Bippity Boppity Boo!
With just the littlest spark of magic, things can turn around. I’ve found that regardless how dark times can get, when I surround myself with even a few of my favorite things, my whole mind and body can feel nourished. I’m only midway through decorating and the joy is already building.No matter how long it’s been sleeping, The Imaginarium Wonder Emporium always wakes up in the fall.These small wonders truly can revive a weary soul.
All Hallows decorating process…
With just the littlest spark of magic, things can turn around. I’ve found that regardless how dark times can get, when I surround myself with even a few of my favorite things, my whole mind and body can feel nourished. I’m only midway through decorating and the joy is already building.No matter how long it’s been sleeping, The Imaginarium Wonder Emporium always wakes up in the fall.These small wonders truly can revive a weary soul.
Being a Maker
During my 42 years on this earth, I’ve spent at least 39 of them identifying as an artist.
36 of them as a continual student of the arts, 26 of them making a living from my artistic pursuits.
But the last 7 years since I founded The Imaginarium Wonder Emporium have by far been my best.
Making fanciful costume pieces, masks, hats and crowns, and all other manner of wearable art with a strong old world circus or otherworldly theme has fulfilled me in ways that much of my other pursuits fall short.
These delights come from my happy place.
The mask at the very end is one I made when I was 16.
I’m 42 now and it’s definitely a surreal full circle feeling—like I always knew who I was even if I had a hard time articulating it and other people didn’t understand it back in the 90’s.
I’m proud of myself for digging my heels in and being uncompromising in embracing my own eccentricity.
As an artist, it’s the greatest gift I’ve given myself and I will protect it at all costs.
@artist.kday
The home workshop build-in is complete!
Welcome to my home office / art studio space.
This is where I bring to life all of my big crazy ideas.
“The world needs artists.
You DO matter.
And you CAN make a difference with what you create.”
The whole office and studio was built entirely by hand as a build-in renovation to our 1958 midcentury townhouse by my super talented husband, Joe Gomez III.
In a way, I’m standing in HIS art to make my own art.
I’m grateful beyond measure to have a partner who has natural design skills.
