My mom and I had so much fun making Baltic plywood horses last winter that I thought we'd do it again. This round I fenangled to get 31 horses and all their parts out of a smallish piece of plywood, and this year, instead of carefully sanding the pieces by hand, I whipped out the deck sander and buzzed all the little pieces with that. Only if some tiny corners needed smoothing did I do a bit of hand-sanding. What a time-saver!
Also this year mom and I splurged a bit and got 25+ four-ounce bottles of water color paints in a wild range of color. So with all our fancy colors, we sure had fun decorating our latest horse herd. For last year's herd, check out Baltic Plywood Horses of 2015.
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| For a couple of days, our kitchen table was buried in fun stuff! |
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| While some horse parts were drying, was busy painting on another horse. Four horses in progress in this picture. |
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| These were our most creative (and unusual) horses this year. |
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| Mom gave her retired friends all a belated Christmas present ... and wow were they pleased for something "fun" to add to their Christmas trees for next year. |
Sure is fun painting them (and a lot of work) but really have no use for them now, so have asked my brother to give them away at a children's hospital around Christmas. I can't imagine a better place to send them off to!
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