A Forest Dweller Christmas

We just sent off the newest book to be printed. It's A Forest Dweller Christmas featuring my Forest Dwellers by Whispering Grass. 

It was photographed in January and February of 2022 and is the story of how everyone was invited to the Foxes home to participate in their traditional Christmas dinner. 

All the women have a great time working together in the kitchen

...preparing all their favourite recipes....

...while their menfolk spend the day entertaining themselves...

...and eventually they all sit down to a Christmas feast...

Well, when we were putting the book together it became clear that the story came to an end rather quickly, and that it could have used a few additional scenes to fill it in. I think it was because the story was photographed in January and February, and I likely became fed up with taking Christmas photos so long after it had passed, so I made a quick ending so I could move on.

But the book could really use those missing scenes, so I decided to recreate the entire set again. Thankfully I always take photos of every set so I can reproduce it if needed again in the future...

The first additional scene was of the menfolk cleaning up in the kitchen. Their women had worked hard all day while the men had relaxed, and now it was the men's turn to work while their women relaxed. And their first chore was to take all the dishes and leftovers to the kitchen and do a basic clean up there before they could start washing the dishes...

Mr. Ropuha and Rhett Fox sorted the leftovers into containers for everyone to take home with them...

Mr. Ropuha made sure Tiana would get plenty of the leftover cream puffs that she loved so much...

He and Rhett made sure everyone would get some of their favourite things to take home with them...

Smuzhka and Mannie were scraping anything not saveable  into the garbage...

While Max swept the floor...

...and Chip cleaned the stove...

To see the original story - A Forest Dweller Christmas

I will be adding the new scenes into the original story as I post them here.