Big Top’s Birthday

Today, I paid off my latest house expansion and I went with the only option left, to expand my back room. It will be done tomorrow.

Tom Nook: The work will be fully completed by tomorrow morning. I'm so sure you must be very excited, yes, yes!I  finished up customizing my modern wood furniture with the diamond wood pattern. I don’t have the entire set yet, but everything that I do have has been customized.

My modern wood furniture customized with the diamond pattern.There was a tent over at the campsite, so I went inside to see who was visiting. Turns out it was Soleil the hamster.

Soleil: You're from Forest, right?When I went up to the Dream Suite to update my dream town, I saw that my most recent dream visitor was T. Zelda from Hyrule!

Luna: According to the latest feedback, a client named T Zelda from Hyrule enjoyed your dream.Over by Re-Tail, Tabby was talking about fairy tales. I wasn’t really paying much attention, and then an option came up where I could choose a poison apple. I hoped I was going to give her one.

Tabby: Hmm... A poison apple? Are you sure about that? Well, I bet you're right, master...And she acted as if she was grossed out by the notion of being awakened by a kiss from a prince. Tabby, that’s not something you ever have to worry about.

Tabby: Then she got to take a long nap, but some random prince woke her up with a kiss? EW!And over at town hall, Rolf was talking about how I rarely spend time at town hall. Hey now, I never asked to be mayor in the first place!

Rolf: But it's pretty rare to see you in the town hall at all!Aurora approached me and gave me a pawn for some reason.

Aurora: Um, J-bot. I hope this isn't presumtuous, but I think you could use a pawn.Time to Party

Today was Big Top’s birthday, so I stopped by his house to wish him a good one.

Big Top: Hurray! You came, killer!Benedict was also there to celebrate Big Top’s birthday. He said he was going to show Big Top the best time he’s ever had. I don’t want to know what that means.

Benedict, at Big Top's birthday party: Today you and I are gonna show Big Top the best time he's ever had, buhk buhk!When I talked to Big Top, he asked if I brought him a present. Of course I did! I had a wonderful pawn to give him!

Big Top: A pawn? I never would have guessed this would be my present!
But will it be the only piece I give you? I’ll have to check, mate.

Customizing Furniture

Today, I got a letter from the Happy Homes Academy. They congratulated me on reaching an HHA score of 50,000 points. They also sent me this silver HHA plaque.

The silver HHA plaque from the Happy Homes Academy.My friend Wendy came over to visit, wearing a monster mask. I wore my bug mask from yesterday.

Wendy dressed as a monster and Jeff dressed as a bug.In the Able Sisters, I bought this ghost mask and put it on.

Trying on a ghost mask in Able Sisters.Wearing the ghost mask, I stepped behind my tombstone picture on my face-cutout standee.

Poking my face through my gravestone face-cutout standee while wearing a ghost mask.Wendy helped me spot some blue violets in my town, so I could finish surrounding my fountain with them. I’ve added a new picture of my fountain to my town page.

Later on, Big Top invited himself to my house. He suggested that I use my sleek bed as a trampoline.

Big Top: I hope you're practicing flips. It would be a waste to use a bed that big just for sleeping, peanut.When I went to work at the cafe, Brewster told me that he didn’t need help.

Brewster: Sorry... I don't really need any help right this moment...Yesterday, he didn’t need help either, but I thought that was because Jack was visiting town. But if he didn’t need help today either, then why? Am I not going to be able to work the whole month of October?

My daily fake rock gave me an emerald. I wanted to customize some furniture with it, so I took my modern wood sofa in to Cyrus at Re-Tail. I found out that the modern wood furniture can’t be modified with the emerald, but I still had it modified to display a diamond wood pattern. I’m happy with the way it turned out, and I plan on modifying all of my modern wood set the same way.

Take home the modern wood sofa?Back outside, Aurora was talking about her shirt design called “shirt.”

Aurora: This particular design is called shirt. Isn't it nice, waddle?I saw Canberra over by the bridge, and she asked if I could call her master.

Canberra: Can I call you master too?Phineas made an appearance, and I talked to him to see what new badge he had for me. He gave me the Happy Homer Bronze badge for scoring 50,000 HHA points.

I got the Happy Homer Bronze badge! I've taken one big step toward a fashionable lifestyle!I then checked out the latest Nintendo Zone DLC, a fedora chair. It can not be ordered from the catalog.

Fedora chair DLC: Not for sale.When I was going back to Re-Tail to have more modern furniture customized, I noticed that the mini-dharma in my pockets could also be modified. Out of curiosity, I decided to give it a try. You can only change the color to white or blue, and I went with blue.

The mini dharma customized in blue.It does look better in blue, but I ended up giving it to Rolf anyway (when he asked for furniture). That’s all I have for today, but I’ll be back with more tomorrow. I hope to see you then! 🙂

A Surprise Visitor

As expected, Gulliver sent me a Merlion from Singapore in the mail.

The merlion fountain that Gulliver sent me from Singapore.The three dandelion puffs I blew yesterday have turned into three new dandelions today.

Three new dandelions that appeared where I blew three dandelion puffs yesterday.Being the start of a new month,  I knew it was time for a new DLC item. So I went to the post office to see what it was. It’s a rice-plant bed…interesting.

The rice-plant bed DLC on display in my house.I went to work at the cafe, but Brewster said he didn’t need help today. That’s odd. I didn’t think it was an event day…but more on that later.

Tabby wanted to give me a new nickname: Shmoopy! Absolutely not!!

Tabby: OK, here it is! "Shmoopy"! Snappy, right?I made her call me “master” instead. Anyway, while shaking a durian tree, I heard a springy “boing” sound effect. I got my net out and caught a bagworm. It’s a new bug for October.

I caught a bagworm! Ain't no one baggin' on me now!Surprise Visitor

As I continued my walk around town, I saw a visitor I was not expecting: Jack!

Jack, on October 1st: Trick or treat?It’s not Halloween! What’s he doing here? It turns out he’s asking for help on the 31st.

Jack: When Halloween comes around on October 31st, would you like to be one of Jack's loyal subjects?He told me I’m expected to scare everyone in town. I’m supposed to find a costume to wear, but he gave me a head start by giving me a bug mask.

Jack: Please collect as many of these scary items as you can so that you may spook people the right way!Some of the scary items will also be sold at the Able Sisters for 1,031 bells, Jack told me. He also reminded me to stock up on candy.

Jack: During Halloween, everyone else will ask you for candy as well, so make sure you have enough to go 'round!At any rate, this is what my bug mask looks like:

Wearing the bug mask I got from Jack.Let’s Go to the City

When I went up to Main Street, I saw that the Nooklings are currently selling candy in preparation for the big event.

Tommy: Ah, a candy! A fine item, yes?They’re also selling spooky furniture for October. I picked up this spooky lamp.

Tommy: Ah, a spooky lamp! A fine item, yes?And the Able Sisters are indeed selling the scary items Jack talked about. Unfortunately, today they only had the same exact bug mask that Jack already gave me.

Labelle: The cost for that particular item is 1,031 bells. Don't you just love that style?Aurora and Rolf both arranged meetings with me. So at 6:20, I had to meet Aurora at my house.

Aurora: It's not glamorous, but every house needs a trash can.And at 6:30, I went to meet Rolf at his house. After I was done visiting with him, I went up to the Happy Homes Showcase. I hadn’t checked up there in a while, and there were three new SpotPass homes I hadn’t seen yet. One of them belong to Jeff from SB. So Jeff met Jeff.

Jeff: I'm Jeff from SB. My home is over at East 14. Thanks!Jeff had this nice music room in his house:

A music room in Jeff's StreetPass home.Another of the SpotPass homes belong to Snay from Snerkvil. This was one of her rooms:

The SpotPass home of Snay from Snerkvil.And the other house belonged to Nate from Beantown. He had a really nice home.

The SpotPass home of Nate from Beantown that appeared at the Happy Homes Showcase.When I returned to my town, I caught a yellow perch in the river. It’s another of the new catches for October. And then I spotted Phineas, for the first time in a long time. He gave me the Good Shopper badge.

I got the Good Shopper badge! That's because I've bought so many nifty things!I’ll be back with more tomorrow. Don’t forget to get your DLC item for October!