The SpottedCat's Collection (New: 1th July)

I'll gladly take that buckskin WB off your hands

I just wanted to show off this conga.
See ya.
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What a nice quadriga

I got some stuff today. Among them the biggest package I have ever received! The fabric in the background is to make tack, like saddles, I think I have to give some away as I will never make use of it all  
I also got some other things, like paint and strings etc.
Too bad the marwari has an extremely bent foreleg and some cracks in the paint I wanted it as a replacement for my older one. My older one is also prettier in colours and dapples.
I'm to tired to unpack them today though...
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As a side note, I also got this one today. Just for borrowing though. I don't think he will work well in either performance or halter as he moves around to much. He works rather well beside Elska both in colour and name. His name is Love, but it's a Swedish name that is not pronounced at all like the English word. It's kind of like... LooovE with a long O and a hard E. Apparently the name is a Swedish version of the France name Louis. He is deaf but loooves to make sounds. He sounds worse than any other cat I have ever met
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CFongratulation for your newcomers and warm welcome to Louis

Kikimalou wrote:

CFongratulation for your newcomers and warm welcome to Louis

Love, not Louis

The little loveliness did not waste any time though, he have already broken at least one of my model horses. He set his mind on the one shelf I thought he would not touch, so I had to secure even more shelves with some daub on those too. Of course he had already broken the one horse on the shelf that actually was nib. Now it has two big white rubs, one on the nose and one on the ear. The model is black. I also packed away almost all my stablemates, except for a few I put on a high enough shelf he can't reach.

Congratulations

Ahhha, the joy of having a cat



Btw, I think the name is spelled Lovis in Swedish

Ohh, - and what wonderful new models you got there
And material to make tack for all the horses that you can possibly collect

SUSANNE wrote:

Ahhha, the joy of having a cat

Btw, I think the name is spelled Lovis in Swedish

Ohh, - and what wonderful new models you got there
And material to make tack for all the horses that you can possibly collect

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No, it's Love
And Lovis is mostly a female name. Love is a male name.

Yeah, with so much material I can probably make full sets of tack for almost all my models

I want also to welcome this wonderful cat called Ludvig? Isn't it Ludvig the name used in scandinavia to Louis? Well, in Portugal it is Luís and your cat is Love, pure love.
According with Susanne, I am sure you can't complain of Love, if it was a yellow cat, it could be a much bigger trouble.
Congratulations also for your toy additions!

You know what? Just look at it all! Or... well... most of it. Some are packed away, mostly stablemates and some dogs and cats and some other things. As well as things I try to sell or custom or even just try forget cuz' oh why did I even buy it!
Anyway... everything else!

Here is my glass cabinets. Evil things, shaking like it's an earthquake every time one opens it. And the horses have a habit of... walking around if anyone walks by them with too much heel. There is no way I can have wobbly stablemates or other wobbly things in there. They are all very unorganized. They have a habit of moving around a lot, like most of my collection they don't often stay in one place all the time.
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My favorite shelf! Or almost. I did use to have all my favorite traditional scale horses here, until I needed to dust and decided to try assemble them by colour instead to see how it works. I have not had the time or energy to dust since, so they have stayed like this even as newcomers have arrived. I'm looking at you chestnut tobiano morgan!
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And my even more unorganized shelves. The stablemates, dogs and cats did once stand by themselves on separate shelves. I actually don't like mixing the scales up. But what to do trying to make them safe from cats? And the fact I live in a tiny apartment. At least when it comes to collecting fake animals. Do I need to say the books have been moving out from the shelves slowly? But I did actually buy them mostly for horse space. Ahh, the times when I could count the trad scale horses on one hand. Such times, such times. I'm even trying to make myself sell some off, but of course my Darling have to like the ones I try to depart with.
"But it looks so cool! It's so lively!"
Ah... well... that does not help me shrinking the amounts of horses.
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Thinking of my love for palomino and flaxen horses I have far to few of them... And paints. Paints might have to do with that I'm more picky about them. The amount of greys I have nothing to say about. Or I do, but that would mean breaking my brain on English.

When I scrolled down and the first part of your "matched by colour" shelf showed up,
I thought it was a black and white photo!
Then came the palominos and paints and I was confused for a moment. LOL
I love those two shelves a lot.

I'm surprised your Detolfs are giving you so much misery.
I have 2 as well and they are really sturdy.  
(I see your two tops are touching, but the bottoms are not. Maby they are not standing level?)

And I personally like the mixing of scales on a shelf.
It gives dept, drama and more detail, because you keep finding new things to look at.

Bloodrayne wrote:

When I scrolled down and the first part of your "matched by colour" shelf showed up,
I thought it was a black and white photo!
Then came the palominos and paints and I was confused for a moment. LOL
I love those two shelves a lot.

I'm surprised your Detolfs are giving you so much misery.
I have 2 as well and they are really sturdy.  
(I see your two tops are touching, but the bottoms are not. Maby they are not standing level?)

And I personally like the mixing of scales on a shelf.
It gives dept, drama and more detail, because you keep finding new things to look at.

Funny! About the black and white photo thing

Yeah, our floor are uneven, even as we tried to put things under the cabinets to level them out a bit. It's a really old house. We had the same thing going on with the bigger shelves. I want to try move the cabinets, but the Darling don't think they will fit anywhere else. On the other hand, Darling hate to change things if it can be avoided. I still think they are behaving way worse than what is necessary.

To me it mostly just looks cluttered, and I guess my mom and the IKEA catalogs are haunting around in my mind

If you could find acrylic steps/displays for you Detolfs, the shelves wouldn't look crowded anymore.
It's just a pain to find them....

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I actually want to find something like that, especially for the cabinets. But I have yet to find any.

What a gorgeous collection! I love how you have the Trads displayed by color, it looks very cool

I have the same glass cabinets My horses don't move on the shelves, at least that I noticed, but the shelves do rock when you walk by or open the door. On my newer cabinet, the glass panel of the door is slightly warped so it won't close all the way on the bottom without pressing the magnets together by yourself.

You can try getting a museum putty especially if you want to put SMs in there. I have a pack of Quake Hold but I don't know if it's available in Sweden. Just search for museum putty, it holds the horses in place perfectly but also comes off easily and without damaging little hooves.

Thank you

I did use another kind of that often are used to put papers on the wall for example. I used it on my trad, classic scale horses and for my plants to help them survive the cat visit.
Museum putty might work better for smaller things. Thank you for the tip.

You have very beautiful shelves, it is pleasant to see your collection!

Happy to help

Last night I rearranged my collection by color like yours But of course yours looks so much nicer!

LeeAnn wrote:

Happy to help

Last night I rearranged my collection by color like yours But of course yours looks so much nicer!

Mind sharing photos of your obviously inferior shelf decorations?

Congratulations

I love this SM mold Congratulations!