Dubbo Live

I unfortunately will not be attending Dubbo Live in June/July ( I don't know when it is). 

To be honest I'm thinking of leaving the hobby… 

I have a lot of real horse things I'm doing at the moment and they're much more important to me than plastic ponies, especially when real horse things clash with model show dates. 

I just don't have the time to show anymore, especially not when I like making all my own tack and props for performance. 

I may or may not be selling my show string i will have to see how i feel about it, i'm sitting on the fence at the moment as they're worth quite a small fortune which would help me fund things but i think i'm still just a little attached to them for the moment. 

Working at a small barn again 3-4  times a week in return for lessons has sparked this all of a sudden change of heart, I've come to realise how much more the real kind mean to me than the plastic kind, especially when i see and care for peoples horses more than they do and they own them. 

It's quite sad really, to own a horse a just go and see them once or twice a week. 

I'm in the mids of doing my HSC meaning i really don't have the time but i still manage to make time and go, put more effort in then they do, and it's their horse. 

sigh, some people don't even know what they've got, so ungrateful.  

Anyways, I will still be making very few tack, props, i will also still have a limited amount of spots for prepping sculpting and painting. They will only be sale or commission items as it's quite a nice small income every now and then. So I will still be blogging occasionally about the few bits a pieces i get to make when i have time(Probably in the holidays).

So keep watching this space :) 

Central Coast Live

So about a week ago I attended the Central Coast Live Show up in Tuggerah. 

I did well in performance, as expected because i put a lot of love and effort into my entrys. 

That's the best part about performance, making the props beforehand. 

I HATE the stress on the day, and I HATE the stress of tacking up on the day and i just HATE it all together when it comes to being at the show, but i'm in complete and utter LOVE with prop and making.

Oh and i love coming up with new and interesting ideas for performance entries that aren't usually seen in the australian performance scene. 

One thing i liked about this show was that the CM's and AR's were separated so customs didn't have to compete against resins, i think that worked out quite nicely. 

I didn't buy anything and i didn't really bother to enter the raffle because there wasn't anything i wanted or needed, it was just an average raffle and well I'd rather spend my money on prop making things. 

The next show is in June? July? In dubbo, which is a 5 hour drive and is a 2 day show meaning i would have to take time off work to go, but the performance division :O It's just filled with so many opportunities! I can't wait to see what i'll come up with!

Here are my winnings from the day. 

One Last kiss: 

1st English Jumping 

Champion English Performance

3rd Thoroughbred AR

 Two Shoes

2nd Heavy Breed AR

1st Scene 

Reserve Champion Other English

 

Silver Bullet 

3rd Pony Games

Show Me Your Burlesque 

3rd English Jumping

Hollywood

3rd Other Performance (along with HollyHill)

Hershey's Kiss

5th Other English 

Hot to Trot

2nd Pony Club Games (sit a buck)

Ebony Rose

1st Feral AR

Victory Dance

2nd Warmblood/Spothorse CM

Tinseltown

2nd Other Purebred OF 

Snap Dragon 

2nd Feral OF 

Paper Crane

1st Other Youngstock CM 

Optimus Prime 

1st Warmblood/Sporthorse CM

Russian Navy

2nd Heavy Breed CM

Shadowfax

1st Heavy breed AR

Kameo

1st Part Arabian CM

Copy Cat

4th Youngstock OF

Alpine Snow

2nd Appaloosa CM

Makers Mark

2nd Warmblood AR

Thinking Of You

3rd Thoroughbred CM 

Nanooska

3rd Pony Bred OF 

Voss

3rd Part Arabian CM

Curtain Calls On Walkabouts

5th Spanish OF 

New Years Resolution

5th Arabian OF 

Victoria's Secret 

4th Gaited OF

Cherry Ripe

4th Arabian CM

     

                                                 

Live Show Progress

Next week I'll be attending Central Coast Live and i have to admit it'll be my first show in months and i'm rather excited.
I have 11 Entries in performance this time so that'll mean being rather stressed out for the first half of the day. But it's totally worth it, i'm slowly turning into a performance freak! It's just so.. exhilarating!
Which is why I've turned to making my own tack and props to save my paying big money for something i can make myself just as good.
So today since it is cold and rainy, i ditched my plans to go and see friends to stay at home and work on these guys

They mostly all need repainting, because it was quickly done before my last show, so i could show them.  Although the white one which is actually a palomino paint (sorry for the computer picture, i couldn't be bothered to find my camera and take pictures) which just needs a few touch ups because his last paint job is like ancient years old and is a little dodgy in some places.

The poor apply lost his ear the other day so i'll be re-sculpting him a new one, along with another horse who's tail i'm fixing for a friend. (not pictured)

I've also made a few pieces of tack the other day while mucking around with some new ideas. 

I made, 

 a fleece lined girth for my Egg and Spoon set up

And a new seeing eye guide pony harness also with a fleece lined girth.
Next week (which is the last week of holidays D:) i will be very busy Preparing a LOT of props and i still have a bunch of tack to make!
Not to mention i have assignments to finish for school and have to study for exams the first week i go back.
Busy maddie is busy.  and stressed :S

I'll be sure to post pictures of how everything goes at the show next week!
Now i'm off to put on my all time favourite movie and make some ponies!

Another new project

So about 12 months ago i purchased a whole conga of OF and Cm'd Succession and Le fires.
I had a lot of complications with the purchase and in the end the seller refused to send the horses and started to ignore my emails, so i started to seek some advise.
I came across a lady who had the same problem as me so i contacted her about it and she gave me some good tips. I contacted the seller again, mentioned some of the things I'd been told to mention and well after some debate and some legal talk she decided to send me my horses. (and because she'd messed me around for 12+ months i didn't have to pay postage which was like us $150!!)

My horses arrived in two boxes two days before Christmas which was a pleasant surprise, but what was a bigger surprise was that the seller had sent me extra horses that i hadn't actually purchased, so i ended up with a few free ponies and foals, one of which is this gal,

She's my first ever haired model and well I love her! although i don't love her paint job..

I was talking to a friend i have the UK and she mentioned how she's just finished painting her Vincenzo into a beautiful cremello. I had a lightbulb moment! I did some research and it turns out the cremello is permitted in Arabians. So i'm going to paint her something like this

Prepping and priming her is proving to be a royal pain in the ass because i don't know what medium was used to paint her so i don't know what to use to take it off and the fact that she's haired and i don't want to have to re-hair her.

Hope you all had a merry christmas, wish me luck!

Painting Ponies

I hate the fact that i don't get to post on here as much as i'd like, but between the fact that we're still unpacking and i'm a procrastinator i don't find much time to be creative, especially because i haven't found the right place to set up so i have been having to set everything up and then take it down once i'm finished at the end of the day which makes me put it off more..

But i have managed to almost finish a new project...  

She's a little blue roan highland pony. My first ever roan, she was painted in pastels and her details were painted in acrylics. 

 For my first ever roan, i don't think she's too bad. although her corn spots are a little out of scale.

I still have, the roaning to do swell as her hooves and some other touch-ups but i guess that will come with time but until then she has a cute spot on top of my xbox just staring at me waiting to finish her.

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.