Bad Snowman

I’m trying to get all of the snowtyke items, and some of them require that your other snowpeople are made imperfectly. So today, I built a snowman and I made sure I screwed him up badly. He was speechless at first.

Snowman: ...But then his anger came out.

Snowman: UTTER NONSENSE!He criticized me (that’s another fault of his) and then he started lecturing me! He should feel lucky to be alive at all! Mr. Snowman needs to learn some snowmanners.

Anyway, I got my jolly painting in the mail from Crazy Redd. I took it to Blathers at the museum, but there wasn’t an option to donate it. That’s because I already had a jolly painting in the museum, I had just forgotten to mark it off my list. Oops. When I went to Re-Tail, Reese told me it was a fake anyway. Oh well.

As I left Re-Tail, I saw Big Top nearby and I spoke with him. He asked to play a game of hide-and-seek, and I agreed to give it a try. I had 15 minutes to find him, Teddy, and Molly.

Big Top: We're all going to go hide somewhere in the neighborhood.Whenever I have that much time, I don’t need to rush. I watered my flowers as I walked around town. I found Big Top pretty quickly, and Molly not long after that. But I completed my walk around town and still hadn’t found Teddy, so I went down to the beach. There he was, hiding behind a banana tree.

Teddy hides behind a banana tree.I won the game, and Big Top rewarded me with a giraffe ruler.

Big Top: To commemorate your win, I'll give you my giraffe ruler!I found a lost item, but it belonged to the first animal I asked about it: Molly. She gave me a vaulting horse to thank me.

Molly: I've had this book since I was little. So many wonderful memories... I couldn't be happier you found it!I went to Tom’s town to take him the snowman matryoshka I had for him. He also let me catalog his crown, which I tried on briefly.

Trying on a royal crown.We went up to Club LOL and danced for a few minutes. Angus was in there, shaking his royal rump roast. As for King Tom, he looked a bit constipated…

Tom trying to poop??Tom ended the party and I was about done for the day. But I made sure to check the Dream Suite, where Luna told me that Emma from Winter was my most recent dream visitor.

Luna: According to the latest feedback, a client named Emma from Winter enjoyed your dream.

Northern Lights

As expected, the snowtyke sent me another snowman matryoshka. Tom asked me for it, so I’m going to give it to him since he helps me out with bingo numbers every day.

The Northern Lights were in the skies above Forest tonight, so I took pictures from various locations around town. Here they are over my train station.

The northern lights above my town hall.And here they are by my snow family.

Northern lights and my snow family.Crazy Redd was in town once again today. He had a basic painting for sale, but it looked the same as the fake one I bought recently. Two of the other three paintings were ones I already had in the museum, so my buying decision was easy. I sprung for this jolly painting.

Redd: I see! Ya seem to be really close to that jolly painting, yeah?I often customize the furniture I get from animals or at the store. I end up giving them to villagers when they ask for furniture. Here is a customized polka-dot clock I picked up today.

Take home the polka-dot clock?Over by my central bridge, I stopped to snap another picture of the Northern Lights overhead.

The northern lights from my bridge.When I went up to Main Street, Luna told me that Kyle from Delta was my most recent dream visitor. And in the Emporium, I had ACCF flashbacks when I saw Gabi and a classic buffet. Nice table.

Timmy: Ah, a classic buffet! A fine item, yes?Back in town, I was having serious trouble locating snowballs to build a snowman. Once, a dung beetle had it on the edge of a cliff and there was no way to save it. Another time, it was on the edge of the river and fell in. Another one smashed into a tree and shattered as soon as I got to it.

But mostly, I just couldn’t find them! Even though I would go indoors and come back out to reset them, there was one point where I made about five or six trips around town and still couldn’t find one of them–despite looking everywhere, behind every tree and every building. It took me over an hour before I finally rounded them both up and built a (purposely flawed) snowmam.

Snowmam: Starting today, I will be staying  in town for a while. Please stop by for a chat every now and then.She wouldn’t even mention snowflakes, so I’m hoping she’s made poorly enough that the snowtyke won’t give me credit for her.

My buddy Kidd suggested a totem pole as a public works project.

Kidd: And it's free of charge! Yeah, what we definitely need around here is a totem pole.I’m not sure if I would want this in my town or not. At any rate, it doesn’t seem worth the hefty price tag (538,000 bells).

Totem pole: 538,000 bells.That wrapped up my (late) night in Forest, but I have two other things to share with you. One is a QR code for a Star Trek Starfleet uniform submitted by Roman. If you’re interested, check it out on the QR Codes page.

The other thing I have to share is a slideshow of my New Leaf pictures taken in the month of December. Enjoy!

Fashion Be Crazy

I started up the game this morning and began my search for Joan. She was selling turnips for 99 bells each, and I again bought 1,000 of them.

Joan: So 1,000 turnips comes out to be... 99,000 bells altogether. Do you wanna buy them?Tom had a bingo number that I needed, so he invited me over to come get it. Bingo!

Snowman: BINGOOOOO!The snowman gave me a lift chair, and I tried it out when I returned to Forest.

My new lift chair.Even though it appears to be hanging down from the ceiling, you can adjust the camera and see that it’s not actually connected to anything. It just hovers there. Anyway, Big Top came over to visit. He saw my ice vanity and assumed that meant I must wear make-up. Uh, what?

Big Top: Oh!  Does that mean you wear makeup then, little top?After he left, I headed up to the Dream Suite. My most recent dream visitor was Kate from Oakhaven, but that’s not why I came here. It was time to go on a dream suite adventure! I headed off to a dream town based on The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time!

Playing in a Zelda themed dream town.It’s a really cool town that Zelda fans will really enjoy. For more info and pictures, as well as the dream address, check out my Termina page. Or for other cool dream towns, check out Jeff’s Dream Suite Adventures.

After I returned from my dream, I went to visit Big Top. Rolf was also in there, and he was talking about how some people put fake eyelashes on by gluing them to their eyelids.

Rolf: Can you imagine what it'd be like to accidentally glue your eyes completely shut?And then he uttered this classic line: Fashion be crazy, quackers.

Rolf: Fashion be crazy, quackers.When I went back outside, Teddy suggested a fire pit as a public works project.

Teddy: Hey, J-dog! You're the mayor. Fund a fire pit!It would be a great project for winter, and it’s affordable too.

Fire pit: 46,000 bells.I spoke with Teddy again, and he told me Tammy was kind of aimless. That’s what I’ve been trying to tell everyone!

Teddy: The other day I gave some advice to Tammy! She was kinda aimless.And last but not least, I rolled up two snowballs to make a snowtyke. But the little guy told me his family was perfect! No they’re not!

Snowtyke: I'm going to send you the most awesome thank-you letter for making my family so perfect!So I’m guessing this means I’m going to get another snowman matryoshka, when I was hoping for a different prize. My snowboy and snowmam were definitely flawed, so you may have to really mess them up badly to get the other items from Snowtyke.