"You've got to be kidding!?!?"
After fixing the stirrups on my two Western style saddles, I decided to tackle the English saddles as well. I also tried removing the paint from my brown horse's Western saddle. Parts of it had been painted peach and turquoise, which just wouldn't do, so I tried using Winsor and Newton Brush Cleaner, and it did take some effort over two days, but all the paint came off. Then I took my tan and wine red English saddles, stained them with brown paint, and cut out the pieces for the new stirrups.... I sewed on all the new stirrups, and covered the side flaps of the English saddles with leather... This is what the white horses looked like when I first got them at Value Village.... Little girls might love pink, but it just wasn't going to do for my dolls, especially not the knights. "You've got to be kidding!?!?" I took some of the more realistic bridles some of my horses came with, and painted the pink plastic a wine red, and added leather leads. I had already made fancy saddle blankets and trims, and the newly improved saddles completed their look. So this is how they look now....
7 Comments
Martha
2/25/2021 11:26:47 am
It was definitely worth the effort.
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Donna
2/25/2021 01:25:19 pm
What an improvement! You would never know what they started out like . I love the photo of your knight making his sentiments known!
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Martha
2/25/2021 01:47:25 pm
Thanks. I'd been meaning to do something about my horses for a while now, and am glad that I finally did.
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Dorothy
2/25/2021 07:53:09 pm
I echo Donna. I don't think your knight is at all enamoured with a pink saddle.
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Martha
2/26/2021 04:47:55 am
These are not the Breyer toy horses. Those are a lot smaller. These are from the Our Generation doll line.
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Rae
2/27/2021 05:22:56 pm
Terrific improvement. Love the knight's reaction.
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