April Calendar Picture and collection pictures

Hello everyone,

I apologize for the lack of posts. I haven't been doing much with my Sylvanians recently, and if you're a member of the SF Collectors Forum, you probably already know that I unfortunately lost my beloved grandfather to coronavirus a few days ago.

His state seemed stable for a while, but ultimately worsened last week-end. The whole situation and circumstances have been very hard to deal with.

I'm doing my best to keep working and doing things that might help. It might be a good idea to try and get back into playing with my Sylvanians and writing stories...

Please, please everyone, stay safe and healthy and take care of yourselves and your loved ones.

Since it's beginning of the month once again, here's the picture for April in the official SF Calendar.

 

I like how there's a sunset in this picture, love the colours. Looks like the children and babies of the village are having fun in what looks like a fair. Freya and her friend Ralph are eating cotton candy, so adorable! As always, love their clothes. I liked seeing the pastel-coloured Candy Wagon at the background, as I've recently purchased it. The tiny candies it comes with are truly adorable.

Do you all like these fair attraction sets that have been coming out for babies recently? It looks like this year they're going to be releasing many theme-park-themed sets (attractions, and even a haunted house!). What's your opinion on those? I don't think I'm going to buy any, but I can see the appeal for their current target. I'm more partial to the style of the old sets from Tomy and Flair.

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Even though, as I mentioned, I haven't been doing much with my Sylvanians lately, I did want to share some of the things I've been working on during the past few weeks.

 
At the beginning of the year I bought a second-hand Flair Cottage Hospital. Since it was missing most of the small accessories, I bough the current Country Nurse Set to complete it a bit. The building had a lot of stickers randomly placed at the top of the walls, near where the roof would be, and after removing them they left white-ish patches, so I decided to make a "wall border" to hide them. I think it turned out pretty well. :)

Huge thanks to Berna (Alcalá de Sylvanian) who sent me a couple of the big pieces I was missing! Also, please marvel at the coat rack drip, haha! One of my aunts, who collects Playmobil, has since got me a Playmobil drip but I still don't have it with me.



This building won't feature for a while in my stories, but you can be sure that doctor Andes will be delighted to finally have his own clinic. :)

More recently I have spent some time working on Camilla Hunter-Smyth's shoe and accessory shop. I had been wanting to work on this for a while, and I managed to finally get motivation to actually do it. I quite like the end result! Thank you once again to Berna, who sold me this versatile small building and suggested to build cardboard walls for the area missing actual walls. I will probably do that for when I actually take pictures for a story. I'm hoping to feature this building in a story in the near future. Hope you like it!



Finally, a few weeks ago I spent some time setting up my collection display space with figures and accessories. I wouldn't dare call it a diorama, but thought that maybe you all would enjoy seeing it. This is the "real" Arcfield, as it currently sits on my furniture!

As you can see, there's a Cozy Cottage that I've still to wallpaper and furnish. A future project!







Not the most interesting or perfect pictures, but I wanted to share some pictures of my village and what I've doing with my Sylvanians, even if it hasn't been much recently. Hope you liked them!

Have a wonderful rest of the week and stay safe, everyone.