Since this was posted in 2012 I guess it is about time to get around for a little update!
Here we go, 2020 update:
I'm Annicken, or CC as I go by the rest of the time.
I was born in 1989, live in Norway with my American/Norwegian husband and our 3 boys; Luke, Ben Kenobi and Hans Solo

I have worked as a verger for the past 11 years.
I love wrestling, I love Formula 1, I love metal music, I love gaming and I love crafting. Always up to learn some new crafts, mostly right now I do polymer clay.
http://instagr.am/p/BzbaGUGIa8e/
I have an instagram for my collection
https://www.instagram.com/cannibalcow_/
I collect mostly g1 and g2. I will buy the occasional g3 and onward.
I am mostly selling my ponies now, only keeping the ones I really want, meaning cutting down from many many hundred to just a few hundred.
If I buy anything now it will most likely be a set completer or accessories.
Goals and grails would be Cherries Jubilee related ponies and merch I don't currently own.
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Other than pony stuff I love Dungeons and Dragons and have a decent dice collection. I really, really love dice!
I have some balljointed dolls, other horse figures, Batman, Star Wars, gaming related stuff, just about anything I *really* like the look of. Having 3 kids cuts down on collection space though

My weirdest collection would be one I have with my husband that we call the Magpie Jars. We pick up interesting things we find on the ground and see if they qualify to come home and be put in a jar. So anything from a button, a chess piece, a necklace, a keychain, a small figure, basically anything that is shiny and within the 'requirements' XD I really love that collection because it's also a competition to see who finds the coolest thing!


This is just looong rambling about my collection so feel free to skip:
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I got my first pony in 1992 or so, Daffodil, and after that I just kinda never stopped. My real love for horse toys started when I saw Starlight the walking horse made by Galoob at my cousins birthday party. Somehow she magically appeared at my grandparents house after that and to this day I have never seen a toy as beautiful as her

I have been through a few different waves of collecting. I remember G1's being in the store, staring at them for hours while my grandparents did shopping and the lucky occasion where I got to pick one and take home. I got them for birthdays and christmas and my love for horses in general grew and grew. I started hanging out in stables and playing with ponies and horses with my horse crazy friends. When 'everyone' grew out of their ponies I ended up getting them all! So I had a fairly large g1 collection at the end.
When g2's came out me and my only friend who also still collected ponies had been asking when the ponies would come back at the toy stores for a while, and we were quite happy when they showed back up! I spent my own money on ponies then and I bought as many as I could. I really love g2's.
G3's came around and I still spent my money on them. My grandpa made a shelf that went along the wall near the ceiling where all my ponies were lined up nice under my glow in the dark stars

I bought ponies at flea markets, got some from friends who had found some of their old ones and I found out there was a community for ponies online, but I didn't join because I was young and not confident in writing english to people, so I lurked every chance I had when I got on a computer
My room got redecorated, ponies went to the loft. 2-3 years later I got a visa card and did the only natural thing there was to do: Sign up for ebay and buy Daddy Apple Delight, one of the ponies I absolutely wanted the most as a kid. After that it was just a lost cause and I bought basically everything I came over.
In '07 I officially joined the TP and I have made so many good friends over the years

For many, many years I was actively doing art, adoptables, customs, buying and a little bit of trading and selling. Mostly just hoarding ponies though

I moved a few times, ponies packed up and each time it was just more boxes of ponies. In the end they went all the way to a storage unit and I had some time to reflect over my collection.
That started with a huge clearout which is still ongoing where I am trying to get rid of ponies I don't feel like I love just as much anymore, and buying a few ponies for sets I want to complete. My main focus now I would say is set completion and getting accessories and of course I have to mention Cherries Jubilee.
I have a love for the g1 brides and birthday pony, but man oh man do I love me some Cherries Jubilee! I'm closing in, if not crossed the 100 mark of CJ's in my army. Plus a bunch of customs, art and other things. I have as a goal to get every CJ and CJ merchandise I possibly can. Now, I have long since stopped buying any of the regular CJ's, but they just kinda keep appearing anyways
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