Summermeade Cottage

The Old Mill store set that just came out had some lovely items...the ivy being first and foremost.  It is well thought out and doesn't suffer from tiling like some of the previous attempts have done.  I particularly like the little "end bits" that enable you to extend the ivy to the floor above and taper off in a much more natural manner.  Well done!

Needless to say, I had to make a cozy fairytale cottage to use this lovely bit of decoration..and the cute round stone gate...and the mason jar lights...and...

The cottage includes:

3 large bedrooms

2 bathrooms

fishing pond

garden

tool shed

$75k on 30x30 lot

Utilizes several items from the new store set, but NO CC

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Send your Sims to Summer Camp at Camp Plumbob!

Summertime to me means summer camp...swimming, mosquitoes, crafts, mosquitoes, nature walks and...oh yeah...mosquitoes.  I would come back looking like I had the chicken pox from so many mosquito bites, but it was still a blast.

Camp Plumbob has everything your simmies need for the whole summer cap experience...except for the bugs.  The heavily wooded camp includes:

Tons of tents for sleeping under the stars

Large mess hall/recreation room

showers/restroom facilities

boathouse and pier

Fishing, swimming, inventing, painting, soccer, and more

$48k on 64x64 community lot.

NO CC

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Wyndley Manor: an old English estate

Last weekend I was watching Skyfall ( love me some Daniel Craig!) and drooling over the house.  What a sin to blow that thing up...even if it is just a bunch of special effects.  Thought about building Skyfall, but after looking at a few stills, determined that it wouldn't make a very good build.  

So then I was off to google things like Scottish castles....English houses....Manor House....and saw a bunch of cool things but nothing that caught my fancy in particular.  Still liking the idea of an old manor house, with a secret passage way and a chapel ( of course!) I decided to wing it and just see what I could come up with.  The result is a sprawling old English manor house ( name supplied by WibbleLikeAJelly) that I hope gives the feel of a traditional estate.

Wyndley Manor includes:

7 bedrooms (2 master suites)

6 bathrooms

Library

Music Room

Large Feasting Hall

Game Room

Alchemy work room in the tower

Wine Cellar

Sculptors/Inventors studio

Chapel with secret passageway back to the house

small family graveyard

Vegetable Garden

Flower Garden

Fishing Pond

$385K

60x60 lot

NO CC

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