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Back to Live Showing!

  This weekend I attended my first live show since the shutdown in March 2020. Melissa Hart hosted a Michigan Show Series show in Hastings, MI. This was the fifth Halloween Show. Showers and guests wore masks so it was tricky to blow dust off the models. The Holiday Inn Express was very annoying and canceled my reservation due to an IT problem on their end. (They "updated" my credit card expiration date, address and phone number to old ones. Therefore the credit card declined and they called me on an old landline in Idaho. When I didn't answer, they sold my room to someone else.) I ended up staying in Grand Rapids, where the hotel kindly held a room for me without a credit card. But never fear! I made it back to Hastings in time for the ponies to get unpacked. The judges had six rings going at one time, so the showers were busy. Some were new, others had come back to the hobby after many years, and everyone else was out of practice. Draft and pony breeds were a delight: A

Customizing Every Stablemate Mold

G1 Maureen Love's Swaps Custom to a Rose Gray   One of my personal goals is to customize one of every Breyer Stablemate mold. And lucky for me Breyer is helping me with this goal by making so many amazing mini molds! Unfortunately, I am always behind the times because I am still working on creating some of the G1 models like the Swaps Custom above. Here's a little gallery of the models so far (my resent creations have bold captions):   STOCK BREEDS Mini Fighting Stallion (M1) by Chris Hess, 2020 to a Sorrel Sabino Mustang Dungaree / Loping Quarter Horse (G4) by Jane Lunger, 2013 to a standing QH mare Rivet (G4) by Jane Lunger, 2013 to an Appaloosa American Quarter Horse (G4) aka Para Dressage by Jane Lunger, 2010 customized to a walking mule Mustang (G3) by Jane Lunger, 2006, simple custom to a dappled splash paint on a base Standing Stock Horse (G3) by Ja