Once upon a time, I lived in NC and boarded at a legit “A” barn for the first time in my life. The trainer there at the time was from New Jersey and grew up riding the 3’6″ big eq and all things legit hunter/jumper. She was the real deal. In contrast, I had my from-the-newspaper QH without lead changes and didn’t really know what being in a “program” meant. She didn’t have a problem with those things as I…
I’m kind of a sucker for photo challenges, and since one of my personal goals this year is to take more pictures… I’m all for Eventing in Color‘s 14 Photo Challenge. The only rule was that they must be photos taken in 2014… well I took all of these this past weekend at the barn, so I think that counts!
As you may have noticed, I’ve been out of town for about a week. We packed my car full of Christmas presents, three dogs, and barely fit ourselves on the 2400 mile round trip from Texas to North Carolina. We drove straight through on the way there (20.5 hours) which was pretty miserable. After visiting family and friends in North Carolina for the week, we started the drive back and stopped in Jackson, MS to stay with Tim’s family for…
I had to do two posts today, becuase I got my Equestrian Blogger Gift Exchange secret santa gift! Yippieee!! Thank you soooo much to Adventures with Shyloh for these amazing gifts! They arrived all wrapped and purdiful, but like the present hungry christmas-monger I am, I ripped them all open with glee before remembering to take a picture. You can view the aftermath first. She was very accommodating of my snooty hunter requests 🙂 I now have a beautiful wood…
It’s been a fun little journey sharing my obsession with small plastic ponies with y’all, and today’s final post I want to share how you can get into the hobby if you found it interesting! Plus, we’ve got a fabulous giveaway to draw a winner for… but I’m saving the best for last 🙂 If You Enjoy Reading More about Model Horses – Check out the following blogs! These are some of my favorites and cover different aspects of the…
This has been an incredibly rough year for a lot of our friends in the horse blogging community. While we’ve all had our struggles, I think any horse lover can agree that the worst nightmare situation is losing your best friend. It’s been a tough year of loss for some folks. As I sit here doing some reflecting what has been a stellar year for me, I know it’s not been the same for some of y’all. Wish that wasn’t…
While I used to love the plain, copper looking engraved stall signs lately hand painted stall signs for your horse seem to be on the rise. My absolute favorite ones are by Simply Equine Design. They are beautiful, and the woman who makes them does a great job. They are also pricey, but worth every penny. Since I’m a) cheap b) somewhat artistically inclined, I decided to make my own. It’s not as fancy as the professional ones, but it was…
Last week I told y’all all about my favorite aspect of model horse showing, performance classes. After showing all the pictures of my miniature kingdom and how much I loved it, today I’ll be touching on why I stopped showing and collecting as a hobby. Most adventures that were met with such enthusiasm don’t end abruptly, but I remember sitting in my house when we first moved to Texas after Breyerfest and staring at my shelves of models and props….