New Work

Busy as a bee here before a trip out west to see my grandmother on her 80th birthday. My Mom and twin sisters and I are going, should be a lot of fun (although I hate to fly, ugh).

"Catrina" - Day of the Dead Kitty - SOLD

Friesian Welcome Sign -11" x 14"

  $100 plus shipping

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Barn Owl - 11" x 14" - acrylic on wood

$120 plus shipping

She looks nice hanging in my dining room with the old photo of my grandparents and the antique cuckoo clock we inherited from my husband's family.

Meemee and Zazu say hello today too.

Zazu doesn't do Mondays.



Martha My Dear,

Your Halloween issue ROCKS! When I heard that this special issue was out on the shelves I rushed to my local bookstore in hopes of securing a copy (like I do every year - it is the best Halloween magazine out there). Little did I know what a tremendous surprise was in store for me when I got there.
I nearly had to be taken out on a stretcher when I saw that on the cover was the most magnificent, spooktacular photograph of you as a ghostly equestrienne with your gorgeous black Friesian Rutger! Oh how I am still swooning over that breathtaking horse! I knew you would eventually see how utterly magical Halloween horses are!
Thank you for showing the rest of the world!
~Jennifer Gypsy Mare Studios



I am also very excited to share a sneak peek of my newest Headless Horseman folk art painting. I will have him up on Ebay tomorrow night although I will have a very hard time parting ways with this piece!



I'm not usually a person that posts a lot of blog awards but Linda at Pyewacketts gave me this cool, witchy award that I think Martha herself would approve of!

Rare Bird?

While out for a walk the other day a flash of red caught my eye in a pine tree. At first I thought it was just an ordinary cardinal but upon closer inspection I realized it was a bird I had never seen before. Now I have three bird feeders and a birdbath outside my window. I love to take walks in parks and through woods. I have several books on birds. It was such a surprise to see something new. He was hanging out in a pine tree with his mate. Luckily I had a camera and was able to take his picture. Wish it could have been a better shot. Of course people reading this probably see these birds all the time and think I'm weird for writing about it. According to my book he's a white winged crossbill and they don't usually venture down this far south.




I felt like painting a few signs today since my daughter went to spend the day with her Grandmother. Both pieces are currently on Ebay.

Horse Show (kinda)

I drug my poor husband and child to a horse show tonight at the Quentin Riding Club. I was a little reluctant to go because I had tried to go to a TWH show only a few weeks before and when we got there, no one else was there. Cancelled I guess.
So we get to this show and I had known it was going to be mainly saddle seat which is not my favorite discipline, but I thought I could get some nice photos to use as reference.
Well, when we pulled in I saw two horses. That was a good sign, at least something was going on. We get out of the car and the first of the evening's classes was about to start. There were two horses in the class! Yikes, not much of a show. Luckily my family found a slide and swing to play on while I tried to take a few photos because it was God aweful boring. I have never seen a show with such a small turnout. The next class was one for Friesians and lucky for me, two showed up. I was able to take a few shots of one in particular but the lady did not seem too impressed with me. I found her website tonight and I can see she probably thinks very highly of herself. She mentions several times about her friendship with Carson Kressley. How dare some peasant want to photograph her magnificent steed.
Then I watched another saddlebred class and that was it for me. I don't know why anyone would want to ride an animal like that. It is a shame what they do to them. They look so unnatural and they really try to work the poor things up by hissing at them during the class. They could barely stop the things when asked and it just didn't look like any fun at all. So, here are a few of my photos. Wish I could have taken more but there was only about 8 horses there!

Lovely dappled dark bay Morgan.

3 year old Saddlebred.

Does this look like a fun ride?


I bet this horse could play a mean game of Twister!


Whoa, you won a blue ribbon! All you had to do was beat one other horse.


Pretty boy.


"Lady, could you let go of my face for a second!"








Hey lady, that's an awefully high horse you're on!