September Calendar Picture

Hello everyone!

Believe it or not, it's a new month already! Summer is nearing its end here in Europe and I must admit I'm ready for the temperatures to go down.
Today I changed the page on my SF Calendar, and here's the picture for September!

This month we have the village's children (and baby Crème) having fun in what looks like a cabin or treehouse in the woods. Looks like they had a treasure hunt and actually found the treasure! I love the little binoculars and rolled-up map, as well as the canoe in the back and the fishing rod and bucket to the right. Aidan Osborne is shown eating, as usual, haha! I love this month's picture with all the greenery (wish they sold all those diorama props!) and fun atmosphere!
This month we have both Freya and Crème!

There's been a few updates to my collection lately! I buy small sets almost every month, but for this post I'm going to mention the most destacable purchases I made recently.

First of all, as I mentioned last month, I managed to complete the baby band blind bag set:

My cousin in Madrid managed to find blind bags for both the shopping and outdoors sets, so I asked him to buy me two of both. :) I also got a shopping bag with my most recent order from SSK. With said order I also got the Scrumptious Sandwiches set, along with what looks like most of the pieces from a lovely Tomy copper kitchen utensils set. They've got them for sale really cheaply in their Spare Parts and Accesories section! Fliss Robinson will be happy to add them to her kitchen tools.

There's more! A collector friend from Spain, Berna (Alcalá de Sylvanian in the SF Collectors Community forum) sold me her Beechwood/Willow Hall extension. I'm so happy about this! I had been looking for this small building for a long time.

Berna sent a lovely surprise for me along with the building. Two adorable vintage Waters Beavers child figures! I love them to bits and have already thought of a personality, background and names for them, haha! I now need more beavers in my collection! They're so adorable! Thank you so much, Berna!

I find this little building incredibly versatile. I will be able to use it as the shoe shop for Camilla Hunter-Smyth (and other shops as needed), a small bachelor pad for Christopher Spinelli, and even an extension to my Beechwood Hall home (which will finally have a proper bathroom with a bathtub, haha!). :D

And finally, I bought the Brick Oven Bakery Gift set!

I try not to get too many big buildings, as I am very limited by space in my small apartment, but I've been wanting the bakery for a very long time, and my Spinellis needed their work space, so here we are! When I saw this gift set, which included more figures and that amazing extra floorplan (it has tiles on one side and stones on the other, it will be very useful to make scenes!) I just had to buy it. My excuse was that it was my birthday present for myself (my birthday is in October, haha!) but my mother actually offered to get it for me, so I'm also quite happy about that! :) I thought this was an older set but I saw it on the Coming Soon section of the SSK website, so maybe it isn't! I bought it from a Spanish seller in eBay. I absolutely love the building with all its details and all the adorable pieces of bread!

As you can see, my collection has grown quite a bit these past few weeks! I should stay away from shops for a while, haha, but as you know, Sylvanians are quite difficult to resist.
I have a lot of ideas for future stories and pictures, and hope to be able to keep sharing them with you all! :) I am currently working on Bluebell Cottage, the Alpacas' home!

Hope you have a wonderful month of September!