Hey all.
Been a while!
Just sharing a couple of customs.

G1 Berry Blossom, sculpted saddle blanket from fimo, rehaired with Dollyhair. She's sat around for years but I finished her off recently.
She's currently on ebay but I'm open to offers on her and would be much happier to sell her through the Arena instead if anyone is interested.
Photo's are pretty terrible as the weather has been so bad I've had to use indoor lighting! May try to retake them if the sun ever comes out.

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Ebay link: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204576349108

G4 pony Rosebud I made this week from another pony that had sat around and needed to be redone. She is my first attempt at doing sculpted hair (I haven't sculpted in years either). I'm not sure I'm happy with her but it was a fun attempt.
I had to play around with lighting to get her hair to show up so again not great photos.
She is also on ebay but again I'm open to offers on her and would be glad to sell her through the Arena instead.

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Her ebay link: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/204585025915

Hi all.
Just a weird question, I wonder if anyone by any tiny chance has these customs in their collection somehow?
Long story short I sold them on ebay many years ago (I believe to someone in France? But I may be remembering wrong) and they ended up lost in transit. I refunded the buyer and got a refund from Royal Mail but I have always wondered if somehow the ponies survived. I know lost/undelivered mail is meant to be incinerated but I often think back with so much sadness and hope that somehow they ended up elsewhere. Maybe delivered somewhere else, maybe stolen and resold.. I just hope they somehow ended up in good hands and not destroyed. I was fond of both of these and the sea themed one took me weeks as she had so much subtle detailing and was not a single blue base but layered in many greens and blues. She was one that I put so many hours into.
Would just love to know someone somewhere has them safe. It would honestly make my day xx
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Thank you all

If you give up customizing, can we still ask you for solid advice on the subject? You could be like the little customizing wizard on the mountain who offers sage wisdom!

  As honoured as I am by the thought there really isn't any advice that I'd be qualified to give! I've been customizing since my early teens and I still haven't got anything on the other customizers on here. I'm no artist - I just enjoy pretending 

I (selfishly) hope you don't stop but if you're not enjoying it anymore then  it makes sense.

It's nothing to do with not enjoying it. I actually can't imagine not customizing, it's something I've been doing for so long. It's purely because of a recent experience - For the first time after years of doing this I lost two customs in the post and aside from the obvious sadness of knowing your work has gone missing it's left me over £40 out of pocket at a time that I really can't afford it. Royal Mail still haven't told me whether or not they'll compensate me and I've temporarily had to take the money from my rabbit's veterinary account as it's the only money I have (it was many weeks after the sale before I was contacted to say they hadn't arrived)

It's a complicated situation.. I'm just not sure what to do. I've never customized for profit (a lot of the time I've actually lost money by the time I've finished a pony anyway ) but when my hobby starts cutting into money that was meant for vets fees for my rabbits I have to seriously question it as my rabbits will always come first and I don't want to put them in danger just because I enjoy my hobby.
I honestly don't know what to do at the moment. I still have a lot of half-finished customs which I want to finish first. I'll see how they go and take it from there. I really don't want to give it up but I'll have to see how things go. We'll be moving in a few weeks, maybe things will feel different then. I don't know.

I'm probably overreacting. To be honest I probably haven't done badly by losing only two ponies in all this time. I've been sending ponies all over the world for years, it was bound to happen eventually.

Bump - Shadow Rose is ending in 30 mins
New custom Cosmos also listed tonight

Thank you all
I enjoyed making them. Rosie was a lot of fun, though it was more difficult than it looks to get the patches the right sort of shape! I really love how she came out though. I know my customs never have anything on the beautiful work of other customizers on here but by my standard she came out well and I was so pleased with her.
She's currently on her way to her new home 

Sakura wasn't planned out at all. I just found a stunning blue that I didn't know I'd bought (the pictures do not do it justice - it's a deep electric, night sky blue) and kind of made her up as I went along 

Marina I was working on for ages. She's probably taken me well over a year to finish 

I can't wait to do more natural coloured ponies now. I'm dying to do a palomino tobiano. Got a couple of other ideas too 

Very pretty! Black was a great choice, the yellow saddle and her red and gold hair look beautiful against the black.

I'm far too changeable Though it worked out well this time. I just saw the black as standing out more and then thought of the red and gold. Well both red and gold go well with black so that pretty much decided it.
She's not got my best sculpting work (as I say it was fairly early) but I'm happy with the result. Even if it took years lol.

Ooh, she's really pretty and lovely. Black was a good choice. =D
Now she's finally done, everyone can admire her at last.
(I though your topic was about Sonic Adventure characters. It's a videogame. )
Keep up the good work !

Have a nice day !

Haha, I never even thought of SA! Maybe I should have picked another name
Truth is I'm not keen on the name but I've used/reserved just about every other 'rose' related name on other customs.
Oh now I want to do some Sonic themed customs