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i live the simple life so to speak, but a bit of an eccentric one. i have an extensive vintage my little pony collection and shelves of only the geekiest lunch boxes around. nerd? perhaps. really i love to collect anything vintage and i enjoy being a big kid entirely too much. i love to sew and make cute things. i am vegetarian; i love to cook and bake. i try and be conscious of the decisions i make in this life. i recycle. i reuse. i compost. i try to live as plastic free as possible. hippy? no. hippies never looked this good in a 50's dress and high heels.

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Seaflower & High Tide

I finally got Seaflower. Finally, finally, finally! Month, upon months of searching for her. And, what a great month!?! 3 grails have been obtained this month. Of course my French Sunlight w. freckles, Seaflower, &...High Tide!! I love how I've been wanting these girls for so long and I get them all in one month and they are all minty mint!

Friday, August 8, 2008

my first custom pony!

well, I have been done my first custom for...well...a while now. I've been a bit shy about posting her for some reason. I don't want to suck, I guess. Please don't tell me I suck! constructive criticism only please!

so first, I will tell you a bit about her. She was originally a Toola Roola with a badly rubbed symbol and tail rust. She has been rehaired using hair from custompony.com. I really had no vision for her when I started, but I did know that I wanted her to have rooted bangs, as I think those are just the cutest. i think I would do them differently next time, as I made them really thick and so they don't lay quite the way i wanted them too...in fact all of her hair turned out really thick and the only way to keep it down, was to wrap it up in a bun, which I actually like, even though I had not thought to do that in the beginning, it was more of a necessity than anything, but anyways, i like it up like that. I didn't take any of her original eye paint off to be redone. Just left it the way it was because, being my first, I wasn't 100% sure I was quite ready for that, but will give it a go on the next time around. Her symbol. i picked a cupcake. I was thinking a cupcake, but then my friend made some yummy vegan cupcakes and that made it official. and honestly, who doesn't love cupcakes??

I kept it really simple, didn't want to jump in the deep end quite yet, so I hope you like her. She has no name yet.




Thursday, July 31, 2008

the last of the Sunlights...

is home!! the hunt is over. the collection is complete!!! I now officially have every Sunlight from every country!!! i am very excited. it is so satisfying to have finished the set. they look so wonderful all on the shelf together.







i think my next mission is going to be Parasol. I currently have 4. One HK, one Greek, and the 2 Italian versions.

Monday, July 21, 2008

I got my swap box today!!!

OMG!! OMG!! OMG!! are you ready?!?

for THE BEST swap box brag EVER!!!!!










Princess Pinkstar!!!! you are amazing! I love everything so much~!! You really did give a box that made me go WOW!!!









and it was soooOOOOo nice of you to think of Madeleine and send along some goodies for her as well. Everything was so thoughtful.








I think I may cry from smiling so hard....








first up...the box!!!!

it's really a pretty box, isn't it?



I got a sweet card and a little note which was lovely, explaining where everything came from. I keep all my swap cards and notes together in a scrap book, so that is where these beautiful cards will be going.



I got some PONY PAMPHLETS!!!!!

this is before I tore off all the wrapping....

look at my new beautiful ponies!!!!!!

junk food!!! I am so excited to eat these. I've never had them!

stickers, stickers, stickers!!! what!?! Is that a Bananas in Pajamas CD??? you bet it is!!
i think it's for Madeleine, but I am totally listening to it right now, ahhhh, memories.

some stuff for Maddie. Tiger talks!!! he has buttons on his feet and he tells a story!!! and baby headbands!!!

some gorgeous fairies. one is a little figure and the other is a magnet!

Princess Pinkstar. you spoiled me!!! thank you so much!! I wish you were here so i could give you the biggest hug EVER!! seriously, internet hugs are not enough.

*biggest internet hugs I can give anyways*

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

UK Sea Ponies, Big Brothers, & twins!

I received a lovely box of ponies yesterday that i purchased off of the lovely Marcucio over at the Arena. In it was the set of UK Sea Ponies & shells, big brothers Steamer & Salty, and newborn twins Nibbles & Dibbles!!! They are all so beautiful. I'm now up to 6 sea ponies...only 9 more to go...
Wave Breaker
Surf Dancer

Sea Spray

Steamer

Salty

Nibbles & Dibbles

Monday, July 14, 2008

my first custom??? ... working in progress...

In the past, I have made in very clear, that customs is not my thing. I don't have a very good reason as to why, so I guess I will chalk it up to being that my love for all original My Little Ponies, heavily outweighed any desire for customs. That being said, I also have a ton of G3's that I have accumulated being as I just can't leave behind a pony find when I see one, even though I don't collect G3's and I also have a ton of custom pony hair left over from our pony meet tutorials. So I thought, hey, I'm going to give it a go and see what i come up with...and so far....I love it! I'm having so much fun doing my first custom. Being new to rehairing anything, I have so far spent hours rerooting my custom and have only finished the front half of her mane. I'm still not entirely sure of what my vision for er is yet, but here is a picture to share of my work so far...

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

what an amazing pony week it has been!

I have made some fantastic finds this week and gotten a bunch in the mail as well! A pretty good pony fix for a little while.

from the Flea Market:

I found it, i finally found it! and from the flea market of all places! I finally have my MIB Lullabye Nursery!!



and I found a few newborn babies there as well!


from the Antique Mall:

baby Princess Sparkle!!


and Princess Primrose!



from my trading partner Jeanette in the Netherlands:

Italian Parasol!


Italian Peachy!




from Tartanshell on the TP:

her handmade pony skirt!!! soOOoo cute!!




which madeleine has taken claim too, lol.


from Twinkle-eyed on the Arena:

Clover!


from Ebay:

my very first Summer Wing pony! Buzzer!