. Most rules regard heritage, economics and administration, although nobility naturally takes easier on this than real royals do. Most of this can be used regardless of series (TS4, TS3, TS2). Here is the first of four guides based on a noble person's life stage.

In your first year you will be more interested in that bottle of milk than your rank in the line of successors.

Not too serious, but not totally useless , either...

New feature: Family Tree

Long ago I decided to keep my TS4 residents registry simple, but as you know it has been growing over the years with more and more detailed info. I also decided never ever to add a family tree feature - so yesterday I programmed one :)

All personal details were already in the script, so the job was not overwhelming. The result allows you to easily jump between a person's bio page and family tree. It will certainly be easier for me to keep track on relations.

Nobility: Rank and Titles

 (Year 225) It's been a while since I introduced nobility to my Region 12. Historically, the first peers have been around since Year 2, and I know the detailed story of each house.

Nobility from several districts gathered at the wedding of Auphor Saxor, Baron of Verde. Left to right: Elvy (Rab-Saxor) Ross, Baroness of Shiningham. Bennet Ross, Baron of Shiningham. Ribra Lynn (Thebe) Ross, Duchess of Rossie. Jarret Ross, Duke of Rossie. Gloria (Roxenfox) Saxor, Duchess of Meadows. Victus Am. Saxor, Duke of Meadows. (Groom) Auphor Saxor, Baron of Verde. (Bride) Morgan (Fyres) Saxor, Baroness of Verde. Dominic Fyres, Lord von Dresden, of Deadgrass and von Haunt. Moira (Rattle) Fyres, Mrs Dominic Dresden. Miss Siobhan Fyres.

In this post I want to focus a bit more on how my nobility ranks, and their titles. There are four levels, royalty (they reside far away and I don't play them), high nobility, low nobility and noble titles (which often counts as low nobility). I did some RL research over the past year, and I was amazed by the complexity! I had to make my own routines, but there are still certain elements based n RL nobility.