Posting Schedule/Update

 Hello Beautifuls! 

I wanted to take a minute and update everyone since it's been quite a while since I've posted anything. I actually have about 15 posts typed up and ready to go however I didn't quite realize just how behind Instagram has gotten! I have been spamming everyone all day, every day since I announced I was taking my hiatus from posting over here and I still have about 300 more pictures to post before I can officially start posting on here again. My goal is to post like crazy this week and hopefully get up and going officially this weekend. However, I will not be home this weekend so my dilemma is that my posts will have to go up on their own and hopefully will get posts on Instagram going too. I have a wedding to go too so I won't be in town. 

My goal is to do posts like how I was normally doing it every Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday. My original idea was to focus on one character each day and that day would just be them, such as Wendy on Sunday, Steve on Wednesday, and so on. But we currently have 4 children in the Disney fam with their own stories plus Mickey and Dina and also Aubrey. Before my hiatus, we were working on phasing out Aubrey already but I've decided that Aubrey should still be a part of the story, just in tidbits because where my main sims are so goal-oriented it helps me stay interested in my game to be able to have a sim where I can just play and not have to worry about what we need to accomplish each day. That being said Aubrey will only be a minor role and we will only see her and her family more in the background or checking in with her from time to time. To be honest I think you'll see her the most over on my Instagram unless the kids are having playdates. I could rotate the stories and make it more even with the main characters but I feel like, for the most part, I'm already doing that. We are getting ready to age up the twins and Wendy and Wendy's story is really going to start while she is a teen and the reason why I waited for her to be a teen to go to Neverland is that I wanted her to be able to get jealous and have that crush with Peter like the movies always showed. I always wanted Wendy to stay in Neverland and be with Peter and the Lost Boys but I also like staying true to their movie inspirations. 

I'm also trying to come up with ways to make everyone more involved in my story since I don't stream or post videos my blog and Instagram are really the only outlets that we have for the game. I mean technically I could stream I just don't know how well that would go. Since I've been wanting to get people more involved in my game I think I'm going to start doing polls and giveaways over on my Instagram. No matter what I do over there I will announce it over here first because I know things can be a bit slower over here. Two of the polls I already have in mind are Wendy's fate with Neverland and you all picking our 'Belle' character. The Belle one will be coming sooner probably in the next couple of posts. I'll tell you right now my first post back is going to be the toddler playdate since we talked about that right before I took my hiatus from the game. Then Wendy's birthday maybe, I have a few posts to decide on what's going on then I'm going to post the Belles which I didn't take a very traditional route I tried to make it very open and you'll see what I mean when you see what Adam's been up too. 

I also want to get to the point where I'm posting a schedule of what's coming every week, maybe just like announcing who will be focused on each post. To be honest I think that will solve the character dilemma that I'm having and it will also really help me see what's hogging all the spotlight versus what's really not being seen that much. I try to post everything at noon on each of my posting days and I'm also trying to get to the point where I'm posting maybe four times a week maybe. I don't know I just have a lot of content and stories that I want to make sure everything is being fully explored versus rushed over. 

One last thing before I disappear for the week. I've been working on my editing skills which I know I've mentioned before and you can really see it I feel like because my goal was getting my Instagram and blog and family tree all to feel like one unit, and I feel like it's getting there. I also want to create a highlight over on my Instagram of the family tree and then link the Plum Tree App to it to make it more accessible. This is why I really wish I could post from the computer to Instagram instead off of my phone.  My main two things I wanted to focus on fixing during this break besides catching Instagram up was my editing and how to keep my story content the same on all outlets. Right now I currently post on Instagram and here then I also have the Plum Tree app for the family tree. I've played with the idea of streaming but I don't know how well that would work out since I play very sporadically and usually whenever I can fit something in. But I guess if that is something that enough people would want to do I may be open to the idea to doing that. Since my family has become more elaborate now that we are three generations going and they are all pretty much doing their own things the story seems to get a little muddy from time to time I've just been really wanting to make it as cohesive as possible and I don't feel like I've completely reached that yet. A great example is my generation's goals. I really am working on trying to make them look better versus just being a graph with a pretty background like what I currently have on Instagram. I'm actually going to focus on that this week and might actually make that my first post back just to refresh everyone what we have planned for each sim and see what's going on in the world since it has been a while and I have gotten a lot of new custom content traits that I feel like have been adding a lot of really cool things to my game! I'm actually going to make a short post on Wednesday about the traits that I've downloaded and why I've been getting so many lately. This is why I love making these rambling posts because it really helps me figure out what I would love post and what direction I should really go in. 

Well, I hope to post this weekend and get back to normal next week and if not I will sincerely apologize and promise we will get back to normal real soon. I've just been posting pretty heavily and routinely since I made my blog back in January and felt like I needed to get everything running smoothly now versus when we have even more stories going. 

Some Favorite CC

I know I said I wasn't going to post anymore this week but I really wanted to get something out since it's been a little while since we had any new story content. It's also been a while since I posted any CC appreciation post so I felt like its time! I have downloaded a lot of new CC since the last post, which I feel like it was back during the wedding that we had a post like this. I'm going to try to get a little bit of something for all of the sims life stages, but again all of this and more is tied to my Pinterest board.

I like making posts like this because I CC have become a huge part of my sims and most of the time when I see sims with CC they are all very glamorous and look real but I don't want mine to look real. I wanted mine to look like Sims and because of that my CC is always maxis match so that it keeps looking like a game. I also change out my CC a lot or download stuff to be specific for a character. 

Toddler CC

The hair above is created by the Simple Simmer and I LOVE their content! The link on the picture will take you to all of these toddler's hairs and I literally use them ALL THE TIME! Toddlers are almost as hard as men stuff to find which is why I reuse it all the time. I just think these are just so well made and I really love the way it looks on my sims. I think the content here looks really good and I just love downloading it all and using it. They have a Mulan collection that I really want to get but I'm trying to hold off until we get to Mulan's generation because I feel like to do it justice it should be used on her.

I love how these two outfits look but to be completely honest I've been downloading pretty much everything I've found that's remotely cute for toddlers because we have the three toddlers and I just think they will look so freaking cute! I can't wait to show you their play date! The outfits above were created by GeorgiaGLM, and she makes some really cute stuff! There's a lot of really cute stuff over there. 

Children CC

One creator that I get a lot of stuff from is Saurus, I think I have everything that they have in my game. It's really good content and works well with the stuff we get through the game already. I really love this hair. We've seen it a lot in my game on my older sims because a lot of Saurus's hairs come in all ages for the sims. Also this is Wendy's main hair in my game too. 

I love when creators took the survey items and created them into actual items to put into the game! This one was created by Ferdiana Sims. It looks so cute in the game. 

This one is just like the one above. It was one of the options that didn't get picked that creators made into cc. This one is something that Wendy wears, but we don't see it very often. This one was created by the Pixelunivairse.

Teen-Elder CC

This hair is one you haven't really seen in my game yet. I have plans for it and I couldn't pass it up not downloading it. There are a couple sims who have this hair as their sleepwear. But I plan on using it for Adam's hair after he switches into or back from being a beast. I don't know yet. That transformation is going to be happening soon which is why I've been downloading a lot of monster CC, I just don't want to turn him into a beast and not be able to turn him back to how he looks now which is why I'm so happy that he's a twin so I can just see the details that Steve has and be able to replicate it for Adam. Anyways this hair is created by ClumsyAlien who I found while searching for creators on Patreon. 

This is another male hair that I use way too much! I think Adam, Morgyn, Mickey, and even Orange have all had or have this hair in my game. It's also one that I got a while ago so it's been on my board for a little while. I really love how it looks in my game. It was created by Simstrouble who is a creator on Patreon that I'm obsessed with. But pretty much everyone except female sims teens-adults have no cc because its so hard to find maxis match stuff that I like. I don't think I'm picky, and I've even just downloaded everything that I've found but it's just hard to find anything. 

I mean just look at how gorgeous this hair is! This is created by the Quirky Introvert CC! It's another creator that I found when I was deep-diving through Patreon for maxis match CC. Since finding this hair I got almost everything that they have on their Patreon page. Maleficent wears this hair with her formal dress, we actually did family photos with her in this hair. We are going to be doing a new family portrait soon since the twins were born.

This gown is amazing! It's created by SLYD over on The Sim Resource. I love how it looks on Maleficent and it came out really good. I really want to look up more of their work. I was worried about how it would look in my game but it looks amazing. This is the dress that Maleficent's wearing in the family portrait. 

This one isn't really maxis match but I downloaded it as soon as I saw it because it looked so pretty. It works really good in my game and I added this to the list because I recently posted a picture of our grown-up date night the other day on Instagram and people were asking where I got this from so I went ahead and tagged it here. I got it off of The Sims Resource and the creator is ChloeMMM! The creator actually has a lot of really cool stuff on their page and I really want to go through it all because I really need to find more toddlers, kids, and male stuff. The girl stuff just always pops up so easily. 

This one like the one above doesn't exactly qualify as mm but I really like it and I think it works well in my game. We haven't seen it much in my game. I think the only time we really saw it was when Adam wore it at the party, and possibly the family photo. This is on the Sims Resource and it was created by OranosTR. I have a few of their CC in my game but I just love how it looks. 

Does this suit not scream player?! I thought it would be perfect for Adam to wear now that he is on his own living up his bachelor life. It's created by grimcookies over on Patreon. It's another creator that I found during my deep dive looking into more creators to follow. Since I found their page I have a lot of their content in my game and it looks really nice. I just wish I could find a creator that creates a lot of male CC because I think it would be really good for my game. 

We see this one all the time in my game now because Steve's workout outfit uses the flag tank top. Whenever I go CC hunting I always look for clothes that will fit a specific character that we have. I have a private board that has a bunch of CC that I either want to download in the future or need it but can't justify getting it yet. I roll through CC a lot too so the CC on my public board is all stuff that I've used or have in my game currently. This one is created by Metens. To me, it just screams Captain America so I couldn't pass it up.

About Me

I really wanted to post something today but I'm not ready to start the story up again yet. I'm doing set up right now though and I plan to start back up next weekend with the story. So this is going to be the only post this week. I realized that I never really do an intro post here, and if I did it was forever ago so I felt like doing a tag and let you know me some. I found a blog over on AHarris00Britney's blog. 

1. Name: Shay

2. Language: English

3. Playstyle: I love doing my Disney story right now we just got our first third generation baby so I guess it would be gameplay because I'm not in love with my story content yet there's a few things I plan on tweaking soon.

4. Simself Picture: I have never recreated myself in the game. I suck at making cas and to be honest I really love getting stuff off the gallery and showcasing work that others make. My Disney family and townies are the only ones I really manipulate or made on my own. But now that I have CC in the game I've been adding it to everyone. 

5. Stories, Gameplay, Builds, Lookbooks, Edits, or CC: I love looking at everything. I have a Pinterest board where I show everything CC I find, and I try to keep it clean and organized along with everything in it working. Then the rest I see and follow amazing content on Instagram. But for myself I really focus on gameplay/stories. 

6. Favorite Age in Sims: Definitely Young Adult! I feel like its the stage I play the longest because there's just so much that I can do with my sim at that age and I thnk its the best age for them because as soon as they age up into adult they look so weird, at least in my game. 

7. Favorite Sim Season: I don't really have a favorite season. I definitely start all my games out in spring because I just feel like thats the best season to start. But each season gives different gameplay and if I had to pick one season I think I would go with summer just because there isn't a lot of rain, a lot of plants grow, and sims aren't complaining about the cold weather and I don't have to worry baout them accidentally dying on me. 

8. Favorite Holiday: I don't really have a favorite holiday in my game either. I've showcased Winterfest the most on my blog so far but I really love adding different ones to the game to give new life to my game. I might do a post later about different holidays I like to add.

9. Favorite Career: I definitely use freelance careers a lot! I love the freedom that comes with those careers because we can work and do whatever we want whenever we want and not worry about sending them off to work. I also really love the Actin Career. But when I start getting bigger families is when I start branching into careers where they just go to work everyday for so long. 

10. Favorite Aspirations: Definitely the family ones or the romane ones. I use those all the time. Literally when I play just for fun I end up making the same exact sim over and over. Which is why I needed and wanted to come up with a legacy outline like the Disney one so that we can branch out from doing the same thing over and over. 

11. Favorite EP, SP, or GP: I think I should say something like seasons since it added a lot to the game but to be honest I use a lot of Magic Realm for building, I love what City Living added to the game, and then the Movie Hangout pack is amazing! I love the colors that it added to the game and the stuff that came with it. 

  

12. How Old is my Simstagram: I just started my instagram back in February I think. 

13. Favorite Skill: I think my favorite one to build up is painting because of the money that they can get plus I love that it gives really cute decoration to the game. 

14. 3 Favorite Mods: I love MCCC! I use it everytime I play and really have no clue how I would play without it now. Slice of Life has added so much to my game and it's something that I really appreciate. My last mod I don't know if I would call it a favorite because I really don't use it to its full potential, but I think its the only other mod that I have in my game at the moment, and its wicked whims. I downloaded wicked whims because it comes with an attraction system that we used to have in previous sims games but haven't really seen it in the sims 4 without using mods. Now that is a mod that I wouldn't recommend for everyone because it can be graphic and make the game a lot different nsfw but I really only use it for the attraction system to help let my sims pick who they are attracted too.

15. Size of Mod Folder: 3.89 GB! 

16. Favorite Sim: My favorite sim in my game right now is definitely Maleficent. I love her and she's freaking beautiful! Now for favorite townie I actually have to say Dina Caliente! I've never played with the Calientes before but she became out matriach of our family and she's been such a fun and amazing sim! 

17. Which Sims Games Have I Played: I believe my very first sim game is Sims 2 where I played as the Capulets and Montagues all the time! I sometimes branched out to play as the Pleasant family a lot too. After that I played Sims 2 Castaway a lot, the gameboy sims 2, Urbzs, and then my obsession got really big with Sims 3. That's when I learned all about the expansions that you could get with the game. I've tried playing the mobile games too but I couldn't get into it when you had to wait so long to do stuff, and the money took forever to get. 

18. Propose a Crazy Scheme: I mean we are trying to do a 25+ generation legacy game and I've never played past gens 2 and 3 before so I feel like it is a mega crazy scheme! 

19. What Other Games do I Play: I go through obsessions for sure. I love Assassins Creed, Animal Crossing, Fall Guys, and my current obsession is Two Point Hospital. ut by obsessions I mean I'll play a game nonstop for weeks until I get burnt out and then read or do puzzles or something then bounce back to the game or another game. 

  

20. Pets: I have a ton of pets! I grew up with tons of animals, everything from horses to chinchillas, but today I only have dogs and a cat. I have 4 dogs, 3 english bulldogs and a newfoundland.