Happy New Year Everyone!  It always feels good to start out a new year with a clean slate.  Now is the most likely time in our lives when we try to make new years resolutions, or set goals for our lives for the next year.  Well, my life is about to change a whole lot, in a good way!  I found out just before Christmas that I am pregnant!  This will be my first baby!  My husband and I can't wait to start our family.  The going has been rough so far, I've been dealing with a lot of the nausea part of this.  So, I've been a little slow at turning out work, but I did find some time in the last few weeks to make a few new things along with working on some commissions that are going to take a little longer but will be fabulous!

Shown above is a customer request I finished today.  This is one of those collars that I've had for sale, and I made a beaded halter to match it so it made a set.  The halter was made to fit Sahran, and the collar already fits him nicely!  It's really cold outside today, well below zero so pictures were tough!  I'm going to have to build myself a light box really soon so I don't have to battle this dumb cold weather anymore!

Below are 3 new halters that I completed around Christmas time but just haven't made time to upload these photos to my website until now.  These color schemes just struck my fancy one day:

Bird of Paradise

Waterfall

Chocolate Mint

I wanted to try adding a few more tassels to my beaded style so these were a little experimental.  I learn something new about the way I want to make new things each time I make something I know.  (wow, does that make sense?)  I especially like how the lead ropes came out on these, the ends in particular are cute and I will probably being doing more ropes in that style in the future.  Lead ropes are one of those pieces where sometimes they just end up real simple and don't get a whole lot of detail or attention, that's something that I'd like to change on my future work.  The "Bird of Paradise" color scheme is what got me going on these 3, and those colors will likely be used on a feather set in the future.