Miniatures show horses

I know I said I was going to show you our purchases from the Denver Museum of Miniatures, Dolls & Toys' Fall Show, but I before I do that, here's a look at some of the horses we found in the sales room.

In a space filled with exquisite miniatures, most of the horses we found were decidedly not... that.

"Who you talking about, lady?"

To be fair, most of them weren't supposed to be realistic horses.

There were lots of nursery room horses.

I find these very charming.

That's also the word I would use for this handmade "Clydesdale."

Not realistic, but very charming.

Along the way, we also found some tack.

None of it was model horse hobby standards realistic. All of it was charming.

The most model horse hobby style horses were found at a booth selling miniature bronzes and chinas.

Were I employed, I could have spent a lot of money at this booth.

Next year!

Although most of our time was spent in the sales room, we did tear ourselves away briefly to visit the exhibit hall.

There we found a few more horsey displays.

My favorite was this 1905 Bookmobile.

Here are the deets!

I love mini books almost as much as I love model horses, so this really appeals to me.

The only thing that would make it better is an actual harness!

So now you've seen the horses at the Miniatures Show.

Which ones do you think we bought?

Miniatures show

Yesterday, Alexey and I went to the Denver Museum of Miniatures, Dolls & Toys' Fall Show at the Denver Sheraton West in Lakewood.

I've been aware of this event for years, but this is the first time I've actually attended.

Trust me, it won't be the last.

There was so much amazing stuff for sale in that showroom!

Literally, a little bit of everything.

Heh.

The classic dollhouse scale is 1:12.

No surprise, there was a lot of 1:12 on those tables.

But there was also a lot of smaller scale stuff.

Have you ever held a 1:48 scale cat.

It's really, really, really small.

World's tiniest peacock. 

The offerings were a mix of commercially produced miniatures,

3D printed and laser cut pieces,

individually produced artist pieces...

and all combinations of the above.

Everywhere we looked, temptations abounded.

Alexey wanted sheep.

I wanted an animal planter, but which one? I liked the cats...

But oh! Look at those chickens!

And the snails! And the frogs!

We walked around the room several times.

We ran into Alexey's work friend, Pedro.

We talked to the vendors.

We made some purchases.

And I'll show them to you in the next post.

Re-masked

Nothing lasts forever. This is especially true of Sage's fly masks.

This one survived less than three weeks.

I'd like to say that's a record, but in fact, there was one that was destroyed within three days.

Not funny, Sage. 

Today she got another new one. It's her fifth of the season, but who's counting?

I put it on her in the field and she immediately wandered off to commiserate with Tazz.

"We look dumb."

Sorry girls. It may be mid-September, but fly season is still going strong. This is how it's going to be until the first frost.