Mrs Moo.

Unfortunately between the house move i haven't found much time to make and break things which is why i have abandoned my blog for so long. *hugs*
Luckily, one of the first boxes i opened was full of all painting and tack making supplies!
So Yesterday was a nice sunny day and i decided i would do some prepping. Although not of the equine kind.

That is Mrs moo, i was never really good with naming pets, can you tell? Although i'm glad i didn't think of something like Daisy first because i think that's even worse.
I bought this gal directly from Carol Herden herself a quite a few months back, so when she came to me she was a yucky yellow rough cast, and well she was a pain to prep. Iv'e never sanded something so much in my entire life. But we got there eventually.

She's currently in the painting process, she's going to be black with a sort of skunk tail pattern down her back, but i have noticed when you're painting in pastels they have a different idea and they like to turn everything a sort of.. shade of black.

Funny story about the little black moustache on her nose, when i was painting the dust unto the underside of her legs i was leaning her face on my surface so that she was a little more stable, and well that happened.

I think it's absolutely adorable so it's going to stay.

Cross Country Jump

I recently had a live show come up in Canberra. So i decided to see what skills i had in prop making.
I started with some good old trusty Balsa Wood, i know it's not the sturdiest thing to use when it comes to making props but i managed to pick myself up a huge box of off cuts awhile back and figured that i may as well use what i had.
Now i did forget to take pictures of the first half of making it, even though i had all intentions of doing so i got too caught up in the process and remembered that i wanted to blog about and by then it was all constructed, painted and i was starting on the details. (Bummer)
I wanted to go for a sort of flower box jump, but kind of not really. I browsed the internet for some
This is what i came up with, i gave it a more of a swampy look with the dark brown wet looking paint and the fake grass that reminded me of tall reeds. I had to stick each piece of that grass in one by one and let me tell you i wont be doing anything like this ever again, it nearly flew across the room a couple of times after i wanted to pull all of my own hair out.

And this was my end result, after about 5-6 hours of sticking small pieces of fake grass and flowers onto the jump i finally finished.

Thankfully my hard work paid off in the end, pulling Grand Champion Overall English. 

I couldn't of been happier with it :) 

First Post!

Welcome to Sweet December Studios!

I'm hoping to keep this updated with all the new things i'm making.
Once i get the funds i'm going to give tack making a try, but for now i'm just making props and painting the occasional horse.

I hope to update here regularly, so keep your eye on this space. :)