(Not sure if this should be in the brag area, since healthy pony took place over here in off topic,... so if it needs moved, sorry!  )

I want to thank everyone who voted for me in the round 1 of Healthy Pony to be the poster for healthy pony *so many pony hugs to everyone* I also want to give my sincerest apologies in how long it took to get this posted, but life de-railed me last week when my grandmother had a heart attack followed by a week long hospital stay with other complications (she's home and doing much better though!).

Crowning_Glory13 sent me a lovely little Healthy Pony Package, complete with an absolutely beautiful custom  I can not get over just how gorgeous a design she is, and her hair curls are too cute! She's got a special home on my work space as a wonderful little motivator I also love the coloring pages and those stickers have already been used in my scrapbook.

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I have taken a journey in to the wonderful (if not terrifying and confusing lol) world of sculpting for a swap pony, and I have hit some major snags. I've checked out all the tutorials I could find around here, but none of them really answered the main question of 'what went wrong - round 1!'.

I'm using Sculpey Oven Bake clay, since it was all that was available at my local store, for minimal changes to the pony (so I'm not using a ton of it), and after baking last night and letting it cool, I gently poked one corner of the piece to make sure it wasn't soft and the entire thing cracked and fell off the pony! O.o I mean, this stuff just felt like it had turned to dust, or plaster, and crumbled. I am sculpting directly on the pony and then baking it, so I had the oven set at a slightly lower temperature than what the package suggested, but I also let it bake a little longer (also, how can you tell if you are over baking it? I'm not a fan of toxic fumes, as you can imagine).

I'm worried if I attempt this again, that I'll end up with the same problem, or that it will survive the customization process only to break in shipping, or shortly after my partner gets it, and needless to say, that is no good! :/ I wouldn't mind using apoxie sculpt, but is there any where you can get a small 'sample size' kind of thing (not an actual sample, just smaller than the big jars I've seen for sale).

I poked around the net a bit, but didn't find any solid information for it, so I figured someone around here has probably rehaired one lol. I found a disney descendants Mal doll the other day at a thrift store and went ahead and picked her up, just for the fun of it. I'm thinking of trying to give her a new face up, and rehair her, but I have no idea how many hanks of hair I should even think about ordering, as her head looks a bit bigger than any I've worked with before. I'm probably ordering from dollyhair, and am going with a medium length hair style. Suggestions?

Pyrodarknessanny and I started talking a bit ago about Pokemon cards and what started out as just a card trade became a mini-swap! My brag is a bit delayed due to the holiday work-rush around here, but let me tell you I feel so utterly spoiled!  I am honestly not sure how she managed to get so many awesome things into my box on the budget that we had!

First off, everything all wrapped up (she wasn't kidding when she told me she found some cute wrapping paper! I saved sections of it for scrapbook uses

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All unwrapped! A huuuuuge thank you for those amazing cards! I didn't think to get individual pictures of them, because I literally ran upstairs after I unwrapped everything and put them into their respective binders. All the Eevee/Eeveelution cards were new and that Gomamon card was a grail of mine! It finished off my set of cards
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Dragon time! And pony keychains! (I had just started to get that itch of wanting to add new Luna stuff to my army!) I was super excited to see that boxed mini Toothless; we don't have him where I am yet! And I missed out on the mini bagged dragons when they were in stores. I also love how the unboxed Toothless is like 'dude, he looks angry. Lets keep him in the box' lol.
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And the final piece is some hand drawn art of my all time favorite HTTYD dragon!    I went out and got a little frame for it the day I got the swap box, and it is now hanging on my bedroom wall
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Another big shoutout and thank you to Pyrodarknessanny!! I absolutely loved my box, and loved putting together your box  

Tea drinkers, I am in need of some serious help. My fiancé and I have entered the wonderful world of tea pretty recently (as a kid I couldn't stand the stuff) and we may have hit the ground running. There are just so many wonderful flavors!

But now... I have no idea where to store it all, as we have about fifty bags of loose leaf tea just kinda hanging out in our kitchen (a near by Ren fair had a old fashioned tea store.... we were doomed! Lol)

I'm heading out tomorrow to see what I can find in way of a tea storage and organization device, so I was wondering if anyone had any good ideas on what to look for, or if you could share pictures of your tea stashes to help give me ideas, since I'm looking for something cute and easily accessible. Or any good tea suggestions!

The pony room has begun to spill over into my fiances computer room, so I've decided it is time to clean some things out that I don't need. I originally picked up these two castle sets for the ponies in them. I poked around ebay to see where the prices stood, but they were all over the place, so I was just wondering what the general consensus around here was. Both the Canterlot and Wedding Castle are missing the ponies that came with them, but everything else they came with is still there. The Canterlot Castle has some minor shelf wear in places, but other than that is in good condition.


Thanks!

My partner was rarity91, and when I saw her list of anime characters Holo from Spice And Wolf instantly jumped out at me as she is one of my favorite characters as well!

Holo here is a G4Zilla Pinkie Pie, the first I've ever worked with, and was air brushed with acrylics. Her symbol and eyes are hand painted, and her eyes have been given a multitude of layers, each a slightly different color of red, to achieve an 'anime' look. She was re-haired with dollyhair amaretto, and given two extra rows for thickness. Her tail is made out of brushed and straightened acrylic yarn, and is the first yarn tail I have ever made (and took more time to perfect than I care to admit ) Her ear tuffs are also made out of yarn. Originally she was supposed to have clothes, but they were just not coming out to a standard I was happy with, but in the end (if you have ever seen Spice and Wolf) she doesn't really require them lol. On to the pics!

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