Thursday 27 January 2011

New addition to the family!


Big news of a new arrival later, but the journal page above is something I did a few weeks ago, but it turned out to be strangely prophetic. The quotation is from Dyans Downloads and the image is, I think from Crowabout (I often spend my evenings watching tv with a pile of download sheets and a pair of scissors, so that I just have to delve in my box of images when the creative mood strikes which makes it easy to create, but not necessarily easy to attribute the images to their source). The quotation refers to a kind of pleasure/pain process I have been through this past few weeks. All my life I have wanted my own horse, because although I have ridden almost my whole life, and never been short of horses to exercise, it's a bit like borrowing someone else's car - convenient and cheap but ultimately not what you really want! Anyway, I have been looking off and on for the past two years, but I never found anything I liked enough to make myself cash and time poor for the forseeable future! Until now. Meet Mary:

Now, whilst Mary is not only beautiful by nature and looks, her owner was a nightmare to deal with! So, whilst the overall outcome was positive, I feel a bit about horse-buying the way some people feel about house-buying.

And this is how a horse looks when it is let out for the first time in at least a month:

Tomorrow we are off to get fitted for some tack, and on Saturday we shall be venturing out on our first ride together! There might be a bit of lull in the creative flow whilst we both get used to each other and get fit!

8 comments:

  1. ooooooooh just love your journaling page!!! I adore all the bright colours!!!....and the fun image!!!

    and your horse looks just beautiful!
    Hugs Juls

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  2. Stunning looking horse. I think Mary is a fine looking reason for a lull in creativity. Happy riding!

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  3. Good Luck with your new addition.

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  4. love your journal page! love your horse!

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  5. Great page Sarah! Love the colours. And Hello Mary! Hope you have fun getting to know each other :) x

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  6. How exciting! It's not often we blog visitors have a reason to comment "beautiful journal page and horse!" Oh my goodness! Congratulations! Can't wait to hear how the ride goes and all of the fabulous adventures you will have.

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  7. An award for you on my blog Mrs! x

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  8. Gorgeous page and gorgeous horse! Congrats! What a beautiful creature!!!

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