nootka
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i should say look what my friend Bill did with them.
I was telling him about them just after I got them (Bill is not "horsey" at all and didn't really understand until I explained it, then he suggested doing something special with them since they are pretty special, indeed).
Here is what he came up with:
This is the two certificates displayed alongside his Liz McMillan photos, which were re-printed on heavy card stock by JDA Color Printing in Portland, OR on gold-bordered background. THEN, Bill float-mounted (raised a teeny bit) the two certificates, the stallion and the gelding awards (something that will NEVER happen again since there's no way he can be a stallion and a gelding in the same year, obviously).
He chose a gold mat to put them on, and used a very expensive (retails for more than I care to think about), nice Roma frame (which glows in the light, bronze/red/gold much like Pyro in his natural coat) custom-built to fit, non-glare museum glass, a hard back and voila!
I am one lucky girl!!
Pyro is a miracle to have survived a difficult birth, and then to go on and win show after show beginning with Sea-Tac last year where he was Res. Champ Weanling stallion on to Grand Champs at AMHR shows, to finishing out the season as a Res. Champ OVER weanling GELDING and getting both Reserve All-Star certificates.
I am proud as I can be of him, and this really hits it out of the park as far as a way to immortalize it. i have lots of neck ribbons and a few framed plaques, a trophy here or there, but this is really special. Pyro and friend Bill are lucky commodities. Look what I get when I put the two together!
Here is a link to see a bigger image of the finished piece:
Pyro's Awards
There was one other thing Bill finished on the same day and that was a birthday gift for his sister, an autographed Leonard Bernstein piece (she is a pianist) that I think is very beautiful...:
Thanks for looking!!!
Bill's website's updated w/the new stuff he's been putting out, in case you wanted to see some of the other things he does as part of his regular "line" (these two are considered customs).
NW Limited...History in Vogue
He's also been very generous to give me a very good price (or free) things to donate to certain Miniature Horse auctions/fund raisers (Gini, I have a package for you, will probably have to use UPS), part of my pay for giving him a hand on things (I take the photos for his site, and add the pictures/descriptions).
Liz
I was telling him about them just after I got them (Bill is not "horsey" at all and didn't really understand until I explained it, then he suggested doing something special with them since they are pretty special, indeed).
Here is what he came up with:
This is the two certificates displayed alongside his Liz McMillan photos, which were re-printed on heavy card stock by JDA Color Printing in Portland, OR on gold-bordered background. THEN, Bill float-mounted (raised a teeny bit) the two certificates, the stallion and the gelding awards (something that will NEVER happen again since there's no way he can be a stallion and a gelding in the same year, obviously).
He chose a gold mat to put them on, and used a very expensive (retails for more than I care to think about), nice Roma frame (which glows in the light, bronze/red/gold much like Pyro in his natural coat) custom-built to fit, non-glare museum glass, a hard back and voila!
I am one lucky girl!!
Pyro is a miracle to have survived a difficult birth, and then to go on and win show after show beginning with Sea-Tac last year where he was Res. Champ Weanling stallion on to Grand Champs at AMHR shows, to finishing out the season as a Res. Champ OVER weanling GELDING and getting both Reserve All-Star certificates.
I am proud as I can be of him, and this really hits it out of the park as far as a way to immortalize it. i have lots of neck ribbons and a few framed plaques, a trophy here or there, but this is really special. Pyro and friend Bill are lucky commodities. Look what I get when I put the two together!
Here is a link to see a bigger image of the finished piece:
Pyro's Awards
There was one other thing Bill finished on the same day and that was a birthday gift for his sister, an autographed Leonard Bernstein piece (she is a pianist) that I think is very beautiful...:
Thanks for looking!!!
Bill's website's updated w/the new stuff he's been putting out, in case you wanted to see some of the other things he does as part of his regular "line" (these two are considered customs).
NW Limited...History in Vogue
He's also been very generous to give me a very good price (or free) things to donate to certain Miniature Horse auctions/fund raisers (Gini, I have a package for you, will probably have to use UPS), part of my pay for giving him a hand on things (I take the photos for his site, and add the pictures/descriptions).
Liz
