Jewel Heist Live Part 2 ~ English

If you follow me on facebook you know that I had a BIG tack ooops a few weeks back that resulted in some over sized saddles . One of these I was going to use for my D'Arry Mozart resin in English performance. Alas I just haven't had the time to make him a bridle.  Maybe once the replacement saddles are done I can find a place to squeeze it in some where . 

This left me with just the one English performance horse Rory.

Rory in the over fences class .

Rory is a D'Arry Rembrandt resin paint by D'Arry . She has been my star English horse for years and has I think the count yesterday was 33 English performance NAN cards .

 Arena Trail

Rory continued her winning ways with a first in arena trail doing ground poles ...

 Natural Trail 

Another first in Natural trail ( She needs and will be getting a new trail ) 

 

English Pleasure

She was second in English Pleasure . 

 

 

 Dressage

Second in Dressage with her Dressage lesson .

 

Games

She earned another second in games doing musical stalls.

 

 Other English 

And a first in other with a little fox hunting set up . 

 This gave her all the points she needed to be English Performance Champion.

The reserve Champion Honors went to Bella's Josh .

Correct me if I am wrong but I believe Bella made all of her own tack too. 

I did show a little more in workmanship and halter but not enough for a full post . 

I was lucky enough to win a Highlander in the raffle along with a cute CM by Lauren , a Lori B. Pony Pouch, and the blu ray of Secretariat.  

This concludes my coverage of JHL 2014 . 

A big THANK YOU to Lauren Hoeffer For holding Jewel Heist this year .

 

Jewel Heist Live ~ Show Report Part 1

This year I finally got to go to Jewel Heist . I have tried to get to this show for years but the Universe seem to have objections to my attending.

I had taken about a 2 year hiatus from showing and went to the March Mini Madness show guns a blazing and just about stressed my self to death . So for JHL I decided to scale back ha ! While showing was as stress fee as it has ever been preparing for the show wasn't. Rather than spend the appropriate amount of time preparing for the show I was working on my order back log till the week before . It wasn't exactly procrastination it was an effort to clear the back log before spending time getting ready .

I had a huge list of things to do to get ready for the show Number 1 on my list was paint my Working for Chexs ( Bueno ) resin . He was going to be bay .... Rabicano .

I was successful and he did do well 3 rd in his halter class and 1st in workmanship .

The bigger problem was the #2 thing on my list I wanted to show  him in performance ... I didn't have a saddle for him . I got him finished on Thursday and we were leaving for the show on Friday .

So like and true hard core performance junkie I got up early on Friday and started his saddle . While I do not normally do 3 and 4 hour tack sessions I worked almost non stop for 6 hours and got the saddle mostly done then pack my stuff along with what was needed to finish the saddle and the bridle parts . We loaded Roy's car and headed for Phoenix .

Once there we unloaded and went to check out Bass Pro Shop . That place is AMAZING !! I found a tiny bit of tack making stuff and then we headed to the tackle box section where we found the perfect tack box for me . And of course my awesome Hubbie got it for me .  We went to a very yummy Dinner at Cracker Barrel and it was back to the hotel where I stayed up until 11 trying to finish the saddle . In the end I finished the saddle when I got up in the morning and decided if I couldn't get the bridle done I would borrow one .

The show got off to a slow start due to the performance judge not showing up . But once things got going the were going pretty well . I skipped other performance this go round since I didn't have anything prepared and opted to just show in English and Western.

During other I tacked my English horse and my Proxy English horses and put a couple of OFs in halter . Once English started I figured if I wanted to show Bueno in that new bridle I better get to it . While successfully showing in English I did Manage to get Bueno's head stall done and took out a pair of may sales reins and Viola ! new bridle .

Here are some of the day's Western performance pictures .

Cheeky Monkey Doing Cutting 

  The Judge Really Didn't care for My reined Cow horse set up.

 I think I need a Different cow.

 Kowalski doing Reining

 She did not favor Pirate doing arena trail either.

 But she really liked Eeyore .

 Finally in natural trail he managed a NAN Card .

 In games she loved pirates rescue race set up.

  Afternoon Delight was second in Western Pleasure .

 And poor pirate was 6th due to no hat for the cowboy .. You see the cowboy was a trade and he was shown with a hat in the pictures, but alas there was no hat when I recieved him . So I will have to find him a hat .

  In other western Pirate was 3rd with a Western Dressage set up .

              In the end Pirate was overall Reserve Champion not a bad show day .

Tomorrow English !

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 .