In order to honor Karen Crossley, a Canadian hobbyist and active blogger who unexpectedly passed away in July, 2020, Jennifer Buxton, Anne Field, and I are finishing Karen's project of going through her collection by alphabet and talking about the models whose names began with those letters. Today is the first anniversary of Karen's passing.
Give me a Q!
Queen Noor
Queen Noor is the name I gave to Steel Dust, a 1994 JAH Subscriber Special. (That date is interesting - she has "JAH '93" inked on her belly.) Her coloring is soft and beautifully blended, and she has done well for me at live and photo shows over the years.
As for her name, she is named after the real Queen Noor, an American woman who married King Hussein of Jordan in 1978 and became Queen consort.
Quiatenon/Ouiatenon
The John Henry mold has its flaws, but if there were a model horse I'd love to have come to life so I could ride it, it would be John Henry (And Giselle - both look like sane, easy to ride, salt of the earth type horses.)
Quiatenon is the Western Horse from the 1994 JCP Holiday set. Since he is pre-2002, he is from the older "lumpy mold" - you can see those lumps in the photo. (The mold was smoothed out after 2002 - check our your Pech Merle if you got one.)
When I showed performance, he was my go-to horse. This is Qiuatenon at the 1995 NAN where he Top Tenned. (Kathy Bateman made his saddle.)
I now spell this model's name with an O instead of a Q. "Quiatenon" is actually a common misspelling of "Ouiatenon," the name of the French fort that was here on the Wabash River during the 18th century. (I was going to put in links to sites that spell it incorrectly, but there were so many I'll just suggest that if you are interested, do a search and you will see what I mean.)
And, the teacher in me has to ask, how many words do you know that either have a continuous string of four different vowels in them, either at the beginning of the word as Ouiatenon does, or embedded within the word?? Can you think of any?
Jennifer and Anne will soon be posting their own "Give Me a..." blog entries if they haven't already. Click on their names to check out their blogs!
