Backpacks with Horses - Oh My!

 

It's time to start thinking about school!    If your daughter or granddaughter loves horses, then a backpack with horses is in order!!      There are styles and sizes available for the youngest school-goers up through elementary school, middle school, high school, and college - a backpack with horses for every stage and every age.

At GirlsHorseClothes.com, we carry solid and print horse backpacks, along with coordinating and matching lunch box with horses.    Match horse prints in a backpack, lunch box, and pencil case, or, mix a solid backpack with horse with a horse print lunchbox and a solid horse water bottle.    With fourteen different horse backpacks and four different horse messenger bags,  twelve different horse lunch boxes, and five different horse water bottles ----- the options are nearly endless!!!

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The Year of the Horse - What's That All About?

I did a bit of poking around, to give you a quick summary of what "The Year of the Horse" is all about.    I suspect it will be mentioned a lot in advertising campaigns, especially those targeting us horse lovers, so I wanted to know more about it, in addition to "2014 is the Chinese Year of the Horse".

It turns out the that the calender originally created by the people living in China a long, long, long time ago did not use numbers to mark the years, it used animals - 12 animals - one of them being the horse!   

These animal-named-years came to be used in a similiar way to the way some people use Zodiac symbols.. as a fun way of "predicting" the personality traits of someone born at a particular time.     (The ancient people certainly didn't have ultrasounds to tell them if the baby would be born a boy or a girl, and modern people cannot find out much more than that - yet we all love to speculate about what a baby will look like and be like).

Chinese people today use the same calender as the rest of the world for conducting business, attending school, and other day-to-day things.      BUT, they still use that ancient calender to determine when to celebrate!    New Year's Day, and thus New Year's Eve, is one of the most celebrated holidays by people in China.   Most recently, New Year's Day fell on Friday, January 31st, 2014, and marked the begining of a "horse year".

So, what does the Chinese Zodiac tradition say about those born in a year of the horse?   
energetic, intelligent, cheerful and entertaining, like being center of attention and crave success.  They also have a hard time restraining themselves resulting in over-spending and temper tantrums when things don't go as they'd like. 

The Chinese Zodiac tradition also offers predictions as to what the year will bring (another thing we'd all love to be able to have a peak at!).    For most people, years of the horse are said to be good years of prosperity.   Unfortunately, for those born in previous years of the horse, the outlook is not quite as good, but not at all disasterous.     

Still, those born in between 1/27/90-2/14/91, and 2/12/02-1/31/03 get to say EVERY YEAR that they were born in the year of the horse - and that is pretty cool!    And, yes, it includes MY horse lover, maybe that's where she gets it!

Happy Year of the Horse!

For more info on the Ancient Chinese Calender, check out this website   Chinese Calender Information


Related topics to research:  

 - How were horses used in ancient China, 
 - Where else did horses live in ancient times

Horse Print Fleece Robes - Exclusively at GirlsHorseClothes.com

For Immediate Release: Laurys Station, PA, October, 2013
Horse Print Fleece Robes - Exclusively at GirlsHorseClothes.com 

Robe is the perfect gift for any girl who loves horses.

Knowing what their customers were looking for to thrill the horse lovers in their lives, GirlsHorseClothes.com designed this pretty, plush, horse print bathrobe - in plenty of time for holiday shopping. 

The pistachio green background, chestnut brown and white horses, and dark pink and aqua accents were chosen to appeal to girls and women of all ages. "The print and colors are not too young, and not too old" said the store's owner. 

Their soft, plush robes are available in girl's sizes 4-16 and women's one size fits most, ONLY at GirlsHorseClothes.com. The independent online store also offers coordinating slippers and plenty of other horse themed clothing and gifts. They also offer personal service - they'll help with gift selection & sizing advice, and love to ship directly to your gift recipient, along with your greeting and a (free) horsey card. 

Through October 31st, enjoy a 20% discount when you purchase one (or more) of these exclusive bathrobes with code EXCLUSIVE.  Come December, enjoy giving the perfect gift to your girl who loves horses.  See Robe