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I STRING IT UP

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TLC431 - String it Up by Stamp Muse - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

Birdcage and bird cards

Happy day everyone! This is for the Try a New Technique challenge calling us to string it up. I scratched my head for a long time and then finally decided to use my new birdcage die from IO and hang it from a branch on a chain. Thanks for the challenge, Joan! Thanks for looking and have a great day. PT: 17
Matea Babcock - 5 Keys to Bridleless Riding Have you ever wanted to do bridleless riding with your horse? Well, here are 5 keys you must have to be able to do bridleless riding. 1. A Great Stop. You need to have a horse that will stop when you are just exhaling and relaxing back. Your horse should stop with just this form a walk, trot, canter, and gallop. You shouldn’t have to use reins or whatsoever. That has to be super solid on your horse first and foremost. 2. Teach Your Horse the Process Every time you stop, you have to breath out, relax, sit back, and then pick u your reins to stop your horse. Eventually, your horse will learn what happens before what happens, happens, and start to respond to you just exhaling. This process is important to do every time because it builds consistence (so your horse knows this is what happens every time - no wishy-washy-ness) and he will learn to respond to your lightest aid that way. 3. Turning off of your legs Your horse has to turn off of your leg. You need to be able to fold your arms, and ride a figure 8 pattern at a trot, and be able to get your horse yield off of your leg. To get your horse where he can do this, it’s a similar process to stopping. You are going to use your leg first, then stick, and lastly your rein. Or sometimes I do look (where I want to go), leg, rein, if I’m not riding with a stick. But if you repeat this process, eventually (with some help from some patterns) your horse will turn without reins! Pretty cool, right! 4. Yielding from Pressure Whether you are using your leg, your stick, or your string, your horse must learn to yield from pressure. A few things that I want to do before I do bridleless is once my horse stops pretty well, I test it! I will put my reins over my saddle horn and I’ll just use the string around my horse’s neck to turn (no leg for this exercise). If my horse doesn’t turn off the pressure of the string, then I support with my leg and stick. I like my horse to stop and back with just using my string. So get your horse to where he will stop from walk, trot, and canter, if you pick upon your string. If there was an emergency, and I was bridleless, I want to be able to pick up on my string and stop my horse. Little backup safeties like this are great to have in place before you completely go bridleless. Also you want your horse to turn off of your stick. You should be able to look where you want to go, put on some leg, and then bring down your string in circular motions towards your horse’s nose (tapping his nose with the stick if needed) until he moves. Once I my horse understand this well, I’ll test it. I will ride a pattern and use my leg to turn and then my stick. My stick is there to support my leg, if my horse doesn’t want to turn. This will also help your horse learn to turn off of just a little pressure from your leg. 5. Emotional fitness Emotional fitness is important for everything, but it is especially important with bridleless because you are trusting your horse to turn, go and slow when you say. Your horse has to be emotionally fit. So that when you go into cantering, he doesn’t just think that you are going to keep speeding up and get out of control, but your horse speeds up and slows down without getting riled up. 6. Trusting partnership You have to spend time with your horse and build a relationship with your horse to be able to do this. It really takes a lot of trust to do this with your horse. It is so fun to do if you put the right things in place. I hope that these keys helpful and you be able to have fun doing bridleless with your horse too! Press like and tag a friend below

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5 Keys to Bridleless Riding Have you ever wanted to do bridleless riding with your horse? Well, here are 5 keys you must have to be able to do...
String Seating and Witness Points

Guitar stuff-Music

Up until a little while ago, the term ‘witness points’ was not one I knew. Turns out, though, it’s a very useful concept to understand — especially if you’re having problems getting a string intonated before running out of saddle travel. Check it out…
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Paper packages vintage style

Arts at the Castle House

Here is the packaging I use for my business. It has that old-world vintage style I like. Who doesn't love brown paper packages tied up with string.
Ink Texture

Music Response Album Cover

I used an ink-soaked string rock to create this pattern. Putting it on the paper and rocking it from side to side, up and down the paper
Chalk It Up To Love Paper Pumpkin Mini Boxes & 3 More Card Ideas -

Paper Pumpkins Alternatives

This is one more post of ideas that I made with the August 2015 Paper Pumpkin kit. If you want to see what else I made with this kit, click on these links... September 4...Chalk It Up To Love Paper Pumpkin String Of Lights September 5...Chalk It Up To Love August 2015 Paper Pumpkin Video of Ideas September 8...Chalk It
Valentine’s Day projects that I love

Spring

I love it when a crafter kicks up a traditional project like string art and then adds the element of turning the string art into a vase. These look like they could be made all sorts of ways and wit…
String it up

DIY

Baseball season is in full swing, and while I may not be an Atlanta Braves fan, my brother definitely is! I have posted ‘string art’...
Hello by HeidiVL - Cards and Paper Crafts at Splitcoaststampers

Card Creations

June release from Paper Smooches Word Up. I turned the puffy letters into balloons by adding little tabs to the bottom of each letter and tying string to it.
Wonderful DIY Easter String Egg / Basket

Easter ideas

Easter was coming up soon so it's time to do some really projects with the kids for it. This string egg is a really neat idea involving balloons. I
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Basswood Country Round String Art Wreath

Salvări rapide

String art is beautiful and trendy! It's very simple to do, too! But you can take your string art up a notch by adding fun textures and elements to the finished product to give it some more depth and character! I made this pretty String art wreath on a beautiful Walnut Hollow Basswood Country Round…
Minnesota Wedding from Tanja Lippert Photography

baby shower

This whimsical, magical, do-it-yourself outdoor dinner party is exactly everything I wanted it to be and more. Colorful lanterns and string lights float up above this family gathering, and the go-with...
Strung Along

Quilt Scraps

Remember back in January when I started making string blocks because I did not know what else to do with myself? Well it is now four months later and Strung Along is finished. She sure did string me along for a few months to see if I would end up liking her or not. I do, especially now that sh
make your own: canvas kit case.

Craft

Everything’s better when it’s tied up with string, isn’t it? I can’t help but to love just about anything that comes wrapped in a tidy little parcel. Enter the tiny canvas k…
elvis <3

Elvis Presley Chronicles. on Instagram: "“See, I had my own tuning, and they were trying to record ‘Guitar Man,’ and they couldn’t make it feel like my record. And I forget if it was Pete Drake or Charlie McCoy or Chip Young—one of those musicians said, ‘Well, these guitar players in here are playing with straight picks, and, you know, Reed plays with his fingers.’ So they called me, and I went down, and I hooked up that electric gut string, tuned the B-string up a whole tone, and I toned the lo
16 Drum Sander

Sanding

I started this about 3 years ago and spent about two weeks working on and off. It got shelved until a couple of months ago when I dusted it off and finished it up. I have some tiger maple that is crying out to be made into a 335 type 6 string. I have the dust hood finished but not pictured. I rea...
The Way I Sew It

patchrakete

During the past couple of months, I finished the Carolina Chain quilt top. It is patiently awaiting its trip to the longarm quilter at the moment, along with another one. They have to age just right, you know! :) After that, I started a quilt to use some of my many (many, many) thrifted shirts. I had a bag of strips and shirttails left over from the Plaid Circles string quilt. The inspiration was a quilt by Nannette of New York. I thought it would be a good way to use up my extra strips in the centers of the blocks. Here is a progress photo as of mid-November. I have since finished piecing it and have begun webbing the top together. That's been temporarily interrupted this week, however, with a little string quilt project I started, using the bin of black and white strings. Some of these strings are eight or more years old, and they've been used in various other quilts. Like this one, and this one, and this one, and this one. So they've been around the block several times, and are ready to be retired into this project, I think. It should finish off a lot of them, and that makes me happy! My inspiration is this quilt, "Hope for Tomorrow," found in the book Simply Strings by Rana Heredia. I'm following the pattern more or less just roughly. My available strings are dictating the size of the piece, which will hopefully end up being a nice sized wall hanging. I'm a-okay with that.
The Mini Wave

Weaving

This lovely loom took up residence in my studio today. I am one lucky weaver! The loom's design is perfect for its purpose: weaving inkle bands. It has no reed, no beater. It does have two shafts with string heddles...
Make a red felt rose and wire mouse ear headband with me

🌸✨ Ear Headbands ✨🌸

I used red wool blend felt for the flowers and black wire to create the ears. I used a glass to help shape it into the right size. I spruced up the ears with some black beaded string and hot glued everything in place.