Friday Highlights - January 9th

Sul Sul!

Happy New Year!!! 🎉 Long time no see! I hope you had a nice time over the holiday season and are well rested to tackle 2026. How did you spend your time? I had a very lazy break, I stayed by the stove watching sitcoms, eating chocolates and filling colouring books, and it was glorious 🤗

A quick recap of the week:

• 🛁 The newest Laundry List was released on Tuesday and you can catch up on the details here.
  
  
• 🐮 On Thursday, a Cowplant Lore challenge started on Discord. You can check all the details here if you’d like to participate!

 Beak careful out there! posted here by sillyangel0906​ 

Let's jump into the highlights!

• 📸 Are you ready to take on a yearly challenge? If you are, the One Month One World One Year Challenge 2026 by belalucina​ (originally started by Karababy52) might be for you. The goal is simple: start with a teen sim, make them move and explore worlds, and post one screenshot per day during the year of 2026. There are other rules for this challenge that you can read in detail on the thread, but at the end of the year, you will basically end up with a mini-diary of your sim’s life, scattered over a full year. I think this idea is very nice, it’s kind of like having a sim that is growing along with you every day. I can’t wait to see all of your screenshots at the end of the year, it’s a very fun project!
  
  
• 👶 Next up, purplexbutterfly​ has a very important question: they need to find who would be the best sim to become the father of the future child of a very famous actress. But it must be a father who should also not get involved in anything as the actress wants to raise the baby on her own (and does not want a tube baby). So, we need to find an attractive male sim, who will not hang around for too long after... easy peasy right? Don Lothario could be a great choice, but purplexbutterfly is not feeling it. So maybe Brant Hecking then, but he might be too committed 🤔 There are more recommendations in the thread, someone is suggesting that the actress could pick a film director for example. If you have any more ideas, make sure to share them in the thread. Let’s hope the actress finds her match!
  
  
• 🎄 If you or your sims are not over Christmas yet, BreeMiles​ created a great Holiday Restaurant for our Sims 3 players. So if you want to extend the holidays and experience some Christmas magic, this would be the perfect place! Inside, everything is decorated with red and green items: red bricks, green pillars, red wood, green cushions… with of course a big Christmas tree and a fireplace. The restaurant can accommodate small and large groups and small children as well. This beautiful build might come in handy if you are already nostalgic of the holiday season.
  
  
• 🏡 sirhc59​ is back this week with another fabulous Family Home made with only base game items. This house contains 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, and would be perfect for a large family or for a sim who needs a bit of space. There is a very nice back garden with a protected pool, so kids can roam and play freely. Inside, the rooms are nicely decorated with modern and colourful items. My favourite place is the luminous sun room at the side of the house, where sims can have a nice book or a cup of tea on a rainy afternoon, or doze off on the couch a sunny day. If you are interested, this build is available on the Gallery for download! 

• Lastly, for those who are planning a wedding in their game, LaylaFrisknut​ is sharing lots of helpful tips and advice to make sure that everything goes according to plan. For example, don’t hesitate to kick out unwanted visitors who will show up unexpectedly. Or make sure that there is enough room for your sims to walk around, because having an obstacle while the bride or groom walks down the aisle would ruin the mood a bit. Jehane40​ has also replied by adding other tips, such as using smaller venues if possible. The most important piece of advice is that you must accept that no matter what you do, your guests will arrive with the outfit that they picked… and it might not be the most fitting 🙈

And that concludes the very first highlights of the year 2026! Have a wonderful weekend folks, and see you soon!

Dag dag!

Cath