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Family Pride V2

One for the first things I ever made for this game was a set of rainbow striped clothes for Pride Month. Even though my abilities have grown and changed, I was still using it in my game play. Naturally, when Infants were introduced, I wanted them to have matching clothes too. Unfortunately, when I put the new stuff in the game next to the old stuff, the old stuff didn't look very good anymore. So I went back and reworked the old textures to match and then went off the rails. Each item has ove...

Finished Object Dump

Here's a bunch of things that have been sitting mostly done for a while waiting to be posted. 

The Avonlea Pinafore Dress

This dress looks like something Anne of Green Gables would've worn when she was a young teen and still too young to wear her hair up and long dresses, but too old for dolls. 

• Requires Cottage Living
• Dark Romance Palette, 54 swatches
• T-E, listed under Apron 
• Not enabled for random

Mo...

2023-06-05 19:42:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Basic B Mani-Pedi

Someone on tumblr asked about getting the toe nails in my Glossy Taco colors and I wasn't interested until I started looking at the new square nails. So it's all the same colors as my Glossy Taco nails with the same custom spec map. 

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Don't steal

Don't reupload as a part of your sims

Please link to download in your look book

Please tag me if you use them, the creativity of this community is a treasure. 

3 Unlocked and Recolored Flowers from Cottage Living

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Cottage Living has the best plants and flowers locked away in the dystopian hellscape called the Live Edit Menu. I have taken the foxgloves, wild roses and daisies and converted them to garden plants available for simoleans in the build catalog. While I was at it, I looked up real cultivars of foxgloves and roses and recolored them as well as made black eyed susans, blanket flower, purple coneflower, correopsis and more. All swatches are pictured ab...

Terrain Paint Dump

It's really annoyed me that these were flooring and not terrain paint, so I converted them to be terrain paint. These are the flagstone flower paths from Cottage Living, the broken tiles from Jungle Adventures and the bubbly lava from Island Living. The floors are on the bottom and I swatched the paint above it as a patio and as a path.

Textures courtesy of EA, all I did was turn them into terrain paint. So if you use them in your build, please link people here and you can ta...

Seventies Dream Makeup Set

Be a disco queen, a hippy, an activist, or take the workplace by storm with this 5 piece makeup set featuring blush, contour, shimmery eyeshadow, shimmer  lip gloss, and colorful smoky eyeliner.

• disabled for random
• teen-elder, tagged fem
• custom thumbnails so you can find it in CAS
• thoroughly researched with colors literally ripped from the adverts, and blush scaled for light, medium, and dark complexions

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Swingin' Sixties Makeup

3 eye shadows, eye liner, painted lashes, blush, and lip gloss for your sim to perfect the mod look.

Set includes:

Blush- The blush during this time, when it was worn, was somewhat lower than the 50s or the 70s out on the side of the face.

• custom thumbnail
• 11 swatches, repeated at a light, medium, and dark tone
• available for t-e, feminine sims
• disallowed for random

Lip gloss- In discussing this se...

Fifties Fantasy Makeup

This full face set features a lipstick, blush, eyeliner, and eye shadow meant to reflect a mid-late 1950s look. The colors were taken from makeup ads and catalogs of the time, mainly Revlon and Avon cosmetics. 

The Sandra Blush is a warm blush applied to the outer cheekbone up to the temple to give a youthful lifted appearance. 

• 14  swatches
• available for T-E, all occults
• tagged feminine, not restricted by frame or gender 2022-03-06 20:19:15 +0000 UTC View Post

Forties Fabulous Makeup

Here is everything you need for your land girls, your Rosie the Riveters, and your service women! All four of my grandparents were of the generation that fought in World War Two and as I was working on this set I was thinking of the pictures of them as young people. My grandfathers smiling at the camera in their uniforms looking dapper, my grandmothers sending glamour shots to their husbands while they were away... I loved looking at those pictures.

The Details

2022-02-15 15:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Thirties Glamour Makeup

The 1930s is when the classic makeup look begins to develop. Makeup was used to create a soft rounded look to the face and to emphasize one's features. It was also used as a means of correcting one's deviations from the ideal beauty. Many of the companies in business at the time are still in business today so I was able to find ads from drugstore brands like Revlon and Maybelline, swatch cards from Elizabeth Arden and Shiseido, and even old Avon deadstock cosmetics. (Deadstock is product that...

Roaring Twenties Makeup

The whole kit and caboodle for your flappers! I made three different dramatic eye looks for dancing 'til dawn, two different lipsticks for kissing the night away at petting parties, and a bright rouge to let the world know you are a modern woman.

Theda Bara Eyeshadow- features a dark all over shadow look that tapers out toward the temple

• 6 swatches, slider compatible
• custom thumbnail
• enabled for both frames/genders
• teen ...
  2022-01-13 04:40:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Glitter Taco

I have been wanting to do a glitter polish forever! Unfortunately, it took me a while to figure out. There are 28 swatches in iridescent colors and a custom spec map that really sparkles! Celebrate the New Year with some great glittery nails!

Glossy Taco Nails V2

All the fingernail shapes in the 70 colors that make up my Primary Palette. There are 3 files per nail shape broken up by color group in case you don't want one of the color groups. I don't know what you like! Once again I've used the spec map I developed for the first round of nails so your sims can have a nice, glossy taco just like you do. Holo not included. This is a cream formula collection, because I haven't figured out how to make a pearl shimmer or a glitter yet. 

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Six Hair Default Replacements

I love default replacements especially for things that show up on the townies all the time. It's a really easy way to change up the look of your game with minimal effort on your part and it makes everyone so much prettier! 

Please abide by my and the other creators TOU and don't reupload behind a paywall. 

Original Stand-Alone Hairs

2021-10-16 05:04:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Glossy Taco BG Nail Retexture

UPDATE: REMOVED OUTDATED FILES

I love Cristine from Simply Nailogical and as an homage to her and her beautiful nail polish line, Holo Taco, I decided to name these "Glossy Taco" since the spec map really does make them look like nail polish with a thick glossy top coat. 

-BG Retexture

-63 colors from my Primary Palette in 3 collections

-Long nails and Short nails

- Teen-Elder (I'm open to making child and toddler versions in the future)

-Files with "n...

Mac Makeup Defaults

I replaced the makeup that was annoying me the most. 

The Mirror Gloss's shine has been reduced by half. See Liberty's Pink and Eliza's white look. 

The CHONKY liner has been made somewhat less chunky and way more wearable. See Summer and Bobbi. 

The Rhinestone eyeliner has been changed to a more flattering look that features more rhinestones and a slow buildup of color. See Liberty, Eliza and Alice.

Finally the Bold eyeshadow has been reworke...

Dream Home Decorator Play Tent

Dream Home Decorator came with a really neat play tent for children and toddlers. Unfortunately, it had no plain swatches making it very specific and impossible to recolor. So  I spent a lot of time and energy removing all the decals and then coloring them in bright happy colors so that you can use them as is or put fun designs on them for yourself. The white swatch is completely plain to make your life easier. The colorful swatches feature a geometric print on the blankie inside the ten...

No! Aqua! Flowers! Ever!

This is a default replacement  for the aqua flowers and makes them blue. I also replaced the white flowers with larger and brighter white flowers. I find these flowers jarring and annoying, so I made this replacement a couple months ago and have been pretty happy with it. 

I love aqua, I love a turquoise stone, warm shallow seas, and the animal life that occasionally sports the color. You know what isn't aqua? Flowers. Blue flowers are already pretty uncommon and rely on the m...

70s Linoleum

Whether you are playing the decades challenge or want to create a sense of the past in your game, this linoleum has got you covered in shades of avocado green, harvest gold, terracotta, and burgundy. 

CC Used:

Peacemaker's Solid is Sensational Kitchen

Faded Spring's Dahlia Bazaar Wallpaper

Sandy from ATS4's Fold Out Leaf Table and Kitchen Accessories

Brazen Lotus' separated clutter collections

Family Pride!

I had so much fun making the patterns and the heart flags! I copied the stripe patterns from my kid's favorite clothing brand, Primary, a fantastic inclusive company started by moms. I just needed these stripes in my game, yall. Then I noticed that basegame hoodie with the bunny on it and thought it had a nice shape and there are no hoodies for Pride. This is a shame for all the college kids who can't wander into the dining hall in a hoodie proclaiming their sexual preferences and pajama pant...

Meadow Flowers

I recolored the base game "Assorted Wildflowers" based on the color schemes of wildflower meadows from around the world. 'Cuz let's be real, those flowers don't appear in nature. 

-10 swatches

- Base Game recolor

- Do not redistribute, please link to this post.

- I'd love to see what you do with it, please tag me on tumblr, @needleworkreve.

Subway Tile Back Splash

I don't like full height tile walls, especially in kitchens, and the taller the wall is the less realistic it gets. So I was really excited by the tile + wainscot that came with Parenthood, but less excited when I saw how specific the tile patterns are. So I took the drywall and the base game tiles and thought about what would work equally well in a kitchen and a bathroom and arrived at Gristle Glue. A month of messing around in GIMP later and bugging the life out of anyone and everyone who k...

The Santa Fe Dress

Ever since Paranormal Stuff came out, I've wanted the duster as a dress. When I picked up Eco Life last month, the long dress in that pack looked about the right shape to me to try. OMG did this project get away from me and take on a life of its own. It started with just 4 swatches, because I only wanted the patterns, then I took a closer look at the solids and decided that I could do better. The first thing I changed from the duster to the dress version is the placement of the lace. On the P...

I Don't Smoke Pants

Billie on discord was looking for some leopard print cigarette pants so they could make Sofie Bikes from Unsleeping City and it inspired me to give it a shot. 

These are from City Living and you'll need that pack for these to show up in game. 

4 patterns, 20 solids from ditZn's Magic Palette, and 6 from my Paranormal Palette. Please tag me on tumblr, @needleworkreve, if you use these on your sims! I love seeing what you create! 

Spring Garden Stuff

Base Game Azaleas and Baby Bottom Roses recolored to better reflect the vast array of colors they can be in real life. Hollyhocks, delphiniums, lupines, dwarf irises, and thistles all come from Romantic Garden Stuff and have been recolored to look well-known varieties. 

If you use my CC, please tag me on tumblr @needleworkreve I'd love to see what you've done with them! 

Please don't include this in an upload, but link people here to get my plants. 

Two Flowering Trees for Download

Dogwood from Cats and Dogs recolored in 9 hand-painted swatches based on real cultivars. Base Game Cherry Tree recolored in 5 hand-painted swatches based on real cultivars

Dogwood Tree requires Cats and Dogs Expansion Pack

Cherry Tree is Base Game Compatible

Hello World!

Welcome to my Patreon page. I'm currently working on some plant and flower recolors and should have something available to download by the end of the week.