(NOW WITH BEFORE AND AFTER STAIN)For Christmas I told my parents that I wanted a valet tack trunk to help keep the salvageable stuff I still have left from riding before. I found a guy that said he would do it within the price that I needed it. I was so excited and talked him through everything for over a month. Then the guy fell off of the earth. He wasn't getting back to me... nothing. Finally, in the middle of January, he got back to me (after I hunted him down with another email address) and told me that he couldn't do it because what he quoted me for it wasn't enough money. I was completely bummed and then needed to find someone to make me a tack trunk, now that I had my heart set on it.
Enter.... etsy.com and the alchemy request. I posted about wanting a valet style trunk and had a response from someone I had already worked with. This great Woman that lives within driving distance from me and had already made a cat climber for my cats responded and said she could make the trunk within my price.
I was back on the way to getting a valet trunk! Better late than never. So above it the trunk photo she sent me showing me how far she is with it. All she's got to do is stain it, put in all the hardware, put the top portion on it (the top of the trunk is going to have an area to keep little things like hoof picks, tests, gloves and spurs.) She said it should take her about another week to get it done. YES!!! Now I just have to make room for it here in the ever shrining sardine can of an apartment, and then go get all my tack and some heavy duty cleaner to clean and soften up all the leather that I haven't touched in wayyyy too long. Still excited though :)
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