Is there anyone who doesn’t have a wish list this time of year? If you’re one of those people who are like “I don’t need anything because I have the love and support of my family and Jesus” then that’s great… but I doubt you’re a horse person. Us horse people always need want shit. It’s a problem. This time of year is an especially hard time for me and my case of “the wanties” because my Birthday and Christmas…
Last week we talked about resins and customs and the week before we talked about OF halter, but this week we get to talk about my favorite part of model showing… performance! What is Performance showing? What is performance in a nutshell? Well, remember how you played with your Breyer horses as a kid and had them jump over little jumps or run around little barrels and squealed with delight with the little saddles they wore? It’s pretty much that,…
Last week in model horse mania 2013, we went over original finish halter showing. Today we’re still in halter land, but instead of factory finish plastic ponies I’m going to introduce to the beautiful world of customs and resins. Get ready to be wowed by a lot of amazing photos by Jennifer Buxton who has a beautiful collection of these horses. Today’s post will be photo heavy, because I think the beauty of these pieces can be explained best by…
I’m sure most of us have a huge respect for veterinarians. After all, they help us with our beloved ponies in times of need. In addition to the obvious, I think most horse owner know that being a vet can be a hard, thankless job. With that in mind, I loved today’s interview from my buddy Jennifer! Who are you and what do you do? 🙂 My name is Jennifer Wickline and I am an equine veterinarian near Dallas, TX….
My brain is almost 100% on the year end show, and because you guys are my captive readers I’m going to drag you down the crazy train with me. Most of my showing has been exclusively at local one day shows and schooling shows, and last year’s CTHJA year end show was my first “away from home” weekend show where I actually sat on my horse and rode him around a ring. Success! This year the year end show is…
So last week in my model horse series, I told you how I got into the hobby and became obsessed with little plastic horses. This week, I’m going to explain a bit about a huge part of the model horse showing and collecting hobby – original finish halter. That doesn’t make sense now, but it will soon! What does Original Finish mean? Models come in all shapes and sizes. Some are sculpted and painted by individuals, but most are factory…
I have a dirty little secret… I love teen lit. Can’t help it! Years as an English major pretty much satisfied my need for the classics, and every since then I pretty much read trash (but not Nicholas Sparks… I draw the line at Nicholas Sparks hate hate hate hate hate). Teen lit + equestrian lit = total Lauren happy, so thus enters Georgina Bloomberg’s brainchild, The A Circuit series. Literary genius, these are not. To sum up the whole series, I…
What seems like forever ago, I won a great contest sponsored by Hillary at Equestrian at Hart. The prize was trial sizes of three Sore No More products – “The Sauce”, gelotion liniment, and shampoo. Life has been a wee bit crazy for me lately and it took a lot longer than I meant for it for me to use these products enough for me to bring you a real review, but today I’ll be telling my experience with “The…