Holyster's gifts

Hello and Happy Holidays everyone!

The challenge prompt for the second fortnight of December (and the very last one of the year!) in the Sylvanian Families Collectors Community was:

Challenge #24: Free Challenge

We've arrived at the end of 2019, and the last Free Challenge of the year! Thank you all for a year full of fabulous crafts, beautiful photos, and immersive storytelling! You have made the creative challenges an amazing success. There is lots more to come in 2020! The first challenge of the new year will be posted on 1 January.

This is a chance for everyone to work on a Sylvanian project of their choosing. Choose a prompt that you would enjoy taking on, expand upon a project that you've already created, or try a new technique or material!

Make an item or items, photograph a scene, write a story, or do whatever inspires you to do something creative with your Sylvanian collection!

With this post, I am happy to say that I managed to participate in each and every challenge of this year, 2019! I wanted to try and accomplish that, so I'm very happy about it! :) Not sure if I will be able to do it again next year, but I have to say that I truly enjoyed these challenges, that inspired me to try and do different things with my Sylvanians. I even did a little crafting, which I'm not very good at! So thank you very much to Terra, the rest of the forum admins, and of course, the person who originally proposed to do these challenges last year, Kaz.

For this free challenge I wanted to illustrate some of the gifts the Sylvanians from Arcfield received from Holyster, the gift-giving, shape-shifting forest spirit!

Here we have Frances Robinson, admiring the beautiful new paint box she got! With this, she'll be able to draw and paint even more beautiful pictures. 

The Spinelli children, Livia and Silvio, received a beautiful toy box full of toys to share!

It's not only the children that Holyster brings gifts to; see, Mr Waters got a brand new tool box full of shiny new tools to use in carpintry!

Some of you were worried about Freya Chocolate, since Holyster told her that she might not get any gifts this year. To be honest, she's been worrying about that too. And today, it seems like her fears have unfortunately become true; her brother Coco (who seems quite happy with his new toy blimp) and her baby siblings have received gifts, but she can't find one for herself anywhere in the house.

And it's not that she hasn't been looking! Could it be true that she's not getting any presents this year?

I wonder why she can't find anything...? :D

Exhausted and frustrated, Freya finally decides to get out of the house to clear her head.

"Where are you going, love?" Teri, her mother, calls sweetly to her as she's about to leave. Freya looks at her, her eyes glistening with tears, and replies curtly:
"To take a walk".
"Could it be that you're upset because Holyster didn't bring you any gifts?" 
Teri's smiling sweetly at her, and that just makes Freya even angrier.
"Of course not! Who needs gifts, anyway?!"

Teri smiles even wider. It's been a while since she's had this much fun teasing someone, but still, Freya is her darling daughter and she seems upset, so in the end she decides to finally show her the present she's been hiding and moving from spot to spot all morning, and that she had been hiding behind her back as they talked.

"Gotcha!" she says, winking at her daughter. "Hope this whole thing made you think a bit, at least!"

Freya is speechless. Did her mother really just play a prank at her?!

All's well that ends well, though, and Freya's quite happy with her brand new teddy bear! She hopes you all get tons of gifts these holidays, too!

This will quite probably be my last post of the year, so Happy Holidays and Happy New Year, everyone! See you in January!