We are all bad hobbyists and we know it. Here are five bad model horse habits we know we all do but need to STOP NOW!
1. Un-named
Unnamed is not a name. You cannot call your horse that. Seriously, take them out of those boxes, give them names and love them! You wanted them when you bought them, so appreciate them.
What is this? Just one of the massive piles of unboxed model horses I appear to own. Who is in there? Who knows. I certainly don't.
2. Savings? What are savings?
I'm going to save up and get that model I've always wanted you say in a positive state of mind. Two weeks later you're at a live show and somehow all those savings went on something else. Stop it people. Impulse buying is bad.
Just one of my many impulse buys, I very much had to raid my savings for this guy!
3. UFOs
ONE PROJECT AT A TIME! I know I know, you are working on a thing then you see another thing and another and another and another and then ooo that's a fun looking new skill. And before you know it nothing is finished and everything is started.
*shouts* ONE PROJECT AT A TIME
*shouts* ONE PROJECT AT A TIME
Just one of my body shelves. I really need to show some self-control.
4. Dusting? Nope not heard of that one either
I am so so guilty of this one. They never get dusted. Ever. But then I get moaned at by show judges and then I'm like "I KNOW" as I criticise someone for exactly the same thing. At least dust them before shows people.
This isn't as bad as I thought it would be! Do you know how hard it is to stand on a chair and take a photo of a top shelf? It's not easy!
5. I'll definitely organise that
We all have dreams of beautifully organised records, breed cards and props. But the reality? Yea we are tired, we have so much to do, it's so much easier to throw it in a pile.
Sorry for the slightly NSFW photo but this pretty much sums up my approach to tack and props right now. Note the carefully labelled boxes on the left that everything should be stored in.
If you are currently in isolation why not take some time to undo some of those bad habits? Finish those projects, catalogue those models and organise your tack and props! You can do it people!
Hah, I'm guilty of most of these!
ReplyDeleteMy un-nameds I try to guilt myself into naming by deliberately and stubbornly not putting them away til they're called something. In two forms - the physical model horse stays on my mantelpiece so I see it every time I look up, and also the photo of the horse stays in my laptop's 'newpics' folder so I see it every time I take a picture of anything else afterwards. As a measure of how effective this is, there's currently 11 horses making a mismatched herd of brands and scales around my living room clock :D
Number 5, the organisation thing...let's just say I'm KNOWN at Julip shows for my tack room. The tack room is a performance/scene class entry, but it is also the actual place that I store and transport all my tack and props, in one massive tangled ball of stuff complete with snipped up 12th scale real horse hair (from the grooming scene I did about ten years ago) and dead spider bits. It takes a good twenty minutes and much grumping and groaning to pick apart the chaos and set it up as a scene entry, and every year I decide I'm never taking it again and giving the whole performance section a miss. Then each year, I think 'Well I may as well do ONE ridden', and shove the tack room in with my packing cos everyone's tack is IN there and I can't face hunting for it at 2.30am.