Big wins!

I love hearing how my horses are performing for their new owners. I've had two customers write to me recently to report some very impressive show wins. I'd like to share them in their own words here:

Hi Cara,
Here's a couple of photos...but I am not the best at composing these shots...small horse and large rosettes...lol!
But hopefully these will be useful to you. He really is gorgeous and in three shows he now has 5 NAN cards, judges love him!

This show was Tucson Mountain Live on 7/11/09 and his placements were:
AR Mini Mustang 1st
AR Mini Stock Champion
AR Mini Overall Champion
Best in Show (against all sizes!)

Anyway I think he's great (can you tell?!) and I am thrilled to own him.

Hope summer is going well!
Macy



Hey Cara,
I just got home from Northwest Congress and thought I would send you a report. Jaw Breaker cleaned up! He took his class, his division AND his color class. I have two beautiful rosettes for him plus 2 NAN cards. I don't show at NAN but the Workmanship card means a lot to me. I didn't expect him to do anything in the over all since resin competition in the region is stupidly tough. He's my pride and joy and it was nice to have someone else give him props, ya know? He could never go to another show and I'd be good with that...

Pat

No rest for the wicked

I'm on vacation visiting family this week and really thought that I wouldn't be working on art at all, but alas, I lack that kind of self control. I brought a half-finished resin on the plane with me and have finished her here at my mother's house. This involved the purchase of a fair amount of art supplies since most of what I use isn't legal to take on a plane anymore. She's done now though, and has been posted to eBay so here I am with over half of my vacation left and nothing to paint. I guess I'm stuck having to relax or something...*sigh*.

Here's my traveling companion (Tumlinson's Mini Scarlett) on her eBay page:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230355733925

Pardon the bad photography, I'm without my lighting and photography set-up here, just a piece of paper and the northern sunshine, such as it is. I guess it's an improvement over the Texas sunshine which would have melted poor Scarlett in the ten minutes it took to take the photos.

The best resin name ever

Well, I've finally finished another piece for eBay. Sales pieces have been on the back burner somewhat lately while I work through the last of my overdue custom orders (I just finished four more of them! There's only a small handful left to go, so if you are still waiting, fear not, your horse will arrive soon.) but I did manage to sneak this guy in. His sculptor, Debbi LerMond, calls him Peasant Stomper which has just cracked me up since the first time I heard it. This guy is the extra-hairy miniature version. If you want to see pictures, they're on eBay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230354584742

but here is a teaser shot showing off his teeth which I'm very proud of:



In other news, about half of the New Orleans Mule medallions have now been shipped. I'm waiting for the next batch to arrive soon from Mountain View Studios so they can be gotten out to their new owners. I've decided to go ahead and have a second mold made after the first sold out so quickly so there are still mules available for purchase.