New Figures for 2018 :)

Hi Everyone,

My life has been a bit hectic since I last blogged and I'm sorry for not getting round to posting about my new figures, trip to SSK and the fact I've had my whole village out! In this post I will introduce you to my new families and other figures who I've managed to get since January of this year!

In January, I managed to get the Tuxedo Triplets! I've always wanted them and was so disappointed that in the UK we don't have them. So after joining a site - I managed to get in touch with a Japanese lady who kindly found them for me! So my Triplets are the most Travelled of my villagers! They were expensive but well worth it! 😊I love them and they look so nice with the rest of the family!

Next to arrive in my village was Cora Corntop! Who I also found on a Facebook selling page! 😊 She now completes my Corntop family! Unfortunately I forgot to do a group photo! 😕

Next to arrive after a swap with Bryony.... 2 new Chocolate Rabbit babies! Breeze and Kabe Join the family 😊 We swapped the bike for her twins - this picture is me collecting them. 

Next to arrive... my biggest want ever! I finally have The Moss Reindeers!!! 😊 I'm soo happy with them! I paid a lot of money for them on Ebay - the most I've paid for a family! I'm soo in love with them and they will be featuring in a new story very soon with their cousins the Buckley's!! 

Next to arrive... another of my rare families who I've wanted for a long while! The Chestnut Racoons! They are also just as lovely! I got them on the facebook selling page and I'm so glad that I did - second highest paid for family! 😊

Around this time... back in may - I had started to realise after a visit to bryony that my Original Breezy isn't actually Breezy! I've had after all these years - an Original Grandmother Pearl and I never knew! I took her along to the SSK shop to check and he came to the same conclusion… and once I got home... I found my old Grandmother Pearls dress on one of my Bearberry members! So I decided I needed to buy the original Breezy and now she is here and completes my Babblebrook family 😊 - at the same time I got this rare Swing set to add to the vintage playground! Shame the figures just fall off it when they are seated! 😔

While at the SSK shop - I decided it was finally time to buy the Cottontail Rabbit family! So my poor little comfrey who I lost in the garden 4 years ago and who looks worse for wear - finally has his family to look after him 😊 

After these new families and odd figures joining Little Eleville our Family total is now.... 42! And then of course there are all the hotel staff and shop keepers to include as well... so the new Figure total is...… 334!! 😮 I don't know if I will carry on collecting the vintage figures or not... we will have to see lol. Here is a couple of photos of all of my families in order of village hotel, shop, extra sets, rabbits - which I have 9 out of the 12 families!, Bears, Woodland, water, Farm, Exotic, Birds, dogs and cats!

From two broken country cottages to one perfect one!

Hi all,                                     

Sorry it’s taken me ages to put a new blog up…. The flame seemed to have diminished within me due to not being able to get to much of my collection… that was until recently when I found someone on a Facebook page I belong to who just happens to love Sylvanians as much as me and who also belongs to the Sylvanian forum page! Thanks to Bryony, I now have the spark back after about a year and a new friend!! This post I should have done back in the beginning of September but because my flame had practically disappeared… I didn’t have the motivation to do it. So after many months here is my new blog post! 

From two broken country cottages to one perfect one!

I was very lucky and I managed to find not one but two country cottages on Facebook selling page… I bought the first one without knowing about the damage and then the second one – was in perfect nick but annoyingly the seller didn’t wrap it up appropriately and it broke in transit.  So I ended up with two broken cottages….

So after some moaning , a year of one being broken, the new one had been stuck in the lounge for  two months and I had applied to the royal  mail for a refund which I received a book of 6 first class stamps (better than nothing!)…. My dad and I Finally managed to make two broken cottages into one perfect one!!! Unfortunately I forgot to take any pictures while we were fixing them… I will just explain what we did. Here are the before pictures!

Cottage 1 - bought summer 16.

The first broken cottage was a real mess… we decided to save the frame as it was in perfect nick unlike the rest of the cottage – where different sections of the cottage were falling apart – including the door hinge!

 

Cottage 2 - Bought October 17 

The second cottage which got knocked in transit, the frame had a few broken chips in it…. So what dad and I did – was use the frame from the first one and used the main shell of the second one as the base!

How we made 2 broken cottages into 1

 So we took off all the old excess dried up glue off of the first frame.  Then we removed the frame from the second one which was hard to take off and needed a lot of strength to do it. In doing this some of the joins came undone. So dad and I had the fun task of using epoxy glue to fix all 3 different joins together. Once glued, I had to hold all 3 different joins in place – which is why I wasn’t able to get any pictures of us doing it! While these areas dried enough, dad started to put glue along the front area where the frame was going to be placed. We managed to put it on quite quickly and got it into place… then we had to hold it in place for at least 5 mins to make sure it was safely stuck! We left it to dry for 3 days to ensure it had stuck safely into place and that it wouldn’t move.

And here is the finished country cottage! You would never know that we had made 2 cottages into one here... would you! :D Its So nice to finally have a replacement country cottage - after i had to let go of my original one in 2008 because my family thought i was ready to let go of things! Hmm they were defiantly wrong there and why it had to be the vintage cottage of all things! but at least I've got one now!!! :D

Mini story  - moving in!! 

                                                

 “Oooo, what do we have here?” Bubba asked excitedly while standing outside of the new house.

“Well, it looks like our new but old cottage from our past village!” Grandma pearl and Grandpa Cliff said very happily at the same time!

“Oooo, super cool! Can I open the door?” Bubba asked very excited – he had always been such an inquisitive and adventurous boy!

“Yes open that door and go and explore!” Grandpa Cliff said as Bubba very quickly opened the new door… and there was lots of old vintage furniture! 

“Oh Cliff, its like we never moved! I love it!” Grandma Pearl said to her husband.

“So do I Pearl! I couldn’t be happier!” Grandpa Cliff responded.

Everyone came in and found a space for themselves

 Well i hope you all enjoyed this post... its nice having the buzz back and while its still here i will try and get some stories going! taking the pictures on the other hand is another matter entirely but i will try my best to get something up at some point! 

Lynne :)