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Kristian Beverly6 Comments

 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!

She has a name!

Kristian Beverly4 Comments

After hundreds of names were given as ideas of the buyback filly, the list was  narrowed down to a few. I picked CLG Surfer’s Blue Moon from the short list, and am glad to say that’s her official name. Everyone that donated gets a certificate too, and since she has a name I’ll have to get my certificate printed. :)
I can’t wait to see what she sheds out to be, but I do love her blue eyes.

Photo by Jennifer Ward

Also, this saddle set is for sale. It was made to fit the Peter Stone Tennessee Walking Horse. Comes with the bridle, saddle, and girth. 130$+shipping or better offer. Email me or use the contact button on the side! Thanks :)

Score!

Kristian Beverly6 Comments

I love going to yard sales because of the unknown and bargains.  You never know what you’ll find.   This summer hasn’t been the best one in terms of cool finds, but today I finally scored. Finding Breyers at yard sales is a rarity, and it’s even more rare for them to be adequately priced (“It’s a Breyer, so even though there may be cracks, rubs, and weird colors from my lack of care, I should still get big money because it is a Breyer”). Today on our way home, we stopped at a random one and came upon a table of Breyers. They’re bodies, and I bought all of them except for the Family of buckskins and the grey classic cantering horse. My sister never comes to yard sales with my mom and I, but today she did. She realized her strong love for late 1990s-early 2000s music and now has a collection of them. My mom found some type of gardening thing that apparently is cool. I’m not into gardening, so I’ll take her word for it!

Earlier this summer I found The Walking Dead fabric at my local craft store and had plans of making pony pouches. Tonight I finally did.
Sewing is still a craft that I’m learning, so instead of having one layer to the pony pouches there’s two. I’m happy with being able to do more than one pattern for the bag. The patterned fabric is on the outside with the fleece on the inside. The second one turned out better than the first and I can’t wait to make a third. Today was a nice score in more than one way!