Ya, I should. I just watched a great vid that explained everything. They will have raffles and real horse show judges to judge the performance classes!

oh man i love Lucky Horsehshoe stables.she said in one of her vids she was at her summer house. she won't be back till early fall i think.i LOVE her new barn tour.

by the way were do you get embroidery floss? and how much does it cost? i Might be able to convince my mom to let me get some. Lol. she never really was horse crazy as a kid

Congrats Val on the subscribers and welcome back Kate!! I really want another YouTube but my mom won't let me since some kid in our area was kidnapped and murdered because she was contacting some one on Facebook...
So I'll just have to post pics for now but maybe when I turn 15 in a month.

Just made another halter for my Andalusian, Rosalina! It looks like Mystery's but with a purple noseband. I also made her a blue lead rope and I decided to make a blue one for Mystery too. Crafting those things are hard because they are so small!

hey does anyone know how to make good polo raps? i made some out a small piece of fabric but i can't figure out how to make them stay on the horses i want to make some for my racers but i don't want to have to buy anything.would velcro work?

Oh, gosh. That is dangerous. I don't really even show my hands and try to keep as secretive about my personal info as possible. Yes, I tried to make halters for stablemates but it was nearly impossible!

I use actual human bandages! I cut them small then they just stick. I like to do my polo wraps that way. For boots though I just buy them from schleich!

thans for the idea valencia.i don't really like to buy schleich tack.i have to save money for horse riding so yeah i actually made some boots out of some rubber kind of stuff

Nice! I love felt and ribbon. You can also use Barbie sized buckles for buckles for halters!

I found a giant box of popcicle sticks....I'm going to building tomorrow!!

oh cool! i love making stalls out of the large popsicle sticks! one time i found a box and made my tack room.my mom came into my room and saw the empty box.this was her face

this was mine

my dad just finished my barn he was working on for me! it has 4 stalls and a feed room.
aleluya! finally somewhere to put all that feed and hay! also a place for my racers!

Sweet!! Sounds awesome. My mom made me pick up my layout here because we have unexpected guests

Fun! I wish my dad would make stuff for me! He barely has time to talk to me! I just inhaled all of this dust so I am coughing and gagging like crazy! Ugh...

75+ WOW thats amazing!!!! Me and my sisters have maybe 40 models but when our cousin comes and brings her Schleich we have maybe 60. We have been collecting for a long time.


Same. Although we also have Tigers, (a baby and a mum) Elephants, (a baby and a mum) Zebras (a baby and a mum) and Giraffes (a baby and a dad). Those ones are new.

I love Schleich!!

I'm gonna try customize one of my non schleich ponies. I want to practice first before i customize a schleich. Any tips? This is my first time doing this.

My friend has over 200.

I don't think anybody answered the embroidery floss question so I will. You can get it at probably any craft store, like JoAnn Craft and Fabrics, or Hobby Lobby. Or Walmart. I think, but I'm not sure, that they normally cost about a dollar each, but sometimes you can find sets on clearance.

Chromed, you should never ask me for painting tips. I will write you a book. But I'll try to keep it short because I'm hungry.
I'm going to assume that you'll use acrylic paints.
First off, thin down your paint with water. I don't do this most of the time, and while my models aren't super gloppy, it keeps the paint smoother. Or, if you really don't want to water it down, just try to make your coats very thin so that the brushstrokes are less apparent.
Don't be afraid to mix colors, but it could be helpful if you write down the mixed amounts so that you don't forget them. (E.g. Large drop golden brown, drop of yellow, and a touch of orange. I don't know what color that would make but I tried to make it sound like a palomino )
Blend well. For shading, black socks (on bays or buckskins or whatever) and muzzles, it's important that they're blended into the rest of the coat. I've found two good ways to do this: first, the wet paint method. Let's say you are painting a bay, and adding a black sock. Paint the black sock up to the knee. Then, apply some of the coat color (brown) right above the black. You should have set brown and wet black, side by side, meeting at about the knee. Then take your brush and just spread the paints into each other by moving your brush up and down across the line where the colors meet. I'm sorry if this is confusing, but you should be able to figure it out with the paint in front of you.
Method two: sponge. Apply the two colors which you want blended right beside each other on a craft or makeup sponge. Dab onto the horse. For example, if you want a gray muzzle for your lovely bay, you want to put a circle of gray a bit bigger than the tip of the muzzle onto the sponge. Apply brown around the gray circle. Then, center the horse's muzzle on the gray, and gently squish the head into the sponge repeatedly until the muzzle is gray and well blended.
I'm done for now. So it's so long if you know what color you're painting it, it'd probably be easier to give tips.

One more thing: no matter what coat you are painting, look at reference photos. I don't care if its a chestnut. You don't need to look at the pictures while painting, just before you start, look up some pictures online. It'll just make sure that you know what you're trying to do, and might remind you of something that you forgot about.

Also, the sponge blending method may need some touch ups with a brush when you're done, just because the sponge often can't get into the small places, like the corners of the mouth.

Thank you so much. I ran out of acrylic painti have to some today. Have a nice food eating session thingy i don't know if your eating breakfast, lunch or dinner (mmm. Dinner *licks lips)

Apparently I'm not done. I'm not saying that you CAN'T look at reference photos while painting, I'm just saying its not 100% necessary for a simple coat color. I normally don't use references, but plenty of people do.

Yeah, it's chestnut

Yeah, i might have to look at a picture as a reference so i know the shading parts and stuff