Well y’all it is that time again! 😁 More of me jumping around Hidden Springs and giving everyone – and their homes – some much needed makeovers and fixes. 👍🏻
So let’s dive right into it!
Next here we have Anna Menon. She is also a great big ball of sunshine! 😄👍🏻😬
Y’all should read her info there on the link I attached to her name. It’s kinda interesting. 🙂
Anyhoo, before I sent her into CAS I couldn’t help taking a look around her home first.
Umm…I was rather confused by her home decor honestly. Particularly the kitchen. 😕 I mean, if she’s the queen of fashion, why does her kitchen look like it belongs to a tough male race car driver…
There’s nothing feminine about it at all! It’s just hideous to me…
Or was she going for the Queen of Hearts look from Alice in Wonderland?? 🤷🏻♀️ Who knows.
And it really confuses me because her bedroom is decorated like this:
Complete OPPOSITE decor of what she has going on in the kitchen! Wow. 😮 Perhaps it’s all part of her Insane trait??
(Oh and I totally slapped some blinds onto those giant windows to give her some much needed privacy and forgot to take a picture.)
I didn’t have the energy or motivation to fix the kitchen – if she were a favorite sim that would be one thing – so I just moved on and took her into CAS.
After promptly giving her a new skin, I took off her sunglasses so I could properly see her whole face.
And I think I can guess why she wears sunglasses all the time…
…her eyes are huge like so many others in this world. (I thought that was just a Bridgeport sim thing. 🤔 But now I’m starting to think otherwise.)
I was unable to shrink her eyes, strangely enough, so I just tweaked them a tiny bit and added some cc eyes and better makeup. 👍🏻 Voila! New Anna:
I checked all her clothing and it was fine. I really didn’t spend much time with her at all as she’s just not my cup of tea. I did what was necessary and moved on. Lol! 😜
I was excited to check on the Shue Family as it had been a while and remembered making some adjustments to the two teenagers in the house during Sam’s story run. (I forgot the reason, I think I just wanted to create some more variety in town. 🙂 Y’all will see what I mean in a bit.)
Now when you first play the Shue family, all the kids are at the Child stage. I had previously aged up the two older children, Star and Danny, to Teens in Sam’s story and gave them makeovers. (I didn’t touch Granny, Gary, or Carlotta for some reason. 😆 ) So here they all are, in their tiny humble abode, at that current time in my game.
First I picked on Star.
I LOVE what I did with her hair back then! 😃 (Even though my daughter walked by and was like, “What is up with her hair!?” 🤣 To which I replied, “She’s a teenager going through a phase…” with a jokingly pointed look and let’s just say my daughter was unamused. 😏 Lol!)
And I love her kitty outfit too. 😸
Anyway, Star originally has green skin and since Sam basically cured everyone in town from the green skin side effect – due to stopping the evil holistic healing woman, Emmaline Rhoen – I’ve been fixing all the green skinned folks in town. (Still working on that actually…) And I think I gave Star those striking colors in her hair because they resemble some of those galaxy colors, you know, with her name being Star and all. 😉 )
After I slapped some new skin and custom eyes on her…
…I thought it might be a little fun to add a nose stud. Like I told my daughter, she’s going through a phase. 😜
She’s a cutie just like Evelyn. 😊
And speaking of, I have a galaxy print pattern that I of course had to add to her swimsuit. 😊 I love it!
Next I moved on to Danny…
I added some blue highlights into his hair previously – again, love – and naturally he is reminding me of my Sebastian Sim – from Stardew Valley – as they share the same style hair. 😛
^He’s got “permasmile” too, but it made him look so adorable that I decided to leave it alone. 🙃)
After a new skin and eyes… Handsome! 🥰
I HAD to pick on Granny next because…
…she’s GREEN! 😫
And goodness gracious bless her heart for doting an outfit like that! 😬😆
And I discovered that the green skin comes with green highlights in the sim’s hair…Yuck!
But yeah, since Sam cured everyone from that issue, Granny is looking normal now. 😉 (And of course moreso with new skin, eyes, and hairstyle! ⭐) However I kept the ugly green highlights in her hair because I felt like I already took too much of her originality away by changing her skin color and hair. On the bright side, it matches the color of her eyes. 🙃
Her ears are huge…but like I said before I really don’t like to tweak townies genetics unless it is absolutely necessary. These ears aren’t to me.
They suit the way her face looks in the front imo, as you could see in the previous picture. Anyway!
I had no clue what to dress her in for a new Everyday, so I just left her in that terrible outfit EA gave her! 🤣 (I will probably go back and change it later, no worries. 😉 )
Next I moved on to Gary…
He’s a little cutie. 😊 Now let’s get a close up:
First thing I thought was, “Another one with large eyes!” 😬 However when I checked the sliders they were normal/set to 0. I just forgot that Child sim’s eyes naturally look a little large so that’s when I chuckled. 😄 (I haven’t created and played with a Child sim in a hot minute so…)
Now y’all, what I’m about to say about these next two child makeovers is in no way, shape, or form meant to sound offensive. Quite the opposite actually. 💜 Because I feel like EA was going for some “representation” when creating this family and I wanted to make that representation better and more accurate. 👍🏻 So here we go!
It’s pretty obvious that Gary is a Black/African American child. So in that regard, I just couldn’t keep the name Gary for him. It’s too white! 😆🤷🏻♀️😛 (Y’all who know me, I like to keep it real in my game. 👍🏻)
So I changed his name to Desmond. I’m terrible at coming up with names and that one just came to me so I rolled with it.
Here he is with new skin and eyes…
And I gave him a new Everyday look:
He’s a little genius that’s going to end up changing the world for sure. ⭐
I actually really liked his Athletic outfit that EA gave him. 👍🏻 For once they did a good job.
Alright so moving on to Carlotta…
Not a fan of that name, btw 😕
Ok, so I’m pretty sure EA was going for an Asian look with Carlotta, but to see if I was right…I aged her up to YA to properly see how her genetics looked and y’all trust me…they were not pretty. 😬 So much so, I couldn’t even take a picture.
Her eyes were WAY too far apart, her nose was off, as well as her chin and…this was another one of those moments where I had to break my “no changing the genetics” rule to save this poor child!!! 😫
No worries Carlotta, the Goddess of the Sim world will take care of you. 🥰
So here she is with some lightly tweaked genetics, a new skin – one of my favorite Asian ones – and new eyes:
Beautiful little girl. 💗 She looks much better than before.
I was playing around with different hairstyles on her and forgot about this new one I found just a few months ago and thought it looked cute on her. So I decided to keep it. 👍🏻
And because Carlotta is clearly not an Asian name (that I’m aware of… 😶) and I hate it 😆 I changed her name to Miya. It’s so much prettier.
Based on the outfit EA gave her I think she’s supposed to be a tomboy:
Which is fine. But the mood I was in at the time I wanted to dress her up all pretty, so I did. 😁 You’ll see her new outfit in the coming pictures.
So the Shue Family in Sam’s Hidden Springs story save now consists of:
Granny Shue
Star Shue
Danny Shue
Desmond Shue &
Miya Shue
I fell in love instantly with this blended family. 😊
It was so cute watching how sweet Danny was being towards Desmond:
However the girls didn’t interact with each other much at all. 😦
I love to see the whole family sit down together for a meal. 💗
Goodness, we all know what trait Star has! 😬😆
It hasn’t always been easy for Granny to raise 4 children pretty much all at once alone, so she made sure to teach them how to help her around the house.
At bedtime I caught Desmond checking under his bed for monsters. (Their home is a tiny, two bedroom house so all the kids sleep in one room! I can’t even imagine… 😬 especially with teenagers who need/want their privacy! I’ll admit the thought had crossed my mind to move them into a bigger home, but I didn’t feel like dealing with that at the moment.)
When I zoomed in to see if I could catch the monster eyes, I jumped in my seat when its arm popped out! 😳
Desmond was so freaked out that he went and crawled into bed with Granny. 💗 Can’t say I blame him!
Danny didn’t feel tired yet, so he texted Evelyn for a bit. 😊 He might have a little crush on her… 😏 But I don’t think word had gotten out yet that she’s dating Charles Winterly.
Then he decided to be daring and stay out after curfew! (Actually the Goddess put the idea into his head. 😏 Hey, I have my reasons and they shall not be questioned! 🤣)
But no, I wanted to test and see if the cops would find him at the Redwood Peak Viewing Area because sims gotta hike one heck of a LONG trail to get up there…so I was wondering if they would even notice him being out.
Before 10pm though, he enjoyed doing some stargazing.
It was a breathtaking view overlooking the countryside, even at night. 💜
There was another teen sim that joined him up there, Emmit Preston – I’ll highlight him and his family later – and Cami Kat. 😄 They all played foosball and darts together under the pavilion.
I was about to get a picture of that when I got the pop up of a Cop saying, “You’re out past curfew young man, come with me!” And then I was like, Well darn….. 😔
And get this: The cop didn’t come to Danny, the game made Danny run ALL the way down the trail to get into the cop car at the base of it! I was like, “Really???” I guess I had forgotten how the game works and that there’s really no possible way for a teen to elude the cops while being out past curfew. I thought for sure with Danny being all the way up there in the mountains he would have, but nope. 🙄 Silly game…
Figured I might as well take a dumb picture of him riding in the cop car towards home and it turned out to be a bad shot…
Needless to say Granny was furious with Danny when he got home. “This isn’t like you to stay out past curfew! What’s going on with you?”
Goddess of the Sim world: “I’m so sorry Danny…” 😢
Danny apologized greatly and asked what he could do to make it up to her.
^As you can see from Granny’s thought bubble the two lost their friendship over that event. This Goddess is not perfect, unfortunately, 😜 and had I known that would happen, I would’ve tested that whole curfew thing out another teen sim. So I quickly took care of that – thanks cheats! – and made them friends again. ⭐ )
Granny: “How about you start doing more of the chores around here like taking out the trash, cleaning the bathroom, and raking the leaves. Then we’ll see if you make it back on my good side.” (I would never personally say it in that way to my own child, but y’all know how the game is so I worded it like that. 😜)
After Danny went to bed – it was around 3 am – Granny couldn’t go back to sleep so she grabbed a cup of coffee and sat down at the table and sipped on it.
Granny: “This is going to be a loooong day…”
Danny didn’t actually have to do much at all to get back on Granny’s good side. He took out the trash and did the dishes and that was it! ⭐ I was happy. 😊
Later that morning, the kids went off to school and Granny decided to visit the Graveyard. I pretended she was so that she could visit friends and loved ones who are buried there.
I love how the game accurately portrays the way an old person drives! Tight grip on the steering wheel, leaning forward, eyes straining to see the road… 😂
After visiting some graves, she decided to tour the catacombs and walked out feeling freaked out. Lol! That’s when I got this pop-up saying that she needed to go to work and I was like, “Huh? Oh I guess that makes sense. She’s gotta support those 4 kids somehow!” However her job was at the lowest level of the Cooking career and then my face went like: 😐 Lame! So I cheated and had her retire at a pretty good pay rate…
She was thrilled of course!
I might have Star and Danny take up some part-time jobs as well to help support the family. 👍🏻
When Granny got home she checked the mail.
And once again the game was making Sam act ridiculously… 🙄
GRANNY, SAM!? Really!?!? 🤦🏻♀️
And if you think that was bad, pay close attention to this one:
EEEWW!! Eww, eww, eww, eww, eww!!! 🤮 Naughty Renauld! Quit being creepy game!! 😠
Anyway, Scott Chesterfield came home with Star that day:
Star: “Whaaat!? You don’t like the movies!?”
Scott: “It’s not so much that I don’t like movies, I just don’t like Actors. They think they are so much better than everyone! And most don’t even deserve to have their name on the Hollywood Walk of Fame because they didn’t truly earn it…”
Star: Eh?
Scott: Only musicians, like myself, truly earn our way to stardom. Not simply through famous family or friend ties!
Star: *thinking* Okaaaaaay…
They really weren’t hitting it off. 😐😆
She got so bored with him that once he found the TV she went outside and her eyes caught hold upon a large bird in the distance. Quickly yet carefully, she approached it.
She really had a way with the hawk because it bonded with her instantly and jumped right onto her arm. Without biting her!
I love this picture so much! 💗
One of the “Toyota Family” children came home with Desmond after school as well. (I will also highlight them later.) The two seemed to enjoy each other’s company much more than Star and Scott were…
Kid: “School sure sucks!”
Desmond: “Yeah it does!!”
😂
When I found Miya playing with her Cabbage Patch doll my heart swooned. 💜
Star also found a King snake not long after she found the hawk. Here’s Danny playing with it. 😊
I’m surprised the snake didn’t bite him! Especially with how much he was loving on it. 😮
In closing, I’d like to throw out something random. 😉
I’m still discovering all that comes with the Showtime EP and I had no clue performing Sims could do the Moonwalk. I loved watching that! 😄
I didn’t love watching the sim himself though… he’s kinda ugly. LOL! 😂 I’m terrible sometimes…
Well that’s it for this 8th episode of: Emorrill’s Random Gameplay: Revisiting Sam’s Hidden Springs World Edition!
Hope y’all enjoyed it and I’ll catch y’all later in my next post. 😊 Time to go adult now. Sigh…
😛
Sims 3 Stories by Em 