Challenge 2026-6: TOURISM

                   Look, what I found in my mailbox, today:

                         A postcard from my friend Martin and his 3 little pals 

                     sent with love from Menorca!

                                                                        

Dear friends,






Summer is just around the corner – and the holidays are drawing nearer:

Show us how your crittizens explore new places, get ready for their holidays and wear stylish travel outfits.

Design all sorts of travel essentials (such as suitcases, rucksacks

or similar items), a passport, sunglasses, beachwear and beach

toys, tents or windbreaks, or whatever else might be useful to your

Sylvanian friends on their travels around the world.

Perhaps your Crittizens are planning a trip –
in which case they might need travel magazines, books,
their globe, a tablet or a travel agency to get some advice.


Take photos in your own photo set at home or outdoors in a park
or another scenic spot. (If your town or village happens to be a
tourist hotspot – why not show us your favourite spots?)


If you like, tell us a holiday story ;) or share a funny snapshot...

Whatever feels right to you – just go for it!

But above all:

Have lots of Sylvanian fun!

2026 Challenge 5: May in the Fentons´garden

Hi everyone!

This is my contribution for challenge 5 "May flowers".

Here is the link to my blog if you´d like to take a look:

May in the Fentons´garden

Challenge 5: May Flowers

 My Challenge entry this time is thanks to my local library: they have a free craft every month and the May craft was paper flowers which is perfect for the challenge so I took a few little helpers along...

Hello from the craft table! Joey Outback, Jenny Brightfield and Cherry Latte are looking at the example flowers (a bit bigger than them!)

The button dish was just about big enough to swim in but they were able to find a good 'pair' to use - one tiny, the other one bigger 

There's a whole lot of paper strips to choose from! And some were obvious choices (green to give leaves) but others needed more consideration (were there enough of the pattern for the flower size...)

After the choices were made the task was hoop making and then stacking, gluing and arranging to create the flowers

The little cream one is made using quarter strips of paper and it's more their size! It's always fun when the library craft can become miniature also (not the tiniest version this time because of the method!)

2026.5 April Showers Brings May Flowers (Helly)

I'm posting this on behalf of Helly who wished to contribute to the May challenge.

Rory.

Hello! My name is Helly and I am the writer behind Evergreen Hollow. I am really glad that someone is keeping the life of the sylvanian forum alive and I'm even more glad that it's the creative challenges.

I've been posting for a while now and I wanted to contribute to this blog. I have pasted the link for my entry to the challenge.

https://evergreenhollowest2024.blogspot.com/2026/05/april-showers-brings-may-flowers.html

Best wishes,

Helly

Welcome the Hazelnut Dormouse Family's Home

Hi everyone!

I´m a bit short of time to take new photos right now so part of my Sylvanian hobby is going through my archives and picking out some pictures I´ve taken back in the past.

Today, I´m sharing a tour of the Hazelnut´s home.

At the end of the month, I´ll post my entry for the May Challenge, featuring some of my older photos.

Hope you enjoy the tour!

This is the link to my blog:

Welcome the Hazelnut Dormouse Family´s Home

Challenge 2026.4 April Showers and the Duck Pond

When facing this challenge I decided that  the April showers in Mellowdene wouldn't be too heavy but they would last over a predictable number of days. For the story I wondered what the villagers would do if those showers could cause a potential problem. That led me to consider water management in the village. With showers being outside, I had a fair bit of photo-editing to do. 

 

I was pleased to assign a few more occupations and chose to feature a couple of different families. The grey beavers were one. The other was one of those happy coincidences. I needed a stone mason so I wanted one of the larger Sylvanian critters to do the heavy work. Forest Evergreen was free. He is already the "High Bear" in the temple for the Order of Sylvanian Bears - and the vague similarity to a masonic lodge was perfect!

The Consequence of April Showers on the Duck Pond

Apriĺ in Mellowdene is an interesting month when it comes to weather. Primrose Evergreen's extensive meteorological records prove it. Every year about this time we have ten days of light showers. Not continually - alternating between an hour or so of rainfall and a couple of hours without - but every day in that ten day window will be affected. Such a high degree of predictability might be considered unusual although established villagers are used to it. It proves convenient when planning the dates for our Melting festival. With outdoor celebrations we must avoid exposing musical instruments to the elements. Also it's not a good idea to have excitable children on a chocolate bunny hunt running about, slipping on the wet grass.

 

Continued in: https://mellowdene.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-consequence-of-april-showers-on.html

 

CHALLENGE 2026-5 - May Flowers

 The Creative Challenge for May is 'May Flowers' completing the old saying 'April Showers bring May Flowers' which dates from 1557!

Hold a flower festival, 

Create flowers for a garden/window box/vase, 

Tell a story involving flowers, 

Show off your flower named critters, 

Take photos of your Sylvanians with May Flowers

Dress your village water source - well or spring dressing is an old British custom at this time of year. 

Celebrate a traditional May custom linked to flowers and spring.

May's full moon is the Flower Moon - use the lunar cycle (there's a blue moon at the end of May too).

Have fun!