Budget Equestrian
DIY projects for barn, tack room and even your home
Painting Horse Jump Rails Well I am into week 2 of my stay-cation. And I have been able to get a lot of the big projects on my to-do list complete. This means I still have time off, so now I can dedicate some time to my garage. Which means I have time to paint …
Clothing To Keep You Warm When Working With Your Horse Well we are not even officially at the first day of winter, and already I am daydreaming about the spring and summer time. But dreaming about the nicer weather won’t make it arrive any faster, and I still need to ride, and work with my …
Budget Friendly Gifts For Horse Lovers Well it’s that time of year again, the time when we are on the hunt for the perfect gift for our favorite equestrians. And I thought it might be helpful if you have a horse lover in your family that you are searching for a gift idea. So I …
I Love My Exercise Ball I really do. I bought a Gold’s Gym exercise ball from Amazon for less than $20.00 a few years ago. And I have used it off and on when I would go through my getting in shape phases. Then I would deflate it and hide it away in my closet. …
Day 12 Of The Confident Rider Challenge Even though we are talking about leather vs. synthetic saddles today, there will still be a challenge for the day! I had planned on talking about getting your horse to stand still. However, I have already covered that a lot. So I wanted to share my experiences of …
The Real Cost To Show A Horse I love horse shows. Ok, I am obsessed with horse shows. Online shows, real, live horse shows. Western, Hunter-Jumper, it doesn’t matter what kind of show, I just love horse shows. And the area where I live there are a lot of horse shows. I am lucky enough …
Mamma’s Got A New Bag I didn’t really know how this was going to turn out. Actually, I didn’t even know that it would turn out. But I got an idea in my head the last time I was at the dollar store, and I decided it would be in inexpensive fail if it didn’t …
8,10, or 12 Foot Rails? I recently had someone ask where to find 10 foot rails for building jumps. She said she was having a difficult time finding 10 foot rails, or something that could be used as 10 foot rails for her jumps. And it got me thinking I should share what I do, …
Millbrook Stirrup Leathers Review I have been meaning to write this review for a while now. Have you ever heard of Millbrook stirrup leathers? Or have you seen people using the wider stirrup leathers and wondered about them? I had seen them a few times, but didn’t really think twice about them. That is, until …
A Week Of Reviews – Centaur Blue Steel D Ring Bit If you are anything like me, you are always looking for the perfect piece of equipment that will work well for your horse. And this week I want to share with you some of the new items I have found for myself, and my …
Weekly Video Wrap Up Well it’s that time again, time for my weekly video wrap up! I was right when I said I would be scaling back on video production when the weather got nicer. Spring officially came last week, and I think we decided to see how much stuff we could do in the …
Building A Riding Arena On A Budget Since I have been taking professional riding lessons for the past two months, I have decided I need to increase the size of my riding arena. So I want to share with you building a riding arena on a budget. The original space I had was too narrow, …
10 Different DIY Horse Jumps The only good thing about winter is the cold temperatures and shorter days forces me to stay inside and come up with something else to do. And I have stayed busy by updating my horse jumps and building new ones. So I thought I would share with you 10 different …
I’m Selling My Horse Stuff I have been a budget equestrian for as long as I have had horses. When I was a teenager, this was because I didn’t have any money. And when I was a young mother, I still didn’t have any money. And now that my babies are grown, and my husband …
DIY Painting Horse Jump Rails Well here we are deep in the throws of winter. But there is a glimmer of hope, the days are getting longer. Which means, spring will be coming soon! And when spring does finally get here, I want to be ready to work with my horses, and I am trying …
Flowers For Horse Jump Fillers I was searching through my drafts and I found that I forgot to post the flower fillers from the hunter jump that we made a few weeks ago. So instead of not posting it, I thought I would put it out there, just in case you were wondering about adding …
Building Your Own Gates For Horse Jumps So far I have showed you how to build wing standards and tall flower boxes for horse jumps. And because the jump I am building is a hunter style jump, it is only appropriate that we build a gate for this jump. And I have had this jump …
Build Your Own Wing Standards For Horse Jumps If you are building your own horse jumps at home, you will eventually feel the need to build wing standards. Or, maybe it’s just me. But I like to challenge myself, and see just what it is that I can build. And a jump with a pair …
Building Tall Flower Boxes I finally have found the time to get building some pretty big sets of horse jumps, and I am so excited! I have been wanting to build two complete sets of jumps, one hunter course, and one jumper course, for some time now. And I have drawn out a lot …
Fall Riding Essentials For The Adult Rider The season has changed and in Colorado, fall is definitely here. That means it is time to put away the t-shirts and sunshirts and get out the warmer clothing. But I don’t run out and spend a lot of money on new riding clothes every season. I try …
Budget Equestrian Weekly Video Recap Well I was able to get 3 videos up this week, still not 4, but 3 will do. This puts my video count at 287 videos so far on my channel. So close to 300! I think I need to push myself to hit that next milestone. Maybe I will …
#Goals It’s a new month which means I have new goals. I don’t reserve my goals for new years, I continually have goals throughout the year. And maybe it’s because I have more down time during the winter, but this month is no exception to my goals. In fact, I think this month something has …
Checking Your Horses Vital Signs As a nurse, I am very familiar with vital signs. Temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure, weight and pain. A lot of times they call pain the fifth vital sign. But for horses, you can’t really check their blood pressure, so as a horse owner you can cross that off your …
How To Use Slobber Straps and Mecate Reins With my venture over to the western style of riding, I decided to use slobber straps and a mecate rein set up for my bridle. I had used them a long time ago when I was really into Clinton Anderson’s method of training and riding. But I …
