Aussie and UK ponies, I need some help!

So I live in the US, and my husband was just accepted into a program through his work that gives him the opportunity to work in an international office for a couple years! It's pretty for sure we are heading somewhere next spring to summer, we just don't know where yet!

I'm wondering if you wonderful pony peeps would be able to help me out with a little info to help us figure out where we will be able to afford to live and such. The areas his work has offices in that we are looking into are London, Sydney, and Melbourne.

If you don't mind sharing, how much does your family spend on food each month (we are a family of 6: 2 grown ups and 4 younger kids)

Also, what school districts (elementary schools) and/or neighborhoods would you recommend to be in that are good for kids, especially those with special needs? (My 9 year old son has High-Functioning Autism)

We are trying to look into areas that are affordable but not too far away from the city where my hubby would be working. I would love to be more in a suburb (I'm a country girl, not having some kind of a yard would be hard for me!!!), I'm assuming it's a little cheaper to live in the suburbs too, but city living is not totally out of the picture I suppose (my hubby would like to not have to get a car apparently, and he is very much a city boy).

Thank you in advance!! Any info would be much appreciated! I am super excited for this opportunity! It would be fun if I ended up next to some pony people!

Hey all!

I am getting ready to throw my daughter's bday party and she wants a "rainbow unicorn" party so I though what better rainbow unicorn than THE rainbow unicorns of pony land!

I'm trying to find pictures of the G1 rainbow pony artwork to use on her invite and also as decorations for the party, but I can't seem to find any!! I must not be using the right search words or something. -.- I'm hoping my wonderful pony community can help!

I'm looking for any kind of photo/scan/etc of any G1 rainbow unicorn (Windy, Moonstone, Starflower, or Pinwheel preferred, but really any other G1 unicorn with "rainbow" hair would work!) ARTWORK (i.e. backcard art, promo materials, storybooks picture, etc, not looking for pics of actual ponies) that is in color.

THANK YOU SO MUCH in advance!

So my hubby is in London right now in a business trip, and I'm wondering if anypony can give me a recommendation for any goodies I should ask him to bring home to me! I do have a gluten allergy, so I can't have anything with wheat, barley, or malt. So probably looking for things more in the sweets side of goodies. Would love to know of any London/England unique goodies that would be fun to try! Thanks!

Hi all! My sister found the Ponyville roller coaster set at a thrift store and thought I would like it. I am wondering if anyone has the car that goes with it. I don't collect Ponyville, but I figure my girls would have fun playing with it with their tiny animal toys. PM me if you have the car please!

There's a pic of it here on MLP Land http://mlpland.com/?l=2&p=bekijk_ponyville&id=37

I only have the orange roller coaster track part, I would be interested in the little green car for sure, and also all the other parts to it too if someone has them.

Thanks!

Merponies are one of my favorites, so when Salli showed us a picture of the awesome prize basket she was going to offer for the newbie custom contest at the NW pony meet last Saturday, I knew I had to try one out. I'm really proud of how she turned out! It was my first time painting eyes, too (THAT was intimidating! But feels good to have one under my belt now!). And of course I had to throw my own spin on things and sew a tail instead of sculpting one.

Pearl is made from a Carousel Rarity base (who had nasty frizzy hair and a stained leg) that I cut off the back legs. Her tail is sewn out of stretchy metallic blue swimsuit-like fabric, filled with sand with a wire running through it making her tail fully posable. Her tail fin is made out of pink organdy with wire support and silver paint around the edges. Her waist fin ruffle is organdy ribbon. Her eyes and dots are painted with both regular and metallic acrylics. Her eyes are sealed with Diamond Glaze, which really gave them a nice shiny "wet eye" look. She is haired with Dollyhair nylon Peaches and Cream that I boil braided to make a little wavy. Her hair has iridescent pin accents and a dolphin metal charm.

I hope you all like her!

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Here is the custom I made for Corona as part of the Love Swap. She arrived safe and sound and Corona says she likes her! This was only my second full custom pony and I went through many ideas but finally came to this one and I am proud of how she turned out! Corona's favorite colors were orange and ocean blue, so I knew I wanted to try to use those colors, and she also put that she likes exotic bugs and bees, so in the end I decided to do a bee pony! I went for a TAF G3 pony, with a little different bee style than G1 Honeycomb and blue hair.

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She is haired with a blend of Blue Raspberry and Summer Sky monofiber hair from RetrodollsUS. I left lit long and straight because it's SO soft to stroke, and curling or crimping it really takes away from the silkiness in my opinion. She kept her Hasbro eyes, but symbols and wings are painted with acrylics and sealed with Country Colors Satin Varnish and Sealer. Her wings are hand made out of plastic and painted to look like real bee wings, then individually glued in with diamond glaze. She also came with a removable felt bee hair clip that I made.

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So I just got a new Howleen! I was in Target and checked the Monster High isle and saw dance class Howleen, and while I was never super impressed with her from pics on the web, in person she really won me over! So she came home with me. I decided I didn't like her belt, though, so that will be up for sale/trade. I almost bought Scaris Draculaura too, but decided I better not spend too much money since my poor old kitty is visiting the vet today. I think eventually I'd like to get Clawdeen, to have Howleen's big sis, and Nefaria too, to have Cleo's big sis, since I love the idea of siblings. 

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And here's everyone so far!

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Lagoona's fins are not on since I was letting my daughters play with them and I was afraid her fins will get lost. And usually I don't like to have two of the same character, but I ended up with a second Cleo (my favorite doll) and decided it was going to be her twin sister (whose name I have not come up with yet, suggestions anyone?).

There's definitely some dolls I'd still like to get, but I'm pretty proud of my little group!



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Hey all, so I've been very determined that I would not fall for these monster high dolls and kept telling everyone that I couldn't understand why they were so popular. And then I am doing a trade for clothing (I do have Barbies) and decided it would be smart to have a monster high to be my model so I can get sizing right. SO I started looking on eBay and kept catching myself saying "oh she's cute" "I like her face shape" "she's got cute hair"...  So long story short I just got my first three monster high dolls in the mail today! 

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They are all wearing makeshift dresses made out of baby socks that I threw together for them so they wouldn't be naked. I bought them nude off eBay for about $12 each (hopefully I didn't get ripped off, but that seemed like an ok price).

Cleo is my favorite, I love her skin/hair colors and I'm a big ancient Egypt fan too.
Lagoona was the first one I won, who then sucked me into buying more from the same seller since I was already buying one. I do like her hair color and face shape, and her fins are kinda fun.
Abbey I had to get because she's glittery. I'm still deciding if I like her hair or not, although I like it much better in person than I thought I would.

I decided I think I just am not a fan of all the black skulls and halloween themed packaging, but I do appreciate the clever idea of having sons and daughters of famous monsters. And a lot of their clothing is pretty cute. There were several others I kept thinking, "ooh, I want that one", like some of the werecats and Holt Hyde and even Draculaura is cute and Frankie has a cute face. There are still some that don't appeal to me, but many that I think are pretty cute once they are out of the packaging. I may end up with a few more. 

I did have a question for more experienced MH collectors. I know they have those create a monster packs where all the body pieces come apart and all that, but is everything supposed to come apart with the regular MH characters as well? I thought I remember reading somewhere about taking hands and feet off to get these dolls dressed sometimes.