A couple/few weeks ago, in fact on my birthday week, the opportunity to sign up for workshops went live and so far looks like np hiccups like last year. I may tell that story later if I remember. Though this year it will only be me and my mom vs the whole family, thought that is for one workshop, I'll be alone for one. I signed up for two. The first workshop I signed up fro was the Spookology work shop, I love halloween, my fav halloween in fact, and it said the paints are UV ones so that really intrigued me. The last one I am doing with my mom and it is the Mosaic class, I have been trying to do that one since it was first introduced which I think was Breyerfest 2022 which had the dahla horse mold which looked cool. It surprisingly sold out that year. My mom loves mosaics and I like doing them every once in awhile, so now we finally get the chance to do it.
Luckily, the week of my birthday was my 40 hour work week and I was able to have two days off. On my second and last for the week I stopped by a tack store I discovered back around Christmas time that sells older and newer Breyers second from locals looking to get rid of models. Back during Christmas I got Spirit and Rain mini porcelains, which leaves me with just foal Spirit and his dam/mother Esperanza left and that shoudl conclude the Spirit porcelains from the Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron collection. Anyway, this time I went to see what they still had and what was new as it was my first time back since then, making it my second trip, meant to go back sooner but didn't have time. They had Marigold the classic deco from Breyerfest 2017 still so I knew I had to get him. Then I was stuck between getting a porcelain that was for a decent price or get the NIB Sunburst from Barbie Fairytopia: Magic Rainbow. Ultimately got the porcelain as I felt the price was too good and something tells me that old Barbie fairy may still be there when I go back a third time as it was there my first time. Despite the price being a steal, its not very movie accurate nor overall attractive as a doll design but it's one I wanted since that movie came out. The porcelain was the Saddlebred from the Artisan gallery series, I had a little bit ;eft over and they let me go through the bin of new arrival stablemates. I chose a red roan cantering warmblood and a grullo/grey pinto thoroughbred from 2002. Though I may have the same TB somewhere as it came in a 4 piece set which I only know the whereabouts of the palomino Andalusian stallion and bay saddlebred but not the appaloosa mold thats bay as I actually don't recall that one nor the TB. I was so little when I got that set I don't remember if and when they came in a set and where the rest maybe aside form the obvious, in storage more than likely in the rafters of the garage.
Though now to think of names for the stablemates.
Those aren't the only horse related things I found during my birthday week. So, ever since I was 5 it's been a tradition for me and my mom to go have tea for our birthdays as they are two days apart. This is the first time having tea away from home, so we had to find a place to try out since we'll be doing it down here. Not the first time we've had to change places, but not the last at the present till we find our new spot. This year we tried out the Waveland Historic Site as they host tea every Tuesday. These are the horses I saw there.
After that we went to Richmond just to check it out as we haven't explored it yet. While there we stopped at an antique shop, one of my fav things to do, and I found a cool find I knew I had to bring home.
Didn't see any Breyers but this was the closest thing to it. I was looking through a pile of old pennants, I almost went with a Knott's Berry Farm and Hershey Park ones until I came across this one and decided to that was the one to get right away, also the store was closing in a few minutes. On the way to the register I grabbed the two stickers as I couldn't decide on one and both are nice as colored and black & white.
That does it for now, until tomorrow.
(note: first two photos belong to Breyer. All other photos belong to me.)
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