The Christmas Challenge

Christmas Challenge - Week 2 -"Playing With Paint" Municipal Muses Fundraiser

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It was already Saturday, and Elfie was excited to head to Municipal Muses for the 'Playing With Paint' Fundraiser. He had invited several of his friends, and hoped they would get a good turn-out. When he got there, Municipal Muses had been transformed for Winterfest and was nicely decorated. On the main level, there was a piano and bar set-up outside, and there was a sign leading upstairs to the event,

Elfie quickly went to the second floor and saw several easels set up for the art session. He saw Brent Hecking making some last minute adjustments, and Elfie went to speak with him.

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Brent: "Elfie! You're here!" he said and engulfed him in a hug. He then spread his hands wide motioning to the art session area,"Well, what do you think?"

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Elfie said it looked really good and couldn't wait for it to start. Brent said that the event would run from 8AM until 2AM to allow patrons ample opportunity to bid in the silent auction, and he hoped that each participant would paint at least 5 paintings each.

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At promptly 8AM, Elfie looked at the blank canvas before him. They were all supposed to paint playful paintings, and Elfie had a good idea of what he wanted to paint. And so it began...

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Shortly afterwards, the first of his friends arrived. Sofia Bjergsen and Duane Talla grabbed a free easel and started painting right away.

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Greta Laurent was next to arrive, and Duane was quick to come over and start chatting with her. Duane also took a selfie...to...um...you know...promote the fundraiser event on his simstagram account. Yeah sure, Duane...more like showing off your muscles to Greta.

Greta Laurent was the most experienced painter of the group, and often came over to the other club members to give them some pointers. She admired Elfie's painting and thought he was doing a great job.

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When a painting was completed, Brent came over and carefully carried the paintings to the "Silent Auction" area.

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Soon, there were patrons watching the teens paint and chatting with them about the high school art program. Jeb Harris was busy painting a figure painting, but took time to chat with Travis Scott.

Cassandra Goth and Iggy Pancakes arrived a bit later for the event, and Elfie and his friends continued to paint throughout the day.

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Pretty soon, it was getting dark, but there were still a lot of patrons in Municipal Muses. Several had gone to the bar area to have a drink and listen to the pianist who had been hired for the occasion.

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Finally, Elfie had finished his 5 paintings and Brent helped him group them together.

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Apparently, Elfie really liked to paint choo-choo trains.

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The Silent Auction had started, and already sims were looking intently at several of Elfie's paintings. But...would they buy a painting and support the Winterfest Festival?

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Oh yes they would! Because within minutes, two of the Choo-Choo Paintings were sold. The first painting sold for $1,350 simoleons to a lovely sim lady.

And the second was sold to an anonymous buyer who phoned in their bid to Brent. The anonymous buyer paid $1,750 simoleons for the painting.

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Geoffrey Landgraab bid on the next painting, the Bouncy Ball, and it sold for $1,180 simoleons.

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Only 2 of Elfie's paintings were left to sell. But the time was ticking away, and the Silent Auction would end soon.

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A sim wearing blue eye shadow, had been up and down the stairs several times admiring several paintings. She seemed unable to make up her mind on what painting to purchase. There were some really good paintings that his friends had painted, which were far better than Elfie's, but, she finally made a decision and decided to purchase one of Elfie's paintings for $1,532 simoleons.

It was a half-hour until closing and suddenly all these sims showed up. Must be the last minute bidding wars...or the bar had closed.

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Several sims were looking at Elfie's last painting and he could tell that any moment, someone was going to buy it. He even saw Hector Laurent in the crowd. His last Choo-Choo Painting. Come on...if ever there was a time to think about the Little Engine that Could was now. Please...someone buy the painting.

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And then Elfie saw Lily Feng make a beeline right towards Elfie's painting. And bingo! Lily Feng was quicker than everyone else, and bought the last painting for $1,259 simoleons.

And just in time, too, as the "Playing With Paint" fundraiser was now over.

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After putting away the easels, Brent excused himself and went to tally up the sales and came back and sat with Elfie.

Brent: "Elfie, I can't believe how successful this fundraiser was", he said smiling, "And I am happy to give you this donation cheque for $7,071 simoleons towards the Winterfest Festival."

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Elfie looked at Brent and thanked him, and couldn't believe what Brent had just told him.

Brent: "In fact, my boss is thinking of having this as an annual event. We're even going to put up a permanent display of some of the paintings that weren't sold to reinforce our dedication to the community and to encourage young artists. You and your friends did a great job, Elfie. Congratulations!"

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And sure enough, the following day, a display had been set up with some of the unsold paintings.

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And had Greta Laurent painted a masterpiece? Oh gosh, she had! [Note: I just used the highest value painting from each of the club members and had Elfie paint another playful painting for display purposes.}

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Notes:

For purposes of the challenge, Brent was temporarily moved in with Elfie, so that he would be prominent in Municipal Muses to oversee the event, and also to "look after" the "silent auction". Elfie also created a club, and used the club interaction to invite his teen friends over and for them to paint paintings. He had purchased the playful club perk and he also put out some MySims statues and "enabled emotion" to get the playful mood vibe.

Elfie started with no painting skill.

Only Elfie's paintings were in the actual "silent auction". The Street Art Gallery was used as the "silent auction" to display the 5 playful paintings that Elfie painted. There was a 300% mark-up and Elfie did the selling. The other paintings that were painted by the club members were displayed on the walls in the same area, but were not for sale. Since I did not control the other club members, I didn't know what they would paint.

Elfie painted and sold 5 playful paintings for a total of $7,071 simoleons. (5 points).

And with all the chatting that Elfie did, he also maxed his charisma skill.

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