All The Pretty Ponies

Whoa, I haven't posted in over a month?! Whoops...
February is always a crazy busy month for me, and as we're drawing near the end of it I wanted to share some photos from a live show I went to yesterday!

Costume made and owned by Jill Aman

"Hermosa" painted by Sue Kern, owned by Taylor Joplin

"Foxy Freddy" owned by Jenny Arsuaga

Normally this is a show Emma comes to but she couldn't make it this year because she had to say goodbye to her pup, he's off to be a guide dog!

Taylor Joplin traveled down from North Carolina for the show, I must say I enjoyed admiring her gorgeous roxy customs!

Owned by Taylor

There were some really nice OF models, both breyer..

Need to add this girl to my collection!

and stones.

 

There were only a few other performance showers, but they were all great entries!

Other Costume owned by Taylor Joplin

 Another gorgeous costume by Jill Aman!

One of my favorite performance entries was my western trail entry, just something about this set up I love!

 I was also quite proud of my Custom English horse, I made the tack and painted the horse, it placed well enough to win Reserve English champ!

I adore this Stone YCI chips foal, such a cool guy!

Sorry for the dark picture :(

 A GORGEOUS 'Working for Chex' resin, love this guy as a dappled grey.

Razzle-my-Tazzle painted by Mindy Berg, owned by Taylor Joplin

I'm not usually a huge draft person, but these two guys are just stunning.

"Percy" painted by Angelica Nelson, owned by Taylor Joplin

"Charley Horse" painted by Sue Kern(?), owned by Taylor Joplin











Unfortunately I didn't get many Stone photos, but I did get one of this lovely girl! Such a cute mold, I wouldn't mind having one.

And this guy, just wow! So much detail in his paint job, and such a unique custom!

 I hate that I didn't get more photos of mini customs, they're my favorite! Here's one of the few photos I did get..

This stunning guy won Overall OF breyer champion! Yet another horse I need to add to my collection.

This was a particularly nice Shelia that won OF breyer stock, not a horse I would expect to win the high title, but she was quite nice!

Next post will be just performance, or, what would y'all like to see more of?

My ponies definitely made me proud, it was a good show!!

-Maddy





Fresh start

Hard to believe its already over a week into 2017! I have been torn trying to decide what kind of blog post to write, 2016 in Review, 2016 in saddles or New Years Resolutions, but I've decided to show you guys a saddle set I just finished, and talk a little bit about last year and my hopes for this new year.

I'm honestly so proud of how this set turned out! I had made part of the saddle a few months ago and it has been sitting in a draw until last week, when I decided it was time to finally finish it.

So many things about this set were new to me, figure 8 noseband, five point breast collar, panels on the saddle, and plenty of more tiny little things.

I must say the nose band was extremely hard to figure out, but it actually came out perfectly!

Overall this past year has been the greatest of my life, but it was quite hectic jumping between real and model horses, this coming year I really want to focus on finding a balance between the two so I can create, sell things and make money, but also have plenty of time to work with my horses.

I also want to focus a lot of time in improving my tack and customs, usually I kind of rush thru projects before I get bored, and sometimes I end up leaving out details.
So I'm going to be taking my time and really trying to add details to make my work even more realistic.

Really looking forward to what this new year has to hold!!

~Maddy

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