Someone New

Hehe. I know I didn't post about this on the blog because I kind of wanted to keep it a surprise. But he finally came! IT CAMEEEEE!

My Peter Stone DAH!

I had ordered him July 23 and he had just came yesterday. And I love him so much! Exceeded the expectations I had for him. I got him in a sooty palomino, with a star, a coronet band, and a striped hoof. He is my first Peter Stone, and certainly won't be my last.

Wood Background

Here is the wood background I used, again, the image is not mine I just scaled it down a bit for stablemates

Image credit goes to Nichelle Jones

If you just click it and save it then print I think it should work...

Photo Shoot Friday/Another Backdrop

School has started back up and I haven't had much time to blog, as you can probably see. I'm taking all honors/AP classes, so I have got loads of work to do, and on top of that I have Science Research and Math Research classes that I have to write 15-25 page papers for. why am i doing this to myself

I've got a few projects going, nothing too major, I'll post about them when I am finished with them. I have a feeling that they will come out pretty good.

The only new thing that I have done was build a background for my stablemates. And I legit slapped it together in 5 minutes. Again, I used Nichelle Jones's background but I scaled it down a bit in photoshop. Then, I saw my mom had gotten some more paint stirrers so I slapped the paper on the inside lid of the shoebox, and hot glued the paint stirrer to the front. Then I just added some grey paper strips from my last background, some felt for footing and voila! There you have it.
Lighting was awful, I will have actual IMEHA ones soon

Crooked *eek*

This gal's coloring is hard to beat

I'm in love with this guy

*so majestic*

Another Model!

Yesterday I was up at my aunts house and about 30 minutes away there was a Breyer flagship store. Luckily I was able to convince my family to take me. I was in heaven. About every new 2016 Breyer model, as well as Toro, Patriot, and Argyle. I really wanted a limited edition one, but the Argyles they had were quite polka-dotty, and Toro doesn't really have a bridle path, so I would have to make him custom tack. And then I saw Cortes. I loved his mold ever since Carrick came out.

I like Cortes because he can represent a lot of breeds. His face marking is tiny, but cute. His left back hoof is pretty cool because its half black, half white. Mine really doesn't have any noticeable flaws, which is good. I can't really speak for his color, because he is just flat black, but the mold is great. Here are some pictures...

Photo Shoot Friday

Hey! I made some new tack!

Haha, sike

I had made this Indian bosal/bitless bridle probably around christmastime, I just forgot to take pictures of it. I actually really like it, it actually functions like the real thing, and the color looks really good on my Zenyatta. And hey, now I have pictures for a photo shoot Friday!

The backdrop is crooked because the table I normally shoot on was wet, so I had to use my patio table, which is a lot more uneven than I thought. Sorry!

A New Backdrop

All my photos have pretty much been taken on a black table in the back corner of my small yard. While this is great for lighting, it doesn't make a interesting, realistic feel to the photo. So today I decided to do something about it.

While surfing around the internet (and getting sidetracked), I came across an old(er) blog post from Desktop Stables, one of my favorite model horse blogs. She is amazing at tack, and pretty much anything else miniature that she can make out of polymer clay (I also love her printable trail sings, although I never have had the chance to use them). She happened to have the backgrounds from her backdrop tutorial. I wasn't planning on using the tutorial, but she had a great wood backdrop printable from it. So I decided to use her backdrop as a base for mine, because I had different materials on hand. Mine has wood for the bottom, and I used a shoebox from some large boots my mom had bought for the back. The grey is just paper I had sliced, and the sand is some white kinetic sand I had on hand, but I want to get a more realistic sand color. Because it didn't even cross my mind, I only have pictures of it with horses on it. I have pictures with all of my traditionals except for Hickory because I thought he wouldn't fit on the tray. Here are the pictures!

You can see the tray's corners. Whoops!