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

 

Creative Challenge: May

 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! 

2026 - Challenge 3, Springtime

 Hi everyone!

This is my entry for the third challenge of this year, "Springtime".

I hope you enjoy this little story featuring a lovely caravan our dear Berna sent to me as a gift (thank you, my friend!) and the giraffe family.

 

Here's the link to read the story:

A Spring Outing