I haven't checked in here in a while but here goes!
Today I started planning, buying and crafting for my new outdoor sushi restaurant! I have been collecting fish to display there that would be accurate to those of at an actual sushi restaurant I've been gaining inspiration from real Japanese sushi places on Pinterest, and it's my first time designing something based of an IRL creation.
I've ordered items that I have yet to catalogue off of Jhine7 here on TBT, whom I always go to for supplies for my creative projects hehe.
I've cut down trees and moved flowers onto the beach in preparation for the left side of my island to finally get some love! As well as moving the campsite, museum and my own house. For the campsite I decided to make an area above my residential housing for the campers to feel included with the rest of the town

And although I'm not actively looking for any new villagers, I'm keeping an eye out for peoples dream villagers so that I can give them away to them if they decide to show up in my town!
I did my fossils today and I've noticed that far more often than not I'm receiving ONLY fossils I have already donated, so I'm collecting them and going to make a thread for people to take their missing fossils like I saw somebody else did for me
I had never actually visited the bug section of the museum until today and the butterfly exhibit it is so beautiful! It encourages me even more to collect and donate bugs just to complete it
I got a DIY for starry night wall from Celeste today too!
I caught my first Koi fish!! Ever since, I've been getting them more and more today, which makes me so happy as they're one of my favourite fish in the game, every time I went fishing I always secretly hoped I'd fish up a Koi fish, and when it finally happened I was dumbfounded lmao. Kind of silly for a virtual fish but they're so beautiful to me! I used to draw them on all of my textbooks and papers in school so it brings back little memories like that
I created a little park/zen area as you cross the bridge to the left side you're greeted by my raccoon statue and set up kind of a Totoro inspired bus stop complete with little leaf umbrella surrounded by trees :,)
I'm really enjoying playing day to day and not time skipping like I used to, makes my days feel more important and longer and makes me excited the next day to play and do things I couldn't do the day before
Hope everyone has a Happy Holidays! <3