craft fairs, straight lines and textiles.

hi y'all well there's been no riding today unfortunately not sure when there next will be but hopefully there will be some soon as I am missing it like mad!

okay so today's thing that's got me thinking is... the horses Rhythm. Now to most people this doesn't sound that important but to us horse people it is a key thing when riding, whether when doing flat work or when Jumping.When Jumping it is Important to keep an even rhythm because it helps to set the horse up for the jump that is about to do and it doesn't make the jump appear to be sloppy. Also because if your horse keeps speeding up and then slowing down, it makes the horse unbalanced, which gives you more risk of knocking a pole down or of slipping out of canter (if that is the pace that you are in).

Another thing that I would like to mention is riding a straight line in a dressage test. When Gemma first started teaching me she spent two or three weeks making us ride a straight line which to start with I thought was boring, but I didn't realise how hard it was. When riding a dressage test the majority of the time the judge will be positioned at 'C' so can tell whether you halt straight, whether when your riding down the centre line you are moving slightly to the left or slightly to the right. When we were doing it Gemma told us to focus on a particular place that was in the middle of the school this could be 'C' or if there's something else in the same area using that like in our indoor school behind 'C' is a door and above the door is a green fire escape exit light, so you could choose to focus on that. Riding a straight line is where the majority of people lose their makes because they might move slightly to the left or slightly to the right. I think that it is really important now to practice riding that straight line til its the best of our ability. What do you guys think?

Today I have finally got round to spending time doing textiles work. Yesterday my mum and I went to the Hunkydory Craft Fair at Donington Race Course in the Exhibition hall. While we were there we had to wait for an hour to get in as they had sold far too many tickets. When we got in it was packed and we found that a lot of the stalls where selling the same thing. I ended up purchasing some water colour paints that are pearlescent (making the water colours sparkle and glitter). I also bought some pan pastels, as they were on offer at 3 for £15.99, I bought a baby pink colour, orange and a deep purple, and have used these on my textiles coursework that I have been doing. I am now two pages off finishing the first section of my coursework portfolio, including doing three title pages, that I have done the backgrounds using the panpastels then have drawn two (on each page) people in different belly dancing positions, I then added colour to them using paint (acrylic), glitter and glue, and finally guilding flakes. I will post pictures of these tomorrow when I am in a better light so that you can see what I have been working on. So I am a little bit closer to being ready for school which starts back again in three weeks, not a lot closer but a little is better than none.

Tomorrow I have got a hospital appointment, that is to find out whether or not I have got a stomach ulcer, we might be getting closer to finding out why I have got all the stomach problems that I have. Then I will be heading over to my sister's house to watch Brody whilst her and my mum go to the Doctors.

Until then.

A Girl With A Dream.

CON ARTIST - NICKI WILLIAMS - BEWARE

Okay so this post has taken me a while to post for several reasons but the main one being just how angry this woman has made me. For those of you that have been following my blog for a long while you will know that back around October of 2016, I was introduced to a woman called Nicki Williams, she was a friend of a friend that was supposed to be opening a centre for rehoming and rescuing animals, but also for horses working with soldiers that has PTSD. We hit it off straight away and came what I thought to be good friends. However warning bells should have probably rang sooner. By January or February of last year the horses that I had agreed to look after (that she had got on loan) Bella and Arthur, she was being threatened that she would have them taken off her by the control of horses act, because she hadn't been paying the rent for the field. Although Nicki reassured me that she had done, she even showed my 'payments' that had been made to Angie. I ended up getti...

Picture time Part one

Hiya Guys, I can't say that I've really done much today other than finding myself sleeping lots. After the past week being quite stressful as well as the few weeks before leading up to the court date it's safe to say I've hit my barrier where all I really want to do is sleep. The problem is though that I am sleeping during the day and then it gets to 11pm roughly and I find myself wide awake and on my laptop looking for something to do that is going to make me feel sleepy. I've tried reading a book and I start to feel really sleepy but then the minute that I turn the light off and put the book down, bang, I'm wide awake again. As I've not really done a lot I thought that I would take this opportunity to post some pictures up from the last time that I jumped Gatsby (also the first time I fell off him). Most of these pictures were taken by the boyfriend but some were also taken by my amazing mum. So here you go guys. :) Really do love this pic...

Switching Sides.

You might think that this is a bit of a weird title post but by the end of this post it will become clear what it means. But before we move on to the riding part of my post, I'll do the everyday part. To start with my mum had to take my dad to the doctors as he has been having a stiff neck and back and finding it really uncomfortable to move, they've referred him on to a physiotherapist. This afternoon I accompanied my mum on a business appointment. Early in the week she made three special hand made wedding cards for a family and the wedding invitations needed to be sent abroad so she only had two hours from the start til the end of the project. They said that they would ring her back and sort out doing the rest of the cards. Today we went back to the same family and sorted out what we were doing for the bulk majority of wedding cards and then what we were doing for the other 10 Special cards for the same wedding. Now on to the riding, today I think that my riding w...

The way to heaven is on horseback

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