HI! My name is Lily Lai, and this is my company, the Blind Palomino. I make beautiful hand crafted jewelry out of all kinds of natural beads, as well as (my favorite) Swarovski crystal beads.

    I am also a horse fanatic- I grew up around them, but was always too shy and scared to ride. So I did what every other horse-crazy little girl does, I played with horse toys, drew horses and pretended I was a horse (I know I wasn't the only one!). When I grew up ,I moved to New Mexico with my husband and started taking riding lessons through the University. I fell in love again, but this time, I wasn't so shy and scared. I began to ride and have a wonderful time. Pretty soon things progressed and I ended up buying my first horse, Yeller.

    Yeller came from the livestock auction in Belen, NM, where my riding instructor, Rose, had found him. He was in pretty bad shape at the time. His left eye was terribly infected from a cut on his cornea, he was skinny, and no one had been taking care of his feet. Rose saw something in him that day, though. THANK YOU ROSE!! After a few weeks of doctoring his eye, a trim and some good hay, he was a new horse. I am a very firm believer that animals know when they have been saved, whether it be from the auction or from the shelter. If you have ever adopted an animal like this, you know what I am talking about. Yeller is blind in his left eye, we don't know for sure how or when this happened, but he is in no way bothered by his "disability".