Omg wait I didn’t know you were the original, I was wondering why your posts had a similar vibe to that account. Love your work.

Hello nonny,

Thank you for the compliment ❤

Hi! 👋🏻 I have a question and am hoping that you could help me. I believe I saw back during Christmas that you posted a pic of a dining room table set up with this candle holder (could’ve been someone else I follow a lot of people 😅) I’ve googled and found that it was Hel Studio who made it however I can’t find a link for this candle holder. So I’m hoping that you might be able to help and/or one of your amazing followers can point me to the correct direction. TIA.

Hello @kenziesprecher,

You are correct, I did post that table set up =)

This one is from the Salt Dinnerware 3D Model conversion set, but I checked the simfileshare folder that has a lot of Hel Studio files, and noticed that this set is missing.

I have uploaded it to my account here.

** All credit goes to Hel Studio. Just hosting the files since the creator left the community. (If you're Hel Studio, and see this and would like me to take it down, please message me and I will.) **

Hi, I love building in my game and only recently starting doing it within the past 8 months but for some reason I find them quite lacking, like for some reason I don’t understand layouts, idk they always seem awkward to me. What do you use as references and how can I improve? Also if you don’t mind how do you take such great photos? Taking screenshots in my game have never seemed that impactful like yours do even with my reshade preset.

Hello nonny,

Here comes a really long winded answer because I'm overly procedural and detail oriented, lol. To improve your understanding of how to design layouts I would recommend a combination of the following:

Before you build, figure out what architectural style you're going for, and then study some floorplans online to get a sense of how those homes are typically laid out. Here is a website that has thousands of floorplans for homes of many different sizes and architectural styles that you can familiarize yourself with.

Spend some time planning what rooms you know you want to include before you build. Decide if this home would suit an open concept, or a more traditional home layout when you are choosing which rooms need to be included.

Once you know how many rooms, then decide how large these need to be (I tend to think in terms of furniture placement). I always design my houses around the kitchen, living, and foyer/entrance space. These are the key areas that I enjoy decorating and are the focal points of the home, and once I have figured out the placement and footprint for these, the rest of the rooms come naturally. For example, it makes sense that a panty is located right next to the kitchen. It makes sense to put a formal dining area near the kitchen too, etc.

Always think about the way that rooms connect to each other in real life. Hallways. I was so terrible when I first started building at accepting that some of my floorplan is there just to connect sims to other areas of the home. Hallways are now some of my favorite things to make beautiful.

If you can, for fun, go to some open houses in your area. This is one of my favorite 'hobbies' - I'm lucky to live somewhere that has a yearly parade of homes from high-end luxury builders and I adore walking through and learning about the spaces they designed.

Practice makes progress. Don't be afraid to save your lot, name it version one, then start over and fix what isn't working. Saving an earlier version gets rid of the fear that you'll make things worse and not be able to get the original back! Regarding part II of your question: Reshade aside, I pay a lot of attention to building to capitalize in-game lighting situations because this gives shots that extra umph of atmosphere. Then, I use the in-game camera the same way that I would a real camera. Focusing on details that would catch my eye if I were there in person, and using tab mode and the w, e, s, d keys to 'walk through' builds in a more first person perspective. This will help you see different and more interesting compositions for your screenshots.

Hi, I don’t know if this is a wcif, but I love the textures of your plants in your game, the bushes look so realistic, are you using an override for it? Thank you!! Lovely work btw

Hello nonny, this is more of a resources question so I don't mind answering: I do use an override for EA plants, hedges, trees, etc. by @lady-moriel which you can find here.

Also, thank you =)

Wide Shots 📸

still very WIP and i haven't decided on a name for this one yet - it sits on either of the 40 x 40 lots in brindleton.

It's planting season over in Brindleton Bay 🌸

and the latest house that i'm working on mostly made possible by @sundays-sims giving me mad inspiration for the interiors with her upcoming set ♡

It's planting season over in Brindleton Bay 🌸

and the latest house that i'm working on mostly made possible by @sundays-sims giving me mad inspiration for the interiors with her upcoming set ♡

The Summer Cottage🍹

Hi pxl! I apologize if this has been previously asked, but what are your PC peripherals? I’d appreciate your two-cents before I blow my savings on a good setup :’)

Hello, I have but it was a really long time ago and I have since changed configurations so I don't mind answering again. I need to preface and stress that you absolutely do not need the set up that I have just for gaming or the sims. I'm running on a professional grade workstation for other reasons. (I also use Apple, and play on Bootcamp with a Windows 11 partition):

Mac Pro (2019)

8-Core Intel Xeon W-3223 3.50 GHz

Radeon Pro W6800X 32GB DDR6 VRAM

128GB DDR5 RAM

16TB SSD Internal Storage Across 3 PCI Slots

My advice for building or selecting a gaming PC is to invest as much as you can in graphics power (graphics card), and RAM and adequate cooling. These parts of your hardware will be more beneficial to a better gaming experience than getting a 12 core processor for example. Do not waste money on a system that you cannot upgrade the parts of in the future! - I would always, always go for a Desktop tower over a laptop 10000% of the time if you're looking for the best gaming experience. Also remember that you can always switch out your SSD drive with a bigger one, or add more as you go along, so don't worry too much about wasting $$$ on storage either. Here is a list of systems in various price ranges for 2024 (assuming you are in the US/UK).

Hopefully that helps, but also understand it's probably not the exact answer you were looking for because I'm a weird case user lol.

Sunlight V. Candlelight.

lool farfalla straight up copied a post of mine too when i was a smaller account… same hair, outfit, and caption pretty much then unfollowed me and stopped interacting with my account completely and hasn’t since 🤣

i'm sorry to hear that =( i'm sure that it didn't feel great for you... *though responding to and acknowledging your experience is probably going to result in an inbox full of hate knowing simblr🤷🏽‍♀️*

It really bothers me that FarfallaSims switched her “aesthetic” to a carbon copy of yours and is getting so many more likes, reblgs than you do. This has been your style for years and years. You deserve your flowers! 💐

i appreciate your sentiment, but i guess that's just the way it goes these days on simblr unfortunately. i'll take my flowers though ❤

Yet another house - apparently I am remaking Brindleton Bay again.

POV: Preparing the summer vacation rental🗝️

finally tackling the crystal kit patch *sighh* of course they had to go and change something in the core scripting... i have 250 script mods to replace </3

Hii sorry to bother you butyou mentioned your magnolia promede makeover a while back do you plan on releasing it? i’m just curious I know you said some thing about for rent pack being broken.

Hello, yes I do plan on releasing it. For rent had a bug that corrupted saves and then the crystal patch was abysmal in breaking other parts of CAS gameplay. I don’t have a definitive eta, though, I’m afraid.