I haven't really shared many photos of my collection on here and rarely make a brag post, but I thought I'd share my collection as a whole to show how far I've come. I thought it would be neat to go through old photos on my compute and look at how my collecting my little ponies started out, from just having 7 from my childhood to now over 1000. Let me share my story on my collecting journey:
For many years, I kept a small lot of ponies that were bought by my mom or given to me by relatives. I only picked out one and that was Sherbet.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/47123940@N06/12213416575/I do have memories of playing with my Kingsley lion (only to learn years later he was a my little pony friend) and my only 2 boy ponies, Tex and Barnacle. All but Kingsley were packed away in a barn for 5 years, before I moved again. Over the next 5 years, I slowly dug through the junk barn and pulled out my childhood ponies from plastic bags of stuffed animals, never forgetting I had them. When I moved again in 2002 to my current home where the barn was, I proceeded to save the rest and in 2004, looked them up online to find out their names. I wanted to get more of them, not realizing at the time the hundreds of variations and series that were made. I only successfully got 2 from an online friend I traded toys with: Princess Tiffany and bride pony which I kept because she had a custom earring from her previous owner
and an Applejack, Bowtie and birthflower Holly from a flea market seller. Fast forward 2006, I buy a tiny lot off ebay that had a Party time and Peachy. I didn't seriously consider collecting 'til the following year, June 2007.
They started out on a tiny shelf in my once cramped closet.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/47123940@N06/13885571394/After buying several more lots off ebay, they moved to a bigger shelf:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/47123940@N06/13885716854/https://www.flickr.com/photos/47123940@N06/13885307385/That fall, I invested in a shelf just for my ponies, separate from my other toy collections:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/47123940@N06/12213973806/https://www.flickr.com/photos/47123940@N06/12214003696/https://www.flickr.com/photos/47123940@N06/12213610303/https://www.flickr.com/photos/47123940@N06/12213578363/Soon, I acquired some G3's and G2's along with the coveted Anchors Away hidden in a lot and the ponies sat patiently in boxes:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/47123940@N06/12213813444/I even moved on to nirvanas and ended up with an Italian Blossom in a lot of commons from a reseller. A total thrill at the time seeing as Italy Peachy and NC baby Lemon Drop were my only non US ponies at the time.
It stayed this way for several years 'til a storm ripped part of the roof off my room, causing water to ruin the walls and ceiling and forcing me to move my beloved ponies into storage totes and into a safer, dry room. My shelves had been ruined beyond repair, but they were cheap, shoddy made so it was no real loss to me.
In a slow and time consuming progress, my room was stripped down, re-walled, painted and put back together. My ponies stayed boxed up in their plastic storage bins for many months. Then in June 2013, my dad and I went to an outdoor flea market to look for shelving and my dad happened to spot a sturdy, well made shelf for only $45! We bought it and I brought it home and made some adjustments to it so I could fit as much of my collection as I could. And today....
https://www.flickr.com/photos/47123940@N06/12214112314/https://www.flickr.com/photos/47123940@N06/12214304046/https://www.flickr.com/photos/47123940@N06/12214099144/A shelf that houses nearly all my US G1 ponies! It was a good buy and works out better than what I had before!
My dad took the measurements of it and I helped him build another, longer shelf to keep my nirvanas on! I'll have pics of that up soon in the Nirvana forum since it's still a work in progress!
That is the story of my collection and I hope you enjoyed it! I'll be adding more pics soon once I finish organizing everyone!!
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