The horses are back. Last year my friend who owns Dovetails of Wimberley found a necklace filled with small carved horses. I took it apart and made at least half a dozen “horse” necklaces for her customers depleting our supply. A few weeks ago, she found another horse necklace and I’m at it again (as grandson Gabriel says “neigh, neigh”).  Three of these have already gone to Theo B Camisole, a boutique in Camden, Maine, and the others are trotting over to Dovetails. I don’t believe that the horses fall in the category of animal fetishes, but I do know that people like them.

Animal fetishes are also popular and I enjoy working with the multicolor possibilities they present. Webster says that a fetish is an object believed by some person or group to have magic power. I choose to use that definition rather than the Freudian connotation.