Diary of a dinosaur

I started this post in June, right after Anna Miller and Anna Kearn's Jurassic Classic Model Horse Show.

Before I could finish it, Olive colicked, and everything kind of went sideways. For more than three months, the post languished, mostly forgotten, in my draft folder. It might have stayed there forever, but yesterday, I needed a picture of model Olive in a Halloween costume.

One thing led to another, and the post has been revived. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Thank you, Karin. This is awesome!

Diary of a Dinosaur

by Karin Hullatti

May 22:Guess I should start prepping for the performance classes at the show in June.

May 23: I have a million things to do. Guess I’ll make a dinosaur costume for a model horse, because I have Priorities.

Also May 23: I somehow got on a list to take a survey about Breyer horses. The woman giving the survey had never heard of the company. She asked, “So you, an adult, collect them, as well as get them for your children?” 

“Yes.” 

“How many do you have?” 

“I don’t know, probably about sixty five-ish traditional scale? Many more stablemates, I haven’t counted them.” 

She asked more questions about buying habits, and I explained that I buy more secondhand than from the company, there is a large collector market, and that Breyer actively encourages customizing so I purchase bodies.

“Bodies?” she asked.

"That is what we call the ones we customize, " I explain.  I can tell she is starting to feel out of her depth, so I added, “Right now I am making a papier-mâché dinosaur costume for one. "

*silence*

May  26: They don’t make inflatable dinosaur costumes in 1:9 scale, so I made my own.

June 1: Whew! Made is home safe and sound from Jurassic Classic up in Cheyenne. I did a lot better than I expected to, and my best girl Princess was Champion of the Dino Performance division with her costume.  It was her first ever live show, and the whole thing was just ridiculous.

Thank you so much, Karin. I love everything about this costume - and this post! - even though it took me three full months to share!