UPDATED: 05/25/2025

 This site is all about my favorite childhood toys--Johnny West and The Best of the West!  When my parents moved our family down to Florida from Canada in 1969, I was unable to bring my whole collection of Johnny West stuff.  Parting with my favorite toys was hard.  Once in Florida and through the years, I had many other things to worry about.  Now that I'm older, I found I was longing for that connection to my youth.  It all started when my husband of 36 years got me a Johnny West doll and the Covered Wagon with the wheeled horse for Christmas in 2012.  It's his fault :) ...I'm hooked again. I have managed to get back almost all the pieces I had when I was a kid, and then some.  I used to repaint horses (Breyers mostly) but did some Marx horses, and find that I enjoyed doing that; so I have started doing it again.  I have branched out into 1/6 scale figures and horses, as well, but Johnny West will always be my one true love.

In my early years of getting back into repainting the horses, I had to sell most of my creations to pay for additional horses and supplies.  Lately, I have been keeping my creations but do offer a few for adoption from time to time.  They will be posted here or on ebay.  Thanks for looking!