Strawberry

For a long time, I toyed with the idea of a kidcore island... but that didn't just feel like me. And then I saw someone doing a kidcore/farmcore island online, and I knew I'd found a theme I needed to try. 

I dubbed my island theme "kawaii farmcore" as I wanted it to be a farm that was incredibly pink and colorful. To be honest, I don't I executed it quite to the extent that I was hoping for, but its still a beautiful island nonetheless. It was honestly a really difficult island for me to make - I wanted a lot of the land to be flat and open, which doesn't really go along with my terraforming-obsessed nature. But despite my trial and error, I think this turned out to be a lovely little island! 

My resident rep, Posie, was sort of created with the idea of her being the child version of myself. This somehow evolved into her actually being the daughter of the resident rep Sophie that lives on Peach. Now, I don't want kids in real life, but hey, it's not so bad in a video game. Going along with this childhood theme, I made Posie's whole house decorated to look very grannycore, as one of my dreams as a kid was that I could live next door to my grandmother. My grandma was a big part of my childhood, and it was always so exciting having her visit each year for the holidays. She passed away in 2018, and I've really missed her so much. In a lot of ways, we're really similar - I got my green thumb from her, as well as my love of needlework from her. But, she never really got to see me like that - even though I was 19 when she passed, she'd had dementia for years and so she never really knew a Sophie other than the child me... So I wanted to honor her memory by making a very grannycore inspired home. Theres also lots of references to her hobbies, like the sewing station and plant corner, and I made sure to include a computer in her room because we always wrote letters to each other via e-mail.