Merry Christmas!

Sylvanian Lucia!

On the Sylvanian forum, bloem organized a swap, and not just any swap, but a Baby Ornament swap! I thought the idea was lovely, hanging your Sylvanians in your Christmas tree. I was paired up with the lovely bloem and since she said that she hoped that we could do this every year I decided to give her a little bit of a Swedish tradition. So I made her a Lucia!

I have never made anything in clay other than basic circles and I think it shows, but it looks good at a distance. The dress is painted because I can't sew at all! 

I am very happy about my wreath making, it's very easy to make, you just glue and dump glitter/grass on it and it turns out looking very cute!

Below is a little history of St. Lucia and how it's celebrated in Sweden from sweden.se. It is one of my favourite Christmas days. :)

The Lucia tradition can be traced back both to St Lucia of Syracuse, a martyr who died in 304, and to the Swedish legend of Lucia as Adam’s first wife. [...] In the old almanac, Lucia Night was the longest of the year. It was a dangerous night when supernatural beings were abroad and all animals could speak.
The real candles once used are now often battery-powered, but there is still a special atmosphere when the lights are dimmed and the sound of the children singing grows as they enter from an adjacent room.

 Merry Christmas all fellow Sylvanian collectors!

Sylvanian Families Forum Baby Ornament Swap!

As my previous post said I just got a swap from GSnail, but there was another swap at the Sylvanian Families Forum! A Sylvanian Baby Ornament Swap. I thought this idea was really fun and I got the ornament today from the lovely Suvenkorento! Thank you so much, I will be sure to upload a picture of it when it hangs in my tree!

The package included some delicious (!!!) Fazer chocolates, who doesn't love Fazer?

Suvenkorento made me a card! It's absolutely adorable with a little skating hedgehog on it and a bell. It looks amazing!

Handmade and absolutely stunning! :)

 I am at loss for words how cut this little angel is! I had not thought about using a sleeping baby but the result is simply adorable, it surely looks like a little angel! She looks so serene.

Another shot from the front, the crotcheting is so cute and so very tiny. I love the details.

And from the back, I adore the tiny little button!

Thank you so much and merry Christmas!

Now I must go and write my essay! ;)

Sylvanian Families Forum Sock Swap!

I have participated in the Sylvanian Families Forum Christmas Sock Swap hosted by the lovely bloem. :) I had lots of fun putting together the swap for my partner and yesterday I got the things from my swap partner, GSnail! I absolutely loved everything, it was so thoughtful and sweet!

This wrapping paper is just adorable! I absolutely love it, and I was so excited opening it!

Inside there was an oven mitt! But just not any oven mitt, but one with Stephanie Clearwater's sweet face on it! I had said that she was my favourite Sylvanian, so it was so sweet of GSnail to do this!

(I forgot to take a picture of the outside, but it was very cool!) Look at the little doodle by GSnail, it looks amazing! (and it's a very sneaky thing, I didn't suspect anything at this point! XD)

The oven mitt was stuffed with things! All in the cute little wrappers! The candy was really delicious, one of tem had pecans and caramel and the other had mint, delicious and gone already! ^^

Say hello to little Ambrose! ❤  Isn't he just adorable?! I love him so much, thank you GSnail! I will work on getting him his family because he is a cutie that deserves it!

I also got these cool cookie cutters! I assume they are at least, because I have never seen anything like it, but if they are cookie cutters I adore them and will use them a lot! There are so many of them too!

I also got many little miniatures! They are all so lovely!

Here's what's in it! All is great size for Sylvanians, and the phone is so dainty, I think it looks better than the SF phone. I love the mirror, and the toaster too!

These jars are unbelievably cute though! ❤ 

And this food processor is wonderful too! :)

Thank you so much GSnail, I am so happy with all of these things. :)

The Tale of Trick-or-Treat and the Headless Mouse

Here comes a little Halloween tale! I love Halloween and got inspired by ashmimi.com to do some wreaths earlier this month. I wish I had so many cute things I could create costumes for my critters, but well! I have been busy this month, with an exam and being ill,  and this thing took a week to shoot! XD The story is very picture heavy and maybe a little bit spooky as well!

Enjoy and happy Halloween!

"Children!" Mr. Springer said when the last class had ended. "Have you heart the tale of the Haunted Mansion?" he asked his class.

The children where all silent. Some of them, who had lived in Lingondale, had heard about the Haunted Mansion before. As well as it's inhabitant, the Headless Mouse.

"I have heard about it." little Iona Dale said.

"It's an old, old story." Mr. Springer said. "Dating back to when the mansion was first built."

"The Headless Mouse was not always headless, but he lost it because he was a bad man, it was his punishment." Mr. Springer said and dramatically turned his back against his students. "But when they brought his body back to be buried, weird things began to happen at the mansion!"

Mr. Springer took a pause. "Cookie jars went missing, one could hear strange sounds at night!" he said. The children sat completely quiet, capivated by Mr. Springer's story. Except for Joanne who felt very embarrassed. "No one have lived there for 200 years after what happened that one night..." Mr. Springer said.

He ended his story there and returned to the black board. "Will you go trick or treat tonight?" he asked his class. The girls nodded their heads, they had planned it all already. "It will be the first time!" Evelyn Waterbrook said and smiled. "Well, watch out for the Headless Mouse!" Mr. Springer said and laughed!

Little Baden Renard is visiting!

But I doubt he would appreciate I called him little! I recently bought a a house on eBay that came with a lot of things, and Baden was one of the few critters that was in a good condition. Actually he is in a great condition, his tail is smooth and his markings so intact, he is a cute guy! And just like the Porridge Bears he is up for trade! 

Brick Oven Bakery Capsules "Review"

When I saw these capsules on the Sylvanian Families forum I knew that I had to have them. Food is definatively my weekness in the world of Sylvania, I think I want just about everything. So I bought them off eBay really quick and they arrived recently! I thought that I should do a little review of sorts. :) Mrs. Dale kindly offered her help to model the items!

The capsules themselves, all different colours and everything neatly packed inside. If Kinderegg start selling eggs with these sort of capsules I will become their biggest costumer!

We'll start with the pink one, the cooking set! It includes a rolling pin, a bowl, dough, a cookie cutter, a plate, rolled out dough, icing pen, a punched out cookie and three cookies. Quite a lot of it! I think the sat is really cute and most things fit very well with SF.

Except for the plate which is huge! Like really huge! It wouldn't fit into any home oven, but I think that it would have a chance in the bakery's oven. It looks fine with the critters though. :)

Next one is the blue capsule, the waffle set. It contains a rather big waffle iron, four kinds of waffles, a tong (not a thong as pointed out by Nutkin! Haha!) and a basket. One waffle had some chipped paint and I am not a big fan of the more artificially coloured waffles. I think just plain ones and chocolate would be enough. It's still adorable though!

Green is next with the danish set! As a Swede, danish pastries come with vanilla cream and icing, or chocolate! But I love this set. Everything is attached so there is only four items, three pastries, two sweet and one which I assume is savoury, a tong, a plastic bag and a big, big plate. It looks very out of proportion on it's own but works well with the critter. I got three of these plate with all the 6 capsules.

The plastic bag makes it really clear that the set isn't really compatible with SF, it's HUGE! It's the size of a child critter, and almost that of Barbara Dale! It's cute, but big!

The black one with the sandwich set is my favourite set together with the bagels set! It includes the big plate, a baking pan shaped as a bear, three bread pieces (only one has the painted face) and three kinds of toppings, but I am only sure of one of them: the salad and salmon. Haha! It's really tiny and versatile! Really cute!

The red one is another simple but cute! The eBay seller called it the drawing set, because it includes an icing pen and as you see the kitten has a pink face! The basket is really cute too! The set includes a basket, a plastic bag, a tong, an icing pen and three buns, one rabbit, one cat and one bear.

 The last one is the bagel set in the yellow capsule, which is absolutely gorgeous and the set with the most pieces! It has a tray, a plastic bag, three types of bread and three types of topping! There is a dark bread, a light bread with a "painted" bear, and a normal bagel. The toppings include jam (I think?) lettuce and cheese and lettuce and tomato! The variation is really big and you can have lots of fun with it!

Over all I really like these capsules and think they would look great in the Brick Oven Bakery, which I of course have to get now! ;) Thank you for looking! ♥