Hello!

I recived a parcle for… Okay, lets start at the begining.

So remember how I entered the Halloween Competition as I said in my last post, well, I went on the website to look at the winners of the last competition but when I clicked on Winners, I saw that it was the winners from the Halloween Competiton. (I had not been reading properly) Not expecting anything, I scrolled down to see MY name among the list!!! I have finally won something for the first time!

This is the parcle which was waiting for me.

I opened it to see these three items.

The book had some stickers in it and was really nicely detailed, but now here it is, the Halloween Set!

This is what it came with: A slide in orange and black (I do not think I will use it other than Halloween), two maracas, two little jingle bells bracelet thingeys, a walnut squirell in a ghost costume, a chocolate rabbit girl in a witch costume and two adorable little toys, a cat and a bunny (the bunny even has a little tail!)

Now, when I took of little Alice’s dress, I saw she had some purple markes on her, very strange, also, these figures are much larger than my other sylvanians, see in the picture bellow. Tobias is a cheap figure so he cannot move anything apart from his head, but the costumes they came in were great. I must say that all the parts where the black fabric touched the furr on the rabbit, that was where the patches were.

I have written a little bit of a story too (In the post bellow)

Emily

“Tobias, when are they coming? I want to go home!” cried little Alice Caramel who was sitting at the tob of a wooden box, inside were her toys but she was unable to get them for the lid was very heavy.

“The orphanage will pick us up soon, don’t you worry.”reasured Tobias, the two had travelled together from Sylvanian City by train and were sitting at the Pumpkinvilles Station. Tobias was an orphan at the Sylvanian City Orphange, while Alice lived with her well earning parents. She had to go somewhere to be looked after straight after she returned from trick or treating, her parents would not tell her why but were in an great hurry. Over a five minute telephone coversation, it was decided for Alice to go to an orphanage in the countryside.

Tobias on the other hand had to leave the Sylvanian City Orphanage because of the lack of room, he was one of the eldest babies and it was thought that he did not have too many connections with anybody. He had a younger brother which could not be identified so with no evidence of a real family, was, like Alice, put into a train for a orphanage in the countryside.

“Children there, are you coming to the Pumkinvilles Orphanage?” asked a high pitched voice.

It was a lady with an expensive jacket and a large fancy sun umbrella, “Yes” they both replied.

“Come along then, walk briskly.” the lady said. The lady was no other than Elsebeth Quilton, the owner of Pumpkinvilles Orphanage. At the sight of Alice’s expensive dress, she was very pleased, the money from it could be used to buy a diamond necklace for herself.

“Alice! Tobias! Is that you?” Exclaimed a female voice.

“Yes and no. Yes, they are and no, they are coming with me” remarked Elsebeth, pulling the children close to her.

“Elsebeth, do not touch them, they are coming with me, to Basswood Creek.”

“Holly Acorn, these are coming to my orpanage and with all the money I will make with the rabbit-”

“You are going to sell their belongings and make a profit while you dress them in cheap material just that you can buy a necklace-”

“ALICE!” screamed Rose Caramel(she had been waiting in the carige for Holly to return) and now flung herself onto the little girl.

“Rose? Sister Rose?”asked Alice

“Oh Alice! How you have grown! I have not seen you in two years!”

“Rosie, rosie posie take me with you, I do not want to go to any orphanages”

“You won’t, certainly you won’t”

“Oh Rose, where have you been these past two years? Did you really take the wrong train?”

“Yes, now I am living with Aunt Teri”

The two continued chatting and Elsebeth glared at Holly,

“See?”Holly asked. The small group climbed into the carrige, a bit puzzled Holly saw that Tobias looked alot like Alfie…

They soon arrived in Basswood Creek, the two little children were amazed by the bakery and of course the creative nursery. Harry Maramalade carried the heavy wooden box from the carigre into the house for Holly since she was busy getting Alfie and the rest of her family to meet the new children, expecially Tobias. Holly had just figured out the last of the puzzle she had been wondering, what a wonder the orphan authorities had not discovered this yet. Alfie and Tobias looked so very alike and since they both arrived at an orphanage on the exactly same day…

“Alfie, meet Tobias,” Holly paused before she gently said”your brother”

“I, I, I, a brother, I have a family, this, he is my family” stammered Alfie uncertainly, he felt very peculiar, happy, relived, privilaged,, speechless, excited yet dizzy and faint at the same time. He had not been expecting this, he, Alfie Walnut, now Alfie Acorn, had a brother, he had a family, though orphan, he had a real brother. This was too much to take in at once, “I am not a proper orphan then, Tobias is my older brother, I have a family” he said and sat down with mixed emotions. “I have a family, I have a family” he kept repeating, this was all too good to be true, even if his family was only a brother, he still had a family.

Mrs. Marmalade came at that moment to dress the children appropriatly, they were not fit too be seen at the moment, dressed in their Halloween costumes. Soon everybody had a suitable piece of clothing to wear and looked more like a normal country children rather that a Halloween parade.

Outside, Mr. Billabong took a picture of them, the children would spend the rest of the day making new friends at nursery.

Emily

The Sylvanians of Basswood Creek have been busy getting ready for Halloween and Dorothy Fisher had a costume wish list that reached to the moon and back! Thankfully, with the help of Lauren Marmalade, they all were finished on Halloween, here’s a group photo of all the little babies!

Ah yes, this is also the picture I entered for a Sylvanian Design a Halloween Costume Competition, hopefully I am lucky enough to win one of five Halloween sets! (I did not win the last competition, so fingers crossed!)

Emily

For this Tutorial you will need:

-two balls of red and white FIMO or something like it, these the same size.

-a sharp knife (A hairclip will also work)

-some clear nail polish (Watered down PVA will also work I think)

Flatten your two balls, they need to be the same size and thickness.

Draw on lines and divide your flattened ball into six pieces each, cut all the way through.

Now put three of the pieces in this shape.

Now put the rest of the pieces of the other colour into the gaps.

See how they are so big?

You now need to carefully push the edges for a while to form a cylinder shape.

Do this till they are about this long.

Now roll it carefully out and take a few brakes bettween rolling to prevent the colour from mixing.

Roll it a bit thinner than you actually want it to be, if the edges turn like this, cut of the bit where one of the colours has ended. See? this was why it was so important to cut carefully before.

Now carefully cut your logs a bit thicker than you want them to be.

Here you can see that the candy on the right is prettier than the candy on the left, well, all you have to do is flatten them a bit which will make them bigger, thinner and look alot more like real candy.

I coated them with a bit of clear nailpolish which made them look quite sugary, see the one on the left? I used a very cheap nail polish that only cost me two dollars.

Now the Sylvanian parents are ready for the little trick or treaters on Halloween.

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With Halloween coming up, I thought this candy would be a great tutorial.

Emily