#yeah you guys missed out on some fun poses because I dared to use filters to try and brighten up dark shots

[victorluvsalice]

Me stuffing all the leftovers into the fridge, dragging out all the various pictures onto the wall, and going into Build Mode, that’s what! Because they had a decent amount of money now and I wanted to make some upgrades to the house. I didn’t get everything I wanted to get done, done because I kept second-guessing myself on where I wanted to put stuff (in particular, the enlarged greenhouse was left in quite a state, as you can see), but over the course of a couple of playsessions I got a couple of key things sorted --

A) Cleaned up all the photos they’d taken of their trip, getting rid of obviously-bad ones and choosing my favorites of the selfies to put up around the house (though I did deliberately take that shot of all the good-quality ones up on the wall so you could see some of the ones you missed thanks to their screenshot versions being all washed out thanks to filters)

B) Moved Alice’s art corner from her and Victor’s bedroom into the study, where I felt it fit better -- Victor and Alice ended up with an aquarium in that spot instead, with one of Victor’s rainbowfish inside (I named it “Overthe”).

C) Got another one of @somecreativecc‘s custom display cases for Jungle Adventures treasures and artifacts to PROPERLY display all of Victor and Alice’s Selvadoradan treasures in one case, since Victor’s stuff doesn’t fit with Alice’s in the regular one. You’ll get a better shot of that later!

D) And the big one -- I moved Smiler’s party space out of the house and into the barn! Yeah, I had been thinking for a while that they needed more space for everything, and so I gave the barn a proper top floor, moved the insect collection into the old party room, and moved all Smiler’s party stuff up there. And, as you can see, found I had enough room to include the bubble blower. :D Hooray! Add in a lounging couch, and I think it’s a pretty nice space. (Though yeah, I MEANT to add some rugs up there. . .then again, these house renovations are still pretty unfinished, so I’ll have opportunity later!)

Once I figured I was as set as I was going to get for the moment, it was back to live mode, to frame everything that needed framing and get the gang settling back in. Smiler got a drink from Victor before tending the chickens and attempting to make a mechanism, only to get shocked and get moved over to the guitar. Victor, for his part, began making planters, because he definitely needed more for his new bigger greenhouse! And Alice, after collecting the mail (and getting Victor’s magical care package in the process -- Sixam owl familiar orb, another broom, some mandrake root, and three apples -- I let her keep the latter), headed off to work, as it was one of her rare work days and I was hoping to get her a promotion. This kept everyone busy for a while. . .

But as a thunderstorm rolled in and Victor finished up his second planter, I decided I needed to get him out and about. And so it was off to the Magic Realm with his Glimmerstone! There to retrieve what, you ask?