My First Post

Yay! My first post on this blog. I thought I'd present a little bit more information about me, my hobby and the purpose of this blog.

First of all. Hi, my name is Tina, I'm soon to be twenty years old and I live in Sweden. I've always been very fond of horses (cats and dogs too, but mostly horses) and I've been riding since I was about five or six years old and my mother and I have a sweet little fjord gelding named Unik, who we've owned for 14 years by now. Nowadays it's mostly my mother who rides him since I'm now taking care of a Swedish warmblood gelding named Poppes. We've also recently added a new member to our family, a cute little crossbred dog named Slash. But enough about me and onto what this blog will be about.

I started collecting model horses around 2004 and it began with the Schleich fjord gelding. In 2005 I found, and joined, the Swedish Modelhorse Society, which opened a lot of new doors in the hobby. Today my collection consists of over 200 model horses ranging from Schleich, to Breyers, resin casts and Peter Stones, with Breyers being the majority. I'm mostly into original finish plastics or custom paintd resins. Still I've made a few attempts at repainting, with various results. I've also recently started into propmaking and very lightly in tackmaking but I will definately keep trying.

And now to the purpose of this blog. I really enjoy reading other people's blogs and felt inspired and wanted to share my own pictures of my collection, the stories behind those holy grails, showcase my newest acquisitions, show my progress in customs, tackmaking and propmaking, but perhaps the most important, I want to inspire others as I've been inspired.

And to end this ramble I want to apologize for any grammar and spelling mistakes, English is not my first language but I want to write the entries of this blog in English in order to maintain and expand my English knowledge and vocabulary, and of course to make it understandable to a bigger crowd :)

That's all for my first blog post. Thank you for reading and feel free to comment if there is anything you would like to know or read about.