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Gifts for *Kgaff* for the Easing Into Spring Exchange
suzses
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Dear Buddy, @Kgaff. I really enjoyed making these gifts for you, and I hope you'll have fun with them in your game. 
I made them specifically for Hidden Springs, a town I've owned for a while but never really played until now. It's so beautiful - what was I waiting for?
Your first gift:
Bristlecone Cottage
Download: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=8915178
Slideshow: http://s12.photobucket.com/user/suzses/slideshow/Hidden Springs Gifts/Bristlecone Cottage
Things to know:
(1) Just in case you haven't used them, the photos in the rec room are in the digital photo frames. If they don't show up, you just need to "view images" and drag the picture toward or into your sim's inventory and then back in the frame (sometimes I don't have to drag them completely into inventory and sometimes I do).
(2) The appliances are upgraded mostly to unbreakable (but sometimes to something else appropriate).
(3) The garden is planted with great quality plants that beginning gardeners are able to replant.
@Kgaff I spent a lot of time checking and rechecking what packs things I used came from, but I see from my upload that some things may have sneaked in anyway. Either that, or the Exchange is not being entirely truthful (wouldn't be the first time). It may also be that I have trouble squinting out just which shade of blue is on an expansion icon.
That doesn't explain the dark green for Supernatural, however. If there is anything that appears missing or odd in your download, I would be more than happy to fix it and send a corrected version your way. The slideshow may help us figure out what's what. Please do let me know.
I made them specifically for Hidden Springs, a town I've owned for a while but never really played until now. It's so beautiful - what was I waiting for?Your first gift:
Bristlecone Cottage
Download: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=8915178
Slideshow: http://s12.photobucket.com/user/suzses/slideshow/Hidden Springs Gifts/Bristlecone Cottage
Things to know:
(1) Just in case you haven't used them, the photos in the rec room are in the digital photo frames. If they don't show up, you just need to "view images" and drag the picture toward or into your sim's inventory and then back in the frame (sometimes I don't have to drag them completely into inventory and sometimes I do).
(2) The appliances are upgraded mostly to unbreakable (but sometimes to something else appropriate).
(3) The garden is planted with great quality plants that beginning gardeners are able to replant.
@Kgaff I spent a lot of time checking and rechecking what packs things I used came from, but I see from my upload that some things may have sneaked in anyway. Either that, or the Exchange is not being entirely truthful (wouldn't be the first time). It may also be that I have trouble squinting out just which shade of blue is on an expansion icon.
That doesn't explain the dark green for Supernatural, however. If there is anything that appears missing or odd in your download, I would be more than happy to fix it and send a corrected version your way. The slideshow may help us figure out what's what. Please do let me know.Post edited by suzses on
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There's also a rumor that reading comprehension is good. When I read your letter, I saw gym/spa/salon and a couple of worlds, one of which was Hidden Springs, and I was thinking you meant a combination lot. When I reread it after I was finished, I realized you were looking for a gym (or maybe spa or salon) that would work in either Hidden Springs or Barnacle Bay. What I made is the combo of gym/spa/salon made for Hidden Springs (not sure how it would look in Barnacle Bay).
The lot is designated as a gym. You'll need to have a separate salon in town to be able to have a sim join the career and get opportunities, but it is possible to hang out there and makeover sweaty passersby.
2nd gift:
New You Spa and Fitness
Download: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=8915238
Slideshow: http://s12.photobucket.com/user/suzses/slideshow/Hidden Springs Gifts/New You Spa and Fitness
* And bah, I think there's something from Showtime in there. The Island Paradise and Showtime blues are just too close for me to tell apart when they're teeny tiny icons. We'll find whatever it is and fix it.
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Hans' Restaurant and Tavern
Two uploads (one as pictured and the revised without a couple sneaky things that sneaked in again):
Original: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=8916331
Revised: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=8916368
Slideshow: http://s12.photobucket.com/user/suzses/slideshow/Hidden Springs Gifts/Hans Restaurant and Tavern
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Once I named Hans' Restaurant and Tavern, I knew I needed to find a Hans. I ran into him at the grocery story.
Hans likes to call himself a chef, but truth be known he's a bit lower in the pecking order at The Bistro. This embellishment of fact is primarily to impress the ladies, something at which he *is* the master, despite a receding hairline and vanishing youth. He senses it's time to move on to the next chapter of his life, get serious about buying that
restaurant he always wanted, settling down and having the family he always knew he'd have.
By chance, one day when he stopped by Barney's Salon's satellite location at New You Spa and Fitness to check out the possibilities in men's hair restoration (no, he can't afford it
Hans Asper
Adult
Aquarius
Pop - Porcini Risotto - Green
Hopeless Romantic
Family Oriented
Natural Cook
Green Thumb
Lucky
Marit wants to make the world a prettier place, one sim or one garbage can at a time if that's what it takes. She works as a stylist for Barney's Salon, but prefers to be scheduled at their newer shop at New You. Marit met Dorien there, the first love of her life. When he left for greener pastures (or, in this case, snowier slopes) to advance his career as a personal trainer and to pursue his passion for skiing, she assumed he'd ask her to go along with him. He didn't. And so, she is still here in Hidden Springs, ignoring any thought of romance and trying to help people with no fashion sense look better. If you look better, you feel better after all.
Marit Asper
Young Adult
Libra
Pop - Stew Surprise - Black
Artistic
Perceptive
Perfectionist
Nurturing
Unflirty
Hans turned on the charm and asked Marit out to dinner. He was rather surprised when he impulsively
asked her to marry him that she so readily agreed. He knew she wasn't as into him as he was taken by
her, and he wondered what she was really thinking (probably about getting him a weave or maybe even a
transplant!).
Fast forward to today, the Asper family has expanded to include Mia, Hans and Marit's pretty-as-mom
toddler daughter.\
Mia Asper
Toddler
Sagittarius
Songwriter - Crepes - Blue
Artistic
Friendly
(Knows all her toddler skills except walking and the extras that can be learned with the play pen and walker.)
The Asper Family
http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=8917024
A couple other things:
(1) I was expecting Hans to take the lead in his relationship with Marit, and was surprised to find it's
usually her making all the advances. Initially, one of her traits was charismatic, and since she spent all
of her out-of-work time with him, I thought perhaps that was playing a role. So, I changed that trait to
perfectionist, which made no difference. Go figure.
(2) There's a little secret in the meaning of Marit's name.
(3) Hans and Marit have some appropriate skills for their jobs and have advanced a few levels in their careers, Hans a little more so than Marit.
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The Aspers also needed a little home of their own, I thought. I wanted to make a sort of step-up property for them, something a bit nicer than a starter but not too too much just yet. And so, we have your final gift . . .
Gift 5
Woods Edge
Upload: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=8918339
Slideshow: http://s12.photobucket.com/user/suzses/slideshow/Hidden Springs Gifts/Woods Edge
Things to know:
(1) I didn't want this home to be too expensive, and its price was rapidly escalating as I was building and furnishing. So, I decided to leave the downstairs bedroom and bath empty, to be finished later by the home's new tenents according to their needs.
(2) In the case of the Aspers, I placed some basic nursery items for Mia into their family inventory for that downstairs bedroom. I should have probably explained that earlier when I uploaded them for you - or put up the house and family together. The Aspers have approximately the funds needed to purchase the house.
(3) If you purchase a car while living on that lot, you will need to turn on the move objects cheat in order to place it in the parking space in the carport. After that, however - or if your sim(s) already own a car - the car will just park there without any issues.
(4) Yes, there's a photo in the frame in the living room area.
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Some links that helped me a lot:
Missing Store Stencils / Free Kiddy Stuff / Daily Deals / Daily Deals Spreadsheets / The Gifting Directory
The gym/spa has wall speakers that I thought were base game or at the latest from Late Night because it seems I've had them forever. They're actually from Showtime. The gym's refrigerator is from Generations - thinking I mistook the orange icon for University.
In Bristlecone Cottage, the butterflies in the nursery are from Generations, and I just thought they were base game. The table stereo in the living room is also from Generations (orange problem again). There is something from Pets in there, too, that I haven't figured out yet. There is a LOT of content that came with Pets, and it's hard to find a good list with pictures for it.
I did manage to find the few things in your next upcoming gift that shouldn't have been there before posting it.
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I can only imagine how hard it is to keep track of what goes to what and what came from which EP.
I can check the download against the pictures and see if anything is changed so please don't stress yourself out about it!
Okay...deep breaths, good, now back to checking out these wonderful gifts in game.
Bristlecone Cottage is a house I would like to live in. I really like your use of the arches that lead to the different rooms and frame the stairway. You were right about the butterflies in the nursery but that was the only thing I found that didn't match the photos. Speaking of photos I love the ones in the adult play area, you must have a very talented photographer in your game.
I love the shape of the gym/spa and the way the sauna room just makes you want to sit down and daydream...I love it.
Time for your next gift
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Right??? @Suzses..... All of your gifts have been Rec'd and favorited. (and some, stolen!! lol)
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They like the "New" Hans' Restaurant and Tavern so much that we went ahead and bulldozed the old one. The restaurant part has such a warm an cozy feeling along with live entertainment. The tavern area has plenty so keep sims happy while having a drink and also more live entertainment.
The spa is a sim magnet!! My sim had to wait for a massage table and then the saunas were full!
Gift 4 is now up above.
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Some links that helped me a lot:
Missing Store Stencils / Free Kiddy Stuff / Daily Deals / Daily Deals Spreadsheets / The Gifting Directory
I love the Asper Family!! The way you wove their background story......... especially with Hans' "lack of hair". What can I say?? Awesome!! Rec'd and favorited.
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I must say that Hidden Springs has experienced a population boom this last week!
How could you do this and leave me hanging???
"(2) There's a little secret in the meaning of Marit's name."
You have some explaining to do!!!
These gifts are all beautiful, I downloaded the spa/gym as soon as I saw it, looks great in game.