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1830s wedding/ball gown

Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays!

Here's a little unexpected (even for me ^^) festive gift for you all :). I looked at the inspo photo and suddenly felt like that dress could be very easily done if I altered my 1830 mourning dress here and there - and I was right! From funerals through balls to weddings, your 1830s sims shall be prepared for all the most important life events now.

Comes in 25 swatches:

2020-12-23 17:14:31 +0000 UTC View Post

1850's 'Maggie' skirt recoloured in Sokea's plaids

Hi everyone!

Every time after publishing something I think 'ok, that's enough Sims for this month', and yet I can't stop making new stuff ^^.

It's a simple recolour of my yesterday's Maggie skirt. As mentioned, the skirt should be recolours-friendly, but that applies rather to floral than geometrical patterns - so I thought it wouldn't hurt if I made some new swatches directly in Blender. I might switch...

1850s 'Maggie' skirt

Happy belated birthday @simstomaggie!!!

So! I know I said I probably won't make any 1850s/1860s pieces, but yesterday I learned that my friend and fellow simmer Maggie just had her birthday, so I spontaneously decided to finally make her a mid-Victorian skirt for which she'd been asking me for ages. As expected, it was a bit of a nightmare as nothing wanted to work properly (even textures, are you kidding me?!), but eventually I won :P. I went only for 1850s this time, ...

Victorian robes for teeny tots

Hi everyone!

This outfit was supposed to be a baby. Yep, you read that correctly. The queen of medieval conversions @simverses once figured out how one could replace the in-game baby mesh with a new one and asked me if I could make some clothes for it. And so I did - but when our Victorian baby was about to be shared, Nifty Knitting happened and completely changed the way the game handles babies. I recalled those old meshes yesterday and thought... It doesn't look like we're getting a b...

4000+ followers gift: 1890s wedding gowns

Hello everyone, I'm finally back! Well, sort of.

Today I bring you something special: two 1890s wedding gowns, based on designs from, respectively, 1890 and 1894. Originally it was supposed to be a set of three dresses, but with everything going on in my life right now I can't see myself finishing dress no. 3 in any foreseeable future - and I really wanted this gift to be out this month/year, so I decided to release at least the two gowns which are ready. It got so late that now you can...

(Not so) short announcement

Hello everyone,

I've been sharing some news regarding my health and its influence on all my TS4-related activities on tumblr in the past weeks, but I completely forgot that some of you might be following me only here and that info might not reach you unless I write a post on patreon as well. So sorry! If that really was the case, here's a short explanation of why I suddenly turned silent - and a little overview of what you can expect in the future:

I've been fighting with some pro...

1830 mourning dress (Simblreen 2020 treat #2)

Hi everyone!

Here comes my second Simblreen treat and at the same time my first 1830s creation: an 1830 mourning dress. Yes, I know that the inspo picture clearly calls it a ‘walking dress‘, but the one I found especially for mourning looks almost exactly the same - and I decided to make this one just because I found it prettier... And less troublesome. I’m super glad that after all I managed to finish it on time!

Comes in 5 mourning or half-mourning swatches and one white-r...

Slavic Balvans (Simblreen 2020 treat #1)

Hello everyone!

It's finally the time to share publicly the first of my Simblreen treats.

It’s a small collection of statues of different Slavic (= pagan) deities. All of the meshes come from Sketchfab: 4 were made by a user named Iliadus and one (Veles) by 3dhdscan. I lowered the polycount to make them all TS4-friendly, to ca. 10K. It’s still not little, but the best I could do without bigger loss of quality - and as usually you would probabl...

1841 ball gown

Some time ago (two weeks? Three? Is time even real?) I received an ask if I could make an 1840s ball gown - and as I'm slowly but steadily falling in love with this decade (so little crazy deco! Such simple patterns!), I decided to really do it. Yes, it's the same skirt again, I warned you :P. Now that I see it right next to the inspo picture, I probably should've made it a bit fuller... Oh well, too late - we have to live with what we've got ;).

Comes in 26 swatches, this time only in ...

Fixing arms' position (tutorial)

WARNING: This mini-tutorial is to be considered experimental. In contrary to my main tutorial series, in this case I don’t understand the bigger picture and all the connections between different options. Still, I think it’s worth writing, as when I was struggling with it myself I found close to zero information on how to solve the problem on the net - in the best case some small mentions which might have put me on the right track (and a couple which put me on a completely...

1843 casual day dress

Hi everyone!

I found a cute design of another 1840s dress (accidentally also from 1843) and thought it looks so simple that it should be easy to squeeze it somewhere in between other projects. Some fighting was needed after all, so it wasn't as much of a 'small side project' as I had anticipated, but anyway - it's done. This time with all levels of detail properly checked from the start ;).

(Yes, that's the same skirt, and why not? It's a pretty good skirt :P. If I make any more 1...

Red Slavic Wooden Beads revamped

Good evening everyone!

Here comes a remade version of the Slavic red beads which I originally published over a year ago. I adjusted the placement of the beads, so that they wouldn't clip with my Cuiavian winter outfit anymore, properly weight painted the 'Triple' and 'Lush' versions (I didn't like it moving stiffly with the neck, as it did till now) and changed the texture to something less shiny and saturated. In my opinion it's a big improvement, but I decided not to delete / replace ...

HUGE cc update

Hello everyone!

As mentioned a couple of days ago, I bulk-updated my cc for adult female sims. I mean everything you can see when you go to my downloads page and choose ‘adult female’ on the left. Yes, everything. Hats and accessories too. I added update notes to all the pieces, so you can check for each of them individually what has been changed. Here’s a g...

Bavarian and Thuringian Folk outfits for Women

Hello everyone!

Most of you probably don't know it, but today Germany celebrates a national holiday, commemorating the fact that on 03.10.1990, after decades of split into East and West, it once again became one country. And so I thought: when could be a better time to finally make that dirndl my fellow German and Austrian historical simmers keep asking me for? And why make only a dirndl, a typically Bavarian piece? Why not be overambitious and spend 1,5 weeks on the project? Let's make...

October 2020 roadmap

Hi everyone!

September is slowly coming to an end and probably you've realised that it wasn't my most productive month ever. The main reason for this is that I tried to concentrate on writing my tutorial, and while I'd say I was successful in it - published 3 new parts! - it took lots of my time and energy, not leaving much for any cc making. Another reason is that 2 projects I was most excited about turned out to be perfect ideas for Simblreen - so I decided to put them on hold for the...

Early Medieval Be(a)rserker Hat / Headpiece

04.10.2020 edit: updated with new CAS placement

Let me explain ^^.

I've been thinking lately of starting some kind of 'Crusader Kings controls my Sims' save and even made some preparations for this: I hoarded tons of medieval CC, built some stuff and played CK2 while taking tons of screenshots any time anything important happened. So, today, while looking through those screenshots, I noticed in one of them a certain chief wearing... Well, basically wearing a bear ...

Baltic paintings collection (1890-1918)

Hi everyone!

A couple of days ago I watched a cool documentary about late XIX / early XX century painters from modern day Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, and immediately thought it'd be great to have all those beautiful pictures in The Sims. It took me some time (recolouring is easy, but sooooo booooring!), but they are finally here, ready for you to download!

I used works by the following artists: Janis Rozentāls, Johans Valters, Vilhelms Purvītis, Jūlijs Feders, Rūdolfs Pērl...

1843 AF day dress

03.10.2020 edit: updated with new CAS placement

02.09.2020 edit: It turned out the dress had some nasty problems with lower LODs, which should be fixed now. Please redownload! Hopefully now it'll look fine from any distance :)

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Hi everyone,

It's been some time! I'm sorry for that long silence - first we got hit by a heatwave, then my PC stopped working, and then, when I finally could work on this dress, it turned out to be an absolu...

1840s dress for toddlers

Hi everyone!

Lately I was working a bit on my decades challenge - more specifically, on my og sims and their background. I created extensive family trees for both of them, invented a whole bunch of new characters and in general was proceeding really well, but when I wanted to finally make those ancestors in game... I realised half of them have nothing to wear. And I quickly understood that if I really want them to look their part, I'll have to fill the CC gap myself. So - the impossible...

1893 aesthetic dress

03.10.2020 edit: fixed a problem of mesh getting spiky when watching a sim walk from a distance. Please redownload!

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Hello everyone!

Today I bring you something I've been planning on making for ages: an artistic / aesthetic / reform(ish) dress for your sims. It's not a full blown reform gown - those became the thing only a couple of years later - but it definitely is influenced by the whole dress reform movement. In case you've never heard of it ...

1893 outfit + hat for boys

Hi everyone!

I felt like creating more day dresses for my sim ladies and somehow ended up making an outfit for boys. Don't ask. I blame it all on that vaguely Chinese hat - I've already seen something very similar once and almost made it back then, so when I spotted it in yet another fashion plate I knew I won't be able to keep running away from it for much longer. And - I like how casual this outfit is. I th...

1894 coats for toddler boys (conversion)

Vintage Winterwear Collection pt. 16

Hi everyone!

I got a bit bored with all the swimsuits (plus all of a sudden I feel a strong need to proceed with my save, and it's still winter there...), so I decided to finally convert two of my winter coats for boys into coats for toddlers. Come in the same swatches as the originals: you can check them HERE and 2020-07-15 11:10:17 +0000 UTC View Post

1884 bathing suit for girls

Vintage Summer collection pt. 4

Hi everyone!

Remember my last piece? I converted it for children and edited a bit, so that it'd be more accurate. It seems that bathing suits for children always had shorter sleeves than the ones for adults: when adults wore long sleeves, children wore short, when adults wore short sleeves, children wore no sleeves at all. Hence the edit....

1884 bathing suit for women

03.10.2020 edit: Fixed a problem with spikes appearing when zooming out. Please redownload!  

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Vintage Summer collection pt. 3

Hi everyone!

Yet another bathing suit, from yet another decade. Surprisingly, even though it comes from mid-1880s, it doesn't really have a bustle. Just an average, soft skirt. Which makes it more universal - could probably work for 1890s as well, at least for more self-conscious ladies, who don't ...

1858 bathing suit for women

03.10.2020 edit: Fixed a problem with spikes appearing if you zoomed out (looking extra nasty while sitting). Please redownload! 

Vintage Summer collection pt. 2

Hi everyone!

It finally happened: I left 1890s for once and made a piece from another decade! You can thank Sims to Maggie ;). It was one of the most difficult pieces I ever attempted, mostly because of my...

1893 bathing suit for women

03.10.2020 edit: updated with new CAS placement and some small changes to the mesh, just in case

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Vintage Summer Collection pt. 1

Hello everyone!

Now that it's almost July, I have a good excuse to start yet another collection - this time a summery one! The Vintage Summer Collection will consist of vintage swimsuits (or, should I say, bathing suits), but also - hopefully - of some hot weather wear. I mean, how many s...

Cuiavian male outfit converted for boys

Hi everyone!

And another folk piece - this time my AM outfit converted for boys. Converted and improved: the textures look way less cartoonish, there's zero clipping and the scarf, in contrary to the adult version, does not become a hot mess when the sim sits down. Looks like now I'll have to remake the AM version as well...

Comes in 6 swatches - same as original, but better ;)

2020-06-29 11:54:39 +0000 UTC View Post

Cuiavian winter / married woman outfit humblified

02.10.2020 edit: improved lod3 of the outfit so that the pinkie wouldn't explode and updated with new CAS placement. Please redownload!

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Vintage Winterwear Collection pt. 15

Hi everyone!

Just a quick edit of yesterday's outfit. A simpler version, without the collar and the apron, for more casual use.

Comes in 22 swatches:

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  2020-06-28 14:34:44 +0000 UTC View Post

Cuiavian winter / married woman outfit

02.10.2020 edit: improved lod3 of the outfit so that the pinkie wouldn't explode and updated with new CAS placement. Please redownload!

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Vintage Winterwear Collection pt. 14, kind of

Hi everyone!

Now that the skirt looks like it should, I could finally reuse it and make another Cuiavian outfit for women. If I understand correctly (as all my knowledge comes from the Internet, I've never even seen one live), it was obligatory for marr...

1890s coats converted for toddler girls

 Vintage Winterwear Collection pt. 13

Hi everyone!

I finally dared to venture into the dangerous territory of toddler conversions. Here come both of my coats for girls, converted for toddler girls. Same swatches as the original pieces - you can check them HERE and HERE.

It's my first toddler conver...