I'M SOOOOOOOO BAD!!!!!!!

Eek! my wallet is weeping! I just bought a unpainted Sheri Rhodes "Bear" drafter resin, he's broken, but will be a 10 minuet repair and was super cheap. But I really have to stop spending every little bit of money I get in :)
Must SELL more horses! MUST NOT BUY more horses! Lather, rinse, repeat.

GRRRRRR Website problems

I am so completely computer stupid that I struggle to even manage this blog. So what do I decide to do? Attempt a long over due update to my website. Well as I'm playing with Print Shop making business cards and magnets, I see that there are website templates. So I figure "why not?" and set up a basic webpage layout. Nothing fancy, but it does have my new logo, a clip art image that I dinked with to fit my needs. OK, it took time, but no real problems. They didn't crop up until I tried to see weather I could load it onto my website. Ummm... when I used the publish to the web function I got some message that I didn't understand(not really surprising :P) so I then went to my site providers web builder, no go there either, theres no option to load from a outside source. So today has been very long and unproductive and I still need to do those overdue updates and figure out how to get my logo to work on my site. I guess that's a job for another day.

The custom that ate my brain

You would think a nice dark seal bay tobiano would be a pretty straight forward, and fairly simple custom, right? Maybe for anyone else in the world, but of course not me! As with all tradgies it started off so well. Prepping and priming, no problems. Masking, no more difficult than usual. Painting, beautifully. Removing the mask.........yea, that didn't go so well, like it wouldn't come off. GRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nothing I did would make it come off without killing the finish, so I just gave up and stripped it so I could start from scratch. Then to add insult to injury it started raining, and I don't mean just a little rain, I mean like days upon days of steady to torrential downpours equaling enough rain to make up for the summer deficit and make a huge dent into our fall totals. LOTS OF WATER!!! Which meant I got no work done because it was taking three days for each coat of primer to dry, and my pastels, for lack of a better word, kept curdling and just altogether being clumpy and not worth the aggravation. Anyway, finally it dried out enough for me to finish the pastel work, and this time the mask came off(different masking method) fine, so on I when to cleaning up and clearing up the white markings. And your never guess what happened next.......... MORE RAIN!!!!!!! OMG! should we start building a ark? Now I'm having problems with the washes of white drying, it's like every time I thought I was finally getting in the groove to get this model finished something else would pop up.

Long story short, he's finally finished, and I think he turned out really well for all the trials he put me through, and hopefully the next job will go MUCH smoother.