NEW! Rustic Wood Blacksmith Shop Sign

Two NEW Collectable Girly Horse Sculptures from Enesco

NEW!! COFFEE & DOG HAIR - I Never Leave Home Without Them

ON CLOSEOUT: Sleeping Angel Puppy  This sweet little resin sculpture measures 7" tall x 10" wide x 7" deep. Makes a great gift for a special dog lover, or for yourself.
We used to have a horse version of this sculpture, but can NOT get any more from that vendor. This comes from a different company, and they don't have a horse. Regular price on this is $31.95, we've marked it down to $26.95 - while supplies last.
To see all our dog lovers gifts click here
For our memorial products (both horse and dog) books, jewelry, etc click here 

Matted and Framed POSTAGE STAMP Print - I wanted to keep these all for myself... but they're not giving anyone any enjoyment wrapped in bubble wrap on the shelf. UPS oversize charges keep climbing and if I continue to wait I might have to get a loan just to afford to ship them! (just kidding)

Amazing is the only word we could come up with to describe these. Everything about these is cultural, textural, rich - fascinating. Jack Klein is a graphic designer by trade, and a postage stamp collector too. His passions are apparent in these framed pictures. He painstakingly selects the appropriate stamps from around the world (about 50 per picture), steams them free from their envelopes and then reapplies them to these artfully designed backgrounds - all perfectly straight and centered. Amazing. Then, as if that were not enough, he cuts the words & logos out of the linen textured mat and assembles the whole works up in a nice wood frame. (we think Jack may be a bit of an over-achiever, but we love the results!)

Here's a closeup that shows the detail of the Man's Best Friend mat, frame and actual stamps. Most stamps are postmarked, and many are from foreign countries. They are varying ages, from modern to quite old.

We've also got a horse version that uses eqine stamps; HORSEPOWER.

We've put them on closeout, quantities are limited - order yours here.

With this horse training book - Just a few simple lessons and you can do this! (not really) the headline was sparked by the fact that whenever we bring a new product on board, I need to figure out where to put it, so folks looking can find it. Without getting into tedious details, our website is not clever enough to re-categorize items based on what the viewer is looking for. I have to decide where it goes, and there it stays. Ever complain about where they put stuff in the grocery? I used to, too, until I started doing this. It's harder than you'd imagine, and easy to make yourself crazy if you over-think things.

Which brings me back to this new book;

More about Lorenzo: Once you get past the notion that Lorenzo on the cover looks just like Jerry Seinfeld in the Puffy Shirt episode (more pictures here), you can get down to business enjoying the photos and text chronicling his remarkable life with horses. Just the section of the book that tells about his acquisition of the six grey horses shown on the cover is worth the price of the whole book; He went to Portugal and purchased a mob of unhandled 2-year-old fillies. Descriptive terms used are "wild and unruly", "real little devils", "wild as a pack of young wolves". As you can see, the transformation is remarkable. Throughout this book you will follow Lorenzo through his childhood, the development of his training methods, and finally as a renowned performer. And yes, he does occasionally fall off and get hurt. The book talks candidly about that, too. It's a wonderful addition to any equine library. To order click here.

Every newsletter I send out, I tell you all to SEE WHAT YOU MISSED - by checking our newsletter archives here.

The truth is, I don't know if anyone ever does. It's a useful page (pictured below) where you can click on the red words and it opens a web page of that newsletter. If you deleted one from your email, or want to forward it to a friend, you can go to this page and just copy/paste the URL instead of forwarding the whole thing - the recipient can click on the link and read as a web page...

I use it, not because I like to re-read all the stuff I wrote, but to review what I've talked about lately, or find a specific old issue that talks about something related to the current issue. Here's a clever little trick I use a lot - you can quickly find a single word (or words) on a web page by using this little trick: Press CTRL + F (Command + F on Mac). A little box will appear across the bottom of the page. Type the word(s) in there. They'll then appear highlighted within the text. The buttons beside help you choose - next / previous / all. So - if I want to know the last time I talked about my tired trail horse Billy - I type Command + F, put Billy in the box, and can easily find any and all newsletters containing that word in the summary. This helps me keep variety in what I talk about, and I can recycle content that's relevant to the current issue I am working on.

Through a series of unfortunate events, some of which were my fault, some not, the archive page was wrecked. Newsletters older than 2010 had disappeared entirely, all the rest were missing the little summaries. Tech support said there was no way to get it back. It was a pretty big deal and I did a lot of ranting about it - the only way to get it back was to open each email and RE-TYPE all those summaries one at a time.

As if on cue, I opened an email in my inbox that said;

This timely bit of wisdom came from Betsy Saul, co-founder of the wildly successful Petfinder.com website. She goes on to elaborate in a funny and thought-provoking blog post titled "Life on the farm breeds its own disasters" here.

Thanks to Betsy's timely blog post, I was able to slog through re-creating most of the summaries. I've still got the older ones left to do, but for the most part the task is done (whew!)

RECAP - From the last newsletter 

Here's what we talked about last time: 
What's the real value of that horse? here
GOOD STUFF: Blue Pony with Spots story here
Horsewoman's Hair Control here
Revisiting a favorite: The Horse Boy book here