Studio Sommer

Continuing down that long and winding road - I know, I know it's hard to imagine further than your living room right now - but last year about this time I was on my last leg home from Colorado.  Because it was a long trip we broke it into two days, and if you review the map from the first post, you'll see that I made a "loop" with the trip back going through Santa Fe. It's amazing that I had never visited Santa Fe.  It's an art mecca, but also only a day's drive away from Phoenix.  What finally drove me there, however, was my friend Mariah's recommendation to visit a very unusual art exhibit of sorts called "Meow Wolf".   Have a picnic by the giant spider! Also in the parking lot. Meow Wolf is very hard to describe. Basically, take an abandoned bowling alley, give a bunch of artists some money from George R.R. Martin (yes the Game of Thrones guy) and see what happens. I had a rough idea of what was inside thanks to photos shared by Mariah bac

Continuing on the anniversary of The Jennifer Show, and reminiscing about the "before times" when several people could pile into a car and all breathe on each other without possibly hospitalizing your bestie, here's Part 2 of the 2019 Jennifer Show Road Trip: 'Zonie Edition. We settled into the hotel and had dinner at a local place within walking distance. Our hotel was great that way, with restaurants an easy walk away.  (Ahh, remember restaurants? Arizona has had them open since May, but I haven't been since March due to an abundance of caution.) Breakfast with a goat skeleton. (*It made noise too.) We had safely delivered the Goat Skeleton to Laura Skillern, and the next two days were spent in the show hall.  There's not much to say there!  Just beautiful horses all around.  Most of the this post is simply "eye candy" from the show: I love this resin so much!  One of my favorite WB sculpts with a great paint job. I gave my "heart" to thi