Posts Tagged ‘abbey barnsworth’

Barnsworth 2.1

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Simmer’s Note: I’m still dealing with the loss of the pictures here, but only for a smidge. Bear with me a little longer, people.

From Barnsworth

A lot happened in Bailey’s life after she broke up with Skip. Both her brothers — Ben and Buck — became teenagers, she applied for a job at a science lab, and she met someone new. Or rather, reconnected with someone.

His name was Dimitri Ivanov and he had gone to school with Bailey, albeit a few years ahead of him. She remembered him from those times as a dashing upperclassman who had all the girls swooning over him. Imagine her surprise when she ran into him outside the movie theater.

He called her name, kind of hesitantly, and when she turned at the sound, he laughed warmly.

“I thought that was you! Bailey Barnsworth!” Still laughing, he said, “I bet you don’t remember me. We went to school together.”

“Oh no, I remember you, Dimitri,” Bailey said, then kicked herself for sounding like a noob.

But the chance encounter bloomed into something more. Dimitri asked her out to dinner, and she accepted. Soon, they were dating almost exclusively. Dimitri is a musician, and one of the things he does to sweep Bailey off her feet is serenade her. (Which is so much more romantic than anything Skip ever did.)

Bailey and Dimitri soon decided to get married and after many months of making plans, they married in a small private ceremony, which ended with Dimitri moving into the Barnsworth home.

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Barnsworth 2.0

Monday, July 20th, 2009

The last time we left off with the Barnsworths, Hunter had died and Bailey had at last become a young adult… and had met someone who made her heart pound.

From Barnsworth

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Barnsworth 1.3

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Simmer’s Note: I want to apologize in advance for this, but the next two updates are going to be to high on storytelling and low on pictures. I accidentally deleted my screencaps while messing with the Launcher. So until I catch up to where I have lots of pictures again… expect more story than pictures.

From Barnsworth

As he is getting older and older, Hunter finally retired from his job at the hospital. This left him with a lot more free time. He decided to take up jogging, and goes out every morning before heading out back to the pond to fish.
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Barnsworth 1.2

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Well, here it is time for another Barnsworth update. But first, I thought I would post the “rules” by which I’ve been playing this family. Not the Legacy Rules, by which every one takes their basis, but my own “house rules” so to speak. These are the guidelines by which the Barnsworths live their pixellated lives.

  • 1. Firstborn is heir/heiress (unless untimely death occurs)
  • 2. Family must grow their own food.
  • 3. Bikes are the preferred mode of transportation. All cars owned by spouses (marrying into the family) must be sold upon death of original owner.
  • 4. Favorite colors must be used in clothing/bedroom/personal items of each Sim. (I like ‘color coding’ my Sims, so sue me!)
  • 5. Love of Outdoors is Family Trait.
  • 6. No Technology — Abbey (the founder) is a Technophobe, so the entire 10 generations must live without phones/tv/radio/computers in their home. Fire alarm/burglar alarms are permitted, as their provide a service. Sames goes for indoor plumbing. (In other words, the outhouse stays!)

And now, on with our update…

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Barnsworth 1.1

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Uhoh! Where the pictures go!?

From Barnsworth

Hunter Cottoneye was not what anyone in Riverview would have called ‘husband’ or ‘father’ material. Most people were rather blunt about telling Abbey that he had put her faith in the wrong man.

He was paranoid, they said. Neurotic and strange. Has strange ideas.

But at home in their little cabin, Abbey could see none of that.

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Barnsworth Legacy 1.0

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Uhoh! Where the pictures go!?

Meet Abbey Barnsworth… fresh off the farm and newly moved to Riverview, where according to some Big City Lawyers, her mother’s great aunt Mable has left her ‘the family estate.’

From Barnsworth

Abbey is a very excitable young woman with a bit of a green thumb, who loves the outdoors (having spent the better part of her life exploring the mountain side out back of her daddy’s farm) and has a bit of a lucky streak.  Things just come easy to her.

Growing up on a small farm in the mountains of West Simginia, however, Abbey is  more than a little afeared of technology and all it’s trappings.

This it was with some hesitation that she left those mountains and moved to Riverview and the estate promised to her by her aunt’s lawyers.

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