Eskara your cat looks so cute, doing her little paw trick I somehow thought cats couldn't be trained? 
Also, composting tea bags?? Care to explain? 

Cats can totally be trained!  Misty comes when I call her, knows to stay out of the feeding area until I get her food ready and tell her it's okay to go in, walks on a leash, sits up, moves where I tell her to, jumps up and gets down on command, and is working on "Paw."  Paw will eventually turn into "Say Hello" with her extending her paw for a polite shake.  We're still working on that one
 
I compost tea bags because they're acidic. My garden is covered in moss and I like to encourage it to totally take over.  The rhododendron also needs more acidic soil than what is naturally in my area. I figure, I drink three cups of tea a day and that's plenty of free fertalizer right there if I compost it!
 

What a fantastic first brag for the thread!  My hubby never gets me anything for valentines day so I think I'll just hang out here and drool over everybody elses Valentines gifts

Hehe!  That's why I did the Valentine's Swap!  My hubby never likes to celebrate Valentine's day because he believes it's just another way to force guys to buy candy and flowers and cards.  He calls it a made-up consumerist holiday.  So, if I decided to celebrate with ponies

DazzleKitty, What awesome babies!  They are so beautiful=)  You've got to be in heaven with all those little cuties around.

Mmm... Kinder Eggs.  Lucky Summer-blade!

I get along with my coworkers pretty well.  They love to joke and prank, but were kind of worried about how I would react to the hanging pony and cat. AJ said he was super relieved when he heard me laughing. 
 
And I'm pretty sure it was murder.  No way Snowcatcher could have hung her cat! There wasn't just one culprit either, it was several guys who were in on it.
 
Glad you guys are as amused by it as I was! Ponies are toys after all.  And, no matter what they say, I can now claim that I have the macho-car guys playing with ponies and I have the photographic proof. Revenge will be forthcoming, but not immediatly.  We'll make them sweat it out a bit

Like many of us here, I have a pony on my desk at work. I like to rotate out the pony to match the seasons and the current one is Snowcatcher. I work in the repair portion of a car dealership, so I'm pretty much surrounded by "tough" guys.  They find the ponies very odd and don't quite understand them.  THey tease me all the time.
 
Well, I had the day off work yesterday. This is what I came in to discover.
 
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Did the ponies do it because they can't stand the car fumes?  Or was it more insideous means?

I tried to get the "Decorate your own pony" with the code by going out of the promo area and adding her to my cart.  No dice; still charged shipping.  BUT! When I added in Feathermay and applied the promo code, I got free shipping on the entire order. So, if you're looking to get some of the blank ponies, toss in the ones on promo and get free shipping on the whole order! I'd rather pay for another pony (and get two!) than shipping any day

I think I'm the first one in the Valentines Swap to get a package!  So, here we go, Brag Time!

I was home all day and the mailman never even knocked on the door to let me know I had a box.  Hubby found it on the porch when he left to get some groceries.  I, of course, stayed home and had fun opening everything.

Once I got the box open, I discovered....

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Check out that adorable card!  And look at those pretty dragonfly stickers    The card let me know that my package came from the marvelous Mercynova.  She totally spoiled me!  Since there wasn't anything telling me to open packages in a certain order, I grabbed the one in the bottom right of the photo and found...

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This is the prettiest Chief I've ever seen!  And that ribbon in his tail is awesome=)  He's sitting on my desk right now, guarding my other presents.

Next up was:

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Midnight Pomegrannate Bath Salts in an adorable container.  I think I'm going to go take a bath tonight so I can enjoy these.  They smell soooooooooo good.

Next up was a small package.

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Eeh!  Rainbow Flash Blind Bag!  She's so much more purple in real life than I expected.  And that means I like her all the more

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Next up was tea.  I'm drinking it right now.  This stuff is great!  Nice and fruity without any bitterness at all. I'm going to have this as my morning tea and try to make it last the whole month

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Mercynova, HOW DID YOU KNOW? I've been looking at the thrift shop for something that would suffice as a tea bag drip tray for the past month! I like to let me tea bags dry out when I'm at work so I can take them home and compost them.

Item number 7 we'll save for the end, because the results were so much fun =)

Number 8 was the Fluttershy Nursery:

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I think this one has lighter hair than the US versions.  Look at those cute little critters... This isn't staying in the box for long!  Or, maybe it will.  Easier to dust... Gah, I'm so torn!

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ANOTHER Blind Bag!  And it's the sparkly Rarity too.  She's so pretty

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These smelled so good before I even opened them.  Hubby keeps coming in and stealing "one more." 

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Here's a photo of everything opened. Of course, we had a photo bomb.  That's to be expected, considering what the last item was...

The last item, actually the 7th I opened, was treats for Misty!

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She was trying to get these way before I even had the package open!  Misty highly approves and says thank you.  We made a video so you can see how much she enjoys them =)

THANK YOU MERCYNOVA!!!!!  You totally spoiled me silly and I love absolutely everything.

Ooh, Sternenstaub, your packages look so pretty! I can't wait to see who your partner is and what's inside!
 
I have my partners stuff all wrapped up and even boxed up.  Teaser pics were taken yesterday!  And they're still on my camera... I'll have to upload those when I get home from work;)

Very nice website! =)  It has a lovely layout and you arranged things very logically.  Do you have prices on the sale/trade items? I didn't notice anything...  Also, I suggest changing the text color from white to something darker.  It's very hard on the eyes to read the white on the light green.  Other than that, you have the beginnings of a lovely collection site!