Stuck in November

December 4, 2011 at 11:42 PM | Posted in AC:WW journal | 29 Comments
Tags: AC:WW WiFi, Dafdilly

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, but it’s not just me being lazy. There’s always a reason if I haven’t posted in a while. I’m a college student and finals are approaching; plus, a lot of things recently piled up on my Animal Crossing related to-do list other than posting: updating my monthly information page (check), making a wintry background (check), making a new header (not yet), catching up in my town (the date in Dafdilly is still back in November, hence the title of this post), and making patterns for Winter.

A few weeks ago, Saima restarted her town Ivy Hill and invited me to visit her new town, Anicotti, home of her character Sugar:

I see she got the red gate and symmetrical pavement she wanted. 😀


I gave her a few hybrids and some of the more valuable items from my closet as a housewarming gift.


Buying a bike from her Nook’s so that she can get Nookington’s one day 🙂


She’s already started to landscape her town nicely, like this row of trees. Rows don’t usually work out in my town. xP I need to test for Dafdilly’s dead spots one day (soon, I hope).


And this blue and green panelled bridge is another example of her early decorating. 🙂


Love the pastel color scheme she has going on so far! I apologize about these pictures, my camera has trouble capturing AC:WW’s evening colors. It takes a few shots to get a decent-colored one, which there isn’t always time for in WiFi sessions.


Soon she wanted to visit Dafdilly, but I got a picture of her map before we partied over. It’s a lovely town and I’m so jealous that she has Bob! 😛 Bluebear is really cute too, I like her a lot.


Welcome back to Dafdilly! This is Saima’s second visit, but we didn’t have much time for the first one. Sorry my town is behind real time (but it was only a matter of days at this point).


We went to my house first and I showed her the rooms and surrounding area, it’s too bad my garden looked so ugly that day. 😦


She was eager to get a haircut, but Nook’s was closed and wouldn’t open for four more minutes, so I set the timer. 😛


She noticed my scallop beach and I offered her one of them. They aren’t cheated scallops or anything (I haven’t ordered from any giveaways and I don’t have AR); I ordered massage chairs over and over one day by forcing the mail delivery, which you can do by having someone visit or sending 10 letters at once over and over, basically. 😛 Then I talked to Tortimer with a massage chair in my posession, received a scallop, entered and exited the town hall, and talked to him again and again, receiving a new scallop each time.


Passing the time some more by visiting a few neighbors, and then…


The bells alerted us to go to Nook’s, in hindsight setting the timer was a pointless idea. 😛


That’s such a sweet haircut! ❤ Unique, too, and looks great with hats. 🙂


And next was Ables’, which is kind of embarrassing since I use it for storage sometimes, or to transfer patterns between characters. Only half of them are for clothes, and one of them is Teru’s, the super colorful one.


Yeah, the yellow flower area here (it used to have yellow roses as well) got really out of hand. 😆 I’m going to re-arrange my flowers soon by mapping where I want them on a gridded map, in particular spreading out flowers that are heavy in certain areas like this. 😛


After looking around a bit longer and taking some fruit and tools, Saima had to go. Thanks for coming over and letting me see your new town, I hope you’re enjoying your new life there! 😀

Kammile also rebuilt her town recently and I was able to help by creating a new town on one of my extra gamecards for her to use as a temporary storage place for her old items:

I’m the boy, accidently said “I’m not a girl!” to Kapp’n. 😛

When she was done transferring items, I went over to her new town for the first time:

The suspense… xD


Yay, my first step in Kammile’s new town of Alp Wood! 😀

Her new map:

Meloetta’s house is on an island and there are lots of ponds, both great features. 😀


Stopping on the way to Meloetta’s house to admire these awesome cracker patterns!


This is her cute pink house on the outside, already upgraded.


I fell into two pitfalls while I was there. 😛


Her Nook’s is already upgraded, too, and in the process of expanding again, so I couldn’t buy anything. 😦


Kammile wanted to come over to Dafdilly with Harmony as the host for a change, so this was Harmony’s fist WiFi session. 😆 As you can see by the timestamp, Dafdilly is still behind the times.


The first item of business was getting a new hairstyle, which is so cute! 🙂


She went to greet Goldie from StarCity, but Goldie only remembers her as Kammile. 😦


Meloetta and Puddles coordinating well together. 😛 I had to go to bed soon after that, thanks for the fun Kammile!

The reason why my town is behind is because I wanted to finish my fountain pattern before the ground changed to winter colors that wouldn’t match. I had made this rough draft of a fountain pattern over a month ago:

It’s a rough draft because obviously the base of it wouldn’t be left white, I was planning on having it be cobblestone. And the droplets were going to be white instead of blue; I just didn’t feel like coloring every square in the background a dirt color beforehand to allow for white going on top.

If I’d done those things, the pattern would have been “complete,” but I also wanted to remove the base of the fountain and place rocks instead to give a more garden fountain feel:

This took so long to finish because I kept lingering over silly things like how the pond should be shaped (symmetrical or assymetrical?), where the rocks should be located (all around or in certain places?), and how I should shade the rocks and water. I wanted to make bench patterns as well, but it’s really time to move on with the new season, which will be my next post.