Breyer Horse Display Boxes

Here's a great project if you have small model horses that you don't know what to do with (like me) Schleich and small (Tiny!) Breyers are perfect. 

I made these out of cardboard, small gift, and jewelry boxes, I used the tops as well as the bottoms. 

Pick a calendar page you like and trace the box on the paper. Add about an inch to each side (or more for larger boxes) and cut it out. Then cut squares out of each corner (the size of the squares will differ depending on what size box you use) and fold the edges up to make a box. It may require some trimming and finagling but it should fit fairly nicely into the gift box. 

I then used other parts of the same picture or pieces of other random things I found and added them for a 3D effect. The one with the waterfall has mica on the floor it and the grey horse is glues to a small rock to make him slightly raised. 

A couple horses I had to hot glue to the box cause they simply would not stay. Hot glue is perfect for the job because you can remove it from the figure fairly easily. the box may rip some but it will come right off the horse. 

I put thumbtacks through the boxes and stuck them on my bulletin board. I also put some horses on top of the boxes. They look great!

And you could make them for other animals too. Schleich has some mother baby sets that would look SO cute.  

I do - once again - apologize for the poor quality of these photos

Dairy Day

Larissa from Tiny Hill Farm and I went over to the Farmer's Museum in Milton for their Dairy day. We brought four goats, three generations... Tilly's momma, Varla, Tilly, and Tilly's two babies. It was neat.  

 A happy little family! Wait, where's Leia? I see her! 

 Leibchen loves the new hay feeder!

 Watch Out! Here comes Grandma! 

 We got show goat pictures of the babies! Just for fun! 

 We did a milking demonstration, not very many people were as interested in it as I thought would be. We milked Tilly and Varla.

 Larissa also had some of her chicks with us. I'd tell you what breeds but the only ones I remember is turkeys and silkies....and that the chickens are four dollars each and the turkeys are eight, and she hatched them out at home. 

Sorry, that's all the info I've got...check her web site for more, the link is above.

I brought Leibchen and Leia over to see the two driving horses, Leia was a little scared of them, especially the one that kept nudging her in the face! But Leibchen had a funny bonding with them! They kept smelling and nosing each other, it was funny. 

It was a fun day! And a great way, I think, for people to become aware of Larissa's farm and the things she's selling.  The weather stayed nice for us too. About an hour after we got home it started thundering and down pouring! A Huge Storm....And hail! I'm just glad the weather waited for us. It was a nice day, I think we both had fun....Or should I say all six of us had fun! Though the babies were really tired afterwards, It was a big day for them!