Visiting SQville

Late last night, Pete came to my door! He had a letter for me. At 1 a.m. This couldn’t wait until morning, Petey?

Pete: Catch you later!There was a bilboquet attached to the letter. Uh, okay…

A bilboquet.Jessica then came over to get the clothes she needed for Gracie’s fashion check. She also had a petition that needed signatures, so she went around talking to my villagers. As for me, I just took a nap in Skye’s house.

I sleep as Jessica speaks with Skye.Jessica collected the signatures she needed, then went home for her fashion check, and then returned to give me my clothes back. Then today, I went over to Tom’s town and I got a bingo!

Snowman: BINGOOOOO!The snowman gave me a snowmobile. Tom’s Re-Tail was buying turnips for 129 bells, which was better than the price in Forest, so I sold my 1,200 turnips for 154,800 bells. Tom then did some glitching as his friend Eliazar looked on.

Tom stands in the doorway of the tent.Tom’s 3DS battery light turned red, so he quickly kicked us out. Back in Forest, I started fishing for the tournament. I needed big fish, so I caught a sea bass, a blue marlin, some tuna, and a hammerhead shark out on the island. I gave them to Chip in increasing size order so that I could keep breaking my record and get lots of prizes. Interestingly, he wouldn’t eat the hammerhead shark.

Chip: Hmm. Yup, looks like this is a good example of "catch and release." Except I can't give it back. Nyuk!So he just put the shark in his pocket. Yeah, that makes much more sense. 😛 Anyway, I scored a football-fish lamp, a Mama panda, a candy jar, a squid chair, a washbasin, and a marine pop floor. Here’s a look at my haul:

My fish tourney rewards.My 111.65 inch hammerhead shark held on for the top spot, and I won the gold fish trophy. Rolf got second place and Tia got third.

Celebrating a fishing tournament win.I’m running out of room, so I decided to put all of my fish furniture into a museum exhibit room for now. That room currently has my balloon furniture in it as well.

My museum exhibit.At 10 p.m. my time, I headed off to Saarah’s town SQville, where it was 2 p.m. Sunday. She asked what we should do; the decision was easy.

Jeff: Let's destroy this town!Okay, so I didn’t really destroy her town. But she did let me cut down three trees with my silver axe to give her some special stumps. She got an orange (?), a heart, and a Triforce.

The special stumps in SQville.She then started giving me a tour of her town. She has two very cool cats, Lolly and Bob! Lolly informed me that her bookshelf contains books.

Lolly: I hope you had a chance to check out my bookshelf. It's full of books, of course!
You don’t say.

Saarah also has Stinky. Saarah told me he has underwear on his head! I guess that would explain the name.

Stinky: I'm Stinky! Hope we can be buddies!But one side is red and one is blue. Does that keep the hot side hot and the cool side cool?

In her house, Saarah has the cabana furniture. But not just any cabana furniture, golden cabana furniture.

Saarah's golden cabana furniture set.With the tour complete, we did some glitching. She led me to an “endless place,” where we had a not-so-endless race.

Glitch racing in the void.After that, I returned home to Forest and went up to Club LOL. I asked K.K. for a random song and he played K.K. House for me.

Mermaid Furniture Giveaway

Last night, Aurora asked me for some medium sized furniture. I didn’t have anything good to give her, so I fished her out a sea bass. She liked it so much that she gave me her picture for it! I already had a picture or two from her before, but still…a picture for a sea bass?!

Aurora: Here's my Aurora's pic! Thank you so much for helping me!Then today, Tammy had a surprise for me. She said she’s going to move out of town on February 12th!

Tammy: I'm leaving on the 12th of this month. You gonna be OK with that?She’s my least favorite villager, so I have no problem with her leaving…even though I don’t have her picture. Because honestly, I really don’t want it. I suppose I could keep it in a drawer with Tabby’s pic to frighten people when they go snooping through my things, but it’s not a necessity. Tammy thought I was just playing it cool by holding back the tears. Ha!

Tammy: Hah! I get it. You're playing it cool. Trying your best not to cry. It's OK.By the way, Tammy is already spoken for; I’ll be giving her to Tiffiny next week.

Anyway, Jessica asked me for clothes to pass a rock ‘n’ roll fashion check from Gracie. So I got the clothes out of storage in preparation of loaning them to her (even though I still have not heard back from her). To save room, I put the skeleton hood on my head. Technically, the hood isn’t a rock ‘n’ roll item, but it matches the skull shirt I have on-hand, and this collection of items will pass her fashion check–I used it to pass my fourth and final fashion check in October.

Tom and I visited each other’s towns for bingo numbers and I got a double ding. That’s actually pretty good, considering that’s a new bingo card I just got yesterday.

Snowman: DOUBLE DING!I stopped to dance on Tom’s chessboard in the moonlight.

Dancing on a chessboard.When I returned home, I finally checked my mail for the day. Wishy sent me this podium for wishing on the shooting star last night. Does it make me look presidential?

President Jeff Skellington?Forget town hall, I should make that my office. Rolf can be in charge of security and Molly can be my maritime lawyer in charge of port authority.

Luna told me that Finnian from Hyrule was my most recent dream visitor. And I wrapped up my day by failing at making a snowboy.

I’ve finished up my monthly slideshow of pictures, so here’s a look at 180 of my best pictures from January.

The mermaid furniture giveaway starts now!

JVGS Mermaid Set Giveaway***GIVEAWAY DETAILS***

WIN a complete mermaid furniture set in Animal Crossing New Leaf: Mermaid table, shelf, chair, dresser, wall, sofa, carpet, clock, bed, closet, screen, lamp, and vanity.

There are three ways to enter: [Entry details removed now that the contest is over.]

You can enter using any or all of the three methods listed, but only one entry per method. The contest will end on Saturday, February 15 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. All valid entries will be entered into a spreadsheet and a random number generator will be used to choose a winner.

The winner will be announced later that night on my Feb. 15 New Leaf blog entry and on Tumblr. I will attempt to contact the winner at that time, so make sure your Tumblr asks are turned on (if you enter on Tumblr).

If I am unable to contact you for any reason, you must contact me and claim the prize (by opening your New Leaf gate for me) by February 18 at 11:00 p.m. Eastern Standard time. If you don’t, you will forfeit the prize. If the winning entry was from a comment left on JVGS, the prize will ONLY be given to the winning friend code chosen (to prevent abuse).

More blah blah: The prizes were purchased legitimately with medals I earned on the island. They were not duplicated or hacked in any way. I am unable to keep the winner on my friend roster after the prizes have been delivered. If the winner does not claim the prize by February 18, another winner will be chosen. That winner will also have three days to claim the prize. No mermaids were harmed during this giveaway.

Day 281

Last night, I went to Mark’s town to let him catalog a sleek side table. He thanked me by giving me a famous mushroom.

I become a giant while in Mark's town of Topiary.We actually disconnected though, so he reopened his gate and I returned to let him catalog the item again. He gave me the mushroom again, but this time I held onto it.

Today, I got a letter from Gulliver in the mail. He sent me the Mouth of Truth! Molly wasted no time in asking me for it.

Molly: Would you be willing to part with said Mouth of Truth?She offered me a dharma in exchange. Ha!

Molly: You could have my dharma in return! How about it? Will you trade?
HahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. No.

I spoke with my snowman and he rolled a number 30 for me. Bingo!

Snowman: BINGOOOOO!He gave me a ski-slope floor.

The ski-slope floor.I built another snowman to get a new bingo card and then headed to Tom’s town. His friends Noah and Joanne were there. Tom’s instrument shelter said the weather was going to stay nice, but it was clearly raining beans.

Instrument shelter: Looks like the weather's going to stay nice!But what good are beans without a giant to climb the beanstalk? Err…or something like that.

Me turning into a giant.A bit later, Kim had some bingo numbers I needed, so I headed to her town. She pointed out that I had a tan! I hadn’t even realized it, but all this island-hopping lately has changed my skin color. Kim and I waited for a bus that never came.

Kim and Jeff waiting at the bus stop.Not many people install a bus stop, so I think this was my first time seeing one in person. I explored her town and I also took a look at her museum exhibits. This gyroid room was quite impressive.

Kim's gyroid collection.She’s also working on a balloon collection.

Kim's balloon collection.When I returned to Forest, I saw there was a meteor shower. So I wished on a shooting star.

Wishing on a shooting star.I went up to Main Street, and Luna told me that Ethan from Canada was my most recent dream visitor. And I put my Mouth of Truth in my World Wonders exhibit at the museum.

My World Wonders museum exhibit.I also used a QR code for my trophy room that LemonBunch sent me. You can get the trophy code on the QR Codes page.

Trophy Room exhibit by Jeff.I also did some island hopping. I went on a couple of tours with Izzy, and later I found an island with two other people (besides myself). It’s pretty rare to have three people on a Club Tortimer island, but we did a couple of tours.

Unfortunately, while on a scavenger hunt tour, Isabella was away for a couple of minutes. But the worst part was that she was standing in the doorway of a house. Courtz’ last item and my last item were both in that house, so we failed that tour quite miserably.

Isabella blocking the doorway.On another island, I met my first Club Tortimer beggar. It was Linzy, and she asked me for bells! I asked how many she needed, but she said she didn’t know. She would leave it up to me.

Linzy: I don't know.I gave her 5,000 bells to be nice; she didn’t even thank me. Then she started asking me for my friend code. Uh, no. I quickly left that island and continued on to the next. Eventually, I found the mermaid vanity that I needed! So I now have the full mermaid set!

The complete mermaid furniture set.Barring any problems, my contest for the mermaid set will start tomorrow. So check tomorrow’s blog entry (and/or follow me on Tumblr) for the full rules on how to enter. You’ll be able to enter here on JVGS and also on Tumblr.

Just a reminder that I won’t be opening my gate tomorrow night for Friday Night Forest. I usually skip the first Friday of each month.