We Played Hooky Today ;-)
All that stuff that was on the list for today? Tomorrow & beyond. We played Hooky today! Sort of. It was that bead trunk show in Santa Fe I mentioned a week or so ago. Clipped the ad, mapquested the (Solana Center—sounded big—at a convention center!). Ha. Solana Center is a strip mall, the trunk show was one dude from Arizona with a bunch of strands of stone beads set up in the local bead shop. There is a bigger variety and better prices on the same stuff from an independent strand stand set up at Jackalope (a pretty cool tourist tchotchke destination). Which is where we ended up, and yes I was only going to “research” but by then I couldn’t stand myself so got a few bits & pieces to play with. Tomorrow I’ll order some other basic supplies from one of the million or so suppliers online and I’ll make my own bead board out of cardboard or foam core (being the handy person that I am).
Found a really good “basics” book at the bookstore (I looked at every single book they had, and guess what? The “Beading for Dummies” was the worst—ok, who’s surprised at that?) and several informative magazines, I chose the basics book (it was the ONLY book the blew the pictures up to larger than life-size so you can actually SEE what happens with that tiny wire and bead and pliers and wire twist) and one magazine. Then we hit the art store, they did have poppy oil in stock, found a big compass for my husband (the kind you draw circles with), hit Trader Joe’s for our weekly supplies and came back up the mountain.
Arrived home to a phone message giving directions to a property for sale up here in Truchas; a friend in Alaska found it and said “go have a look.” Not a bad spot, no good at all for a gallery. It has two adobes on it. Ha, ha, New Mexi-speak. It’s got part of an adobe RUIN on it (the kind you see when you pay $5 to go into a national park or preserve--totally melting adobe) and another one, in slightly better shape, admittedly, but not so close to renovation as one may think. We couldn’t get a close look because it’s been so long since anyone lived there there is no road to the house anymore. It’s as if someone built it in the middle of the pasture. Nice view of the Pedernal, though.
We got the phone number of the place on the hill with the double-wide and after driving as close as we could (we don’t know if someone is living there now or not so declined to go up the private drive of about 1/4 mile and intrude) but it looks pretty good from what we can tell. Nice view of the Pedernal from this one too. Seems like fertile, level pasture land, full of potential. This one has its own well. We’re going to call the owner tomorrow and see where she’s at & if she’ll show it to us. More and more we’re thinking this could be the spot. It’s only about 4 houses up from where we are, it’s on the hill over Hand Artes and Anna Karina galleries.
Still no word on the ancient adobe with the propped up workshop down by Pierre Delattre’s studio on SR 76. (I’m giving you names of all these galleries because I don’t feel like providing links right now, but you can find their websites through a Google, and if they don’t have websites, you’re still going to find info on them if you’re interested. Same with Eric Luplow, our most engaging neighbor across the road and the Cardona-Hine gallery, we stopped in there this morning to pick up the afore-mentioned phone number. Just in case you want to get a bit better idea of the local flavor up here.
All righty then. Happy Friday.
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