Dollieh Sanctuary

When my daughter was little we got her a doll house and some really nice wooden doll house furniture, and got a Sylvanian mouse family to live in it. We were living out in the country and since a lot of construction was going on around us had an ongoing problem with field mice in our house.
One day when my husband came home from work, I told him "there's a whole mouse family living in the cupboard". He went over and opened the door and there was the Sylvanian Mouse family all set up inside, sitting on cans of food.

Oooh the jealousy when all my friends had these and I never did, especially as I loved animal based things like Redwall, Brambly Hedge and Faraway Tree as a child. All I managed to own was a grey Sylvanian mouse from a school fete.

I think it's made worse with having discovered 1/12 sized dolls (I believe the Sylvanian stuff is the right scale). Hopefully I'll be able to pick up some of the sets for any tiny crew I obtain. I'd love to get some of the animals for my son to play with too ^_^

The camper van is the perfect size for my Realpuki crew and their llamas and alpacas