I started riding real horses when I was very young. I got my first horse when I was in 5th grade. She was a Welsh pony named April. When I was in 9th grade, I traded her for Mandy a black Quarter Horse. I had Mandy until she broke her leg and had to be put down in 1989. She was very special to me.

The boy on Mandy is my nephew Dustin. The picture was taken the Fall of 1982. He won the trophy that is in his hand for the Lead line class.

When I graduated from college in 1987, may parents gave me the down payment for my Paint horse Mac. We have had several years of successful showing including winning 7 high-point trophies and finishing 7th in the nation in the APHA OCAP program in 1991. The next year Mac began to have back problems, and we have not shown much since them. After discovering the horse chiropractor, Mac and I are back in the saddle. Now we have started riding Dressage but have not been to many shows. Saddly on October 17, 2007 make passed away from Cancer.

My love of model horses came when a friend of mine started selling her collection. I bought several of her horses. I went to my first show in May at Laura Behning's SouthCon and I have been hooked ever since.

I started Sulser Saddlery after I picked up a piece of scrap leather at my neighbors house and tried to copy my Stubben saddle. Several people in the hobby saw my saddles and told me I should start making tack and that is how Sulser Saddlery began.

I married a wonderful man, Steve, on March 25, 1995 and have been extremely happy ever since. Steve works for CNN Headline News, along with making Fencing for Sulser Saddlery and doing the hard part of the casting for us, and I am now working at home making Tack. We have no children only a horse and we love him very much.