Hello everyone, I'm Buttons(o)!

[buttonso]

I'll try not to be too long winded...

I'm a lady in my early 30s, living in the Midwest USA. I'm married, no kids yet but I do have two spoiled cats, and I work in graphic design. As a child I loved MLP, but I kind of outgrew it and left it behind for many years, until a few years ago, I discovered the Friendship is Magic mobile app game.  Although I currently no longer play, it did make me fall in love with MLP all over again and I started watching Friendship is Magic, and was delighted to discover that it can entertain an adult as well as a child, though it still wasn't enough to get me into collecting (yet).

Fast forward to April of this year. On a whim, I decided to search for My Little Pony on eBay and found a cute pink unicorn I couldn't resist- Tabby. A pink unicorn with kittens on her rump, how could I not want her?  So I bought her, and found myself looking for more ponies. It eventually occurred to me that I could very well be restoring my OWN childhood ponies in addition to hunting for affordable ponies on eBay.  I found the MLP Preservation Project website and started scrubbing ponies and washing/styling hair (I'm still not the best curler in the world), starting with my very favorites from my childhood- the Twinkle Eyed ponies (Fizzy, Bright Eyes and especially Quackers) and the Twice as Fancy ponies Dancing Butterflies and Sugarberry.

I told myself I would only try to collect the rest of the Twinkle Eyeds and Twice as Fancies, but I have found myself buying all kinds of random ponies on eBay, while continuing to work on cleaning up my own ponies. Luckily for me none of my ponies are in super bad shape so it's been easy so far, but I am putting off the ones that are going to be more of a challenge for now. 

I'm mainly concentrating on G1 ponies, but if I stumble across a G2 or G3 pony at an antique store or something I'm still pretty likely to snap her up.  They're too cute not to!

Until I can find a better place for them my ponies are currently sharing a case with my action figures. They're just shoved in there willy nilly for now, but I have plans for a better display eventually. I have cleaned several more since this photo was taken:

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My kitty Ginger likes to help me with my pony work. (Don't worry about Tuneful, she's just fine! as you can see below) 
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My husband (a big Transformers guy, so he appreciates the love of an 80s toy) is willing to indulge me in pony talk but it's mainly just me chattering and him listening, so here I am, looking for other pony people to talk to.

[medleymayhem]

Fabulous story. Seems like a lot of us are in our 30s here! I guess that makes since with the age of original pony owners!

Love your collection. I love the aesthetic of ponies, especially the G1s. I wonder if that's why we also attract a lot of graphic artists...

Nevertheless, welcome to the forum! See ya around!

[buttonso]

Fabulous story. Seems like a lot of us are in our 30s here! I guess that makes since with the age of original pony owners!

Love your collection. I love the aesthetic of ponies, especially the G1s. I wonder if that's why we also attract a lot of graphic artists...

Nevertheless, welcome to the forum! See ya around!

Thank you!
Yeah, I figured I would find a lot of people near my age here, lol
I completely agree about the pony aesthetics. Their colors in particular appeal to me- I've not yet seen a pony with color combinations I don't like.

[aquamarinemolly]

Hooray for our 30's ^_^ Welcome to the arena, I hope you enjoy the forums as much as I do, it's great to hear from so many like-minded pony friends.

[Bekuno]

Hi, Buttonso! Welcome to the Arena!

Yeah, 30's are the common range here, but we have collectors of all ages (like me rocking the lower numbers!). You have a great collection there, I love that photo of your cat playing with Tuneful! You'll certainly have a lot of pony peeps to talk to here, enjoy the forums!

[Beckie-Ann]

Your ponies are lovely and so is kitty! Welcome to the Arena! ^_^

[achab1984]

Welcome to the arena

[hathorcat]

Welcome to the Arena! What a great intro - its lovely to meet you You have an adorable collection! Tuneful is one of my favorites. I hope you have a good time here.

[buttonso]

Thanks, everyone! I think I'm at my post limit for the day already... But there's so much interesting stuff to read! And best of all the pics of everyone else's collections!

[Spinky69er]

Welcome to the Arena

Love the pic  of Tuneful and kitty.  I hope you have a blast on the forum and look forward to seeing you around

[kiwimlp]

Hi and welcome to the Arena

What a lovely story about your collecting.  I know just what you mean about buying all kinds of ponies and not just sticking to certain sets. There are so many cute ponies out there - must have them ALL.  LOL

Enjoy the forums

[buttonso]

Hi and welcome to the Arena

What a lovely story about your collecting.  I know just what you mean about buying all kinds of ponies and not just sticking to certain sets. There are so many cute ponies out there - must have them ALL.  LOL

Enjoy the forums

It didn't help when I did some research and found that the TE's and TAF's both contain super rare ponies among their number.... but when it comes down to it I have a hard time resisting ANY pony anymore. It's like a flood gate opened up. O_o Not sure if being on this forum "helps" or just makes it worse, lol!

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome. Seems like a nice place.