Repair It! Reuse It!: ~*~Custom My Little Ponies~*~Reusing Worn Out Toys~*~

Every year the people of the United States generate approximately 230 million tons of garbage which averages about 4.6 pounds per person per day. Our landfills are filling up and we live in a throw away consumer culture.

I am always trying to repair and reuse things and buy perfectly good items second hand instead of buying new ones. Doing this helps me save money and is good for the planet because less resources need to be harvested from the Earth if I buy items that have already been made, or if I repair and reuse items. This helps keep garbage out of the landfills and it's also fun!

I have so many different projects that I have done involving these ideas, so I decided to create this blog to share with everyone how I repaired things, what I reused and so on.

My first example that I would like to share are my custom My Little Ponies:

Mayanbutterfly's Custom My Little Ponies

Most of them have been made out of ponies that were in very bad condition with hair cuts, chew marks, discoloration, and problems that would have normally landed them in a trash can.

I buy the ponies second hand on ebay or at thrift stores. Then I clean them with soap and water.
Then I either keep them for my collection of toys or I customize them!

After they are clean, I do any necessary sculpting with Aves Apoxie Sculpt.

I then repaint their bodies with an airbrush. I use a Paasche Talon Gravity Feed Airbrush for full body repaints.

Then I use watercolor paint brushes and acrylic paint for symbol and eye details.

Once all of the painting is done I seal the pony for protection.

I then reroot their hair with a rerooting needle tool like the hair and tool from Dollyhair.com

Then details such as glitter, jewels, and hair styles can be added.

This is a nice way to reuse toys and create unique pieces of art.

You can also do this with dolls!

The My Little Ponies below are examples of ones that were in bad disrepair before I customized them.