A blog about Sylvanian Families, toy photography, collection, miniatures and crafts.

18 March 2018

Alice in Wonderland (part 1)

-I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!




-Hope I'm not too late for Easter egg hunt!





-I wonder where he has hidden all the eggs...!



-Oh goodness!... where am I falling to, I wonder!



-One side will make you taller...  and the other side will make you shorter...!



-It's that White Rabbit again!...Hey, Mr. Rabbit...wait for me!



-I wonder where that rabbit has gone...



-Oh hello, are you a cat?...May I ask you which way to go?'



-A Cheshire cat actually...Well if I were looking for a White Rabbit I'd ask the.. Mad Hatter...



. . . to be continued . . .



. . . some more


" Terra wrote:
I'm curious about your mushroom stems. Are they clay? They look very natural."
 
Yes the mushrooms was the challenge for me, I watched some tutorials on youtube. I used air dry clay and I painted them with acrylics! They turned out really nice! Only I will not be ale to use them again in the sylvanian photos because of the size! Or maybe use them as huge toys in an amusement park or something... 





11 comments:



  1. nzemily wrote:
    Adorable sylvanako! I love it! Well done! Is the theme Alice in Wonderland or fairy tales perhaps?


    Amaia wrote:
    :love: :love: :love:
    It is a beatiful photo Sylvanako. Thank you for sharing!!!!


    Terra wrote:
    So cute! Looks like someone is about to embark on an adventure. :love: I love your little mushrooms and beautiful woodland setting!


    Chill82 wrote:
    Ooo exciting! Someone is headed to a very important date I take it?


    LadyLollipop wrote:
    This is adorable! Just look at the dainty little glasses and that tree!!! I want to follow him too... Wonderland, here I come!


    cutata wrote:
    Wonderful setting! Alice in Wonderland! What a lovely scene, Sylvanako! :love: The rabbit looks so cute with the glasses, the clock and the umbrella.
    Looking forward to more pictures of your new project! Fairy tales, maybe?


    Foxinstripysocks wrote:
    This is so beautiful! I love the characters that shine through in your stories, and how perfect you manage to make everything look when the figures are so tiny. The scenery and leaves are especially gorgeous, and I love the tiny toadstools- it reminds me of the original stop-motion animation as it looks so brilliantly to scale and detailed.

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    1. Thank you all for the kind words, there will be some photos from the Alice in Wonderland story coming but maybe I will make some more fairy tales themes in the future!I had made these little mushrooms from fimo so I can use them in my photos! I made the path with glue and cinnamon powder!I also made two new trees but the rabbit hole tree is from a playmobil set. And a funny detail: the watch frame is actually my wedding ring!

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  2. cotton1234 wrote:
    Stunning just stunning as always you´re simple the best, thnak you so much for sharing these AMAZING photos with us sylvanako. You should make your own book, with all the your photos and publish it,i would buy it in a heartbeat. :love: :love: :love:


    froglover wrote:
    The new pictures are adorable as always!


    nzemily wrote:
    What an amazing photo sylvanako! I love the watch!


    Foxinstripysocks wrote:
    Yes! The ultimate coffee table book!



    nzemily wrote:
    Wonderful photo!


    Terra wrote:
    Happy Easter! Hope you and your family have a great day. I can't wait to see what happens in the next photo! :love:


    Foxinstripysocks wrote:
    Happy Easter to everyone! I love this photo!


    cutata wrote:
    Happy Easter!
    What a lovely close up picture of Alice! Hope she finds the eggs soon.


    Amaia wrote:
    Happy Easter!!!!


    MosswoodFells wrote:
    ^_^ Happy Easter, everyone! <3

    Lovely picture! :D


    Chill82 wrote:
    Happy Easter!


    rainbowteakitty wrote:
    sylvanako I love that your critters are celebrating Easter and dressed up as Alice in Wonderland, that's what is happening now in Animal Crossing Pocket Camp and it's such a fun combination! :D I want to pair holidays with more children's stories like this. I wonder what Alice and Wonderland would be like with a Christmas theme? Or Halloween? Wow...I think I might do a story like that. (I love Halloween, my favourite holiday of the year.)

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    1. I don't play ACPC but happened to see some snapshots on istagram of the Alice theme! Very cute! I'd love to make some more fairytale themes, it would be so much fun!
      Thank you, thank you everyone, hope you had a great Easter! For me Easter is next Sunday!

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  3. cotton1234 wrote:
    Happy Easter to you and your sweet family: :love: :wave:


    froglover wrote:
    Happy easter, and I hope Alice is okay!
    Great editing!


    Terra wrote:
    Oh, wow, what a cool photo! Everything looks just slightly distorted and other worldly. It really feels like we are falling down the rabbit hole with Alice. I love it! Brilliant work!


    MosswoodFells wrote:
    Sylvanako- Your photo skills are genius. OMG. Just seriously... wow. :O


    CandyMulberry wrote:
    I love it! :love: Alice falling down the rabbit hole is my favorite! :love:

    Great job and many thanks for sharing your fantastic work! :clap:


    cutata wrote:
    The photo of Alice falling down the rabbit hole is amazing! :<3:
    You do wonders with your camera and your talent! :clap:
    Thank you for sharing, Sylvanako.


    Webbedflipper wrote:
    Oh egg citing Sylvanako. Can’t wait to see what happens next. Beautiful scene setting as usual


    LadyLollipop wrote:
    I told ya it would be a good idea to explore that hole, Alice! :dance:
    I LoVE it so much, the falling photo is cute, but the suspense of "what lies inside" right before entering the cave is still my favourite one.

    As a kid, I always had a tendency towards playing in holes and ditches and would constantly freak my parents out because of this, as all the cool little hidey holes usually contained spiders, snakes, scorpions etc... But what if I found that magical portal to Sylvania!? :lol:


    Chill82 wrote:
    :love: it!
    Alice in Wonderland was one of my favourite movies as a child! (Funny thing, my parents wouldn’t let me read the book until I was a teen.)

    I can barely wait to see what comes next!


    kirsty corntop wrote:
    You are amazing! I love your photos, they are so creative! I always look forward to seeing more. I'm really impressed with your backgrounds too.

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    1. Sun Apr 08, 2018

      Thank you all my dear friends for the feedback, Christina, froglover, Fox, Amaia, Jenny, Terra, Mosswoofells, Candy, Cutata, Phillipa, Santie, Chill, Kirsty Corntop, I really think the Alice theme is very inspiring and I could think of so many scenes that could be done! But I will not recreate all the story, only some of the scenes I find more appealing!


      LadyLollipop wrote:
      As a kid, I always had a tendency towards playing in holes and ditches and would constantly freak my parents out because of this, as all the cool little hidey holes usually contained spiders, snakes, scorpions etc... But what if I found that magical portal to Sylvania!?

      That reminds me that as a kid I loved pretending (among many others) I was Bugs Bunny hunted by Elmer Fudd or Taz and I would hide in holes or under furniture especially under my grandma's dining table crunching almonds like they were carrots! Haha! Maybe now playing with sylvanians is the portal to the world of children imagination!

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  4. Amaia wrote:
    :<3: :<3: :<3:
    Wow!!Your photos are great!!! Thank you for sharing Sylvanako.


    rainbowteakitty wrote:
    That is the most adorable take on the Caterpillar/Butterfly I've ever seen! :D <3 <3 <3


    EmmaDale wrote:
    Your photos are truly amazing :<3: :<3: :<3:

    I love the Alice in Wonderland theme, :love: one of my favourite stories.


    cutata wrote:
    WOW, Sylvanako! :<3: Wonderful pictures! :clap:
    I´m speechless! They´re truly amazing! I love the" baby otter-butterfly" and the plants, flowers and big mushrooms. Lovely scenes!
    That rabbit, again! He´s so cute. You had a brilliant idea :idea: using your wedding ring as the frame for his clock!


    LadyLollipop wrote:
    These are so stunning! I love every one of these photos so, so much! They are truly magical.


    Terra wrote:
    Beautiful, otherwordly, and magical photos! This is some of your best work yet. :love: I could look at these all day.

    I'm curious about your mushroom stems. Are they clay? They look very natural.


    CandyMulberry wrote:
    Aww, that baby otter-fly! So cute! Wonderful pictures! Thank you so much for sharing those enchanting scenes, Sylvanako!

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    1. Thanks a lot everyone, for these photos I used real size elements like fake flowers, plants,leaves and rocks. The Baby otter-fly was hanging there by a thread, with his paper wings on and wouldn't stay still, it was spinning all the time making things difficult for me to take its photo in the right angle, haha!

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  5. Foxinstripysocks wrote:
    Perfect!


    Terra wrote:
    The mushrooms are wonderful and very realistic! Thanks for the youtube link, I want to have a go of these. :)

    I hope you can find ways to re-use them, as they look so nice. The amusement park idea sounds perfect, or maybe someone has a giant mushroom farm?


    Chill82 wrote:
    Real life garden ornaments! Or build a Fairy Garden for your daughter & use them in that? They are very cute, I’m sure you’ll find a way to reuse them.



    LadyLollipop wrote:
    OOOOH look at that tail!!! Loving it so much!!!


    tenchibaka wrote:
    i'd say they'd be lovely just as display pieces or stock images for your photoshopping XD


    CandyMulberry wrote:
    Wow, amazing! You did a fine job that it's hard to tell what has been Photoshopped and what has actually been made. Were the stripes on the cat Photoshopped on or did you actually paint it? Where did you get that tail?

    I'm always in awe of your photos! :love:


    MosswoodFells wrote:
    Beaaautiful! :D I love them all, especially Cheshire.


    Terra wrote:
    This is a stunningly beautiful installment to the series! I am loving the Cheshire cat :love: Like Candy said, you've done such a great job that I can't tell what's been crafted and what is photo editing. Brilliant work :love: :clap: :clap: :clap:


    LadyLollipop wrote:
    WHAT!? I had to go back just to realise that the Cheshire cat was not wearing a jersey as I originally thought. Holy Cow!!! :crazy: That is spectacularly done, Sylvanako.

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    1. Many thanks! I wish I had an extra Fisher cat child to make a custom Cheshire! But I didn't want to harm my critters, I bought most of my collection new or in excellent condition so although I put them in some trouble while taking the photos by posing them or changing their clothes, I always try to keep them intact.
      I think the Fishers are closer to the story's cat than the actual sylvanian Cheshires because of the color and stripes. So I used my Linus Fisher as a model and I added some body stripes and a tail with photoshop(oh and a wide smile too)! The tail is actually an edited one from a Mulberry Racoon (decolored and modified)! :shifty: At least my forest is all crafted and I am very happy how my two new trees (the front ones) turned out! Haha, in time I will become a clay expert

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  6. Terra wrote:
    Very well executed and smart technique. You got impressive results. He is adorable!


    kirsty corntop wrote:
    Omg! Wow!
    I'm loss for words! All of it is fantastic!


    cutata wrote:
    I´m absolutely in awe of your photos! They are stunning! :<3:
    The mushrooms turned out so well that they look like real ones.
    Your trees look awesome. You have created a perfect forest. You are already a clay expert, Sylvanako.
    I love the last two pictures of Alice in the middle of the forest. Turning your Fisher cat into that Cheshire cat is truly impressive!
    Well done! :clap:Thank you so much! :love:


    froglover wrote:
    Beautiful new photos!

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