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« on: December 12, 2016, 10:35:44 AM »
Hi everyone!
I am glitterball and I remember getting my first ever pony, Cotton Candy, back in the 80s, after pestering my Dad for aaaages to find one for me! A girl at school had Blossom and another had Bubbles and I fell in love with these sweet ponies!
I played with Cotton Candy every day, taking care to keep her mane and tail tangle-free and learning to plait in threes (and eventually in fours) and perfecting my bow-tying technique with the lilac ribbon.
Over the next birthdays/Christmas times I acquired further ponies... my new faves being the vibrantly-haired Honeycomb (with the cutest glitter bees) and the sweetly-freckled Gypsy. I just loved the proud poses that the new unicorns came in.
Then I "grew up", went to a new school etc. The ponies were lovingly stored in the attic (where I would make visits to them often!) and life "got in the way"...
Roll-on many years... and I find myself finding the odd G1 at bootsales, so of course I buy them (nostalgia...) and now I have a daughter who has started to "get into" ponies... the current G4, of course... but now I am slowly fetching my old ponies, washing them etc and hoping that she will fall in love with them too!
I am a bit of an arty-crafty person and love a bit of glitter glam... and am thinking of doing a rescue project on some of the poorly ponies that I have bought recently. Am currently experimenting with pop bottles & angelina film for replacement flutter wings and feel a re-root may be fun too (I have re-rooted Pippas, Sindys and transformed a haircut Elsa into her brunette mother Queen, along with making a new crown etc. so think that a pony will be great fun to tackle!) question is - what style to do first, eh?
Anyway, I am hoping to find inspiration and tips from these boards and would love to share my ideas with other pony-passion-istas!
xx