Well I wasn't expecting to post again so soon after my most recent post, but my order from BeHappy arrived today. I found out about this place on the collector's forum and was excited to see that they had all of the easy buy families and that they were on sale. I had only seen a few of them on eBay and they were pretty expensive. Shipping was kind of high but with the discount I got two families for about the price of one family on eBay so it was definitely a fortunate find. The link to BeHappy is this pay very close attention, do not leave off the .my otherwise you are going end up at a website that you absolutely do not want to be at, as I found out when my brother wanted to look at it: http://www.behappy.com.my/store/
Anyway, I picked up the Ocher rabbits and the Maple Dogs and I'm very excited because I will get to name them because I am not aware of any established family names for them.
The ocher rabbits are interesting because I could tell that they were a darker color than the Periwinkle rabbits and I had gotten a Mack Periwinkle that did not match the other Periwinkle family members. It bothered me so much that I ended up buying another Mack Periwinkle but also included the Grandmother this time. It kind of seems like my odd colored Mack Periwinkle is a bit closer in color to the ocher rabbits, so I may make him the Ocher rabbit grandfather. I couldn't really get a good picture of the ocher rabbits compared to Mack where they looked exactly the same but when I look at them they pretty much look like the same shade.
If you had trouble reading my previous post, I did fix the font size on that. I don't know what happened when I posted it and it was quite a headache to fix it but I fixed it and hope no other entries shrink like that. I'm still not organizing my apartment because i am still fighting off a cold but hopefully I will be better by this weekend and can make some progress.
Happy Collectiong!
~Kim~ aka Blossom Timbertop
So, I know I hadn't posted on here for several months but I didn't realize it was more than half a year. I haven't done a lot of things to my set up, except make room for a table so I am not having to pull everything out and put everything back. Unfortunately my apartment is in a constant state of chaos and I've been desperately trying to organize it so I can enjoy all my stuff instead of just buying stuff and shoving it all into boxes until I figure things out. I have purchased a lot over the last 6 months and really should have been posting it here to at least keep things going but again, that organization thing. I realize I have a lot of ideas and not a lot of follow through. I hope to change that someday. I will keep trying.
My newest additions to my collection are the Danny Dog family from Maple Town. I always wanted them growing up but only have the Patty Rabbit family, the Bobby Bear Family, and the Fanny Fox family. Growing up they were always part of my adventures in Sylvania, so I will definitely keep them going. I also would like to collect all of the Maple Town figures if I can. Maybe replace some that are missing some items of clothing as well. The Danny Dog family I found in box and never opened and it's crazy thinking that this box is only 5 years younger than me and that it has been sitting unopened for 32 years.
My other latest arrival was the Waddlington Duck family. I am super excited about them because I don't have any of the duck families and I was happy to be able to get them complete, as I have only seen partially completed duck families on eBay. I am unsure about their place in the story though because thinking that I would never get them, my intention with naming my village Lavender Hollow, was to make the Lavender Rabbit father the mayor of the village. So, I have to decide if I want to change that or not since the father Waddlington duck is also know as Mayor Waddlington. I know I can pretty much do whatever I want but sometimes I have trouble making decisions. A couple times I have gone to my friends on Facebook to help me decide which profession each family should have. Like I said, lots of ideas, no organization, and also indecisive. One thought I had was maybe instead of Mayor Waddlington, was to make him Judge Waddlington to deal with disputes. I like the Waddlingtons, I was surprised that their beaks and feet were made of plastic.
I had previously said that I was going to incorporate Lego for making some of my buildings and structures and for some things I still might, but I realized that buying the amount of Lego it would take to make structures of a size that was scale to Sylvanian Families would be a larger investment than buying craft supplies. So, I am probably going to do both. I know I there are vehicles that I would like to make and those would be easier to do in Lego but as far as houses and businesses go, I think it would be less expensive to use boxes and buy decoration. They probably won't look as fabulous and a lot of the stuff I see on the forum but that's ok. I'll hopefully get better with time.
I bought a small sewing kit so I could start trying to practice hand-sewing some clothes. I have plenty of cloth from some old clothes that don't fit anymore so that will save money on the initial fabric expense as I practice I just need to print out some patterns but I think I need new ink for my printer.
Anyway, I hope to keep at least updating when I get some new figures as I do have a few things coming in the mail and I hope I can start working on more family photos, maybe re-doing some that I've done and start building businesses and clothes and customizing furniture. It sounds like a lot but every time I see everyone else's blogs I get super excited and want to do cool stuff myself.
Anyway, Happy Collecting!
~Kim~ aka BlossomTimbertop on the forums.
