Okay, so this debate might not be all that “great”. With WEF starting and me not going this year, I spent some time looking through my photos from WEF years past. That’s when I realized that jumper braids seem to fall into two categories these days. We have the traditional button braids. And what I officially the “sticky uppy” braids. Both are almost always tight and neatly done, but I just can’t get behind the sticky uppy braids. To me, there is…
Originally I pictured this post being full of items deep from the trenches of the internet, but then some awesome bloggers were WAY more creative than I was to begin with and did a stellar job with all of their own photographs. Braymere Custom Saddlery took this idea to my favorite 1:9 scale world, and I cooed over the photos like a small child. Then Carly from Poor Woman Showing won at life with the amazing Bobby, and Sprinkler Bandit did…
Things are pretty slow here, but the weather is getting dryer so hopefully that means lots of riding in my future! To beat the slowness, I’ve crafted a little online equestrian challenge that I offer up to you all. I love a good scavenger hunt, and think this will be fun! Here’s how it works – I have ten items outlined below. If you want to play, look for a video or image (please link images back to the source…
Shopping for riding clothes is always hard. They’re expensive and they fit weird and they can be oh so exciting, but also a huge let down. Add being a non-traditional size for a hunter/jumper rider, and the challenge grows. Though I’m not a fashion diva at the barn or in real life, I have tried my best to dress just as stylishly as thinner equestrians. The general tips are stay away from super Euro or super trendy, and SmartPak is…
After doing my 30 before 30, I decided a year long birthday challenge was something fun to add to my yearly blog goals. However, I didn’t want to do another horse bucket list this year. Therefore, I asked readers to help me come up with photography ideas that they would like to see on the blog. It was fun reading everyone’s suggestions! I took all of them to heart, and added some of my own as well. Some were modified…
All Thoroughbreds are cool, but it’s pretty much a fact that North Carolina and Texas Thoroughbreds are the coolest! Okay… I may be a little biast there, but today’s awesome OTTB comes from my former NCSU Equestrian teammate Bette. Meet her pretty mare, Marley 🙂 What is her registered name? Cool Marlene Lineage? Finn McCool x Mean Marlene (Citidancer)- She does have some fun names in her pedigree- Secretariat, Native Dancer, Northern Dancer, and Storm Cat- of course these are…
For the first time in four years, I won’t be traveling to watch the Winter Equestrian Festival this year. I’m a little sad about it. It was always a good time visiting one of my closest friends. Even above that, there’s nothing in the world like WEF. When they describe it as horsey disneyland… they aren’t joking! I often hear that people found my blog through the WEF posts, and a small, silly part of me thinks I may be…
Rant alert – one of my biggest pet peeves is to see people willy nilly posting professional show proofs on Instagram. Yes, they’re of your horse who’s adorable and amazing. Yes, there is almost always a way to save the picture from the photographer’s website. No, that doesn’t make it okay to use. I realized a while ago, that many people just don’t know that this isn’t okay. While the world of photography and social media has a lot of…