Wow Samanthajane thanks for that. I've been waiting patiently to finally see one of them. My one baby gnome is still a baby last time I saw it.
Good luck with those badges. I think the 15 babies is possible if you do it exactly right. I've read you have to do it with the Sim in the same household all the time. I believe it is easier to do with a male Sim than a female. I of course, tried with a female and although she had all 15 babies I didn't get the badge. I might try again some time with a male Sim and see what happens.
I thought the gnomes were vanishing from my game last time I opened it as I could only find around 30 of them but this morning they are all back again. They have been very active this morning and zapping around together. I got a shot of a few of them inside the house. It would make a sim think twice about sitting down to breakfast with this lot around.
Then later on I noticed some of my gnomes are ageing and a lot of them are elderly now. I've never seen old gnomes before. I see you have some in your shot above.
Here is the picture I took of my elderly gnomes.
One of them is standing on top of his walking stick. Another is shaking his stick at someone. There are quite a few others like this around the garden. I suppose I'll have gnome tombstones next. I hope some new baby gnomes appear soon before they all die of old age.
I thought I'd add just one more. My Sim is fishing in the Wishing Well while the pixies are active. There are gnomes watching her - maybe they are wondering if she is going to catch a different type of gnome and let it loose on them. I thought she could keep it in her inventory if she found one but none have appeared so far in this game.
I thought I'd go into buydebug and get some of those ceiling lights so I could put some light on my gnomes pictures. I can't get them all into one shot as they are spread out all over the lot and inside the house but here are a few of them with light.
I never thought I'd have so much fun playing with such an old game. This game was started when only the base game was available so that is why there is only one type of gnome in it and I'd like to keep it that way for this household. There are other households in the game that I have set up and played with previously. I will keep playing them and they can have the other gnomes. I will also split this household up soon too as there are 3 generations living in it and it is time for teens to age up and the young adults to move out and set up on their own. I've had them collecting seeds from around the lot and skilling up in preparation for moving out and setting up their own places.
Edit: More picture resizing 8)