A friendly neigh from the Netherlands ^_^

[Pinkhazard]

HI everyone,
I'm Pinkhazard from the Netherlands. I'm 31 years old, engaged to someone I don't currently live in one house with, have no pets in my home due to lack of time, but I have 2 Scotch Collie dogs at my mom's house.

I must admit that with MLP, my interest in the online community and collecting comes and goes in waves. Right now, I'm sorting out my collection again and making wishlists, so I'm interested in being active

Aside from ponies, I am passionate about ball jointed dolls. That is my favorite passtime <3 I love customizing them by modding and doing face-ups.

I used to collect all sorts of fashion and vintage dolls, me and my mom had up to 5000 of all sorts of dolls at one point. But, we saw the light and realized that we just wanted some space in our house back for ourselves. So, we started selling off bits of our collection thru our shop.
I still love certain dolls (Bratz, Lady lovelylocks, Jem, Sindy, Fleur, My Scene and more) but I resist the urge of buying new ones nowadays
Although, Monster High have tempted me and won... I currently own Draculaura and a Ghouls Rule Draculaura (she was a gift). I'm taking it real slow with these girls, but I do plan on customizing the ones I own.

I did try customizing MLP as well, but I somehow never finish the projects I start. I still plan to finish my the Nightmare Before Christmas Jack and find him a Sally pony <3

My MLP collection is a lot smaller than it used to be now, I felt overwhelmed by the quantity I owned and as I moved into a small apartment last year, more ponies will have to go. I used to collect G1-3, but I sold most G2 a few years ago. I'm really picky about which G3 ponies stay and which ones go right now.
G1, I want all I can get my hands on I am forcing myself not to keep all the 'variants' that are actually just different degrees of discoloring though.
I chose not to start with G3.5 and G4 ponies, but I do love watching Friendship is Magic!

Unfortunately, running the shop is so busy that I rarely have time to share my hobby, so I don't have pictures of my collection at this moment. If I can find the time, I will share, as soon as my pony wall is neat (I'm still moving them from my mothers house to mine).

Any questions, please don't hesitate to ask

[achab1984]

Welcome to the arena

[mopthebunny]

Hello and welcome to the arena!

[kittybethy]

Hello and welcome to the Arena!

[Seraphia]

So nice to meet you! I have bought some BJD items (clothes, shoes & wigs) from your online shop a while (maybe two years?) ago and was very pleased with everything! 

me and my mom had up to 5000 of all sorts of dolls at one point.

That is... almost scary. In a cool way, of course. 

[LunaDehligt]

Welcome to arena 

[Pinkhazard]

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome <3
@Seraphia: wow, what a small world ^_^

And it was scary actually, but at the time we were dead set on opening a Barbie museum and we thought it wasn't a problem. We decided to give up after 10 years of trying and countless disappointments, after which the collection just sat in boxes for about 2 years.
At some point we just decided: enough. The dream had died, we were having great fun with BJD's and MLP and we opened our shop in the meantime, so it was time to move on.
We never quite realized how much we had exactly, we were blind to the fact that the collections had taken over our house. Now that we're selling it off little bits at a time, we realize we were insane O_O

Oh well, we had fun with it, that's the most important part of collecting!

[kiwimlp]

Welcome to the Arena

[Diamond]

and welcome to the new Arena.  Sounds like that was one massive collection.  Do you maintain an online shop or just a brick and mortar one?

[Pinkhazard]

I have both an online and a brick-and-mortar shop that I run with muy mom and the kind help of some friends some days a week
You can actually visit the online shop by clicking the banner, it would take you straight to it

[himmie]

Welcome to the Arena! I have browsed your site a few times.

[Seraphia]

What a shame you never got to make a Barbie museum. I'm sorry that your love for dolls and collecting also included disappointments. But it sounds like you always look on the bright side of it, that's great!
When I browsed your online shop, I never thought there would be a "real" shop as well! I just looked at the pictures and OH. MY. GOD. I must never, NEVER come anywhere close to it. LOL It looks fabulous and like the #1 place to leave all my money behind.

[Pinkhazard]

Thanks himmie and Seraphia,
ah, I'm over the disappointment. To be truthful the shop brings us more joy as we get to meet much nicer people now (you wouldn't believe how mean some of the local Barbie collectors can be).
Since we've started with BJD's, we've met wonderful people that added that extra bit of joy to the hobby. I'm actually looking forward to finally  becoming more active in the MLP community (and staying so) to meet great people there too ^_^
It was mostly a private collection, as I became weary of sharing it after some bad experiences with jealous collectors in the Barbie scene.
Luckily, apart from some Greek, France and Italy ponies, I don't have super-rare and desirable stuff and I feel safer to start sharing now. If I can find the time, I'll start adding pics of my collection to my pinkhazard.com site.

LOL, we've got many visitors with the same problem, too much choice and not enough funds We do make layaway arrangements many times, as we are collectors ourselves and can completely understand how badly someone can need a certain doll

[Tiella]

WElcome, I too love BJDs! I hope you enjoy the forum!