So today my mom and I left for Kentucky today. we went way of,
before getting to Kentucky!
Now to go get ready for a college visit tomorrow!
We made it!
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Little quirks and important things to Know About Performance
So here’s a little funny tips blurb I came up with. Just finished packing for Breyerfest since we’re leaving tomorrow, so hopefully everyone has a safe trip, and hope to see you there!
1) Western pleasure horse bridles do not have nose bands, so chop off those nose bands from Breyer Western Bridles
2) Arabian horses in arena costume do not trot
3) Sticky wax is a great gift as long as you don’t make your horse look like it has rabies
4) Zippo Pine Bar is jogging, not walking
5) Dolls with the hard plastic boots will look like beginners due to their limited amount of mobility to push those heels dowwwn.
6) Beware of packing your models in any type of packing material that sticks to them. It makes said model look like a weird bumpy mummy.
7) Always make sure you have extra tags at a show so if your model decides it wants to be rogue, you can rope it back in.
8) Bring extra wrapping material just in case you come home with extras.
9) People have a habit of bringing awesomely cool models to shows, so make sure you can bring a camera so you can drool over pictures later.
10) Research, research, and research even more….
My First Donation Piece
As you know, I’m a big fan of the Misty Stories and Chincoteague ponies on general, so it really isn’t a huge shocker that my first donation piece would evolve around the island of Chincoteague and their ponies.
My donation isn’t being sent to a model horse show. Instead it’s being sent to the Feather Fund who has a model horse auction every year during Pony Penning Week to fund their cause. Every year the Feather Fund holds an essay contest that gifts a Chincoteague Pony from the auction to a girl or boy. In order for them to be able to fund this they hold an auction that sells off model horses that are painted to look like the real herd members.
So my model is painted to look like Black Tie Affair AKA ‘Ace’.
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| Here’s the real pony |
The story of The Feather Fund is amazing and inspirational.It started in 1995, not yet known as the Feather Fund, when two girls wanted to buy their own Chincoteague Pony at the auction but did not have enough money to. A woman named Carollynn Suplee came up to them and wanted to buy them a pony. She told the family that she wanted to give back after surviving a cancer surgery and felt that God was leading her to do so. The two girls got their pony and named him Sea Feather. Every year after that Carollynn Suplee would buy a pony for a kid or buy a buy back foal until her death in 2003 after her cancer returned. She touched enough people for the Feather Fund to be started and continued in her honor.
If you’d like to learn more (and read the entire history on the Feather Fund) here’s the website.
Things to see at Breyerfest
There are mmmany cool things to see during Breyerfest.
1) See the Parade of Breeds.
It’s very informative and what’s not to love about seeing a bunch of cool horse breeds?
2) Visit the different museums.
3) See the famous horses at the Hall of Champions
4) Watch the demos and see the real horses.
5) Go to the madness at the Clarion and buy,buy, and buy!
(Don’t have a picture of this but imagine a hotel full of model horse people everywhere. Then you’ll get the picture.)
6) Try to visit the shows.
The youth one has the best youth showers.
The Open has awesome stuff.
Kristian Beverly 