I really like their realistic looking animal figures, I never wanted to actively collect them though. I think they looks great and I like the big selection, but they dont really inspire me. I did howevr buy some a few years ago.
I couldent resit the frog, since frogs are my favorite animal, and I colect different frog figures. The parakeet and guinea pig was bought to be liv dolls pet, but im afriad the parakeet is too big in scale.
These little guys was a more recent purchase, I think I bought them in october. I absolutely love this set, I think they look so awsome. And I love the blue poison dart frog, as it is one of my favorite frogs.
So my collection of Schleich animal have been quite small, and I dont plan on adding more besides frogs and potentiel doll pets.
BUT
The Schleich Bayala figures have really caught my attention. I love fantsy, and the bayala world seems so magical. I have been wanting to collect these figures, they do inspire me. But I have been holding off, because I didnt feel like starting a new collection, and I didnt know where I would put them annyways.
Then last year around ocktober/november I decided that this year I would buy advent calendar with toys. I have been looking at the lego advent calendars, for a couple of years. But in the end I decided against buying a lego one. My reason for that is that I dont think annything in the calendar, would fit with my lego Belville collection. I will not start collecting Lego friends or city, my current Lego collection dont even have the space and attention it deserves.
After looking at all the other advent calendars, I knew that the one I wanted the most was the Schleich Bayala one. I told my boyfriend this, and said to him that if I did buy this calendar I would start collecting. My boyfriend said he thought that was fine, and that he was sure we could find a place for the figures since they are small.
So with that in mind I bought two Bayala fantasy animals, and later I bought the Calendar.
Im not going to talk too muchabout the calendar, because what I wanna talk about is the shelf.
While opening eth calendar during december, my boyfriend and I talked about finding a shelf. We had made some space on a wall, but still needed to find some shelves. We live near an Ikea, so we went there to get ideas. We looked at some of their small glass cabinets, but I werent sure I liked those. We allso talked about putting up some small wood shelves, but I think those at Ikea was too big.
On our way out we stopped by the area, where they have damaged stuff for cheap. There were this funiture that cought my eyes, it had a pretty wood frame and glass shelves - and it was the perfect size. On the note it said it was missing a door, a shelf and had a few scratches. The scratch didnt bother me, but the missing shelf did. - and my boyfriend said it would be too difficult to make a new one. He actually found out that the funiture was a bathroom cabinet. So we went looking at the new thing, but it was way too exspensive, and I didnt like it with the door.
We allmost left the store after that, but I felt like I couldent let the funiture go and then insisted that we bought it.
And im verry happy that I did, because its perfect!!
I was so exited that I rushed out and bought two more figures, so it wouldent look too empty. Im really looking forward to getting even more figures, and setting up small scenes for each shelf.
My Zelf fit perfect on one of the glass shelves as well, they have actually been needing a better place to stay,so I was happy to give them one shlef.
I have been looking alot at Schleich online, and I made myself a wishlist of the figures I want the most. The wishlist is actually not verry long, since I only put on the figures I wanted the most,and that I felt would fit in with the scenes that I have in mind.
Im just really excited,and I hope to fill out the shelves soon.
