Baker Super Sim Family Challenge

Here's Annie Baker, just starting out without skills in a brand new save:

It was a little dark out when she arrived at the new property. All she brought with her was her old easel and her favorite paint brushes. When she got there, she realized she didn't even have enough simoleons for a canvas, so she sold her luggage to buy one and get painting. 

The view was beyond inspiring and all she felt inside was a true sense of happiness and contentment, and hope for a new future.

Rosebud Achievement! 

So, my guess based on a YouTube video I watched, is that the reapers rewards aren't working anymore because I started the Money Making scenario. So I had to rush through that process, putting all of my effort into dragon fruit. So here's my little gardener making her dragon fruit farm. She eventually hired some help when it began taking all day just to take care of the plants. But all paid off in the end. I think it took me 46 days this time.

While she was at it, we've started our collection of fish, both mounted and bowled, in our basement.

We've kept her personal garden separate from the farm, so that I know which plants I'm taking the time and effort to fertilize. These particular plants I'm heading for perfection to hand down to the next gens.

Love this! Can't wait to see where things go for Annie. :)

Great start! Looking forward to Annie's journey. 🙂

Frustrating, but at least it happened early on...I tried to disable the paranormal pack after I started this challenge (I can't do certain things within the game for personal/religious reasons), and it wouldn't let me. I have to start a new game in order to get the rewards without crossing lines that I can't. So, I'm starting over, yet again...but hopefully just this once. 

Now that I have to, though, I'm considering turning off all of the packs and then adding them one by one to enjoy them along the way, but I'm conflicted. I really really love all of my packs, and I don't actually know if I'd like playing base game only. Sigh. Decisions, decisions. Any advice?

Glad you were able to make lemonade out of lemons. And glad it happened early in your gameplay.

Annie's been busy gardening and hasn't really made time for painting lately, and with all the simoleons she's growing in her garden, she's also been spending some time creating a blueprint for her base game legacy house.

 It's been so fun playing base game. I haven't started with 0 in base game in so long, it was kinda nostalgic. Usually I go immediately to grafting for dragonfruit, since that's my get rich quick go-to, but with the event, I went a route I hadn't before, and Annie's almost ready to harvest her first ever death flower!! I've never grafted a death flower in game before since I'm typically a life span off, play it safe kinda gal. 

I'm not sure I'm loving the living room, but I wanted to try creating a gathering area for in-home business meetings. I love the kitchen, however, and the rest of the house is just set up to work on as I go. 

I've also never got this achievement before, befriending the grim reaper. I like having new goals that get me out of my rut.

Rough draft first blue print of Annie's future home. She's been "saving up" ie. grafting and harvesting lots of expensive plants on the regular.

Not sure about the living room...we'll see how it feels after living in it for a bit. But I LOVE the way the kitchen/dining turned out.

I made the kitchen/dining first, and then added on the rest of the house blue print. 

Outside of the house finished for now and I love it so much. Inside is going to take some time. My rewards thingy doesn't seem to be working anymore, so I might as well work on her house until it does. 

Well...lol, I think I found out why my rewards aren't continuing. I watched a YouTube video and he said that if there's another one of those progression events going on, like Scenarios, it'll stop until that's complete. So, I need to kick my money making into high gear today, so that I won't have to quit the Making Money Scenario that I started her with. 

Annie's getting to be close friends with Grim, which is totally new to me. 

And for the very first time, I harvested a death flower from a graft and planted it. 

I enjoy working on these events without cheats, but if you're not into all that, I did upload a room of significant plants to this challenge on the gallery. I think there's a snapdragon, Lily, Apple, Cherry, Pomegranate seed, and a grafted plant with the death flower. 

First Ambrosia!

Annie has achieved baking the Ambrosia dish! She's so very proud of herself. (No reaper's reward for now, lol, but I'm still super excited for the accomplishment). 

Annie's been busy making her millions and mastering the art of cooking, but she's ready to share it with someone new. While she's not ready to find her soulmate, she just knows she'll be a good mom to a new baby. She plans to use the convenience of a science lab to start her little family. She hopes to give this new baby a fabulous life. Here's her progress so far.

She's going to reward herself with a new outfit to prepare for her life as mom.