Rainy Weekend

So... It's been an absolute BLECH weekend -- rain all day today, most of last night, most of yesterday.  But i did finish one book, finish the sanding on my G3 WEG WB that i'm remaking, fill even more pinholes that i keep finding on Alicia's Ayiana Solome (we're up to about 3,000,000 now), &  sand a little more on alicia's PAM that's giving me fits.

TODAY I got to go see Cosmo!!  Yes, i went in the awful weather to go brush a wet, muddy, shedding 4 year old warmblood that I don't even own.  Yes, I am that insane.  But he was great, stood nice and quietly in the crossties, stretched out his neck and relaxed.  I probably got 8 pounds of hair off of him!  The only argument we had was over his feet.  He doesnt' like to have his feet done.  This isnt' really a huge deal though, I'll get him used to it.  =oD  He really is a dollface.  =oD  I hope to have some pix posted soon, when the weather gets better and i can give him a bath and get him really clean and he starts getting fitter.  I'm really really excited about him; he's SO quiet!  I've never been around a baby so quiet.  And he likes me!  He was very happy to see me, and that makes me smile.  Susie, his mom, said i can come out whenever I want and ride anyone on the property, etc.  So I think this is really a good good thing i have here, and I will do my best not to hurt it. 

So...all in all a fairly good weekend, even with the rain. MIGHT get some painting in tonight, but i'm not going to count on it.

More later!

Plans for the Weekend

This weekend's plans include: 

• Finishing the prepwork on the CM WEG Warmblood that I started this week
• Finishing prepwork on Ayana Solome (T. Pack Arab Resin) for Alicia
• Starting pastel undercoat on my Schelich Tinker stallion (he's going to be palomino tobiano)
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• Going and grooming the baby warmbloods that I work with
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• Reading some books for pleasure (for a change)
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• Taking some notes on Half Pass for a project that will start probably after NAN
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• Getting some images of Logan in his complete setup with measurements for Alicia.

Inaugural Post

Hi!

So lots of you probably already know that I'm a model horse hobbyist in a huge way.  I mostly collect OF Breyers, but i have a few (VERY few) stones and several CMs and ARs. 

I'm an open shower in NAMHSA Region 5, showing in OF Halter, OF Performance, CM/AR Halter, and CM/AR performance.  I also am beginning to judge breed, which i think is great fun.

I'm involved in PA and a member of IPBARA.  I mostly work with sport horses, with a specialty in Hanoverian breeding, but i have a decent mix of other breeds thrown in for variety.

And I'm a beginning customizer.  I prep for other people (if you need prepping services, please inquire), and I've finished 5 customs of my own.  I currently have 4 in the works, one that will definitely be done for my next show, Red River Live in October, one that will be a gift for my mother when he's finished, and the other two just for myself.  I do a lot of experimenting with pastel, and I'm going to be working more in Oils as well, as i won Carol Williams' book from the raffle at Lone Star Live! 

I've also got quite a bit of "real" horse experience... I've been riding english since I was 5, Hunter/Jumpers from 5-13, and exclusively dressage (with a little jumping and cross country for fun) since then.  I've trained through Prix St. George and am currently working with 2 young Swedish horses, one by Vermouth and the other by Briar.  It's literally been about 12 years since I was on a baby, but the younger one, the Vermouth baby, is SOOOO sane.  The Briar baby has quite the engine, but she's not stupid, you just have to ride her tactfully.  I hope to have some pictures of them this weekend that I'll stick up here.

In the next few days, I'm going to post some pictures of CMs in progress, as well as the first resin i did completely from raw unprepped to finished LSQ.  It's a Fraley Chickory that I pastelled to a dark silver bay.  =o)

Alright, enough  for now!  More soon!