Cold Weather Blues & Breyer News

A sign that winter is getting closer is the first freeze warning of the year.

I'm an early riser, but in the summer at this time in the morning, the sun is up and birds are calling.

Now it's pitch black, the birds are quiet, and sometimes, after letting the dogs out and going up to my office to write, I go back to sleep for a bit on the upstairs couch.

Joined by my faithful friends, of course. (I don't feed them that early, so they hang close just in case I make any moves to go back downstairs and fill their bowls.)

I love Fall and I do like those peaceful early mornings outside, but when the cold temperatures begin rolling in, I start wishing for warmer weather again. And boy howdy, am I doing some wishing this morning! I don't even want to think about the days that will come when the temps are zero and below! (However, it is a good reason to drink hot chocolate!)

Surprisingly, I got those two XLTs finished yesterday.

The boy dogs spent a good part of the afternoon hanging out with Craig, which left Pepper and Mama with me.

Pepper is trained to not get underfoot and she is not the worry that Mama is. Mama likes to walk right alongside you, frequently stepping in front of you, and she was the one I was most concerned about having close to the iron.

But she sacked out on a blanket I laid on the floor, and while she was snoring away in one corner of the sewing room, I quietly turned on the iron in the other side and got the job done. Now I'm done sewing for Saturday's show and feel confident that I have a good supply of haversacks to offer and donate.

Breyer dropped some big news yesterday by opening up the 2025 Collectors Club and Deluxe Collectors Club for membership. (All screenshots from Breyer's web site.)

The first Collector Club special of 2025 will be Maddox, and there are a lot of collectors who are highly excited about that. He's nice, but aside from Nemea (who I love), he is not a big draw for me.

The Deluxe Collectors Club Stablemate sure is though. My jaw dropped and I headed straight over to Breyer's web site and joined the Deluxe Club when they appeared in my email.

My absolute FAVORITE Breyer mold, my biggest conga at 34 pieces, has been shrunk down to Stablemate size!! And each DCC member will receive two Stablemates - one Appaloosa and then a gambler's choice of the other four decorators.

It seems that she who does not collect Stablemates is going to be adding to her collection, especially if this mold starts dropping in other colors, too. (I am going to need to buy another one of those Stablemate barn shelf units! The one I have is nearly full.)

Breyer has begun adding items to celebrate their 75th anniversary next year, too.

I've already ordered both blankets as I do collect Breyer's specialty blankets.

The pillows caught my eye, but I can easily make a pillow so the price point is way too high for me. 

With the Collectors Clubs open for joining, soon to follow will be the Premiere, Vintage, and Stablemate clubs. And there is talk that Breyer is going to open a Collectors Club Store on the web site. I can only hope that there will be more vintage-based goodies to find there!

Finally, speculation on social media is that we are drawing close to the time when Breyer announces the Celebration Horse for the coming BreyerFest and that we may hear that soon. I'm hoping for a vintage mold but think it more likely a modern one will be used. (No doubt, though, that the iconic Western Horse will be used for BreyerFest in one form or another.)  

Time to start keeping a closer eye on Breyer's social media, for sure.