My mom uses her grandmother’s wooden steamer trunk as a coffee table and your post made me think, ‘oooh, can I convert that into a tack trunk?’ despite me not having much in the way of tack since I typically part lease horses that come with tack. Well, and the trunk still being my mom’s coffee table. Details, details…
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I get such a kick when I find out someone else has the same weird/odd quirk I do.
I have a blue metal hoof pick hanging in my tack room. I have had it since I was a teenager.
After a time without horses while the kids grew up when I did get a horse again I was positively thrilled to find a ‘piece’ of my old life.
I have had my Emore since I was 16, just rode in it today, but somehow that little hoof pick did it for me. 
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It definitely could be. But it’s also two kind of aggressive shades of green that match nothing
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As children we had a pony that we taught to pull a governess cart. We bought a leather harness from the Eaton’s catalogue (Canadian equivalent to Sears Roebuck) in 1957. Pony’s gone, cart’s gone, my sister who officially ‘owned’ pony is gone, the harness hadn’t been used for 50 years but I couldn’t get rid of it. I have just downsized to a small house and had to let it go even though it was still in serviceable shape. No-one wanted it, unfortunately. That was hard!. I did keep the rock hard Passier AP that was bought used in 1966 and it has been adjusted and restuffed to fit my current mare.
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How “aggressive” are those greens?
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No way you can bring one or both in as accents?
So the trunk will blend rather than scream?
Say a throw or pillow…
For me, Sentiment always beats Style 
But then, you’re never going to see my house in Architectural Digest 
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I have my Dad’s old Stubben 19” saddle that I rode in from aged 12 to 35. It must be seventy years old. Hand stitching, I don’t ride in it at all of course but I do love it.
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