Martha Bechtel
@martha.net
Writer, artist, gamer, model horse addict, crafting-crafter-that-crafts... Looking for a digital home where I can talk hobbies and geek out. (Martha.net)
We made it here a little before when we needed to open the doors and I had a chance to set up my table before we started checking people in. Half the fun of the craft fair is running the craft fair, but I do like trying to come up with booth layouts that don't look absolutely horrible. 🤣
October 25, 2025 at 11:24 AM
We made it here a little before when we needed to open the doors and I had a chance to set up my table before we started checking people in. Half the fun of the craft fair is running the craft fair, but I do like trying to come up with booth layouts that don't look absolutely horrible. 🤣
Everything is packed up, the workbench is clear, time to head to NoVA for Mom's Craft Fair! Wooo! 😁🎨🎉
October 23, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Everything is packed up, the workbench is clear, time to head to NoVA for Mom's Craft Fair! Wooo! 😁🎨🎉
I don't have too many striped #modelhorse wander the shelves, but I do have this little pair who has been in my gonna-finish-it-someday WiP herd for, err, literal decades now. 😅
I'm actually not even sure which body box they're in at this point. 🤔 #art #wip
I'm actually not even sure which body box they're in at this point. 🤔 #art #wip
October 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
I don't have too many striped #modelhorse wander the shelves, but I do have this little pair who has been in my gonna-finish-it-someday WiP herd for, err, literal decades now. 😅
I'm actually not even sure which body box they're in at this point. 🤔 #art #wip
I'm actually not even sure which body box they're in at this point. 🤔 #art #wip
It looks like #NaNoWriMo lives again! 😁 I'm glad Chris Baty it once again stepping into things, brings back that kick of nostalgia!
Now I just need to find a new place to get writerly t-shirts from. 🤔
nano2.org
Now I just need to find a new place to get writerly t-shirts from. 🤔
nano2.org
October 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
It looks like #NaNoWriMo lives again! 😁 I'm glad Chris Baty it once again stepping into things, brings back that kick of nostalgia!
Now I just need to find a new place to get writerly t-shirts from. 🤔
nano2.org
Now I just need to find a new place to get writerly t-shirts from. 🤔
nano2.org
Today's #modelhorse prompt may be a little less horse and a little more wild, but I figured October is a great time to play dress-up! 😁
Today's horse bookshelf scavenger hunt is for Things With Stripes! #horse #art #breyerhorses
Today's horse bookshelf scavenger hunt is for Things With Stripes! #horse #art #breyerhorses
October 21, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Today's #modelhorse prompt may be a little less horse and a little more wild, but I figured October is a great time to play dress-up! 😁
Today's horse bookshelf scavenger hunt is for Things With Stripes! #horse #art #breyerhorses
Today's horse bookshelf scavenger hunt is for Things With Stripes! #horse #art #breyerhorses
Spend today lazily prepping for the craft fair next weekend. I was bundling everything else and finally gave into the urge to bundle the cat magnets into sets! 😂
(Magnets are a sturdy mixture of plaster and wood glue, recipe here: martha.net/2015/12/perf...)
(Magnets are a sturdy mixture of plaster and wood glue, recipe here: martha.net/2015/12/perf...)
October 19, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Spend today lazily prepping for the craft fair next weekend. I was bundling everything else and finally gave into the urge to bundle the cat magnets into sets! 😂
(Magnets are a sturdy mixture of plaster and wood glue, recipe here: martha.net/2015/12/perf...)
(Magnets are a sturdy mixture of plaster and wood glue, recipe here: martha.net/2015/12/perf...)
If you ever do, I'll happily donate some micro-fencing/bridges/whatever to the cause! 😂 (Tiny bits of wood I can do, tiny bits of leather, notsomuch)
October 17, 2025 at 6:20 PM
If you ever do, I'll happily donate some micro-fencing/bridges/whatever to the cause! 😂 (Tiny bits of wood I can do, tiny bits of leather, notsomuch)
I love this dude a ridiculous amount! ❤️🐎
I actually only own two PAS (the other's a dapple grey), because they are a bit of a pain to fit into bookshelves. 😅 They are just a little too tall and a little too long... so I collected a lot more smaller scale arabians instead. #modelhorse
I actually only own two PAS (the other's a dapple grey), because they are a bit of a pain to fit into bookshelves. 😅 They are just a little too tall and a little too long... so I collected a lot more smaller scale arabians instead. #modelhorse
October 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I love this dude a ridiculous amount! ❤️🐎
I actually only own two PAS (the other's a dapple grey), because they are a bit of a pain to fit into bookshelves. 😅 They are just a little too tall and a little too long... so I collected a lot more smaller scale arabians instead. #modelhorse
I actually only own two PAS (the other's a dapple grey), because they are a bit of a pain to fit into bookshelves. 😅 They are just a little too tall and a little too long... so I collected a lot more smaller scale arabians instead. #modelhorse
Another throwback #modelhorse prompt for the day-- show me your bays! 😁
(Because I want an excuse to post my old PAS because the new Breyer anniversary PAS is making me want stablemate scale versions SO BAD. 😭)
(Because I want an excuse to post my old PAS because the new Breyer anniversary PAS is making me want stablemate scale versions SO BAD. 😭)
October 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Another throwback #modelhorse prompt for the day-- show me your bays! 😁
(Because I want an excuse to post my old PAS because the new Breyer anniversary PAS is making me want stablemate scale versions SO BAD. 😭)
(Because I want an excuse to post my old PAS because the new Breyer anniversary PAS is making me want stablemate scale versions SO BAD. 😭)
The tiny bags are in and now it's time to start assembling the craft fair mystery hauls! 😂 (To be fair, the tiny books won't be random)
Will this work? Who knows! But at least I have fun making them... 🎨
Will this work? Who knows! But at least I have fun making them... 🎨
October 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The tiny bags are in and now it's time to start assembling the craft fair mystery hauls! 😂 (To be fair, the tiny books won't be random)
Will this work? Who knows! But at least I have fun making them... 🎨
Will this work? Who knows! But at least I have fun making them... 🎨
A #modelhorse prompt that I meant to post earlier in the week! 😅
More of a 'feeling' than a color prompt, it's time to get a little creative! Which of your model horse herd reminds you the most of the season?
Halloween horses, shaggy winter-coated ponies, maple-leaf decorators, trot 'em all out! 😁
More of a 'feeling' than a color prompt, it's time to get a little creative! Which of your model horse herd reminds you the most of the season?
Halloween horses, shaggy winter-coated ponies, maple-leaf decorators, trot 'em all out! 😁
October 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
A #modelhorse prompt that I meant to post earlier in the week! 😅
More of a 'feeling' than a color prompt, it's time to get a little creative! Which of your model horse herd reminds you the most of the season?
Halloween horses, shaggy winter-coated ponies, maple-leaf decorators, trot 'em all out! 😁
More of a 'feeling' than a color prompt, it's time to get a little creative! Which of your model horse herd reminds you the most of the season?
Halloween horses, shaggy winter-coated ponies, maple-leaf decorators, trot 'em all out! 😁
I went searching my shelves for this #modelhorse prompt... and oddly enough the I didn't find any roans (other than the CWPs and pulling them out of the conga is a pain).
So here's my old custom Breyer Stablemates in fantasy roans!
I wonder if I have any roans in the body box, I should check... 🤔
So here's my old custom Breyer Stablemates in fantasy roans!
I wonder if I have any roans in the body box, I should check... 🤔
October 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I went searching my shelves for this #modelhorse prompt... and oddly enough the I didn't find any roans (other than the CWPs and pulling them out of the conga is a pain).
So here's my old custom Breyer Stablemates in fantasy roans!
I wonder if I have any roans in the body box, I should check... 🤔
So here's my old custom Breyer Stablemates in fantasy roans!
I wonder if I have any roans in the body box, I should check... 🤔
#modelhorse scavenger hunt prompt, AWAY!
Time to scour your bookshelf herds for reds, blues, lilacs, blacks, bays, strawberry, rabicanos, sabinos, etc.!
If it looks like a roan, it counts! (Unless it’s a dun! 😂)
#breyerhorse #horseart #modelhorses
Time to scour your bookshelf herds for reds, blues, lilacs, blacks, bays, strawberry, rabicanos, sabinos, etc.!
If it looks like a roan, it counts! (Unless it’s a dun! 😂)
#breyerhorse #horseart #modelhorses
October 6, 2025 at 10:27 PM
#modelhorse scavenger hunt prompt, AWAY!
Time to scour your bookshelf herds for reds, blues, lilacs, blacks, bays, strawberry, rabicanos, sabinos, etc.!
If it looks like a roan, it counts! (Unless it’s a dun! 😂)
#breyerhorse #horseart #modelhorses
Time to scour your bookshelf herds for reds, blues, lilacs, blacks, bays, strawberry, rabicanos, sabinos, etc.!
If it looks like a roan, it counts! (Unless it’s a dun! 😂)
#breyerhorse #horseart #modelhorses
The tiny plastic ponies have arrived! 😁🎉🐎
...Now to think of fun colors to paint them... eventually. 😅
#modelhorses #breyerhorses #TooManyPoniesToPaintAndTooLittleTime
...Now to think of fun colors to paint them... eventually. 😅
#modelhorses #breyerhorses #TooManyPoniesToPaintAndTooLittleTime
October 2, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The tiny plastic ponies have arrived! 😁🎉🐎
...Now to think of fun colors to paint them... eventually. 😅
#modelhorses #breyerhorses #TooManyPoniesToPaintAndTooLittleTime
...Now to think of fun colors to paint them... eventually. 😅
#modelhorses #breyerhorses #TooManyPoniesToPaintAndTooLittleTime
The other horse I wanted to share for today's #modelhorse prompt was this appaloosa (that I also don't own) that I absolutely LOVE but I can't find a good studio link! 😭
It's a Thoroughbred Mare sculpted by Carol Williams and painted by Liz Shaw.
www.equineresindirectory.com/showhorse.as...
It's a Thoroughbred Mare sculpted by Carol Williams and painted by Liz Shaw.
www.equineresindirectory.com/showhorse.as...
September 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The other horse I wanted to share for today's #modelhorse prompt was this appaloosa (that I also don't own) that I absolutely LOVE but I can't find a good studio link! 😭
It's a Thoroughbred Mare sculpted by Carol Williams and painted by Liz Shaw.
www.equineresindirectory.com/showhorse.as...
It's a Thoroughbred Mare sculpted by Carol Williams and painted by Liz Shaw.
www.equineresindirectory.com/showhorse.as...
For a silly response to this #modelhorse prompt: these are not models I own, but taking a time machine back to 1990's Breyer... (thanks to Identify Your Breyer!!) this is what we used to have as options! Polkadots! 😂
September 30, 2025 at 4:24 PM
For a silly response to this #modelhorse prompt: these are not models I own, but taking a time machine back to 1990's Breyer... (thanks to Identify Your Breyer!!) this is what we used to have as options! Polkadots! 😂
It's a bit of a grey overcast day here, so let's brighten up folk's stream with LOTSA SPOTS! 😁
Today's #modelhorse prompt covers all versions of appys from few spots to leopards appaloosas and all the dotty goodness in-between (even no-spots, I suppose, if you -must- 😂)!
Show me your ponies!! 🎉🐎🎨
Today's #modelhorse prompt covers all versions of appys from few spots to leopards appaloosas and all the dotty goodness in-between (even no-spots, I suppose, if you -must- 😂)!
Show me your ponies!! 🎉🐎🎨
September 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
It's a bit of a grey overcast day here, so let's brighten up folk's stream with LOTSA SPOTS! 😁
Today's #modelhorse prompt covers all versions of appys from few spots to leopards appaloosas and all the dotty goodness in-between (even no-spots, I suppose, if you -must- 😂)!
Show me your ponies!! 🎉🐎🎨
Today's #modelhorse prompt covers all versions of appys from few spots to leopards appaloosas and all the dotty goodness in-between (even no-spots, I suppose, if you -must- 😂)!
Show me your ponies!! 🎉🐎🎨
I decided it was well past time to embrace the 'least viable option' and reset the terrain tiles to simple colors for the alpha. I kept tweaking the pixel art again and again... instead of getting the game playable! 😅
Good note, everything's working again and I'm back to balance testing! 🥂 #gamedev
Good note, everything's working again and I'm back to balance testing! 🥂 #gamedev
September 28, 2025 at 1:16 AM
I decided it was well past time to embrace the 'least viable option' and reset the terrain tiles to simple colors for the alpha. I kept tweaking the pixel art again and again... instead of getting the game playable! 😅
Good note, everything's working again and I'm back to balance testing! 🥂 #gamedev
Good note, everything's working again and I'm back to balance testing! 🥂 #gamedev
My pick for this #modelhorse prompt was... Breyer's traditional scale Marguerite Henry's Stormy! 😁❤️
I've had this model (and Misty) ever since the mid-80's and read Misty of Chincoteague until the book poor almost gave up the ghost. 😂 T'was one of the first horse books I read and a fond favorite!
I've had this model (and Misty) ever since the mid-80's and read Misty of Chincoteague until the book poor almost gave up the ghost. 😂 T'was one of the first horse books I read and a fond favorite!
September 28, 2025 at 12:32 AM
My pick for this #modelhorse prompt was... Breyer's traditional scale Marguerite Henry's Stormy! 😁❤️
I've had this model (and Misty) ever since the mid-80's and read Misty of Chincoteague until the book poor almost gave up the ghost. 😂 T'was one of the first horse books I read and a fond favorite!
I've had this model (and Misty) ever since the mid-80's and read Misty of Chincoteague until the book poor almost gave up the ghost. 😂 T'was one of the first horse books I read and a fond favorite!
Today's #modelhorse prompt is all about the younglings! 😁
I was looking over the shelves trying to think up a good scavenger hunt idea and saw a classic quarter horse foal poking it's nose out... so baby horses it is! 😂🐎
I was looking over the shelves trying to think up a good scavenger hunt idea and saw a classic quarter horse foal poking it's nose out... so baby horses it is! 😂🐎
September 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Today's #modelhorse prompt is all about the younglings! 😁
I was looking over the shelves trying to think up a good scavenger hunt idea and saw a classic quarter horse foal poking it's nose out... so baby horses it is! 😂🐎
I was looking over the shelves trying to think up a good scavenger hunt idea and saw a classic quarter horse foal poking it's nose out... so baby horses it is! 😂🐎
I finally got the Saturday Story Prompt archives looking good! The newer images are less colorful than the old ones... but the old ones took forever. 😅
I really should start these up again. 🤔
#WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity
3500+ prompts in the archive! martha.net/category/wri...
I really should start these up again. 🤔
#WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity
3500+ prompts in the archive! martha.net/category/wri...
September 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I finally got the Saturday Story Prompt archives looking good! The newer images are less colorful than the old ones... but the old ones took forever. 😅
I really should start these up again. 🤔
#WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity
3500+ prompts in the archive! martha.net/category/wri...
I really should start these up again. 🤔
#WriteSky #WritingPrompts #WritingCommunity
3500+ prompts in the archive! martha.net/category/wri...
I had to go digging to find a chestnut (I have SO many bays! 😂).
This is the Breyer traditional scale Dream Weaver (model #833 from 1991) on the Black Beauty mold... who has spent several decades causing shelf avalanche events with his conga line herdmates. (The Running Stallion aids and abets!)🤦♀️
This is the Breyer traditional scale Dream Weaver (model #833 from 1991) on the Black Beauty mold... who has spent several decades causing shelf avalanche events with his conga line herdmates. (The Running Stallion aids and abets!)🤦♀️
September 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I had to go digging to find a chestnut (I have SO many bays! 😂).
This is the Breyer traditional scale Dream Weaver (model #833 from 1991) on the Black Beauty mold... who has spent several decades causing shelf avalanche events with his conga line herdmates. (The Running Stallion aids and abets!)🤦♀️
This is the Breyer traditional scale Dream Weaver (model #833 from 1991) on the Black Beauty mold... who has spent several decades causing shelf avalanche events with his conga line herdmates. (The Running Stallion aids and abets!)🤦♀️
It's that kinda week, so for today's #modelhorse prompt I figured I'd dip back into the basics! 🐎
Time to scour your shelves for the most basic of horse colors (aka 'brown')... hopefully this one will be an easy scavenger hunt! 😁
(I have so many bays, this may take me a min! 😂)
Time to scour your shelves for the most basic of horse colors (aka 'brown')... hopefully this one will be an easy scavenger hunt! 😁
(I have so many bays, this may take me a min! 😂)
September 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
It's that kinda week, so for today's #modelhorse prompt I figured I'd dip back into the basics! 🐎
Time to scour your shelves for the most basic of horse colors (aka 'brown')... hopefully this one will be an easy scavenger hunt! 😁
(I have so many bays, this may take me a min! 😂)
Time to scour your shelves for the most basic of horse colors (aka 'brown')... hopefully this one will be an easy scavenger hunt! 😁
(I have so many bays, this may take me a min! 😂)
I very rarely buy model horses at the moment (as I am trying to use up my -existing- body box first) but Breyer's Deluxe Horse Collection stablemate set has a whole bunch of molds that I haven't customized yet... and it gives me Gollum feelings! 😂
www.breyerhorses.com/collections/...
www.breyerhorses.com/collections/...
September 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I very rarely buy model horses at the moment (as I am trying to use up my -existing- body box first) but Breyer's Deluxe Horse Collection stablemate set has a whole bunch of molds that I haven't customized yet... and it gives me Gollum feelings! 😂
www.breyerhorses.com/collections/...
www.breyerhorses.com/collections/...
I normally sell handmade magnets and tiny #handbound books of Saturday Story Prompts at the #craftfair that my Mom runs in October... but this year I'm pondering trying something new. 🤔
I have no idea what that something -is- and Oct 25 is not that far away... so it feels a little like NaNoWriMo. 😂
I have no idea what that something -is- and Oct 25 is not that far away... so it feels a little like NaNoWriMo. 😂
September 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I normally sell handmade magnets and tiny #handbound books of Saturday Story Prompts at the #craftfair that my Mom runs in October... but this year I'm pondering trying something new. 🤔
I have no idea what that something -is- and Oct 25 is not that far away... so it feels a little like NaNoWriMo. 😂
I have no idea what that something -is- and Oct 25 is not that far away... so it feels a little like NaNoWriMo. 😂