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Holidays Horses and Hounds 2024




Holiday Shopping, Wine and Cheese at the Brae Loch Inn!

The Holidays, Horses, and Hounds event is a festive gathering celebrating the traditions of horseback riding and equestrian culture, held annually in the holiday season. It features a variety of local vendors, showcasing products related to horses, hounds, and holiday-themed goods.


December 8 ~ 1 PM - 4 PM at The Brae Loch Inn, Cazenovia


Sponsored by the Limestone Creek Hunt

Est. 1939 - A501(C)(3) Organization


Holiday, Horses and Hounds Vendors 2024


Gretchen's Confections will be offering artistic chocolates hand crafted from high-quality ingredients, and presented in elegant packaging. These are gifts that are sure to delight and impress. Gretchen’s Confections and Café is located in Marcellus.

Gretchen is a riding member of Limestone Creek Hunt. You can visit Gretchen’s website at gretchens.com


Deborah Dougherty Wester is predominantly a landscape oil painter living in Cazenovia. She also paints roosters, chickens, other animals, and holiday themes on stemless wine glasses. Deborah’s work can be found at Cazenovia Artisans.


Mary Gosden Studio Mary Gosden Chovan is a world-renowned artist/teacher/author in the field of oil and porcelain. She paints in every medium, on any surface, but prefers the permanence of porcelain, as the oils are fired into the glaze. Her own art deco and Celtic knot designs are popular, as well as any subject that people commission. Pet portraits are a large portion of her annual business and her passion for architecture also plays a part in much of her work. Collaborating with friend Dave Eichorn has produced unique wooden boxes with hand-painted Celtic design on porcelain lids. MaryGosdenStudio.com


Cazenovia Artist Judy Goldthwait specializes in equine art and pet portraits. Talk with her about commissioning an oil painting of your beloved show horse, backyard pasture companion, or loyal lapdog. Judy works from photos, and the ordering process is easy! She also has a wide variety of hand-painted giftware, original oil paintings, and prints that make perfect Christmas or any time gifts. Visit jgportrait.com, and follow Judy Goldthwait-Equine Art & Pet Portraits on Facebook.


Penny Ploughman is the founder of Ploughman’s Saddlery & Belts. Her talents include handcrafting over 50 styles of belts and bracelets for active, fashion-conscious equestrians and for those who simply appreciate equestrian style and fashion. Penny designs and makes a variety of leather goods including dog collars and leashes, spur straps, bookmarks, horseshoe coasters, leather baskets, napkin rings, snowshoe bindings, blanket carriers, custom pistol cases and hand-sewn hunt appointments and hunt horse tack. Through PSB Global, imported from primarily English makers, Penny offers a wide variety of fox hunting appointments including: staghorn crops, whip thongs, sandwich cases, conical flasks/cases, wire cutters/cases, bolt cutters/cases, folding saws/cases, and radio and cell phone cases. Penny designs and custom creates all of her goods from start to finish, right there in the U.S.A. (Albany, New York, to be exact). Please visit her website at ploughmansbelts.com prior to the event for any special requests.


Linda Kellish, and her son Jeffery, own over Brook Farm and have been breeding, training, and promoting Morgan horses for over 25 years. Earthstar Designs is their multi-craft business that includes ceramics, functional pottery, garden art, and the creation of rhythm beads. Rhythm beads are used to calm both horse and rider, teach riders how to move with their horse, provide a pleasant sound for warning and cadence while on a trail, and look beautiful. Linda and Jeffery use a variety of glaze techniques and decoration for their pottery and can produce custom items. Custom items have included platters, bowls and plates with farm logos, dessert plate sets, memorial platters for a beloved companion, garden display items and rhythm beads with matching pendants for farms and organizations. They are available on both eBay and Etsy, or email earthstardesigns@gmail.com


Penny Hazer of Wind Swept Hill Clay Works is an amateur potter creating functional ware that reflects the colors and textures found in our natural environment. Windswept Hill Farm, a small backyard horse farm, sits at top the hill at the north end of Cazenovia.

Penny is a riding member of Lime Stone Creek Hunt.


Soapn' will be offering a variety of products including saddles soap, hand soaps, bath bombs, shower steamers, and hand lotion. Soap'n is a small side venture specializing in equestrian themed soaps and bath bombs made by Maggie Neider of Fabius, NY. Maggie is the owner of North Hill Farm, a warmblood breeding farm specializing in producing top-quality hunter prospects and although she has not been actively involved with lchinr recently years, "back in the days" of Dr. Stack and Anne Adams, Maggie was the barn manager and a whipper-in.


Dave Eichorn is probably best known locally as a meteorologist on WSYR TV, but through his entire weather casting career, Dave had also been designing and making furniture. He began making furniture in the early 1980s, at first building simple shaker-style pieces (beds, desks, dressers and tables) but as time went on his pieces became more complex evolving to a blend of relatively rustic and contemporary style pieces. Dave’s furniture is uniquely constructed from domestic central New York hardwoods and rare and exotic wood from around the world he acquired in the 1970s and 1980s. The result is a unique and pleasantly contrasting style that conforms to any décor. Dave will be selling keepsake boxes, cutting boards, serving trays and other gifts for the holidays. Dave’s work is routinely on display and for sale at Cazenovia Artisans. EichornWoodworking.com


Elaine Haynes has been creating one of a kind gemstone jewelry for 24 years. She is mostly self taught but also studied at Munson Williams Proctor School of Art. Elaine offers hand crafted jewelry that combines semi-precious stones, hand-worked silver, gold-filled wire and other metals. You can find her jewelry on her Etsy website: ElaineHaynesDesigns.Etsy.com

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