What a horrible thing to go through! ((hugs)) I hope you can find that inventory list on the last hard drive, such an emotional and financial blow to take. 

I love all these!  I'm working on some custom flutter ponies,  this makes me want to make some bright colored ones with tropical flowers!

Wow! Those are great! I need to get out to flea markets more often!

Well darn, I had already de-haired her last night when I saw everyone's advice today. Her tail was in really, really bad shape for the end 1/3 or so and my attempts to get all the rust staining out and smoothing didn't get me very far. I figured if she needed a new tail might she might as well have a pretty new mane also but maybe I got carried away and should have left well enough alone. I'll post some pics when she's put back together, hopefully I didn't mess her up too bad.

Hi everyone,

I have recently gotten my collection of ponies back out after many moves, marriage, adding kids, and general life pushed my ponies into the back of my mind for over a decade! The majority of my collection is from my childhood and I am working on cleaning up and restoring them plus replacing the ones I know my sisters and I had but disappeared over the years. I had expanded my original collection to include all of the flutter ponies (probably my favorite type overall) and would like to expand more once I have finished completing my childhood collection. One of my favorites in my collection is my so soft Buttons because she was my very first pony as a child and was loved so completely (she looks pretty rough from all that love) and my rarest pony is Princess Sparkle with her buggy.

I'm excited to join you all here and hope to learn more about pony collecting!