This hobby horse made by Dandee is just perfect for little horse mad children and you can make it yourself.
You will need:
- A large sock
- 2 soft toy eyes
- Felt
- Wool
- Stuffing
- String
- Wooden dowel or broom stick
- Sissors
- Large eyed needle
This hobby horse made by Dandee is just perfect for little horse mad children and you can make it yourself.
You will need:
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Joining in My Equestrian World 's Motivational Monday
with their supberb:
"There is no failure except in no longer trying" Elbert Hubbard
"Don't be afraid to stand out from the crowd"
Feel free to share but please attribute the work to http://myequestrianworld.blogspot.co.uk/
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The Donkey Sanctuary knitted donkeys are proving so popular that they need extra help!
The Donkey Sanctuary are looking for keen knitters to turn their needles towards creating a herd of knitted donkeys to sell through their Visitor's Centre and online Gift Shop.
Being so popular, the knitted donkeys will help The Donkey Sanctuary to raise much needed funds. The pattern itself originally came from a 1954 issue of the Woman's Weekly magazine. It's wonderful that it has been revived over 50 years later!
As each one is individually hand made, all the knitted donkeys are truly unique creations with their own personalities, just like the Sanctuary's real life donkeys.
The Donkey Sanctuary are thrilled with the success of these lovable characters and due to their popularity, they are calling on their supporters to get knitting and help raise money for the work that they do providing sanctuary for needy donkeys.
To receive a free copy of either knitting pattern, with full instructions, for a 'Woolley' (24cm/9 inch high) or 'Mini Woolley' (12cm/5inches high), contact Ruth in the community fundraising department on 01395 572222.
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{this moment}
A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember.
Joining in SouleMama 's Friday ritual, if you're inspired to do the same visit This moment at SoulMama
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Here's a fun horsey project for adults and children to share:
Back in 2006 New York artist Anne Wood started a project to make and decorate 100 cardboard horses at the rate of one a day. In 2007 the cardboard horses were exhibited at Tinlark in Los Angeles.
Anne has kindly made 3 patterns to download so that you too can make a cardboard horse or maybe a whole herd of cardboard horses. You can choose from 2 adults and a colt. Download the patterns by clicking http://annwood.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/horses.pdf
and follow the instructions at How to make a cardboard horse
You can see all 100 of Anne Wood's carboard horses on her blog Anne Wood
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Image: Owain Davies licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported
hh means hands high
and
a hand is an ancient unit of measurement based on the breadth of the human hand. A horses height is traditionally measured in hands.
A hand is equal to 4 inches or 10.16 centimetres, it is abbreviated to h or when describing the height of a horse hh meaning hands high.
The measurement is taken from ground level to the highest point of the horses withers. The horse needs to be standing square on a smooth level surface. A measuring stick with a spirit level on the cross bar is used. If the horse is shod 1/2 inch (12mm) is deducted off the height.
The above image shows where a horses withers are. Do you know the points of a horse?
Image source: horsevet.co.uk licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
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These photographs are of our friend Jane's day old Shetland pony foal.
Shetland ponies come from the Shetland Isles in Scotland where they have lived for over 2000 years making
the Shetland Pony the oldest of the British Native Breeds.
Archaeologists excavting Bronze Age sites on the Shetland Isles so it is believed that the Shetland Pony has been domesticated
since the Bronze Age.
Winters in the Shetland Isles can be very harsh and the smallness of the Shetland pony enabled it to survive sometimes by eating seaweed on the beach. Shetland ponies are very hardy, very strong and long lived.
A true Shetland pony shouldn't be any
heigher than 42 inches (107cms), measured at the withers, they should
have small heads with long manes and tails and they come in all horse
colours except spotted.
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