Show report and a new addition

The most recent addition to my herd is Maynard's Miss Sheba.

I apologize for the bad photo. She has no name from me yet, but she's already a favorite.

This weekend was the second show of the year. It was a two-day show held at the local Expo center (which, by the way, is a total mess). I was there three days, because Friday was a day off from school and I wanted to help set up and do show prep. There were a lot of people there and I got plenty of good photos.

OK, so there aren't that many good ones from Friday. At least I got some with all the setting up I was doing! 

Of course we also had to practice in the ring on Friday. When I first started trotting Jones around he was definitely off and felt very lame. Thankfully, after warming him up and working the stiffness out he was fine. As it turns out he had been messing around in the pasture the night before and got a bunch of bruises/shallow cuts on his hind leg.  They were already scabbed so all we could do was warm him up really well. 

That's all for Friday... there's more talk coming later but I needed to get this post up!

The Shedding Monster

You'll learn who the shedding monster is later, though I'm sure you can guess already.

But first, I'm going to show off my journal cover. It's not the best--I have never been even close to good with bias tape and I probably never will be. Still, I like it. Oh, and the stitching on the ribbon is white intentionally! Even though it is a little "unsightly," I like the contrast.

Without Flash (sorry it's blurry!)

With flash

 Now some pictures of the endlessly handsome and shedding Jones--the shedding monster. I can't wait until mid-summer when he has lost all the extra hair and is silky smooth again!

Looking remorseful... wonder what he did?!

I guess you can't see his fuzz from these pictures, but he is shedding like crazy!

I don't have time to upload and post the pictures from the northeast, so I may put them up next time I have nothing else to say.

One more thing! I finally figured out how to make the entire blog wider, so the photo size is going up! No more clicking to see better (but you can still do that if you like). Hope you like it!

Uh.. Horse Knowledge..?

I lied two nights back about making two posts. Not really, I just mysteriously ran out of time.
And tonight, suddenly I no longer have time to make a long post about horses, so instead I'll talk about sewing.

My mom has taught me how to sew over the years, and lately I've begun to get into it a little more. This year I made three skirts to wear to school (well, I only wear two of them, but oh well). I decided last week that I'd like to make some dresses to wear, and not necessarily at school. To this end, I just bought two pattern books with some cool ideas. One of them has one dress in it, but includes several other patterns I'd love to try. The other is about bags. What I'd like to know is if anyone has any dress patterns that they know of that I might look at.

Yesterday evening I made a planner case, for those nice leather planners that you don't want to scratch. I was hoping it would fit my journal but it was a little too short. It ended up being a gift for someone, and I'm making a new one for myself.

I have more homework to do so I'll stop rambling. But tomorrow be prepared for a long, long photo post from New England and today.