August Calendar Picture

Hello everyone!

Believe it or not, it's August already, so here's the picture in the SF Calendar for this month.

This time we have a beautiful kitchen scene with the new furniture! I really like those new sets, but so far I haven't had an excuse to buy them, hehe. I'm thinking of buying a Cozy Cottage to add to my Beechwood Hall and re-decorate it for a different family (it's currently set and displayed as the McFarlane's home). That way I could have a couple of extra rooms and make a big mansion (and finally have a proper bathroom with a bathtub in one of my houses, haha!) 
At first I was planning to re-decorate the house for the Tuxedo cat family (when I get them...) since they look so elegant! But lately I've been thinking that it could also work for the Hunter-Smyths, which is a family that I actually own and that I also see as quite wealthy. Decisions, haha!

Anyway, back to the picture! We have the Chocolate rabbit family, dressed in lovely new clothes, enjoying a delicious, fresh watermelon! They also have some other fruits at hand. I love how they displayed the kitchen table, it looks so real and busy! I also like the wall decoration at the top left of the picture. At the front left we have a couple of very cute babies about to start eating some delicious-looking pancakes, and to the right we can see the incredibly adorable Osborne siblings. I love the outfit on the baby! I wish they sold the baby figures with clothes like that. 

I actually quite like the Osborne bears, but I'm a bit reluctant to get them since I already have the McFarlanes, and I'm trying not to have too many figures of the same species in my village, since I don't have a lot of space for my collection at home and I'd rather have variety.
If I were to get another bear family, I'd probably go for the polar bears or panda bears, since they're quite different. Before I started collecting, the Petites were my favourite. Love their colour scheme.

In this month's picture we have Freya Chocolate (of course!) but not her sister Crème! I believe the Chocolate baby in this picture is her even younger sister, Breeze.

In other Sylvanian news, I have almost managed to complete the baby band from the blind bags! I wasn't planning to try and complete the collection, but... you know how things are with Sylvanians, haha! I actually like the shopping blind bags babies better, so I'm hoping for them to start appearing at shops soon! Cutata told me she'd found them at a shop in Spain, but quite expensive, at 8€.

I sure rambled a lot this month, haha! Sorry if I bored you. I quite enjoy reading other collectors' thoughts in their blogs though, so I thought it'd be OK to write a little about mine in these monthly calendar posts. :) Feel free to look at the picture and not read anything else, haha!

I'll be posting less this month, as I'll be leaving to visit some relatives soon and won't be back until September 1st or 2nd.
Have a great month of August and a wonderful rest of summer!