Once upon a time, Eliot was an only dog. In fact, for several Halloweens he was an only dog, which meant we did really silly things that you do with your first dog. The first year, I took Eliot to a PetSmart Halloween costume party. There was a costume contest, and a $50 PetSmart gift card on the table. In case you haven’t guessed, I’m a tad competitive. I also love musicals. So my mom (who is a sewing genius) helped…
I can be a pretty morbid person. It’s not that I think I’m necessarily going to die tomorrow, but let’s be honest – I could die tomorrow. We all could. For me specifically, I’m most likely to get smushed by a Land Rover outside my office… which is located in a luxury shopping center. If this blog goes quiet, it’s because someone smushed me walking to my car. Lauren died at the hands of people pursuing David Yurman and Louis…
Life is really one big compromise, am I right? This doesn’t exclude the horse world, but sometimes I think people forget that… myself included. In every aspect of my little bubble of equestriandom, I compromise. Some are instinctive and easy, while others are harder to swallow. The most prominent example of my ‘not so favorite’ compromise is my lovely, eight year old horse with hock arthritis of a 20 year old Grand Prix jumper. That was a compromise I accepted…
Once upon a time I made my living entirely from graphic design. This is shocking, because I’m a mediocre designer at best. These days I do more project management/content UI/writing than design, but for a brief point in my career there was a magical time where I was paid to draw ponies on the computer for a living. Draw ponies. On the computer. For a living. Squee! Recently I stumbled across a lot of these assets, some I did for…
There are a ton of really awesome, really expensive equestrian products out there. They are usually beautiful and made more beautiful with monograming and bejazzling and all other sorts of fun things. On the flip side, there are the unsung heroes of my tack trunk. Here are my favorite products for under $5 that I use on an almost daily basis. Menthol Rubbing Alcohol This has many uses. You know when you’re a really gross head sweat’er who lives in…
For a while I had lots of blog content deep down in the drum of my drafted posts. Thoughtful! Exciting! Funny! Yeah, that’s all gone. Until I refill the drum or something exciting happens, I just have posts like today’s where I’m going to rattle off lots of nonsense tidbits for no other reason besides I’m happy about them and you’re a captive audience. 😉 I present to you – things that are so random they don’t make sense to make an…
Have you ever thought about how much the equestrian world feels like a rat race at times? Something about the sport seems to bring out a ‘more more more’ mentality in me at least, and I thought it’d be an interesting topic for a mini-blog series to see if other bloggers felt the same way. There’s no denying that the equestrian world is full of trends, and they seem to change completely each time I get back into showing. When…
When I was super sad and down on top of on a 100% spending freeze, I was oh so excited to win Sprinkler Bandit’s blog contest for a custom beaded browband from Dark Jewel Designs. Beaded browbands aren’t super popular in the hunter/jumper rings, and I’d figured I would get two “fun” bead strings and one pretty conservative one. Let me say that when I got the browband and beads in the mail the quality far exceeded my expectations! Pictures…