Making progress

It's my second western saddle, first attempt with tooling and dye. At the moment I'm tweaking the pattern a bit. I didn't like the way the cantle looked on my first saddle so I'm changing it. If I can keep up this pace it should be done within a week, maybe two :)


I really should be writing a paper right now...

Show photos

Here's a selection of the photos I took at the live show in Amstelveen last weekend.

Awesome tacky tack by Erin Corbett!

Winning western entry, also by Erin Corbett.

Really cool German harness entry

Performance Reserve Champ. Tack by Jennifer Buxton, jump by Melanie Miller, the model is a Vertical Limit resin painted by ?

Arabian costumes by Sanne Heldens

Arabian costumes and diorama by Querine van der Weijde

"Breyer collector" by Marcelino

Lovely Finnegan, he's got such a nice, soft color. Painted by Sommer Prosser

My favorite horse of this show! Knightly Cadence painted by Carol Williams

Sencillo painted by ?

A beautiful Caprice

Totilas CM by Querine van der Weijde

Gorgeous CM ISH

CM Norwegian Fjords by Querine van der Weijde. Mine is the third one from the left

Western saddles by Erin Corbett! I could have looked at them all day

Just.. WOW!

Halter is finished!

Woohoo!! My first finished Arabian halter! I finished it close to midnight the day before the show so I had to take my final pictures at the show before giving it to my friend. He really likes it, yay! This certainly won't be my last Arabian halter; I had great fun making it, playing with threads and fimo clay :) I have three more weeks to go before my summer vacation starts and I really can't wait. There are so many things I want to work on. First my mahogany western saddle, then my racing set and another Arabian halter and and and... No time to get bored this summer, haha!

Here are two pictures I took at the show:


The cowries before I glued them onto the halter:

Show preparations

Dusting, tacking up, packing, checking and double-checking. And then there's still the yellow Arabian halter I have to finish before tomorrow. Currently I'm making cowries.


When I've finished those I need to make six tassels and put it all together :)