Just kidding about no posts for a month!

I thought I should post that I have finally updated my website with four new saddles from the last couple of months. I actually have several saddles I made for NAN that are not posted yet - but I didn't get good photos of most of them, so will need to cobble something together when I have time, from the NAN photos.

Anyway, here's the link:

http://everafterstables.homestead.com/Tackmaking.html

The Rose Tooled set is for sale, as well! I am having a really hard time pricing it, but e-mail me if you are interested and we can try and work something out. Here's a preview photo of it:

I also posted a page for my most recent two commissions - one traditional sized "Arabian Western Pleasure Set", and one classic sized light oil pleasure set. Both were a lot of fun to do - having customer ideas for them really helped me try things I might not have tried otherwise! Here are a couple of photos of those:

Full galleries of all three saddles are posted at the Tackmaking link above. I hope everybody is well!

Blog Hiatus

If you haven't noticed, it has been quiet here for a while - it will remain so for the next month or so. In the mean time, enjoy these web sites that I check on a semi-regular basis - never on company time, of course.

The first, the only, the classic:

http://icanhascheezburger.com/

Big mistakes with photoshop that somehow make it into the public eye:

http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/

Cake Wrecks! Enough said.

http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/

The ONLY celebrity gossip site I frequent, because their stories are true and their writers are witty:

http://evilbeetgossip.film.com/

Tacky horse tack. One day I'll make several saddles from this site - I love me some shine!

http://tackytackoftheday.blogspot.com/

This can have a little rough language, but the stories are unbelievable.

http://psychoticlettersfrommen.blogspot.com/

This has a LOT of rough language, but is a constant reminder that I really did not miss out on THAT much by not being a 'party girl' in college.

http://www.textsfromlastnight.com/

This site is rather hit and miss, but some of the photos are fantastic!

http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/

Rarely updated, but a cruise through the archives is good for a chuckle.

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/

Shameful things horse owners do to their horses.

http://shameinthehorseshowring.blogspot.com/

Fugly blog in a nutshell - don't breed it!

http://www.fuglyblog.com/

A new addition to the morning blog list, this site encompasses why I am a Target gal.

http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/

Cute sleeping kittens. All you really need.

http://dreamingofkittens.com/

Pics of otherwise attractive women in rather odd situations.

http://hawtness.com/

AWESOME customer stories for anybody that has ever had to "help" a customer.

http://notalwaysright.com/

Little moments of WIN!

http://itmademyday.com/

Not always funny, but cars do get in strange places...

http://thatwillbuffout.com/

One of the only sites to make me laugh at my desk - some of these are priceless.

http://thisisphotobomb.com/

Kids can fail too.

http://myfirstfail.com/

Truly awful wedding photos. 'What Not to Wear", wedding edition.

http://wedinator.com/

It's been a while...

Sorry about that! To all zero of you that actually read this, ha ha.

Things have been busy - I am dipping my toes into the territory of "making tack for other people", and so far it's going swimmingly. One of the sets is in trade with Tiffany Purdy, she's doing a REALLY COOL custom for me to look like my old arab stud! I can't wait!

I only have a handful of weekends left to work on tack until my room will need to be packed up, so I am not wasting any time. This weekend I should finish Tiffany's set, and make a lot of progress on the other two sets I am working on! One of them will be a traditional sized pleasure set in light oil, rose tooling, tons of silver and studs. It'll be for sale on MH$P when completed! I hope to have some progress photos this weekend.

Take care everybody!

130-something old photos of me & the animals of my life

Breyerfest is - over. I have no big model horse event to plan for now! I'm still trying to wrap my brain around what that means, so have been doing some little "one day" projects to fill the time. One of those projects is getting all of my old photos scanned in. We have a lovely scanner at work, so I stayed late today and got through about 130 photos. The picasa link will be below - and if you have time, I wrote comments for every photo, and they make the most sense if you start from the beginning.



It's been a very nostalgic, rather depressing evening. I need a horse, you guys. Real bad.

Here's the photos.

(Yes - a great many of the photos have PROOF on them. Unfortunately a bunch of the photogs are now out of business, and I can't get shots. Also, most of them won't keep photos more than 5-8 years old, of which all these are. So please nobody yell at me for using proofs instead of a paid-for image, this is just my personal use anyway.)

NAN, short report

It's over! I'm still exhausted. Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights I got two, four, and five hours of sleep. Last night I slept for 12 - and feel a lot better today!

The show was incredible, and went really really well for me. All in all, I ended up with eight championships, four reserve championships, and sixty top tens. Many of those are due to Miss Jennifer Buxton - without her making me those two extra english sets at the eleventh hour, I would have had to scratch two models from showing! It would have been a disaster!

This is the champ I was the most excited about, in CM Western Pleasure.

When I first got into showing, I could never imagine doing well in such a tack-specific class as western pleasure. There was no way I could afford to buy the really fancy saddles I saw winning. That motivation was the first thing that got me into tack making in the first place, so winning a national championship in that class was really special for me. The saddle pictured here is a replica of Tracy Eilers' real show saddle. The replica saddle is a gift to Tracy for all of the things she does for me, as well as just for being such a great friend. It makes me truly happy to be able to give gifts like this.

I have posted my NAN photos here:

http://picasaweb.google.com/erin.corbett/Nationals2009?feat=directlink

They are 95% my horses, but I did put a caption on most of them - maybe it'll be semi-interesting? It's bittersweet that the whole thing is over now. I'll be able to do other things with my nights and weekends for a bit, although I am even more excited about tack making again. I had a great discussion with Carolyn Boydston at the show, and she has some pictures of an ancient warrior statue with really neat tack I want to try to make - the bridle has DEER ANTLERS on it! How neat would that be!? It will be fun to make some tack that isn't so boxed in to 'working western' or 'western pleasure'.

I do have Breyerfest coming up in roughly three weeks though. That will be much easier though - since I am flying, I am only going to show one, maybe two horses in performance, and then just OF and CM minis. It will be a great time, and I am looking forward to hanging out with the mom-unit!

No pics - sorry!

I have a camera full of pics, but still have to pack my customs and resins for tomorrow - so no pictures tonight guys, sorry! NAN today was awesome, but of course exhausting. I ended up with twenty-something top tens, and three champs!

More on Sunday! Tomorrow we'll be there even later because of the auction, but I expect to be home in plenty of time to post all the pics from the weekend on Sunday.

Off to get ready for round two!

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It's 1:46 AM, the morning of my busiest day at NAN. I'm just now going to bed. I'll wake up again in a tad less than four hours.

I AM A CRAZY WOMAN. SOMEBODY PLEASE HELP ME.