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My name is Susan and I'm 17 years old. I live in the United Kingdom in a county called Somerset which is in the South West of England.

I have a lovely family. My Mum and Dad (both retired) usually help me find my most wanted beanies in their spare time. I've got 3 older brothers, 2 sister-in-laws, 2 nephews and 1 niece, who I'm god mother to, none of them are in to beanies... yet.

My interests include collecting Beanie Babies. Disney Store Piglet beanies, McDonalds fast food toys and collectable toys. You can find out more information on these toys throughout my website.

I have over 170 beanies in my Ty beanie collection. I started collecting beanies in May 1998. I was first introduced to beanies through the USA McDonald's '98 Teenie Beanie Babie promotion. I didn't really think of collecting the big beanies to start off with, but one day I came across them in a small shop in Weymouth in early June and that's when I brought my first beanies, which were Ears, Inch, Rainbow and Iggy, and then my collection started to grow.

My most treasured beanie is 'Britannia' the bear because I got her for my birthday last year and we both share the same birthday which is the 15th December.

I started collecting Fast Food toys about 8 years ago, only on and off, but the past 1 1/2 years I've been trying to collect all the sets I like. I currently have 700+ toys. My favourite sets are probably the McSurprise set from the UK in 1997, the '98 '3 Bugs Life watches' from the USA (thanks to Bonnie) and the '98 McSpace set from Japan (thanks To Hanae).

I hope to have some pictures of myself, my family and my collections on the website in the near future.