I had ponies as a kid but they got packed up over the years.  I did remember playing ponies with my sister a lot and it's funny how ones I thought were ugly as a kid I love now, like Twist.

What got my into collecting was purchasing my very first pony from Ebay in Spring 2000. An Up Up and Away with faded white hair for $3.  I still remember how fun it was to get her in the mail.  From there I started reading up on them and hit up a local flea market in search of them.  That was my best pony hunting summer often coming home every Sunday with a few.  I met some local toy/pony collectors and still keep in touch today.



and the story continues....  Sadly after that summer it became much harder to find ponies especially after the G3's came out but I kept up the hunt for years and of course buying on Ebay.  I would sell some to help feed the addiction and immediately spend the money on more. After a house fire that damaged a lot of my collection it sort of spiraled out of control trying to replace what I lost and more.  At one point I had over 100 MOC's and a couple thousand ponies.  Sadly I sold most my MOC collection to put the downpayment on my house.  I don't regret the decision but sometimes I look at my old collection pictures and have a moment of "omg how did I ever let that pony go!!" lol  From there I disapeared off the boards..busy with life and resisting temptation. 

Going to the pony fair in 2011 sort of renewed my love and I bought a few here and there and got into the FIM series. 

I quit collecting for years, but now I have a special bin where I keep my must haves and favourites.  Some of them are even quite common but I always loved them.  I think some day they may suck me back in    

I'll take that as a yes then lol.  I have 6 rolls of paper here to start tracing them out.  I have to rewrite out my original instructions since I lost my digital file.  This is my third computer since I originally made them.

I know I pm'd a couple people that had contacted me in the past.

Ohhh me me me! I would love a pattern please
Are the paper patterns? Or are they available in digital too

They're paper patterns.  I'm not sure how you would be able to get the right scape digitally.  They really are huge...about 12' of brown crafting/shipping paper and the pony they make is the same scale as the giant hasbro plushies, about 3' tall.  They take about 3 yards of faux fur and about three packages of hair.  I used jumbo braid just because It comes in large quantity for affordable prices, although the gusty was made with nylon hair which cost a small fortune and tangled easily because of the sheer volume and length.  I've seen some people use yarn too. 

That was so great of you to take them in.  My first foster kittens were about that size and 4 weeks old when I got them.  They were dumped outside the shelter I work at in a box in winter.  Sadly it's a something that happens often. 

Thankfully the ones you should have should only need bottle fed/milk for another week or two if they're eating on their own.  One of the fosters from my shelter who has raised tons of kittens from just days old mixes in egg yoke into the formula to give it more protein.  She swears by it and her kittens were always healthy and plump. 

Goodluck with them. Hopefully we can see pics as they grow.  Four-six weeks is my favourite age...they're just starting to walk and play but they're so tiny and clumsy. It's adorable. 

Photobucket as being wonky with me earlier. Years ago I used it all the time.  Had to open a Flickr account today. 

I was pretty obsessive and had a big collection until we had a house fire about 6-7 years ago. A few really rare ones that I had just got in the mail and were on my computer desk melted, about half my moc collection had smoke damage so bad they had to be decarded if they even survived, and various other casualties.  During the process of sorting out the insurance stuff I went on a bit of a buying spree to deal with things but when i got the remains of my collection back the restore company that was supposed to clean the ponies that didn't get damaged beyond repair, and make sure they didn't get smoke damage from the smoke seeping in made an absolute mess.  Accessories were everywhere, the manes were a frizzy mess and they all had this chemical smell.  Some of them were packed in baggies with water still inside causing tail rust. We're talking about 1000 ponies.  I was so disheartened and frustrated with the whole thing that I started selling off my entire collection after having to thoroughly try to clean them all and soften/defrizz the hair. 

still have a couple hundred left to go through, but being at the pony fair last year really made me excited about ponies again.  I bought a bunch of pony art and have been peeking at ponies here and on ebay from time to time. I've watched all the FIM episodes and I've come close to buying a few here and there but I've held out so far. I've been looking to replace a few rares I'm sad about selling. 

I have a couple small bins of about 40 ponies that I really love or that have sentimental value to me that I had planned on keeping regardless.  I'll probably sell of my last few MOCs though.