Hi everyone, my name's Jenny and I've been lurking about the Arena for several years so I thought it was time to make an account.
I'm 35 years old, live near Fredericksburg Virginia USA, have two daughters in diapers and a LEO husband. I stay at home with the kids and work on our fixer-upper home in our rugged wooded neighborhood.
I didn't have many toys growing up so my ponies were very special to me. I still have almost all of them (I lost one on the schoolbus when I was five) and I was always in awe of my playmates' collections. Having children of my own sparked some need to get myself the ponies I wanted as a child. I started picking them up on Ebay every once in a while, but I have more fun rescuing bait ponies and restoring them than being a picky collector.
I'm only interested in G1's since they're what I grew up with.
My own childhood ponies include a SS Twist, Creamsicle, Twinkle-eyed Quackers and baby first-tooth Quackers, Tropical Breeze flutter pony, Rattles and Tattles, BBE Lofty, Racer and Paws, Sunnybunch, but my favorite is a badly worn SS Wind Whistler because she was a neighbor's cast-off that I rescued out of a cardboard box of unwanted junk.
I bought a lot of bait ponies off goodwill and I've rehaired 5 babys and an adult Sparkler so far, but I have admired Roogna for years and dream of being a skilled customizer. Can't wait to learn more restoration techniques! Oh, and I need to find myself an avatar.