Family Updates

As you may remember, for my birthday I received two Alpaca families - now I am happy to report that I have FINALLY finished re-dressing them, and am very happy to introduce the Woolly Family!

As you can see, the family consists of father Andre, mother Ariane, and their four children:  daughter Joy, son Angel, and identical twin baby boys Gabriel and Tomas.
The babies have kept the rompers they came in, and I have obviously re-dressed the second girl figure to create Angel.  But what has happened to the other set of parents, you may be wondering?  Meet Diego and Darrell Woolly!

They are Andre's parents, and are very pleased to be sharing a new house in Macadamia Grove with their son and his young family.  Diego is wearing the pants he came in, but I have made him a new shirt, and his glasses came with the Chocolate Rabbit grandfather that I also received for my birthday (more news on Monsieur Chocolat another time, I promise!).  Darrell has a whole new outfit, including a dress and wire-rimmed glasses, all of which I made myself.  This is my first attempt at making Sylvanian glasses, and they are not entirely perfect, but I am quite happy with them.  Mrs Woolly seems pleased, anyway.

I have built the Woolly family's house out of a cardboard box, and I am rather pleased with it, but am still waiting on some little hinges I ordered on ebay, to attach the front door.  Hopefully they will arrive soon, and then the Woollys can give you a tour of their home!

In the meantime, I have more critters to introduce:  the new and improved Thistlethorn family!  The Thistlethorns have been on my Meet The Families page for some time now, but I have always harboured a not-so-secret wish for some grandparents for the Thistlethorns.  I can't imagine why Tomy never did this, I just think they would be adorable!

Anyway, a little while ago I went to a garage sale to pick up a couple of Sylvanian buildings, and who did I find, but a lovely little Thistlethorn family in beautiful condition, and being sold at a steal!  They insisted on coming home with me.  Now of course, I had the wherewithal to realise my dream of Thistlethorn grandparents - but what was I going to do with all those children?!  Caitlyn and I discussed this a bit, and came to the conclusion that after all, what could be more natural than an enormous family of mice?  So now my Thistlethorn family looks like this:

I have changed Ash's age a little, to accommodate the extra siblings.  Interestingly, the "new" Thistlethorns are different than my older ones - they have furry tails, bigger eyes, and are generally slightly larger.  This is good, as the children now have slight variations in their faces, fur, etc.  I have decided that the furry tail gene is a recessive one, smooth tail being dominant.  This explains everyone's tails satisfactorily, as I can pretend that the grandfather had a smooth tail (the one flaw with the more recent acquisitions is that the father figure is missing its tail).

Thistlethorn grandparents will be coming soon!   :o)

If you would like to read more about the Woolly and Thistlethorn families, please do check out my Meet The Families page!

Thanks for reading - and stay tuned for more updates coming soon to Macadamia Grove!