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« on: March 06, 2012, 03:22:11 PM »
Last year we had a facebook page, I'll get one started sometime soonish. Or someone else can make one if you have time and gumption!
I think it had email notifications, but if it doesn't, we'll figure something out! BTW, that Ice Crystal in your siggie is just lovely!
1577
« on: March 06, 2012, 02:23:05 PM »
Hi there, Frenzy! Where are you now? Welcome home!
I'm in southeastern South Dakota for the next couple of weeks. Thank you! I grew up southern MN, but I'll actually be moving just a few miles south of where I was born, so it really will be a homecoming!
Whereabouts in Southern MN? I'm near Wells... Balto! Hi! And congrats to your dad! BonBon, did you get to another pony meet since last summer, or will this one be your first? (Hopefully!)
1578
« on: March 04, 2012, 03:16:53 PM »
I know, fun, right? There's a journal in each room, and anyone who uses the room is required to write something in the journal. It's not anything too deep, usually just the name of the group and how many people, maybe a little bit about what you used the room for. We put a pony sticker in the book last year, but we'll have a different room this time!
One of the "costs" of reserving the room are that it can only be for events or groups that provide a positive energy for the world around them. This place was totally created by Hippies, but hey, I love em! And as Arvin said last year, what's more positive than ponies?
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« on: March 04, 2012, 02:23:42 PM »
Hm, I'm not sure if we can bring more tables! I think that would be ok, but we can't bring food. That's part of the deal for using the room for free- if we want food, we have to buy it from the BBC people. The rules of the site are 1. don't mess it up, leave it as you found it, 2. NO outside food 3. Happy thoughts, which you are required to write in a journal. None of them are a big deal, like I said before, if you think you will be hungry but don't want to buy food, you can pack a little lunch and nibble it in your car. Last year they had an ice cream stand right outside our door, which was mighty yummy, and the food counter serves sandwiches and salads and I think desserts. They have reasonable prices- if I remember right, sandwiches were about $4. I didn't actually buy any food, though, I was too busy having pony fun! But I was starving on the drive home! LOL!
1580
« on: March 04, 2012, 02:11:45 PM »
ORANGE!
I second (or third/fourth) the pony meet idea. I've been the WI meet a couple times, and they've got their stuff together! It's like a little family, and they're nice enough to adopt some of us who cross the border! Everyone is right, g3's aren't big sellers, but I'm always on the lookout for the ones I don't have, and I love to buy them at meets rather than shopping online.
The MN pony meet is probably going to be on the Saturday of Labor Day Weekend, in Saint Paul. That's a long haul from Milwaukee, but hey, it's a nice drive and maybe you'll see the guy out walking his pig! (That was a strange drive!)
Though it isn't a Pony Garage Sale, I've heard a lot of people say they did well selling them at yard sales. If you put 50 cents on the common ones, you get lots of people buying them and you don't have to worry about listing or shipping. Granted, you don't know if they are going to homes where they will be loved by children, collectors, or by dogs, but at some point you have to draw the line!
I'm going to go look at your sales thread now and see what happens. And maybe I'll see you at one of the meets this summer! (Hey, Wisconsin, how far am I driving this year?)
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« on: March 04, 2012, 01:56:38 PM »
Nope, no fees for anyone. Maybe as we get closer and people get more organized with what they want to bring, we can figure out the tables a little bit better. I actually just started going through my budget ponies because I ended up with a bunch of ziploc baggies that I don't want to use for food, but will be perfect to keep their hair tidy! (Grrr, Tub Hair!)
Maybe as we get closer, we can also let people know what big things we have- I have some pieces of Paradise Estate that I've upgraded, and just don't have room to have 2 Paradise Estates! Then if someone is interested, we can bring the bigger pieces and just trade them at cars, rather than take up valuable table space with them! (That's my plan, at least!)
To get to the zoo from the conference place we walked down a bunch of sidewalk, across the road (pedestrian overpass), across a parking lot full of people going to weddings, and through/past the Conservatory. It was a nice walk, and I'm glad I was wearing shoes that I didn't hate! It was definitely far enough to drive, but when we tried that there was NOWHERE to park. We even tried to go to the shuttle parking, but it was taking much much longer to find that than to just go back, park where we started, and walk! I'm going to guess about a mile, but it really was a pleasant walk.
1582
« on: March 03, 2012, 06:02:35 PM »
Hi there, Frenzy! Where are you now? Welcome home!
1583
« on: March 03, 2012, 03:40:42 AM »
I have a question- here in the US, the warmest months are called Summer and the coldest are Winter. But on the other side of the planet, those warm/cold times don't happen at the same time as in the US. So here Christmas is in Winter, but is it in Summer in other countries? Hummm, this is a hard question to write...
So in Minnesota, Winter is December through early March. Is it the same where you live? And does that make a difference for what kinds of things we send to different countries? Do I send sand pails and lemonade for Winter to some parts of the world?
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« on: March 02, 2012, 02:30:30 PM »
Principessa! That's so much fun to say! Maybe I'll start calling all my co-workers that and see what happens!
I love the G2 ponies too. Granted, I love all ponies, but the g2's were just so picked-on (at least until the g3.5's! LOL!) that I decided I had to love them. I don't have any art to show you, though!
1585
« on: March 02, 2012, 02:55:22 AM »
I just got the CUTEST thing for either Summer or Spring, whichever I don't end up with enough of! And I found it at Fleet Farm, how strange!
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« on: February 28, 2012, 01:54:13 PM »
There are tables there, I think there were 8 or 10 of them. Some people brought lots of stuff, and some brought just a few things, so if it comes down to it, some people can share tables. I put a lot of mine into purple tubs last year and they worked really well- fun to dig, and easy to price, since they were $1 tubs! I'm going to try doing something similar this year, so I don't really need to use a table. Maybe a set of those cheap snap-apart-together shelves would be good- less floor room for more ponies!
I just heard back from the site, and we have a different room from last year. According to the email, it has 6 6-foot tables, 2 white boards and a large window looking out over Lake Como. It's the Michael Donald Glass Community Room at Black Bear Crossings on Lake Como if anyone wants to look it up. It will probably be about the same size as the room we had last year.
One little thing to keep in mind about Black Bear Crossings is that we can't bring our own food into the building. There was an ice-cream window right across from us last year, and a nice little lunch counter upstairs with decent prices. It is also a good set-up for keeping food in your car and running out for a snack- pack some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and chips, sit by the lake and eat them while dreaming of ponies- sounds good to me!
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« on: February 28, 2012, 01:41:41 PM »
Kmart has had these for a while now. It comes with copy of a G3.5 dvd for free over there. It appears to be a Kmart exclusive packaged like that.
THat's very odd if Kmart has this- it was street dated for today, not legal to sell. Of course, you CAN break street date, so maybe that's what they did... After more pondering than it should have taken, I think I figured out why they chose those episodes- they all have the train, right? Except the first ones with Nightmare Moon, which I'm sure they put there as an introduction. I was going to wait for the whole season, too, but I am not a patient person!
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« on: February 28, 2012, 01:36:54 PM »
Sternen? Can we have partners? Please? I have parts of Summer, Fall, and a little bit of Winter already picked out! LOL!
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« on: February 28, 2012, 01:34:46 PM »
That's so cute! And I agree with Gallifreyan- I would be trying to drag things all over the house. Then outside! Wheee!
Just in case you were planning to try, one helium-filled balloon doesn't really do much to lift a pony, either. I haven't tried a whole bunch yet, but someday!
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« on: February 28, 2012, 01:26:13 PM »
I started to make a mini-travelling museum last year, with ponies that some collectors might not have seen, or some that maybe we haven't all had a chance to touch. It never got finished, so I didn't bring it, but the start of it had the roller-skate ponies, one of the ponies with curlers stuck to her head, one of the Soft Sleepy Newborns, the g3.5 baby, a g2 baby, and one of the first Spikes.
The only thing I would worry about if you are bringing expensive ponies is to be sure they aren't left alone- last year we didn't really leave the room until we were done, but you never know! The only time I've heard of something bad happening at a pony meet was when a kid wandered off with a Mountain Boy, and no one knew where it had gone. Everyone was horrified and suspicious until weeks later, when someone found it with their child's stuff.
I'm just saying to be careful- I don't want to scare anyone!
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