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Last year I got a little wasp problem when wasps decided that my balcony's wooden ceiling would be a perfect spot for a nest. The nest apparently was never finished and I found large pieces of it on the floor but I still contacted maintenance to ask what to do.

The maintenance came to visit and didn't find any nest, so that's good. I was told that I should put a crocheted fake wasp nest on my balcony, near the spot wasps favor, because they refuse to built a nest on someone else's territory. Better yet, fill the nest with newspaper because it smells like a wasp nest.

I found some handmade nests online and I'm going to give it a try! Many of the sellers said that they and their friends and family have been using the fake nests successfully for years in home, summer cottages, outdoor buildings etc.

Here are some patterns (in English) for crafty people.

Sharing this here because I didn't even know about such a solution! I hope it helps anyone who wants to keep unwanted wasps away from certain parts of their home and yard.

#crochet pattern

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We have pop pagan music

So last week I made a post about how we as pagans don't really have pop music to listen to that relates to our beliefs and myths. All pagan music is pretty much folk, metal or reenactments of ancient and medival music. Nothing wrong with it, but some of us like to be basic from time to time.

Then I realised... That's not true. There's plenty of pop songs that reference the gods and the myths even though the singers themselves may not be polytheists and that's why I created this playlist. Here you can listen to mostly upbeat but also some pop ballads that you could relate to as a polytheists.

Of course I'm accepting recommendations but please only recommend songs of genres that are pop-adjacent (pop, pop-rock, K-pop, J-pop, dance pop...) or mainstream (r&b, rap, trap, hip hop). It'd be especially thankful in recommendations from other faiths like Kemetism, Norse, Celtic, etc. since I don't know much about those. Any language is good.

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Family Secrets Mod by dubbledeez

"Family Secrets expands your town’s capacity for drama and intrigue by offering player and NPC Sims greater control over the legitimacy of their offspring. Romantic affairs and unwed pregnancies will present players with the choice of revealing or hiding a child’s true parentage, or even attempting the “Cuckoo” action, which can convince a birth parent’s partner that a child born from an affair is actually theirs! Family Secrets also expands The Sims 3 Adoption system, allowing Sims to choose between joint or sole adoption, as well as the ability to foster children. This mod requires no expansion packs or supporting mods to operate. While it does not enable any non-default relationship options, it contains built-in support and decision-making considerations for same-sex, intergenerational, and interfamilial pregnancies. This mod also fixes a known base-game issue wherein certain non-standard pregnancies would cause the Family Tree menu to crash the game. Enjoy this mod, and please comment on any issues you may have with its performance.

...continued on MTS."

More Info + Download @MTS.

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The Viking Village For Sims 3 (Beta) Download Available

Requires the following expansions: Supernatural, Seasons, Pets, World Adventures

Requires the following STORE CONTENT: Dragon Valley

To download and read more, click below.

Ever dreamed of being a norse hero living his life on the ocean and then back home at the village lead by the fierce norse women? This might be the Sims 3 world for you then!

Medium world (Based off Sunset valley map)

Roadless (Perfect for medieval and historical play)

Loading time is fast

No lag while testing

BETA version - Please do give feedback on needed community lots etc. or report any errors

Unpopulated and unfurnished

Information

This is a beta version, so it is not entirely “finished” throughout. If you have suggestions for improvements, I would be more than happy to get them. Because there sure is room for some ;-)

It’s a “mini” world meaning that there isn’t a whole lot of objects and lots in it which alows a smoother game play.

Oh and the distant terrain looks a bit off, but I hope you can overlook it :-)

Download (Simfileshare)

IMPORTANT: You must install Dragon Valley in order for the world to show up properly.

TOU: Please Do not upload to other sites, redo or claim as your own! Thank you.

Please tag the world #sims3vikings so I can see it in your games! Makes me want to make more worlds :D

Credits & a big thank you to the following creators

@murfeelee for the viking ships!

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Princess Dresses Tudor and Rococo

The Rococo Dress was inspired by Windermeresimblr's edit. It's made from the Generations Princess Dress and a Store top for the sleeves. It has the four presets shown here. Included are Windermere's recolours of the embroidery. I left out the original bright yellow completely. The white one is only in the last preset, because it didn't match very well with the overlay I made for the bows.

The Tudor dress was actually just meant to be a retexture. Then Windermere brought it to my attention that it's inspired by a portrait of young Queen Elizabeth I. Seeing them side by side I thought a Tudor waistline would make it much clearer. So I made this mesh edit (preview 1 and 3). They both have all four presets shown. The edited one has slightly distorted patterns around the waist, but I tried to counterbalance this with the UV-map. Although I kept the front stripe in preset 3, there is no stripe at the back of the skirt. Included are standalone versions and a combined file with linked textures.

Special Thanks to @windermeresimblr ❤

Download: SimFileshare | Dropbox

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you know how all those applesauce packets were recalled for lead?

well. it turns out the cinnamon used in them may have been laced with lead on purpose.

fun times in the united states food industry right now am I right folks

#food #read later

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The Reardon Ranch

Download here.

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Medieval Metal Candle Set by DOT

Download: Medieval Metal Candle Set by DOT (TSR)

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More Play! Playmat

1 Oct Update: If you're having any issues with babies moving after they are picked up from the mat, try version2 (on Box) or "noIdle" on SFS. This removes the feature where babies do idle animations on the mat. If a Sim picks them up when they are idling, they can get stuck in the animation which causes the constant movement.

This is an old-ish mod I made to satisfy my need to keep a baby in my household occupied and also prevent Sims from constantly bothering them when they're perfectly fine.

The TS3 Store playmat is yet another recycled TS2 item where EA took the mesh and little else (see More Activities Activity Table). For a "play"mat, there's absolutely no playing going on. Babies just stare into the void pondering their existence.

So I created an interaction where babies can actually play on the mat which gives them something to do and also means I can leave the baby on the mat knowing other Sims won't constantly be trying to pick them up. You have to turn the mat on in order for babies to play with it. Playtime is set to 2 hours but that's tunable.

Then TS4 Growing Together came out with a playmat that actually had some cool features like playing with babies and tummy time. So I revisited my mat and added in a couple of more features to allow other Sims to play with the baby on the mat and do tummy time.

Babies will get a positive moodlet from playing alone and playing peekaboo with others. Other Sims may get a positive moodlet if they are near the baby while the baby is playing on the mat. They will also get a positive moodlet from playing with the baby. Toddlers and up can play with the babies but only Teens+ can do tummy time.

You don't need the Store mat for this, it's its own separate download. However, I'm using a couple of sound files for toddlers (mostly the peekaboo) from the Baby Monitor or Playpen Store objects so if you don't have those, you won't hear anything.

Download HERE | alt: HERE

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Sludge Be Gone! Toddler Food and Snacks

2-Sep Update: Thank you @jeebeehey for the French translation. Please redownload if you'd like them.

25 July update:

Fixed an issue where the Trail Mix was resetting Sims. One of its components got lost when I was merging all the objects together so it kept giving an error when trying to pull it up. It should now not happen for either the high chair or the activity table. Redownload both the MAIN and the merged Objects file

24 July update: Thanks to @simdreams and @zanynka for the Brazilian Portuguese and Czech translations! You can redownload at the links below.

(Update: I forgot to include one of the files in the Objects file. It's just a little piece of food that toddlers pick up when eating snacks. If you downloaded both files already, you don't need to redownload anything, just download the file and add to your game.) (Just download the updated Objects file)

They literally call the baby food "sludge" in the game files. EA really did TS3 toddlers dirty.

This was actually originally part of my Quickie Food and Snacks mod and I abandoned it (this seems to be a theme with me). But then I came back to it after TS4 Growing Together came out. I still haven't played that game but I know there's a preference/taste system in the game for baby food, which is really cool!

So this mod adds two interactions to the high chair to feed toddlers meals or snacks. There are 11 meals and 5 snacks. Similar to Growing Together, toddlers will love, like or hate certain foods. This preference is based on their favorite food (see more after the cut).

The foods work somewhat similar to recipes in that they require ingredients to be available. However, you only need to have at least 1 ingredient. Whatever ingredients you have will be used for the meal/snack. The icon images will tell you which 3 ingredients are required.

Teens+ can serve toddlers and they will stay and watch to make sure the toddler eats like a good little girl/boy.

There was a second complementary mod to close out this little series that would allow toddlers to eat their foods and snacks on their own on little tables but I probably won't have the time to finish testing it before I go on my summer holidays so I'll release it sometime end of next month when I'm back.

Credit/thanks: The food tray and bowl is from @aroundthesims. All other assets are from EA (TS3 and TS4). Icons are from Freepik.

Download HERE / Alternative: SFS

Enjoy! I'll be totally offline starting 1 July for about 2 weeks so do let me know before then if you run into any issues!

More info and details on features after the cut

Meal/Snack recipes: Each meal or snack requires 1-3 ingredients (either in your fridge or personal inventory) to be available. Again, you only NEED 1 of 3. Some of the ingredients are from the Store or cc (Icemunmun's Baker's Basket or Hot Chili) but if you don't have it, the game will just ignore it. If you have none, it won't be available.

Food categories/preferences: Preferences are based on the toddler's favorite food and along 4 categories: Sweet, Savory, Veggie and Cheese. So based on what their favorite food is, you can tell what their food preference category is. If you change the toddler's favorite food after playing with the mod, it will adjust to their new tastes BUT will keep whatever food they liked or hated before.

Category Preferences:

Sweet hates Veggie

Veggie hates Sweet AND Savory

Savory hates Sweet

Cheese is chill and can give or take anything

Here is the detailed breakdown below (if you want to be surprised and figure it out for yourself in the game, you can stop reading here):

SW - Sweet, SV - Savory, VG - Veggie, CH - Cheese Store - TS3 Store BB - Icemunmun’s Baker’s Basket HC - Icemunmun’s Hot Chili

Snacks: Trail Mix (SW) - Banana, Walnut (BB), Pecan (Store) Cheese Crackers (CH) - Cheese Apple Slices w. Almond Butter (SW, CH) - Apple, Cheese, Almond (BB) Cucumber Tuna Bites (SV) - Cucumber (Store), Tuna, Tomato Pita Chips w. Carrot Hummus (VG) - Chickpea (HC), Carrot, Lemon

Meals: Chickpea Salad (VG) - Chickpea (HC), Carrot, Watermelon PBJ Sandwich (SW) - Strawberry (Store), Almond (BB)  Pancakes and Sausage (SW) - Any fruit, Sausage links Chicken Nuggets (SV) - Chicken, Carrot, Blueberry (Store) Fishsticks (SV) - Any fish, Potato, Carrot  Meatballs w. Yogurt Sauce (SV) - Patty, Cucumber (Store), Tomato Mushroom Omelet (VG) - Egg, White Cap mushroom, Onion Fried Plantains (SW) - Banana (I considered making a custom plantain ingredient but too lazy), Tomato, Onion Falafel w. Yogurt Sauce (VG) - Chickpea (HC), Cucumber (Store), Tomato Cheese Ravioli (CH) - Cheese, Tomato, Strawberry (Store) Mac and Cheese (CH) - Cheese

So for example, the toddler in the photos, Duncan. His favorite food is Fried Peanut Butter Banana Sandwich (oh, America) which is in the Sweet category. So I know he will eat any of the sweet category foods. He tossed the mushroom omelet when I served it to him but he likes mac and cheese.

@kpccfinds @pis3update @s3cc-finds

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4to3 Darte 77 Top6765 by VMSims

All credits goes to darte77. Original here

Polycount 12k!

It's not a perfect conversion. Depending on the pose, the neck of the top may be slightly deformed

Ugly in CAS, fine in game!

For YA-A-E males

Morphs included

6 presets

No recolor

Custom thumbnail

Converted by me

DL ♥

@nightoccfinds @sssvitlanz @pis3update @katsujiiccfinds @xto3conversionsfinds @emilyccfinds @jessisimsccfinds @ts3-ccfinds @simstifulccfinds @chaospixels-ts3finds ♥♥♥

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4T3 PosePack #3 by PS

Info:

Not available for the pose player list

Codes in notepad

Full credits to: @simmerberlin. I have only done the conversion!!!!

Sims 4 version here

dl here <3

@katsujiiccfinds @ts3-ccfinds @ts3-ccfinds @xto3conversionsfinds

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Simpliciaty Azure Rings:

polycount: 4k

fully recolorable - 3 channels

right and left versions

custom thumbnails

original x

DOWNLOAD AZURE RINGS | MIRROR

Credits: @simpliciaty-cc Thank you!

Please, no making profit and/or claiming as your own! Enjoy! ♥

@katsujiiccfinds ♥ @xto3conversionsfinds ♥

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There’s a plant called the “TomTato” which is a cherry tomato plant with potatoes as roots. It yields large quantities of both tomatoes and spuds.

#gardening

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Hi! Do you know about PureRef? It's a software I just discovered that allows you to create and use ref images boards in a very intuitive way (and that you can also get for free or how little you can pay). As someone who usually needs an awful lot of refs before drawing anything (bc aphantasia) I can already tell this is going to save me so much time! I wanted to share the info because many others may find it useful as well!!

yes! I literally love this app and recommend it to everyone!

It's insane it's pay what you can, so if you are able to, support the devs who made a great tool.

#art #drawing #resource

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NEW VICTORIAN MODERN HOUSE - DOWNLOAD CC separate download + No CC version.

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Townhouse

for your NPC

lot size is 30x20

without cc

addons and store are needed

8 apartments, 13 beds are available

Download

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