Fire Starter

I subscribe to the thought that everything in our lives happen for a reason.  I'm sure (9) years ago when Carrie Keller was laid off from her job she didn't see any justification or reason for her loss.  But if you ask her today I think she might understand, and Stone Horses is well aware of the reason. 

Carrie Keller is our lead design artist for the Portrait Horse program, and the You Call It program.  She credits her talent and expertise to a lifetime of horse ownership and a degree in graphic design.  She is an extremely versatile artist for Stone Horses; designing samples, making patterns, painting One of A Kinds and runs.  Although she had years of experience, in some form of art or another, she had never painted a model horse before Stone Horses.  She has Julie Keim to thank for teaching her "how" to paint for the company. 

Carrie and her horse!

Carrie and her husband of (10) years have a small hobby farm, just West of Shipshewana.  They live in the small town of Middlebury.  They share (3) acres with Carrie's two horses Ghost and Tommy, three cats, and Rizzo their dog.  In Carrie's spare time she rides and trains dressage.

You might ask about the title of this story...well it happens to be Carrie's nickname!  On occasion the atmosphere in the paint room becomes very dry, and during those times we have to be very careful with static electricity and acetone.  One day when Carrie was cleaning model bodies she reached over to dip her cloth in a bowl of acetone and POOF the whole thing caught fire.  One of the other employees grabbed a towel to smother it and it caught fire as well.  He immediately threw the towel on the ground just as someone else showed up with a fire extinguisher and saved the day.  Hence forth from that day foreward Carrie has been known as "Firestarter"!

Carrie firmly believes that Stone Horses is a cut above because of all the very talented people in Northern Indiana.