A very bad pun, since I’m pretty sure the song had nothing to do with ice.
After reading Jennifer Buxton’s post about making ice props, I decided that I wanted ice too. Plus it looked nothing like a harder project, like a jump or scene. So after some research and a quick trip to the store, I made myself a bucket of ice.
I love back to school time. It’s not because of the actual school part. Instead, it’s the sales. I load up on model horse items during the season. Not because I actually have a plan for it, but because it’s cheap. You can get tons of pencils and pens for dirt cheap. I lose my pens like clock work, so it’s nice for me to load up on them.
Anyhow, I guess there will be more than one tip in this post.
The real post is how to organize those nan cards. For some projects I think the DIY part saves you. For this one, I don’t think it does. It’s easier to just buy it. But to organize Nan cards, plastic index card holders are the best. Nan cards are about the same size as an index card so it fits in the container. You can buy them for about 4$ off of Amazon (link). I bought mine for a dollar at my local office store( back to school perks!). So shop around.
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Now the one I bought has little dividers where I wrote performance, collectibility, and halter. I sorted my cards that way. If you have a ton of NAN cards, then you may need a index card holder for each separate division. If you have a horse that has plenty of NAN cards that warrant a separation, then get it its own separate card holder.
So that’s the tip for today, hopefully it helps. :)
I love pretty much any baby animal that’s cute. Especially puppies since they are so squirmy, klutzy, and just overly excited about everything.
My mom’s friend got a new French Bulldog puppy, named Roux and brought her over to my house yesterday. My sister and I took plenty of pictures, while playing with the adorable puppy.
She met new types of animals. Rue the cat (pronounced the same way as Roux) was not thrilled one bit about the tiny puppy.
Look how small she is compared to Bullet the Bunny!
Bullet the Bunny enjoyed the puppy though. He smelled her and allowed her to lick and love on him. Normally he is the bully, but he let Roux do her puppy antics around him.
And after tons of playing, rest.
Young animals are a ton of fun! :)
I decided that one of my long weekend projects would be to paint a resin, since I have like 2 weeks until my next show. There’s also a side saddle too. :)
I prepped her.
Then I painted her base color with acrylics. I splurged and bought higher quality paint, and it definitely shows. I kept doing layers until it was even.
After that I began using pastels and began to shade. I went from light to dark. It took a couple of layers to get it even and between coats I used krylon matte spray. Also I wore gloves so that my skin didn’t touch the unsealed pastels.
Once I was happy with the pastels, I sprayed the model with the krylon crystal clear. Once dry, then I added the white markings and painted her eyes.
Here she is!
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