Room Build: Office de Fuschia

Today, I bring you a new room build. OFFICE de FUSCHIA is a small home office/study in a clean modern style with pops of hot pink for a little saucy feminine allure!

Office de Fuschia

And, check out the speed-build of Office de Fuschia here:

New Room Build and Speed Build Video: Dreamy White Kitchen

With the Sims 4 we have a unique option to build our Sims’ homes one-room-at-a-time. Until recently, I hadn’t taken advantage of this fun building feature, and now I wish I hadn’t waited so long! Here is my first room build, Dreamy White Kitchen:

Dreamy White Kitchen

And, another first for me, I made a speed-build video!  Check out the speed-build of Dreamy White Kitchen here:

New Residential Lot: Shadestone Manor

SHADESTONE MANOR is a very large home in the French Provencial style, but with a bit of modernity inside. Shades of black, white, and grey support an occasional punch of color.  With plenty of room for a blossoming family, Shadestone Manor is sure to please your Sims!

Shadestone Manor

See the video feature of this grand home here: 

New Challenge Series: The Black Widow Challenge–Driven To Madness

Meet Scarlett Webb, a young woman who–as a child–suffered at her father’s cruel hands.  It didn’t help that her heart was broken (repeatedly) by high school beaus.  Her heart has become blackened, and she will stop at nothing to establish her dominance over the male gender!  Will she find fulfillment in her dark deeds?  Will this serial killer be discovered and exposed?  Find out in The Black Widow: Driven To Madness!

Watch the teaser:

Watch the series playlist:

New Challenge Series Begins: Hired Help!

Hey Blissful Simmers!

Beginning Monday, January 12, 2015, be sure to check out the NEW Sims 4 challenge series that I have with Simmer Caliente!

We are playing the Hired Help Challenge and competing to see whose Sim can rack up the most points.  This fun challenge should offer each of our Sims a chance to meet a lot of neighborhood Sims, while we acquire a ton of skills.  We’ve both gutted Willow Creek and Oasis Springs, and we are each playing Sim-versions of ourselves.  The objective is to build some initial skills, then hire out our Sim to various households in the world in order to successfully complete some very specific jobs.

For the original challenge, we thank MissChevus over on Mod the Sims!  You can find her rules here:  http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=538452

Simmer Caliente (Amanda) revised the original rules to suit our needs and to make the scoring more accessible–mainly for my benefit–as we are competing.  You can find her revisions here:  https://calientedama.wordpress.com/

Most importantly, GO WATCH the Hired Help Challenge series!

You can access my version of the series here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCiJdiv4ZMc&feature=youtu.be

You can access Simmer Caliente’s version of the series here:  https://www.youtube.com/user/SimmerCaliente

One last thing, I want to give a mention and a “thank you” to all the wonderful content creators out there in the world of Simming!  I downloaded many, many households and lots to make-over both of the Sims 4 base game worlds.  The following list contains all these talented Gallery creators and their creations:

LOTS
Ansett4Sims: Navefarne Vale
arielle47:  The Fighting Eel Bar
cbrock72: Harvester’s Cottage; Avalon; Copper Mirage
Chris2fer03: Morado Mediterraneo
codyr2391: Café Rouge
DippyDesigns: Hickory Lodge
DutchSimsMaster: Public Pool; Willow River; Family House
EpletViktor: Lord Simington Pub
FOLLYFOOT: Refurbished Factory; Luvamoca; Acogedora Vivienda; Little Read Apple Starter
Fuzzy_Potato_: White Oasis
idatoft: Laguna Park
Itcommistek: Orchard Hill
Jayocean: Steampunk Inc
jarkad: Isadora
JOL1990: Regal Manor; Archive Church; Café D’Amour
kaylyred: Sacred Grounds; Celestory
Larifari2009: Factory Living Extd; Old Tyme Residence
maayaniv: Cupcakes Shop
oSutiivu: Golden Desert
peacemaker_ic: Oakwood Plantation
PurpleKachina: Industrial Kachina
romagi1: Warehouse Conversion
RubyRed_1023: granny’s kitchen
ruthless_kk: Daisy Lane; Sherrie’s Suburban
sashraf1: Park Church
theFtip: Eco House
vallie74: Haus Malaga
yanti68: Interlude; Casa Grande

HOUSEHOLDS
amchristian: Whitfield
audrey54804: Reed; Caliente
EuphorialQueen: Gresham
oilbasedoleander: London
sashababy27: Larson
simnopsis: Einstein
SpiderMiner583: Dietzman
Williomuk: Perry

Welcome to SIMple Bliss!

Hey, Blissful Simmers!

Welcome to my blog focusing solely on the Sims 4!  The SIMple Bliss blog is a place to showcase my Sims 4 lot builds and Create-A-Sim households, as well as all of my Sims 4 YouTube series.

You may not know it, but on the Sims forums, I am known as KimSim1965, and under that same username I have had a long-standing Sims 3 blog called Kim’s Creative Outlet.

Since the Sims 4 released, I knew I would want to create a “sister site” that would focus on my Sims 4 creations.  So, I decided to create this site, (simply titled) SIMple Bliss!

If you are already a fan of my YouTube channel, that name is definitely familiar to you.  If not, then, by all means, check out my current informational video below…

WELCOME!!

New Series: The Secret Garden (challenge)

My Secret Garden challenge series has begun! Here are the guidelines for the challenge:

1. Create or download a garden lot (residential will be best). My secret garden lot is available on the Sims 4 Gallery.

Lot Traits: Gremlins, Filthy, Haunted (goal will be to change them to Gnomes, Fertile Soil, and any positive trait of your choosing). I placed it near a public fishing area; I recommend you do the same since fishing skill will be required eventually. The lot should be surrounded by fencing that is overgrown (using Move Objects On cheat) with vines and brush. Needs to have a small shed or greenhouse that houses a small, rustic bathroom and a mini-fridge. In a cellar or other temporarily inaccessible area, place a word-working/sculpting bench. I decorated my lot with a lot of dead-looking trees, and also shrubs, vines, etc… Boulders are blocking the entrance to the cellar. Over time your main character and his/her cohorts will accomplish tasks that allow them to replace these with healthy looking plants and/or cleaning up the overgrowth. On my lot I put the mine/grotto entrance object, a wishing well, small pool, monkey bars, and fountain. Everything is covered in “weeds” and mostly inaccessible to Sims at this time. You will also want to have a ghost on your lot. I did this by creating the Sim and using cheats to “kill” her.

2.  Create or download a large manor house. My version of Misselthwaite Manor (from the book) is available on the Sims 4 Gallery. Place your manor house and your secret garden lots in close proximity.

Each room should have some kind of usable object (even if it’s just a chair!). I did not put a lot of kids’ objects on this lot. The house is supposed to be very cold and austere, without much for children. Mary (main character) will need to visit every room and use one object in each room for one Sim-hour. Once she accomplishes this, she can then “discover” Colin’s room and meet him. (Goal will be to befriend him.) I set it up that Colin’s room is only accessible through the housekeeper’s room, and I locked the doors for everyone except Mrs. Medlock and Martha. Colin is “sick” and is not allowed to leave his room; these two women attend to his needs. Mary will have no knowledge of her cousin at first. I put Archibald’s room away from the others; he is reclusive and rarely interacts with the rest of the household.

3.  Create your characters. I based mine on the characters in the book The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, but this is not necessary.

Here are the characters in my series:  Mary Lennox (child, orphaned, your playable/controllable Sim); Martha Sowerby (teen, house servant); Colin Craven (child, Mary’s cousin); Dickon Sowerby (child, Martha’s brother); Mrs. Medlock (adult, housekeeper); Archibald Craven (YA or adult; Colin’s father/Mary’s uncle); Mrs. Sowerby (YA/adult, mother of Martha & Dickon); Mr. Weatherstaff (adult/elder, gardener); Lillias Craven (Ghost/YA, mother of Colin). I also made Mary’s parents and nanny, but they “died” and are not part of the gameplay. Misselthwaite Manor can have a butler if you’d like.

4.   Childhood/Phase ONE:

School: use a mod to keep them at home, or simply don’t send the children to school. Curfew: Mary and her friends cannot spend the night on the secret garden lot until she is a teen.

Make sure your Sims lifespan setting is on normal. Move your Sims into the lots. The gardener lives at the secret garden, along with the ghost of Colin’s mother (Lillas). The uncle, cousin, housekeeper, and house servant live in Misselthwaite Manor.  I also placed a small cottage nearby in which Martha’s mother and brother reside.

               Move your main character (Mary) into Misselthwaite Manor. She is the only character you may control for now. You will gain access to controlling Colin and Dickon once you complete the required tasks (below). Mary must complete the following set of tasks before she ages up to a teen:

• Mary’s uncle is reclusive and you must do your best to keep Mary from interacting with him until near the end of phase two.
• “Discover” (visit) the Secret Garden.
• Befriend Martha. Once they are friends, Mary can go with Martha to visit her mother and brother at their cottage.
• Befriend Dickon (Martha’s younger brother).
• “Explore” Misselthwaite Manor. Use an object in each room (except those that are “hidden”–locked–like Colin’s room, Mrs. Medlock’s room, Archibald’s room, storage cellar). Once Mary has done this, she can then “discover” (unlock) Colin’s room.
• Befriend Colin to free him from his room. You can now control this Sim, too. Mary, Dickon, and Colin now visit the secret garden and “untangle” the monkey bars there. (Mary, Dickon, and Colin can all visit the secret garden lot together whenever you’d like. You can also send Mary by herself as much as you want, but basically, they are a happy little trio and should interact regularly.)
• Mary can now “meet” and fully interact with her uncle.
• Play on the monkey bars in the secret garden. Mary must level up to motor skill 5.
• Mary the frog hunter: collect 6 different frogs (edited). Put the frogs on the secret garden lot. You can now change secret garden lot trait gremlins to gnomes. (I plan to actually decorate the lot with gnome statues at this point!) I have a firepit on the lot that has been covered in weeds. It can now be cleared and used by Mary and her friends.
• Go fishing and (edited) catch 10 different fish, and, then, you may clean out the secret garden’s water feature/pool and use it.

Once all of the above are completed, age up Mary and Dickon (ideally, Colin should be a bit younger than Mary and Dickon).

5. Teen Years/Phase TWO:

Mary and her friends can now spend the night on the secret garden lot if they choose to do so.

• Mary can now gather plants, seeds, cuttings…begin gardening! Dickon must be with her the first time she earns gardening skill, because he is “teaching” her this skill.
• Mary can travel to any area and gather items. If she goes to another world, she must not go alone, though.
• Consider forming a gardening club for the young people (Mary, Dickon, Colin), so that they can work together on the secret garden.
• Begin planting your collectibles in the secret garden as soon as possible.
• Colin: meet Mr. Weatherstaff, the gardener, (if he hasn’t already done so) and order him to help remove the boulders blocking access to the cellar beneath the shed.
• Mary can now use the sculpting bench and build handiness skill to level 3. Can now “repair” and clean up the shed to make it look nicer.
• All 3 young people must befriend the gardener. He helps them by removing remaining debris (rocks, shrubs, vines, weeds…but NOT the big “dead” trees just yet!) from the lot. Filthy lot trait can now be changed to fertile soil.
• Once you’ve grown and harvested from 5 different trees in the secret garden, you can “unlock” the wishing well. Only Mary can use it, and she can only use it once every other day.
• Mary must befriend the ghost of Lillias Craven (her aunt). Can now change the haunted lot trait to something positive or helpful (you decide).
• At this point, the young people can add other items to the lot as they can afford to do so. Selling produce and items from the lot can help pay for anything they want. The lot is small, so there will be a limit to this; however, Mary envisions a magical secret place for she and her friends, so let her create a spot full of whimsy and imagination!
• Once you have grown and harvested at least good quality of 5 vegetables, 5 flowers, 5 trees, and 5 herbs, AND the lot is cleaned up and looking nice, Mary and Dickon can now experience their first kiss with one another!  If/when the kiss is successful, remove the large “dead” trees and replace them with lush trees, particularly the “special” or portal trees in the game. Only Mary can use the portals to visit these special places, though. If Mary reaches level 10 handiness, she can visit the grotto.
• Once she reaches level 10 gardening skill, she (and Dickon) can age up to young adults.

6.  Young Adulthood/Phase THREE:

• You can now fully control Dickon. Have he and Mary get engaged.
• Mary must befriend her uncle in order to receive his blessing on her engagement to Dickon.
• Colin must become best friends with his father.
• Mary and Dickon get married in the Secret Garden and move there, making it their home. Alter the shed and cellar structures to make them a cute a little love nest! ❤

New Year 2018

Happy New Year, Blissful Simmers!

I knew it had been a while since I posted, but when I logged in today I was shocked to see that it has been over two years! Ouch.

Anyhoo… I want to begin 2018 by blowing the dust off this site and begin using it again. This time around, my goal is to make it a place to not only share what I’ve been doing in the Sims 4, but, more specifically, I want it to be a place for my followers to read the stories behind the YouTube videos.

If you’ve watched any of my series on YouTube, you know that I like to tell stories using the Sims 4. My Amazon Chronicles (more commonly known as the Amazon Challenge) have been the most expansive of my stories and I have been writing them for several years now. Beginning with the newest generation (generation eight), I will begin posting short written stories that correspond to the current video released. In other words, each time I release a new episode on YouTube, look here for a written synopsis of that episode.

This process will also help me in keeping these stories documented, as I have been trying to collect them all into a book or a series of books. This may be a pipe dream, but I at least want to give it a shot!

The first six months of 2018 are going to be challenging for me, so keeping up with this will be difficult. After that, though, my more of my free-time attention can be devoted to managing both my channel and my blog presence. In the meantime, my postings may be sparse, though!

For now, let me just wish you a very HAPPY 2018!

The Hired Help Challenge Coming Soon To YouTube

Thank you, Simmer Caliente, for getting us organized! Looking forward to starting this fun new series/challenge together. 🙂

calientedama

Hi so me and Kim (AKA SIMple Bliss On YouTube) are starting a collaboration challenge on our YouTube channel. It is the hired help challenge. We are going to make it a little friendly competition to see who can get the most points.

The Original Challenge Rules can be found here: http://modthesims.info/t/538452
SIMple Bliss: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTPhdjK2UyixRWZ5OQBxbXg
My Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/simmercaliente

We are doing it pretty similar but we have made small changes to the way we are going to play.
We are also going to make 4 families each for the challenge instead of using in game ones.

So I have typed it out the way we are going to play and added some stuff here and there to keep us on track:

Setup:
-Make a Young Adult Simself in CAS.
-Put them in a starter house  (Can be downloaded from the gallery)
and make sure to buy these objects:
a tv, a bonsai…

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Heading Into the Holidays!

Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas, Simmers!

I recently decided to take a couple of weeks off of my YouTube schedule.  I am still recording and uploading, but I’m just not following any kind of schedule.  My videos may be few right now, but after Thanksgiving things will return to a more consistent routine.

The reason for this?  I am taking a couple of my weekends to prepare for Christmas.  As of today, I have MOST of my decorations put up, and it is almost Thanksgiving!  I will spend the next couple of days now focused on the Thanksgiving “feast” I will making for my family.  After that, I should be close to getting back into my schedule.

The one LP I have been diligently trying to keep on schedule is the one that is most popular–the Amazon Challenge!  I am glad it is popular, though, because it is one of my personal favorites, and I thoroughly enjoy playing it!

Anyway, if you’d like more details about my “time-off” from my YouTube schedule, here’s the update video I uploaded a couple of weeks ago:

Happy Simming!  <>:-)