PoisonIvy, FabulousFakes & Foals

Well my four year old niece came home from her fathers house on Sunday with....wait for it.....Poison Ivy! Yep! It's been a fun couple of days, including a trip this morning to the doctors because it just keeps spreading, her legs, from her ankles to her butt are now pretty well covered in weeping ivy breakouts. Have you ever tried to keep a four year old from scratching herself crazy? It has run me and Mom ragged! And the munchkin has NOT been in a good mood.

Got some work done on my "Fabulous Fake", her marking are getting closer to where I want them to be, need to hit them with a light coat of sealer, then some more layers of paint and hopefully that will do the trick, then onto details and the scary part, glossing. Also fixed a small problem on the PMU foal sculpt, tentatively named "Han Vol Dan",it's from Christine Feehan's Leopard books and means "Time of the Change" which I think is appropriate with what has been going on in the PMU industry. It seems that when I put him in the oven to bake I must have put my finger in the middle of his face and shifted it slightly, so that's now been fixed and he also sports a coat of presentation paint. If I can get myself motivated I would like to get to work on his mold and maybe start him casting by the end of the summer. Here's hoping.

Clipboards & Storms

Not much model stuff got done today, it was one of those days that seem to go on forever, and you have no real motivation to get anything done. It would have classified as a lazy day if not for the fact that that it started off dark and hazy, which then developed into sporadic thunderstorms and torrential downpours. So I guess I can genuinely blame the weather for not getting much work done on my "Fabulous Fake" as I'm at a point where I need to sit in front of my reference pics and tweak the pattern. Guess what? Those pics are on my computer. Thunderstorms+new computer, not such a good idea. So the computer stayed off most of the day because of the power blinking on and off.

What I did get done today was a couple of altered art clipboards. This is something that Mom had been wanting to do for awhile and we just hadn't had time, what with everything else that's been going on lately. So today we finally drug all the supplies that we had collected out and made a couple of clipboards. Nothing model related this go round, other then my green and pink one has a dream theme, but I plan to do a couple different hobby related ones.

On a different note, while setting up to work on our boards Mom found a book mark that she had bought for me and misplaced, Mom lose something, never! It a really cool metal bookmark, but what makes it even better is the quote,

"Paint your dreams in bright colors & bold strokes." Sarah Mueller

Now how apros is that with my studio name "Paint Your Dreams Customs" neat!

Progress & New music

Made some progress today on my "Fabulous Fake", a CM version of the lamented BF volunteer Indian Pony. My IP features a swooshed over forelock, flicked left ear and will have a more realistic dappled red bay coat with mapped pattern, but will remain glossy. I got her pattern masked, for all the good that's done me, as I know I'll still have to do dozens of washes of white to clean up and adjust the markings, seeing as after I started laying in the red base coat I found some better pictures of her showing her marking more clearly and realized, while close overall, it's not as close as I would like. Oh well, live and learn.
Went to Wal-Mart to get a new printer cable, seeing as Mom has misplaced(read lost) the one we bought to go with the printer, making it a large white rectangular paper weight, and not very useful to anyone. While in electronics decided to wander down the music isle and what did I find but the new Sugarland CD which I didn't even know was out yet! And this isn't the regular CD but the deluxe fan edition, 17 songs! This isn't no car listening CD, this ones going down to the studio, I can't wait to see what kind of work I can get done to this.

Blah

Not much interesting happened today. Received a very busted up box from good old UPS, luckily the horse inside was no more damaged the it was when the client sent it(it's a repair job) thank god, and finished up a SM commission that I was working on. Probably could have got some of my back log of personal customs at least worked on, if not finished today, but I had to watch my four year old niece for the better part of the day. Four year old's and studios don't mix well.
Tried contacting again, the lady I'm supposed to be trading my CM PS Noriker drafter to for her BF Alborozo. I hope she's not ignoring me, we've had this deal in the works for months, practically since I first saw the model posted, now I've contacted her three times and gotten no response. Hopefully she will get in contact with me soon, otherwise I will be forced to leave her a blazing red light on MMHR and I really don't want to have to do that, but BF was last weekend, you would have though she would have e-mailed me before hand to get all the little details nailed down. Oh well, all I can do at this point is wait and see.

Yard sales & finishing projects

Braved the heat today in the hopes of finding some good deals, yeah right! I don't know if it's the heat or what, but people were totally crazy with their prices, no way am I paying new prices for something I can go into WalMart and pay the same price or less for. And to add insult to injury, no plastic ponies, jewerly or books!
Came home knowing what a broiling lobster feels like and soaked up some much appericated AC, then made myself get up and go down to the studio to finish the commision that should have been done yesterday. Well got him finished, photographed, and images sent off to the client, and while I was on a roll got a pair of NL horses that I've been working on for almost two years finished!! Yea Me!

Hello and Welcome!

Well with everything being so slow, what with NAN, BF and the virus that has knocked MHSP out for the time being, I have finally got my butt in gear and decided to get me a blog going.
I envision this blog covering everything from what I'm doing in the studio, be it painting, sculpting or cross your fingers....casting, to my jewerly design(note to self FINISH the jewerly design course! :) ), writing, another one of my dream hobbies, drawing, and what books I'm reading. So stay tuned for all the craziness, highs and lows, turmoil and drama that goes on in my creative life.