A New System??

I've been noticing that I've been just playing the same Sims over and over, such as getting a whole lot of Maleficent story but not very much of the others or when the twins were little we didn't get much on them until they were about to age up. I want to try to get organized now while they are in the same house and play them all more evenly. I've been thinking about it for a little while when I finally found a video posted on a Discord that I'm in created by PixieSimster and thought it would be perfect! The video is posted here on YouTube and it is a Wheel Spin Challenge that LilSimsie created. I became obsessed with this idea and binged the whole series that she has so far.


In the video description, she links LilSimsie's Google Document that lists out all of the rules to her Spin the Wheel challenge and the things that should be added to the wheels. Here is the link to that document. Basically, it is a legacy challenge and the multiple spinning wheels create the founder, such as hair color, eye color, and so on. The spinning wheels go even further by finding their careers and even quirks. These wheels get spun at the beginning of their lives or when their old enough to have a job. Then there are the daily spinning wheels, which are broken down into toddler, children, teen, and adult-elder daily activities. This wheel gets spun every day and the sim has to do it throughout their day.

Even though we are doing our Mega Disney Legacy I thought it would be fun to incorporate some of these spinning wheels. In my mind, I think it would help randomize the stories and not be stuck on the same storyline and ignore the rest. That being said we are still going to ensure that we stick to the main challenges set out for every generation but we have the time to do more things and I don't want to end up hating my game. Before the Disneys, I would play a game and then I got bored with the family I would just start all over with a new family. I don't want to do that and I want to stay entertained with my family. I just think this would be fun. So I adopted some of these spinning wheels for my game and then made a couple different ones.

I downloaded the 'Spin the Wheel - Random Picker' on my iPad. So far it is colorful and it seems to let me add as many options as I want, plus it's free. The first wheel that I made is called the 'OG Disney Family,' and it has the names of all of my household members on it plus a ShayKay's pick. This wheel is to help pick who we focus on in a Sim week. Even though we are focusing on this particular Sim we will still be making sure that the household is making money and everyone is still alive. With this pick, I think we are going to focus on their stories, such as Steve needs to complete all of the children's aspirations and collect all of the scouting badges and Maleficent needs to collect all of the Spellcrafting skills.

The next two wheels that I added to the game are ones that I felt are needed but I don't know how much we will use them because the Disney challenge comes first and most of the jobs and aspirations are already picked out for each character. But when we complete aspirations and if they aren't ready to age up we can sometimes focus on new aspirations and then there are some traits that I don't have listed out. For those situations, I think they can help especially when I'm stuck.

The rest of the wheels I got all of the prompt from LilSimsie's document. These are the Daily Challenges for Toddlers, Kids, Teens, and Teens-Elders. They list out random things to do every day. With this, I plan on getting at least two things for our main sim to do every day. I may have something for other sims in my game to do, such as flirty interactions I don't want Mickey and Dina to do that with random sims but for Maleficent or Aubrey, I would. So the first spin we will definitely do, if it doesn't fit the sim's story that we are focusing on then we will do it with another sim in the household. Then the second spin we will generate it towards the sim we are focusing on, such as Steve working on new skills or a new aspiration.

Gen 2: The New Girl!

Now that Maleficent has aged up we can focus solely on Dina and the baby that is growing! I still don't know if it is a girl or a boy and I can't wait! I'm kind of hoping for a girl, just because I already have a pretty good idea on how to fit Wendy into the storyline! Here is our beautiful baby mama, she should be having Wendy pretty much any minute now.

The room isn't decorated for the baby. This is Maleficent's old room and I didn't want to decorate it for a baby without knowing if it is a girl or boy plus since she is so soon to deliver I just put a baby bed out for it.

It turns out that I don't have to change the walls and the overall decor because she had a baby girl! Since she is girl we are going to name her Wendy and we will be following a Peter Pan story with her and since she was an unplanned baby and we have a lot going on with Maleficent's spellcasting, Steve's scouts, and Adam's whims we are going to age her up fairly quickly. Babys usually only last a couple days and today she is just going to be a baby for a day! So we are going to jump on down to the toddler stage! 

She is a charmer! I think she looks exactly like Dina. To be fair Maleficent looks a lot like Dina too just with black hair. I have downloaded CC since these were taken so her appearance will change just a little. I added some more eyes because in my mind Dina has pink eyes and the ones in the game aren't bright enough and since I've been downloading CC I'm going to update their eyes to match how I see them. I'm really over the toddler stage and I was so thrilled to be done with them when we aged the boys up but now that we have this cutie I don't know how long she will be a toddler or if she will even max out her skills. I don't plan on her being a toddler for very long. The boys were toddlers for a very long time and Wendy doesn't have anything other than her toddler skills to do as a toddler. So when she starts getting aggravating and the other character's stories slow down a bit don't be too surprised if she ages up fairly early. Plus I really want to see who she looks more like because you can't really tell when their toddlers and I'm so curious.

I'm sorry this post is so short but I don't really have a lot of pictures of baby Wendy and for toddler Wendy, I have a lot of future pictures of her in so you will see her a lot in a couple of posts when it is Winterfest in my game! Plus she is always around so you will see her a lot I promise!

Gen 2: Maleficent's Big Move

Now that the twins have aged up into children and Aubrey is now a teen guess who's ready to age up! That's right Maleficent's turn!

Maleficent isn't one for big parties so the Disney household went about things as normal. The children all got up and went to school. When everyone came home from school everyone sort of went and did their own things while Dina made a birthday cake.

Steve went to play outside. Dina had to finish her drawing for work before she could make the cake. Adam and Aubrey look like their biological siblings because of their red hair, and even though they were raised as siblings Aubrey is technically his aunt, and the game even says that but we just ignore that fact a lot.

Dina and Pluto

Steve Playing in the Woods

Aubrey Hugging Adam

Dina Working

Dina Talking to Mickey while they Work

Now that the work is finished it is time for Dina to make a cake for Maleficent. Maleficent is our first baby to have a birthday in the new house! Even though it is a low key birthday we do have a full house so we have ton of people to celebrate with our girl! I thought that since Maleficent is our wild child who is going down the evil path I thought it was fitting for her to have a zombie cake. I just thought it fit her aesthetic. Plus have you noticed that baby bump on Dina!? Since Dina is pregnant it has pushed us to have Maleficent's birthday because I want her in her new room so that her current room can be the baby's room.

Maleficent's Baby

Aubrey is in the room she's just not in the picture frame. Look at all that sass that Mr. Adam is showing a whole of Sass!

Teen Maleficent!

As soon as she aged up Maleficent knew what she needed to do. She needed to travel back to that strange world where she visited as a child. When she was there before Morgyn told her she should come back as a teen because when she's a teen she could join their world. Since that day all she thought about was becoming a Sim like the ones, she met there. So Maleficent waited until after everyone fell asleep and then she snuck out. She traveled to Glimmerbrook to find the mysterious door. Along the way she collected a few things that she saw. 

As soon as she entered into the Magic Realm she went looking for Morgyn and L. Faba. These are the friends she made not too long before her birthday, the first time she went to this new strange world. They showed all the things that they do and what a Spellcaster really was. Maleficent wanted nothing more than to join this new world, but she couldn't until she turned into a teen! So now she plans to see if one of them can tell her what she needs to do in order to become a spellcaster!

First Maleficent finds Morgyn and while they were talking L came over to talk to her. She kept bringing up the fact that she's interested in their world and wanted to become apart of it. However, Morgyn wasn't sure if Maleficent would be able to handle the power of being a spellcaster and L was unsure of her too. L decided to take a chance on Maleficent though. She told her if she could collect magical motes. But she will only have 8 hours to collect seven of these small orbs. If she can't collect enough motes then L cannot change her into a spellcaster, and she will never be able to try again. It is a once in a lifetime offer for Maleficent and she has no choice but to collect all 7 motes!

L giving Maleficent the ability to see magical motes

Maleficent ran all around the magical world looking for these tiny motes and finally, she collected 7 of them. She had to travel back to the academy and find L again. Eventually Maleficent found L, she was talking to Morgyn and Emilia. Maleficent told them that she was able to find all of the motes, but before any of them did anything L asked Maleficent if she is sure she wants to become a Spellcaster. Once you become a spellcaster you can't go back to being a regular sim, and there were a lot of sims that treated spellcasters differently. Magic scares people and when people are scared they react differently than they normally would have. L explained that she may lose friends and family, she could be judged for her magic, and it can be dangerous. This isn't just something that you wake up and decide to do, it's a lifetime commitment. Maleficent looked at them all and said that she knew this was a lifetime commitment and this is what she wants more than anything else. She knows that with magic she can do good with it and wants to contribute to the world. This is how she can do it and she wants to show people that magic isn't something to fear. She knows she will never regret being a spellcaster and she wants to become the best spellcaster in the world!

Giving L the Motes Maleficent Collected

Just like that Maleficent became a Spellcaster! Since L turned her into a spellcaster she is now Maleficent's mentor and will help her along her way learning about her new powers and how to control them. Since it was already late L needed to get home to her family, she has a child in my game and a husband. So Maleficent decided to get to know the other spellcasters that were around the academy. Her and Morgyn spent the night getting to know each other, meeting other spellcasters, and collecting some essential spellcasting necessities. Finally, it was time for Maleficent to head back home.

It was already really late when Maleficent returned home however she wanted to move into the basement. Now that Maleficent is a spellcaster she isn't sure how to tell her parents and didn't want them to accidentally walk into her room while she was practicing. Plus if she moved rooms she could have a bigger room and fit all of her new spellcasting materials in her bedroom, which she couldn't in her current bedroom. She decorated her room to fit her likes and needs, and it came out really perfect for her. Here is what her new bedroom looks like.

Overall the room is still pretty bare, she mostly moved all of the stuff in her old bedroom down here but added her new spellcasting stuff. I love to clutter the rooms with their stuff so we can see what Maleficent makes or collects to fill her room with. Since it is in the basement she added a fridge and a microwave so she doesn't have to walk all the way upstairs to get food and she can spend most of her time downstairs. Through the door on the green wall is Maleficent's bathroom and then the other door leads to the rest of the basement. Their basement is huge and it holds another bathroom, Dina's gym, and the laundry room.

I'm not sure what the future holds for Maleficent I have many ideas about how to turn towards her dark path and she is pulling away from her family so we will see what happens for her in the future.

New to Me CC

I know I say that I never use CC, which is true I don't tend to and if I do use it I don't keep that much.  I just like to keep my laptop clutter-free and my game running smoothly. But in the past usually, when I get tired of seeing the same Sims over and over I just create a brand new game. This time around that isn't an option. If your on this blog you know that I'm trying to do a Disney themed mega legacy and that doesn't allow me to start over when I get bored with characters or even swap to another character that often right now. Plus I'm one of the millions stuck in my house right now and since I have no money to actually go shopping I went CC shopping. I looked primarily for Maxis Match CC because even though I think Alpha CC is beautiful I don't think I could handle looking at real-life people in my game, I need the character like aspects of the Sims. 

Just like everything else I had to think of a way to organize whatever I found to download so what I did was first look on Pinterest, created a board with some subcategories, and then whatever I downloaded I put them in their right category and then tested the CC in my game. If the CC doesn't work or missing something I went back onto Pinterest and either found the missing pieces or deleted the pin altogether. I actually figured out that I needed two Pinterest boards, one for the times that I find something but don't have the time to download and test it or it isn't available for download yet, and then another for what is actually in my game. The one that I don't have in my game or know that works yet is private at the moment because I don't want to show something that doesn't work.

But here is my Pinterest if you want to check out everything that I have in my game so far. However, the rest of my Pinterest is stuff from high school and before there were even subcategories that I can't talk myself into deleting and is a total hot mess so if you look at any of the boards I can't help that they are very chaotic.

So let's jump into some of the pieces that my sims are already wearing! I'm going to try to keep them in some order, oldest to youngest. There might be a little surprise at the end too since I haven't posted a story in a little bit, hint it's Wendy as a child!

Below every picture I'll have links to every item listed in the pictures and the links will go to the website that you can download the content from. Again it is all listed on my Pinterest board as well along with some other items that I don't have anyone wearing at the moment.

Any part of the outfits not listed out with a link is Sims stuff that is already in the game. I do have every pack.

Romper - City Living Romper by LazyBethSims

Hair - Caroline Hair by AHarris00Britney

Here is Dina! I didn't change many of her outfits, I think there's three total that I changed and the rest I didn't do anything too. Here is the first one. I'm in love with the romper, and it comes in so many different colors! I had no clue who I was going to have to wear it but I knew either Aubrey or Dina was going too!

Outfit - Flora Finale by Nolan Sims

I love Nolan Sims, I think I downloaded everything that is on the website! Dina looks so freaking good in it. I try to put her in more feminine clothes to balance out all of the muscles, in the next picture you'll see just how toned she's gotten. I never make her workout so this is all from her own doing and she does have the athletic trait in my game. I didn't want to change her traits since Mickey is my founder and I try to leave townies alone as much as possible.

Swimsuit - Woven to You Swimsuit by Bowl of Plumbobs

Hair - Alyssum Hair by SimLaughLove

Dress - Ria Dress by Toxicsimlish

Boots - Nadia Boots by Sentate

I think this has become one of my all-time favorite outfits! I love how the dress looks and it is very simplistic and those boots! I actually got those boots for Maleficent to wear but they just look so good with this dress. As you go through the rest of this list you will see this hair, along with a couple others, pop up multiple times. I know I said I wanted the CC because all of my sims look the same and then here I am putting the same hair on them, but it looks different on each of my sims and I just really love it! You'll just have to see how it looks later on.

Molly Hair by Sisselin

Here is Miss Aubrey! Aubrey is our oldest child in the house and she is definitely the most outgoing and social one. She loves hanging out with all of her friends and she's so sweet. I think we are going to have a couple of blogs coming up that is focused on her because there has been a lot that's happened in her life recently that I can't wait to share with you all! 

Hair & Bow - Crystal Hair by AHarris00Britney

Shirt - Off Shoulder Belted Blouse by The Witch's Garden

This is one of my favorite Aubrey outfits. She definitely has a wide spectrum of outfits, you just saw that crazy dress she was wearing and now she is wearing something pretty normal that I would wear in real life. She also has the most outfits that have CC in them so bare with me we have a few more of Aubrey to go through. Also, I wanted to say that some of the names I may have butchered. I didn't make any of the CC I downloaded it all, and the site that I got the shirt from I couldn't find a name so I put the blog name down for it. 

Hair - Caroline Hair by AHarris00Britney

Swimsuit - Ruby Swimsuit by LilSimsie

I love that I was able to match the ponytail ties to the swimsuit. It's not something that happens very often in the game and this hairstyle allows you to change the color of the ties. The swimsuit is so cute, I don't know about the color though. But for now, it works.

Hair - Belinda Hair by Nolan Sims

Hair - Ella Hair by Saurus

Romper - Jubilee Frilly Romper by Nolan Sims 

This one had something pretty cool, her hair also comes in kid version. I downloaded both and I love pretending that maybe one day Aubrey did Wendy's hair the same as hers so they have matching hair. It's just so cute and these little things are one of the things that Sims is really missing that I wish was in the game more.

Hair - Alyssum Hair & Accessories by SimLaughLove

Shirt/Bodysuit - Naomi by The Witch's Garden

This one is hands down my new all-time favorite outfits because this is something that I really see myself wearing in real life.  I love the colors and I wish I could do that with my hair. It's just so perfect! It's also the first outfit I put together the second I downloaded it. 

Hair - Maisie Hair by Liliili

Please ignore Maleficent's weird skin, she was trying to sunbath and in this picture, it doesn't look too bad but she has weird markings on her legs and I don't even know how that happened. This is her sleepwear and I changed her hair. This one I think is just perfect for sleepwear because of all of the stray hairs. 

One of the main reasons I went CC shopping was for Maleficent. She is supposed to be turning evil nad I started putting her in more black, green, or purple clothing to represent her character, think more Disney bounding than actually dressing like Maleficent the movie character. I did end up changing a couple of her outfits but I haven't found the exact right thing yet. Like I mentioned for Aubrey, Maleficent will also have a couple of posts coming up soon that is focused all on her. I have one more random post up next and then back to the main story I think. 

Hair - Hermione Hair by Sisselin

Shirt/Bodysuit - Taffy Bodysuit V2 by Saurus

Jeans - Punk It Up Jeans by Saurus

This is Maleficent's new outfit that I'm currently obsessed with! Almost everything she is wearing is new CC and I think this is totally Maleficent. She is just so freaking cute and she acts a lot like Dina which is so cute, but she's supposed to be evil. We will see her wicked path soon she's done some crazy things lately! 

Shirt - EPO3 Hoodie Conversion by KiaraZurk

Along with Maleficent's clothes, I really needed to find more boy/male clothes. Even though I was pretty successful at finding Maleficent's clothes I feel like I failed my boys. I really wanted to get something that would be closer to their inspiration clothes so for Steve he needed more red, white, and blue clothes since he's Captain America but for now, I was only able to get a shirt, which is the same for his twin Adam. I keep looking for more stuff for them but I always seem to end up on girl/female stuff.

Shirt - Cowl Sweater by Fabienne

Adam is a little different from Steve because I do want Beast inspiration for him but I also want preppy, snobby clothes because right now he is supposed to be in that stage of his life where he is very snobby and ungrateful and I just feel like his clothes don't resemble that. Steve's clothes are fine how they are but Adam I really thought needs something else because I just don't get the snobby, spoiled vibes from him.

Hair - Lydia Hairstyle for Girls by KiaraZurk

Dress - Missed Opportunity Dress 78 by PixelUnivairse

I love that there are people out there taking the survey that Sims gave us and is turning the clothes and stuff into actual stuff for our sims. I saw a couple on my search over the last few days and for Wendy I want her to wear all blue and old-timey clothes. I also really love her hair. The only thing that aggravates me is that I can't change the color of the clip but looking at it from this angle is doesn't look all that bad. 

Hair - Ella Hair for Kids by Saurus

Dress - Apple Dress by Nolan Sims

This dress is so Wendy! I love them so much and think they are so freaking cute. I had some cute toddler stuff but she aged up before I made this so there is a little bit of toddler stuff in my Pinterest board but it is mostly girl stuff since there were girls in my game.