can't get enough of "Habit" by Sekai no Owari 

your work is adorable!
i love the soft backgrounds, I still can't manage to get backgrounds to work for my pieces !

I very much just go for ponies I love the colors and symbols of for my G3s, since the generation is just so massive!
So symbols and colors that are interesting or more uncommon to see, brighter colors maybe? I love the red ponies!

For G1, I made it a personal goal to own every single sweetheart sister molded pony as they're my favorite mold of all generations,
and I only have a few left to go (if anyone has a Flowerburst, Frilly Flower or Pretty Belle they're looking to get rid of lmk!  )
However I love a lot of G1 colors so I usually go for any I see for reasonable prices, which is getting harder to find these days.

For G2, just any more affordable girls that don't have weird movement mechanisms (like the neck or back legs), I love the G2 molds
and the sparkly eyes but the gimmicks really ruin a lot of the ponies for me!

If I grab anything G4, which I usually just don't do, it'll be stuff that's rare or non-mainline ponies in brushable forms. But I don't seek them
out at all really.

In general however I prefer and go for loose ponies, I don't want to open a box and ruin a pony's "mint" collector condition but I do not appreciate or
love MIB ponies as much as my loose girlies with mild defects or staining. All my MIB were birthday gifts from my childhood my mother hid and forgot
to give to me, so now in my collector years I feel bad opening them, LOL! 

Welcome to the arena! 

welcome to the arena, fellow g3 baby and collector! 
wishing you the best of luck on growing your collection here

The loungefly bag is so cute!
Wish they released these images two weeks ago... I just bought the cinnamoroll loungefly
because I needed a new purse ! 

My ponies are all in boxes too. I bought shoe racks for them! I thought they would make a nice display. They are easy to put together too and you can skip a level for taller ponies/dolls/plushies. I think they will also making dusting easier. The only thing is they are very lightweight, so when I get mine set up I'm going to attach them to the wall with a screw and wire.

shoe racks is such a smart idea!! i've got skinny shelves I could stack them on too.
Maybe find some kinda crystals or something to weight them down "aesthetically", haha !

mine are displayed on Ikea Billy shelves. they were in boxes for quite a while though. i need to get some risers so i can see them better.

some collectors group by color or pose. personally i organize roughly by year and group. this way i can easily see where i need set completers. since i'm in completionist mode again.

I definitely am beginning to see that pose grouping is most efficient.... the G1s seem to work fine but even with post sorting my G3 girlies heads get in the way 
Ikea Billy shelves are SOOO cute!! I wish I had more room for another shelving unit. My room layout is a little funky, I'll post some pictures later after I clean up a
bit (it's finals week at my university so I've been living like a rat, lol!)

My G4 need to be readjusted. I had them arranged roughly by set and release order, with the 2010-11-12 brushables towards the front. The only ones that throw a wrench in this are the Alicorns being different sizes, so they were to the top right. I need to rearrange these guys!

I am usually on the lookout for more ways to display. Thrift stores, Restore especially, is a great place to get shelving on the cheap. I prefer wall shelves since you can still put stuff underneath for normal living, although most of the drawertopspace is reserved for collections now (such as my G4 Reboots, who are lookin' ugly and need to be set straight again.). Arranging by pose is usually the most beneficial to saving space, although if you have the freedom to arrange in other ways, that certainly helps. MIB and boxes always go towards the back to help me see the smaller objects of my collection more fully. My G4 risers were made out of cardboard and hot glue, and stand up pretty well, even though it looks messy!

Girlfriends make the best collection organizers, huh? When my GF (also long distance) comes to visit, she always rearranges my ponies a bit. She does instinctively look for boxes to help give different objects height and make sure they're all viewable. Maybe my Whiffies collection can give a more varied look at how to do this instead of risers? The differing heights definitely make it a bit more dynamic looking! (Ignore Gelatoni in the back. I need to find a better place for him :v)

YAAAAYYYY I love all the images of your collection!!!
Also a huge fan of floating shelves- I found two funky looking ones at Ross a couple months ago now and I've been using them. I REALLLLLLY need shelf risers, I might take a page out of your book and make some myself with cardboard and hot glue (with some spray paint, LOL!), because I really can't justify buying the number of risers I'm going to need for this collection.

Girlfriends really do make everything so much easier! So cute how she helps out around your collection. cx
The idea of stacking the whiffies on the boxed items actually is a great idea, I've got TONS of figurine boxes I keep around that need storage too.