October ends with Halloween so it's time to get spooky with costumes, tricks and treats, haunted houses, spooky tales and so much more...
Create costumes
Have a Halloween party
Make treats for everyone
Show us the spooky spot in your village
Have a campfire and tell spooky stories
Retell your favourite ghost story with Sylvanians
Visit a local spooky site with a Sylvanian or two
Have fun and enjoy!
Finding Cousin Iris
An ordinary tidying day for the Bullrush siblings made an extraordinary turn when Lily answered the phone as she tidied the living area...
It was a social worker from another town, getting in touch to see if they could be carers for a young frog called Iris Bullrush who needed a home after losing hers. This was the first the Bullrush siblings knew about a branch of the family tree there (they had spent time tracing relatives and creating a tree). Lily's response was that she needed to check with her brother but she thought it would be OK and would be back in touch once any plan was discussed.
When she arrived upstairs Algernon was studying the drone plane he has but as soon the topic was brought up and Algernon heard about the little one who was alone but they could help he put the toy down and the siblings started to plan...
They phoned the social worker back and checked that a temporary sleeping space while other arrangements are made to generate more space was allowed (yes we can allow that) and made plans to meet Iris and the worker at the hall in a couple of days.
"Thanks for opening your home for Iris here" said the worker Margot Marmalade as the frogs began to get to know one another. At the end of the meeting the newly formed family left with Iris and her belongings.
Margot wished them well and said she'd keep in touch to see how Iris was doing.
At home Lily explained that while Iris had to sleep in the living room for now, the plan is to create an area in the bedroom but the bunk isn't here yet...
Luckily the space between the sofa and the unit is just the right size!
(A longer story than usual! I wanted to introduce a couple of new characters from my recent acquisitions given by a friend (there are more - 7 in total). I needed to dress Iris and made her outfit, sleeping bag, the bag and contents using ribbon, felt, thread and wool. More new characters will appear as appropriate)
Detectives are experts at searching and finding – and will surely have plenty of anecdotes to share.
Friends who’ve lost touch with one another and found each other again will certainly have plenty to share too.
This is a challenge for storytellers – and I’m looking forward to new adventures from all corners of Sylvania. Whatever you decide to do – luckily, there’s no deadline for our Creative Challenge!
But, above all: Have fun!
Dear friends,
Of course, this is a belated response to HThistlethorn’s August challenge, ‘Back To School’. I’m sorry about that.
I’ve been searching through my album for pictures that I knew must be somewhere in my ‘Purrchester files’. As a new school year begins in August, lots of photos are taken showing the little ones on their first day as school kittens. Here is a portrait of two kittens called Louis and Louise Carpenter, proudly showing off their school bags and school cones – a tradition in Purrchester. Inside are little gifts for new pupils and – of course – plenty of treats.
In the new school year, there are of course plenty of new things to learn again – for example, in maths, how to calculate the volume of shapes – in this case, the volume of cubes. The pupils listen attentively to the teacher’s explanations…
Let's check out some more new releases!
To start, the Japanese Online Store has added some mashup sets that contain a couple of previously released sets bundled into one.
Back to School with the Caramel family
Back to school was very close and Vivian wanted to make sure everything was ready for Carlie as she started.
