Children's Book Character Swap?

[StrawberryMeadow]

So I'm just putting feelers out to see if anyone would be interested in this. I don't think I'm up to/qualified for hosting this, but I was thinking about it while doing my hair this morning and got so excited I thought I'd put it to you guys.

The idea is make a custom pony based on your favourite children's book character. Could be anything from the Cat in the Hat, to Where the Wild Things Are, to The Gruffalo, to the Hungry Catterpillar, to well, anything!

It would have to be skill-based as there would probably be a lot of scuplting involved in quite a lot of them, unless we went with complicated FBR's with scenes from the book etc.

I think the participants would need to list between 3 and 5 of their favourite characters, their favourite lines, and possibly which book they like them best in (if they appear in more than one). And possibly provide images for their partner to work with in case they don't know the book.

There are quite a few of us customisers who have little ones, and if anyone else is anything like me, I'm sure we all share our favourites with our children. How lovely would it be to have a gorgeous custom to pass on to our little ones when they get old enough (or if they're already old enough) to appreciate ponies who are for looking and not playing?

Of course this can be worked around other big swaps. I know we have the TFT swap and the Carousel swap at the moment which are heavily involved. And working time would be a long one due to the possible complexity of the work.

What do you think folks? (Poll at the top, thanks! )

Thanks for reading ,
SM
x

[Honeycomb]

Sounds like a totally cool idea!

[Okami_Amaterasu]

Sound cool.

[StrawberryMeadow]

Thanks for the votes so far peeps, Names and quick posts are also appreciated so we can measure who it is that's interested 

[Eluluu]

kinda hilarious cause im in a private swap with this theme. =P id prolly be down for it if i have room in my swap roster. =P

side note that you might like too: what were doing is instead of reference pics of the books we like we linked to an amazon sale of said book, then were buying one of our partners books (if its cheap) to use as reference material, and sending the book along as an extra with the pony.

[PandaBerryInSpace]

Oh my gosh, that would be adorable. I do love Dr. Suess. <3 I would be interested, but I'm not sure that I would be available, since I'm going to be hosting a swap in a few months.

[AngelBlue]

I'd definitely be up for this one after the Carousel swap

[RedLynx]

I have always loved kids books and that feeling has doubled since I had kids.  This would be a lot of fun.  I'd be interested if it started in April or later.

[kaoskat]

Sounds kinda neat!

[Galactica]

What an adorable idea!

[secretsheik]

I'd be interested if it included newbies or people with at least +3 trade count since I haven't done many trades but have done a bunch of ponies.

[Sarahlacewing]

*dreams of a Leo the lop themed custom*

[salemsparkler]

love it!

I love swaps that inspire you to read more books! And I'd definetly need to read the books on the list ;-)

count me in!

xx

[StrawberryMeadow]

Even tentative votes are positive! I'm pretty excited that this might happen now! *jig*

[Argentum-Zeena]

Sounds like a great idea! If there are no external problems or conflicting swaps, I may join