There is just so much...

... that I want to do right now.

I really, really, really want to catch up on the World Equestrian Games as I haven't been able to see much of it.

I wouldn't mind doing some pedigrees for my horses so that I can make my goal of having pedigrees for all of my horses on my hard drive by the end of the year.

I just got the last photos for my scrapbook so I'd love to keep up the work as I've been working on this album for quite some time.

To be able to continue with my Silver Brumby project I need to read the books, and I want to do that too.

And last but not least I want to turn this bunch into finished horses!

As you can see I've lots to do and really have no idea where to begin. (Un)fortunately I don't have to worry about that just quit yet. Because I am kind of stuck with these:

Although very interesting and useful, I'm not quite up to studying and writing the paper I need to have finished by Monday when there is so much more I want to do...

Leaving

The worst thing about leaving is saying goodbye. I hate goodbyes, even if I know that I will come back in a few months, I still hate it. I leave on Saturday and tonight I'll go to my boyfriend to spend a few days with him before leaving. That meant that yesterday was the last day I had with my dear animals.

So I took a long walk and played and cuddled with Liten.

Svante didn't want to play so we settled for cuddling.

Nike got some love and candy too, before he kindly volounteered for some photos of colours and markings for future references for his portrait piece.

I was to go and get Poppes in the pasture but before I got so far I was stopped by this curious beauty. She wanted some attention too.

My dear Poppes didn't care to much for my presence when I was to go get him. He got love and some care, like cutting his mane, tail and a thorough groom.

He looked a little more interested later on.

Like I said I hate goodbyes and this year it's even worse then last year. But hopefully I'll learn a lot of interesting things and have time to do some model horse related things during this time.

Impulse

I'm sorry for the one month hiatus. I thought that work couldn't get more demanding then it already was. Obviously I was wrong, and besides work I've had some other things happening in my life (good things, thankfully) that has occupied the little spare time I have had for the last month. But hopefully everything will calm down when school starts again 1 September.

Anyway, during this time there is actually a new arrival in my collection. He was very much an impulse buy as I was looking for an unpainted copy of the resin. But while I was browsing the MH$P I found this little chap. The thing is that he was cheaper than the unpainted copies and I fell for his sweet face and his paintjob.

So I sent an email to the seller asking if he was still available, he was and the rest is history. He is a Tivoli resin by Mindy Berg and painted by Amanda Dionne.

I have yet to decide in a name for him, not to talk about what breed to show him as, but to me he looks like a sweet, younger pony gelding.

His face is just the cutest!

His coloring really is way better than my pictures show but I could only snap some quick ones since the battery in my camera was very low.

Pictures

I haven't had time to write a "proper" blogpost as I've been working, working and working some more for quite some time now. I will be working on some "real" blogposts this weekend (as it's my one and only free weekend for the entire summer)  but for today you'll have to settle for a few of my favourite pictures from this years Falsterbo Horse Show.

First, some dressage horses:

I really loved the colour on this chestnut, he wasn't competing on the day I was there but I would've loved to see him in the dressage ring.

This was another impressive horse who wasn't competing on the day I was there.

This little fella was competing at the day. This day it was the 6-year olds who competed.

There was also a show of some beautiful P.R.E.s

Look at that neck!

The P.R.E's were shown both doing dressage, jumping (I didn't get any good pictures of that unfortunately) and driving.

Of course we were watching the Falsterbo Hunting as usual so here are some pictures of the jumping course:

This 19-year old horse entered the Falsterbo Hunting for the 10th year.

He's still going strong, doing a very nice round.

Another beautiful chestnut!

And last but not least I came across a really cool chestnut in the row for the vet inspection:

Unfortunately we weren't allowed to enter the stable area so I couldn't get really good photos of him but I really liked his markings! :)

All in all it was an incredible day with great weather, a little shopping (nothing model-horsey unfortunately) and some exciting competitions. I can't wait to go next year!

Feeding the addiction...

... Yes, I actually start to see it as an addiction, my third resin by Brigitte Eberl (or actually fourth, but the other one isn't home yet) arrived at 12 June.

It is the Eberl Elsa, who was originally sculpted as a P.R.E.

However I have plans for her to be a Swedish Warmblood mare of the older type.

I want to get her mane off and resculpted to be on the right side, and I want it to be sculpted like a short, pulled mane.

She will then, some day, be painted as a portrait of Wera, a chestnut (probably sabino) schoolhorse at my gymnasium. Unfortunately Wera had to be put down in 2012, from what I've heard, it was because of a severly injured leg.

Wera was quite a special mare and I was very fond of her so it seems only fitting to have her in my model herd.

As for pedigree assignment I think I'll have her as a daughter of Wera, named Whisper.

Here's a simple, quick picture I coloured in Gimp to give you an idea of what she will look like. She will have a white belly spot on her offside.

She will be more of a reddish chestnut than the yellowish chestnut she is in this picture but as I said, it's just a quick pic :)

Small additions to my collections

I happened to bring home some smaller models to add to my collection at the liveshow I attended in May.

The first one was a Mystery Foal Surprise set that I won in the lottery. I mostly chose it because I liked the colour of the paint mare and because I have a thing for model horse suprises :)

I will show pictures of the foal below so if you don't want to see what the mystery foal looks like I advise you to stop reading right now.

If you are still reading here is the first picture of the set, before I opened it.

It contained the G3 Stockhorse mare in a bay roan overo and the G3 Paso in buckskin.

Yay, it's a baby boy! It looks like he inherited the buckskin colour from his father and the overo pattern from his mother.

They make a nice little family even in my crappy picture.

The colour of the stallion is very nice, he is not in perfect condition because he has some small specks of paint that doesn't quite match the rest of his body colour on the shoulders. But I like him. He kind of remind me of the traditional Causin' A Commotion.

The paint of the mare was almost perfect, a really, really nice roan overo. The only imperfections was a few black marks in her shoulder area of the white overo mark (can be seen in my picture below). I think they're from the stallion's mane scratching her in the packaging (although no evidence of it is found on the stallion). Fortunately I'm confident they will go away with a careful bath and scrubbing.

I'm normally not a fan of this mold but in this colour, she's hard to resist.

When it comes to the foal, I think he is really cute and will look great alongside Adonis D (my palomino tobiano on the same mold).

When it comes to the paint job it is good except for a slight miss in the masking on his overo marking on his offside neck. It's not something that bothers me as I haven't planned to liveshow him and as for photoshowing I can't see any problems.

Another horse that followed me home was this G2 Warmblood. He has a really nice colour and he does stand perfect (I just put him laying down on the table as it made it easier to take a picture in the strange light).

This totally adorable little donkey foal is from CollectA and even though she has a nice enough colour I have some loose plans on repainting her.

She's just adorable, isn't she?

The last one to be presented among my new additions is this scrambling little foal. Her colour is probably the best blue roan paint job I've ever seen on an OF stablemate.

And she has the cutest little face and that blaze is like the icing on the cake.

I actually haven't named any of them so any name and breed suggestions is greatly appreciated :)