Fun Bridle Hangers

As promised, heres a short walkthrough of how I make my mini hangers. They can be used for halters, bridles, leads, anything!! And you can use whatever shape you want!

You will need -

• A button or other small, fun shaped object
• Acrylic paint (I used black)
• Paint brush
• Wire
• Pliers
• Wire cutters
• Hot or super glue

First off, find something in a shape you like. I like to use buttons, as you can get fun shapes. If you use a button with a loop on the back, use an Exato knife to get it off then sand around it. I'm using a cowboy boot.



Next, paint the object, I personally prefer a solid colour. I also tend to think that black looks best.

Now, paint and leave your wire to dry. Shape it with pliers and cut off with wire cutters. Add another coat of paint if needed.



Finally, glue the wire hooks onto the button! Be careful when using hot glue, get someone to help you if your not comfortable.

They look horribly off center in this photo.. It's just the

camera angle.. The left one is what your aiming for.

 Add a layer of paint over the glue so everything looks good. And voila! A hanger for your barn! Just be careful with the hooks, as they can be rather flimsy.

 

 I hope you enjoyed this tutorial thing. Should I do more in future? Let me know what you think!!

Updates!!

 Hello my dear readers! In my absence I have actually accomplished several miniature and model related things! First off is two mini cakes...

 

 I love the icing!! They were very simple and look very realistic! Now I need to create a cake platter...

 Second, I finally finished a custom! This lil Pintabian has been hanging around my work bench for ages!

 

 She has some of the best eyes I've done, as well as markings. Her nose pinking is so precious. I promise more photos!! She needs a name, suggestions??

 

 I also made a boot shaped bridle hook, but I'm going to be posting a walkthrough on how to make on in my next post (which is going to happen immediately after this!!) Lastly, I been drawing. This one is of a lovely dressage horse and rider.

 

 

I love the horse, his head and legs particularly! Its my first shot at a rider, so please don't mind his strange features... This is going to be a gift to my riding coach for Christmas, along with another drawing and horse treats!

 Well guys, that's about it! I've been getting back into the groove, so I should be posting more often. =)

Royal Winter Fair

Today, I went to the Royal Winter Fair, located somewhere in Canada. I loved my day there! Lots of booths, I spent quite a lot of time in the tack/horse ones. I was very tempted to buy a halter or saddle pad... But I was good and did not become broke. There was best crop, veggie, fruit, squash, etc. competitions. I'm just wondering how you would go about judging corn or wheat....

 Anyways, onto the best part, the creatures! They had cows,

Icky photo...

Sheep and goats,

 

Adorable little tiny goat!

Pigs,
  I did not get any pictures.....

And the best for last...
Horses!!

 The day started with some young ones,



   Then went onto open hunter over fences (ponies, and I did not get one good picture.)

These guys were gorgeous.

 I took about 50 jumping pictures. Want to know why none of them are shown? Because my shutter speed only works well with a lot of light, other wise my photos come out dark. When they're edited into lightness they become very bad quality. Does anyone have any tips or how I can avoid this? Dimly lit indoor rings could be part of it, but whenever I generally use shutterspeed this happens.

 Besides my bad photography experience (help/advice anyone?!), I had a great day overall. Plenty of gorgeous horses and interesting things to look at and buy. Lots of cheese samples interestingly enough.

 As for the plastic pony side of things. I have nothing  a small amount of things going. And that photoshoot sort of happened I lied, the photoshoot never really started....