Holding on...

Today's harvest was meager. Dusty's decided to hold on to his remaining hair for a bit longer,  apparrently. Frani suggested a mouse,  but I set my sights on something a little less ambitious,  while keeping to the idea.

The Supply is Dwindling

Or at least, slowing down a bit.
Barely enough for a hare. :)

Still branching out

A fox:



And the fox, after the birdies at the barn have had their way with him (nests gotta be lined, after all...)

Branching out...

A kitty!




And I missed one - this was done March 17th: a foal!

Oh, and by the way: this is what the horse producing my artistic materials currently (March 22nd) looks like:

March 11th, a sitting dog

Rapidly turning into the Velveteen Rabbit:

And 2012, I get serious.

The media, newly dropped:

Still sticking with the doggie theme, March 10 2012:



Frani, the owner of Crystal Farm, thought he'd might look good sitting down:

Fast forward to 2011...

Mid-April to be exact. I still wasn't taking it too seriously.

And another, the next day:

And April 30th:

And the following week...

We had another doggie:



I took a horse hair sabbatical for a bit... or at least I didn't take photos of my creations.

In the beginning...

For years I've been saying that my old horse sheds so much fur in the spring I could make another animal out of it. A few years ago, I decided to do it.

My first attempt:

I should mention, those are 50lb bags of grain in the background. This was a pretty large doggie.

He became a "he", courtesy of my friend Suzanne:

And the next day, he'd moved a bit:

And so it began...