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Sims 3 - Bree-KEA Kitchen - Add-ons for IKEA kitchen

You'll find here some objects for your kitchen: a toaster, a juicer and a cookie jar, all based on Arsil's Food Maker. You'll also find a decorative dutch oven, a tablet to watch videos while your Sim is cooking, and a family board, on which you can stick all my Pinboard decors. I offer...

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Family board customization

If you want, I can make family boards with your Sims family name.
Ask me by PM or in the comments, and please precise me:
- the number(s) of the board(s) you want me to customize
- the family name(s) - #4 requires also 4 first names
- simlish or english
- what kind of fonts you want (handwritten....)
- Sims 3 or Sims 4

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Sims 4 - Bree-KEA kitchen #1 - IKEA counters *updated*

Designing two kitchens, with different clutter but with a rather similar base (though a bit different too, just like when you choose the handles of your kitchen counters in a shop) is the idea behind the Bree-KEA kitchen, also to satisfy two teams of Patreons: the pro-Bree van der Kamp and the pro-IKEA! :)  Today, I'll start with IKEA counters (and islands and cabinets). Bree's design will come after, then two different sets of clutter.

(Hopefully, I won't have made any mistake...

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Sims 3 - Bree-KEA kitchen #1 - IKEA counters

Designing two kitchens, with different clutter but with a rather similar base (though a bit different too, just like when you choose the handles of your kitchen counters in a shop) is the idea behind the Bree-KEA kitchen, also to satisfy two teams of Patreons: the pro-Bree van der Kamp and the pro-IKEA! :)

Today, I'll start with IKEA counters (and islands and cabinets). Bree's design will come after, then two different sets of clutter.

(Hopefully, I won't have made any mistak...

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Suggestions for... Kitchen clutter

I have already a list made for clutter I want for the Bree-kea kitchen, but maybe there's some specific things you want too, so it's the moment to ask! :)
It can be modern or classic, as there will be both styles.
Again, I won't be able to make everything you request, but I'll do my best!
Also, there might be some ideas that I'll keep for the Advent calendar, or future other projects, so don't be disappointed if your suggestion doesn't come to reality yet! :)

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November Projects

November will be a kitchen month!
When I asked CC Hoarders to post pictures of rooms they'd like to have in game, some wanted a Bree van der Kamp's kitchen while some others were more into an IKEA kitchen, and I thought it would be fun to make a base (counters) rather similar to both, but with different clutter for each kitchen, a bit like when you choose the door handle of your kitchen furniture.
So, expect:
- modern counters, islands & cabinets
- a more classic version of th...

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Suggestions for... Toys

Many of you asked for more toys for the Advent calendar. I hear you! :)
But do you have more precise requests? What would you like to offer to your Sims kids, specifically? You can post links to pictures, if you want.
Once again, I don't promise I'll make all the requests, I have already "Advent calendar spots" taken by no-toys objects, plus it can also give me ideas for later updates! :)

(Suggestions open to all because for the Advent calendar!)

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Sims 4 - Pet balls through the ages

A request for the Advent calendar reactivated a very old project of mine (I wanted to do that for Sims 2!): making an object through the ages. I'm starting easy with pet balls. Your pets will be able to play with a pebble, a small leather bag, a carved wood ball, a pike plastic ball and sci-fi balls, with lights.

Including:

  • ATS4_object_throughtheages_pettoy_leatherball_PETS.package                &nbs...

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Sims 3 - Pet balls through the ages

A request for the Advent calendar reactivated a very old project of mine (I wanted to do that for Sims 2!): making an object through the ages.
I'm starting easy with pet balls. Your pets will be able to play with a pebble, a small leather bag, a carved wood ball, a pike plastic ball and sci-fi balls, with lights, plus a stick.

Including:

  • ATS3_object_throughtheages_pettoy_leatherball_PETS.sims3pack 
  • ATS3_object_throughtheages_pettoy_pikeball_PETS.sims3pack &n...

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Sims 4 - Medical clutter

You asked for it, here's some medical clutter, with lots of (simlish) medical posters! :) Most "tools" exist in digital and non-digital versions to satisfy my RL desire to not put batteries in everything that can exist without! :D

I've also converted to Sims 4 the two clinical carreer rewards from Sims 2; both are purely decorative (well, one is a light, the other is a mirror) as I haven't found an interesting base to use in Sims 4. Sims can still be relooked from the mirror/cosmetic st...

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Sims 3 - Medical clutter

You asked for it, here's some medical clutter, with lots of (simlish) medical posters! :)
Most "tools" exist in digital and non-digital versions to satisfy my RL desire to not put batteries in everything that can exist without! :D

Still on your requests but not on the picture, I've converted to Sims 3 the two clinical carreer rewards from Sims 2; the surgery station is purely decorative (works as light, actually) and the cosmetic surgery station works like a stylist station (so it re...

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Sims 4 Fix - Windows for the Tiny House

You might know that already, but I have to confess that I'm AWFULLY absent-minded.
When I had read about the Star Wars patch breaking custom windows & doors, I had thought "wow, for once, I'm not concerned! I've only done recolors of these!"
And tonight, someone reminded me that I had actually two custom meshes in the Tiny House set that needed to be fixed. It's now done, please, apologize me for the time it took me to realize! (my broken computer didn't help neither, I play often w...

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Sims 4 - Halloween Clutter

Yes, yes, an Halloween update from me, it's not so usual, huh? Most of the ideas come from you, so you deserve a big thank you!

What we have here? MUGS! A witch's cauldron, pumpkin and sugar skull (with Sims 4 textures) Decorative and as hot drinks. There's also little sculptures that can be used as toys: a cute Frankenstein, a skeleton and a knitted cat. Last, two toys for pets: a candy corn chew toy, and an eye ball (yeah, creepy...)

Including:

  • ATS4_object_halloweenc...

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Sims 3 - Halloween Clutter

Yes, yes, an Halloween update from me, it's not so usual, huh? Most of the ideas come from you, so you deserve a big thank you!

What we have here? MUGS! A witch's cauldron, pumpkin and sugar skull (with Sims 4 textures) Decorative and as hot drinks.
There's also little sculptures that can be used as toys: a cute Frankenstein, a skeleton and a knitted cat (so black on the picture that it's hard to see! :D)
Last, two toys for pets: a candy corn chew toy, and an eye ball (yeah, creep...

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Sims 4 - Chairs for the chair boosters (important!)

It seems the slot added for the chair booster is a bit too much trouble. Sadly, there's no alternative way to install those.
BUT, instead of replacing chairs with chairs with a slot, I've remade them as different objects, allowing you to install a slotted chair only when you need one. All the slotted chairs have a "slotted-for-chairbooster" in their name, and have a specific tiny mark on their thumbnails, so they're re easy to differenciate from regular chairs in game.

I'm also upl...

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Sims 4 - TV Tray table, armchair & chair and other stuff...

New PC is finally home so I can finally launch the Sims 4 again, test my stuff and make previews! Yay! 

You'll find today:

- a grown-up version of the toddler TV tray table, that can be used by one Sim to eat a meal, as any regular dining chair
- a Sims 4 armchair redone as dining chair, so it can be used with the TV table, the matching sofa redone as dining-booth (and with matching colors. I've always wondered why EA didn't make the sofa and the armchair matching?!)
- ...

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Sims 3 - TV Tray table, chair & armchair, and other stuff

New PC is finally home so I can finally launch the Sims 3 again, test my stuff and make previews! Yay! (Actually, I only have been able to launch the Sims 3 yesterday evening, so I didn't take the time to make super previews!)

Anyway!

You'll find today:

- a grown-up version of the toddler TV tray table, that can be used by one Sim to eat a meal, as any regular dining chair
- a Sims 4 conversion of a basic armchair used as dining-chair, so it can be user with the TV tray t...

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Sims 4 - Hot Drinks & Water vending machines

Tiny update for your Sims offices: hot drinks & water fountain! The Hot Drinks comes with various recipes, like  coffee, tea, hot chocolate, etc... 

Including:

  • ATS4_object_vendingmachine_hotdrinks.package
  • ATS4_object_vendingmachine_waterfountain.package

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Sims 3 - Water fountain

A tiny update as my computer doesn't allow me to launch Sims 3 any more!
That water fountain makes more sense in the Sims 4, but here, it works like an Arsil's Food Generator. It comes with a water cup (and now I realize I have forgotten to update my NMGP file for the ones you use it! I'm going to do that today!)

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Halloween

Halloween is not my thing, it's not something I've ever celebrated, it's not my culture and I feel like EVERYTHING related to Halloween has been done a zillion of times.
This said, you're the bosses! ;D
If you really want me to make something for Halloween, tell me! (but you'll have also to tell me what you'd want in the comments because I'm totally short of original ideas* on the matter!)


So, shall I make something special for Halloween?

(* : I have ideas for ki...

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News about computer

New computer delivery is announced for next monday!
So, I still can't upload the update I wanted, but I'll try to upload the vending coffee machine update tomorrow instead! :)
Thanks for your patience & support! You're the best! <3

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Dying computer & October projects

I had planned an update for last Friday but an object still needed some adjustments. Sadly, for the whole past week, my computer didn't let me using any Sims game without crashing to reboot. I had hoped I could eventually make it working this week-end as it was much colder but nope, so I'm not able to upload in time the update I wanted, and I'm so very sorry for this! 

It's not really surprising to see my computer dying as it's 11 years old (it got a new system and a new graphic ca...

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Sims 4 - Toddler Food - furniture

Now that ours toddlers have new drinks and meals, here's new seats and new tables!

A cute tiny chalkboard table with school-like mini-chairs, the Mini Chair is now REALLY a mini chair, with a tray table, plus two chair boosters (well, even 3 as the cushion exists in EA size and 85% smaller). But warning, chair boosters require
1) a tiny mod to work on EA chairs,
2) that you redownload all my chairs to use with chair boosters (you'll find them all, 30, in a file below),
3) th...

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Sims 3 - Toddler Food - furniture

OK, our poor Sims 3 toddlers might not have anything new to eat or drink, but they do have new furniture to eat their old bowl! ;D

You'll find 2 kinds of chair boosters, 2 new mini-chairs, and 2 mini-tables, plus a splat mat.

Including:

  • ATS3_object_toddlerfood_chairbooster.sims3pack 
  • ATS3_object_toddlerfood_chalkboardtable.sims3pack
  • ATS3_object_toddlerfood_cushionchairbooster.sims3pack
  • ATS3_object_toddlerfood_minimearmch...

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Sims 4 - Toddler Drinks (updated 2022/04/28)

Time now to give our toddlers some new drinks! You'll find pouches, sippy cups (some matching with meal plates), and tiny bottles. All can be generated from the Bottle Warmer or bought directly from the Buy catalog, under Appliances/Misc, then your toddler can drink directly on floor. They can also be bought from the fridge, if you have the Custom Drinks Mod.

There's an option for CC Hoarders & CC Professional collectors who would like better 2020-09-09 14:23:09 +0000 UTC View Post

Sims 4 - Toddler drinks - Option: No buy catalog

Same options as for food: you'll find here the drinks for toddlers only available from the Bottle Warmer (and from fridge, with the Custom Drinks mod), no cluttering your Buy catalog.

Including:

  • ATS4_object_toddlerfood_bottle_fruit.package 
  • ATS4_object_toddlerfood_bottle_milk.package 
  • ATS4_object_toddlerfood_bottle_water.package 
  • ATS4_object_toddlerfood_bottlewarmer.package
  • ATS4_object_toddlerfood_cup_ikeabeaver.package
  • ...

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Sims 3 - Bottle warmer, pouches & swimming-suits

Still this terrible injustice preventing our little Sims 3 toddlers to have csutom drinks! Booooh! So, their pouches are only decorative. The bottle warmer works like an Arsil's food generator.
To bring something our toddlers can really use, I remade Sims 4 swimming-suits for Sims 3, because I thought we hadn't enough, had we? 

I hope you'll enjoy! (and next time, for the "toddler food furniture", you'll get exactly what Sims 4 players get! ;)

Including:

  • ATS3_o...

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Sims 4 - Toddler Food (updated 2022/04/28)

First part of the Toddler Food thema, with...food! :p
You'll find a baby-steamer generating 8 new recipes for toddlers (you'll need a high-chair, just like for food coming from a fridge), but you can also buy those meals directly from the Buy catalog and give food to your kiddies on ground. (Note that CC Hoarders have the option to download a no-buy-catalog version of these meals here).

Including:

    ...

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Sims 4 - Toddler Food - Option: No Buy catalog

 

When I asked you if you wanted to have the food & drinks in the Buy catalog, the "Yes" won, but no so clearly, so I thought I would give you, CC Hoarders, the option of not having the food showing up in the Buy catalog.
Obviously, there's no need to have both versions installed, otherwise, food will show up in the catalog! :)

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Sims 3 - Toddler steamer - deco food - winter outfit

As announced in the September project post, it seems impossible to make custom food for toddlers in Sims 3. Unlike other foods, the game considers them like social interactions, not like "real food".

So, I've made the toddler meal tray as deco only. You still get a baby-steamer working like an Arsil's food generator.
And as I was too disappointed for our Sims 3 youngest, I converted an EA Sims 4 outfit for them, with tiny warm boots and a cap. I might have anticipated winter a bit ...

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