Welcome to the AWhiteHorse™ Awards page. Here are most of the awards we've collected in our thirteen years online. Thank-you to the English Department of The University of Washington, for recently inviting me to participate in the 2005 Career Discovery Week, on the Seattle U of W campus.

Thank you to the many webmasters, editors, groups, and readers who have recognized AWhiteHorse™ as an outstanding community site for equine and pet artists and enthusiasts since 1996.

Please consider our competitive prices for creating a custom site for your business or organization. I'm often available to speak to your group, please contact met, Stacey Mayer.

A few of the awards and listings earned by The AWhiteHorse™ Web Design Team Exceptional Web Marketing Guaranteed.

Being first in AltaVista, now, that was an amazing day. Thanks, AltaVista.

Winner; AOL Editor's Choice Our stats consistently show AOL as our number one visiting ISP.

Open Source Directory Readers Choice. A terrific award.

Netscape awards us the Editor's Choice! Editor's Choice from this top rated, super fast search engine!

AWhiteHorse™ Web Design Awards and Accomplishments Children's Tribute to Peace, honoring King Hussein of Jordan, wins the Gulf Palace Triple Star Award Winner!

1/05 Stacey Mayer becomes listed in"Famous Mormons.net"

Swedish based international site, Elfwood.com names Stacey Mayer as an "Artist of the Day " in October, 2004.

Alexa.com ranks AWhiteHorse.com™ in the "Top 18 ,000" web sites worldwide.

About.com™ names Stacey Mayer's Free Online Web Graphics as "Editor's Choice", in 2004.

Stacey's Free Coloring Books are listed in Judy Heim's "Best on the Web, Free Stuff for Crafty Kids"

Book Yahoo's Daily Net Events lists AWhiteHorse™ Daily Equine Chat in the Daily Events, horse chat section.

Featured in the award winning Bonus.com, the Super Site for Kids

Recipient of the 1000 Award from the Webmasters at 1000 Sites

Chosen as a Yahooligans! Select destination site for kids

Thanks to the NewSurfer organization for sharing the news of our community.

The Free Online Coloring Book Wins! Greatest100Sites.com (M.E. search engine)

AWhiteHorse™ is committed to creating fast, kid-safe pages that are Netscape, AOL, and WebTV browser compatible.

Winner of NetGuide Gold Original Site Award, Hungary

I was working in our art booth at a big Morgan horse show at the Monroe, Washington Fairgrounds years ago. I had done 8-9 airbrush portraits that day already, and more orders were stacking up.

My partner, Cheryl Wofford, was handling all the people, and I was smiling and disappearing into each project as thoroughly as possible to get everything done.

Screen printed shirts and my air-brush blank shirts were stacked around us, and families were straining to get closer to watch my brazen delivery of splashes of permanent colors being applied to pristine white shirts without any assistance - everything freehand, all "on the fly". The pressure was enormous, and my shoulders and wrists were burning from the hours of effort.

A lady in a pretty, sparkly top made it to the front of the crowd, and I could see the sparkles of her shirt out of the corner of my eye as I was working. I quickly looked away from my easel to see what she had tossed onto the table beside me. It was a folded shirt in a nice plastic package - and I could see it showing part of a very detailed painting of a pretty bay Morgan mare. All that was showing was the eye. Boy - what a nice detailed job on that eye - I could never do that - my style was too free and open - and I hate taking the time to do every picky detail.  "I would never be that good," I sadly thought.

Stacey Mayer was born in Seattle, Washington. She and her husband, Phil, have four wonderful daughters. Did her parents know she could draw when she was a child? Her early memories of washing crayon markings off the walls says, "yes!" Each of her daughters inherited this tendency - and has washed a lot of walls to clear up their messes, too. Today, her daughters help her with many family art projects.

Stacey grew up riding her half-Arabian gelding in the Woodinville, WA, area, before it was famous as a winery and fine restaurant destination. Her favorite horses were Arabians, Appaloosas, sport horses, race horses, and gaited horses. Her art was always filled with horses, unicorns, mermaids, and other beautiful things. Thankfully, her family was supportive of her artistic talent, and there was always paint and paper available to create and practice her artwork.

In 1980, the Arabian Horse Registry commissioned Stacey to illustrate, "Guardians of the Breed", and her artwork quickly become recognizable to the Arabian horse world. Today, owners of Stacey Mayer art include; Israeli Arabian Horse National Champions, the 1 997 winner of the European Liberty Championship, Past IAHA President Mary Ann Grimmell, Mary Lou Walberg, Ray LaCroix, Donna Hentges, Bob Battaglia, Patrick Swayze, Steve Vajdik, Joey Canda, Maj. Pat and Joanna Maxwell, Kay Patterson, Mr. and Mrs. Clark Elster, Don and Twyla Lusk, Ken and Charlene Robinson, Don and Judi Peters, Scott and Jacquie Wilcox, Mrs. Patricia Fink, the winners of the Pacific Morgan Horse Show Bronze, award winners from the Reno Egyptian Event, Region 4 Champion Mare Bronze, and many more.

"If your club needs artwork, I do a limited amount of artwork for Clubs every year, and I am especially glad to help your Charity event." says Stacey.

"Meridian", (*Cytrys x Silver Song) portrait. Collection of Kay Patterson. Created in Milestone™, a man-made stone. (Like a Corian material) Unique. A genuine one-of-a-kind Milestone™ portrait of your horse can be commissioned for around $995 and up. Occasional commisioned works available in bronze.

"We Three Kings" acrylic on canvas by Stacey Mayer, The painting that started the online legend. Copyright 1991. Collection of the family. Official Christmas card for children's and equine charities and the logo for AWhiteHorse.com™.

AWhiteHorse.com™ began as a collection of free, printable coloring books for children in the fall of 1995. As a volunteer art teacher in Washington State, Stacey enjoyed showing children how to draw, and teaching them about Arabian horses at the same time.