Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas!!!

I hope you all have had/are having a great Christmas, and are enjoying the Holiday season!

This afternoon Ollie was out in the pasture with Sherman, and I decided to bring him one of my organic made-with-real-sugar-instead-of-fake-stuff candy canes. He was quite excited when he saw me walk out of the house crunching plastic in to my pocket!

We are total dorks. :)

100 percent dork. :D 

I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays to you!!

~CBL

Story Of The Horse: Mavis

Hello Everybody!!

Once again, it has been a long time since I have done a Story Of The Horse post. Today I decided to do it on Mavis, one of my newer models, who is also known as Cosette to other model hobbyists.

I got Mavis for Christmas last year (2014. To me "last year" sounds like 2013, so..just clarifying!! :D) She was on the top of my wishlist. She was a limited edition Classic in the rare Arabian Mare by Maureen Love. In fact, the last release of the mold before Cosette was in 2005. 

Limited to 2500 pieces, Breyer had decided to take an old mold and give it a new re-vamped color. Cosette most certainly has some pretty bad conformation for a model (besides Khemosabi. That mold is just.......wow. Nothing can get much worse than that in the Breyer factory) but her coloring was just so beautiful, so I decided that I wanted her. 

She was/is super photogenic, and it seems as if every angle on her is attractive. I am very pleased with her and love to photograph her!

Mavis is an Pintabian, a mix between an Arabian and a Paint. I decided to name her Mavis after the movie Hotel Transylvania because Cosette seems high strung (sort of) and full of energy, just like the Mavis in the movie. 

Look at that head!!! 

If you do not have Cosette yet, I would highly suggest her. Especially if you like to take pictures of your models!!! :D 

~CBL

All In A Year (2014 Breyer Collection)

Tucker this morning

Hello, everybody!!
I will not be blogging much (only once a week) for a while. Just a heads up to stay with me and let you know that I have not forgotten this blog!! :)

My Christmas was GREAT, and I got a lot of new model horses.  I now have a grand total of 105 models, (!) and I am starting to run out of space. :(

Here are all of the models I have aquired ownership of this year:

SnowFoxx-Birthday Breyer (September 2014)

FoxxFire-Birthday Breyer (September 2014)

Heza Cosmic Storm-August 2014 

Sheza Autumn Storm-August 2014  

Midnight Foxx-Birthday Breyer (September 2014) 

Costette (Mavis) -Christmas Breyer (December 2014)

Snickerdoodle-Birthday Breyer (September 2014) 

Kharamel-Misc. Buy (December 2014)

Kahlua-Birthday Breyer (September 2014) 

Calypso-CM by me  

Moonshine-Etchie by me 

Stetson-Christmas Breyer (December 2014)

Phoenix-January 2014 

Ranka-Misc. Buy (December 2014) 

Magnum's Firecracker-Trade  

Encore/Ballou ( January 2014)

Kripton Kismet (May 2014) 

Shining Chex (July 2014)

Topsails Copper Cowboy (May 2014)

Random Stablemates. 

Stablemate I got for Christmas (No name yet).  

Kitana (May 2014) 

Classic I got as a misc. buy in December 2014 (no name yet). 

Classic I got as a misc. buy in December 2014 (no name yet). 

Classic I got as a misc. buy in December 2014 (no name yet). 

Spots

Chestashire (May 2014)

Stablemate I got for Christmas (No name yet).  

MEPSA award (August 2014)

CM etchie by me. Now officially owned by me this year (used to be
my sisters).  

Stablemate I got for Christmas (No name yet).  

So, those are all of the models I got just this year. So many!!!

Also, Ollie and I are very, very versatile. I bought an English Saddle at the beginning of December, and with some of my Christmas money I bought the bridle, pad, stirrups, and stirrup leathers. Yay!!
Now, we can do both Western and English.

Happy New Year!!!
~CBL