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Sims 4 - Condiments (functional/decorative)

I needed a Maggi bottle for Sims 3 and look where it ends... (it's actually far to be ended! ;D)
You'll find here a large collection of condiments for your grocery stores and your Sims kitchens. I've also upgraded few older items that could be used as condiments, like the chili sauce from my restaurant set, or the mayonnaise tube from the 2021-06-10 01:02:23 +0000 UTC View Post

Sims 3 - Condiments

It all started because my Sim Bernadette needed a Maggi bottle... Then, it exploded into a giant wave of CC!
More grocery stuff are coming! CC Hoarders, you can request specific stuff, if you want! :)

Including:

• ATS3_object_grocery_herbs.sims3pack 
• ATS3_object_grocery_maggi.sims3pack 
• ATS3_object_grocery_mustard.sims3pack 
• ATS3_obj...
  2021-06-10 01:01:50 +0000 UTC View Post

What to expect this month...

First of all, I'm sorry to have been a bit absent these last days, I had an "emergency situation"  to handle in real life that took all my time. It's calming down, though it's not solved yet, but at least, I have some time again!

I'm in the process of making LOTS of grocery items, and with the help of the fabulous SrslySims, these items can be used for cooking, thanks to the great 2021-06-08 11:49:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Sims 4 - This & That

Various things to complete sets or to fulfill tiny requests...

- You've been a few at wishing my McDonald's kitchen looked like the one you knew... Am I getting closer with this version? ;D  

- You asked for a toothbrush to complete the Dental care, plus I had promised Dani a toothpaste for sensitive teeth. Here you go!  

- Someone asked me for these boxers as floor decor; I had to make a simlish version of these too because they were cool!  

- Someone a...

Sims 3 - This & That

Various things to complete sets or to fulfill tiny requests...

- You've been a few at wishing my McDonald's kitchen looked like the one you knew... Am I getting closer with this version? ;D

- You asked for a toothbrush to complete the Dental care, plus I had promised Dani a toothpaste for sensitive teeth. Here you go!

- Someone asked me for these boxers as floor decor; I had to make a simlish version of these too because they were cool!

- Someone asked for storm cel...

Sims 4 - Uglify your towns

If you want to add few broken benches or street lights to your town, if you want to have some never-ended construction sites, or just few cigarette ends and masks to "decorate" your sidewalks, this set is for you!

Including:

• ATS4_object_uglifyyourtown_bench.package
• ATS4_object_uglifyyourtown_cigaretteend.package  
• ATS4_object_uglifyyourtown_cigaretteends.package    
• ATS4_object_uglifyyourtown_concretebench.package   &n...
  2021-05-21 14:06:26 +0000 UTC View Post

Sims 3 - Uglify your towns

If you want to add few broken benches or street lights to your town, if you want to have some never-ended construction sites, or just few cigarette ends and masks to "decorate" your sidewalks, this set is for you!

Including:

• ATS3_object_uglifyyourtown_bench.sims3pack   
• ATS3_object_uglifyyourtown_cigaretteend.sims3pack     
• ATS3_object_uglifyyourtown_cigaretteends.sims3pack     
• ATS3_object_uglifyyo...
  2021-05-21 14:05:53 +0000 UTC View Post

Sims 4 - Sandy's garden

There's two places in my garden that I specially enjoy and I wanted to recreate them in one of my Sims 3 families' garden, so of course, I had to redo it for Sims 4 as well, though I'm not a big fan of how the plants can look outdoors in Sims 4. Too heavy shadows for me... Anyway, as I mixed up my two favorite places into one, it doesn't look like home, but... 

Yes, that old rattan armchair that you already saw in an Advent calendar has always been very uncomfortable, curving your ...

Sims 3 - Sandy's garden

There's two places in my garden that I specially enjoy and I wanted to recreate them in the Desfranges' garden, one of my Sims 3 families. As I mixed up my two favorite places into one, it doesn't look like home, but...
Yes, that old rattan armchair that you already saw in an Advent calendar has always been very uncomfortable, curving your neck, killing the cervicals, it's also wonky, so it's been banned from home. But it lives its best life as winter jasmin holder, set on a pallet to avoi...

Sims 4 - Healthcare Redux

Decorating your Sims houses with medication isn't enough? You want to see your Simmies getting sick? Daww.... OK! Dani (adeepindigo) made the best health (or illness!) mod that you can imagine. Yes, your Sims can get sick and get healed thanks to medication, but they can also reduce the chances of getting sick with preventive care, like vitamins.

As usual, I'll let Dani explaining you 2021-05-13 13:02:24 +0000 UTC View Post

Grocery!

It could be an upcoming update if it's something you need (I know that at least one of you will say "YES!!!"). Don't hesitate to vote "no" if your Sims kitchen is already over cluttered with grocery items and that you don't need anything for a grocery store neither.
BUT if you still miss few grocery items for your kitchen or store, tell me what you need in the comments! (I've considered working on another grocery set when I realized I had no Maggi's bottle for a Sim of mine... :D)
As al...

Gardening?

The next update is more an invitation to my favorite place in our RL garden than an update about gardening. It's not about THE garden with its vegetable, but more about wild plants. As gardening won my previous poll, I'm afraid to disappoint the "real garden" fans, so this poll should help me to determine if you want another gardening set, and if so, please, tell me what you would need, and I'll see if it's something I can do!
Comments are all open to suggestions (and as usual, links to p...

Suggestions - Uglify your town

One of the coming sets will be stuff to "uglify" a town, with broken stuff, dirty stuff, but also weird city stuff. I've already started working on this and I have lots of ideas (Paris can sadly be a great source of inspiration! :D), but I'd like to know, to *see* with pictures, if you have any suggestion for this theme, or something you would really like to see in this set (that might come into two parts if it gets something big..)
So, I'm all yours! Don't hesitate to post links of pictur...

Sims 4 - Medication

Aw, if we could only need medication to decorate our bathrooms, wouldn't it be nice?
So, here's a collection of medicine: paracetamol, cough syrup, aspirin, eczema lotions... These ones are purely decorative, but, in few days, you'll get also functional versions with adeepindigo's health mode. The functional versions can't be bought from BuyCatalog, that's why you might need decorative version for your homes.

Including:

• ATS4_object_health_deco_advil.package
• ATS4...
  2021-05-07 11:27:11 +0000 UTC View Post

Sims 3 - Medication

For your hypocondriac Sims, here's a large collection of medicine, from Paracetamol to Ventoline, cough syrups, vitamins... If, by any chance, you know some of my Simmies, Marie-Constance has now always a Ventoline on her bed side to calm down her panic attacks. Plus sleeping pills.
I've added these medications to the "ATS3 Medicine" collection, so it will be listed with my medical clutter, because I thought it was pertinent than starting another collection.

Including:

• A...
  2021-05-07 11:17:33 +0000 UTC View Post

Sims 4 - McDonald's add-ons

First of all, I'm very sorry to be so late for the udpate. I noticed issues at the last minute (mostly for Sims 3 but ALSO in Sims 4!), and it took me the whole day to fix the problem. Doh!

Anyway!

Here's a kitchen for our McDonald's restaurant, with a grill (deco and as bbq), a deep fryer (deco), a cooking station requiring Dine Out.
I've also remade the host station with the computer further on the counter, so hosts don't send their hand through the screen...
I needed a wa...

Sims 3 - McDonald's add-ons

First of all, I'm very sorry to be so late for the udpate. I noticed issues at the last minute, and it took me the whole day to fix the problem. Doh!

Anyway!

Here's a kitchen for our McDonald's restaurant, with a functional grill, a deep fryer that will require my invisible counter and EA Store deep fryer, a cooking station working like Bistro set. Of course, if you don't want to see customers of your McDonald's cooking their own hamburger on the grill, you might have to turn it a...

"Today's" update & Patreon question

I'm having troubles with the update I had planned to upload today, and I'm afraid I'll only be able to upload it tomorrow. I wouldn't be too worried about a tiny delay if we weren't the 30th of April. I'm still not sure about how Patreon works with tiers: is it a problem for you if I upload it the 1st of May instead of the 30th of April? Do you lose the access to Patreon the 1st of a new month? At your midnight? On US time? I still haven't been able to figure.
If so, I'll do my best to upl...

Poll - What update for the 15th of May?

Next friday (the 30th) will come the McDonald's kitchen, then, I'll have another (very interesting and healthy!) udpate with adeepindigo... Then... you decide!
I'd want to add more McDonald's recipes; it's also been a long time since I want to make stuff to "uglyfy" a town with broken or dirty stuff, flickering lights, and I'd also like to make a garden related set, though mostly decorative. I'm pretty sure to make the three sets at some point, but I don't know by what starting...

2021-04-23 13:44:34 +0000 UTC View Post

Sims 4 - McDonald's food - improved & decorative

At some point, EA removes the possibility to buy ready-made food on restaurant lots, so I remade all my food as decor as well, so you can decorate your restaurants with, filling the displays, making the not used tables more living with some papers... All the foods come in filled & empty versions, in simlish and english.

I also remade all my edible food. So, you can't buy it from the Buy catalog anymore, but it's still compatible with the Custom Food and Custom Drinks mods (warning,...

Sims 3 - Sims 4 to 3 Bust the dust

Nothing like a vacuum to decorate a room, huh? ;D
Here's a conversion for Sims 3 of the Sims 4 vacuums, recolorable, as usual.

Including:

• ATS3_collection_other_bustthedust_sims4to3.package      
• ATS3_object_sims4to3_bustthedust_handvacuum_expensive.sims3pack                         
• ATS3_object_sims4to3_bustthed...
  2021-04-23 11:59:03 +0000 UTC View Post

Suggestions for...McDonald's

I'm currenly making decorative versions of my McDonald's food as EA now* prevents us from buying pre-made food from the Buy Catalog in restaurant lots. I took this opportunity to improve few things. And you begin to know me, right... It quickly gave me ideas, and I now want to complete the set by a McDonald's kitchen, something I had promised myself to do and then... forgot because I've been sidetracked by other zillions of projects! :D
I listed what I needed for my kitchen: grill, deep fr...

Sims 4 - Bunk Beds

I was a bit excited when I got this request from a Patreon: " will you update your bunk bed for the new bunk beds coming with the patch?". Yes! Bunk beds!!! Tiny houses, kid bedrooms, all my favorites!!!

And then, what a disappointement to see EA made their bunk beds useless...
Thankfully, Lotharihoe enabled the slots EA had made to put furniture under the beds (otherwise, wh...

Sims 3 - 4to3 & 2to3 Hot Tubs

They have been requested a loooong time ago, and they're finally here: the conversions of the "not-sunken" hot tubs, for Sims 3!
They're completely functional BUT the animation to get in is of course very weird, as it's still the one for sunken hot tubs. Once the Sims are in, everything is fine though, and they're fully recolorable.
In the hot tubs converted from Sims 2, Sims don't use the corners to sit, as in Sims 2, because it would be then impossible to cuddle, so I kept the Sims 3 ...

Sims 4 - Dental care (objects + mod) - Objects updated the 04/22

More clutter for your bathroom? Well, if you want, but not only! Because these objects have been made to work with the fabulous mod of the non less fabulous Dani (I recommand her Patreon!), Dental care!
Bad breath, cavities, braces, dentist appointment.... all those fun stuff can now happen to our Simmies as well, poor creatures! Dani made such a big mod here, that I'll let her explaining all the new functionalitie...

Sims 3 - Dental care

OK, our poor Sims 3 don't have all the cool mods Sims 4 can have, but still, they deserve to have all the possible dental care to decorate their bathroom! :D

Including:

• ATS3_object_dentalcare_breathfreshenerspray.sims3pack          
• ATS3_object_dentalcare_breathmints.sims3pack      
• ATS3_object_dentalcare_mouthwashing_eludril.sims3pack          ...
  2021-04-10 08:52:00 +0000 UTC View Post

Sims 4 - Fixed chairs & doors (BIG file)

I know some of you won't be surprised: EA didn't fix the mess their latest patch caused to chairs, but Sims4Studio did!
I've updated all my chairs (62? How could have I done 62 chairs?! I feel like in a video of LGR where he was always laughing at EA new chairs in any stuff pack! :D).

Note from Sims 4 Studio:

Added a temporary batch fix for the chair/barstool issue from the  March 2021 patch. NOTE: This will remove all custom chairs from saved  ga...

2021-04-08 11:07:23 +0000 UTC View Post