On Friday I sent 7 songs out each claiming that that one was the best. My Dad told me not to do that again and my Mom said it would make people un-follow me. I sorta don’t want that. I just really like Johnny Cash. Sorry.
THE PONY-POINT BATTLE
Between Indira and Kaia
But on Friday, Kaia got ahead of Indira in the race to get the most points. I didn’t think it could be done, but Kaia posted nearly 50 comments on that single day. She went from about 200 points to 700. At the moment, Kaia is sitting at 780 and her first pony, Sugar Cubes, is healthy. Indi has had her horse Snow for several months and has exactly 782 points and an English saddle. Since both champions have a horse, I thought it would be fun to have a super-hard horse quiz that these winners will have to take to speed ahead with 500 more points and a red ribbon, which is required for several future contests.
Wait, didn’t I already do this? No, I did a horse pillow case. This is a horse pillow. It’s only 9 x 9 inches, if you cut straight. It has a horse-head appliqué and a fuzzy mane if you cut it out of felt.
18 inch by 9 inch of fabric ( I used a pink starfish one)
scraps of blue floral (or whatever preferred fabric)
scraps of yellow felt
Polyester filling
First of all, draw a horse head on a piece of freezer paper. Make sure it will fit in a 9 in square. Once you’re happy with your drawing, cut it out and iron the paper (shiny side on the bottom) onto your blue fabric. Keep pressing until it sticks. Cut the blue fabric along your already-cut freezer paper. Peel off the paper and the blue fabric should be shaped like a horse head. Just edit the head if the ears are too long or other adjustments. Next, cut slots out of a 3-4 inch yellow strip of felt to make it mane-y.
Pin the yellow mane where it belongs on blue head and sew with the machine or by hand. Fold your pink fabric in half so it’s a 9in square. This will be the finished size. Lay and pin the horse head in place. Use the machine to attach. It should all be one piece now, so fold in half inside out. Sew around two of the sides, not counting the folded side. Flip it right-side out. Fill with Polyester filling and sew last edge by hand.
(Sorry, I wrote this yesterday, but didn’t have time to post it. So just pretend I said this yesterday at 9:00 P.M)
I remember last year I posted a single-sentence post about me being 10. Well, this year is going to be different, because I already beat the record by typing this sentence up.
As I have grown, so has my writing. Some of you older followers might have remembered when I posted some… very embarrassing posts. (I said that???? P.S. I already deleted the big one… 10!) Luckily, WordPress lets me delete those words with satisfaction.
On one hand, I could think Wow, my writing has improved a lot! But on the other hand, It took me a year to get this far? I should be writingway better that this! I am choosing to go the optimistic route, since it is my birthday.
Writing about something other than fiction is actually more fun than I thought, since once I’m talking, it’s hard to stop. Last year, I was pouting and crying because my best-friend couldn’t come to my birthday party. Technically, Mom and Dad didn’t say I could have a party… 🙄 but I invited her anyway. I guess it was good, then, that she couldn’t come. I would have the embarrassment of having to tell my best friend that she made the 4 hour drive for nothing.
Luckily, I didn’t try that this year. I sorta had a party, because my next-door neighbor came over to play, but we didn’t eat the cake then.
As you might know, I LOVE baking, so I decided to do a two-tier cake for my birthday. It’s sorta a tradition for us to bake our own cakes (with assistance) for our own birthday. I am a little too embarrassed to post the picture, so I’m just going to describe it to you. It was iced with soft green buttercream and it had neon green drips. I put my Breyer Stablemate Horses on top of the tiers to make it seem pasture-y.
Drip Cakes
Tiers. I did two, but this video is for three
Apparently, when you slice though a tier cake, you don’t slice through all the tiers at once. I didn’t know that. I had two tall bottom layers and a one-layer top tier. I don’t know if you can count that as a tier, but I think so, because it was still smaller than my first tier. 🤣I had to make the slices SO thin to be able to get eat-able (is that even a word??) sized pieces. It was really, really hard getting the first size right.
The Prancing Pony Club 