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Equine Superstore boasts a comprehensive range of high quality horse tack that includes numnahs, horse bandages and a fantastic collection of bridles and reins suitable for any horse or pony, and much more. Whether you’re competition riding, show jumping or riding for fun, we cater for your needs. Our horse bits collection also offers an extensive range of high quality snaffles and bit guards top of the range brands including Kincade and Korsteel. If you like this, why not check out our riding clothing & equipment collection?
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After months of procrastinating and 'I'll get round to it later'-ing, my tack room is finally complete! I still need to make a saddle for P...
Whew! This is a fairly complicated block. The results are gorgeous, but this is one where you need to pay attention to the pattern. If I were to make this again, I might try to find a way to tack...
Dear Laurel My laundry room is rather large, and evocative of a British tack room. Well, except it has the dreadful “boob” light, still. I looked all over your blog and couldn’t find anything on laundry rooms. So, maybe a future post re: laundry rooms that aren’t all country cutsie? I also need lighting inspiration. […]
Growing up, we made old-fashioned hard tack candy. My two favorite flavors were cinnamon and wintergreen. Mmmm, mmmm good! Fast-forward (quite a few years). I made this recipe for our kids. Then, when I started making gingerbread houses, I used this recipe for the windows. And of course I always made sure to have enough left over for the kids to eat. This is an easy recipe to make -- one that your grandchildren could make with minimal supervision. They will also enjoy eating it. (Since it's mainly sugar and corn syrup what's there not to like?!? Just as I started making it, our son came over. That's fine and dandy. However, my son needed my husband to help him fix his Jeep. So they went out to my husband's shop. That was not fine and dandy. (My husband is my photographer when I am doing things like this.) Somehow I haven't mastered just yet the skill of stirring-boiling-candy-with-one-hand-and-taking-a-picture-with-the-other-one. So, I have minimal pictures of the cooking, stirring, and pouring the boiling candy into the pan process. Rats! Easy Hard Tack Candy 1 cup water2 cups sugar2/3 cup corn syrup1 teaspoon flavoring oilfood coloring Put the water, sugar, and corn syrup into a heavy sauce pan. Bring to a boil stirring occasionally. When it comes to a full rolling boil, turn the heat down to medium high. You do not need to stir the it while it is cooking. Boil until it reaches 295-310 degrees Fahrenheit on a candy thermometer. (Hard crack stage.) Remove from heat. Add 3-4 drops food coloring. Stir till the color is well-mixed in. Add the flavoring oil. Stir. Pour into a pan lined with tin foil. Let cool for several minutes. Use a butter knife to score lines into the candy. When the it has cooled, remove it from pan. Pull off the foil and use the handle of the butter knife to tap to to break into small pieces. If so desired, place in a baggy with some powdered sugar. Shake to coat candy pieces. This will keep the candy from sticking together. From start to finish, this takes only about 30 minutes to make. One word about the flavoring. Make sure it is an oil flavoring. If you use the extract flavoring, the flavor won't be very strong. (I guess that is okay -- if you like anemic-flavored candy.) A word of caution. Do not breath in the steam that rises up after putting in your flavoring oil. Do. Not. It will burn your nasal passages! Don't ask me how I know that. Happy candy making. Bon appétit!
Tutorial #2: How to make mini pom poms for model horse tack Pom Poms are incredibly popular on real Arabian horse tack! They can also be found on tack intended for other breeds, one that comes to mind instantly is Marwari as an example. What I'm going to show you today is an easy method that I've developed for making attractive multi-colored pom poms. Pictured above is just an example of some creations I've made using this technique! Let's get started! For supplies you will need embroidery floss, a nice sharp scissor, a cup of water, and some super glue. For super glue I prefer the "gel control" in the blue and gray bottle. I use this for nearly everything small in tack making that needs a tough, quick drying hold! Decide how many pom poms you want to make and cut some embroidery floss into sections. These are roughly 8 inches long? Each section of embroidery floss has six tiny strands in it, and we will use individual strands to tie our pom poms. Here I've cut 3 strands because I'm going to make a big batch of pom poms. I tend to screw some of these up, or they don't come out as uniform as I like, so I will make a bunch and pick and choose which ones are the keepers at the end! Here's my individual strand. To get it ready I dip my fingers in the water and wet the strand down to straighten it, then lay it down flat on my work surface. Determine what color or colors your pom poms will be. For mine I am doing a mint-y turquoise and purple mix. Mine will have purple centers, and the turquoise color will be the outside color. I will need more of the outside color and I'm going to cut that first. For this part I wrap embroidery floss around two fingers 6 times to make 12 pieces. (This wrapping over two fingers is also the same method I use for tassels) Slide your fingers out and snip the threads at the top and bottom to make your stack of threads. So here is my stack of 12, in this case the "outside" color
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