Done For Now

This wee guy is done for the moment. I have no Dull Cote to seal her as yet, I need to order some more. But that aside, I'm happy to be able to say I've finished something.

She's a portrait piece of our miniature mare, ironically called Millie.

The real (mini) Millie, Supreme at Rai Valley A&P earlier this year.

Now, to prepping I think until I get more Dull Cote at least.

A Variation

What I received in the mail today is somewhat of a first for me, a
variation! An addition to my G3 Pony conga none the less, since I
already had one in the dun colour, I was just going to repaint on of
them, but their colours are so different I think I might just have to
leave them both OF!
The
one on the left is the one I got today, her colour is so much softer
and even and less poo like than the other! I'm leaning towards creating
a 'side road' stable just for the ponies and calling it 'Gunnalatta',
Gunnalatta came from my aunty and uncles house, beside their front door
they had a wooden nameplate with the word on it, upon asking mum what
it meant, she said 'well, basically, going to finish it later, gunna
finish it latta', seems appropriate to me!! And it almost seems
pony-ish in my mind. BUT, first I'm having second thoughts on my
changing from Blue Moon Stables to Kismet Lodge....I really am terrible
like that, I can't stick with a decision once it has been made!!
But something I was really proud of over the weekend, we went down to
Christchurch with pony in tow to compete at the NZMHA Nationals show
held thursday to sunday last week. Friday, I managed to win National
Grand Champion Cat. B Obstacle - Youth!!!!! That is indeed a National
title under my belt! And no, I wasn't the only one!! I worked out there
was about 8 kids between the two sections (Junior Youth (under 13) and
Senior Youth (under 18).
I
managed to win myself a trophy for it as well! Can you see it in front
of me there?
There is plenty more pictures from the week to come, but I might save
them for a rainy day, kidding! I will share them over the next few
posts, will just take me awhile to sort through them all.

This is Millie...

She
is a Welsh (Riding Pony?) mare born in 1988. around 12.3hh high, she
was measure at 128.5 cm.
She was my best friend for around 5 years until we made the decision to
sell her (to somewhere closer to a vet incase she needed it) April,
must be, 2 years ago now I'd say.
I really would love a model to remember her by, I already have a SM
one, but I would love a bigger one to do performance with. I just can't
seem to find the right one!!!
Breyer Newsworthy seems to fit best so far, but then, being a jumping
mold he seems kind of limited in what I could do. So I thought of
Breyer's Flash, but the body type doesn't really fit overly well, he
could be made to work I guess.
I have had the PS Pony suggested, but that mold doesn't entirely take
my fancy to start with, so I'd rather not go there to make it a
portrait of a horse I loved.
Is there anything else out there that would fit? I don't really care
whether it is a resin, a breyer, or a stone, I just need some ideas to
help me out a bit!!
She loved jumping, she would jump anything and everything, I jumped her
up to a metre and that's where she felt best, I never really tried
anything over that, but smaller heights she just felt really awkward up
to about 85. I'm not sure if all horses are like that or if it was just
her, but I liked to think of it as she was truly a jumping pony! She
hated showing, would do about 2 classes then take herself back to the
float.
We always rode her in a dutch gag because her mouth was so hard, but I
never had to use it, I was always riding her on a loose rein.

At age 21.

second from the left.

Our last ride.

So any help would be greatly appreciated!!!

The horses in Murchison

I did type out a whole heap last night, and saved it ready to post
today, but it seems to have stuffed it all up so out it goes!! Was just
a whole heap of garbage you wouldn't have wanted to take the time to
read anyway!! But here, finally, is the promised pics of the horses in
Murchison, Splash, the Harness pony, Woody, the new colt, Pony, the
$100 pony, and Dusky, Twilight's foal! Can't write much more, have to
go to bed *groan* ahh well, don't have to go into town tomorrow, and I
have another post lined up for then too!

Pony and Woody

Dusky

Splash

I'm not the only one that sees Roundapony in this pic am I??!!

Western themed weekend

Mum decided she needed a new horse, a colt this time though. She
managed to get him and another wee filly we haven't picked up yet for
$550 which is pretty good for nice horses, and they were local too.
The colt is a wee bay blanket appy called 'Woody' or 'Woodham Ryes a Splash of Colour'. (Sorry for the cruddy pic, it is wather hard taking a decent pic of him when they are both trying to come up and sniff you!!)


He is pretty fine and leggy and actually looks like a yearling. Most of
the other horses round here that other people have do not look like
yearlings, they look quite a bit more mature and more like 2 or 3 year
olds, not the scrawny little things that are all legs that they should
look like. The only downside to Woody is he hasn't had much handling,
so he is quite jumpy...and likes to nibble...so I have a feeling a few
whacks will be coming his way!!
The lady we bought Woody off had a wee halter for sale that mum saw on
Trademe the night before. It should fit Magic so mum bought it, for me
I guess since it is meant for Magic. Since Magic is not here at the
moment, and Pony is the closest to Magics colour here, she is the
chosen model!!
It's
a funny fit round the nose though, it is out to the last hole and is
still tight on Pony, though she is a large B (being about 36-37" at the
wither) so she has a bigger head that wee Magic. Can't wait to try it
on Magic when she comes home!!

The $100 Pony

Meet our newest mini, called Penny Pony by her previous owner, unnamed
as yet with us!! Any suggestions?? I spent about an hour brushing her
today to get most of that yucky winter fluff out, which, I must say,
makes her look way better than she did yesterday (when these pics were
taken). Unfortunately someone hogged off her mane and it is starting to
grow back, making her neck look funny. But she is a real sweetie, she
reminds me of Magic, turning her head to 'nibble' when I was brushing
her, seeing what the lunge rope tasted like, not sure it's a good thing
we have another Magic!!!
She is a rescue pony of sorts, from Arapawa Island out in the sounds,
the lady we got her off found her advertised in the paper to give away,
long story short, she saved her from potentially being dog food and
then rehomed her (to us!!). She isn't in the best of condition, but
being down the road in knee high grass should do her some good!!
I
actually can't be bothered writing much more! I'm in one of those 'do I
have to?' kind of moods, started all day really when I was told by
Ruff's (have I posted about him? I don't think I have, tomorrow's
post!!!) owner that she'd ring me back this afternoon and come pick me
up to go for a ride, that was 10 o'clock this morning, it is now 8 pm
and I have not heard zilch from her. Oh well, I guess I can't complain
too much, I do get to ride, what I need to do to get up the courage to
go and ask the neighbour if I can borrow part of the hill paddock just
behind my house so that I can get Pandora and break her in. Then I can
ride whenever I want!! Yayyy!