Coming Soon!

They are starting to pink...anyone what to guess what color the studio is going to be?

Several people have asked for more pictures of Zips Painted Chic, here are some I took in the studio. She has a banded mane, braided forelock, and show sheened mane and tail for that show ring look. Again she is multi NAN qualified in halter, workmanship, and performance!

Whoops, didn't mean to do this one again, but wanted to offer a special price of $900ppd for blog readers! This price won't be posted anywhere else, so you have to mention the blog to get it!

And coming up, a step by step doing a new head and neck on a Arabian...and a hair job to boot!

Shes so FLUFFY! SALES!!

SHES SO FLUFFY!!!!!

Nature is amazing to me. You would think that the cold is hard on little ones, but these two don't feel the cold, they really are half teddy bear!

Will the house remodel being way more than I thought with all the little improvements we have made, I am forced to sell off some of my personal show string. I have to get caught up on orders, so its really not fair to make anything new to sell this month, so here goes...I took some of these pictures in the new studio and had to use the flash, so the horses are more shaded and not shiny in person, sorry! Its so darn cold here I don't see me getting outside to take any other ones for a while!

First a sales piece for a friend, Nefertiri is a mulit NAN winner in halter and workmanship, qualified for 2011-2012. Her owner never showed her in performance, but I am sure she would be awesome! $700ppd

Wap Diva, already a live show champ in halter and workmanship, I haven't had the chance to show her in performance. She is a memphis belle resin with a whole new head, remade by me and painted my D'arry, sale price $800 ppd

Ouch this hurts...the amazing Zips Painted Chic...she has been all over my blog and is NAN qualified in halter, workmanship, and performance for 2011-2012. Lady Phase will a whole new head remade by me and painted by D'arry $1100ppd

And Darrit, he has won all over, including a championship at Breyerfest in performance. NAN qualified in halter, performance, and workmanship for 2011-2012. These two really need to go to NAN this year! Have more pictures of them if you like, these guys are proven winners in the biggest competition! Darrit is $1100ppd

Once I get caught up I will have some new sales pieces, but I hope some of you out there going to NAN this year will take these guys out there and kick some butt

Back On Line!!!

Sorry I have been gone so long! With the house redo we had to disconnect our satallite cables for a while, so I haven't been able to upload pictures or work at all in the house! But I finally have a little work space back and we have extensions running out to the living room now..so finally back to making some Purdy cool stuff!
Look my dream came true, a PINK HOUSE!!


Just kidding! If you ever choose to remodel an old house, be prepared for all kinds of surprises. False walls and ceilings, bizarre or non existant insulation, no square corners...but Kevin Wolf and Sons, the contractor we are working with, are doing an amazing job despite the crappy weather. The porch won't go on for a while yet, but you can see the shape of the new addition. The master bedroom is the room to the left.

This is my little bit of space I reclaimed. I have been sculpting in the basement and painting upstairs since the basement is too cold and dusty since we redid the floor due to flooding a year ago. But this dining room was the only entry way into the addition once the walls went up. We had to empty it for them to bring materials in to turn the corner into the new addition. They have everything in place now and the drywall is being finished, so I finally got my table back up last week. All my new bathroom fixtures and lights are still in here, but its better than nothing. Now its time to catch up!

Here is what the studio look like from the outside. That window is five feet tall and I have an amazing view of my horses in the pasture, my dream is almost here!

The studio isn't lit up yet, but its 200 sq feet, complete with a spot special to take pictures in!

This was the old laudry room and the entry into the studio. I decided to move the laundry downstairs so I wouldn't have to squeeze past it to go through the door. Once we took the washer dryer out, we found that it was a false wall behind them! So we opened it up and I know have a 50 sq foot prep room that will have its own work skin and storage!

I am finishing up some orders the next few weeks, then stay tuned for some amazing pieces that I will show this spring and can be purchased and taken to NAN 2011!

Tomorrow new baby pictures, the girls are getting weaned, should be fun.......hope the fences hold

Working Away Sky is Gray

So much for the beautiful fall weather here. Today it is damp and gray. Yesterday I was gone all day at my first Scholastic Bowl meet of the season (I am the Fresh/Soph coach) and I thought it would be a short day since all my kids are neubies except one and out of 32 teams we were the 2nd smallest school. BUT my kids did awesome and we brought home a trophy, and sent a lot of big suburban schools home!
You can see that Pixel, A,( and B think its horribly cold. Pixel loves to lay in front on the heat vent and has taught her two little minions the trick. What a life eh?

This is step one of the house redo. We are adding on a total of 600 square feet, my studio will be 200 of that! The whole house will be resided as well. The studio will be off the end where my husband did a great job of letting the guys know where the barn power came off the house.

This is what the front looks like now after we cut all the trees away. There will be a full wrap around porch going on, and a new decorative window in that big empty space...I am so thrilled that its actually happening!

I am trying to work, after all there is a lot of flooring that has to be done in addition to the furniture. I am planning on painting the china Esprit, (which is way better than the OF plastic), that same fawn buckskin as the big remake but with flashy white markings. The little scarlet is a portrait model that I am way behind on, go figure! I didn't get a whole lot done with the models since the big TN show.

And I want to finish this neat arab filly remake I started. If anyone is interested they can pick a custom solid color for $350 postage paid.

I plan to go to the CCR show this weekend, but just found out that the hauler that was suppose to be here two weeks ago may be coming that day! Horse haulers are worse than doctors as far as time goes I think.

Busy Days

No I havn't been slacking, just busy with the real horses and the house. I actually sold 3 of my real horses in the past three weeks. I am so happy with my new foals that I made the decision to get rid of anything that didn't fit into my morab plans. So my champagne half friesian, my true roan NSH, and the palomino morab gelding are all going to new homes. Its hard to let them go, but that way I only have a couple to worry about over the winter while we are busy with the house. Its a beautiful sunny day here, hard to believe winter is coming. They have all been so happy growing up together, next week when they all start leaving I am sure I will be shedding a tear or two.


Now on a lighter note....is this wrong? Better than letting old eggs go to waste I suppose.....;)

Stamping Type!

I know I know more baby pictures, but look at this! The first is a purebred palomino morgan filly my stallion sired before he left for my place from his breeder.


And this is Deedee, two totally different mares that are different breeds!!! Apparently he is going to be quite the producer. I took down all his ads, I just can't let him go he is too sweet. I did sell all my young ones just so Lumi can stay a few more years till his girls are old enough to breed. I am so looking forward to riding him!

Baby pictures!!!!

The babies are just so damn cute! I have been busy getting stuff done with the house and my real horse herd reduction, but wanted to share some new ones. My husband thinks Deedee looks like she has a deer crossed with a bunny rabbit tail!

All I can say is She's so FLUFFY!!!!!!!!!!

Lumi loves the babies. He is in with both mares and foals and watches over them like a good daddy. Yesterday they were both passed out in the sun and he was standing next to them while the deat beat moms were across the pasture. If only he would stay clean just for a few minutes, the horse just loves dirt!

Ceecee will be much more araby looking than Deedee, but I just love them both to pieces and such faces on them! Hopefully I can catch some pictures of them playing together before the typical nasty Illinois winter comes, grrrrrrrr.