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It's that time when model horse lovers start getting excited and imagining beautiful horses!  That's right, NaMoPaiMo is coming up soon!  The third annual event, started by Jennifer Buxton of Braymere Custom Saddlery, invites everyone to grab a model and start painting.  Short for National Model Painting Month, February has been designated NaMoPaiMo and thousands of horse lovers around the world join in to make sad little models beautiful again. All you need is a model, some paint and your imagination.  Whether you're a first-time painter or a professional customizer, it's a fun month of camaraderie, sharing tips and photos,...

Carving the Breyer Halloween Horse pumpkin has become a tradition at Triple Mountain!  See this year's as it is made, step by step and check out the finished carving on display at our store!

 

If you'd like to see last year's Halloween Horse carving of Nevermore, you can find it here.

 

We're back from the 169th annual Fryeburg Fair, and boy did we have fun!  We enjoyed meeting everyone! There were so many great stories and memories shared by all of you.  We heard from people who had passed down their models for three generations and from others who still had them "somewhere in the attic" and now planned to find them and put them on display.  One woman told us that as a kid she had planned to run away from home and the first things she put into her backpack were...

Help us help people survive the devastation of Hurricane Dorian - We will be donating 10% of all our sales over the next two weeks to assist organizations on the ground in the Bahamas.  Read more for details.

We're excited to announce that Triple Mountain will be at Fryeburg Fair in Fryeburg, Maine from Sept 29 - Oct 6, 2019.  We will be the first Breyer dealer at the fair in over twenty years!     The huge Fryeburg Fairgrounds from the air, by Brian Merrill, courtesy fryeburgfair.org   As a kid, my family went to the fair every year.  I loved walking through the horse barns and watching people groom their gorgeous draft horses for the show.  One of my favorite parts, though, was hunting for the mobile tack shop that was usually parked near the barns,...