Brazil Sunlight and Brazil Butterscotch

I just won an auction for 2 Brazilian ponies!!!
one is Butterscotch. and she is lovely.

the other is Brazil Sunlight!!!
she is GORGEOUS!! look at those symbols, they are perfect!! and...that means I now have a shy pose Sunlight from every country that she was ever made in. To really complete my collection, I still have to find a France Sunlight and an Italian Sunlight...both of which I already have, but they were also released in those countries with freckles and mine have none. I really think that my 2008 goal of completing my SP Sunlight collection might actually be a reality.

Brazil Sunlight

Brazil Butterscotch

Collector Pose Bowtie and Applejack

finally!


I bought these lovelies almost a month ago and they arrived today, after much fretting on my part. This is the second time, different sellers though, that I have bought these 2 ponies and the first time I sent them back to the girl because they were moldy and missing hair...eww. So as the days and weeks went by and I still didn't find them sitting in my mailbox, I started to think, maybe I am not supposed to own these ponies...

At first I was expecting them to take a bit longer because they came from the Netherlands, but then another pony from another seller in the Netherlands that I bought 2 weeks after, came a week before! So I thought for sure something was wrong. Anyways, they are here, safe and sound, and gorgeous.

what a nightmare!!

the people who occupied this house before us decided that it would be awesome if last fall they raked all the leaves into piles and then...left them. thank you, you are jerks.

me and matt worked for hours yesterday and I worked for quite a few this morning all ready and it still looks terrible. I love yard work, but this is ridiculous. I can't wait until it's all pretty again. it's my mission of the summer for sure. To make matters worse, we have a double corner lot, which will be amazing once it is inhabitable, but it is massive to clean. I went up the block yesterday and we are THE WORST house on the block. In fact, all the other yards look great. The next worse to ours is our neighbors and it appears that it might just be leaves and mess from our yard blown over on to their yard from the wind. how embarrassing. So far, 30 GIANT garbage bags of leaves. yikes.

here are a few 'before' pictures. and these aren't even the real 'before' before pictures. these are the pictures I took this morning after me and matt put in so much work yesterday. I wanted to post them so that when I post pictures in a month or so, you can be astounded at the difference. We moved into this house so that Madeleine could have a yard to play in and I am determined to make this mess playable. My dreams of having a garden in the back might have to wait until next summer by the looks of it, but I am going to try.

greek sunlight collection...completed!!

with the money I made at the toy show, I bought a Greek Sunlight blue w/blue clouds loose from a fellow mlp arena member yesterday. I can't wait until she is here. she is the last of the Greek Sunlights that I don't already have.
my other 3 Greeks are on their card and so I am so looking forward to holding her and smelling her wonderful Greek smell...

*drifts off into a vanilla scented daydream*

ah....

french applejack!

a few weeks ago, there was an auction for a French Applejack. the auction had no description, no shipping details...just this one lonely picture.

she looks pretty nice in the picture, but I've learned that you can't go on a picture alone or you end up with a trashed pony and there is nothing you can do about it, because you didn't ask any questions. so I messaged the seller, about shipping, about a ton of details that I wanted to know...no response. no responses from sellers worry me. but I really wanted this pony. and her bid was still quite a bit lower than I would potentially be willing to pay for her. so i waited till the last possible minute for the seller to reply to my questions, but still nothing...but what if she ended up being beautiful? for such a low price? so I bid. I bid $40. which is half the amount I would have paid for her. and to my surprise actually, I won! if this pony ended up being in wonderful condition, what a sweet deal it would be. but maybe I had just spent $40 on a pony who possibly has a giant black marker streak going down her back or is missing the entire back half of her hair or any number of possible faults.

three weeks later, today, she arrived in the mail.




and she is perfect!! I am really happy with her. no giant black marks, symbols are perfect and even still have their French trademark metallic paint on them, her hair is beautiful. I love her.