Extra Story ~ Autumn to Winter

… I put effort into these titles, I swear!

Okay now that we’ve covered the town, house and villagers, here is all the stuff that actually happened in the last X months 😛 (Though it doesn’t include the holidays such as Halloween and New Year’s, which will be in the next post.)

I got to visit Amy’s Citàlune during a beautiful time of year (and day!), along with Jessnook and Kiki.

The. Colours. Were. Gorgeous.

At 6pm while we were hanging out in front of the station, the little soldier popped out of the fairy tale clock.

Inside Estel’s house (which is even more awesome now), I loved the little fall-themed room upstairs with customised furniture.
I also loved every other room, but I didn’t take pictures ._.

She gave me the lovely sailboat model from Explorers’ Day and picnic basket from Labor Day, both of which we don’t get
Belated thanks for having us over and for the gifts, Amy! 😀

Gracie arrived in town for the first time! And 2nd, 3rd and 4th times 😆

And she gave me the hardest theme for the FIRST visit!!
Have a look for yourself; the Modern theme has the absolute shortest list!

Yes I did 😡

Second visit!

I’m sorry. Auf Englisch, bitte?

I ended up switching back to English, not only because the Gracie themes were different (eg. ornate was luxurious in German), but so were all the clothing items in the catalogue x_x I couldn’t keep up with learning multiple names for each item.

Gotta do what you must.

Third time! I was wondering what was cute about a full-body armor. In the end I realised I was still wearing my purple stripe socks.

Aaand of course it’s the easiest theme for the final visit.

Gracie Fashion Checks — Done!

Got me a nice ensemble from a day at the shops. I ended up sticking with the laced up boots for a while.

I tried my hand at turning a game mascot from a series I really like into a dress. I had this concept floating around in my head for a while. It definitely looked strange with the eyes like that though.

I tried for a less literal interpretation and it looked much better ^^
I debated on whether to give it details to make it look more realistic as an item of clothing and tried a few variations, but decided to keep it minimalistic like the original character design.
Anybody know what the heck it is?

I love this – Phineas’s name in French is Helium 😆

The ants have quite a bit more presence in this version’s museum 😮

Another room in my museum. I’ve always wanted to display rainbow rows of items like the gems somewhere, but they never fit in anywhere, so in the end I shoved them in museum ‘storage’ 😛

Can’t have enough rococo wardrobes!

I heard this song once in a Streetpass house that instantly made me stop what I was doing and listen. The voice and melody were both very calming.
After a bit of research, it is from the song Kapp’n sings in the Japanese e+ version when taking you to the island. The are apparently remixes in ACWW (in the taxi), ACCF (on the bus) and ACNL (Kapp’n’s song), but I so far haven’t heard the resemblance.

Gotta have my share of bad luck sometimes…

And of looking like a fool.

. . . You’re trying to make this hard, aren’t you? -_-

Mole cricket. Never again.

Emporium group photo! 😆

Just what kind of classroom…

Beyond my budget.

First one is for my museum! >_<
He got the second one 🙂

Ahhh, another sculpture I might not be donating anytime soon…

Aaand winter is heeere x3

I asked on ACC to catalogue a Sagittarius arrow, and a lovely member by the name of Jigo responded. They gave me the arrow as a gift, as well as a red carnation!

^^

I was surprised to see Redd selling what I think are two real versions of paintings on the same day. Previously I had only seen either one real version, or one real version plus one with no variation.

Aww cute, Isabelle on the only exclusive holiday for Europe and Australia, Naughty-or-Nice Day. She gives you a stocking.

Ohhh boy, this day had me confused. I hat never heard this noise of flatulence coming from a chair before, and for this whole day nearly all the chairs I sat on did it x_x At first I thought, oh that’s interesting, they added the sound for when you slide off leather, but then the hard surface chairs did it. I went all over the internet searching for instances of corrupted sound files in games… and in the end it turned out I had bad item luck -_-

I couldn’t wait to catch my first snowflake once winter started x3 It was such a cute concept and addictive — I couldn’t help going after every one I saw.

Oh gosh, I didn’t know I could make such a face ^^;
But yes… too close to shore = no Pascal.

It was time for one of Amy’s villagers to move away, and she invited me back to Citàlune for a super quick visit the night before I left for Japan to speak to them ^^ Her landscaping outside their house took my breath away.

It was Phoebe! The conversation went smoothly and she decided to move to my town 🙂

Thanks Amy! I’ll look after her~

While I was in Sapporo, Pete delivered a letter to me ^_^ Inside was a cold turkey. It still looked delicious, though!

The curse begins.

Over the next 2 weeks, I got enough numbers to be one number away from a bingo in three different ways, which, Snowman excitedly pointed out, “is even rarer than an actual bingo!”. Gee, thanks.

By New Year’s Eve, my bingo card looked like this. -__-

At least I had better luck elsewhere. $∨$

At first I thought maybe this was a hint telling you you built them too big, but in the end it just turned out to be something all the snowboys said.

How my HHS plaza frequently looked 🙂

Inexplicable swimsuit trend.

Checking out the showcase.

This split room looked pretty dang cool 😀

My friend and I had the same impression: Ew.

A room full of Gracie outfits and other unorderables >_<

A library of KK records! 😮

After a good couple of hours of solid searching through people’s Streetpass houses, I finally found what I was looking for: a Capricorn ornament! 😀

This was bound to happen in Japan.

While on our trip, we heard that fortune is smiling upon you if you see Mt Fuji clearly. We saw it twice, and I saw it once more in a fox’s tent 🙂

22! No go.

A good haul from a night on the island. During my break I got into the habit of setting myself up with a good playlist on Youtube (usually a Let’s Play of some game) late in the evening and just sitting back catching bugs and fish on the island til my basket was full.

I was pleasantly surprised to hear Luna tell me of a Harry from town Red Bank 🙂

Which I promptly visited…

I quite liked a few spots.

And I met an old familiar face, though she doesn’t know me 😉