The time has come..............

The time has come down to saying good-bye to a hobby I once loved. Yes, I am leaving the model horse hobby. After the fall out yesterday over the prices of models and how one person took upon herself to start calling me names, I can't and WONT take it anymore. I have sold a few of my models, but the rest will be destroyed. Why you ask, well that is cause no matter how many times I put them up on eBay or on model horse sales pages(and other selling sites), Someone is always reporting them as fraudulent postings. I have been banned from 3 auction sites and have been warned with a few others. I tried selling on Facebook. That in itself is a joke. A big one at that. Nobody wants to buy what I have cause they believe in the rumors. So, I have decided to destroy the models. 

When the time comes, I will also deactivate my FB account and not return. I will however keep my Google + account, but that is it. Social media has brought out the worse in the hobby and they love to keep that nasty taste in ones mouth.  I could post a list of who those rotten people are, but the list is just to damn long. 

When I told Daniel about my decision, he was happy. He never has liked the hobby and proved it in so many ways. Now he won't have to worry about me traveling to different towns to show anymore. The only traveling I will be doing is to go see my family. 

Rant about the BF "Surprise" models

Boy do I enjoy getting told to "Fuck Off" in other words. But here goes............................Long rant

As many of you know I don't attend Breyer Fest. It's not that I don't want too, it's just that finances are the cause. 
In the past few years, Breyer has put out "Surprise" models with the cost of $75.00 to this years $85.00. Not bad for a limited run model (250 glossy and 250 matte). What is bad is when the person goes online and sets the price at $500 or greater. Uhm Sorry, but a limited edition IS NOT rare. I would soon rather pay that price for an OOAK than for a LE. 
2 years Breyer used 2 molds that I just happen to like(and conga) for their "Surprise" models and I can't even fucking afford them. Why? cause people are getting fucking greedy. Hell, lets buy this model for $85.00 then sell it for several hundred dollars. There are always some mindless buyer out there. Sorry, but unless that model is OOAK, I refuse to buy it. I don't give a damn if the person swears up and down that that is the price they paid at BF. 
The Roxy "Surprise" models are STILL well over $400 and they are over 3 years old. Sorry, but nope. It's not an OOAK.
They are just LE and the price gouging is the downfall of the owner.

The hatred continues..............

I can NOT believe such hatred going on over on FB. One user demands that anyone who voted/supported Trump MUST unfriend her cause she says that all supporters are bigots, homophobic etc. Well sorry hun, but I may support Trump, but I am very VERY far from being homophobic. In fact, I have several friends who are gay,lesbian etc and they are great friends. So does that make me homophobic? Oh hell no. 

People are saying that Republicans spew out hatred, when in reality it is the Democrats spewing out hatred. 

The person I am talking about is Malia Booker. She says that everyone is anti-gay etc. She needs to have a reality slap. Not everyone is anti- everything. Sheesh 

WOW, I am a bad person

I am so sorry for not blogging. I don't know why I keep forgetting that I have a blog. Anyway, I have some news. As many of you may have read on Facebook, I did go to the hospital recently. Those who read my posts there, know the story. Plus you also know that I am quitting the ever so nasty habit of smoking. Not only will it do me good, but pretty much everyone else around me. Plus I am making myself remember my mom. She pretty much died due to lack of oxygen when she was on oxygen(Posts from that tragedy are posted here). She also smoked bad. She smoked filterless cigarettes. Those were some serious nasty cigarettes. So I was thinking of starting another blog page, dedicated to my journey of the cigarette quitting. It will be a long and mind blowing experience that I will have to tackle. But I want to tackle it. So. I guess starting tomorrow(10/22/2016), I will be posting. LOL

It's been a while

Howdy everyone, Yea it's been awhile. been busy with crocheting, my ranch blog and just all around stuff. I did get 2 new models. The new Rhapsody and Quelle. Rhapsody looks like the female version of Black Beauty. Same markings and color. But hey, I'm not complaining, She is a perfect addition to my conga. 

As for my crocheting, here are some photo's of an afghan I just finished

 

If your wondering, the pattern is called "Pinwheel". Mikey Silek from the Crochet Crowd posted a video tutorial on YouTube and I learned it by watching it. Nobody knew I was doing this afghan........LOL me and my surprizes. Love them. Here is how I planned for this queen sized afghan

The above photo shows the colors and how many motifs I was to make. When I started, the afghan was going to be a lapghan, but the hubby said no he wanted a blanket for the bed.........so now to photo 2

Well, here is the second half. As you can see, I pretty much doubled everything. What is funny is that I had 4 extra motifs. Why? your guess is as good as mine. But that's ok, I have plans for them. I just need to get to Michael's or Hobby Lobby and find a pillow form.

Well, until next time.
 

 

 

What a is this year going to be?

Recently, I had a friend email me, asking me if I was going to enter Breyer's photo show that they were holding. Uhmmmm.............NO!
Reason? My photo's are NOT up to that type of standard. Yes there are photo's out there that would put mine into the trash compactor(really that is where they need to be anyway). Reason I say that is cause I don't have the resources for better props, better tack etc. Money right now is severely restricted and what money I have left for myself, I have to end up spending on either more bill's or give it to Daniel so he can have his fountain coke fix. This year is going to be a blah year cause I won't be able to buy a whole lot. When I do buy a model, I have to buy it in secret. Then when I do get it here, take what I call "Quickie" photo's and then pack the model up and put it in storage BEFORE the hubby even knows about it.  I don't have time to get everything set up and then take a trillion pictures hoping that at least one of them is showable. So I show with what I can take and be done with it. I already done had a judge tell me that I really need to *in her words* "Fall off the face of the hobby world". Real encouraging isn't it? This judge dq'd all my photo's and put the reason why. I won't get into her reason's. Just that she won't be judging my photo's again........EVER.

Enough ranting :)

 

As promised

As promised, I would post the link to my ranch blog...........well here it is. Be sure to start following it :D

 

http://piedpiperranch.blogspot.com/