06 April 2026

Creative Challenge April

 The Creative Challenge for April is "April Showers"


Tell a water themed story, craft rainwear, show a rainy night in, share your nautical critters or those who are live in or by water in our world (otters, seals, frogs etc)... 


Have fun and I look forward to seeing your projects!

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2026 New Releases - Jan/Feb




Before we go over the new releases from March, here's a quick refresher on the new items from the first two months of 2026. This year has already brought us some exciting new families and sets, including some all new animal species arriving in Sylvanian land!

New Corgi Family (Feb 21 Release)

This new corgi family was released in February, and appears to be exclusive to the Online Shop and official SF stores. They can be ordered from Japan's Official Online Store.

The Corgi family: Mom wears a pink gingham dress with a brown bow, over fluffy white bloomers. Dad has a purple plaid shirt with a brown bowtie, and fluffy cream bloomers. Brother wears a blue gingham shirt with a green bowtie, and cream bloomers. One baby wears a purple gingham shirt with a yellow tie, and pink bloomers. The other has a green plaid shirt with a pink tie, and white bloomers. The sister wears a blue and pink gingham dress with a pink bow, and pink bloomers.

The Corgi mom, dad, sister, brother, and two babies enjoying an outdoor tea time.

The corgi family in box.


New Cottontail Rabbit Family (Feb 14 release)
These Cottontails in fancy new clothes were released in Japan in February. 

A version of this family without the babies is also available on the Calico Critters Official Online Store (USA). The CC version of the family has a few minor clothing differences (no buttons). The CC family isn't listed as online exclusive, so North American collectors will hopefully be seeing these in stores soon, as well. 

The Cottontail Rabbit family: Seven grey rabbit figurines with white muzzles. Mother wears a green hat and a dress with a green bodice, brown bow, and white skirt patterned with trees and houses. Father wears a light blue hat, pastel pink and blue suit, and a dark blue vest. His tie has a hot air balloon on it. Brother wears red pants along with a salmon shirt with a tree pattern and a blue tie. Sister wears a white frilly dress with a floral pattern, peach collar, brown bow, and teal underskirt. There are three laying infants: in blue, pink, and green frocks with hoods and peach bows.

The family in a Japanese box.


Sylvanian Families Whipped Cream Keychain Kit - Chocolate Mint (January 17 Release)
This is a DIY kit that lets you assemble your own plastic desert to display alongside your Sylvanian keychain. Available on the Japanese Official Shop.

The kit contains: a Flora Rabbit standing baby figure. She wears a pastel mint green beret and a dress with a caramel-coloured collar, white upper, and mint bow. The dress' skirt has a melted chocolate pattern over mint and white stripes, and a white ruffled edge. The plastic desert keychains you can assemble are a white macaron with a bunny face on it, a bar of white chocolate with charms, or a brown eclair. The kit comes with mint-colored fake icing which holds the plastic desert pieces together when dried.




Flying Squirrel Family (March 14 Release)
This is an exciting new family and an all-new species joining the Sylvanian world. So far, they've only been released in Japan, but hopefully we'll soon see them gliding into stores in other countries too!
A set with two adult flying squirrels. They wear onesies with cloud patterns and fluffy flaps like the "wings" of a flying squirrel. There is also a sitting baby in a parasail.

A set with a kid flying squirrel who comes with 2 plastic balloons, and a crawling baby who comes with a hang glider.


The adults, child, and babies playing in a park.


Cottontail Rabbit's Floral Hideaway (March 7 Release)
This set comes with Angelica Cottontail and has been released in Japan.

 
The set in its box. There is a sitting grey Cottontail rabbit baby with a gold crown and yellow dress with purple details. She sits in a pale pink plastic egg decorated with pearly gold trim, pink, purple, and yellow flowers, and green foliage. The egg is supported by an ornate gold plastic base.


Character Encyclopedia book (Coming Oct 1)
This book is being published by Pan Macmillan and comes with a Chocolate Rabbit standing baby in a cute pink bow and floral pink & white dress. It's available for pre-order in the UK.



Exclusive Forest Baby Concierge Keychains (Store Exclusive)
These keychains are exclusive to certain stores in Japan (more details here).

Two standing baby keychains. Creme Chocolate, a white rabbit with brown eartips, wears a dress with a pink spotted neck kerchief, white and pink upper, and blue skirt with pink trim. She also wears a blue beret. Caleb Fennec Fox wears a blue beret, orange neck kerchief, white and orange shirt, and blue pants with yellow trim.

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30 March 2026

2026.3 Challenge - Springtime for Brendan

Challenge 2026.3 Springtime

Just a short story - Brendan has written a poem about springtime!

Springtime for Brendan

Hello. I suspect this will be a brief post; my current project is taking up my time. Whilst it should conclude soon so I'll be less reliant on Darcy and Cecile, I simply had to take time to share the following with you.




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2026 - Challenge 2, February Celebrations

Hi everyone!

This is my entry for the second challenge for this year, "February Celebrations".

Just a simple picture this time, but I hope you'll like it!

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Some Saturday mornings, when Teri Chocolate wakes up in a good mood, she can be hearing gently humming a song in the kitchen. On those days, Freya and Coco always rush downstairs without even changing out of their sleep clothes, because they know it's Pancake Day!

Special mention goes to the lovely hand-made marmalade jars Cutata sent me! Love them, thank you so much my friend!

Hope you liked my entry, even if it wasn't a full story. 

Have a wonderful day! 

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29 March 2026

Challenge response: Spring

 My first post on any blog! Please excuse any issues with it...

Here's my response to the Spring Creative Challenge 


Lily has a new dress covered in embroidered tulips and daffodils - just right for Spring!


I also took inspiration from daffodils for the second project where I created a play place for my tiny Sylvanians. The Husky baby sitting in it seems to be happy!
As is often the case these projects are made of felt and thread. Apologies for the shadows in the photos - wanted to use the spring sunshine...

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28 March 2026

2026 Challenge 3: "Springtime"

 Hi everyone!

This story  is my contribution for  2026 challenge three: "Spring time"

Here is the link to my blog:

Primrose and the secret language of flowers




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23 March 2026

2026 - Challenge 1, Winter

Hi everyone!

I just made a post in my blog with some pictures for the "Winter" prompt. Hope you enjoy it!

 

A Winter Day in Arcfield

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