The Dreamy Island of Hawkins: When Stranger Things Meets Animal Crossing

12/31/2025 ~ Kat ~ Leave a comment

HawkinsDream Address: 9387-3305-7975Date of Visit: 30th December 2025 With Stranger Things coming to an end with the season 5 finale finishing today I thought I'd celebrate by visiting a Stranger Things related Animal Crossing: New Horizons island. This island was created by Sou (@byler-going-crazy-together) on Tumblr.Here's what Sou said on their post whilst sharing their … Continue reading The Dreamy Island of Hawkins: When Stranger Things Meets Animal Crossing

How to Install My Mods for Animal Crossing: New Leaf

12/31/2025 ~ Kat ~ Leave a comment

I have finally started my modding journey for Animal Crossing: New Leaf after dreaming about creating mods for the game for years. I thought I'd write a brief tutorial on how to install my mods just so that if anything changes in the future I can always edit this tutorial as I won't be able … Continue reading How to Install My Mods for Animal Crossing: New Leaf

The Dreamy Island of Saffron

12/14/2025 ~ Kat ~ Leave a comment

SaffronDream Address: 5365-3237-1618Date of Visit: 13th December 2025 It's been a while since I've last toured someone's island via AC:NH's dream suite feature so I thought I'd check out the dreamy island of Saffron created by TiredMushroom, the co-owner of a Discord server that I'm in! TiredMushroom is a talented creator that uploads long-play styled … Continue reading The Dreamy Island of Saffron

My Thoughts on The Animal Crossing: New Horizons 3.0 Update Trailer

11/17/202512/14/2025 ~ Kat ~ 1 Comment

So Nintendo randomly dropped a new trailer in relation to Animal Crossing: New Horizons announcing a Switch 2 version and a new free update that includes a lot of new content which will be releasing in January of 2026. There was a lot of new things shown in the trailer so I wanted to document … Continue reading My Thoughts on The Animal Crossing: New Horizons 3.0 Update Trailer

Melodic Town Tunes From a Japanese PikoPuri Magazine!

09/25/202512/14/2025 ~ Kat ~ Leave a comment

I absolutely love media from Japan, whether it's video games, anime, music— and whatnot. Some of my hobbies nowadays includes purchasing goods using a proxy to buy stuff directly from Japan. I mostly purchase anime figures but for my latest haul I decided to purchase some of the Animal Crossing: New Leaf magazines I've seen … Continue reading Melodic Town Tunes From a Japanese PikoPuri Magazine!

The Kingdom of Serenity Opens it’s Gates For The First Time

06/03/202512/14/2025 ~ Kat ~ 1 Comment

At the end of May 2025, the fan-made project Pretendo finally announced that online play for Animal Crossing: New Leaf would be open for the public! Although not all of the online play features are currently available, a large majority of it's features are finally back including Club Tortimer, the best friend feature and visiting … Continue reading The Kingdom of Serenity Opens it’s Gates For The First Time

How to Get High Quality Screenshots for Animal Crossing: New Leaf

05/26/202505/26/2025 ~ Kat ~ 2 Comments

I've been asked a few times now if I'm playing AC:NL on an emulator and how I get beautiful HD graphics in game but I'm actually playing the game on my Nintendo consoles! I upscale my photos using a website tool that gets rid of the pixels and makes my images in high quality so … Continue reading How to Get High Quality Screenshots for Animal Crossing: New Leaf

Lots of Bug & Fish Catching in Meadow

05/24/202505/24/2025 ~ Kat ~ Leave a comment

I noticed whilst working on Meadow that Mayor Kiki only had a couple of fish missing from the encyclopaedia so I decided to dive straight into trying to catch them! I was missing the king salmon, soft-shelled turtle, blowfish, saddled bichir and mitten crab. I time travelled to September 2024 after I knew none of … Continue reading Lots of Bug & Fish Catching in Meadow

SnowBelle: A New Resident, New Town Flag/Tune & House Renovations

05/22/202505/22/2025 ~ Kat ~ Leave a comment

It's been a while since I've played in my winter/Christmas town of SnowBelle so I decided to spend about a few hours of my time playing in SnowBelle as a "mini break" from working on Serenity. Bianca moved in sometime whilst I was taking a break from SnowBelle to work on Serenity, she was an … Continue reading SnowBelle: A New Resident, New Town Flag/Tune & House Renovations

The Kingdom of Serenity: Landscaping, a New Human Resident & Perfect Town Status Reached!

05/18/202511/17/2025 ~ Kat ~ Leave a comment

You might recall in one of my previous blog posts that I had made a town flag for Serenity but I wasn't super impressed with how it looked during the dark hours as the highlights of the moon and the yellow hues made the moon looked kinda off. I ultimately decided that I wasn't happy … Continue reading The Kingdom of Serenity: Landscaping, a New Human Resident & Perfect Town Status Reached!