jd-fisher

2012-01-30T08:24:00.005-05:00

Time sure does fly.

I’m a bit embarrassed to realize that it’s just about February, making it almost a year since my last post. Even more embarrassing, is to see the amount of dust sitting on my shelves and the few tack models I have staring at me from my desk. *sigh. I set aside a few works-in-progress, that I was having difficulty working on, only to get swept up in other things.

So, what have I been doing?

I’ve poured every free moment into training my little horse. My real one. And I’ve come to remember that feeling of over joy, as a seven-year-old little girl riding a horse for the first time. The passion, the love for horses, that gets buried under the years of ‘adult’ responsibilities, over thinking, and real life.

I also got sucked into a new endeavor. Hand painted stall signs.

I’ve been painting these for years, but now am offering them to the ‘public’. What started out as a gift now has me swamped with orders and wondering how on earth I’m going to get everything done. Should you be interested in checking them out, I’ve put up a Facebook page linked here:

Don’t worry; I have not stopped making tack. I’m hoping this long absence will help me take on a different perspective, and spark new ideas. Since sometimes we all just need a break.

2011-03-23T16:43:00.004-04:00

Currently for sale through my yahoo group.

2011-01-03T11:00:00.004-05:00

Lots of tooling, and now ready for dye...

2010-11-01T14:12:00.009-04:00

Where did I go all summer? Well, see, I have this pony…

…and we started showing…

…and it seemed to suck up all my free time. But, we had a blast. Now, I'm back to the old routine and my pony's free to get fuzzy again. Only, I seemed to acquire yet another project…

…who likes to torture our other dog…

Really, he is a good puppy.

So, life has been crazy. But, I've been trying to finish up a bunch of projects, so stay tuned.

2010-09-08T12:34:00.003-04:00

I swear I didn't drop off the face of the planet. :)

2010-04-02T11:40:00.003-04:00

Custom silver plates: check

Tooling: check

Edges prepped and burned: check

First coat of finish: check

Now to assemble all the pieces into a saddle. I'm experimenting with new adjustable stirrups, which if it works out the way I hope it will, will be just like the real thing. Cool.

2010-03-13T06:59:00.004-05:00

Here is a sneak peak at my next project.

I have so many to finish up, yet I feel some inspiration to work with silver and make something fancy. This will be a pleasure saddle, fully tooled. What you see here is my first attempt at custom plates. Not too bad!

I'm getting pretty excited about this one already, and it's going to be tough to let it go.

2010-03-09T13:50:00.002-05:00

2010-02-19T13:37:00.003-05:00

Ugh.

I hate it when the local store stops selling your tried and true product. Like my favorite crafting glue for example. You would think that I'd be able to find it at at least one store in a 1.5 hour radius. Nope.

After trying out a bunch of new glues it's back to hunting down the original.

Oh i digress.

2010-01-04T10:17:00.004-05:00

Happy new year!

I must say I have not been very good at keeping up the blog lately. The past few months have been a whirlwind of mainly work related things along with some real horse stuff. Forcing my little hobby to take a back seat. But now that the new year is here I hope to get back into the swing of things. And of course to finish up those pesky projects that have been sitting on my desk.

I've been working on a modified pleasure harness design and plan to offer one up to the group later this month. So stay tuned!

2009-07-15T09:38:00.003-04:00

I hate spiders. Hate them. Their eight creepy little legs skittering across the floor sends shivers down my spine. Ew. So you can imagine my frantic panic when a fairly large one descends from out of nowhere, down my dash and onto the car floor. OMG where did that come from and where did it go? Never mind the fact that I am currently driving seventy miles an hour down the highway. So here I am twenty minutes into my hour and a half commute pulling off the highway and searching the car for the stupid thing. After about ten minutes and not finding it, I reluctantly get back in the car and continue on. I could not get home fast enough. Ew ew ew ew ew.

So now what? I'm not getting back in that car. I know that spider is still there just waiting for me. This was last Tuesday. So I took my Honda to work the rest of the week. Hey, why else do I have two cars? CPF says I'm ridiculous. Maybe so.

Anyhow, car got a thorough vacuum and cleaning. Sunday on my way to the barn I noticed there are now cobwebs covering the entire dash and passenger side. Fantastic.

This morning I'm getting ready for work, only to find a spider hanging onto my kitchen cabinets. Lovely.

I get in the car and head off to work. Sitting at a traffic light I see a little gray spider crawl up the side of the window by my head and disappear into the door frame. What the heck? Is it attack of the spiders day? Good thing I need gas anyway and at least I found the cobweb culprit. So I pull into the gas station and am just about to get out of the car, when out of the corner of my eye I see the big fat brown spider from last Tuesday hiding right above my shoulder in the cracks of the door. Ew ew ew ew! How is this still in my car?! How did it survive the vacuum and the baking hot sun for hours on end? How is this possible? At least I was at the gas station and could properly 'remove' it. And at least it's gone now.

As for the little gray one? Let's just pretend I didn't see it.

Yes you can laugh. I know I'm ridiculous.

2009-07-10T15:53:00.005-04:00

Almost there. Just needs the stirrups and underside finished. I used a different technique on the the knee rolls and I'm quite pleased with how they turned out. All I need is one more afternoon and this saddle will be complete. :D

2009-06-29T13:52:00.004-04:00

Sneak peak…

2009-06-26T17:44:00.004-04:00

I'm really liking the way this set looks on this guy!

I've got the breast collar pretty much done, it just needs to be sewn together. Of course I've saved my least favorite part for last—the string cinch. I don't know why, but I really dislike making them. I should make a bunch and keep them on hand so I don't have to make one every time I make a saddle. Of course after I get done with the first one, I've just about had enough!

Once I've wrapped up these final touches and taken some good photos, it's off to auction!

2009-06-22T11:38:00.005-04:00

Here is a quick look at the progress I've made on my new studded saddle. It's currently missing stirrups, but I hope to have the entire set finished soon.

In other news, this past weekend I got to attend a Tom Curtin clinic. Fascinating. I've never been to a clinic before, and now wish that I had entered Mia. It would have done the two of us some good. Oh well, maybe in the fall. But still, I think I learned a lot.

2009-06-19T11:08:00.005-04:00

Once the dye has completely dried the next step is to rid the edges of any 'fuzz'. Followed by sealing each piece with a leather finish. After the saddle is complete, I will add another layer of finish.

Since this is a dressage saddle, my saddle tree will have to be modified a bit to form the tree into a proper deep seat. I've done so on this tree using layers of foam. I haven't tried it this way before, so we'll see how it goes.

Next it's time to piece everything together!

2009-06-17T13:14:00.006-04:00

I'm currently working on multiple projects at the same time, so that as i wait for glue or dye to dry one one, I can still be productive on others. Normally this multitasking doesn't work very well for me, as I am so easily distracted, however I currently feel a bit inspired by several things. Which of course is working to my advantage.

Here is a quick look into the process of my dressage saddle. I've made one in the past, but the pattern needs to be reworked. So much so, that I'll be making two at the same time. One to keep as a sample prototype, for when I can't remember how I put it together. ; )

I begin with a pattern made from cut paper, which I trace onto the leather. I always mark any flaws in the leather on the backside, so that they don't end up on the top finished panels. I've also had issues in the past with the tooling leather darkening when left out (oops, left window shade up), to the point where the pieces couldn't be used as the color was not even. Of course for dyeing black, these are perfect.

After trimming all the pieces out and tooling them as needed, they are then dyed to suit and left to dry.

2009-05-29T10:58:00.010-04:00

My new girl officially has lyme.

She had been acting a bit "off". No lameness, but a bit of a sore back leading to lots of bucking when saddled. I'm not surprised though, as I did get her out of CT. We went through a terrible case with our yellow lab two summers ago. Really thought we might lose him. At least now I know more about lyme than I ever wanted to know. It's crazy.

At least she's making friends.

While I'm waiting for more tack supplies to come in I've started work on a couple more projects. So next on the list I'll have a dressage saddle and a fancy western show saddle. I've got new supplies for the western saddle that I'm pretty excited about and a couple of new techniques to try, but you'll just have to wait and see. :)

2009-05-13T11:32:00.008-04:00

You could say I've been a bit, uh… distracted.

I totally need to start a new blog for this, however for now I'll hijack this one and post here. I mean really after the novelty wears off, am I still going to want to write about her every five mins? Well, maybe :)

Here she is. I've officially had her for a week, and I think I finally have a name.

Mia

She came with the name 'Spirit', but let's just say that doesn't roll off the tongue very easily. She's supper sensitive but very kind and eager to please. Check out the white on the tips of her ears. So cute.

Can you tell I have a thing for spots?

My sweatshirt smells like horses. And hay. Oh, how I've missed that.

2009-04-28T20:18:00.006-04:00

At last.

I'll be posting this set to my yahoo group in the next few weeks. But wait 'til you see what's coming next. Here's a sneak peek. :)

2009-04-16T08:40:00.004-04:00

I swear, I'm going to finish up the jumper set this weekend. I should have the house to myself, which is a rare event, but that will allow for some much needed hobby time. : )

In other news... I'm very excited to say I've taken the plunge and am buying my first real live horse! Thus the lack of model horse time lately. But now everything is in place, and if all goes as planned I will be a new owner as of May 3rd. woohoo! I might just have to start a new blog. We'll see. : )

2009-04-02T11:41:00.004-04:00

I have been a bit distracted lately with a couple of non model horse things, and time just slips on by.

I dyed and re-dyed the fenders three times before getting them to a point were I was satisfied with the color. These lighter dyes are not as easy to work with and show every last flaw. Lesson learned, I suppose.

2009-03-17T10:40:00.004-04:00

He was like, what the heck are you going to do with a 3 foot fiberglass horse?!
and I said, paint it?

As if I need another project. But I couldn't resist. I'd have loved to go with a full sized one, but let's be realistic, where would I put it? This one is half scale, I believe.

She'll be painted to mimic the antique style of some of the older wooden carousel horses. Nothing bright and glossy. Right now I'm thinking gray. Maybe dappled. I'm toying with the idea of chopping off her tail and adding a horse hair one. We'll see how ambitious I get once I start. : )

2009-03-02T13:38:00.004-05:00

Just when we thought spring was around the corner, we get hit with more snow. I'm not complaining though. I get to call it a snow day and stay home. Which means this project just might get completed sooner rather than later. All that remains is the saddle and saddle pad. Plus a few adjustments to the boots, and of course the raised browband/noseband. Having issues with the dye at the moment.

I am loving this color on Sally. :)

2009-02-24T14:33:00.004-05:00

Here's a sneak peak at my latest jumper set.

I plan on adding the "raised" part of browband and noseband as well as removable stoppers on the reins to accommodate a running martingale. The flash is also removable.

After redoing the reins twice, I think I've found an efficient way to get the lacing even and correct. :D

2009-02-23T10:55:00.004-05:00

Things are moving along, slowly but surely. I recently went through a few unpacked boxes in the office, and came across a few unfinished projects. So, for a change of pace I just finished up this jump.

Of course as I was in the process of photographing it one of the furry little monsters snuck in and knocked it over, snapping off the flags. Which, I must add, are removable to minimize damage. Of course.

Anyhow, after a little repair here it is. I think I need a better photo booth/setup...

2009-01-28T11:49:00.004-05:00

I've done a bit of rearranging to my website. Mainly to shift the focus to my model tack, but also I thought it might be nice to break up the groupings a bit more. I hope to have more to fill in the empty spaces soon, but we'll see. :)

2009-01-19T12:18:00.003-05:00

Check out the group for the finished product. ;)

2009-01-15T11:23:00.007-05:00

Where oh where has the time gone? Sorry for the absence and lack of updates.
I swear, I'm the slowest tack maker ever.

Now that winter is here and the snow is falling, it's time to get outside and have a little fun. And what could be more perfect for this time of year than a pleasure harness, complete with sleigh bells? The harness is very near completion, with only the bridle remaining. Once complete, it will be offered to my yahoo group members.

2008-12-16T09:19:00.009-05:00

The things we take for granted.

Last Thursday we were hit with a pretty severe ice storm, where it rained, and rained, then froze. Our power was out for almost three days. Even now, five days later my sister still has no power (or hot water!) and they are saying it could be weeks until they get to fixing everyone. Yikes!

Of course there are now three snow storms in the forecast over the next five days. Maybe we will have a white Christmas after all.

2008-11-07T10:53:00.011-05:00

Meet Little Miss Lola. Monster #2. She's the 'baby' of the clan, and oh so photogenic, that I had to share.

It always amazes me how fast time goes by when you are busy. Now that everything is in order and I can find all my supplies, I can finally sit down and get some things finished up. I love the idea of being able to leave my projects out and just close the door until I can come back to them. Thus there will be no stealing by the furry little monsters. I have no doubt this will save me valuable time with each project.

I've unpacked the majority of my horses, and set up shelves for them. As silly as it seems, I find they inspire me, so it is good to look at them every day. Here are a couple of quick shots of the office. The space is so small, I could hardly fit that desk in there. The back corner…

…and the other side of the desk.

As you can see, this leaves me with a ton of workspace. Well, maybe not a ton, but much more than I had before ; )

Hopefully by next week, I will have some new finished items to post to the email list, so stay tuned.

2008-10-13T13:40:00.009-04:00

We are now officially moved into our new home. While a lot remains to be done, it's a tremendous relief to be over and done with moving. Everything is now everywhere, proof that even careful packing doesn't go very far. And for now, all my precious models remain boxed up in stacks in my dining room (good thing I don't have a dining table).

A large portion of the past two weeks has been filled with prepping rooms and painting. But of course nothing can be easy. Not only did I figure out that the moldings are not white (like I thought), but they had been painted directly to the walls and upon removing them they would rip the drywall. What fun. Thank goodness for painters tape and lots of helping hands.

My temporary studio is almost in order, and I hope to soon get back into the swing of things…

2008-09-15T17:07:00.005-04:00

Here's a preview of a very special tack project I'm working on. As you can see it will be quite adjustable. Have I mentioned how much I love my Lonestar? :)

2008-09-10T16:23:00.008-04:00

Things over here have been as busy as ever. But even with all that is happening I've managed to put in some time on a few new tack items. Once listed to MH$P, both the jumper and the western set sold pretty quickly, which has definitely encouraged me to get more items going. I wasn't sure how well the jumper set would sell, as it was the first I've listed, but with all the positive feedback I'm definitely working on a few more. Next will be a set in a lighter color tan, with either a figure eight or a flash noseband, laced reins, running martingale, maybe even some boots. All the bells and whistles basically.

I've also had a chance to update my website with the new saddles. Pretty soon I'll have to divide english and western saddles apart! www.jd-fisher.com

No tack photos today, however for your viewing pleasure these are from a recent miniature horse show.

2008-09-04T11:18:00.009-04:00

I've just listed both the hunter jumper tack set and the western hearts tack set up on MH$P. You can follow the MHSP link on the top of the column to the right to view the ads.

In anticipation of our up coming move, I've started packing up my studio. I'm about 75% through packing up my models, and I seem to have run out of those handy Peter Stone boxes. Luckily I still have plenty of bubble wrap!

2008-08-29T11:16:00.004-04:00

After a long rainy summer the cool air of fall has finally arrived. Even the leaves have started to turn brilliant shades of red, orange and yellow. This is one of my favorite parts of living in New England and all I want to do is be out on the trails riding.

With the changing of the seasons, comes many other changes. This year is no exception. On September 29th we will be closing on our first home, and with that comes the multitude of tasks required with moving. I am beyond excited about our new place as I will finally have a spot to make into my studio. This winter while we are buried in snow we will transform the upper loft of the new, over sized two car garage into a studio where I will be able to keep my model hobby contained.

I've already begun thinking of a special tack project for the holiday season, which I'm hoping to release around Thanksgiving to allow plenty of time for Christmas giving. For now, I'll leave it at that.

2008-08-24T14:12:00.006-04:00

With fall just around the corner, I've finally put the finishing touches on my two latest tack sets. I just couldn't resist showing off the western hearts set on my newly purchased Lonestar resin. He looks so nice under tack!

Something I have noticed about this blog, is how different it appears on different computers. I've been working off of my PowerBook G4 not thinking that blogger would differ too much from mac to pc since it is all web based. Well apparently my last few posts have some funny spacing issues when viewed from different computers and different browsers. Gotta love it. So for now, or until I can fix the 'issues', I'll just post the photos at the end of the posts! Enjoy!

just because…

2008-08-14T14:28:00.009-04:00

Everyone can appreciate a great package. Today I received my long awaited wedding album from our photographer Nadra Edgerley. I just couldn't resist taking a few photos of the way it was packaged. Definitely worth the wait and the photographs are exquisite.

yahoo group!

2008-08-07T14:30:00.006-04:00

I've started a yahoo group for updates on the latest items I have for sale. The plan is to release the new tack to the group first, and then list it on MH$P.

Go check it out!

western saddle

2008-08-07T12:03:00.006-04:00

Here's a look at my newest western saddle. There will be three rio rondo conchos on each corner to add some shine. I was originally planning on putting studs in along the dark trim, but I think I've changed my mind at this point. We'll see how it looks once the silver is on there. I do however plan on making another studded roper saddle in the future, so stay tuned. The plan is for this saddle to work as both a working and pleasure saddle, so simple but not too plain.

The jumping set should be completed by the end of the weekend. I'm also working on getting a yahoo group up and running and will post the link once I've got the kinks worked out.

new prototype

2008-07-24T16:37:00.005-04:00

I snapped a couple of quick shots in between the crazy rain we've been getting here. This is my prototype for a jumping saddle. Please excuse the lack of girth and the dressage pad.

This saddle is built on a RDLC english tree. I ended up custom dying the leather so it would match the lace I used for the bridle. This required lots of mixing and matching of dyes, but I think the results are pretty good. i like how level the saddle sits right now, but I'm still not too sure how I feel about how the gussets came out. I might try a new approach for the next saddle. They are nice and soft, but I'm thinking they need a bit more bulk to them. Plus, they seem to be hidden by the way this saddle pad fits in this photo.

check it out!

2008-07-23T10:59:00.004-04:00

I can't believe it's been almost a month since my last post. eek! Needless to say I will have more updates soon, as I've been working away at some new tack items.

In the meantime I got an update from Danielle Feldman, who purchased a harness from me back in May. Her Lonestar resin "Dun In Squiggles" won a NAN Top Ten this year in CM Pleasure/Fine/Park Harness (yay!). She also used the harness at Stone Age Live and won the Champion Other Performance division.

Congrats to Danielle, and thanks so much for showing my tack!

Here's a pic Danielle sent me of "Dun In Squiggles" at NAN 2008.
(Painted by Danielle Feldman, carriage by Bill Duncan)

sneek peak...

2008-06-27T13:50:00.006-04:00

It finally stopped raining long enough for me to get outside and take some photos of my works in progress. The lighting in my apartment is terrible, and I haven't had the best success with my flash (it would help if I knew how to use it), so everything comes out yellow. I need to experiment more with different lights, but that would require finding time to do that. And space. Two things I don't have. So for now, natural light is best.

This is the first of my three jumps. The plan is to have a small rock wall under the polls. The colors on this one are going to be burgundy, gray and white. I still need to make the wall and get some mortar to fill in the stone with. I love these little stones, they are so easy to work with! One thing that I realized, after I had put these standards together, was that the 1/2" jump cups fit very tightly on these 1/2" square poles. Thus they need to be sanded before assembly or the cups will scratch the paint. Of course I realize this after putting it together... oh well next time.

This is my second jump, the caribbean themed one. It is almost complete. I still need to make a gate to go below the poles, which will be green. And of course, I'm still looking for some trees/bushes for the flower pots. I love the way this one has turned out so far.

The last jump will be a lot like the first one, but stained a medium wood color and have green (or blue) and white accents. I wanted to use something different for the 'box' area of the standards, so I haven't fully put them together yet. We'll see how it goes. This one will definitely be for sale. And I remembered to sand the posts down this time, so no scratching. ;)

where does the time go?

2008-06-19T15:35:00.003-04:00

I haven't had a whole lot of free time lately to get much work done on any of my various projects. Lucky for me though, next week starts my two-day work at home, three-day in the office work schedule. That will save me an extra 3 hours per day just by not driving. What was I thinking living an hour and a half from where I work?

I decided to get out my airbrush a short while ago and get to work on my custom "Doc" horse, who is just itching for a base coat. This guy is/will be a portrait model of a friends paint horse. He has the most interesting sabino markings that keep spreading as he ages and, needless to say, he will require a lot of hand detailing to get those markings in. Anyhow, all was going well until I decided to clean out the airbrush, when I conveniently dropped the gun and broke the point. Lovely. Now I need a new airbrush. I swear this guy does not want to be finished.

In the meantime, I started a new project (I've always wanted to do this!): custom jumps, in trad scale. I was inspired when I found a jumper resin that I really like. I'm currently working on three now. Two will be a more traditional style show jump with slight differences (and color), and the third is a pretty elaborate caribbean inspired jump complete with palm tree type bushes. Well it will if I can find some. The hobby shops around here close awfully early, and get this: aren't open on the weekends! How frustrating. But, it will be worth it in the end, as this one is coming along quite nice.

Of course what jump set-up is complete with out a rider? I've started customizing one of Sue Kern's Juliets to a jumper doll. I'm very pleased with her so far, although I'm having a heck of a time getting her jacket to fit decently. I may have to start over on that one...

Those are my three big projects right now, or should I say my three priorities. But on the workbench I also have:

• a new western saddle — I haven't settled on a design yet
• a new hunter/jumper saddle set — I'm planning two of these right now
• the custom stablemate truck and trailer
• flitwick — base is done, flitwick just needs some color
• various other naked resins

a day at the races

2008-06-08T16:28:00.009-04:00

To start, I have a love–hate relationship with horse racing. But, after watching Big Brown win the Preakness with a remarkable run, I thought how cool would it be to see him run in the Belmont, and possibly make history?

I got my hands on a few tickets, and so we set out for a weekend in New York. Coincidently, The Horse exhibit was showing at the Museum of Natural History this weekend, so of course we had to stop there too. Very cool.

Saturday, morning started early as we made a mad dash to board the first train to Belmont Park out of Penn Station. I think mad dash is an understatement. Luckily we got seats and didn't have to stand for the forty min train ride. We arrived at the park around 11:30 am. It was bright, sunny and humid. And it only got hotter as the day went on. I think it only reached 88, but sitting there in the sun, it felt a lot hotter than that. Luckily we had sunscreen, and we weren't about to give up our seats to go sit in the shade!

For me, this was not just racing, but a photo opportunity, as I love to photograph horses. My favorite of the day was this one of White Tie. Taken during the parade of the 2nd race.

The first race was at noon, and about every 20-40 mins after that. With each race the crowd of people grew and grew. By the time 6:20 rolled around there was hardly any room to stand. We stood on our benches to see as they paraded the horses in front of the grandstands. Of course by now the entire world knows the results of the race, and unfortunately Big Brown couldn't pull off a Triple Crown victory. Oh well, it wasn't his day. It was still a remarkable race, and the energy of the crowd was incredible. To top it all off, there were no breakdowns.

Despite the heat, the sun, the sunburn, the crowds, the lines, the overflowing bathrooms, and the long train ride home (standing) followed by an even longer car ride out of NYC, it was a good day. A once in a life time experience for sure.

2008-05-16T15:02:00.010-04:00

I've finally had the chance to take some decent photos and post my completed pleasure harness for sale on MH$P. I ended up re-working the bridle for this set as my prototype bridle just wasn't working the way I wanted it to. This way the entire thing is more adjustable.

I've decided that from now on any tack item I sell will come complete with a certificate of authenticity, so I've been busy designing cards for that as well. This should help me keep track of what I've made and kept, vs. what I've sold, as each item will be given a number.

I've posted more photos of the completed harness to my webshots album.

2008-04-07T17:27:00.009-04:00

This is a project that I had intended to start at least a couple of years ago,
possibly more now that I think about it. I got this stablemate truck and trailer
when they first came out, thinking how great it would be to customize them
to be more realistic looking. Well, they've sat in pieces on my desk until
just a few days ago.

This revamped project go a new start after I experimented with body work
on my car and ended up with a can of left over custom black paint. I thought how
perfect for the truck! and off it went. We'll see how the paint does over time.

Here are some pics of the truck in it's current state, and the primed trailer.
The truck is missing the chrome parts as well as the little details, but they are to
come. I haven't quite made up my mind on what I'm going to do with the trailer
yet. I might have to experiment with some pin striping...

2008-03-28T16:16:00.002-04:00

This weekend I thought it would be nice to go back to something basic.
So, after rummaging through my tack box and finding some really nice Sulser
buckles, I created this simple stable halter. I didn't know how well the
pre-dyed leather would take to tooling, but I must say it came out very nice.

2008-02-22T16:27:00.010-05:00

At long last, I've finally taken photos of the completed pleasure harness.

2008-01-11T18:25:00.000-05:00

I've decided to ring in the new year (a bit late, I know) with a new design.
I find that creating new items from scratch is a fun and exciting challenge. Plus it
gives me something new to think about instead of more variations on the same
original design, which I must admit after a while gets a bit dull. So anyway, after
hours of research I've created a pattern for a pleasure harness. The prototype
is nearly complete, with just the bridle remaining. Once I have the actual harness
completed, I'll post it to MH$P. If I get a good response, I may consider taking
a few orders, but I'm not sure yet.