Want to make a dear Belgian draft horse lover friend smile when they are going through a rough patch? Let them know you are "pulling for them" with a special gift. I don't just love horses, I love the people who love them, too.

Recently some of my friends have put a stop to coloring their hair. They look radiant and perhaps it's from the liberty of embracing their natural beauty and no longer feeling harnessed to the task of covering up their true colors. I was looking at my photograph of a beautiful gray mare and thought I would assign her the task of being an ambassador for everyone who has set themselves free.

The HorseDesigns website, once my full time and very busy job, has been laying dormant for years. My husband, Tommy, became seriously ill in 2010 and was bedridden for a number of years. I stepped out of my business and began full time caregiving. Myriad doctors told him he had multiple organ failure and would be dead within 2 - 4 weeks back at that time. Tommy wasn't ready to accept that and neither was I so we set out on a journey to slowly but surely bring him back to lif