Just a simple string of warm-white outdoor lights for us - but they are very pretty as there are sections that hang down, almost like icicles.

We have white lights on our indoor tree, so they both look great in the evening darkness, when looking in at our window!

Hi everyone!

I am glitterball and I remember getting my first ever pony, Cotton Candy, back in the 80s, after pestering my Dad for aaaages to find one for me! A girl at school had Blossom and another had Bubbles and I fell in love with these sweet ponies!

I played with Cotton Candy every day, taking care to keep her mane and tail tangle-free and learning to plait in threes (and eventually in fours) and perfecting my bow-tying technique with the lilac ribbon.

Over the next birthdays/Christmas times I acquired further ponies... my new faves being the vibrantly-haired Honeycomb (with the cutest glitter bees) and the sweetly-freckled Gypsy. I just loved the proud poses that the new unicorns came in.

Then I "grew up", went to a new school etc. The ponies were lovingly stored in the attic (where I would make visits to them often!) and life "got in the way"...

Roll-on many years... and I find myself finding the odd G1 at bootsales, so of course I buy them (nostalgia...) and now I have a daughter who has started to "get into" ponies... the current G4, of course... but now I am slowly fetching my old ponies, washing them etc and hoping that she will fall in love with them too!

I am a bit of an arty-crafty person and love a bit of glitter glam... and am thinking of doing a rescue project on some of the poorly ponies that I have bought recently. Am currently experimenting with pop bottles & angelina film for replacement flutter wings and feel a re-root may be fun too (I have re-rooted Pippas, Sindys and transformed a haircut Elsa into her brunette mother Queen, along with making a new crown etc. so think that a pony will be great fun to tackle!) question is - what style to do first, eh?

Anyway, I am hoping to find inspiration and tips from these boards and would love to share my ideas with other pony-passion-istas!

xx