These are a few of my FAVORITE things SWAP - Brag thread!

[Sunshine]

I am so excited to be the first brag of Chipster's "These are a few of my FAVORITE things" Swap!

This is the first swap box I've ever gotten! And let me tell you, it was awesome!

So, here's the story through pictures, and words...!

First off, I will have to say my partner was kind of a mystery! I looked all over the box for a card or something, but I did not find one, so I had to do a bit of sleuthing to determine who it was... thankfully Chipster is on top of things posting shipped, and if I'm not mistaken, my partner was the incredible Midnight_Dream!!

I opened the mailbox and saw this lovely box! "Christmas in July! How perfect!" was my first thought! So I loved the idea of it right off the bat!
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And when I opened the box - omgosh, it was PACKED with gifts! And the first thing I saw were those DELICIOUS looking Peanut Butter cups... SO my favorite candy ever!! Those are going to be my road snack on the trip up to the Pony Fair... if they last that long! And the wrapping paper - Christmas in July + the Green G4 wrapping paper! Which I NEVER saw in stores myself, it's beautiful!
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Omgosh, so many gifties!! Like seriously!
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So, it was only after I started opening the gifts that I realized that the ponies were wrapped in the G4 paper, and the other goodies in the Christmas paper (duh, lol! Took me a while to figure out your clever packaging! haha! :biggrin), but look at all the wonderful extras! I got some super cute fishy puzzles and those awesome grow capsules! I am SO using those in the pool LMAO, they are awesome and I loved them as a kid, haven't seen them in forever!
A little owl lipgloss (ADORABLE!! ) and some hand sanitizers in smells OTHER than "ALCOHOL"! which is GREAT! I use that stuff ALL the time! (Oh and the bag is a cute little purse!)
But the super coolest thing are the two beanie babies! - Mostly Chocolate the Moose! When I was a kid and Beanies were all the rage, I wanted one that was born on my birthday. Well, at the time (first releases), there wasn't one born on my birthday, but Chocolate was born on 4/27 (mines 4/28), and because they were so HOT back then, I NEVER was able to find myself a Chocolate the Moose! The only one I had was the McDonalds version... so that's just... AMAZING! I can't believe I actually own a Chocolate now! And I've never seen the Deer (Roxie) but it's so super cute, I LOVE deer so much, ESPECIALLY deer stuffed animals! I am adding both of these to my mini-collections right now!
Oh and I can't forget the Series 2 MLP Cards! I haven't opened them yet, but I am just about to! I haven't found many Series 2 cards around here, only a handful of packets so I'm missing a ton of cards still, this is very thoughtful!
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AND now onto the ponies!
I got wonderful additions to my Peachy and Moonstone Armies!

I was gifted three beautiful Peachy's who all have subtle differences! It's amazing how much these ponies can vary from one another, I absolutely love collecting playset pony variations! So there are my new three gals!
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And a shot of my Peachy Army (though I swore I had an Italian Peachy, but I can't find her... ) - almost every single one of them is a bit different - and the back row are all CF from the US! Macau and FF peachy are in front just for comparison, but amazing variation! My army is GROWWWINNNGGG!!! Thank you so much!
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AND - I also got a BEAUTIFUL Moonstone! I can't believe how BLUE her body is!! And her glitter is just beautiful, like no rubs at all.
Here she is:
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And a picture of her with my small, but growing, Moonstone Army! You can see how blue she really is (far left Moonstone) compared to what I thought was my best US Moonstone, but she's so much BLUE-R... she's BLUE-TIFUL!
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Oh my...  lol I really am just blown away, thank you so much for this lovely box! Everything was so nice and cute and sweet of you! I can't say thanks enough!!



Now I can't wait to see the rest of our brags!

[darknessunisousboy]

congrats on being the fist and congrats on all the lovely new things.

[Sunshine]

Thanks, it was exciting to get a mystery box like this!
I think now I have a Peachy Army that's bigger than my Lemon Drop army, lol or at least rivals it's size...

I can't wait to see more brags

[kiwimlp]

Congrats, Sunshine.  Your Peach army looks awesome

[himmie]

Great job, Midnight_Dream!

Congrats on the stuff and being the first, Sunshine! It's nice it did not have to wait around for you while you were at fair.

[Sunshine]

Yeah it was a really nice surprise...! Especially because it was ALL mystery, and some of the items were like... FREAKY PERFECT, haha like Chocolate the Moose and that beautiful Moonstone - Still I can't believe how blue she is... She's going to get spa'd up first thing after I get back from the fair...

I've actually had extremely AMAZING pony luck before the fair, I was about to post a brag about that too but I don't know how many brag threads I can start, lol, I don't want to hog the boards...

[achab1984]

Congrats!!!!! You got a lot of very nice things and some very very nice ponies

[Sunshine]

Oh! I forgot to mention, I opened my card packs, and I got three pieces to the Mane 6 fillies puzzle (the ones with checklists on the back), I didn't even know that puzzle existed, so I'm already halfway done with it from the cards I was gifted!

Thank you again Midnight!

[Saja]

yay for first box arriving. beautiful box of goodies congrats!!

[Midnight_Dream]

I am soo glad you liked everything! I actually worried that I had not gotten enough, so I am really glad you liked everything. The Christmas theme was actually an accident because I was looking for green wrapping paper and all I could find was the pony paper and I just went with it.

It was super fun picking things out for you, especially looking for Tropical fish themed things. I thought the puzzles were cute and who doesn't love those things that grow in the water?!

I'll be at the fair at booth #77, so feel free to stop by.

[Sunshine]

I am soo glad you liked everything! I actually worried that I had not gotten enough, so I am really glad you liked everything. The Christmas theme was actually an accident because I was looking for green wrapping paper and all I could find was the pony paper and I just went with it.

It was super fun picking things out for you, especially looking for Tropical fish themed things. I thought the puzzles were cute and who doesn't love those things that grow in the water?!

I'll be at the fair at booth #77, so feel free to stop by.

Yay!! I'll definitely see you there to give you a big thank you hug!!

[Diamond]

Congrats, great first box.

[ChipsteRJ]

Glad to see that our first box arrived, I'm surprised that my partner hasn't received their box yet.

Thanks for starting off the brags! Peachy's are VERY unique creatures indeed. I'm so glad that my ponies found a new home in your herd... Would you believe that your Moonstone is the result of an upgrade to my own collection? I love seeing my ponies given in swaps.

[TexasGal]

*sneaks in, stalks thread to see all the goodies*

[Sunshine]

Omg lol Chip then I need to see YOUR Moonstone, hahaha because seriously I was blown away at how nice she was. As I said, the one I put in that photo I thought was my best Moonstone, and she's VERY near mint, but obviously not as blue... haha

I actually just LOVE everything so much. The more I sit with the new ponies the more they grow on me, like, even more than when I opened them! I look at those super cute Peachy eyes and I feel all warm and fuzzy inside! Moonstone, she's a little more proud, not as sappy, haha, more regal, shall we say.

Oh and... um... the peanut butter cups may or may not be gone already... DELICIOSO!