I’ve long considered myself a shamateur photographer. While I can reliably produce shots from horse shows that are marketable (in my opinion), portraits and other types are photography are a whole different ball game. I discovered a long time ago that if I wanted to get good enough to offer services as a serious professional, I needed to invest a ton of money into better equipment and countless hours into practice. When you think about doing that but see teenagers…
It’s been a long time since I’ve done any kind of equestrian DIY kind of post, so I figured y’all were overdue for some craft action. Now though I’ve written a lot of DIY, I’ll be the first to tell you that I’m pretty half ass when it comes to detailed pictures and instructions. Often I will include important steps like, “Sew it all together.” Well folks, it’s a new year and I’m trying to be a better blogger. This…
There are few perfect places on earth. I’ve had a lot of perfect moments in my life, sometimes in places exotic and beautiful and sometimes not. Standing on Charles’ Bridge in Prague for the first time in my life, when I was eighteen and idealistic and didn’t know enough to know I was untroubled, was a perfect moment. Driving to the beach at 3am with my friends home from college, and splashing in the ocean with frigid white foam spraying…
Ever since I first knew that I’d be buying my house, I’ve been on the lookout for equestrian art. I think this is due to several reasons: Buying art is way more fun than buying furniture Now that I live alone I can put as many ponies in my house as I want I really like ponies I really like art The largest piece and highlight of my room is hopefully going to be this black and white image that…
This post will only further convince you that I am really a twelve year old girl instead of a thirty year old professional. A few months ago, one of my co-workers who enjoys art as a hobby mentioned a fairly new phenomenon she was enjoying called adult coloring. No, these are not coloring books with “Mature” content (although a quick google search will let you know that these exist as well), but instead artists who are creating incredibly detailed line…
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…
No joke, if I lived alone each room in my house would probably look like this: But seeing as I try to stay happily married, we go for a different kind of decor. My husband and I have been living together for six years and I have slowly been drawn more to his style of decorating. He likes clean lines, and modern/contemporary stuff. We don’t the housing budget for true modern furniture (plus… dogs ruin everything), but I’d say we’re…
In my Happy Things in my home post, I showed a picture of my favorite piece of artwork ever – the scratch board lion. A lot of you left nice comments about my lion and mentioned how I should do art again. I probably should do more art, but I very much have a love/hate relationship with art these days. Growing up, art was my passion long before I became interested in creative writing. For whatever reason, I was slightly…