My life

Back To School-ish

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!

Going Gold

Kristian Beverly6 Comments

Today I received my Gold Award for Girl Scouts.

It was held at a Sheraton Hotel. The local recipients had to make a display that talked about and explained her Gold Award. The Gold Award is the highest achievement within the Girl Scouts of the USA. I ran a Tween (middle aged) book club during the summer for my project. For each book we met two times a week, during the summer, before moving on to the next one. During each meeting we talked about the book and did a craft afterwards.

I got numerous things for it, starting with this special pin and mug.

I also got letters of recognition from numerous places, so here are a few.

A letter that was awesome to get came from DC.

I had alot of fun at the event, and enjoyed every moment of it.
The 2015 Gold Award Recipients 

(Madison of Gyrfalcon Studios and Erin of And Now, For Something Completely Different)

 There was a point when the Gold Award seemed unlikely. Losing troop members and a leader caused a scramble that my mom was able to fix with the help of the girl scout council. My troop was #873, and I’m the last member of it.

The group, the perfect mixture of family and friends, minus two. (My mom is on the far right)

 I’m happy I saw it through though.  I was a girl scout from age five until now. Fourteen years.
 There are adult memberships, but I have no idea what I will do about it. I’ll figure that out later.

The Sister and me
Such projects and awards are never done solo. I wouldn’t have ever been a girl scout, nor would have finished it out without my Mom. The project never would have been the success it was without my adviser, Michelle

Model Horse Day

Kristian Beverly12 Comments

Madison Pollihan of Gryfalcon Studios and I had a model horse day yesterday. We both donate to The Feather Fund, so that’s what we worked on. This is the first time that I can say my donations may be in early.
I brought along my airbrush,

and a primed foal.
The Feather Fund model horse auction is held every year during Pony Penning. Portraits of the local ponies are sold to fund the organization. Every year an essay contest is run, and the winning child wins a Chincoteague Pony foal. To read more about how The Feather Fund Started, here’s the link-here.
I airbrushed, while Madison used oils.

Here’s Giant Soul Surfer with tiny Soul Surfer.

Giant Soul Surfer is by Madison. The tiny one was painted by me.
Here’s Suede, who was also a 2014 buyback. 
Madison’s cat, Frisky, watched our painting. It was a ton of fun!