Mares in Black Podcast has Dropped!

It's dropped! Come take a listen. And thanks, Heather and Jackie - it was fun chatting with you!

https://mares-in-black.simplecast.com/episodes/mares-in-black-bonus-episode-allison-pareis-and-lynn-isenbarger

The FAMulous Collectibility Show

The Mares in Black podcast that Allison and I are on has not yet dropped (except to patreon listeners.) I am checking several times a day and will put a notice here when it is available.

In the meantime, thinking about that made me check the calendar and good night!! The FAMulous Collectibility Show is only six weeks away! Suddenly I feel the need to go through tubs and double check to make sure all is ready.

We have a stellar slate of judges: Kelly Weimer, Liz Cory, Liz LaRose, Jamie Rott, and Steff Bodamer. They are some of the top judges in the hobby! 

In the podcast we talk about a prank Allison pulled on Liz when she posted Liz's bio. 

See that tee shirt Liz is holding? It's not actually a Purdue tee - Liz is an Iowa alumnus and it's actually an Iowa tee. She was at my home for Happy Trails and Purdue and Iowa were playing each other in football that day so Liz and I bantered throughout the show as to which team would win. Using her media skills, Allison changed the tee's logo from Iowa to Purdue on the FAMulous web site.

Allison makes medallions and other prizes for our show and I order the ribbons. 

We are upgrading our photo booth, too. Action Stan will still be there, of course,

but I am working on show drapes using a customized FAMulous fabric.

I am super excited about this fabric and have several ideas as to how to use it for other things as well.

We are accepting raffle donations - if you'd like to donate something, contact me at horsiemama8@gmail.com. (And thank you!)

Six weeks?? Yikes! Tick! Tick! Tick! Tick!

Hello, Mares in Black!

Recently the Mares in Black, Jackie Rossi and Heather Malone, contacted Allison Pareis and me and invited us to join them on a Mares in Black podcast.

They wanted to chat with us about our show, The FAMulous Collectibility Show, that is being held August 6 in Muncie, Indiana.

Allison and I were all in and so last weekend the four of us got online and chatted for almost two hours. 

The first hour or so we were recording; the last hour we were just hanging out and talking about model horse stuff - no one seemed to want to hang up and go.

I'm not sure when the podcast will be available but I think it will be the next one they post. I'm looking forward to listening to it!

A Nod from the Mares in Black

A while ago, Allison Pareis sent me a message saying that I'd been mentioned in an interview with Tiffany Purdy on the Mares in Black podcast. I am glad she told me - I am behind on listening and might even have missed it.

Since the podcast was more than four hours long, it took me a bit to find the interview. (Go to Episode 15, 2:16:58 to listen.)

But I had a pretty good idea as to why Tiffany had mentioned me. In the early 1990s, I put on a live show in Champaign, Illinois for several years. (Lincoln Land Live.) It was Tiffany's very first live show, and according to the interview, introduced her to the hobby.

Tiffany and me at a 2017 GLC show. Go here to read more.

It was fun to listen to Tiffany reminisce and brought back some very fond memories. Thank you, Tiffany and Mares in Black, for the mention!