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…
I think every horse person wants to go to Vienna. I’ve been fortunate to get to go twice. My first trip was with school, and I skipped out on a scheduled activity to have an afternoon to myself at the Spanish Riding School museum. The second time I went with Tim, and was able to see the morning exercises. Unfortunately, we couldn’t book a stable tour like I had hoped… so that just means I need to go to Vienna…
When I first saw Jodi’s contest at Racing to Ride I thought, “That is super cool! I can’t wait to see what other people do.” I own nothing pink, and I don’t even really like the color pink. In fact, I didn’t really wear pink until I graduated from college and used to claim to hate it strongly. Then I learned that just because you wear pink, doesn’t mean you’re a waify girly girl… so I wear it when I feel like…
Loved this post idea from Sprinkler Bandits, because songs and horses somehow go together more with me & Simon than any of my other horses previously. Of course because I’m complicated, I can’t just pick one song for my horse. When I decided Simon was “the one”, I realized I felt pretty instantly comfortable with him despite his greenness. I searched and searched for a show name, and probably would have chosen the title of this song, Somewhere Only We Know,…