Phantom Stallion E-Newsletter February 2009
Happy Valentine's Day!
Have you ever heard of potatoes with a heart? How about potatoes with a horse?
If you'd like to make your own Valentines this year, or if you're just looking for a fun, inexpensive EQUINE art form, try potato stamps!
Supplies:
1 potato, cut in half
Cookie cutters - hearts & horses if you have them
poster or tempra paint or stamp pad
shallow bowl (into which you'll pour a puddle of paint)
Construction paper folded like a card
Process:
Press cookie cutter against cut face of the potato.
Have someone who is comfortable with cutting or carving trim around the shape of the horse or heart and you'll have a stamp.
Dip in paint or press against stamp pad. Add glitter if you have some.
Decorate construction paper card.
Variation: If you don't have a horse cookie cutter, consider drawing a horse and surrounding it with hearts.
Tip from Terri: "I'm a writer, not an artist & my potato stamps don't always look like they're supposed to look. So a heart might end up being a rock or plant and then I'd draw a horse jumping over it! The potato print still adds color and interest to the picture."
Another idea: Check out this website http://www.horses-and-ponies.com/printables/valentines.shtml for wonderful horse and pony printable Valentines!
This just in . . .
Terri wants to celebrate YOU on a brand new PhantomStallion.com page called READING ROCKS. There, she'll feature photos of readers READING.
Include a horse in the photo -- a real or plush horse, you wearing a horse tshirt or standing in front of a horse poster, reading a horse book, etc. -- to be eligible for one of 25 autographed copies of a PHANTOM STALLION or WILD HORSE ISLAND book.
No names or locations will be included to identify you and you'll only hear from Terri if you've won a book.
Send your photo to Wildhorsepower@aol.com and check her blog for progress on this cool new page.
COMING SOON: Paniolo in Paradise contest. Win gifts from Dahana Ranch, Hawaii, home of the real Hoku
All afternoon and evening my imagination has been crowded with pictures of horses.
Where is Terri Farley?
Terri's staying close to home, writing, until February 20, but you can find her EVERY DAY and probably chat, here:
Did you know?
In the original Greek, Philippa and Philip both mean lover of horses
Buy Phantom Stallion
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