Tiny haul (Action, Noz, Ebay) + news for my village

Hello ! 

I've decided to publish some news and pictures, mostly on my "private life" blog, but here as well. 

After selling another Pullip doll, I'm ready to let 2 others go (a Pullip and a Dal), as well as a couple of BJD. And a bunch of other things too... 

With the money I got myself a private bank account (finally managed it ! woohoo) not linked to my ex-husband one 

For those who live in a foreign country, I have to explain a couple of things for you see how mad my  country is....For exemple, if you are a woman who was ill and not working on your own (but doing much for charities), with a family account at YOUR name + your husband name, a woman who don't want to depend on social help and work it out alone with courage, when you husband leaves and let you alone with nothing but your eyes to cry the administration is punishing you all the way they can, like : you can't open a personal bank account. Yes... sounds silly ? Listen, it's more than this : you can't open a bank account if you can't prove your incomes, and you can't get incomes if you don't already have a bank account... Most of the time the French are bragging about our marrrrvelous country. This is making me sick. I asked for help at the social worker, who told me to deal with it. HUH. It's a pure luck that I found out there is only 1 solution, nobody mentioned it to me be it the lawyer, the social workers, etc... It's a SHAME ! Well, now that I have a solution to most of my technical surviving problems (I don't have money but I have a bank account LOL !), I can relax a litte bit. Not much because I've been even more ill, and I actually suffer silly. So, after paying for the account (much expensive than a simple one), I also paid for some wood coat, painkillers, and other supplies. Then I used the leftover to have some fun. I really need to have fun, no matter how...

First I ordered a very cheap die for my BigShot machine, I got it from ebay, we are talking about a 2€ thing. Here it is. You cut paper "leaves" and then can use them on a card, or build a tiny tree. Isn't it cute ?! It's SO cheap that I thought I can give it a try. Scrapbooking supplies are awfully expensive here, and you hardly find things (in my area, there is no craft store left, all closed except a Cultura, which is expensive and doesn't have a great choice)

isn't it cute ?!

I hope the postal services will not loose it... with my luck it's more than possible...

Then on ebay I got an hot air balloon for Sylvanian babies. I saw one a couple of times, and when I finally had the money it was sold. I wanted one with low shipping cost, and this one is matching my tiny budget ! As long as it didn't change the shipping cost, I added another little thing, a post box. I tried to add another thing, but then the shipping started to increase so ... no way.

I can't afford the baby windmill or primrose park, at least I'll have a balloon !

Then I had the chance to go to Noz and Action, 2 discounters (the shops are almost side by side, clever !), François was going there, so I could join him for the travel, and see if there is something new or interesting I can afford. 

Action :

I got another box of those cute resin pumpkins, they are so cheap it doesn't worth the time making them with polymere clay ! 

I was also SO happy to find 3 Christmas stalls kits. I could get 2 last year, and had no money to get more. There were 3 left only, so I got the 3 (less than 2€ each ! It doesn't pay the MDF !). Cheap, and really clever DIY kits

Now that I have 5, I'm planning to use one as a "beach shop" for my Sylvanian beach (I don't know yet what it's going to offer but I'll find out, someday... 

maybe it's going to offer shells, postcards, beach toys, flip flops, etc)

Another one is going to be a newspaper booth, one will go to the halloween tiny scenery, and the 2 last ones will be for my tiny Christmas corner. If I ever find cheap things for this. I have all the scenery (not Sylvanian) but no characters to go there :-(

Ok, then from Noz :

I already told you about a cute tiny kit I found when I could go to Lure, I found some more at the "local" Noz (still 30mn from home by car)

So I got those 2 cute ones

this one is the same I already got, just missing the box (I don't care)

and I bought a bag of "this and that"... I didn't know what was inside, but I decided to try my luck on it. Finally it had 2 kits inside (yeepeeeee). I don't know if those are complete or no, no decorating at all, but I can build the 2 "houses" so it's great ! They are bigger than the one I got boxed (on the left is the one I got in its box). I don't know what I'm going to do with those, but it's really cute, I'm sure I can use them to frame a tiny cross-stitched piece or use scrapbooking supplies, etc

I also got this bag of flowers and greenery, all the leaves are separated, so I think it can be nice to make a bunch of flower pots for my sylvanian town !

about this particular tiny kit, I first planned to use it the same way but I now believe that painted it could make a cute Sylvanian cupboard or shop display ! 

This week I'm going to town, so I'll probably try to get my hands on a BIG piece of cardboard or wood to make the surface for my sylvanian beach corner. I really wanted to have it in one piece to see no separating, but if it's too expensive or complicate to bring it home, I'll get 2 smaller ones... I tried several things for my water... I haven't find yet THE solution, but at least I know what is not working LOL

A bunch of this and that for my Sylvanian town :-)

First of all, I want to apologize, those last weeks have been so hard to deal with, I didn't spend much time on the web, to visit blogs and websites, but I'll be back soon to you. I had too many troubles with my house, my health, a bank problem, etc... I tried to face it all with courage, but somedays it's just too much :-(

Now let's go back to the "nice" part of life : Sylvanian Families

I didn't receive those yet, but they are on their way to my village.

First, I bought a 2nd hand set of sheep. I wanted the sheep family, but it was way too expensive for me. Not only the price of some families is crazy, but the shipping cost is awful, as most of the sellers go through the Ebay Global Shipping program. Fhhhhhhhh....After looking all over the world, I finally found one 100km from home, and the seller was nice enough to send them by the Post.

They are not "perfect" but I don't care much (I'm not the picky kind of "collector").... They'll need a bath, whenever I have time for this...

Then I also wanted BADLY the father (or grand-father) of the old moss reindeer family. Alas, again, prices are just silly.... I don't care much for their outfits, and the other members of the family are nice... but not as "special" as the father... I ended getting a cheap set, with the father, and 3 characters that are not in really good shape. Who cares ? Not me. I have my deer, and it's perfect to me. Maybe, later, I'll find some clothes for the others (who are they ? I believe they are all kids ???) - one of them is really used, he suffered quite a lot, the flocking is light.. poor little one, now I'm going to give him a funny life :-) 

and maybe then try to find the mother as well if she is the one missing... Oh well, I already miss the pig father, the squirrel mother (maybe they left together ? heehee), and a bunch of other characters, my village can host some other "single" parents or orphan children LOL. I bet I am the last person on this planet to NOT have the chocolate rabbit family - I only have Freya ... I feel like a rebel LOL

I also bought those mice on ebay, just because the price was low. I always wanted to find a family for my photograph, so here we go ! I don't know exactly who is who, but I can see the photograph (Cecil Maces) is there, maybe I'll simple get his outfit off, and transform it to create another character. Or trade it for another one... let's see ! Maybe someday I'll find a sister, to complete the family ! But until then, I need to identify the 2 "mothers" to see which one is "the" one. Maybe the extra Cecil + extra mother will become grandparents !

At the same time, I saw a Truffle family for sale. It's not in perfect shape, the mother has a spot on her head & miss her vest, and the father is missing a part of his outfit too (I don't care much, really !). It was not "that" high in price. I placed a bid, and totally forgot about it. When I got an invoice, I was a bit scared, I really didn't remember my bid LOL

So, an unexpected family is flying home

marrrrrvelous....

Finally I got a set of "this and that". Just because. Why not ?

 I plan to have the hedgehog join my pizzeria team, put the pretty sign in front of their future pizzeria (if I ever get a suitable building for this), and the other things will be a nice addition to my beach scenery ! It's cheap, it's cute, and I had the money (I sold a Pullip doll, yeepee)

Organizing, new items, etc (Sylvanian related)

 So, before I jump to the "collecting" or "organizing" parts, here is the BIG new thing about my blog. I don't have a bunch of readers, but most are "english speaking". I believe only 2 or 3 persons read it in french... that's why I decided to write in english. My english is really poor/bad, I'm self-taught, it could be a good way to make some progress... I hope so... Sooner or later, I'll translate all the previous posts, or delete some (maybe). I'll surely try to resize some pictures as well (!)

Then, let's speak about new additions to my "soon to be" village. You know I have a part of my display organized as a "seaside village". I just ordered from Sylvanian Store Keepers (UK) this small merry-go-round. I didn't plan to get it first, it was too expensive for my budget, but the price went down, and I was ordering something else so....

Here we go for a quick view of it

This is such a cute one ! And the best : I didn't know it was not only turning, but also going up and down ! I think it's going to be a nice addition to the future beach corner !  

I also got in the same parcel the huge poster with all families, it's a nice one, and you have the name of all the characters ! I chose to get it bent, because I couldn't afford to pay twice for the shipping and have it sent in a tube. It's not a "collector" thing for me, it's more for data

And this is mostly why I ordered from SSK : I wanted to get my paws on this cuuuuuute halloween set. First I didn't like it much mostly because the wheels of the wagon are static. And it was expensive too. But for 9.99 it was good enough.  

So, the wagon is really cute (but I'm still bothered by those static wheels...), the babies are nice even if their outfit is not really great (the ghost is really cheap in quality, and I'm not really into those new "shiny" suits they are offering now....) and the kids can't hold the lollipops. Is there any positive thing about it ? I would say no, but for a silly reason I still love it. As one of our singers said "the beauty of the ugly shows up immediately" LOL. So do I like it, actually ? YES....

I didn't plan to make an "halloween corner" as long as I'm not going to have other toys from this range but I found some really nice pumpkins and thought they could share it with my "farmer's market". The pumpkins are from Action, they are really great and heavy, they cost nothing (for the whole box it's 0.79€ !) they'll be a nice addition ! 

As it's the day when kids go back to school, I wanted to take a pic of my little new ones. After I got the japanese set "school friends" I managed to get the European one (of 3 only).

Later I'll have to build back a nursery and such, but for now all the babies and kids are gathered in the same school (my old hand made nursery was destroyed, my ex husband put it in a box outside of the house, and when I found it back there was nothing or so that I could save)

Now about organization... You know that I moved the huuuuge shelves from my craft room to this ugly room that used to be my ex husband's one - supposed to be for his collection, but he just dropped there everything in full mess, many things got broken (he just throw them in mess in boxes, piled-up from ground to ceiling), or damaged when we had troublehen the water pipes broke. I managed to move many things, sold some (still a bunch to sell, but it's selling too slowly and too badly). Now I have 2 rooms, one for my crafts and all my plants (winter is very cold here, I need a place to store my plants inside), and one for the "collection" (no window so it's a dark place, badly finished, etc).

It's nice to have a place just for this, be it ugly but....
It's not looking like what I expected. I know I had no other choice, every place was crowded with his junk, etc. But now I feel like moving some things again (yes...)

I'm speaking about those huge white shelves. The bigger one is quite ok, but the small ones are really destroyed and stand just because the are stucked between the wall and the big one LOL

everything is piled-up waiting for the time I can arrange this, sell it, etc...

Soooo.... I wonder... maybe I could put the big one just after the black ones you see on the left... and then there will be a 24cm gap between it and the wall but I don't care... AND turn the 2 small ones, for they lay on their side (if you see what I mean), one on top of the other... not sure it's going to look any better, but I believe it worth the try...

Any suggestion ? Please ??

Of course I have to do something very stressing before : move the huge and so heavy (more than 300kg - 600 pounds...yep) heater. It's one of those expensive and massive static heat thing, like stone inside, doesn't use much power but heat very well). It's on top of a pile of wood and is about to fall at any moment. Just I don't know how to move it, it's way too heavy for me, nobody is willing to help, and I have to put it on something as the wall is too fragile to hold it...

My life is... interesting... isn't it ?! 

Huuuh

Nevermind, I'll find a way. And then I can try to empty (ouch) those shelves, move them (ouch ouch), and see if I can make something more "clever" with the destroyed ones...

Wish me luck LOL

Ok, this being said, here is my "collection" general view. My next works will be to start creating my seaside corner and re-arrange the farmer one...

Ugly pics... sorry so...