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Ohhhh Look! It’s another version of Conquer/Trovinte

So I mentioned starting yet another game and basically spending the last year periodically visiting CAS. I figured since I’d gone through the trouble of renovating so much of @one-plumbob’s world Pleasant Isle I might as well make Audre’s love interest and his family. I used the most recent version of Conquer from A Farming Town: Tropical Vacation and aged him down to teen before tweaking him. I also originally plopped the most recent version of Trovinte (who is also a version of the same sim) from Isol Isle to make his dad, but instead went with an edit of the most recent version of Jessie (who also has multiple versions) from AFTTV.

WHY AM I LIKE THIS!!! 🤣

Anywho, here’s Conquer who is now named Shona Kai.

Here are his game details:

Teen

Sagittarius

Diva

Flirty

Loves to swim

Social Butterfly

This is actually the first time Trovinte/Conquer/Shona has ever experienced a life stage other than young adult… err, maybe. It’s possible right before I stopped playing Resistance he was aged up to adult. I’m pretty sure I changed his traits, but haven’t really adjusted his skills or anything because I’ve just been making pretty fake people, so I may come back and edit this with that information. Maybe.

Anyways the above is a close up of Shona (that’s going to take some getting used to) in his everyday outfit, and the following shot is of the whole outfit:

Next is his formal:

Here’s his jammies:

These are his athletic clothes:

His swim gear is boring because I thought I had a teen version of the short sleeve wetsuit, but that turned out to not be true, or it’s not in the game or something. And I was super disappointed because his whole family surfs and loves the water, which is something all three versions of Shona have in common, but nooooooooOOOO suit. Regardless, because of this I’ve decided not to share that outfit, and instead discovered he has a coat version of his everyday ware even thought he’ll only be visiting the new save for the summer and probably won’t actually wear this.

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Setting Up Audre 5.2

Today we’re back at the PI Strip on 10 Pleasant Boulevard to take a look at the last retail shop that I fully renovated in @one-plumbob’s custom world, Pleasant Isle. As I mentioned in the first post for this lot, one-plumbob had 10 Pleasant Boulevard set up as the world’s elixir shop. The areas currently reserved for the unfinished housewares store, and the Audre African Arts Gallery were just shells. The only area that was furnished was the section of the building featured in this post.

This building I now call Sun and Sea Pharmacy, because the sign I used had those images on it, lol. While the structure was a multi story community space, I either cut access to the basement, or completely deleted it. I can’t remember with certainty which I did.

The front of the building pretty much remains the same; two entrances with yellow benches sat out between them. The changes I did make were mostly cosmetic. I moved the neon sign that was once above the gallery entrance onto the pharmacy’s outer front windows. I added some welcome mats in front of each entrance, although I totally forgot to recolor them. I also decorated the window panes with custom medical posters that I want to say came from @aroundthesims, but may be from another creator. 

If anyone wants to verify/correct me on this, just comment and I’ll update the post.

The original lot used a nice wood pattern inside that I decided to add to all the shelving. I also used it for the register/prescription drug section of the pharmacy. That being, the columns, the half walls, counters, etc.

I think I might have lightened the white of the windows, switching it from wood to a custom miscellaneous white. I also changed the color of the paint above the wall panel, but the floor is the same as the original.

Unlike some of my other games, where I have a sim dedicated to making potions, Audre isn’t meant to be played in rounds that allow me to make sure all my sims are contributing to world upkeep. Additionally, while @anitmb’s merchant mod sales potions fine, I think it can’t clone them, so I wouldn’t be able to load a sim’s inventory from potions made in another game and resale them using the clone option.

So there are no potions. Instead, the pharmacy carries all the custom soaps, bubble bath, and bath bombs (which I think are rubber ducks) by Sandy, @mspoodle1, and @phoebejaysims​ (I might be missing someone here, lol).

Sun And Sea also carries the shower in a can and mosquito spray bottles that came with World Adventures, and probably one or two custom recolors of those items most likely made by one of the already mentioned creators.

Of course, using the merchant mod means being able to sale the custom personal care and house cleaning items on display. So there will be plenty of other items on sale here.

Several months back I introduced a friend to TS3 by loading up this save and showing off my renos. They’ve heard me talk about the sims, and watched a few minutes of Let’s Plays, but this was there first time really getting a look around in one of my games. This friend lives in the area that Pleasant Isle takes it’s inspiration from. They complemented both Sunflower Fresh Market (the most popular reno from this series), and Sun and Sea Pharmacy. 

I guess these shops look the most like the places they visit on the daily.

Well, that’s it for now. Once I’m able to complete another reno for this world I’ll post more. Hope you all enjoyed theses posts and are having fun simming in your own games. 

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Setting Up Audre 2.3

Still at the Franklin Market lot on 3 Main Street, but this time to share pictures of my second build/reno in The Center of @one-plumbob’s beautiful world Pleasant Isle, which will be called Audre in my save. 

As was the case with The Village Bakery, we’re in the blue building at the far right.

This time, however, we’ll be taking a look at the first floor shop which I’ve named Sunflower Fresh Market.

I came up with the name when I realized I had a bunch of unused cc with sunflowers on them (like the welcome mat for example). After placing some of those objects throughout the shop I thought “why not include “sunflower” in the name as well”.  

Through the front entrance we have a small grocery store. Here’s what it looks like from just beyond the door:

Sunflower Fresh Market will sell the bulk of my food items. That’s everything but meat, cheese, fish, and quick meals and snack items aside maybe yogurt and cereal.

A little further in, and we can see I’ve again used that wall art by @murfeelee​ designed to look like barn doors (I used it originally in Conquer’s vacation home). One of the pattern options had this giant split sunflowers, and piece just so happen to go with that wood wall pattern I’d selected for the bulk goods section of the store. 

You may have noticed that like The Village Bakery, there are empty shelves. Once I’ve route tested, I will have a sim purchase the food items from the store, then I will stock the inventory and the shelves.

Here are some shots from the bulk foods section of the grocery counter/employee station.

I wanted this shop to look like perhaps it had history in the town. Like maybe the family that owns it have always been grocers, and though the place has been renovated, a couple of items from the original shop decorate the shelf area near the register and the store in general.

Finally, here’s a shot of the front counter from another angle, as well as a shot of the store from behind the register.

I meant to mention this awhile back, but one of the things I have to change about this world in general, is the amount of plants and trees. Many of the buildings have these elaborate bush and flower combos that look beautiful, but I’m thinking they’re responsible for the lag. I’ve already removed trees that were bleeding through some of the buildings original set up more for deco than functionality, but much more is needed. 

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Setting Up Audre 5.1

Today we return to PI Strip, a renamed public community lot located at 10 Pleasant Boulevard in @one-plumbob​’s world Pleasant Island, which is called Audre in my save. 

Last week, I shared images of the entrance and first floor of Audre’s African Art Gallery, and today we venture up the spiral stairs to view the two room second floor, where the art is showcased.

So a little story about the stairs before going up. 

Those are a custom item I got somewhere off the net, while desperately seeking build variety. I’ve never used them before because the style is rather limited. They look very 80s Barbie doll wedding, and don’t at all fit the modern style of this gallery. Still, I really wanted to use this, and plopped them down before I did anything else in this shop, before, in fact, I even knew what the place would be.

As I was renovating I thought, maybe the owner of the gallery recently purchased or rented the space, and it hasn’t really had much attention since the building was originally built. Maybe the owner of the gallery is just starting out or relocating to the town and can’t yet afford full renovation. Even better, the gallery is publicly funded and most of the funds go to just keeping the place open.

Whatever I go with, I’m keeping the stairs because I’m stubborn, lol.

Anywho, on the second floor I used some half walls (which might also be custom) to make a little stairwell, through which you can already see the pictures hung up on the walls. 

As a quick aside, AAAG specializes in photos and paintings. Unless I decide to use sculpting in this game to actually sculpt, which I highly doubt, what’s sold here probably wont change. 

If you take another look at the picture of the exterior, the second floor has a bunch of windows which limit wall space, and could cause damage to the featured paintings. To remedy this, I placed two and three tile walls, one tile in front of, or partway in front of, the windows, and then I tried to block the spaces off using plants. I’m hoping this will prevent sims from trying to route around the walls instead of using the open more navigable space.

I know we all know how TS3 is (and TS4 definitely has this game beat in that regard). If it’s hard to get there every sim in town wants to be there. Still, I am hopping they walk up, not do the toe tap and complain because I’ve got a mod to prevent that, see they can’t get there, and go around.

I may find that this was the biggest mistake ever, as I’ve also placed one tile walls in the next room to hang more art.  

I’m pretty sure I mentioned in last weeks post, that I didn’t have room for a lot of seating in the sales room (yup that’s what I’m calling it now), so I’ve placed two couches around the stairwell, along with a little coffee table. That way I can make and place coffee up here, and make it look like the gallery owner is chatting up potential artists or sponsors.

From the entrance way to the second room, you can see the one tile walls I mentioned before. There’s a bit more space in this room, as it’s the space above the in progress housewares store. I’m hoping that means this won’t become the portal to lag hell, but I won’t really know until I can get multiple sims in here at once.

I guess that if all else fails, I can at least place invisible fences where the walls are blocking the windows, and maybe do the one tiles if that still doesn’t help.

I should say, I have downloaded lots of black art (I also tend to download Indigenous and or non-black POC art that doesn’t give me racist fetish vibes), and “the lighting is dark enough that this person in this image could be black” (lol) art. All custom, of course, as diverse representation is scant in the game.

Because I have so much, I was able to fill out my gallery with a number of different images in different sizes and styles, and use a lot of cc I’ve yet to be able to incorporate into my residential homes.

I forgot to note, (or... if I’m repeating myself, forgive me), that the gallery is dark despite the lights, and it clearly being day outside, because I have a mod that fixes auto light mode so that the lights are only on in rooms where sims are, and not on during the day in rooms with windows.

All those walls make for wonderful places to hang up pictures, but they make it even darker inside unless I manually cut on the lights, and I forgot to when I took these.

Well that’s it for this shop.

So next week I’ll share game shots of the last lot I completely renovated in this world. I am working on the housewares store, but I haven’t been able to go into my game as often as usual, as I’m putting a lot of work into battling agoraphobia and finding my own place. It’s slow, and tiring (because also autistic burn out) but I’ve been making a lot of progress.

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Setting Up Audre 2.6

Today we’ll take a look at the final building on the Franklin Market lot (originally Franklin Apartments), located on 3 Main Street in @one-plumbob‘s custom world Pleasant Isle. For visual reference, that’s the grey building to the left:

It’s in this section of the lot, that I built, what I’ve decided (decided as in as I’m writing this, lol) to call The Pet Stop, because it contains a pet store, pet grooming area, and a veterinary office. I mentioned in my post for The Nectar Shop & Formagore that The Pet Stop was actually set up before I worked on the Nectar shop. At the time, I remember feeling a combination of boredom and anxiety, and thought working on a shop I’d never attempted before would better feed my creative needs. It worked, although, do to the space, and my own limited abilities, there were some things I was unable to achieve with this store.

Here’s the front entrance:

If you recall, back in July, I put out a post requesting assistance with finding deco puppies and kittens. Those were for those little window box displays beneath the cat and dog signs. 

I have these memories from family movies I saw during my childhood of people taking their children to get a family dog or ending up with a new pet because the kid saw puppies through the display window and the parents couldn’t resist the child’s pleading. So when I saw how One-plumbob had set up their deco pet shop, I recalled those images from tv, and they inspired my reno.

As a quick aside I want to thank @murfeelee, @browniecap, and especially @omedapixel for helping me in my cc search for this reno, and the latter, for converting some objects for my personal use. 

Okay, now we move inside. Here’s a shot of the main shopping area from just beyond the entrance:

I don’t think I’ve ever used that fire hydrant (or any really) in any of my builds or renos until now. I’m pretty sure, it was the last thing I placed, either because I felt the spot right be the corridor was too bare, or because I came across it in buydebug and thought this would be a good opportunity to throw this in. In hindsight, I wish it was red, or red and white. I can’t remember if this hydrant can’t be recolored, or if red wasn’t an option among the others or if I went with blue and white on my own when setting this up. The point is, I am not happy with it now that I look at this image.

Here’s another shot from the entrance turned just slightly.

At this angle you can see where I’ve placed more deco animals. 

I came across those cages awhile ago. don’t remember where they came from, but as soon as I knew I was making a pet store I was excited to use them. I had to do some shrinking and placement fandangoing to get those dogs (and wolves, but pretend they’re dogs ok, lol) in there, but I think the end result is pretty nice. 

Here are some more shots of different sections of the store:

If you haven’t guessed by now, I went on a pet download binge for this. I had a lot of  items already, went ahead and got the rest of the items in @aroundthesims​‘ pet store collection, and Omedapixel’s pet item set (I think those things are yours). I was also lucky that around the time I was finishing up @phoebejaysims​ had completed their Pet Bowl Requires Food mod. I’ve stashed the bags for that on that shelf (see the pic immediately following) to the far right with the kitty litter boxes beneath it.

Here are more angles of the shop:

You can kind of see the area where I’ve got toy boxes, and dishes set up as like my doggie section. I didn’t realize it until now that this little section as well as the one for cats (just beside the kitten and pup display), can’t really be seen well from any of my photos. Sorry about that.

Going back to when I mentioned that there were some things with this build that I was unable to accomplish. 

I didn’t have enough space to put in cages and terrarium’s for minor pets. As an alternative I tried to create a wall display of tanks as I’d downloaded a custom terrarium that has been removed from the base. Unfortunantely, I couldn’t figure out how to raise those tanks as they don’t work with OMSP, and I don’t have experience with some of the other tricks using cheats and other mods that allow one to raise objects. For now, I just have to be satisfied knowing minor pets can be purchased from the pet store register.

Speaking of which, here are the shots of the sales floor near and from behind the registers:

I might try to figure out how to use those build tricks later on, or expand the pet shop to include what I had to leave out in the future. Perhaps I’ll make a more specialized pet place, for minor pets and edit this for just cats and dogs.

So if the steps didn’t clue you in, this is a multistory shop. I’ll share the shots of the second floor next week!

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Setting Up Audre 3.3

Back at the Sea Salt Strip to wrap up the Crafter’s Paradise showing. As mentioned in last week’s post, today I’ll be sharing shots of the art supply store’s furniture section, as well as snaps of the second floor.

I’ve wanted to build a furniture store for the longest time, but just never got around to it. While this isn’t exactly what I had in mind, and do plan to have a lot set up for that purpose, putting this together partially fulfilled my desire to design this kind of retail space.

As I’m only supplying art related items at this shop, the furniture section of Crafter’s Paradise only includes (mostly cc) draft tables, and bar stools, which can be used with the Ambitions’ item.

I got Ambitions to play the interior design/architect career. It was my first expansion, and as I came to the game a couple of years after it’s launch, I selected it from a number of other pack options. Ironically, I never actually got around to playing this career path. I think I came across LRG’s review for the pack before installing it, and was disappointed with how it actually worked in game.

I don’t even think I’ve used the drafting table in any modern games, and only rarely in my others. I don’t dislike the item, I think it’s that there are too many objects for the painting skill. 

The glass staircase in the picture just above this, leads to the part of the store set aside for sewing, knitting, crocheting and quilting. 

I placed a bunch of deco fabric items, sewing dummies, and kits up here. Originally, I was only going to sale the objects from the hobbies and skills section, both cc and official. But the space would have been too bare. What I did instead was mix the previously mentioned deco objects with the items required for the crafting mods I uses. So the material for Lyralei’s Functional Sewing Table and the yarn items for @zoeoe-sims​’ Knitting mod (both mods are available on ModTheSims).

A better shot of how I did that is just below.

Those shelves that are kind of flanking the staircase are actually from a yoga fitness set, whose creator I am drawing a blank on at the moment. I’ve used these several times to fill out crafting spaces, despite the limited ways in which the rolls can be recolored.

I think they go really well with this space, and make it easy to give a full shelf store look.

This next picture has a better shot of the cc items that came with the above mentioned mods. 

It is also the last shot of the second floor, this shop, and the last of the lot. Next week, I’ll share images from a new public strip located just around the corner.

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Setting Up Audre 4

At 11 Pleasant Boulevard, just around the corner from The Sea Salt Strip,  @one-plumbob​​ built another partially accessible community lot. The venue is called “Edgar’s Aunt’s Pawn Shop” and in Pleasant Isle it serves as the Cosignment store.

While planning for Audre, I thought about the aspects of Farm Town play that I most enjoyed. Finding items in the junkyard and repairing them (using an MTS mod) for Conquer’s home, gave me a great amount of joy. I decided wanted to replicate some of that in Audre. I thought, with the mod I was using, and @anitmb​‘s merchant mod, I could make a functional used appliance and electronics store, maybe one that does repairs. I figured this kind of lot could serve as a base for my repairman and that the set up would very much resemble a pawn shop. 

I’m still working that concept out in my head, but as the occupied section of one-plumbob’s lot looks more like a boutique, and I don’t want to spend too much time on yet another clothing store, 11 Pleasant would no longer work as the Cosignment spot.

So I changed the lot type, made the other sections on the first floor sim accessible, and changed the name.

Edgar’s Aunt’s Pawn Shop became Edgar Square, and for now the lot holds three community spots. The first, on the far right, is Vanity. It’s the edit of the cosignment section and is now Audre’s clothing, shoe, and accessory shop. The next shop, tucked in the middle, is Boulevard Hardware, created with my future carpenter in mind. The third shop is a little donut and coffee place, currently set up to sale the different custom bagel and pastry morsels I’ve downloaded over the years. 

Admittedly, I’m not satisfied with this last shop. I suspect sometime before I start playing in live that it will become something else entirely. I have no idea what that something else is just yet, though.

Anywho, Today I’ll share some pictures of Vanity. 

This shop has the largest square footage, and is now separated into two departments, so I’ll also split this into two parts.

The first section, just located beyond the entrance is dedicated to shoes and accessories. 

Originally, as the cosignment store, this was the section that had non-clothing related items, so it required the most work. 

That work primarily consisted of swopping out things from the shelves, and replacing them with deco items fitting the store’s new theme.

I’ve always intended to make a shoe store, (or a shoe section to a larger store), complete with little benches so it looks like my sims can sit down and try things on. 

Other than having a rack in retail spaces more dedicated to clothing, I never got around to building a place from scratch. 

Even though this is a reno, and I pretty much kept this lot’s original color scheme (lightening or adjusting here and there) and lay out, doing this section felt like accomplishing an old goal.

Here’s the last shot of Vanity’s shoe and accessory section, which, as you saw, also has the check out area.

Next week we’ll continue to the clothing section just through that arch way.

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Setting Up Audre 4.2

Today we return to Vanity, one of the community shops at Edgar Square on 11 Pleasant Boulevard. Last week, I shared shots of the shoe and accessory section and today we move on to the clothing section of the store, located just behind the archway in this shot (also from last week):

Similarly to the front of the store, I kept the color scheme and layout only adding additional clothing related deco items like the clothes piles on the window sills and the signs hanging from the wall and the ceiling. 

I didn’t mention this last week, but I recolored or replaced a number of the clothing dummies throughout this section of the lot. 

I have mannequins from a number of sets, and sprinkled as much variety around as I could, although those two between the windows were also used in the clothing stall of the Trade Winds Open Air Market in my Island Paradise save.

Since this section of Vanity is much smaller than the other room, I tried to use as much of the wall space as possible, so those racks from @aroundthesims​ thrift store set made yet another appearance in one of my retail renos/builds.

I also had to use a number of OMSP’s, because for whatever reason, EA was like windows with no usual surface area, even though these would work wonderfully for plants.

There’s a couple of dressing rooms beyond that arch in the above picture. I think I swapped out one of the dummies and may replace the curtains with a curtain door, but other than that not enough changes were made to bother getting shots of.

Next week we’ll move on to another shop at this strip, my favorite out of the three despite it not being as detailed as some of my others. Until then, happy simming! Or in the case of the nonsimmers who follow this, happy reading about my simming, I guess, lol.