New Items by Sharon Christensen

Sharon's work remains among my favorites at EquinArt Creations. I have a painted lamp in my office. I love how she paints everyday objects - some vintage, some new - into works of art. She's just sent us this peach vase and the picnic basket. The basket is terrific. It just makes me want to go on a picnic! Newly listed to our site. Enjoy! Find Sharon's work here.

Photo Showing and Making Jumps for Model Horses

This week, I'm judging an online model horse photo show...the first show I've judged in about a year. I cannot get over how far the hobby has progressed since I entered my very first photo show in 1978. In the 1970's, if you had a 35 mm camera and could take closeups of the model horses, you were probably heading for the blue ribbon! I loved photo showing. My very first show was held by Alice Bulson. Does anyone remember Alice? Is she still around? I won a blue ribbon for my Breyer FAS in Western pleasure...and I bought a Josef Palomino lying down foal, Sultan's Golden Prince, off of Susan Peplinski for a whopping $5 in 1980, because I remembered how well he did showing. I'm joining TOPSA in 2010, and will be showing my own personal collection of Breyers, Stones, Josefs, Hagen Renakers and of course some selected EquinArt resins. I hope to see YOU in the show ring!!! Today's photo is my collection, circa 1980 or thereabouts...

And now for the crafty people out there....those who like crafts, that is!


A new how-to video for you: making jumps for your model horses.

How to Paint Model Horses, Part I

Model horse painting....I've got resins to paint, and my last attempts back in the 1980's to paint Breyers were disastrous. So I decided to hunt around You Tube for some video tutorials. Thought I'd start sharing them here. Enjoy!

Horse Themed Christmas Trees

My riding coach back on Long Island had a horse-themed Christmas tree. In fact, the two ladies that ran the riding stable where I worked BOTH had horse themed trees. Every ornament, from top to bottom, on their Christmas trees was a horse! Each Christmas we would give our coaches horse-y ornaments. One year, I made paper mache ornaments for them. I made Sculpey molds, then made paper mache and placed it over the molds. I painted them and added hair. They actually came out pretty good!

This year I made a few horse themed Christmas ornaments myself. I bought a package of plastic horses at the dollar store. I glued on ribbon for hooks, then decorated them with sparkled, little bits of holly and such. Their cute gifts for the holiday season.

Do you do a horse themed Christmas tree? Do you collect Breyer ornaments? My sister gave me a few, but in truth, I find them too big for my tree. I like the Father Christmas one, and I have one of a horse inside of a stirrup.

I have the four Western horse ornaments (we sell them in our online Christmas shop) as well as a pretty resin one that Candace Liddy gave me for Christmas. But my own tree is an eclectic mix of ornaments reflecting mostly nature (a lot of bird ornaments on my tree, along with snow flakes!) and ornaments passed on by my parents.

Do you do a horse themed Christmas tree?