Recently completed

This is just some of what I have completed since my last post these are by no means in any sort of order

SM Parade set ~ Order 

 SM Barrel set ~ Trade

 SM WP Saddle ~ Sold

Trad Pony Bridle ~ Trade 

 Trad Split reins ~ Available

 Trad Romals ~ Sold

 SM WP Set ~ Trade

 SM HSP Set ~ Trade

Mi Vida Loca !

My life has been absolutely crazy lately . First we moved to Portales NM at the very tail end of July . I love it here the house is awesome!

New studio space !

Separate area for displaying my collection .

I have managed to cram in some tack time but not nearly enough . I finished D'Arry's pony set . Pardon the ill fitting in the pictures the set is made to fit a CM Breyer Gretel pony with out all of the foofy mane and forelock . Tivoli is modeling it the best he can .

D'Arry makes a lot of her own dolls out of resin. This particular saddle was made adjustable so it can be used with her small child doll.

 Or with her bigger youth doll . As always Robyn made the saddle pad.

Tristen started school last week and I thought oh great time to start catching up ! Last week the only catching up I seemed to be able to do was with my truck. I swear I spent more time diving here or there than anything.

Next on My list is some SM tack I have one order well under way and many more orders of all shapes and sizes . I have closed my books for the time being and plan to re open them once I am caught up . I will do my best to do another post once this round of SM stuff is done . 

For now here are some great photos taken By Karen Meekma of her Calamity at Mewos N Minis last year . Tack and doll by Trails End Studio Saddle pad By Little Bit Western.

What a Month !

May was not so nice to us long story shortened Roy ( My hubby ) ended up in the hospital for a week with an infection in his arm . He is fine and out of the hospital but things got crazy here for a bit and it was really hard to concentrate on studio stuff .

But before he got sick I had completed 2 western sets they both belong to really good friends of ours . The traditional set shown on Breyers Smart Chic Olena is for one of Roy's best friends Wade. And the classic set shown on the roan stock horse is for one of my best friends Robyn. 

In other news we are moving back to Portales New Mexico at the end of this month, if everything goes to plan. We already have a house lined up and Roy is there working . I have a few sets I would like to complete before the move but I think I will be lucky to get 1 more done and maybe 1 smaller order. 

This week I worked my butt off and just this morning completed my first ever 

Portuguese set.

  This set belongs to Tiffany Purdy .

I had to make the bit from a sheet of brass. It wasn't easy but I think it turned out pretty good and the finished product was worth the effort . It will be a while before I tackle another one of these sets. 

I have also decided to go ahead and take 1 order for each of the following months August, September, October, And November. Please see my policies page here for more info on orders. At this time I will only take orders for Western , Parade any size Traditional to Stablemate and English  in stablemate and pebbles only I have not yet worked out patterns for the larger sizes .

Happy Mail !

Every year I donate to Plastic Ponies On Parade . And Shelley is kind enoigh to give her donors raffle tickets this year I won the mystery box . It was full of all kinds of goodies , Books, Rio Rondo Hardware, Micro people dogs book marks , A really nice Arab halter, a simple but nice western bridle and a lil bit western saddle pad ... I love my Robyn saddle pads :) plus more . I absolutely love the idea and think more show holders should do these it was like Christmas . Thank you Shelley !

So that is what came from the Mail man .. UPS just left here about an hr or so ago and he brought me a box from Jeni that had my latest OF performance horse in it a BF Sprinkles.

Her name is Purple Haze and here she is wearing the saddle pad and bridle that came with the mystery box .

Sorry for the dark pic but its getting late here and I do not have a designated photo space. I think I may change the romals out for some braided splits but I think its a real nice working bridle . I would love to give credit to the tack maker. Let me know if you made it!

The best tack catalog yet !

Google Harris Leather for this amazing catalog !

 They are also silversmiths so it is a fancy western pleasure type items but oh my ! What wonderful tack they have !

Show Report & Recently completed

I have been working away in the studio this past week and I have quite a bit of progress to show for it . But that will come later . First I want to show off some recent wins from yesterdays GLC No frills mini show . My good friend Jeni attended and had some fun in performance while she didn't send me a ton of pics I do have a small show report :)

First up is Chex My Diamonds her D'Arry Latigo resin that I recently refitted her pebbles western set to . Chex was champ western and overall reserve .

I made Chex's tack Robyn did the saddle pad and I also made the arena she is using .

From left to right Kiss Bang Bang , Good Golly Miss Molly , Ima Barbie Girl and Chex .

Kissy is a stone pebbles saddlebred that I customized for Jeni years ago I also made her tack Kissy got 1st in park .

Molly is a D'Arry Calamity resin done up as a mule . Molly was champ other performance, and Molly was overall champ. One of Molly's "other" set ups is showmanship using a halter I made and another of her set ups is a Parade set I made for Jeni years ago . Molly was also champ in English and if memory serves me right her English set was made By the uber talented Jen Buxton .

Next we have Barbie she is a Rose working girl painted by Schick she was using a western set I made for Jeni last year and I believe her English set is one by Anna Kirby another awesome tack maker . Barbie was reserve champion in English.

Jeni did say that there were not a lot of people showing performance that day but its still a very nice haul . Congrats Jeni !


Now for what I have been up to . Over a week ago I got the pebbles double bridle done and mailed to its new owners . Here is a lousy studio pic of it .

 Over the past week and a half I have been working on a saddle I started for my self over a year ago . I have also been working on many other things including my pile of prep work a handful of customs and 2 other western sets .

 This is Organic Nomenclature ( Gnomie ) and his new tack.  Jeni got Gnomi for me years ago in trade for me acquiring the body and creating Boonie . Gnomie is a Demuth Vaquero painted By Ed Gonzales .

 This saddle is based off of this picture of a Dale Chavez Berry Dot Reiner I LOVE this saddle and have done many variations of it in the past . As always a Robyn Jalbert saddle pad.

 Gnomi was a very successful show horse for me back around 2005 and for a few years after until I got hard core in to minis and retired him . Well guess who's coming out of retirement :) . I am not quitting on my minis but I want to start showing some big guys again and have acquired a Brio Sombra who will be sent to Sommer for paint , a Cantrell/ Lermond Phoenix and a Flint . Phoenix and Flint are being customized and painted by me eventually . I have my work cut out for me for a while yet but when I do open my books again I will be offering traditional western tack.

Keep an eye out here for the next 2 sets a traditional and a classic working western sets. Both are well under way and they could not be more different !

Turning in progress in to completed

That is the theme for this week I have no less than 5 western saddles in progress, 1 Aussie set 1 English set, a double bridle, a show halter, a working bridle ,4 horses being prepped, and 4 paint jobs . I hope to get a few of these items in the completed column by next weekend I would love to have 2 or 3 of them over their today but will settle for 1 and progress on another :) 

On the upside I did complete 2 pebbles western bridles for Karen this week I am really pleased with them . The pictures show them more orange than they are but my camera and I are at odds at the moment .

A western pleasure

 And a working

I am also doing a bit of spring cleaning and clearing out some older stuff and some new . if your in the market for a new custom or some tack check out my ads on MH$P.
I have dropped the prices on the items I had already listed and added 2 stablemate huntseat sets ( 1 is on hold) they are 100.00 . The set pictured is still available .

One of the sets was used @ NAN 2012 and did top ten . Of course they are so similar that I cannot tell from pictures which is which and they both fit Spivey so trying them on is no help .

Enjoy your Sunday !