A Small Collection (literally.)

Gosh, it's been literally months since I've blogged. Sorry!!

Anyway, I think one of the most unappreciated scales is Micro Mini. I don't own many but recently added a new one to my collection... so I thought ya'll might want to see them. :)

First is one I think I got at Breyerfest a few years ago. He's a blind bag Mini Whinny who is kind of semi glossy, and I thought that was a cool variation. He might not be actually OF, but I still like him!

At my first MITS I got this guy in the raffle. He has quite a few flaws but they are hard to see without a nice camera lens or magnifying glass! 

I was able to get another blind bag mini whinny and pulled this guy, who I found pretty boring. For fun I  made him a small embroidery floss harness. It actually has a few NAN cards, but it's the only one in the class normally! :P

It's pretty crudely glued on, but I think it turned out nice.

My favorite and newest addition is RRS Shotgun Wedding, a Maggie Bennet Windswept painted by Alaina D.

He's really, really nice. I think I would go blind painting this!

I hope you all enjoyed reading and seeing all the photos of my micros! :) I might do a SM custom collection next, stay tuned for more posts!

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

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

Summertime

As usual, summertime is keeping me very busy! So much going on.. so little time..


So here's some insight as to what I've been up to :)


First things first, one of my mustang mares had a mule baby! This little girl has stolen my heart.

Another exciting thing, I finally purchased some Apoxie and tried my hand at sculpting! So far I've just done minor stuff, manes, tongues etc.

I've also been getting back into photography since I joined Instagram, there are a lot of amazing photographers on there, very inspiring!

Pool party, redneck style!

Also working on finishing some tack commissions..

Halters for WildPitchStudios on instagram, check her out!!

Western saddle for KingstonStudios on instagram

After my last show I've decided to take a break from performance until next year, I just need to reboot and get some new ideas.
But I have been having fun playing 'dress up' once in a while..



I had a bit of a slump in my painting, but I'm glad to say I'm back at it and going strong! I have a lot of up coming sales pieces.. ;)

I've also been rushing like crazy to raise some money for my trip to breyerfest, it'll be my first year going! Downside is I didn't really plan ahead, and I need to make $600 before I leave, yes, it's crazy!

Hope you guys enjoyed this post, you'll be hearing from me again very soon!

~Maddy

Show Shopping

MITS 2016 was quite possibly my favorite show ever, I was able to hang out with old friends and make some fabulous new ones! One of my favorite things about live shows is the unique opportunity to buy new models in person instead of the 'order them and cross your fingers' method. 

Meet 'Counting On A Miracle' or at least that's his name until I find a better one... I bought Mir on Saturday. He is the 1996 "Mindspring" Morgan Stallion resin by Laura Behning and a run of 10 resins were cast. He is painted by Laura Behning. 

This is 'Jumping Jackie Flash' a SM drastic custom on the Jumper mold. I am not entirely sure who painted her but I love the dapple style and she managed to place in her first show with me!

At the end of the show on Sunday I snatched up this -vintage- Lazy H Custom Tack bridle which goes perfectly with my black jumper set!

Maddy gave me this AMAZING saddle stand, it is so perfectly in scale including the tiny nail heads! I can't wait to finish my mini tack room and add this!

MITS also marked the end of my excited wait to see the portrait of Hawk painted by Home Stretch Studios. Hawk is a portrait of a therapy horse I work with who retired last year. He is gorgeous in person and in photos and managed to NAN his first time in the ring! 

I also received a SM custom of Lacey, who is also a therapy horse I work with. Both Lacey and Hawk were payment for a tack set.

I also traded some scale caution cones for some amazing Home Stretch Studios rope goods and an polka dot halter for a rope one. 

This vintage CM CWP was a gift from my friend Grace, go check her out @enchantedbreyers!

This Drastic CM drafter was painted by Morgan McCoy and is absolutely gorgeous! He was owned by Maddy for a few years and shown but never brought in any ribbons... until I got my putters on him. He was for sale and I inquired but Mad decided to gift him to me... well guess what...

Yeah. He NANed. 

Good boy Freddy.

This is Royal Renegade, I have yet to show him but he is beautiful in person and has a rich bay color. He is a CM Hagen Renaker on the Arabian mold.

Hang in there guys we're almost done! This is Royal Magnolia a CM SM on the Morgan Mare mold. She is painted to a sooty buckskin and has BEAUTIFUL shading! She didn't make it into the ring at MITS because I purchased her with a small damage but she is now good as new and ready to show! 

I hope everyone enjoyed the haul! 

-Becky