One of the recent Creative Challenge prompts on the Sylvanian Families Forum was "Sylvanian Eras - Victorian". Well, we couldn't pass that up, could we?
We thought it would be fun to recreate a Victorian-era literary character in Sylvanian form - but which one?? It was Caitlyn Hazelnut who thought of Sherlock Holmes, and with that, the game was afoot...
After much examination of all our Sylvanians, Mr Buckley was chosen as the best fit for this character, which Husband found intensely amusing, given the name of the famous detective's iconic hat...
I made Sherlock's pants, waistcoat, Inverness travelling cloak, and deerstalker hat (the white shirt is Mr Buckley's own), as well as the magnifying glass. The rest of the accessories were already owned by various Sylvanians, and just had to be borrowed for use here.
Also thank you to my Dad and his wife, who gave me the beautiful edition of The Complete Sherlock Holmes that our Sylvanian Sherlock is standing on! I couldn't have wished for a better setting for this photo (and incidentally it's rather a good read, too...) :)
