A creative weekend (and Pokemon toys)!

So, I had a really good weekend. 

Reasons.

1. I finally started to get over this super crummy sickness that I've had for over a week.

2. I got LOTS of sewing done (as well as some custom pony making)

3. I got new toys in the mail!

4. I started watching Attack on Titan. Holy deathballs.

Let's start with number 3. 

How amazingly cute are these Pokemon Playsets?! I've been wanting to add these to my collection for a long time (and there are quite a few variations), but only recently bit the bullet and ordered them! They weren't particularly expensive, and they are all complete with the correct Pokemon. And a really cool thing? You can connect all the different playsets with the little bridges that they come with!

I won't embarrass myself by saying how long it took me to figure this out. 

On a more creative front, I finished some fun projects this weekend as well!

 I made my first custom My Little Pony! Yoshi seemed like an easy beginner project (no re-hairing) and I got him done in a Saturday. He was originally a G3 'Breezy' that I found at a thrift shop for a dollar. With a couple bottles of paint and some sculptey, he is MUCH cuter and much more 'me'. 

I also whipped up some envelope backed pillow cases for some friends down the hall. They have a multitude of novelty tees and wanted some of them repurposed. I am also ashamed to say that these are the first things that I have sewn in months. MONTHS. The shame of it all...

Let's hope that this upcoming weekend is just as great!

Impulse Purchases.

So I'm a bit of a 'My Little Pony : Friendship is Magic' fan. You know, in a respectable twenty something, never going to grow up kind of way. I collect the trading cards, the toys (where is all the Big Mac merch?!), blind bag figures, etc. But then I saw the dog tags. DOG TAGS. What? Where the heck did this 'trend' come from? Is there a market for dog tags covered in technicolor ponies? Apparently so. I really tried to not want them (heck, I still don't really want them), but after a couple of Youtube reviews (Bins Toy Bin, I'm looking at you) something inside me snapped and the need to run to my nearest Walmart rushed into me. I still don't know exactly what happened, but here's what I ended up getting on my trip out.

So. The dog tags. I still don't really get it. I think I'm more excited about the vinyl decals that came with the package than I am about the plastic tags. The packs were $2.97 each and they came with a random dog tag, vinyl decal, tattoo set, and a checklist in case you want to collect everything in this series. I'm not sure if I will purchase any more of these, but I may try and track down the Discord option, as he is my favesies (hello, Q!). There are also Adventure Time dog tags, and a whole slew of other options so I guess this is a popular thing right now. Crazy kids these days.



I also stopped by the Dollar Tree and picked up some My Little Pony Series 2 Value Packs and some super retro (Seriously guys, I think this shit is from 1998) Pokemon tattoo sets. Why do they still have these available? I mean, it's super cool and you have NO IDEA how stoked I was to get classic Pokemon merch in 2013, but what the heck?

So that's what I picked up today. Thank you to YouTube for infiltrating my brain. I love you always.