Update from my family. Peter got the Friday off work, so he could take care of Danny. That means four days off work since Monday is Snowflake day. Danny didn't need that much care, however. Once in a time, he needed to be played with and feed and very occasionally he needed diaper change or bath in bathing station. Other than that, he was mostly sleeping in the baby swing. Denis finished his lifetime wish Professional Author, after making his fifth bestseller (and I think that's a record for me, finishing LTW after only 6 days). That allowed him to buy No Bills Ever lifetime reward, so bills will no longer be an issue for them. Now they can spend their hard earned money on more useful things. Don't you wish such a thing existed in real life?
That day both Max and Ruby got on Honor Roll, which made both of their fathers proud. The big question is, however, will they keep on the roll or will they start slacking now?
After dinner, the boys decided to go fishing, before the garden pond will freeze again. Peter decided to make some potions and Denis took a drink and went to chill in the hot tub. Why he went to the one on garden in 0°C (32°F), when they have another one inside is beyond me, but whatever. Once the boys had enough fishing, they joined Denis in the hot tub. And yes, I am using mod for that, more accurately this one. I love that mod as it gives my Sim kids a lot more to do and since I play on a long lifespan, that is pretty much a necessity for me, or I would be bored pretty quickly with them.
After that it was time to go sleeping. Don't they look cute in that dream pod?

Sorry for the lack of screenshots this time. I was so engrossed to the gameplay that I forgot to take pictures. Still I have a few.
And note, I have the seasons set to five days and thanks to NRaas Tempest I have holidays set to the day before the last day of season. That usually works best for my gameplay.

I’m editing Boroughsburg to have some residential zones. You have to be quite wily while attempting this as the hood is designed more as eye-candy but it can be done. It’s such a unique city, I love it.

Another island edit. Not quite doing a midnight sun but definitely want my sims to be self sufficient. I found I really like the bohemian style.
The island is Cinksim's "Makkoo"

I think the original objective in Boroughsburg is that the player gradually turns the "deco" residential lots (that are now covered with deco buildings) into actual residential lots, either by building on site, or by downloading lots that fit the theme (and the small lot sizes). I even remember that jje1000 mentions somewhere that it's you who decide the direction of the development: you can keep the slum-like industrial decay theme, or you can gradually "gentrify" or "hipster-ize" the district.

It's not easy though to find downloadable houses for Boroughsburg, especially if one wants to keep the slum-like aesthetics. I can recommend this one though:
http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=424420
I placed this on the lot where the default graveyard was and it smooths very well into the environment.
And, apologizing for this self-ad, but I also use my own "Downtown apartments" (uploaded) in Boroughsburg on some lots that are big enough for a 30 x 20 size, and they look quite acceptable (after some street furniture adjustment).

Today, I am going to share something that just wasn't fair. But let's start from the beginning. Saturday is Danny's birthday. Denis decided to throw a birthday party for him and invited a few kids from around the neighbourhood and Frida Goth, who befriended Peter.
In the morning, the boys used the new snow and built an igloo, because... well... why not. Though admittedly, the igloo right next to those surfboards looks weird.
After that Ruby went to visit the Hoppcrafts, more accurately Alfred Hoppcraft. Being fairy himself, Ruby is quite worried about fairy Alfred living in a family of supernatural sceptics. But for now, Alfred, who just aged up to child recently, is doing quite well, though his relationship with his parents is a little strained. The boys went out and built a snowman. Once done, Ruby invited Alfred over to his house, which Alfred gladly accepted.
In the meantime, Max invited Zack over and while waiting for him, he also invited over the new paper delivery boy, who got some weird name that I couldn't even remember Together the group started a snowball fight.
At the same time, Peter went on to clean the last memories to the fall, their Jack-O-Lanterns, which withered by now.
But the time for Danny's birthday party slowly approached and as they say, when something could go wrong in the right moment, it will. This time it was the toilet in the ground floor, which Peter had to fix to save the party.
The party was quite a mess, even worse then the Spooky Day party. Pappy Wolf and Patty Younan came in uninvited, but they were invited in anyway.
After some time for socialising came the time for baby Danny to become toddler Danny. Once done, Danny was sat to the high chair and got some of the leftover sushi, while the others cleared the birthday cake. Literally, since when Denis finally got to eat, he had to take another plate of the leftover sushi
And once again, when something could go wrong, it will. This time the dishwasher broke up when Gator Wolf cleaned his plate. Fortunately, I have second dishwasher in kitchen, so that was not a problem. However, the puddle it left had to be cleaned up, which Max eventually did. That left Denis to clear the mess Danny left on the high chair.
Later that evening, Peter finally went to fix the dishwasher. That didn't go well and the dishwasher started to fire. That caused the fire alarm blaring. Peter was quick and put the fire out before it could cause any real damage. Good job, Peter. But the firefighter who came late, didn't think so. After inspecting the house, he babbled something about falsely calling the services and fined me §500. WTF! Peter and some of the remaining guests could die and the house could burn to ashes! Is that what that idiotic firefighter wanted me to do? I'ts just not fair! I swore I will not cheat money in this game, but when the game is not fair to me, I am not going to be fair either and will cheat those §500 back. That much I am pissed right now!

And sorry guys, I thought I have pics of the fire, but I don't. Instead, weirdly, I have a lot of pics of Danny being potty trained by Denis. Don't worry, I am not going to publish those, I am sure no one wants to see them.

Yeah, absolutely the graveyard was the first thing to be removed. The two large lots next to the river are currently under construction also. There are also some corner areas containing nothing but fences and trees which can be built up. I turned the library into the town hall, and removed the EA town hall and bookshop, generating some much needed space. I'll make the new residential lots have a high density of sims living on them.
I have I shall refrain from making wholesale changes after that until I really need to.
TJStreak has some NY tenement deco buildings that are actually more suitable than the ones shipped with the hood, in case you haven't seen those.
And your lot could be quite useful too! Thanks

Editing the bejeepers out of Twinbrook; I dunno why the Sims 3 does this, but none of the worlds I can find anywhere look anything like real towns in my area - you know, the ones with the old brick buildings all mushed together and what not.

Using Floraflora2's stuff like mad in this game. Heh. (thank you for all of your hard work, I love your retro buildings!!!)

I'm right at where I can start the third chapter of my Dead Ringers series; just a few more tweaks to go; then I need to storyboard the next chapter, which means I have to load up the Mont St. Michel 1940s era world (I adjusted it a bit..) and take pics for THAT chapter... and then rewrite the OTHER chapters to match these "new" ones.

To think, this whole nearly 20 chapter story started with a game bork... pffft. It's nuts.

Do you guys ever have this thing where you've made all sorts of shit and you're ready to start telling stories, but then you find a Tumblr full of amazing CC and suddenly you want to redo everything? Or at least seriously improve it? And what's more, you're conflicted on whether to share the link with everyone or selfishly keep it for your own selfish self?

Gods yes! I don't make CC yet for 3, but I still find myself up at 4 am on a school night ( so his bus comes at 8:44 am... but still... ) surfing thru CC sites, WCIF threads, dodgy CC sites in odd languages I don't speak....

And then I gotta reboot CCMagic to put it all into categories and and... shit still ain't done in my game.

When I'm done playing the farm life side of the sims I like to go urban. I've wanted a small "city" for a while that leaned more toward the grungy side. I still have a little cleaning to do but here's my Eastport edit, complete with affordable housing..

Wow, that's the smallest world I've ever seen. And yet you've totally made it work! Crazy to think that if that's a whole world with enough in it to keep you entertained for days, the ones we're all playing in are actually a massive waste of time and space.
I don't want to spoil it too much because I plan to make a project out of this but......imagine a world set in a single, enclosed, isolated space. Something that can provide for several dozen Sims on a footprint no larger than, say, 200 by 50 meters. And now imagine they're all spending a long period of time together. Either way, outside no one can hear you scream and their group anthem is quite possibly We Built This City by.........I'm sure you get the idea.

Yes, thanks! The world is here >http://www.simlogical.com/ContentUp...e/uploads/1260/ < if you are interested but yeah my whole gimmick with the sims is what can I do with the least amount of space possible. Anyway there are a lot of sacrifices such as big families, a hospital, and a science center (could be fixed with rabbithole rugs) but there's still a lot of potential. I've been trying to make this world a broke down haven after some apocalypse or something but settled with this city for now.

Had CAW been possible to use for me, I think I'd have made a few of these tiny worlds already. They make for great places to play in, as well as great places to record footage in. I could quite easily build 2 or 3 lots against a faux cityscape backdrop and use it as a massive film set of sorts. Your screenshots make it evident that even a tiny world can look like a full-fledged town.

That's an adorable world! I wish I could figure out CAW so I could make some towns myself. I'd love to re-create Saranac Lake, NY - it's one of my favorite towns to visit when I'm on the way to my hometown by the Lake Champlain shoreline. It'd be an awesome little world/town for you guys - especially with the Adirondack mountains as the backdrop.

Right now, I'm having wicked issues with my TwinBORK (as I call it now) world. For some reason, I can't save - I end up with the endless saving, so it's looking like I'm going to have to remake the entire thing - i.e., fresh new Twinbrook and add in the buildings. Un-fun. Should not take long, though, as I won't have to do any building, per se, just knocking down and replacing what I replaced. Should screenshot it before I do so, so I don't forget. (and yes, I've done all the things needed to see if it's anything else and it looks like a save corruption. Oh well.)

The last three days in the lives of Denis, Peter, Max and Ruby were a little hectic. On Sunday, Denis decided to have bachelor party and even though it was his party, Peter tagged along. Their love for each others is just this big.
In the morning, Peter finally fixed that dishwasher, this time without further incidents.
Later that morning, Max decided to brave the cold and went snorkelling to the beach. The Polar bear moodlet was just this tempting
Back home, Ruby was building snowman with someone and I already forgot who that someone was. Sorry guys.
Max obviously didn't have enough of the cold and decided to go sliding along with Ruby and their friend, whom name I once again forgot.
Ruby and Max spent the rest of the day with their friends.
When the time for the party went, Denis called for babysitter and then he and Peter left to the disco club, where the party was taking place.
The party had some alien visitors. And of course, the strippers... ehm... I mean entertainers in a police "dress". Someone probably thought since Peter, Denis' spouse, is in Law Enforcement career, it would be fun to have fake police officers to break the party.
The party was big hit, even though the tired Peter left prematurely, and missed the speech of one of the alien guests. Later on, Denis and that alien sang a karaoke and they were booed at by the other guests. Rude. It seems like Peter and the aliens hit it off together. But why Serena Durwood was dressed in those bikini while spraying Denis with nectar, I don't know.

The next day was Snowflake Day and Denis once again planned a party, this time gift giving party. Needless to say that didn't go as planned, but I digress here.
The boys started the day with a snowball fight.
Peter, in the meantime went to the City Hall to sue someone who who spread lies about him. Shadow side of being four-star celebrity. But this time, Peter won and brought home some Simoleons.
Once Peter returned, Denis took the kids to the festival grounds. Denis went on snowboarding with Wilhemina Wollf, while Ruby and Max found some friends for a snowball fight. After the fight, which Max and Ruby won, to the chagrin of Mara Nix and Zack Durwood, Max went to order hot chocolate and took it to the hot tub. Zack ate his sorrow from the loss by a hamburger. Hopefully, he will not gain too much weight from that.
Max had a paparazzi taking pictures of him in the hot tub. Creepy. Later on, Zack joined Max in the hot tub.
In the meantime, Peter read with Danny.
Once they finally got back, they started to prepare for the party. Peter, once again, prepared a pizza. Ruby stayed later on the festival grounds and decided to paint his face with snowflake to be thematic on the party.
However, it was probably somewhere here that the gift rug, which you may see behind Peter preparing pizza, disappeared somehow and wasn't found anywhere on the lot. Thanks to that, I had just a normal house party. And not the best one I ever had in the game. After the party, Danny's walker and stroller were missing. Whoever stole them, I hope they enjoy them, because if I ever find out who took them, they'll be very sorry.

The next day was just normal workday for Peter and school day for Max and Ruby. Denis took Danny to a park in a new stroller I had to buy and while Danny played with his doll, Yuma, Denis watched SimFest. The SimFest was quite lengthy and besides the performers Denis was the only viewer. The SimFest took so long that Peter's shift ended before it and he came to the event just in time to see a magician stabbing his spouse. Needless to say Peter was relieved when Denis appeared out of the box without a scratch. When the event ended, Peter took Danny back home.

And a side note here, I already decided to marry Peter and Denis on Love Day, which is 4 Simdays from now. I also decided no Woohoo for them before marriage. Old-fashioned I know, but this is how I want them to be.

I'm playing with an imaginary friend for the first time. Here he is standing and watching my Sim doing her homework. Not creepy at all, right?

I have this house... it's an EA made house. Three stories and I think it's called "Classy Crib". I cued my sim to throw a hygiene charm on himself and he was on the 3rd floor. He ran all the way down three floors and outside to do the charm, because there's no room in this really nice looking but unplayable house.
I guess I need to make some playable houses.

Edit: I'm kicking myself for not installing the "No more hidden brooms" by @buckley . On the other hand I now see that there's a way to fix my sim described on buckley's download page!! Epic Thanks! My first born to you buckely. He's a big guy now, over 6' tall.... you might have trouble getting him to agree.

And another update from me. I hope you guys don't find this as spamming, since I got disagree for the last post here. And I am unable to attach files for this post for some reason, so this will be just a text.

Even though Wednesday was first day of Spring, the weather stayed calm and there even was snow most of the day, though there also was hail at one point during the day. Pretty funny weather, but quite on par with real-life weather in early spring where I live
Peter, Denis, Max and Ruby didn't let the weather to affect them, however. Peter went to work and was promoted, choosing the Forensic Analyst branch. And since he wanted to be ready, after work he started to work on his painting skill, making a portrait of Denis.
The boys had a field trip that day and they were in restaurant. They surely had fun and started on their cooking skill. Now if they only put it to some use.
Denis spent the day with Danny, reading him and helping him with some skills. Thanks to that, he wasn't able to write anything, but he didn't mind.
During night, there were rain that washed away all the snow, but the temperature still stayed cold.
Thursday was Danny's birthday and Denis threw a party for him, inviting almost all the kids from Moonlight Falls. The party was scheduled to 17:00 so everyone has a chance to show up.
However, Denis forgot that Max and Ruby have Scouts meeting after school, which lasts until 17:00. That meant the party had to wait for them.
When Peter got home that day, he once again made a pizza, this time cheese one. His homemade pizza is starting to be a hit on their parties
And just like on spooky day, it had to be full moon today. That forced Max and Peter to change. Along with Gator Wollf, who was invited as well. No big deal, however.
But I think I forgot to mention so far that Danny is not pure fairy, as I originally thought. He is actually fairy and werewolf hybrid.
When everyone got there, Danny aged up with the help of Denis. After that, everyone had a help of either the cake or pizza (or both in some cases). And since it was still full moon, poor Danny was forced to change as soon as he aged up. Even that, however, didn't stop him to interact with some guests and making some friends.
However, Peter decided he has enough of the party and house full of kids and went for drink at the lounge. Not the nicest thing you can do to your spouse, Peter!
But Denis was able to keep the kids entertained on the dance floor. So in the end, even despite Peter's desertion, it was pretty nice party.
And tomorrow, the boys will have another field trip, this time to the theatre. Not the best thing to happen on Danny's first school day, but I am sure he'll have some fun. And in Saturday, Love Day and wedding. Hopefully, it will be warmer by then, or I'll have to change my plans for the wedding being in park. And hopefully, I will also be able to post some pics for you guys to enjoy.

After re-doing Twinbrook and some adjustments, I've got the third chapter of the story up on LJ. I was having issues with hangsaves and what not, and found out that just because I have a powerful video card doesn't mean the GAME likes settings on what's basically Ultra. The crashloganalyzer kept telling me to reduce graphics settings, so I did, a bit. I don't notice a difference, too much (super water? I mean, really.)

I took some nice shots, booted up the Mont St. Michel '40s world to take some shots for the backstory and everything seems to be working well. I hope to have storyboarded chapter 4 by this weekend.

- Clark Peddler and Penny Pincher at the home of my vampire villain.

- said vampire villain being a dork (Nyarlathotep Dagon. Bonus if you get the reference)

- reincarnated WW2 sim wondering what the word "friendzone" means. Heh

- Collette in 1940, with the chicks.

- I loved this shot of Collette as her lover leaves her. I do the '40s shots desaturated like this to make them look like old photos. If I could ever figure out how to make them into paintings in the game (I'm sure I can, with time) I'd add them to the modern end of this story.

It may not be a perfect option, but you can look at the Poster Set Loader Studio. You add pictures to the set with the Studio, then let it save the resulting package. Then you use the Loader (a separate download) to get the pictures into your game.

Alternatively, if there is a painting that is the right size you can use Texture Tweaker to make a new recolor of it with your own paintings, although that has a bit more of a learning curve.

Edit:

PosterSet Studio: http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?&t=579394
PosterSet Loader http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=579395

Oooh, thanks! I'll definitely look into it. Mainly because some shots in the '40s portion of the story would be perfect for pictures in the modern end of it, as props/Easter eggs for my readers. Thank you so much!

Since my gen 7 is only a married couple so far and they need little looking after (not none, they ARE sims), I decided they'd foster some kids from around the town. The girl they took in wasn't even living with her parents (elderly and separated from each other), but a random family, and the boy had a moodlet from witnessing his parents' divorce. Way to imitate life yet again, game. The girl's parents eventually passed and she did not care. The boy sometimes hangs out with his mother, but dad's never come up. I'm already looking out for other kids to take in, because turning their lives around like this has been a blast.

Man... it's been a while since I have played with my simself in TS3.

I made for her a simself of Lee Unkrich, one of the directors at Pixar, who I have quite a crush on.

I got them talking, but my cat, Gemini, stood on the desk and meowed like crazy (Dad said he wanted a talker and he got one) so I had to cut my first session in, what, in 6 months short, so the cat could cuddle up with me.

Like any good cat person will tell you: you don't own the cat, the cat owns you.

My new house hold of 7 people + 2 pets starts of great... except one of them was kidnapped by aliens. Oof.

The first time I saw a sim give the finger and it from a 6 year old to a cat