New models with performance photos

Good evening. Well I finally got around to getting some photo's of our new models. Plus I finally got my TWH named and pedigreed. I had fun finding his parents. Since he is a blue roan, His sire is one as well. Oh well, here are the new photos

 

 Pictured above is Winter Blues R Gone, 2015 DAH in a luscious dappled buckskin. Rider is by Anne Field. Yes I know the reins look un-crossed, but they are crossed

 Here is TH Dexter, Stone Perf horse by PDX Studios to a wild splash overo Paint. Rider by Anne Field.

 Here is the same horse performing the lope.

 Here we have our newest gaited boy. I purchased him from Nikki Byler. His name is: Dancin' Blue Moon

There is one problem with this photo though. Look closely at the bit on the off side. The headstall for this tack set is just a bit to small for him. So now I have to either make a bridle to fit, or have another tack maker make me one. Yes he is entered in his first photo show. It is a month long judging/voting show. I will be uploading his photo's to other online shows later this week.

2015 = NO live shows

Good morning everyone. I was recently looking on the NAMSHA website for any live model horse shows that was close to me. Well, where I live, Live shows are hours away - I have yet to see one in Amarillo. Anyway, The closest shows here in Texas was in Magnolia. A small town just North West of Houston. For me to go there, I would be driving for 8 hours and when I mentioned that to Daniel, I seen the look on his face. Last year when I traveled to Colorado for a show, it took me 8 hours to get there. Well the reason is cause the speed limit was 55 and me being a law abiding person, yea I went that speed. Daniel don't understand that either. So he got mad about it and set the rule that from now on, I am only to go to shows that are 4 hours away. So that means, no going to shows in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and New Mexico(when and if there is any held there). I asked him about any shows that might be held in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area............BIG MISTAKE!!! He went ballistic over that. He don't want me anywhere near there cause of the (as he puts it)"High accident rate". Uhmmm I am a damn good driver and watch all around me. The answer is and will always be "NO". So my only venue for any live shows would be: Amarillo, Lubbock and Wichita Falls. 
Jessica Geer normally holds one in September in Wichita Falls, but she has been going through financial problems, so I came to terms with that quite easily. But for Amarillo and Lubbock? Yea, right. Heck, when NAN was held here in Texas a few years back, I couldn't go. Why? Cause it was located on the east side of Dallas. Thus meaning I would have to drive THROUGH Dallas to get there. I personally feel that Daniel is smothering me so much, that it hurts him to even think of me driving to the store. And that is only 8 miles away. He is constantly telling me to "Watch out for the other drivers" Like no duh, I do. Plus he is afraid that something will happen to me(accident wise). I am a better driver than that, but he don't see it that way. 
Plus he says that my hobby takes to much of my time. Like what am I going to do for 8 to 12 hours of the day while he is at work? Sit on my thumbs and act dumb? He is wanting me to be just like his mother(no disrespect to her), but I am NOT the type that will stay at home 365 days and do NOTHING. I like to go to shows, mingle with friends and talk about horses. Is there a problem there? I don't see one, but he does. 
I know a lot of people have told me to leave him and stuff like that, but I can't. I love him to much for that. I just want some freedom to go to model horse shows at least 3 x's a year.(2 shows. NAN)
Plus I was asking around about having a fellow hobbiest who is going to NAN this year if they could proxy about 4 of my horses.........................nope, no one is willing. But yet, when another person asks, they are like "Sure, I will proxy for ya" 

I guess it is time to just step back from the hobby and seek other venues for a hobby. 
Another note, I know for a proven fact that Scarlett Wilde is still up to her tricks. I lost 3 customers in 1 week about a month ago. They wanted one of my presentation sets then about 5 or 6 hours later, they back out cause they "Heard" that my work was shitty. They wouldn't tell me who told them lies, but I knew right off who it was. Karma is going to be a bitch on her when this is all done with.   

2 hobbies vs husband

Yea, you read right.. 2 hobbies vs the husband. Lately he has been on a rampage about BOTH of my hobbies. Model horses AND my crocheting. They seem to irritate him so much that he now bitches about them both. 

It started Saturday when I was sitting in my chair working on my latest graphgan. He seen my box of yarn and asked "Is that the only box of yarn you have?" I had replied "Yes, but will be ordering more to finish off the other 3 afghans that I have".....oops wrong thing to say. He went into anger mode in less then a second. Ranting and raving on how I am "Blowing HIS money" on yarn and models. Uhm...........I have only bought like 4 models this year and maybe 2 balls of yarn, which we know is way much cheaper than a model. But dayum, why go into rage when I mention that I need yarn to FINISH 3 other afghans? I wanted to rage on with him, but I have to keep my temper down. Why I want to keep it down cause I have been known to do things that would put me in jail. When I get that mad, I black out and don't remember any part of the arguing. It is only after I have calmed down that I realize where or what I am doing. So yea, keeping that from happening, I normally walk away. That I know makes him that much more angered and thus causing him to leave in his pickup. Yesterday though, he did apologize for his out burst and told me that I can buy more yarn. We were able to calmly talk about the finances and what we are able to spend. I told him that when it comes to my models, I only buy models that I like, and IF I can't afford them(even though I like them), don't mean that I am going to buy them. Don't get me wrong, there are thousands of models I would love to purchase, but normally they are out of my price range. So I make the decision to not buy them. Sometimes after a few months(or even years), the price goes down to where I can afford them, thus I will then buy them. I know that some models the price don't go down, it keeps going up. So I just download a photo of them and put them in my "Wish I could afford" folder. Yes, it does consist of a lot of HTG models that I know I won't ever to afford. Does it bother me? Sometimes it does, but I have learned to live with it and think that the lucky owner paid a pretty price for the model. 

I also told the hubby that I do make sure that the bills are paid BEFORE I buy any yarn and or models. I check our checking account on a regular basis to make sure I can afford something before blindly buying it. Yea, that checking account is the master to wither I buy model/yarn. It speaks, I obey. I just wish the hubby would do that. LOL like that is going to happen anytime soon.