Animal Crossing

Fireworks Season

Pretty much the best thing about August is the Sunday night fireworks shows in Animal Crossing New Horizons. Here’s a look back at each of the five shows I’ve enjoyed this year. I dressed up in a different kimono (with coordinating kimono sandals) each time to really capture the Japanese festival spirit, and once I even carried a parasol, mostly because Roald was concerned that the fireworks were so bright, we’d need “fireworkscreen.” I also branched out a bit and designed a few more fireworks myself, including a pair of them to commemorate Tokyo 2020.

Now that the big, in-game summer event is over, I guess it’s time to start looking forward to fall!

Fruit as Fashion

Only in Animal Crossing could dressing like fruit be considered fashion!

I’ve been working on collecting the various fruit outfits, which consist of a hat, dress, and umbrella. There are some you can craft (based on the various native produce…I made only the peach items, since that’s my island’s fruit), and sets you can buy. Most came pretty easily, but it took four of us on four different islands over a month to finally find the strawberry umbrella at Nook’s Cranny once I started looking for it!

My dressing up as fruit may have had some unintended (and unfortunate!) consequences, though:

Which fruit look is your favorite?

How I Spent My Summer Vacation

This summer was far superior to last summer…we actually went some places, and even left town for a few days! Still, I spent a good deal of my free time working on my island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, until I have it almost perfect (there are a few items from Gulliver I still want to collect and display). Once that was done, I just spent a lot of time lounging by the pool!

Chickadee Thursday

Twinning!

Chickadee was the one who finally found me the strawberry umbrella at her Nook’s Cranny after I’d been looking for it for over a month…she decided we needed to be outfit buddies to celebrate!

An Obsession with Peaches

Summertime is peach season, and I think most people would agree that there’s nothing like a nice, fresh peach.

I mean, who doesn’t love a peach crisp?

Wade, however, takes the love of a peach to a whole new obsessive level.

He even dreams about peaches…but sometimes, even peachy dreams can be scary!

Or was it a dream?

I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me before, but I planted a peach tree outside his house, and added a peach surprise box, just to make him happy…and, well, surprised. Yes, I’m also dressed like a peach!

I will say that Wade is certainly an easy guy to buy presents for…a simple peach will do the trick!

I love discovering the quirks of my neighbors!