Easter Plush!! New Vintage Club Release!! Mini Birthday Haul!!

So sorry I didn't post last month. I meant to but then I got consumed with finals for my online courses and preparing for the new semester as it just started and the last one ended the week before, it was meant to be immediate like that as the online version of my MBA is a fast track. I also got caught up in work as leading up to and after the Kentucky Derby is really busy due to all the visitors and clients coming to view horses. On a more exciting note, a colt I helped raise when I first started at my job after I finished my undergrad won the Derby!!!! I was so happy I was crying and my eldest brother decided to watch and asked me if "my horse" won and sent a congrats and later my aunt did too as she went to a viewing party at one of the local tracks back home. I may share a collage and some stuff on that later as also I did a mini interview for a classmate for her place of work. 

Back to model horses and collecting, let's look at the Easter/spring plush for this year.

Meet Candy!!

Little Candy is this year's Easter/spring plush and is made to represent chocolate bunnies for Easter celebration (I haven't had one in years and the good ones sell fast nor do I find many in stock where I'm at for some reason). She has an embroidered chocolate bunny on her one side and finished with a little ribbon tied in a bow like some have though some it's just part of the mold but really expensive high end ones have the actual ribbon tied on. I did order her as she is cute, though her packaging labelled her as "Easter" when I opened her with the rest of my order.

The second vintage club release has been revealed!!

Meet El Dorado!!

El Dorado is teh deco release for the club this year and is an even split between gold florentine vintage style appaloosa coat and copenhagen vintage appaloosa coat on the vintage Semi-Vintage Mustang mold.
My mom is apart of the vintage club and received hers but she has yet to tell me which one she got, I like both so it doesn't matter which one we got for our shared collection but I need an update for my collection file, I use google sheets for that to keep track what we have to avoid duplicates of older models with variations and just good to keep track overall.

When I went hope for a week in March, it happened to be the week of my birthday so I spent it there and got my presents (I didn't bring them back right away due to me flying but my folks brought the stuff down later when they came down so my dad could change my oil). So here is what I got.

I sort of ordered Gambit while I was home at least in terms of reserving one for pick up which he came a little bit later once where I ordered form got their shipment in stock. The Flicka set I got from an antique store I sometimes go to when I'm home and it was one a few items form that movie and items released by Breyer I needed. Though I will say it was sadly one of very few Breyers I found there, there used to be a lot more along with Peter Stone as one vendor had always carried and sold them but I think they are not there anymore or didn't get much anymore, I didn't ask while I was there, I should've. Maybe I'll see how i is when I go home for Christmas, and while I was home I discovered another store closed at the end of last year and sadly I missed that as I didn't know they had social media pages, but there's another I frequent that's moving to a bigger and better location I want to see when I'm home again too.

This is what my parents got me, the funny thing was I was going to get the Build-A-Bear at a later time but luckily I don't have to worry about that same with the Starbucks year of the horse items. Not model related but is horse related.

I got these two during Copper Foxes surprise Valentines day sale and surprisingly these two were decently priced and still available when I was able to pop on, so I got them as an early birthday present for myself. The grey Totilas is the surprise model from last year I named Orpheus after a 1950s film. The wedgewood pinto Cleveland bay is the deco surprise form Breyerfest 2022 Prost, I named him Spatzi, an Austrian term of endearment I learned form the game Nancy Drew: The Haunted Carousel.

These actually aren't from my birthday, they are from last Christmas and I didn't get picks of them till I went home back in March and decided to post them here so I can cover my Christmas haul like I meant to.

That's all I have for this post, see y'all in the next one!!

Catching Up Part 2: Birthday Haul/Finds, Breyerfest Workshops, & Horse Appearances While Out.

 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.)