There was a great snowfall in Kiev this January and I’ve shot very nice photos with my boreal Schleich animals on the snow. Remarkable fact is that the very day after this photo shoot the temperature has gone up above zero and almost all that wonderful snow melted away.
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Hi, everybody!
Recently I was re-populating my shelf forest display with animals after a clear-out and dust-wiping and in the middle of that process I’ve taken some photos of my ant-eater. I’d like to share two of them which I like the most.


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I've encountered a stunning "giraffe cake" decorated with Schleich giraffes on a BeanPaste blog. There's a step-by-step tutorial of how to make such cake.


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I’ve taken a group photo of the first four “to-be-retired” Schleich animals that I bought after the list of figures to be discontinued in 2009 had got out.


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Hello, everyone!
As I have no access to my wildlife display to the moment (there’s an overhaul in my apartment and I’m temporarily living with my parents), so I’ve made a new photo story just on a window sill using a couple of artificial plants.
Hope you’ll like it. My kids did :o)


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Liiolii, Schleich collector from Finland, has shared a link to a photo contest dedicated to animal figurines. Some of the competition photos are really great, I must admit. Enjoy: http://www.lahjakas.fi/valokuvakilpailu2008.php


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Hello everybody!
It’s Fall already and only now I have found time to post some photos taken for the July photo competition on Laughing Giraffe. (I doubt if I this sentence is grammatically correct. Is it?) The star of this photo session is an “old school” Schleich tiger. I haven’t bought new tigers from the 2008 line-up because I don’t like them ( Read more... )

Hello everybody!
I've been totally swirled in work the last two months, so I couldn't pay much attention to making photos and stories :o(
Here are four pictures with the latest Schleich animal I bought - a roe deer. It is placed on a piece of landscape made of modelling clay by Dmitry Ostapenko (Дмитрий Остапенко).


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Here are two photos from the heart of Asian jungle showing tigers in their natural environment.


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