From The Official Sylvanian Families' Twitter

SylvanianStoreKeepers has awesome activities over on there page here This one is Halloween costumes!

What a fun project! I just finished this MSD sized wingback chair for my nautical Victorian themed doll diorama. A big thanks to @bentleyhouseminis for her amazing tutorial and patterns, which I sized way up and altered for my space. ❤️ Check her out if you are into doll diy—she’s a treasure trove of information! #bjd #bjdfurniture #bjddiorama #victoriandoll #dollfurniture #dolldiorama #dollminiature https://www.instagram.com/p/CDjuKaLpa4B/?igshid=1fmv2ghbsil1s

1991 Bluebird Midge’s Bedtime

Here's a doll room box I made in the late 90s

and then this is from 2004

It's hard to see, but the walls were covered with a gift wrap that had really small pale blue stripes

This room box from 2006 left the foam core plain white

and this is the one that's sitting in a closet storage area right now, with fabric on the walls

bonus:

Blythe a Day September 2023 - Around the World in 30 Days for the theme: “Road Trip”

“Every day is a winding road”

Ginger (Blythe) and her Sylvanian, Woodzeez, and Honeybee Acres friends on a road trip.

In 2000 and 2001, Mattel paid homage to the designers working on the dolls themselves with a two-doll series (perhaps originally intended to be ongoing longer) called the Grand Entrance series.

The first of these is in a blue and white ballgown, with a collection of white roses adorning her hip.

The second was elaborately dolled up in shades of pink. Both were packaged with a "guide to collecting", in a bid to encourage would-be collectors to become full-time collectors.

Each of the doll credits the designer on the front of the box, and provides a brief blurb about the designer on the back, including a brief list of other Barbies that they worked on designing.

One of the reasons I suspect this series might have been intended to be ongoing and then wasn't is because of the designer they picked to showcase for the debut of this collection, Carter Bryant. Carter Bryant is not exactly a household name, but it may be recognisable to people "in the know" in the doll world.

On May 21, 2001, only a handful of months after Carter Bryant was showcased as the second designer after BillyBoy* (and the first designer who was a regular employee of Mattel rather than a collaborator) to be credited by name on a doll, MGA Entertainment released a doll that was to become one of Barbie's big competitors.

And why is it relevant when Bratz hit the market?

Yes, the same Carter Bryant.

This became the crux of the lawsuit Mattel v MGA Entertainment, as written about by Orly Lobel in her book You Don't Own Me: How Mattel V. MGA Entertainment Exposed Barbie's Dark Side, which I read not long ago and highly recommend.

I don't know for sure whether this was relevant to Mattel not continuing the collectors series showcasing their designers, but let's just say I wouldn't rule it out either.

1996 Barbie Convention Doll/ “Bandstand Beauty Barbie”/ Philadelphia.

sorry for romanticising the mundane. i have little else

I used to play with these for hours! 💖😍 what were your favorite toys?💕

another hybrid doll, this time a magic mixies pixlings unia + g1 monster high operetta.

in moose's official photos for unia, she looked much closer in color to draculaura, but she's actually a perfect match for operetta's skintone (last pic). and with all her fancy face designs, operetta's carved neck and shoulder details don't look out of place. i did buff out her black and red arm tattoo though.

the pixling neckholes are much smaller than the monster high ones. i ended up having to use my dremel and a drillbit with a circumference of abt 3cm (the size of the largest part of the mh neck bulb) to drill it open wider. it isn't a perfect solution, because if you pull or push on her head too hard it'll pop out of place, but for display and photos it works well and she's got a full range of motion.