New Hatband for a Vintage Hat

I don't usually wear my western hat, especially indoors, but I was wearing my vintage Bailey when I took my BreyerFest Saturday selfie.

I'd been out at the barn and had gotten it out of my tack trunk and brought it home.

I'd gotten that hat in 1971 and wore it when I showed Amy

and Cee back in the 1970s.

Our mutton busting grands, Titan and Cambria, have asked us to come out and watch them rodeo. We looked at our calendars and the date of the rodeo and said we'd be there. And if I am going to a rodeo, I'm going to wear my boots and hat.

The hat has held up well over the years, but the feather on the hatband is tattered. I decided that I would upgrade my hatband and did a little research, finding exactly what I wanted on Etsy from Knot-a-Tail.

She was fast and my new hatband was here within a week, well before we planned to leave.

And the braidwork is lovely.

My hat is dated - it's fifty years old, after all - but I don't care one bit.

This hat has gone to a lot of horsey events with me over the years, and I'm thrilled that I get to wear it to a rodeo, fifty years after I first popped it onto my head.

Etsy Painting

Yes, my Secret Santa knew me, but it was not who I had guessed! It turned out to be Linda, the teacher across the hallway.

Her final gift was this painting she had gotten from Etsy of a girl feeding carrots to a horse in the barn. The girl could be me years ago.

It will look nice hanging in my horse room.