Long time no see! I got super lucky on a $30-ish pony lot from Shopgoodwill, and it just arrived a few days ago. I could see five G1s buried amongst a bunch of G3s and G4s in the photo, but since it was basically a grab bag lot, I wasn't sure what to expect. I got quite the surprise when I opened the box to see not just five, but eight G1s!

Here's the G1s I got (these girls were grimy but I forgot to take before pics, so just imagine them caked with dirt and mysterious sticky substances)!

Sweet Suds (with her original ribbon!)

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I only have one other Perfume Puff and her mane and tail are a mess, so it was a treat to see such a lovely soft puffy mane and tail! Sweet Suds is pretty much in perfect condition with beautiful symbols. She even had her original ribbon tied in her mane! I think this is the first G1 I've ever gotten with their original ribbon.

Starry Wings

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You have no idea how excited I was to pull this girl out of the box. Easily my favorite from this whole lot, and one you couldn't even see in the photos that were provided. She is so minty I can hardly believe it, and her wings are both in perfect condition!

Boysenberry Pie

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It seems like Boysenberry is prone to discoloration in general. This is my second Boysenberry and she's got yellow-ish stains all over her body as well. Perhaps from the mane? Hmm. Either way, she's lovely otherwise!

Coco Berry

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This girl has been on my wishlist for awhile, and I finally have her! She's in pretty good condition with just a little yellowing.

BBE Baby Half Note

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This little one came with all four of her original legwarmers!

Fizzy

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This Fizzy is gorgeous, I don't see much of anything wrong with her! Beautiful symbols, and she still has some of the shimmery coating on her eyes. She's certainly an upgrade on my current Fizzy, who has a bit of a frizzy dry hair problem.

Parasol

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This Parasol was pretty filthy when she got here, and it took a LOT of scrubbing to get her looking presentable. She does have a marker stain on her NDS foreleg, but I think it adds to her charm! It seems I'm collecting sad Parasols.

Taffy

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Yeesh...this poor girl. That flocking is sad, and it looks better than it did when she first got here. Other than the flocking, though, she's pretty lovely! And from what I understand she's a bit harder to find as SS go, so I'm happy.

Repro Confetti

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Confetti is one of my favorite ponies, so you'll never see me complain about getting extras of her! One day I might have a Confetti conga, hehe.

I also got...a singular adult pony legwarmer. Well, I suppose I can collect the rest over time!

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I haven't actually gotten around to cleaning them up yet, but along with the G1s in this lot I also got:

G3s:

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G4s:

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All in all, a very nice lot!

I have been completely dreadful at keeping up with brags lately! And that's terribly ironic since I'm stuck at home with basically nothing to do at the moment.

First up, we have some recent additions purchased from Mercari <3

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I stumbled upon this Salty who was from a seller I've bought from before, and he was quite reasonably priced for how lovely he is! This poor boy had a rather rough time getting here. With all the confusion going on lately, he was accidentally shipped to the wrong person. Thankfully everyone involved was very nice, and he was shipped back to the seller and then was shipped out to me again. Then, unfortunately he was out for delivery and our mail person's truck broke down! So he had to be unloaded into a different truck to be delivered. Thankfully, he arrived safe and sound, along with...

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...these two precious little Petites the seller included as a surprise! These are my first Petites and I must admit, I'm feeling an urge to collect more of them now. I adore them!

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Next we have Mainsail! I've wanted Mainsail for a long time as well, but she's been difficult to find in good condition for cheap. This girl was only $12.64 total with free shipping, and she is absolutely gorgeous! We haven't had enough sun lately to check if her hair still changes color, but when these clouds clear off I'll do just that!

Next, a very special addition. I participated in the MLPTP Fundraiser this year, and I was lucky enough to be picked as one of the prize winners! I got this absolutely beautiful kitsune pony custom from SerendipitySky on the TP. She was apparently made from a Basic Fun pony. I adore her! I've been a fan of SerendipitySky's kitsune ponies for a long while, so I'm thrilled to have one of my very own.

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Aside from that, I was a participant in MLPTP's Easter Swap this year, and I had a great time shopping for my partner! My own swap box arrived today and my partner spoiled me...

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Tootsie!

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Baby Paws! I am thrilled to have this cutie join my herd. Look at those precious freckles!

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G3 Cupcake, one of my G3 grails, with her backcard and her brush <3

And some awesome pony merch!

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So I totally forgot to make a brag post about this gal!

Last week I got a good deal on Lovebeam on Mercari, who has been one of my soft grails since I was little. She arrived this past week (sadly she's not as nice as I'd hoped, she had some undisclosed chew marks) but she's still so gorgeous ahhh <3 I know it's a bit of an unpopular opinion, but I adore the Bride pose, and the Color Swirl set so much <3

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I also got a cheap bait lot from someone on instagram and I'm super looking forward to rehairing everyone! I've started working on Sherbet, who needed a rehair and to have her symbols repainted. I decided to repaint her symbol to match the hair she'd been partially rehaired in, as well as give her heterochromia because why not? It looks really cool!

 It seems that the colors they used are Venom and White Chocolate...I need to find an alternative site to buy more of those colors from so I can finish her! Any recommendations? >u<

I will probably be doing a blue yarn rehair for Baby Firefly and a mint and white nylon rehair for Crunch Berry. Lucky has had his symbols wiped but he does still have his eye paint. I'm trying to decide whether to give him a whole new look or to just repaint his horseshoes back on and rehair him >u<; Can't decide! I adore his eyes, they're so cute.

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I am just completely flabbergasted by these Big Brother deals I keep finding on eBay! I got lucky on an auction for Tex. I got him for $9.99 plus shipping. The seller is actually from the same state (in fact they live about an hour away from me and have a booth at a shop there! I don't know if they're on the forums here but supposedly they have hundreds of ponies and we've been in contact about my possibly getting more boys from them), and so he got here very quickly!

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He arrived this morning...

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And goodness, he cleaned up beautifully! He just had some surface dirt but other than that, he is as mint-y as can be. No scratches to any of his paint or blush, no discoloration/age spots, nice, silky-smooth, uncut hair...gosh.

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I have a couple more pony mail packages on the way, but after those get here I'll be saving any more pony buying for the OK MLP meet happening later this month! (I'd kick myself if I spent all my pony funds before the meet  )

I had a nice little relaxed week, but I did get some lovely pony things I'd like to share!

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First off, my only thrifting find for the week, Forget-Me-Not! She was a little overpriced (not by much, but y'know) but she's been sitting all sad and unloved in a booth in our local antique mall since like...September of last year, and she was calling to me, so I decided to take her home. She cleaned up beautifully, and marks my first successful attempt at ringlet curls! I did also pick up Moondancer's brush, since it was still there and I don't have any of her accessories.

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Next was a pony mail addition! I spotted this fairly inexpensive Chief on eBay, and I caved and bought him. My Big Brother herd is growing by the day! The poor boy has some issues but I'm confident I can lessen, if not completely fix, all of them. His paint is gorgeous and other than a little dryness at the tip of his tail, his hair is beautiful. His problems lie in the marker stains on his NDS, and the fact that his body is yellowed. He also has a warped leg, but I've fixed those before so I'm not too worried. I will be sunfading him <3

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Lastly was a sticker I ordered from Frog & Cog on etsy! I browse etsy occasionally for pony stuff, and I clicked on their shop out of curiosity because I saw all the cute chibi pony stickers. And then I saw that they had Apple Split! Ahhh Apple Split is my absolutely favorite background pony, the bestest of boys. I immediately snapped one up, there was no way I couldn't. Here's the sticker along with my current Apple Split herd! I have no idea what I'm going to use it on yet, but I am stoked about it.

I haven't posted much artwork here in awhile, so I figured I'd make a new thread since I abandoned the last one so long it got locked hehe 

I posted some freebie lineart I did awhile ago. Here are a few of the things I made with it!

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Steamer

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Baby Whirly Twirl

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My vampire pony OC, Nightlore

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And lastly, not on the bases, a cute little fluffy piece of Prince Sapphire and Prince Emerald nuzzling. Someone mentioned that in this picture I took of them they looked rather cozy, and it inspired me to draw a cuddly piece <3

In addition to the Wigwam I took a chance on recently, I also took a chance on a $3 Barnacle on Etsy. I could tell he had a bad haircut, was discolored, and his symbols were a bit faded, although the seller claimed he 'just had a haircut and was in overall good condition, from a smoke-free home'. But hey, he was $3 plus shipping. Even for a complete bait-y Big Brother that was an okay deal, right?

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He arrived yesterday in the absolute worst packaging I have ever had a pony shipped to me in. It was - and I am completely serious here, as you can see from the photos - one polyethylene foam sheet wrapped in either duct tape or packaging tape, I can't tell which. It FEELS like duct tape but it has warnings on it like packaging tape. Either way, that was all he arrived in. No box, no envelope. Just...foam and tape.

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So onto the poor boy. Um...yeah. He did not look this bad in the photos. He still looked a little blue in the photos. In actuality, he is completely green-ish grey, and smells heavily of smoke, something the seller did not disclose to me beforehand. Needless to say, the seller got a one star review (which is not something I do often if at all, but this was pretty bad).

For comparison, here were the seller's photos:

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However, I am not giving up on this boy! I'm going to try to restore him as my first major restoration project. For now, I am trying to get rid of the smoke smell with cat litter. If that doesn't work, I'll try the charcoal method from MLP Preservation Project. Here he is in phase one of the de-stink treatment >u<

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I'm not sure if it would be okay to tell their username here publicly, so if you'd like to know who they are in order to avoid purchasing from them (they have several other ponies listed across multiple sites, not just Etsy) please PM me and I will tell you <3

I'm not sure if anyone's opened these up before (actually nah, I'm sure at least one person has). I keep getting these manky Lightheart McDonald's ponies in lots, and they're starting to overrun my McD's pony bucket! so I figured I'd take the one I have that's in the worst condition and turn it into Prince Firefly. But I quickly realized that the neck plugs on these things are tough.

I spent a good ten minutes running the head and neck under hot water and pulling on it before I was finally able to pry it loose. And the neck plug actually has a little mechanism on it that makes the head turn. Both the plug and the mechanism came out with no damage, these things are quite solid. Although now I'm worried about when it comes time to put the head back on lol! But anyway, I thought these pics might be interesting enough to show for anyone who was curious or had thought about customizing these:

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I am honestly thoroughly impressed by the quality of these things. These are Happy Meal toys, I wasn't expecting such a hardy mechanism to challenge me when I decided to customize one! I will definitely post pics after the Prince Firefly custom is complete too <3