Breyer Web Special Luna

So last week I entered in the contest to win Luna, a decorator Ruffian. Emails went out to winners and I wasn't one of them. But today I got an email from Breyer saying I'd won her off the waitlist!!! I'm super excited, I love, love, love the Ruffian mold. I have three of them already, all race horses so a decorator is going to be a good change.

I also got a Click-N-Ship email from Stone Horses. I am hoping Brinkman and Fall Fiesta are in there together but I somehow doubt it. In a few days I'll know!

Bridle finished

The bridle is almost done. I just need to tweak a few things and this beauty will be complete!

I also have an updated pic on the saddle that it goes with. I'm currently working on dying some more leather to make rigging. Stay tuned for more!

Bridle Started

I didn't do a whole lot last night with my new creation but I did get most of the bridle done. It still needs some work but it is looking promising. I will be adding metal plates on the cheek pieces and also on the ear piece. A curb chain will also be added later along with reins. I am leaning toward using braided floss because that looks so nice.

New basket weave

Since I got my new basket weave stamp tool I have been wanting to see what I could do with it. My last post was just a preview. Well here is what I am currently working on (when I find time between my HABS report and reading for classes). I am creating the most elegant western pleasure set I've ever attempted. I want this to dazzle in the show ring. It is really a shame that I couldn't participate in the performance side of the show in two week with what I am creating. I could always take it along and see if they would still let me. Anywho...here are progress pics!

Right after I got done stamping

The next photos are how the set looks currently. This has two days of work put into it. I stamped, carved, and dyed the leather. I then added the decorative metal plates to the edges. It is already impressing me with how far I have come!

Poor Gemstone.....He will once again be the model of choice

And just in case anyone was curious, here is a picture of my collection. This doesn't include a box of Grand Champions I have sitting under my desk or the customs I have in various stages. Nutcracker Prince and Keltic Salierno are the boxes between the white shelving. This also doesn't include any Peter Stones I am waiting on. Enjoy!

Almost all of my Peter Stones

My weanling conga! Cute, right?

Preview

Tudor Rose

The very last of my show horses made it today all the way from Sandy in Colorado. She has the cutest face and fits her name perfectly!

look at that chin!

I also got some leather stamps in the mail from Tandy. They include a star and a basket weave. It turns out I don't have to go all the way to Grand Rapids to visit a Tandy store, they have one not too far from Ypsilanti which is great!

I have found time to work on some tack as well. I don't have completed pictures of the halter up yet but here are some work in progress pictures.

Root, root, root for the home team

 This week's Stone OOAKs were all named after baseball players and nearly all of them were Detroit Tigers!! I'm not a baseball fan by any means but I am getting swept up in the excitement of the Tigers going to the World Series. And with hockey still in a lockout (and I don't even want to explain all that crap) I gotta feel love for Detroit somewhere. Here's a look at who they had:

Alburquerque

The Real Alburquerque

Avila

Alex Avila

Joaquin

Benoit

Joaquin Benoit

Coke

The Real Coke

Crosby (who was amazing!)

Crosby

Octavio

Dotel 

Octavio Dotel

Downs

Downs

This is Fielder and Congrats to Sharon who got him!

Prince Fielder

Hoffman

Hoffman

Holaday

Holaday

Laird 

Laird

Martel

Martel

Porcello (I love that mane!)

Porcello

Rayburn

Check out that hair!!!

Rayburn

Sherzer

Sherzer (He has two different colored eyes!)

Smyly (Sharon also got him)

Smyly

Verlander

Justin Verlander (who is super sexy)

Villarreal

Villarreal

I was totally blown away at how many of the OOAKs were Tigers, I know they are in the World Series but it is nice to see names you hear about all the time up on the Stone site. So Kudos to you guys for doing your homework!