Eight year old Megan Appleseed was waiting impaitently at the Violet Village train station, she was waiting for her Aunt Chelsea to pick her up. Megan had travelled from Oakwood Village by train to live with her Aunt because her own family were too busy writing and collecting books for The great annual book festival. If Megan liked this new town, her parents would gratefully consider moving her there long term. “When is Aunt Chelsea coming?” she wondered, ” I hope that at the village they have a lot of instruments, because I had to leave after school I could not bring any of mine.” Little did Megan know she was being watched.

“Yoo ho!” cried a voice, “Come dear, we need to hurry!”

Amazed, Megan looked at the sylvanian coming towards her, it looked nothing like she had pictured her Aunt.

“Aunty, what a strange nose you have!” Megan exclaimed,

“Ah, yes, I was coming from my daughters dress up party!”

“Aunty, what white ears you have!”

“They are not actually all white, the part of ear which is black is covered by flour from my baking”

“Aunty, what shiny paws you have!”

“I am wearing gloves! Now come along, I have to hurry!”

So Megan went with her.

“Where is she?” cried a panicked voice,

It was Chelsea Blackberry wanting to take Megan with her to Basswood Creek, she had spent two whole hours looking for Megan.

Slowly, she walked around the big cupboard to find-

“Elsebeth Quilton!”

“My new clothes have arrived Chelsea!”Elsebeth spat.

Puzzled, Chelsea looked at a pile of clothes which Elsebeth had left behind.

(Elsebeth Quilton is the mean owner of Pumpkinvilles Orphanage, she hates Basswood Creek and despratly wants to be famous)

Chelsea ran to Basswood Creek and straight to the Mayor,

She hurredly explained that Megan was gone. She felt quite weak with worry.

“Perkin, telephone Anne and Quentin Appleseed please, heres their number. Oh and the station master at Oakwood and Violet Village.” Dorothy Fisher said when she heard the news.

“Yes, on the train, arrived, a woman came to her, what a pity, thank you!”

Perkin was processing all the information slowly, Megan had been on the train and arrived at Violet Village when Chelsea called that she was going to be ten minutes late and the station master told Megan the news. Then around a quater of an hour later a woman came and talked to Megan and then, there was no and then because the station master had his lunch break.

“Megan has been rabbitnapped” he shouted

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That was one of the three part story of Megan Appleseed, she is from the music lesson set which I got for christmas.

Emily

“Freddy, stop moaning, we will now have to make a fishing rod-” said the Father of the family,

“Why?” inquired the owl in the red jacket,

“Because we will want something for dinner Freddy.”

“But we have lots of food left”

“No, we do not so thats why-”

“But LOOK!”

“Where?”

“Behind you!”

Puzzeled, the Father turned around, “Oh my! How did that get there? Is it for us?”

“Looks like it” answered his wife, “We will have a bit now and then save some for later.”

“Good idea”

The two boys smiled at each other, they felt very proud of themselves.

The owls inspected the food, “We shall save the milk, popcorn, apples, one of the apple juices, the candy, the oranges and the bread for later so that now we can have some of the strawberries and biscuits.” said the mother owl.

They then packet the rest of the food away and found more biscuits hidden under the strawberry basket. “I wonder who is doing this, I am so gratefull that they have bought us the food. All the same, it would be nice to have jam and butter aswell as a knife for the bread and maybe a comb but never mind” pointed out the mother again.

The two boys had heard this and were already crawling away to get jam, butter, a comb and a knife when they heard one of the parents say, “We shall now go for a nice walk down to that big tree we passed and spent around half an hour there.”

The boys soon returned with the items and looked around gladly, it was easier to bring things secretly when the owls were gone, little did they know they were being watched.

“Who do we have here?” asked a female voice, it was the mother of the owls.

“Um, I am Ashton and this is Clive, sorry if-”
“No, no, thank you for the food, I am Arabella Treefellow”

“The one in the yellow is Henry, the one in the red is Freddy, the one in the blue is William and that is Aristotle.”

“Nice to meet you all” replied the two boys.

“Now, where in Sylvania are we, we have traveled for days after our hut burned down and the map fell out of the bag and into the water!” asked Aristotle.

“You are near Basswood Creek, we can take you there!” Ashton said.

Soon everybody was very busy, everyone except the little children who just ate strawberries.

The then rowed along the river in the large canoe the boys had come in.

“Welcome to Basswood Creek”  the boys shouted as they entered the village,

“This is a nice place!”said Arabella joyfully.

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I love the owls, they are one of my favourite families, the parents are the smaller than the average child but bigger than the average baby.

Emily

“Lulu will not find us here, she will be too scared to swim through the river.” Ashton Fisher said, “Not that she would be crazy enough to even atempt that.”

“Sh, look!” exclaimed Clive Billabong,

“Where?”

“Over the hill”

“What are those creatures, moles?”

“Owls by the looks of it”

“Owls, just like the wise old owl wizard in Forest Enchantment?”

“Exactly.”

Over the hill the family were talking to each other, the two boys could not understand a thing they said when they tried to eavesdrop on their conversation. “It’s not fair!”one of the little ones cried “I do not like fish, why did we have to move anyway, couldn’t have we built a new tree house? I am hungry and thirsty but we have only one more sandwich and one more bottle of milk left.”

“Go to sleep, you are always grumpy when you do not have enough sleep” replied his mother.

After a few more grumbels from the little owls followed by a great yawn, they all settled down to have a nice afternoon nap.

The two boys wondered what they would do, they could not stay here for they might get discovered but then again, they could not really leave and never come back. After a quick discusion, they crept out to have a look at this family.

“Yes, their bag of food is very small, what do you think he should do now?” asked Ashton,

“We should split up, you stay here and I will go back to the village to get some food and if anyone asks what the food is for, I will say we are having a picnic.”

“Good idea, hurry though Clive!”

Clive soon returned with a huge bag of food.

“Wow Clive!” Ashton exclaimed loudly,

“Not so loud, you will wake them- Hurry! Get behind the hill quickly, they are waking up!”

Sure enough the Father had groaned and was showing signs of waking up. The two boys looked proudly at their doings, how they hoped the mysterious family would like it!

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Ah yes, I bought these owls a little while ago. Part 2 coming soon!

Emily

Yes, thats right, Basswood Creek is getting a community veggie patch. All of the children in the village are tired of going down a half an hour track to the orchard, get the veggies and then come back to find that they have forgoton something. Holly Acorn has been very keen on the project along with Chelsea Blackberry who ownes the orchard. I know I posted on veggies on my last blog but these veggies are much better. So when I think of veggies, I think of carrots so carrots it is!

For this tutorial you will need:

-Orange FIMO or something like it

-Green FIMO or something like it

-a sharp knife

-a bluntish sharpish pencil

-a wooden skewer

-pva glue

-some clay or FIMO or playdoh (any colour) I made my own playdoh from this tutorial

-tea bag

-brown paint (optional)

First roll your orange mixture into a carrot shape,

Then, using your pencil, poke a hole at the top,

Now use your knife to gently draw on little lines,

Put your “carrot” to the side and cut a very small bit of skewer off and then put three small sausages of green FIMO on it.

Like this,

Now make three plat ovals and using your pencil again, roughen it up,

After that you put the “leaves” on the “stalk” and the “leaf and stalk” into the hole in your “carrot”. But first, put a bit of PVA at the bottom of the hole. Now let your carrot dry…

Now here is part two.

Roll a piece of playdoh or FIMO the length of your carrot bed and a bit bigger than you want the height.

Flatten the edges and the top, with your finger, press gently onto the top in some places to make it go like, mound, drop, mound, drop etc.

Now put you carrots in your bed to make the holes, you do not have to do this but my holes started to shrink a bit so I left in the carrots while it dried. Now the sylvanians will be able to “harvest” carrots.

Heres part two:

Spread PVA over your “Garden bed” and then sprinkle tea over it, it does not all have to be covered.

Let it dry. Here you see the shiny bit, that is what it would look like with just PVA on top. The colour of your tea does not matter since…

Paint! I mixed black and different shades of brown together to get this colour, also mix in a bit of PVA and water into the mixture. PVA will help stick everything together and the water will make the paint quite runny which helps to get in all the knooks and cranies.

Now let it dry! (Sorry about the bad lighting, it does not actually look blueish.)

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There we are! Other veg coming soon!

Emily