Comments on: Custom Portrait Winner & Call for Entries : Week #13 (3/23-3/27)

By: Horse Portrait : Maggie May - Custom Pet Portraits - Leanne Wildermuth : Artist by Nature

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:03:36 +0000

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By: Custom Portrait Winner & Call for Entries : Week #14 (3/30-4/3) - Graphite Portrait Giveaway - Leanne Wildermuth : Artist by Nature

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:46:46 +0000

[…] Last week’s winner was Brenda Vance with her submission and touching story of the path that led her to her beautiful horse, Maggie May. You can read her entry here. […]

By: Leanne

Leanne — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 23:39:02 +0000

Thank you for your entries this week! I'll be working on it over the weekend and post the winning portrait on Monday (Sunday for fans on Facebook) :beret:

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:59:49 +0000

My friend Karen (your current winner) has encouraged me to enter. I am sending you a link to our boy Mo-Jo. He is our first boy Shepherd and we love him lots. We also have his half sister, Jazzy. Mo-Jo came into our lives after loosing our GSD Chelsie Girl. She was eleven when she passed over the rainbow bridge. Our entire family was there at the time of her passing. I can not say in words the feelings that we felt....We also had another older GSD named Hannah and knew that she was not going to be here much longer. Our girls passed away within ten months of each other. We found Mo-Jo about eight months before Hannah was to leave us. She adopted Mo-Jo and became the ultimate mommy. In turn, Mo-Jo gave her exactly what she needed. She actually became more active and lively with our boy. I am positive that he extended her life! He is my noble companion and sweet boy......thank you Mo-Jo for all of the kisses......just touching you makes my day!

By: Temmy

Temmy — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:26:06 +0000

Today marks 14 years since our son Andrew passed away due to bronchial malacia.

This link is a reprint of what I wrote shortly after his passing so I would not forget him. I now know that I will never forget him. He taught us unconditional love.

http://tbirdonawire.net/tbirdwp/2008/03/24/andrew/

The first photo on this page is my favorite of him. I was taking his picture for our Christmas card that year. He giggled so hard he kept toppling over like a weeble.

He is greatly missed.

By: Brenda Vance

Brenda Vance — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 14:26:11 +0000

Your work is stunning! And how incredibly generous of you to give away a 5×7 sketch each week.

I would love to enter this week’s contest with my new horse Maggie Mae. Here is a link to her story on my blog page: http://splitrockranchllamas.blogspot.com/2009/02/meet-my-magnificent-maggie-mae.html

I will also email a photo and entry – how I found her is quite the story!

The day before I found Maggie Mae when we were driving to look at another horse named Blondie I was trying to think of a new name because I didn’t like the name Blondie. All of a sudden the song Maggie Mae by Rod Stewart started playing in my head (we didn’t have the radio on and I normally listen to Country music so where it came from…who knows?!) and I thought, oh, I would love to have a horse named Maggie Mae. I promptly forgot about it until the next day when I stumbled across the ad for Maggie Mae (I knew Blondie was not “the one” – she was horribly sick with a really bad infection in her lungs and she was very headstrong and disrespectful, which I cannot tolerate in my horses so I was looking again) I asked my husband Jim to look at the webpage for Maggie Mae and he watched the videos of her and came into my office and told me to call them right away – he had a very strong feeling about her. I called and Erin told me she would call me back in 10 minutes – while I was waiting for her to call me back Jim and I were looking at Maggie’s webpage and talking about her and I suddenly remembered the song from the day before so I told Jim about it and we knew that Maggie Mae was “the one”. As soon as I was in Maggie Mae’s presence I knew for sure that she is “the one” for me! She is everything I dreamed of, and more.

By: Karen Clothier

Karen Clothier — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:09:55 +0000

OMG Leanne, she is stunning, I never dreamed she could be so beautiful drawn like that!!! Thank you!
Karen Clothier :thanku:

By: Nicky Bird

Nicky Bird — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:38:53 +0000

What a cutie, Leanne, you have caputured her beautifully, you never cease to amaze me .