Toby back to Work

Tob'y leg has healed well, so we are giving him some gentle short exercise rides to get his skin used to the saddlery again.





We are fine don't need rescuing TY


wait for me!!

Beautiful Horse and Rider

Please watch this is so lovely , Pause my music sounds the video has beautiful music to accompany it, just one of the videos Susan Williams has shared on Facebook.

Doma Vaquera • Dressage • équitation from Romain NEGRE on Vimeo.

Cardmaking, Altered art for Cat Lovers

I spent a couple of days on and off creating this Cat and Kitten, Digital Sheet for Artwolf on Etsy.
Now I know why it takes me so long to make a card!!.
They incorporate two of my pastel drawings, Angel Feathers, and Peace to All.
Still now you don't have to, use them as they are, distress them, add Satin ribbons use as you will, to fire your creativity.

Its the Cowes Week Red Arrows Display

What a treat on your own doorstep.

Fairy Digital Vintage Style Postcards

Artwolf has just added these Fae postcards to Etsy, for all cardmaking and papercrafting fun.
Apologies also to everyones blog I usually visit. For some strange reason, I don't seem able to register any comments, just seems to take me around in a loop.
Ahh well, I'm still enjoying all your blogs and work. :) Linda

Digital Horse Sheet For Scrapbooking Cardmaking

Theres a few more Digital downloadables in Artwolf on Etsy, heres one of them to view, Equestrian related in the Vintage Edwardian Postcards Style.
They incorporate two of my pastel drawings Unicorn Blue, and Faith & Hope(Rabbit & Pegasus Foal)

Hickstead Show Jumping

A bevy of Show Jumping Stars were competing for the Prize honors but Germany's Marcus Ehning won the Bunn Leisure Trophy, claiming the £6,500 first prize on board Noltes Kuchengirl.
"She has a lot of experience and I've been riding her for a long time, so I know her well and what she's capable of," Marcus said of the mare.

Hickstead Hunters Classes

Mark and I had a day out at Hickstead Royal International Horse Show Festival, here are some pics of the heavyweight Hunter Class during judging, and Champioships of the three weight classes 1st and reserve in each Light, Middle and Heavyweight.
The Heavyweight ultimatly taking the supreme title.
Photos Mark.

Susan Williams- Facebook

I saw TV footage once of the round ups,wheeling helicopters, terrified horses, broken legs, dying foals.

Quote from Susan Williams-Facebook Page
"Today lets stop for a moment and hold the space for our wild ones as the roundups start in Nevada. The monstrous helicopters will begin removing 1700 horses from their range. It is difficult to comprehend how our efforts seem to fall upon deaf ears".

New Little Witch Halloween Digitals

Here are two new Digital Party invites and Tags.
The invitation image is from one of my hand drawn watercolours, the original inspiration for this were vintage image cards I had owned, but which were sadly in too bad a state to use, so I redrew them and updated them, but I shrove to retain the charm of the vintage originals. I redrew six images in total, and created two new ones in the same style.
Tag Images are taken from actual vintage images, except the black kitten which is one of my own watercolours.
The white version was in response to saving precious printer inks.

Meet Toby

I was kindly offered Toby on a summer loan from the local Hunt stables.
Toby is a big lad we estimate about 17.2hh at least, although we havent put a measure to him. Our first challenge was finding a headcollar and girth to fit, after scouring the Island's shops, we managed to find one headcollar large enough, and one girth 58inches. Woozles old bridle just about fitted, at a slight pinch (term of speech, nothing painful) and we purchased a larger bit, a bargain curtesy of Ebay, added a sheepskin numnah for comfort and a exlarge double bridle, yet to be oiled. After a period of adjustment Toby is settling well into a slightly more relaxed way of life, starting to trust me, and mind his P's and Q's, which for Toby means, don't tread on my feet, or shove me over.
We had had him reshod and were starting to ride him regularly when Toby stuck his leg through a gate in the field. Now both the gates are cloaked in tarps as Toby has a bad habit of pawing for attention and titbits from passing adoring fans.
Cut and badly beat up, hes been on meds antibiotics, and inflammatry reducers in his feed, for which we had to invent sneaky ways of making them taste better, and different creams for the wound on his leg. Hes doing well, and soaking up the attention.
Heres some pics of him before the accident.

Happy 4th July America

'Happy 4th of July', to my American Cousins and Friends in the States.
Apologies for the dirth of posting lately, hopefully whatever I call normal life will resume shortly..
Linda :) x

Blue Butterflies in the Garden

These lovely little butterflies have been flitting around all morning, enjoying the nectar.

The Royal Wedding, a National Holiday

Changes in Life

Sorry about my lack of blogging lately.

Since the demise of my beloved mare last August, I can honestly say I still really do miss her, and also just not having a horse in my life, is weird. I rented fields, so at the moment its tenuous, as I do not feel entirely secure in pursuing another equine, with a long term secured environment future, but I am still looking. My heart attack last year put a real damper on things in general, dying really does make you feel very mortal, and as I'm an Eeyore in life's Winnie the Pooh's adventures, it did nothing to lighten the mood!!, So when I found I was wheat intolerant, which sucks if your'e already a vegetarian(I do eat fish,eggs) it pulled another sigh from the Eeyore in me, being told I was probably Fibromyalgic as well, another blast. It explained a few things, it is not life threatening although can be painful, and you just have to pace yourself, whoopee... that was sarcasm. But the Good News is I'm finally getting the lounge done at last. It had a lot of problems, so we had to go back to the bare walls and replaster, and a miriad of other different other jobs to boot, its still work in progress and while its going on, we are sharing a bar stool and an office chair between us, with Prince's bed in the tiny kitchen. Theres no access to my art supplies except for a jar full of brushes I kept out, with a few watercolours, which was fortunate as The Aceo group on Ebay are in the process of completing another playing card set, which I got in on again, the Jack of Diamonds was my card. He ended up as a Jack Rabbit as you can see. Mark is in workman mode, so I had to take a picture, he was so engrossed he didn't even notice.