Hi to everyone here at the arena! I have been a member at the TP for a little while and have been meaning to join here also, so Hi! My username at the TP is the same as here. My name is Rachel and I am 27 and live in Temple, TX. Its an hour from Austin and even closer to Kileen. I am a stay at home mom right now. I have a 2 and a half year old daughter named Chloe and a 1 year old son named Andrew. And my hubby of 4 years, Norman. My family is my life but I also love pony collecting, obviously, and animals and art. My previous jobs have been at animal hospitals as a vet. tech. and a humane society, and the toy department of walmart. All of them I enjoyed because they all have to do with my hobbies.
"If you love what you do, you never have to work a day in your life." I have an Associates of arts degree from Temple college and I wanted to get a bachlors too but I could never figure out what kind I wanted to go for. I might still get one once our kids are in school.
I have been seriously collecting ponies for about 10 years. Of course I had some when I was a little girl! They were MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE TOY! I had one of the little MLP carrying barns for a carrying case but once it was full my mother didn't think I needed any more ponies.
She liked baby dolls so she liked to get me dolls but I didn't play with dolls much. I always played with animal toys. I even got my 3 boy cousins to play ponies with me every time we would visit them!!
Anyway, when the MLP TV show season collection came out in the DVD set. I was like oh I used to love MLP so I got it so I could watch them again. After I watched them I wanted to find my old ponies and couldn't find them so I looked on ebay to see if they sold there. And I created a monster! I started collecting just G1 at first. I have gotten my hands on most of the G1 ponies (not including international) except some of the more rare ones and a few sets that I don't really care to collect. I never really liked the G2 ponies. Hasbro messed up there I think. They reminded me of generics and when they first came out I really didn't believe they were actual MLPs. I wasn't crazy about the 3.5's either. Then I loved the G3 set when they came out so I collected nearly all of them also. I say that in past tense because I have had to slim my herd A LOT over the last 4 years. I don't like having to store them in boxes if I don't have room and I like to view them all so I started slimming the ones that I wasn't to crazy about. I have my collections on very large wooden CD racks so it saves alot of space and it only sticks out about 4 inches from the wall so its like a 3D picture of colorful ponies!
I also love the new G4 ponies! And love the Hub TV show FIM as well!
I also love to do custom ponies! Though I have a bad habbit of starting projects and pausing them for quite a while until I finish them finally monthes later! Some are still unfinished. I love to come up with ideas for customs though. I have a drawing book full of them. I actually had to get new one recently because I filled the other one. I am currently working on Pound Cake and Pumpkin cake from the more recent FIM show. I LOVE newborn twins! I plan to post and sell the first set I make on ebay. They came out good I think. I just have to paint them. I'll post pics in a couple of days and y'all can let me know what you think! Hope to see yall around the arena!
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