Even more!

This will be the last pre Breyerfest post, I have to start organizing and packing otherwise I will never fit the Potato Head in the car....(Shannon)! First tonight is a breed that I have rarely seen done, which is a shame since they are such an elegant carriage breed. This is Copernicus, a Gelderlander stallion.

 He is done with traditional european braids, and a banded tail with a shaved top. He would be cool in performance too! This is an Idocus with a Keltic head

 Love those minis! I so adored that Teke mare I did a while back, I thought she needed a mate, so Svetsky was born

 This metallic buckskin was made from the new breeds of the world TBs

 Lastly, one of my personal showstring. I had done Khemonahar Ali for myself, with a Khemosabi body and a Nahar head (the other half of the broken resins that made Naharsabi), but with the new central air we put in the house this summer, something has to give. He is a proven multi Live show performance champ with halter wins as well. He has many NAN cards for next year, and will be showing this year in several classes.

 His buckskin silver dapple color would be a dream horse of mine, and was based off a silver dapple buckskin Morgan mare I know.

 He can be purchased ahead of time and shipped, or picked up at NAN. He comes with his Khemo base and his custom trail base pictured above (16x20, has a stream jump he is galloping towards). Price is $900 if picked up at NAN, shipping will be done on quote.

 He is a great show horse! If he doesn't sell, I will not be sad! I also have some tack, dolls, and unpainted resins that will be there as well, can't wait to see you all!

More Previews!

So here is the next batch of goodies. For the new horses, I haven't got prices figured out yet, if there is a horse you would really like to know about, please email and I can give you an idea. Again, the new horses can not go into your possession until after the Breyer show next Friday and are not available until the opening of the Artisan Hall on Thursday. They can be put on hold with a deposit until after the breyer show.

First up, a Wixom drastically redone to a charging Comtois stallion. I just love this breed, mainly for its amazing bay silver dapple color it is famous for. He has a full mane, docked tail, and yes, a bit of space behind the ears and  under the forelock if you wanted to do Full Metal Jousting!

 "Descarte"....the only french science like person I could think of...

 This color is done in acrylics and oil pastels, one of my favorite colors to paint!

 I have said before how much I love the new Breyer minis-they are so much fun to work with! This is the stock horse, totally redone with a new neck, banded mane, braided forelock, show tail, resculpted face, and a MARE! This frame overo+sabino pattern took forever, but I like the contrast with the dove grulla base color.

 She should be able to hold her own against the big boys! "Ima Dunnin Paint"

 Lastly, a proven Champion from my own showstring. I had planned on this being an exact portrait of the great Zenyatta, but with NAN show rules I found out I couldn't do that. So I changed up the color and socks a bit, but this fiesty TB mare is still full of glorious dance and snort. Multi Live show champion "Zenyatta Too" will be showing at NAN, but not at Breyerfest since she was overall Reserve Champion last year. For this reason, she can be sold ahead of time and picked up at NAN or mailed right afterwards, or purchased at the Artisan's Gallery. If you want her ahead of time her price is $750ppd and would need to be paid for before I leave next Saturday.

 She has tons of halter and workmanship cards for next year's NAN. I never did show her in performance but she would be a blast in race set ups!

She even has race shoes on! I used the TWMHC thin shoes on her since they look the most like a race shoe to me.

Even more tomorrow!!!!

Breyerfest 2012 Preview

Finally! Back on line with this years Breyerfest showstring! I have been totally slacking on the blog, as is evident by the fact I had to figure out the new format, so hopefully this works. I will be posting the new pieces a few at a time this week, I have quite a bit done for this year and hopefully a little something for everyone! First up is a Lonesome Glory remade into a metallic sooty buckskin Nez Perce mare, and she is neighing for added expression. I call her "War Cry"

 This was a fun piece to do, I wanted her to be full of expression

 I think she will be fun in performance too, can you imagine her in Indian Costume?

 Next is "Cody", a cute performance minded Quarter Pony gelding in bay roan

 The ultimate youth performance pony!

 This is also a Lonesome Glory, but with a PAM head! "Marana" is designed to be a superior arabian performance horse

 Those flea bites took forever!

 And some minis, this time I remade them into something that was different, like this guy, now a dappled palomino Lusitano stallion with bullfighting braids and ribbons in traditional colors.

If you like these guys, there are more to come, and you have to come get them in the Artisan Hall starting Thursday! They can't go with you until after the Breyer show on Friday, but they will all be for sale. Email for details, and stay tuned for more tomorrow and every day this week!

Rat Poison

Ever felt like this towards your significant other??????? Finally, I got Mole Bait's wife, Rat Poison done! For those of you that know the Mole Bait story, this is pretty much how I felt towards my husband for the next month after "Mole Bait Gate". His response...."Listen, next time I will just use Rat Poison!" . We laugh now, but at the time I was NOT happy!


I wanted a mare that looked like an older mustang mare that has had her share of foals...a bit swaybacked, belly showing the wear of having babies, udder full and and sagging....you know, how I feel after 29 plus a few cough cough years! Her cracked hoof raised and ready to lay down the law. Shaggy legs not perfect but tough as nails, and will always stand up for what she wants.

I have learned that when you do a personality piece, not everyone will love it. She is not a conformational model (but then again, she is suppose to be a WILD mustang). She was made for the pure joy of making a piece of art with meaning, and I had a blast doing it. She didn't do better than 5th in her class at her first show, and that is just fine. For all the people like me out there that are not professional artists, that always wish and aspire to improve themselves because in our dreams we would love to be such a treasured talent, we still need to remember we do this because its a passion and to let that passion out. For everyone out that that is a collector, collect pieces that you enjoy, and accept the fact that they will not always win. I love this hobby, it makes my sometimes rather tedious and tiring day job tolerable, and I am grateful to be a part of it.

Her eyes are half blue and half brown, her teeth yellowed and sloped forward to show her age. "I am woman, hear me ROAR!"

And always treasure the good things in life. Lumi is doing super at his new home. It was hard to let him go, but he will pass on his incredible gifts to more babies and he is loved. I feel like a parent that had to let her baby go to college. I cried, I cried more when poor Cerberus, his gelding best buddy, didn't know what bucket to eat out of for the next few days, but I have four glorious babies here to enjoy.

This will always be a favorite picture of mine, Lumi taking care of Ira. Sue is going to get some new pictures of Lumi in his new place, and I will be sure to post them. The babies here are almost shed out, and I want to show them off too!

Touch of Pink

Everyone knows Jen and I trade all the time, but somehow in addition to the planned trades, I try to manage an extra "bribe Jen for NAN tack" model. Jen has a horrible weakness for hunter ponies, and who could resist this? Touch of Pink made her show debut yesterday, and in addition to an English performance champ, a reserve overall english champ, she got reserve pony/draft champ!


No Jen, doll does not come with. I gotta admit, she is purdy darn cute!

I did run into an issue with her hunter doll. First I need to carve her butt a bit more and resculpt her coat to flow behind her, but worse than that, I forgot her head yesterday!!!! I was determined to show everything I planned.....

So a poor unsuspecting breyer doll had to pay the price!

The eberl pony really is one of my favorites, here is Moonpie and Touch of Pink, both made from the Eberl Haflinger mold. Well, Touch of Pink had a head transplant, poor CAS, never saw it coming.

Look, even Mieka loves leopard!

Lumi's Graduation

I haven't had a chance to post much the past couple of weeks dues to a totally unforeseen yet wonderful event. Out of the blue I got an email and a phone call that someone was interested in my cremello Morgan stallion, Amberfields Luminesence. If you remember, I almost sold Lumi a couple of years ago due to a horrible family situation, but that calmed down and I was able to keep him (and to keep Todd happy, I sold pretty much everyone else). Sue Olson, of Rafter Bar D Morgans, is on the left. What so great is that she said she was surfing the net for cremello morgans, found this blog, and the next thing she was looking at was a decapitated model horse! She thought the cremello morgan part was a mistake, but found the model horses were so interesting that she kept reading, and found posts about Lumi.

I was thinking about how next year, when JJ, the part arabian cremello son on Lumi was two, what was I going to do with two stallions, but Lumi is so easy going I wasn't too worried about it. What weird is that a few weeks prior to Sue's call, I was in Wisconsin talking about the colt and how I might sell Lumi next year.....so I was convinced that Sue knew someone in the hobby. Turns out, its was simply fate. It is always hard to let such a kind horse go, regardless of color or being a stallion, Lumi is just a great horse that everyone loves to visit and pet. But now he will be standing at their farm breeding high quality, purebred colorful morgans and I am so proud of him! Check out their website at www.rafterbardmorgans.com

The only challenge, selling a cremello horse in early spring in Illinois. Thankfully we have had warm weather and I can start bathing Lumi, but honestly, he is part hog and really, really likes dirt. Yes, thats a leopard print halter....

I want Lumi to be ready to work when he leaves in a couple of weeks, and Sue rides western, so I dug out the one western saddle I have......guess what color it is????
Giggle, it could be worse, it could be pink leopard! He is such a wonderful stallion, I haven't saddle him in months, and he has only worn by little all purpose saddle, but I just threw this on his back and he was good as gold. I will get some pictures of me on him next week.
Once the babies are clean and shedded out a bit I will get new pictures of them. I will miss Lumi terribly, but he will be only 7 hours away in Northern Wisconsin and I have my little Lumi clones to be the cornerstone of my colored arab sporthorse program. Thank you forever Lumi!
Show tomorrow, will post pictures tomorrow night!

Minis Minis Minis

As promised, here are the pictures of the finished new minis. They are shipping off to their new home next week.


I will have more of these guys done in the next couple of weeks, they are so much fun to do!

I wish I had kept the Teke, I do plan to make a stallion version eventually, so this mare will be a true one of a kind from me.

Now a blog special, this price will only be posted here...the little arab still needs a home

So say you say her here and she can be purchased for $150ppd in the US