Mac's 'Hood

Seems like Adrianna might be a picky eater. Find the right meal, though, and you could win the girl of your dreams! It's a good thing Dorian is persistent.

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Cher (who's just a hostess in the Culinary career) just got a lamp! "Peace of mind" of course!

Just a hostess?  I'm sure SimCher is the best hostess around and it won't be long before she's a Celebrity Chef.  I'm sure she's also pleased with the peace of mind. I still haven't seen the Gypsy in Sugah's Pleasantview. There are a lot of frustrated parents living there, who'd love to be able to use smart milk more often. Why is the Gypsy on vacation?

Matthew May is the son of Ulli's Benjamin and Anna by Lisica02 on TSR - see earlier pics of them here. Matthew and Georgina (the daughter of Jeff Gique and the lovely Ruth Aster) have three bolts as teenagers! and have started a really torrid teenage romance - might last through university and beyond!

They had a sweet first kiss


Then a romantic dinner together (mom and dad were busy doing other things)


And then - for a while - a hot 'n heavy "Make Session"


But then mom had to show up. OTOH, if mom prances around the house on her day off wearing just her undies, no wonder Matthew gets ideas!

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But then mom had to show up. OTOH, if mom prances around the house on her day off wearing just her undies, no wonder Matthew gets ideas!

How funny!! I have noticed that Sims have no issues with modesty Fun update, thanks!

Matthew and Georgina make a sweet teen couple. I'm a little worried about Mom, though ...

I enjoy seeing all of your sims, mac. Blaine and Chloe make an especially handsome couple. I think Adele and Roxanne will grow up to be very lovely sims. I'm looking forward to seeing how Isaac turns out. He seems to be a cutie so far. I know one of my sims (maybe have been Ian) did not have the best looking kids in my game. If that is the case I'm thinking of, hopefully he'll do better in your game.

Adrianna is really lovely. I'm glad things are working out for her and Dorian.

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OTOH, if mom prances around the house on her day off wearing just her undies, no wonder Matthew gets ideas! verklempt

I'm happy that Matthew and Georgina seem happy together. They make a cute couple.

This is about Sugah's two grandchildren: Baylee and Parker.

Baylee and her dad, Kane shoot some hoops. It looks as if Baylee will be heading into a sports career. Meanwhile, Baylee's mom, Lily Potter, takes a break from being a very serious orchestra conductor to splash some puddles.  


After Baylee turned into a teen, grandma Sugah came over - "my big girl!!!"   Baylee's now off to college


Meanwhile Parker, the daughter of Crystal Sugah loves Honey Sugah, the only other creature in the house who knows how to walk on 4 legs.  


Sugah came over to help Crystal Sugah and Thomas Wellesley celebrate Parker's birthday when she turned into a child.


and Sugah and Honey remember each other.  


The game tends to give kids really dweeby hairdos. The Neighborhood Administrator intervened and...

I love seeing Sugah Sim and her pretty granddaughters. Baylee is looking especially lovely as she grows.

A pic of Nonni's Umeki (on Affinity Sims)  
She's in a non-Maxis (I can't even find it any more) Pet Care career. Here she's off to her job as dog walker.    The top of the career is "Pet Whisperer"



When we moved to St. Paul last July, the very first Sim I downloaded was Sugah's Suvi I named her "Suvi St.Paul" in honor of the occasion. Since then she's met Sugah's Jacob , they're engaged and have moved in together. Now they have a little girl. I named her Minnie A. (No extra credit for guessing her middle name!)


Her full name is Minnie Apolis St. Paul. Maybe her middle name is after a Greek grandparent???

Mac I have downloaded Nonni's beautiful Umeki also!! I like her career and outfit you have her in!

Suvi andJjacob make a beautiful couple, and Minnie I am sure will be the same (beautiful) !!

More Offspring Futures - I usually wait until the kids are at least toddlers.

Toni created both Lucien (Popularity/Scorpio Adventure/Fitness) and Kelsey (Knowledge/Pisces Veterinarian/Science)   Here they are with their son Fred. Kelsey's surname is "Bassett", and her son is "Fred Bassett"    


Jen contributed Phillip (Knowledge/Pisces Medical/Science) and SimEm created the really lovely Raymie who's been very popular in the offspring thread already. Raymie is (Popularity/Scorpio Cuisine/Culinary)   to both creators. They have a daughter Brittany - named after a RL person Maikki and I know in Boston who looks very much like Raymie. (The RL one is even prettier than Raymie ) That's the hair Brittany got when she turned into a toddler.


Toni created Connor (Popularity/Pisces Artist/Arts) and Ari created the lovely Leanne    (Popularity/Aries Model(retired)/Games)   to both creators. Here is Connor with the toddler Conrad. Conrad obviously got his dad's red hair.


And here is Leanne with Conrad as a child. Leanne has retired from her modeling career and now runs a moderately successful flower shop. Connor helps on off days from his artist career and also sells his paintings. They have enough simoleans and aspiration points to last a l-o-n-g time.


Elle gave us the very lovely Kaespre       (Family/Pisces Poet/Dance) and Ulli created Johannes (Knowledge/Pisces Intelligence/Tinkering)   to both creators. Here they are with their twin daughters Callie - held by Kaespre, and Cassie - held by Johannes. The twins were born with that rather sallow jaundiced skin tone and I see that it has continued into toddlerhood. If it continues when they're children, I'll substitute another healthier but pale skin tone.


This is how you deal with training toddlers. Johannes took the day off. Both parents are wearing thinking caps and both toddlers are juiced with smart milk. One can usually get them through toilet training, talking, and walking in one session. Sometimes it's necessary to revisit toilet training after walking to complete the training. I had to leave the walls down to show both parents hard at work.

Mac, this continuing saga of your 'hood always bring fresh cheer to my spirit.

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the only other creature in the house who knows how to walk on 4 legs

I get a particular kick out of seeing SimSugah with her family. I'm glad things are going so well for them.

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The game tends to give kids really dweeby hairdos.

It does, and often some pretty horrible clothes as well. It's one reason I have so many default replacements in my game.

I like how thrilled the lovely Umeki is to be going to work.

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I named her Minnie A. (No extra credit for guessing her middle name!)  

I'm sure she's going to be just as gorgeous as her parents.

I enjoyed seeing all the toddler pictures, especially the sweet one with Leanne and Conrad.

Yay! It's always nice to see Raymie. Brittany is adorable. She looks like she's going to be a beauty as she grows up. Lucien and Kelsey make a nice looking couple. It's hard to tell much, so far, but I think Fred will be a looker when he grow up too. Conrad's adorable too (actually, all the kids are!) I like the pic of him snuggling with his mom. Kaespre and Johannes' (I have him in my hood too) kids did inherit a strange skintone. I wonder if it was random or if it will change as they age. I'm not sure how I would describe it, not so much jaundiced, but ashen? Either not human or not healthy, for sure. I'm curious to see if that skintone looks like that for all ages or not.

Elsa is a creation of LoWiSa (http://lowi-sims2stuff.blogspot.com/) her femsimmes are right up there with Hunter's and those of the creators on this site - both current and retired. Elsa is actually the Disney heroine of Frozen, Elsa of Arendelle. Raymond is the adopted child (generated by TS2) of Claire Danes and Hysterical Paroxysm. He's a dancer, and with two mommies, understood women well enough to land himself a dancing girl!


Raymond is in the Maxis dance career and Elsa is in the Professional Ballerina Career by lientebollemeis. It's interesting, the career reward for the Maxis career is the Better Barre, but the career reward for the Professional Ballerina Career is the Chocolate Factory!

Actually, in RL I met a retired dancer (Ballet Russe no less) who told the following story on herself: She was recovering from surgery, and the surgeon, who had experience telling dancers that their dancing career was over, carefully positioned himself between her bed and the window, fearing the worst. Her response - "I can eat ". She's become a brilliant teacher; she's forgotten more than most ballet teachers ever learn! Maybe the Chocolate Factory is OK, but it should be a retirement reward!  

lientebollemeis' ballet career is much more realistic than the Maxis one. Real ballerinas don't dabble in hip-hop, ballroom, and flamenco. Instead it's classical ballet all the way from 4 years old until their bodies succumb to the constant punishment when they're in their 30's. Ballet is basically not healthy. The retired dancer mentioned above has just one natural joint left of 4 (2 hips, 2 knees). Maikkij spent more years teaching than dancing and still has all her natural joints, but many of her contemporaries have had hip jobs. It is much more difficult to reach the top in the lientebollemeis dance career than the Maxis one (but think of the chocolates!    )

Great looking couple, and thanks for the info on the Sims Ballet careet you found and the real life of a ballerina!

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the career reward for the Professional Ballerina Career is the Chocolate Factory!

As you noted, that seems more like a reward for a retired ballerina!

Elsa and Raymond look like a happy couple.

Tim's self-sim had the beginning of an involvement with Elle's Darcy here but we couldn't be sure it would stick.

He's moved up in his I.T. career and he worked out a lot to be a bit more fit and...
She's moved in and they look very happy together!


Thanks to Tim for the self-sim and to Elle for the scrumptious Darcy! Who knows what will happen when the next season comes 'round?
BTW, Tim is Fortune/Sagittarius I.T./Arts and Darcy is Fortune/Pisces Business/Science

I was  going to put Toni's Gibson and Rona and their son, Nathaniel into the offspring thread but, as you'll see, an NPC simfemme had other ideas!
You can see Nathaniel as a toddler and a child here (same page as above) and I got an additional pic of him as a child. I really like Gibson (who I de-elderized) and Rona. They're a believable mom and dad for a kid in college. Toni --- Gibson (Knowledge/Pisces) is at the top of the Journalist career and Rona (Family/Pisces) is in a Real Estate career.


Nathaniel grew up into a teenager - with mom's freckles


And then - he brought the NPC Odile Ottomas home from school. Yes, she's an NPC, but what NA (Neighborhood Administrator) is going to argue with three bolts?


She did react, though, when things got a bit hot 'n heavy.


He's off to college (he's Knowledge/Gemini and is looking at a music career) - a handsome doggie-woggie of a man - renting a house with two bedrooms, and in the next season Odile will become a YA. Do you think she might move in with him??? (When I was in college - only in my dreams!)  Stay tooned.

Tim and Darcy make a great couple. I like the picture of them at the dinner table.

I also got a kick out of Odile's expression after that kiss.

Tim and Darcy looks so cute together!

Nathaniel is indeed

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a handsome doggie-woggie of a man -

I just love that picture of him on the couch with Mom and Dad! Adorable!

Must agree, you captured Odile's expression perfectly!

I'm loving all the goings ons and couplings in your game! Rona and Gibson! What a great pairing (if I do say so myself). Lucien is one of my favourite sims...even all these years later. Nathaniel is dreamy! I feel like a proud grandma!

This just in! Stop the presses! Elle (self-sim) and Toni's Mark have a baby girl, Chelsea!  The surname is LaFemme and I was tempted to name her "Churchy" in honor of the Pogo character - but I resisted! Elle is Knowledge/Libra and is at the top of the Artist career. Mark is Knowledge/Cancer and is at level 8 in a Real Estate career.


After some unusual difficulty, dad snatched Chelsea out of the air and she became a toddler. For more on this, check the "Strange Game Occurrences" thread.

Chelsea is adorable! Definitely has Mom's coloring, so pretty!

 Congratulations Mark and Elle!!! What a cutie pie!!!

Another Toni simmie strikes again!

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Another Toni simmie strikes again!