New Toys

Okay, well not exactly what most would consider a toy, but it is for me.

Yep, I made a stablemate western saddle set, and got a new custom stablemate!
Meet, "Bad Girls Aint No Good", a custom reining horse to a dappled grey mare, with new mane, tail and head.

She was customized and painted by the ever talented Shana Bobbit, I am always thrilled with the details Shana puts in her work!

And for the saddle, I wasn't even planning on making anything for myself for a while, but one evening I just sat down and it all started to flow, I must say it's my favorite mini saddle I've ever made!
I also recently customized and painted this paint mare, she was intended as a sale piece but I fell in love, whoops.

 I tried a lot of new things with this set, a tiny string cinch, made an actual saddle tree, painted details on the breast collar/headstall, and a different style on the seat jockeys and seat.
Also wanted to make it easier to take on and off, so I made the breast collar adjustable, but the D rings slid out with the breast collar, so all you have to do is sticky wax them down instead of adjusting teeny buckles every time you put it on a new horse.
The bridle goes on in the same fashion, it is split behind the ears and sticky waxes down.

Better view of the breast collar, it was a challenge but I love it!

I'm pleased to say that after taking a break I'm really getting back into mini tack making, and I have a lot of new ideas!




Now, back to the work bench to make another tiny creation...


-Maddy

Down, but not out.

Breyerfest. 

Yeah you all know what I'm talking about. The holy grail all collectors hope to touch at least once in their lifetime. -well this wasn't that year.

Not that my summer was in any way boring, I wasn't exactly missing waiting in the sweltering lines of Breyerfest as I snorkeled the reefs off the coast of Florida.

But I am not one to let things pass easily.

Especially when my two best friends were there. I simply decided to just artificially include myself in the festivities.

That's not actually my hand.

Georgia state line? Yeah I was there.

A long and tiring trip it was. (for them)

Finally there!

Saw some Museum of the Horse exhibits...

And even had a little photoshoot!

I hope I can make it next year, but until then photoshop will have to do! ;) 

-Becky

P.S. I took a little break from tack making recently but now I am back in action! Here is a sneak peek of one of the saddle on my workbench currently. 

I've since added brown piping to the jockeys...

Thanks for reading!

On The Workbench + I am Also Alive

Emma here! Sorry for the lack of posts from me here. I don't want to repost content from my blog here to keep things fresh as well as the other way around. Keep it fresh, ya know? :)

I have a lot of projects on my workbench right now and thought it might be interesting to share.

First off, my workbench/studio is a craft armoire in my room. It is nice because it pretty much contains my mess. The whiteboard and corkboard are also useful for writing things down or posting reference pictures.

Complete with demon doggo!

I have a couple of customs I'm working on mainly. I always find myself starting models and never finishing them, so I'm gonna try and get these guys done before starting anything more.

First is this striking donkey SM resculpt. He needs new ears and his muscles done, then paint!

I have these two appaloosas almost finished as well.  The one on the left is a resculpt I did. She is now a he and he now has a long mane.

The bay has been sitting around for a long time so I'm gonna try and finish her very soon. I also have a pewter mini almost done. Lowkey procrastinating doing his details. They are so, so small.

I'm slowly going about this appaloosa flash. Probably gonna strip him, though. He just seems... off.

If you follow my facebook page or my blog, you'll have seen these feed bags and supplements! I also made a jar of treats. I made all of the labels in Photoshop myself (which I had way too much fun doing.). I made Maddy a custom one, too!

And that's it! We are all really going to try and post here more, so stay tuned :) 

Haunted Horses: Performance

This past weekend Emma and I went to Haunted Horses model horse show, in Orlando FL! I didn't take a bunch of photos, but it was a great show!

In the performance division, first up was Costume, unfortunately I only got a photo of my entry, costume contest gone wrong!

Next was other performance, here is Emma's awesome Hunting entry..

And my Indian relay race set up. So glad I did this one, it was a last minute idea but it paid off!

This is Gary Lanes(?) other western entry, so much gorgeous detail!

Next was English Pleasure, my resin got 2nd..

 Emma had a very cool Pleasure entry, it was awesome to see how she creative she was to show Bozeman in almost every class!

Over fences, lower level jumper placed second..

Next class was dressage, unfortunately during judging both of my bits popped out which dropped me to third, but I must say Emmas dressage entry was really awesome!

Last English class was other English, my egg and spoon race placed first!

Emmas Bozeman again, getting second with her awesome cross country set up.

There were other entries in the English I promise! I just failed to photograph them.
My resin Painted Rein ended up winning Reserve Champ in the English Division.

Next was western of course, I was super psyched to get to show my new Purdy horse for the first time!
First class was Western Pleasure, I was able to borrow a pleasure saddle from a dear friend, and my resin placed 2nd with it.

 This is the entry I 'lost' to, no shame in that! Everything about this is stunning!

Next class was Western Trail, this was by far my favorite class due to me finally being able to use a new prop that I have been working on off and on for a while now, completely thrilled with how it turned out. Good enough for second!

I didn't get photos of any other Trail entries, so next up was games, my first entry with Cowboy Polo placed 2nd..

And my barrel racing set up placed 3rd.

That darned bell boot!

Last class, Other Western with another one of my favorite set ups, Mounted Shooting!

All those second places were good enough for "Purdy Much Broke to win Western Performance Reserve Champ! I only had him for about a week prior to the show, so I can't wait to come up with even bigger and better ideas for the next show.

Thanks for reading, next up, Halter classes!
-Maddy

I'm ALIVE

Hey guys, it's Maddy!
 I can't believe how long it's been since the last time I posted.. wow! I really haven't been doing much of anything hobby related lately, I've been in a slump. I tried writing a few posts but it was no fun and I couldn't figure out anything interesting to post. I've been really busy with the real horses, rodeo and photography, but I recently got a breyer I've been waiting on for a while and it's kinda helped me out of the slump!

Meet, Fontana! She's been a grail of mine for years and you rarely ever see her up for sale, but a few months ago my friend posted on instagram that he was selling some of his collection, and low and behold there was Fontana! He allowed me to work a partial trade so I was able to get her.

I'm obsessed with how well she photographs. 😍 Of course she'll be a performance horse, so as soon as I got her I had to tack her up!


First thing I did was put a roper type saddle and rider on her, she looks smashing in red and black.

Geez, cowboy, don't text and ride!

Next I put her in some gaming tack, green and black are my favorite colors, but it just didn't really pop on her.

So after that, I changed some of the tack and tried hot pink, bam! She looks killer

While I had her tacked up, I played around with some photography and editing, really like how some of them turned out..

After playing around with Fontana it got me motivated to finish some customs, really proud of how they turned out!
First one finished was this paint mare with a resculpted mane..

I don't usually like doing paints because of all the layers of white, but I took my time with this this girl and really love her!

Next custom was a blue roan mare, with hair by hair roan details all over her body! It's been a while since I did a hair by hair roan and I forgot how long they take! But, really happy with the outcome.

I also have a commission that is close to being finished, hopefully I can finish it in the next few days, and maybe do a blog post on it?

Last thing is this little cross country saddle that's been sitting on my work table for a few months, I think as soon as I finish the racing commission I need to get it done, and maybe paint a horse to go with it!

Any color suggestions for the horse?


Thanks for reading guys, I think I'm getting out of the slump I've been in, so you'll be hearing from me more often now!
-Maddy