Tiny Treats

 So at this point in my life I have two 3d printers... but I don't have a color printer. Our printer is black and white, so that we wouldn't have to waste money on color ink... because we'd never need to use that right? 

WRONG! All the cool printables that are now available: just download, print, and assemble... But we have no room for another printer.

Luckily I found a cute shop on etsy (https://www.etsy.com/shop/EvergreenTackStudios) that has traditional scale treat bags! They are super cute and just the right size. They even come with some biscuits! 

Pumpkin Pie seams to like them! 

(I really liked the suggestion of pumpkin, and I love pumpkin pie so I think it fits. It's not even the first food name pony I've had, my sister and I used to show our hackney pony Star as Starburst. Long story short he came from an auction with the name Darrell. We changed it.)

 

Tiny Hoof Picks!

 I get custom requests every once and a while. I enjoy the challenge of designing new things and it has been a great inspiration. These are by request
but they came out soooo good, I'm adding them to the shop as well!

Sooo tiny but I managed to add a horse head.

And they fit snuggly in breyer doll hands!

Howdy from Snowy Texas

Welp, we're officially snowed in. And it's cold at 9° F. Roads aren't plowed and we are going no where. 

Luckily I got the majority of my orders out on Saturday before this mess got here. Unfortunately my printer sits in the coldest corner of the house and it's so cold its been throwing temperature fault alarms which means no printing. Woke up this morning to a push notification that we can expect rolling blackouts so it's probably a good thing I'm not printing things. 

So I've been making leadropes. 

I'm trying to go through my stash of variegated embroidery floss. 

New Herd Member

 I haven't named him yet. The breyer name is Patricks Vindicator and I usually stay with the breyer name because I'm not very creative but I'm just not feeling Patrick. Maybe Vinny? 

My plan is to make a tiny saddle and try my hand at doll customizing to make a child doll to ride him. I think the cuteness will be overwhelming. 

He came with one of these little books, instant nostalgia.  

2021

 Happy New Year!

2020 was a long and difficult year. I have no illusions about 2021 suddenly becoming sunshine and roses, we will still face COVID and lockdowns for much of it. But a lot of good things did come out of 2020 so I want to focus on those:

• I wrote 41 blog posts for 2020 which is definitely a record!
• We adopted Soup!
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• I got my new printer, Nora which is a prusa mini and can do smaller and more detailed things.
• I got engaged to the love of my life even though covid messed up any plans for a wedding in the near future.

Last year I setup a list of goals

• Blog more often! (What every blogger ever says). Ideally I want to keep to a 2 blog posts per month/ every other week schedule.    
• 41 posts is more than 2 per month!

• Make 5 new designs. That works out to roughly 1 every 2 months with some room to spare. Between my day job and my shop, design time is low.
• Well by my count I managed 16 new designs! Knocked that one out of the park!
• Redo all photos because I need to up my game!
• I did actually manage to do this which is kinda surprising to me.
• Keep a better inventory of popular items. I got slammed over thanksgiving with 20 orders, I definitely did not have enough stock to keep up with that...
• I did try. But unfortunately I ran out of stock of some things. This years thanksgiving sale involved 38 orders...  Luckily they all got out on time. Still going to have to work on this one. 
• Make a saddle. I want to improve that skill too. So I need some practice.
• Mainly due to the IMTM this did get accomplished! And I improved a lot of skills like having adjustable stirrups and working on tooling. 
  
  
  

So what are my goals for this year?

I'm going to focus on rekindling my love of the hobby. I've already started by buying some nice tack for my herd. Hopefully I'll be able to get a couple of setups done so I can enter some photo shows. 

I am currently working on updating my jump stands so that they can be easily transitioned from traditional scale to classic and schleich scales. The current jump stands are also two pieces that get glued together so I'm working to make each stand 1 piece to make them sturdier and to save myself some time.

I have some ideas for new products so I'll be working on those.

SHOP NEWS:

I may be delaying the reopening a bit. I was supposed to reopen mid-January but I'm going to be starting a new job on the 11th so it will probably wait until the end of January or the beginning of February. Sorry for the inconvenience and it will be worth the wait!

Buckets in the Wild

 

Anthony's Airpods Drying out in some silica beads, 2020

Horse supplements with Tiny buckets to Catch the Drips, 2020

New Saddle Pad

 So in the midst of the craziness that was black Friday I also went shopping. 

I picked up this really nice saddle pad from Mulefoot Studios ( her etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/MulefootStudios ) and it looks super nice with my bay (most of what I collect are bays... I may have a bay problem) 

It also looks nice with the saddle I made for the International tack month challenge.

And here's a picture of Soup.