Particolored Soled Hosen for CM-YAEM (post 150 in the Downloads tag!)

COMBO BREAKER-- a brief break from Buy Mode Blitz for clothing, because I could get shots of the clothing but I noticed some things that I did not install properly so I couldn't get screenshots of them without restarting my game. Because that's how it goes sometimes.



And these have been sitting in my Projects Folder since 2016, not even started, which is terribly unfair because they were way easier than I expected.

So, my first stop for visual inspiration is always Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, especially the calendar section (showing not only the Duke de Berry and his companions, but commoners as well). January in particular is a gorgeous image for what I'm bringing you today, because it is full of richly-dressed noble men at a New Year's party. They got chains of state, they got chaperons and bag hats, they got some funky haircuts, they got kidney bags and bollock daggers, they got two servants in livery, they got dagged hoods and cowls, they got fur lining, they got damask and cloth-of-gold and embroidery, they got a greyhound in a collar, they got plaited rush mats on the floor, they got a wicker fire screen, they got a danged tourney happening in the background, and except on the two liveried servants?

Every visible foot is in soled hosen. ( Read more! )

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Stone Soup Robes: Tuck Poulaines for CU-YAEU

Why are these Stone Soup Robes? Because these are-- deep breath now--

Simborg's two-group edit of JellyMeduza's MtF edit of Cynnix's FantasyRogue Poulaines edit of Oph3lia's morphed cross-less edit of Aligeth's Friar Tuck robe. With texture credits to Sherahbim (wool), Magpie (linen), Aligeth (a little of the cowl, still) and Iamliz13 (belt), as well as FantasyRoge (shoes) and my very own self (hose).

They come to you for CU (Cynnix), TF (Meduza), TM (Cynnix), YAEF (Meduza), and YAEM (Cynnix), fat morphs all around and I think pregmorphs for teen and up, in 82 Pooklet Project Mayhem, Aelia Autumn, and CuriousB Any Color You Like actions, texture-referenced (Skell-style, with the textures in their own packages) because I wouldn't do that to myself, much less you.



So what in the heck are these? Are they historically adequate? Why are they unisex?

Well.

What's a gendered garment? ( Read on! )

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Buy Mode Blitz: 4esf Antique Kitchen Trash Compactor

When I started Buy Mode Blitz, there were exactly three trash compactors out there that were truly suitable for a Medieval game: This one, the SDA Castle Kitchen one, and Hriveresse's Greek Kitchen one. This was the first one I recolored, and one I talked to Fractured Moonlight about at some point-- because as I was bemoaning the lack of under-counter appliances (there was, at one time, one Medieval dishwasher), Frac decided to kick this mesh around and add a second subset to it for me.

So you have options!



Both variations on the theme of trash compactor here use the same GUID. There can be only one. If you use the Original mesh with the Frac Edit recolors, only recolors of the bin will show. If you use the Original recolors with the Frac Edit mesh, not only will only the bin show, but you will have eight identical iterations of the same two bin textures. It won't hurt anything, but last mesh loaded wins. ( Read more! )

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In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'

Buy Mode Blitz: Mog Hughson's Novel Writing Manuscript

Mog Hughson's Novel-Writing Manuscript allows Sims to write a novel longhand-- you know, the old-fashioned way, before typewriters and computers and crystal ball or 'pile of books' computers. Midgethetree's Practice Writing update allows Sims to build creativity by writing in Mog's manuscript without actually writing anything... salable? Cohesive?

But anyway!



I recolored it for Buy Mode Blitz. Because why wouldn't I? ( Read on! )

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Buy Mode Blitz: Sit-N-Grin Photobooth (NL)

Nightlife's Sit-N-Grin Photobooth (requires Nightlife and) has been given magitek recolors in-- well, the subsets aren't set up particularly fairly, really. And I did not do 20 woods for this one-- just two. ... One, really, but with two minor variations.



I have done two options for the same wood recolor for the 'repeats' subset (one in the original shiny, one in matte), and recolored the tech and the advertisements on the 'surface' subset to match. Then I applied my usual deluxe crayon box of 82 Pooklet Project Mayhem Naturals, Aelia Autumn, and CuriousB Any Color You Like actions to the curtain-- which is done in Magpie's linen-- and the padded seat of the interior stool, both of which are part of the 'surface' subset. ( Come and see! )

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Buy Mode Blitz: Beck's Functional Knitting

Rebecah's functional knitting requires FreeTime, increases Creativity skill, and adds Art enthusiasm-- and when your Sim is finished knitting, they can either sell their project for $100, or get $100 towards the purchase of a new outfit.

Not bad, really!



The yarn textures are Beck's own; I was pretty happy with them. The knitting needles are Piggi's Wood 18-- I didn't keep track of what colors I used with which yarn, but they're all one of the following Pooklet Naturals: Depth Charge, Incendiary, Explosive, Safety Fuse, Volatile, Fission, Grenade, or Comburent. And importantly, recolors only work on the yarnball object, not the accessory that manifests in your Sim's hands while knitting.

( Is this historically accurate? )

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Buy Mode Blitz: NixNivis Functional Exercise Mat

Nixed Sims's exercise mat comes in 82 Pooklet Project Mayhem natural, Aelia Autumn, and CuriousB Any Color You Like actions over a TS3 twill fabric. This is assuredly a low-poly item, clocking in at a whopping 16 polys over two tiles. Children, teens, young adults, adults, and elders can all use this simple little thing to gain fitness, Body skill, and Fitness enthusiasm.



This isn't exactly a period item-- different kinds of exercises were developed at different places in history, and of course for the Middle Ages, you got strong by doing the thing you needed to get strong for-- working, riding, training to fight-- not by doing sit-ups or leg lifts.

IF YOU DOWNLOADED BEFORE JANUARY 29, 2023, PLEASE RE-DOWNLOAD. I recolored these back in 2019 and missed Nix's April 2022 update fixing an error regarding pregnant Sims exercising in games without pregnant-sims-wear-anything mods. ( Read on. )

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In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'

Buy Mode Blitz: Ninipupucea "Ancient" Crib with canopy

Ninipupucea's "Ancient" canopy crib was graciously separated into two subsets by Darkmoon-- referencing the bedding to the Maxis crib bedding (find my recolors of that here) and letting the wood be separately recolorable. I used Piggi Wood 03 on it, as it was an early bit of Buy Mode Blitz recoloring and I hadn't yet hit on my Piggi 03/SDA Kitchen blend, so. I may do these again sometime! But I was always kind of considering that, as there's scope for decorative woodwork.



I'd've uploaded it sooner, but I really felt like the title card needed an actual baby. ( Read on! )

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In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'