Hi peeps,
I'm more active on Facebook than here, but over the Labour Day weekend we went to my hometown, Edmonton, for a short getaway. If you live in Alberta, you may recall how it rained and rained no matter where you were in the province :-D This nixed any outdoor activitives. We decided to go to the Muttart Conservatory since I hadn't been there for decades, and on our way out of the hotel we stopped at a brochure rack to see if there were coupons. We found a business card for the Old Strathcona Antique Mall and decided to go there. My husband loves old stuff as much as I do :-)
It was a bit of trip down memory lane as there was lots of hockey stuff from when I was a kid. The antique mall is also huge - like a two story grocery store. All the booths were nicely curated.
I found a Princess Royal Purple with mashed eyebrows that made her look like a Muppet! The FB group helped me ID her, but sadly she had some pony cancer, so I took her back. I was really feeling bummed out - everyone seems to find an amazing haul at thrift stores, but never me, woe!
Finally I found some Breyers and ponies on the second floor! I was sooooo excited, but then I looked at the price tags. They were soooo overpriced. $45 for a played with Gusty? Uhhhhh...nope!
After spending hours there we were almost ready to leave - everything was starting to look the same! Both of us were just hoping something would jump out and say "Buy me!"
I said to hubs, "I'm just going to take a quick look down this aisle and we can go. Did you see anything horse shaped?"
"Naw," he replied as he followed me. Then, holy cow, I found an MLP and LPS booth. I spotted the G1 nursery and claimed it. There were bags of G3s for $10 and I was just about to hunker down and see what else there was when three little girls just stopped short of me.
"Let's trade places," I said and they eagerly dug into the LPS while I chatted with their parents. Unfortunately the LPS wasn't the 90s kind. Would love to get my hands on some of the ponies. Once they left I realized that there weren't any other G1 treasures unless one considered a MOC Skydancer for $80 a bargain. I found a counter where I could inspect the nursery and gave it a whiff. Smoke free home!! It came with a big baggie of furniture as is all for $20. Holy cow!!!
Although I am not collecting much of anything any more, I had to have this. It looked like the baggie didn't have a pony in it though, but I just so happened to remember seeing Baby Tiddly Winks in one of the overpriced booths. There were two, one in poor condition and one in good condition, so I snagged her. Huzzah!
We left Edmontonian that same day and I cleaned the nursery the next morning. Some of the stickers were lifting, but that was easily fixed with sticky squares. Lots of Dawn, scrubbing, Q-tipping and bamboo skewering later, it smelled and looked amazing. It had not yellowed at all and it really wasn't that dirty - just surface dirt that anything picks up. I was able to find another Edmonton on the FB group, Ouizza, who kindly sold me some of the missing accessories :-)
I have no idea where to display it - it's freaking huge!! I remember a lot of fun times playing with my friend Shannon and her nursery. It was something I had really wanted as a kid and attempted to make my own out of cracker boxes :-D
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