Happy Holidays!

Well Christmas is over, so I must wish you all a late, but very Merry Christmas, and of course, a Happy New Year for everyone!! I hope it was a great tick over to 2009 - and look out, it will be 2010 before you know it! I'm actually, honestly scared.



In the studio front - finished a simple custom on Breyer's Flash model, he was listed for sale, but I'm taking down the advert today as he's currently being express shipped to NSW for a show on Saturday, and then will journey to a friend in QLD for a show there on the 25th/26th - so two shows, 5 events each (the custom Nokota is with him as well that I done early in 2008); so we'll see how they both go.

I've got a few projects in the studio at the moment;

*Simple Huck Reposition into a Hackney Horse
*Drastic PS Arabian rescuplt - being in the works for a few months now, but he's getting there slowly
*PS TB Comission - rescuplt & paint; currently working on the reposition side of things
*Ideal repaint Comission
*Boss 302 paint comission (nearly completed)
*PAM paint comission
*Las Vegas Live Donation (doing some serious work on him today during the New year break, expect photo's soon)
*Bailador resin - rescuplting his mane & tail for more detail presently

For anyone interested - Live in the West will be 25th April 2009 in Mundaring, WA. I can proxy again this year for anyone who can't make it physically, but we'd love to have you come along if you can book your flights early enough - the sooner the cheaper, you know how it is with flights.

Until next time - Happy New Year!!

Oh... my New Year's Resolution? Since we got the shed mostly built the poor old horse crate in there (shed makes the monstrous thing look small which is shocking), my resolution is to get back into Showjumping, full swing, leg pain/knee pain or no pain - we're doing it, 2009 is my come-back year!

~Sam

First Live Show *phew*

Well "Live in the West 2008" was a huge success, and a huge congrates, pat on the back and job well done must go to show holder Mel Boynes - no doubt she is already being re-flooded with suggestions, help, ideas and everyone not just beginning for LITW 2009, but two Perth Live Shows next year! I know I'm all for it, we've all being bitten hard by the showing bug and now we're show hungry!

There were SO many beautiful horse's there, and not just home grown painted horses, but also some international names in the artist line up, including Deborah Brown from the UK and Kathy McKenzie, Tia Lurie, Sue Kern, Jessica McCune, Dani Schacht, Valerie Martinez and a few others whose names escape me, all from the US.

We had four people showing with all their horses, and six proxy people who sent entries to each of us (I personally proxied for Shannon Farn, and I can say, there are two definate horse's in her herd that she sent that I would take home with me in a heart beat - including that Palomino Daffyd, remember seeing him on MH$P? Oh yeah, he's just as stunning in person than in those photos).

The crew that I painted done the following:

TASHUNKE WITKO - CM "Nokota" Model (Owned by Rondel Sorenson)
1st. Unmounted Western
3rd. Naughtiest Horse
2nd. CM/AR Other Breeds
7th. CM/AR Dilutes

IMA GOLD SEEKA - Painted "Bullionare" Resin (Owned by Shannon Farn)
4th. Quietest Horse/Pony
4th. CM/AR Stock Breeds
6th. CM/AR Dilutes

CREME DELA CREME - CM "BHR Percheron" Resin (owned by Alexandra SoLurdo)
2nd. Quietest Horse/Pony
3rd. Other Performance
1st. CM/AR Dilutes
2nd. CM/AR Draft Breeds

RENATA - Painted "Danzante" Resin (Owned by moi)
1st. Naughtiest Horse/Pony (4)
Champion Novelty
Grand Champion Novelty/Performance
1st. CM/AR Stock Breeds (6)
1st. CM/AR Pinto (11)
Reserve Champion Color
Supreme Exhibit

And here is a picture of my pride and joy (Renata that is);



As you can imagine, I am happy with everyone, but pleasantly surprised and just over the moon at how Renata performed for me. Especially considering she was a last minute finish and entrant in the show. She's currently en route to Florida to show at "South Florida Live" and possibly another event in March/April if I decide to keep her over there for that long, so I'll inform you to how she fairs against the rest of the US.

If you want to see the photo's I personally took, they are at: http://s190.photobucket.com/albums/z285/dreammerchantdesigns/LiveintheWest2008/

Obviously most of them are mine and Shannon's horses (wanted to make sure she had a photo of each of horse's on the table with their ribbons), with the expection of the Performance Class "Hunter/Jumpers" and some of the Champion classes.

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So what's next in the studio? Well, comissions to be finished before the end of year, naturally... and a few projects of my own and some sales projects.

But I'll be nice and tell you two of them:

~ "Ruffian" in a simple custom, turning into a tobiano/overo (haven't decided the pattern yet) buckskin and;
~ "Alborozo" in a simple custom, turning into a buckskin andalusian/lusitano with a few subtle markings