ponies and ebay

It's been a while since I blogged, and a lot of stuff have been happening.

First off, as the people know who read this (hopefully there's two of you *eyes audience*) know that I'm into My Little Ponies. It's really silly of me, but kind of fun. In the past week, I bought a lot of bait ponies, and I've gotten some in the mail. Right now, I'm washing them, and plotting what to do to them.

My first pony that I started working on had marker and pen marks all over her, and her mane and tail were cut. I had to soak her in hot water so that the glue around her head would melt a little, and that I could cut and remove the head. Once I did that, I pulled out her mane and tail. Her tail had rust and mold growing on it, as did the mane and all inside the pony. I then cleaned out the inside, which was not very easy or pretty. It involved Q-tips, cotton swaps, tooth picks and all sorts of cleaners. Once the insides were clean, I started on the outside. Using nail polish remover, I was able to get everything off except one color of the cutie mark (aka, the butt tattoo on the pony's flank). I did everything to get those marks off. I tried all sorts of cleaners, I tried soaking it in the cleaners, I tried gasoline and scrubbing it as hard as I could without trying to scratch the plastic. It's still there. Grrrr.

So, I'm going to try some peroxide next, and if that fails I have to find some acetone. Yay.

Now, I have about five more ponies in line that I want to try and clean up and custom make. There is one that I don't want to custom make. She's in really good condition, except for her mane. If I just replace it, she'd be in great condition. So I might just do that. Her cutie mark is painted all the way to her neck.

Plans for the ponies, you'll have to wait and see.

On another note, I've been learning to sell on ebay. It was totally exciting. I can't believe how much time I spent checking to see if I sold anything. But it's nice to get rid of a bunch of my stuff. But there were a few problems. One of my favorites was that I specifically said that I don't ship internationally, and someone from Japan bids on my stuff. Yeah, that was interesting.

It'll be fun tomorrow to go to the post office and show up with a basket full of packages to send them off. Fuuuuuuuunnn.

We'll that's my week in a nutshell. I need to blog more often.