In The Jungle…

The mighty lion sleeps tonight!

My dear cat actually is nothing like a lion. He really is a big tame whiny pussy cat. He did live up to be everything I wanted though. I wanted a large cat that was fluffy with blue eyes and who liked to talk a lot. He morphed into that.
Cato actually grew up to be quite fluffy.

I’d always thought the lion hair cut was adorable. I mean, a mini lion? What gets better than that?! Yesterday, my two cats went to the groomer. I haz a lion now. He has been strutting around the house with his poofed tail in the air. He really is the right color and does have a very lion look to him….until he meows. 
His sister was also pampered and seemed to enjoy it too.

Fear The Walking Dead Giveaway

As you know, I love zombie stuff. So me enjoying The Walking Dead is no surprise. When AMC announced a spin-off prequel show, I was excited.  And it starts tonight!

In honor of the new show, and it being my last night of summer, I’m going to hold a zombie themed giveaway!
There will be 2 winners, and the prizes will be 2 custom zombie dolls and 2 zombie pony pouches. All are invited to enter!
It goes from tonight to September 4 and all comments between that time will be counted towards the giveaway. Comments can be on new or old posts, here only (comments posted on Instagram nor facebook will be counted). Each comment equals one entry and entries are unlimited.  Please keep comments constructive, and nothing like below. Because I will ignore them.

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Good luck and if you have any questions, please ask! 🙂

Easy Off

I was commissioned to paint a custom model of CLG Surfer’s Blue Moon by a fellow owner. She was almost done and I really liked her paint job. She just needed details to be done. So I decided to do a matte seal layer. But once I sprayed, I realized that there was a weird foggy film and some of the paint began to come off.

While I really liked the eyes, I couldn’t preserve the paint so it was time to strip. Not clothes. Paint. I ran out and grabbed Easy-Off.

I sprayed the foal’s body with Easy-Off (this has a very strong smell…fyi) and put her into a plastic bag to sit.
I checked on her every 20-30 minutes. I didn’t want the easy off to eat through the plastic! After about 1 1/2-2 hours the paint was coming off and I washed the model off. The paint left is the original paint (a lot of that came off too during stripping). So it’s back to square one, but I’m glad the stripping went just as planned. 

Back To School-ish

 Today, my mom, sister, cousin, and great aunt went to Carlisle, PA for two reasons. The first being my cousin had her driver’s test and apparently Carlisle has a reputation for being one of the easier places in PA to pass the driver’s test. I took it in Harrisburg, so I can’t really compare the two. But she did pass!
The second reason was to go to a tack shop named Gallop Country. College is right around the corner. In less than a week it all begins again, and with that the Equestrian Club will be starting up again .When my mom was a state trooper, she would stop in the plaza because the Chinese restaurant next door has great food.
Anyways, I needed clothes for the club. I’ve owned my boots and helmet since going to horse camp with Madison of Gyrfalcon Studios when we were ten or eleven. Neither of those are ‘showy’ so I needed to get breeches, boots, and a helmet.

I’m excited about my show stuff, but I also enjoyed looking around at the saddles. The tack shop had various types of saddles.
There were Western and English saddles.

But the one that really caught my eye was this Australian saddle. I loved the tooling on it!
I took some detail shots of the front,
seat,

and back.

Have a great night everyone!