Little Blue Horse Ornament
by
Dorinda
(IC: homeowner)
6 Materials
2 Hours
Easy
I was asked to make an ornament for a friend's granddaughter, and all she said was that it was to have blue, and had to have a horse. So, I started thinking, and I remembered having a blue horse in my box of cake decorations. It's an easy project that children could do, as well as adults. I listed this as taking 2 hours to complete, only because of letting the polish dry between each color use. It didn't cost me anything to make, as I had everything at the house.
I found 3 shades of nail polish I liked. Then went to my drawers of ribbons, and found this silver plastic canvas cord. At the bottom is the horse I used.
The brand of nail polish really doesn't matter, so I won't list it here. I chose a pearl polish, silver shimmered polish, and a black polish.
Then I went into my closet, and found two pearl colored pony beads.
I painted the mane, tail, and seat of the saddle with the pearl polish. Yes, that's a splint on my thumb, I broke it the other day...we won't go into details. lol I then set it aside to let it dry.
Once dry, I used the silver shimmer polish to go around the saddle, and on all the straps for the saddle. I also used it to paint the bridle that goes around the horse's head.
Next thing I did, was to paint the hooves black. Yes, I did two horses...I figured she could pick which one she wanted, and I can sell the other one. I used the bottom of a broken carousel to hold the horses up while they dried.
I then cut 2 strips of the cord approximately 9 inches long, using one for each horse. I threaded both ends of one cord down into the hole in the saddle. Next, I slipped one pearl pony bead on the cord, and tied the ends together. I then cut off the extra cord.
The next thing I did was to tuck the tied end and pony bead up into the horse's body, making sure it doesn't show.
Next thing I had to do was to find a black ultra fine point sharpie.
I used the sharpie to color in the eyes. There was no way I could have gotten that small a dot using the brush in the nail polish. I could have used a toothpick, and dipped it into the polish, but this worked better for me.
A friend came over to see it, and she suggested I glitter the hooves. I found some small white/silver glitter. I attached the glitter by painting the hooves with clear nail polish first, then sprinkling the glitter, and shaking off the extra.
It's not perfect, but not too bad for a person with hand tremors and a broken thumb. lol
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Published November 9th, 2017 2:43 PM
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