September Favourites

The end of September is almost here so I thought I'd post a list of some of my favourite things from this month!

Gaming 
Recently I got Disney Magical World and I've been playing it during my free time. I've got the second one which I've almost finished and the first one is quite different from the second. It's a lot more challenging trying to get items to craft items so it's taking a while to get anywhere in the game. I'm up to about 35 stickers so far which isn't too bad.

Music
Got a few new albums this month which were mainly j-pop ones. Other than that, I've been getting back into music I used to listen to before I got in kpop and jpop. Been on an 80's kick recently so I've been listening to Icehouse, Pet Shop Boys and Eurythmics. The radio plays at the place I work and it's always exciting when they play what they call 'old school music'. Now I wouldn't call 2011 old school, but when they start playing hits from 2006, it takes me back to listening to the same songs back in senior school.

Movies 
I don't get to the movies too often considering I work next to one, but I managed to make it there this month. It was the 20th anniversary of Spiceworld this year and cinemas around the country where airing it to celebrate. I went to the screening the other night and it was amazing! I hadn't seen a movie in this particular cinema room (I usually go to ones in the smaller cinemas) but it was awesome to see it on the biggest screen the cinema has. It was really fun and I enjoyed feeling like I was back in the 1990's as a kid singing along to the hits of the Spice Girls.

Books
Haven't had the chance to read too many books this month, but at the start of September I did read Scooter Girl. Originally I had seen it in a local comic shop when I was in there with friends. However I came across it at my library so I thought I'd hire it to read and I really enjoyed it! The story was interesting and I loved the mod feel to the story and characters. 

Style Boutique 2 Play Journal - Millionaires Club!

Finally reached 1 million in funds in Style Boutique 2! I'm happy they removed the money limit that the previous game had which was $99,999. I could never really do much once I hit that, I used to sell all my stock and buy all new stock just to clear out money. But thankfully this installment in the series doesn't have a money limit (so far). The trick to getting large amounts of money quickly is to fill the Caprice Chalet up with rooms that charge $1000 rent. Then play every day to keep the rooms rented and you can easy get $10,000 super quick.

Been serving a lot of customers at the boutique recently. I had the outfit below on display on the mannequin. With Purple Moon items, customers never buy them because they are way above their price range and not a brand/style people ask for often. So I always put them on the mannequin to sell them quickly. This train conductor outfit is available during the autumn season and fits with Halloween nicely. I thought it matched the customer who brought it nicely as her hair was the same colour tone!

Below is a dress I designed for the Designer Lounge. I have no clue how I ended up with a red/navy blue colour scheme when I made it. Customers always come in asking for it and finally someone brought it in a nice complete outfit. I actually had it on a mannequin with matching shoes and the necklace is from Purple Moon.

Another fashion show happened! I haven't been doing mainly lately (more because I forgot about them). Tried out a cute themed outfit this time, didn't win five stars but four was good. I thought the hair was cute but honestly the top part of the outfit doesn't match the pants. What was I thinking?

I'm one of those players who always forgets to clear out the main NPC visit requests. So the poor characters are stuck at train locations for ages till I visit. I made this outfit for Xiaoling a while ago and I just thought it was super cute.

Style Boutique 2 Play Journal - Discovered The Cutest Outfit Ever!

Hasn't been an exciting week in Style Boutique. I'm mainly working on hitting one million dollars in money in the game, pretty close now. About $10,000 off a million. Other than that, it's been pretty chill because I finally got five stars in the fun category in the fashion shows. I've been doing some more fashion shows and just experimenting with outfits. Haven't got another five stars yet, but I thought these two outfits were cute. I like the pink baby-doll themed one which got four stars.

Had an interesting time recently with customers creating some terrible looking outfits by layering items on top of each other. It's incredibly annoying when a customer asks for one item and then they surprise you by putting on top or under an item that totally doesn't match. Here's some gems that happened this week. The girl in the purple outfit asked for boots I had designed and stuck her three-quarter pants into them which looked silly. The girl in the green wasn't too terrible, I just wasn't expecting her to put the tank top over her other tank top. The one in the bottom two pictures is the best. She asked for a inner and I assumed she would put it under her t-shirt as that's what an inner is for. Nope, she put it over the t-shirt and this crazy looking getup was created.

When you download and add rooms to your Caprice Chalet, the player who owns that room will visit your boutique. I had one of those player characters visit my boutique recently and her outfit is gorgeous! I love how she matched the pieces together into a beautiful baby-doll coordinate and the navy colour is stunning.

Such a perfect ensemble!

Animal Crossing New Leaf Play Journal - On The Road To A Perfect Town

So I've been trying to get a perfect town status in New Leaf. I've had one before a few years ago when I first started playing. But I want to get it again so I can grow more Jacob's Ladder. I find them so cute and I love planting them around my town. Unfortunately I had to delete a few town projects that were negatively affecting the town nature rating. So sadly the picnic rug and tire swing had to go. I also demolished the instrumental shelter as I never really used it anymore.

Recently I've built a flower clock and solar panel. These town projects will lift your nature rating greatly to achieve a perfect town. However, Isabelle is still saying it's not perfect and needs more town projects. I've just finished a wind turbine so hopefully that will help.

Finally got Frita to move back into my town after she sadly moved away when I stopped playing a long time. I was sad that she left as she was my favourite villager. Luckily someone in my Nintendo Group was kind enough to lend me their Frita amibo card to scan her back into my town. She moved in the other day and in a perfect spot too! Not over any plants or paths thankfully.

Visited Pekoe recently and she was wearing the terrible designed BMO tee that I made. This design is my town flag and honestly, it's terrible. I've never really looked into designing things in the game, I just scan QR Codes in for outfits or paths. But I made this simple looking BMO from Adventure Time once and haven't removed it yet. So it always makes me laugh when villagers wear it as a t-shirt.

J-Pop Albums - Dream Ami & After School

Received a new order from YesAsia the other day of some j-pop albums. The ones I brought this time were three singles from Dream Ami and After School's Lady Luck/Dilly Dally single. The three Dream Ami singles I got were Dress wo nuita Cinderella, Hayaku Aitai and Kimi no Tonari. The first two are older singles of hers but Kimi no Tonari is her newest single. 

I brought the CD versions of all four singles as I prefer these versions as they include the singles. YesAsia however doesn't list two of these singles correctly. For example, the Hayaku Aitai single only has one track listed as the track listing but the actual single includes 6 tracks. Lady Luck/Dilly Dally was the same, only lists 3 tracks but it has 6. The best way to find out what is actually included on the CD before deciding to buy it or not, is to look at the publisher product code listed in the technical information and then google that. I use Generasia to confirm the product codes to the version of the CD I want to buy (i.e. the single one) and also a Japanese music store like Tower Records, CD Japan or Amazon Japan.

I'm trying to build up my collection of Dream Ami CD's and I'm only missing the Try Everything single now. She has an album coming out in October, but I'm not sure which version I'll get. Most likely the CD one as it's the cheapest and I'm not sure how many songs will be on the album that I don't already own. I hate buying albums that already have songs I own on them (look up Crayon Pop albums, I've had to buy BarBarBar a billion times now). Here's a photo of my collection so far and I have to say the design of Dream Ami's covers are one of my favourites in my collection.

Look at these beautiful aesthetics!

Style Boutique 2 Play Journal - Five Stars Finally!

Finally did it! I finally got five stars in the fun category in the fashion shows in Style Boutique 2! I've been trying for ages to get a five star outfit in this category and I lost track of how many failed attempts I had. Here's the five star winning outfit!

It took a lot of experimentation and failed attempts to get to this. At first I was using the lively theme clothing items and that always seemed to just get three or four stars. Sometimes even two! But then I switched to the sporty theme clothing items and I started to get better scores. After a few attempts, I found the combination of a jacket, pants, some logo/patterned inner and sneakers worked well.

So let's take a look at all the failed attempts I had. Well the ones I kept the pictures of, a lot I deleted.

This whole experience has made me discover lots of important aspects an outfit must have when creating a five star outfit. Trying to get them all together and put them into blog posts sometime in the future. I made a more detailed post about this outfit at my Style Boutique blog.

Animal Crossing New Leaf Play Journal - Summer Adventures

Been playing a fair amount of Animal Crossing New Leaf lately and thought I'd share some of my activities that have been happening in the game. A while ago, the villagers celebrated four years of my excellent work as Mayor. But they hilariously forgot that I was absent for over one year because I stopped playing.

One of my villagers Canberra (who is cute Koala named after our nation's capital) had some witty lines to deliver recently. The umbrella one is my favourite as I have no clue what she is talking about.

Visited the cutest Dream Address and their town was themed in the most beautiful and creative way. Plus I'm a sucker for any design featuring a lot of pink. The playground area was adorable and set out perfectly. I wish nintendo had put more playground style town projects into the game, maybe like a swing set or seesaw. The campground area was a nice area to visit as well. Overall the landscaping of this dream town has been one of my favourites I've seen in the game. I've included the address for the town which is 6C00-006D-EAE5 incase you wish to visit it yourself.

Speaking of dream addresses, I received some excellent feedback recently from a player with a hilarious name. So thank you to Random from Awesome who visited! My Dream Address is 7A00-004D-AD3C if you wish to visit.