Sims Stories - How do you make yours?

Sometimes I'll start with a type of sim I want to create. Sometimes I'll start with an idea for a cool house and add the sims later. So for instance, I was watching a tv show about wine yesterday and I thought "It would be cool for my sim to have their own vineyard and winery!" So since I have the World Adventures EP that wasn't too hard to do! lol I first built the house and made sure I left plenty of room on the land to grow different kinds of grapes. The house has a kind of Italian flare to it. I am still in the process of making the basement into a huge, dark, stone wine cellar where I will also have my sim make the wine. Since I wanted to concentrate on making and selling wine, I knew that I only wanted one sim in the household. I haven't added my sim yet because I'm still making the house :) But once I add her I'll just keep playing until I get tired of the whole "wine thing" and I might have her get married and build a family, and maybe one of the kids could carry on the winery business :)