Hello all! I hope everyone's having a good start to the year.
As many of you who read my blog may know I have a horse on lease from a riding school called Gypsy. She's a total saint and I love her to pieces, she is the most honest, sweet and caring horse I've ever ridden, and she's also really talented. Last night I had a jumping competition with her, we didn't get placed but did jump two clear rounds, which was my aim for the night.
We jumped two 75cm rounds and we did an 85cm too but due to rider error we got elimainated. Silly Cat. Click here if you would like to see our clear round. The people you can hear mooing in the background and it's a long run on joke ever since we dressed up as a farmer and cow for the last Christmas Show, and since she has similar markings to a cow, lol.
On the Sylvanian Front, I have Willow Hall out in my bedroom at the moment. It's easily my favourite Sylvanian House I have as it's the biggest and has the most room to set up furniture and figures etc. In the next few weeks or months I'll get some new Sylvanians, I have loads of things on my want list at the moment, but I'd really like the Fielding Mouse family, Applewood Cottage and furniture, the Juice Bar, Doughnut Stall and Icecream stand. Not much then, haha!
Here's some wee photos of the Timbertops and the Babblebrooks :)!

I was actually thinking about my Sylvanians as I was riding Gypsy the other night, mainly because I was missing them because they're safe, cozy and warm, all the opposites of what I was feeling at that point in time haha! We were in the warm up ring when she bolted with me because there was a younger horse acting up. She's so good, because she seemed to take all the other horses energy and put it into her round haha! I honestly cannot describe how much I love that horse :).

Cat :)x

Here's the pilot 'episode' of Cassie Macivity's adventures. Today, she went on a tour of my room. She wanted to know what humans do when Sylvanians are away in their boxes!
If people like this, or I can think of something interesting to do, I'll continue this series, please leave me your comments to tell us what you think! I'm sure Cassie would like to on another adventure.

Cassie finds some strange things called CDs. She learns that Cat listens to music off these. She thinks this is very strange and takes notes to tell Ernest Evergreen she wants one of these CD things!

Cassie then meets Mrs Large. She is a distant relative of Mrs Petite from Sylvania, and the two get chatting. Mrs Large tells Cassie she wishes that she could come and visit Sylvania, but is worried she'd scare the kids.

Cassie meets some film stars! Jessie, Woody and Bullseye, and Jessie's new horse Lily, who isn't famous at all, haha! Cassie decides she doesn't like horse riding, or Woody, because he seems to be checking her out. Bad Woody.

By the time Cassie meets it to the windowsill, the sun is setting! This adventuring lark takes time when you're only a few centimetres tall. Cassie meets Cat's porcelain horse collection, and a few extras. They tell Cassie Cat is a bad owner because she never cleans them. Poor, neglected ponies.

Morag the Sheep is the hybrid of the horse collection. Cassie and Morag exchange addresses, so Morag can talk to Cassie's friends, the Dale Family.

The large family live on top of Mount Bookcase. They live with their pet dolphin Cookie and their rocking horse Mr Crumbs.

Cassie continues to climb the mountain, and reaches the top of Mount Wardrobe. She meets all the animals up there, and has a look at some of Cat's trophies that she's won with Gypsy.

  On the descent, she visits Chest of Drawers Hill. It's very messy and disorganised here, and Cassie desparately wants to tidy up. Cat would be very greatful if she did.

Cassie ends her journey by meeting her last animal, Tony the Tiger. Tony believes he is a distant relative of the Macivities and wishes her all the best on her journey home.

Lots of love, Cassandra Macavity. x

Well, today, Monday the 17th of January, is statistically the most depressing day of the year. The term 'Blue Monday' refers to the third Monday in January and, according to Cliff Arnel, who is associated with Cardiff University, came up with a formula to prove that today is the most depressing day of the year.

[W + (D-d) x Tq]
______________
M x Na

Do you understand that? Because I certainly don't, and I'm doing Higher Maths, lol! So, today, I tried to remain as positive I could. Today was very dull and wore on unneccassarily. Absoloutly nothing exciting happened and the day was just a blur of writing, listening to teachers drone on about prelim revision and eating a rather bland chicken pasta sald. A usual Monday in the life of Cat, then.

Soon, I'll hopefully post some photos of my Sylvanians. As you probably know my Sylvanians live as sheltered a life as their owner does. They spend a lot of time in their boxes, but hopefully soon I will be able to have some of them out on display, yay! I am still to work out how I will manage this, where they will go, and what exactly I am going to choose to display, but hopefully it should all work out for the best.
Cassandra Macavity is planning an outing this evening, actually, and she is going to tour my room and show my blog readers what Cat's world is like. Cassandra was nominated for this task of Sylvanian/human relations as 1) she is the front woman of the website, 2) I like her dress and 3) she has had a very tough time of it raising five kids, and so deserves a little break into the real world!

Cat :)

Well, the last few nights I've been woken up by extreme amounts of rain and winds. It's actually beyond a joke! I wake up to what sounds like someone throwing stones against my window, and it's even worse when I have to venture outside into it.

I do believe this is actually what the world outside my window on these last few nights looks like. It's ridiculous. So, instead of sleeping or trying to sleep whilst I'm under aerial assault, I've been playing my Gameboy Advance and battling through the Professor Layton game I got for Christmas. I'm almost at the end of it, along with the help of my good friend IGN! God, I've had plenty of twists and turns and surprises with this one, if you're a Nintendo DS fan, I recomend Professor Layton and the lost future :)!

Here's Gypsy, braving the elements and trotting up the hill to her shelter. I'm coming to an end of my time of having her on lease, and soon she will go back to just working in the riding school as normal. I'll be sad to not be able to ride her as often, but I'll still spell extreme amounts of time pampering her and making sure she knows she's loved :)! I'm looking forward to my summer with her, hopefully loads of competitions - Summer Opens and I plan to do the All Rosette Show with her, too! It's weird, riding a school horse with a load of professional thoroughbreds, and it's funny how only a few of them end up beating us....I mean sometimes our rounds don't always go to plan, but when they do they work pretty well! She's such a good horse, I don't honestly think I deserve to ride her ^_^.
Oh, and by the way, that's mist AND rain AND wind she's going into. She's such a trooper.

And on a Sylvanian front, mine are all packed away, safe and sound until I can next have them out. I really do wish there was some way for me to have them out to play at all times, I mean, even just have a house set up, but my room has things climbing the walls looking for a home, so right now the Sylvanians are living in their boxes :(.

Hello again!

Well a couple of nights ago, instead of revising, I decided to have a Chase Me Charlie with my Sylvanians, who have now made the move back upstairs to my room. They are enjoying a few more days out in the open whilst I'm still off on holiday until they get packed away again.
Those not familure with a Chase Me Charlie, it's where you have your horse jump a jump which gets bigger each round. It usually goes up a hole each time, and if your horse knocks it, runs out, or refuses, you're out. Fun right? Well, I thought it was a good idea, since I had nothing better to do. (Well, technically, I could revise, but playing Sylvanians is much more fun ^_^ )
Gypsy, my lease horse and I, recently took part in a Chase Me Charlie. Before Christmas, we always play games with the horses for a bit of fun and a wind down after a year of hard work in the riding school, and we end with a Chase Me Charlie. Luckily, Gypsy loves jumping, and we came joint first with my friend Alex and his horse Dusty. I was very proud of Gypsy as she is a riding school horse, and does not do much in the way of jumping big, and so jumping 1m 10 is not something she does everyday. Dusty also did very well, as she's just a baby and before we did the Chase Me Charlie Alex had not jumped her much bigger than about 70cms.
Here's a picture of me and Gypsy jumping, it's paused from a video, so that's why it's so blurry:
(and no, my jumping position is not always this disgusting.)

These jumps were originally for my model ponies, but I think they work pretty well with Sylvanians too! Harold and Holly win, as he rode a better approach and kept her collecting into the jump, containing her energy, instead of just letting her run flat into it, as Antonia did.
Harold and Holly were pretty proud of themselves, they practically jumped the height of Taylor Timbertop!

In other news, my new Sylvanians have still not come :( , but there's always tomorrow!

Speak soon,
Cat x

Hello all! This is my first blog post. I've always wanted a Sylvanian site, and well, here we are! I can't believe how easy it was to build this site, like literally the majority of ithas only taken me about three days. I've been off on my Christmas holidays at the moment, but I'm dreading going back because I know as soon as I do I'm going to be drowned under an ocean of prelims. Yay.
I've hardly revised at all over Christmas, as a kind of protest, because I think Christmas is a time for fun, laughter, magic and family, and prelims do not include any of those things. I have six prelims to sit after the holidays, none of which I'm that bothered about, but I'm lucky in the sense I just breeze through things like this, so it should all go fairly smoothly.
Instead of revising I have instead been spending my time with my lease horse Gypsy. She belongs to a riding school but over the winter I've been leasing her, which means the times she's not working in the school she's basically been mine. This was my Christmas present and I have had her for about 3 months now, but sadly my lease finishes on the 3rd of February. I can easily say I've enjoyed every minute of it and I'm dreading that day coming, I won't know what to do with myself.
This Christmas I didn't really get much in the way of Sylvanians, as basically my present was another month with Gypsy. I did however get the Celebration Timbertop Family, and with some extra money I ordered some new nursery furniture for my Riverside Cottage, the new red panda family and the Sewing with Mother set. They are, actually, due to come today, so I'm hoping they do arrive, because I think it's kind of thrilling to open a new set of Sylvanians up, they have a certain smell. I really miss that smell of new Sylvanian, it smelt satisfying when you opened to box up.
Cat :)x