Ribbons, Instagram Recap December 2019

Random Images

The world is vast & weird.

 

 
Posts through December 2019 from my blog Instagram account, @myvirtualbrushbox. Previous [It’s Gramming Cats & Dogs, Instagram Recap October 2019]. Individual Instagrams below 2019 recaps.

Do you Instagram? Please let me know your account in the comments. (From a suggestion by Millennial Life Crisis.)

Remarks
After saying [Oct] that I was not going to do another set of themed Instagram posts, I fell right back down the rabbit hole. I’m pleased with the variety I was able to introduce into the basic subject of horse show ribbons.

All but the first and last are from or related to Stepping Stone Farm. Four are from the same show: cat, boot ribbon, glass trophy, and multi-color costume ribbon.

Posts by Subject
Horses: 4
Cats: 1
Misc: 4

Posts by Location
SSF: 5
Home: 1, trophy
Other: 3, weaving studio, Murfreesboro TN, Chelsea AL

Posts by Likes
The two ASB posts were most liked by a long shot. Saddle seat may not be blog-heavy, but they are big on visuals.

2019 As Told By Instagram

[It’s Gramming Cats & Dogs, Instagram Recap October 2019]

[Synecdoches and Soft Kitties, Instagram Recap August 2019]

[What Does Your Phone Say About You? Instagram Recap, June 2019]

[Looking Back, Milton & Moonlight, Instagram Recap, April 2019]

Rain, Pool Noodles, and a Monty Python Quote, Instagram February 2019

December Recap, Individual Posts

www.jeekeehoo.com

Because I managed to omit the obvious, door decoration at Stepping Stone Farm.

[Neither Sound Nor Light, Halloween 2019]

Clockwise from left, Dottie, Promise, Promise, Whiskey. None mine; all long-distance, vicarious horse showing [Where I Am Not]. Photos by Courtney Huguley.

[Getting Our Hunter On, Show Report, SSF Home Show 2019]

[Taking The Reins, Show Report, Alabama Charity 2019, Driving]
[Putting The Show In Showmanship, Show Report, Alabama Charity 2019, Riding]
Photos by Courtney Huguley

A hunter barn down the street from us, Facebook. Driving by & stopped into check out their Halloween show. The color scheme of these ribbons gave me the idea for the themed posts.

Thank you for reading,
Katherine Walcott

Flying Pigs

Celebrating Art

 

by Nikumo
Instagram: nikumo_

Something perky pinky for your post-Christmas &/or mid-week doldrums.

Artist’s Statement
“Thank you for having entrusted me with the realization of this drawing. It’s a first time for me and making these little pigs was very fun !”

What?
“If Rodney sets a hoof in a show ring … I will commission an artwork of flying pigs wearing iceskates while singing.” [A Radiance of Ribbons]

No. Seriously. What?
Explanation [Visions of Flying Pigs Wearing Iceskates While Singing, Help Me Make It Happen]. In the comments for this post, magreenlee introduced me to the artist.

A triumph for horse showing, art, and blog connections.

Update
[Piiiiiigs In Briiiiiiks]

Thank you for reading,
Katherine Walcott

Don Me Now My Gay Apparel, Equestrian Blogger Gift Exchange 2019

Blogging About Blogging

Let’s Get Meta

 

First Order Of Business
All hail The Printable Pony for organizing the blogger gift exchange. These things are always more of a hairball than they seem from the outside. How hard can it be to collect a few names, match them up, & list the resulting blog posts? Ha! My sympathies.

If you want to see what folks are getting, blog roll at The Printable Pony: Thank You 2019 Gift Exchange Participants!

To: Me
From: Equinpilot

The haul
Horses – German horse muffins, Uckele Equine Equitreats, & Start to Finish apple treats
Dog – Pupperoni
Cats – treat potpourri
Me – two shirts

The pink shirt was exactly what I asked for. When I say exactly what I asked for, I mean “exactly.” The sign-up sheet had a space for notes. I asked for a 2x shirt from where the person lived, regardless of whether or not the result had anything to do with horses. Is being that specific helpful or greedy?

I wear big shirts as at-home lounge wear in warm weather. Since I am home a lot and it is warm a lot, I go through a lot of oversized shirts. Either they wear out, or they are from past activities that I am over. Clean cups!

So, when I wear this, I can think about the blog, about blogging, and about the new friends I have met in giving and receiving. And about pink Marines. I have so many questions.

Saved the best for last. Custom drawing of Milton & Rodney. On a shirt. With bows. I must buy these bows and take this picture. Awesome the shirt is. Gobsmacked I am. Would it be weird to frame a t-shirt?

Thank you Equinpilot!

Here’s what EP got as their blogger gift, Equinpilot: 2019 Blogger Gift Exchange.

To: Quantum Chromatic Abberation
From: Me
When I signed up for the Equestrian Blogger Gift Exchange, I had such plans. I was going to read the target blog throughly, in its entirety if feasible, and craft the perfect suite of low-price, adorable gifts ideally suited to the blogger. The recipient would have fallen back in awe at my ability to encapsulate them in a box.

Then I got QCA.

QCA has a wish list.

The wish list had a book.

Welp, that was easy.

I’m a sucker for books, [Retail Therapy]. I wrote about them professionally for years. I have a book feature on the blog, [Have You Read This? Travel]. I am on the record as liking to send books to people, “Everybody wins! Giving away books is fun! I need to stop having giveaways if I refuse to pick a winner!” [$700 Giveaway, see comment].

The outcome was inevitable.

It’s more than I was supposed to spend, but when you add in the shipping I would have paid for the items I would have bought, not *that* much more. That’s my story.

Their copy, Quantum Chromatic Abberation: Blogger Gift Exchange! I also ordered a copy for myself, [Tsundoku Additions].

Update
[Gift Theory and Blogger Gift Exchange Follow Up]

Thank you for reading,
Katherine Walcott

Blogiversary, Quilty Logo

Celebrating Art

 

 
Eight Years today. Post #2829. First post [We begin. Again.].

Process Notes
Meg [Threads, Archive] introduced me to Bonnie Hunter’s blog, Quiltville’s Quips & Snips!, which led me to Kevin the Quilter. On the link, October…thus far…. , Kevin taught a class where they made quilts from blocks of color strips. Oooh pretty. How can I use that?

Bottom layer. Color strips from photo exercise [Blue At The Barn] made into blocks …

…. then “quilted.”

Top layer. Letter template. Got the idea from the post Kevin’s post Quilty Visits Part 1 where he shows making a block of color & then trimming. I didn’t trim. Laid template on top as a reverse mask. Color showed through. Same result.

Voilà. Quilt letters.

Note to self. Be really, really sure you are happy with an element before you cut & paste it 24 times.

Quilt Posts
[Text Art: Q is for Quilt]
[Gift Celebration]
[Framed!]
[Threads Make Feathers, Guest Post]
[Letter Art, AlphaBooks: R is for Rubin]
Not a quilt post, but the result is quiltesque. [Foto Friday: Weaving With Light]

Blog Anniversary Posts
Mentioned in 2018 [Christmas Gift].
In 2017, got caught up in Christmas & forgot about anniversary [The Night The Animals Talked].
Noted in 2016 [Five Years Ago Today]
Didn’t commemorate prior to 2015.
2015 [Doctor Hooves Meets Manehattan]
2014 [Penguin Farm]
2013 [Text Art: Holiday Stickers]
2012 [Goodbye & Hello]

Thank you for reading,
Katherine Walcott

Short But Frightening, Contest Entries

Writing About Writing

 
Looking Back
Frightening First Line

We could have avoided so much tragedy, if only the aliens had not landed on Halloween.

“Create the first line of a frightening story … limit was 31 words.”
My entry was 16 words.
Frightening First Line Contest
Winner & Runner’s Up
Gotham Writers
[Can You Write Short?]

Last Date

Harvests failed. People migrated. Residents objected. Tempers flared. Then violence. Strife. Peace. Symbolic tree planted. Became known as The War of the Last Date. #GWstorieseverywhere
@willwrite4feed

“Each month we invite you to post a story on Twitter.” #GWSE
My entry was exactly 25 words, but only 186 characters.
##GWstorieseverywhere, Last Date, November 2019
Winner, November
Gotham Writers
[Can You Write Short?]

Looking Forward
Mistakes Were Made
“The year 2020 reminds us of the phrase: Hindsight is 20/20. So we invite you to look back on your life and tell us about something that, in hindsight, you would have done differently.” Mistakes Were Made
Requirements: 20 words, March 1, 2020, free
Mistakes Were Made
Gotham Writers

December: Overstayed welcome
“Each month we invite you to post a story on Twitter.” #GWSE
Requirements: 25 words, posted on Twitter, end of the month, free
#GWstorieseverywhere
Gotham Writers

Did anyone else enter?

Thank you for reading,
Katherine Walcott