Awww your stories are so cute and heartwarming. It is no wonder ponies have a special meaning to us. They are also expressions of love from people we know. I love that that nurse gave you Rainbowdash, Brightside. All the family stories are so sweet. I love the reuniting of childhood ponies too. Amazing! Many of my childhood ponies would probably be considered custom bait if I ever sold them, but I love them more than the shiny new ones.

My memory is kind of humorous, though not at the time to me. When I was little about 5 years old, I had about 5 ponies or so. I decided I wanted a boy pony for my birthday. I didn't even know there was such a thing as big brother ponies or anything I just wanted a boy pony. My mother had never seen any boy ponies so she did the best she could and bought me Nightglider. She told me later that Nightglider was the only pony she could find at the store that wasn't pink or girly.

I loved Nightglider (I named him Moonlight), but one day I was playing with my ponies with a girl who came over to my house. The girl was kind of snobby and told me "That is not a boy, boy's don't have eyelashes." I was devastated. Since the girl was several years older than me, she obviously knew what she was talking about.
 

So I went crying/whining to my mom. My mom actually used an exacto knife and scraped the top eyelashes off of Moonlight (Nighglider). I did not witness this, but she told me later. She then gave me him back after he was "fixed". I was perfectly happy with him. A couple years later my parents got me and my sister the Apple Delight Family so I knew what a real boy pony was supposed to look like, but Nightglider stayed the same and was always one of my favorite ponies. I also realized how dumb that girl really was, because boy ponies DO have eyelashes.  I love that my mom humored her distressed daughter by fixing her pony "problem". I still have most of my childhood ponies and Nightglider is my favorite one. Eyelashless and all he was/is well loved.

 This is one I recently redesigned to be a G4. I would love to see her as a custom G4.



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Thanks everyone for your kind comments. She is the only one I own, so I am partial to her. I'm at least going to do Sunnybunch since she has the same saddle pattern. The others I would definitely do for a commission or trade, but I don't know if I will do them for myself.

Thanks guys. I wouldn't mind having a custom of her, but I am not very craft oriented. I've never really tried to do one. Maybe someday I'll try it or I'll commission one My childhood Flower Bouquet is custom bait so I would like to see her beautiful again. I've been thinking about commissioning someone to customize her for me. Though I have no pony budget right now. :\

Maybe I'll see if anyone would do customs for art, when I catch up with my current art projects.

I have and extra unopened 2012 twilight would be interested in the RD.