Adventures in Critterland

Welcome back to Critterland! Today I busted out some Calico Critter / Sylvanian Families sets we haven't opened yet:  Splashy Otter Family ,  Nursery Friends , and the  Hopscotch Rabbit Grandparents . Now that our Critterland is beginning to come together, I thought I'd open these guys up finally. Let's take a look! Splashy Otter Family I waited so long to buy these otters - they were always so expensive everywhere I looked. One day, they came up on Amazon for about $15, so I nabbed them up!  The packaging is so well done! I love the woodland backdrop. What I love most about this family are the tiny babies snuggled up in the little fish-themed slings! Too cute! It was so fun to remove take the otters out of the box and get a good look at their outfits, and I was so pleased to see the otter babies wearing "onesies" underneath the sling. These babies are smaller than "regular" Calico Critter babies, and do not have posable arms or legs. Their heads can tur...

Welcome to Critterland! How did this happen? Why does this adult woman have a room dedicated to Calico Critters?? It all began when I bought a Calico Critters Cozy Cottage for my daughter in 2012. I was amazed at the intricacy, durability, tactility, and just total cuteness of every part of the set and doll. Within a few weeks I bought "her" the Red Roof Country Home, Adventure Treehouse, Koala Family, and a few other sets. The obsession had begun! Scroll down for a video tour at the end of this article! I have always been intrigued by miniatures and dollhouses, and had even played with a Sylvanian Families cottage as a child, so when my passion was reignited, boy did it ignite! Over the next four or five years, I - or "we" - slowly accumulated a couple shelves of Calico Critter sets. And then, once we moved the sets onto a table, the collection ballooned! I bought several large houses - most of them second-hand - within weeks of setting up the "Critterland...