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Have Some Art Today w/ Stephanie Rado Taormina
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Stephanie Taormina returns to the podcast to discuss her upcoming solo art exhibition at the Yocum Institute, featuring her "Magic Series" of abstract expressionist paintings and ceramic sculptures. This full-circle moment brings her back to the very institution where she took art classes as a teenager, now showcasing nearly 50 pieces of her work in a month-long exhibition.
• Creation of the "Magic Series" as a visual representation of what magic might look like
• Developing a distinctive coral-based color palette specifically for this collection
• Incorporation of ceramics including tall vessels and "magical sea urchin" flower sculptures
• Finding hidden words and messages within the abstract paintings
• Reconnecting with her artistic roots after focusing on interior design and "Have Some Fun Today"
• Drawing parallels between today's social climate and the birth of abstract expressionism during American turmoil
• Expanding artistic capabilities through curiosity and stretching creative boundaries
• Launching the "One Collection" of hand-painted handbags, merging her art with fashion
Visit Stephanie's exhibition at the Yocum Institute from March 23rd through April 26th to experience "The Magic Series" and meet the artist at the opening reception.
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Welcome to The Brad Weisman Show, where we dive into the world of real estate, real life, and everything in between with your host, Brad Weisman! 🎙️ Join us for candid conversations, laughter, and a fresh take on the real world. Get ready to explore the ups and downs of life with a side of humor. From property to personality, we've got it all covered. Tune in, laugh along, and let's get real! 🏡🌟 #TheBradWeismanShow #RealEstateRealLife
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from real estate to real life and everything in between the brad weisman show and now your host, brad weisman. All right, we're back. Yes, we're back and we have a repeat guest. I think everybody likes when we have repeat guests because, uh, we know who they are and she's been on here. Actually, I think this might be the third or fourth time. I We'll have to talk about that then. But this is Stephanie. Taramina is in the studio today, but it's not for the reason that you think she's in the studio. Typically she's here to talk about have some fun today, which is great and we like that. But she is really, really doing a lot with paintings and also ceramics, and she's having a big show at the Yoakum Institute this weekend. So, stephanie, how are you doing?
Speaker 2:I'm great, I'm awesome.
Speaker 1:It's always good to see you, thank you. Yeah, and is this third or fourth time? I can't remember. Fourth time, I think it's fourth. It's fourth because you were on. We talk about this every time You're on a podcast. I had before yes, and so the fourth. I think she should get an award. What do you think that's right? I think she's on besides Pete Heim, but Pete's a different story. But you're the. You're probably the most times on out of any guests, out of any other type of guests.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Pete's on once a month, but that's a real estate show. Yeah so, yeah. So you must've done something right Either say that or something wrong? I don't know, I'm not sure what it is.
Speaker 2:Maybe I'm just a pest.
Speaker 1:No, you're not a pest at all. No, because I always say when you want to come back, you're welcome back.
Speaker 1:I really appreciate it we always have good stuff to talk about. So, yeah, so you're here for something a little different. Yes, I got this postcard in the mail. I think it was this, and it's a really nice postcard. You are doing a I guess they call it solo art show, right, yep, at the Yoakum Institute this weekend coming up. Yes, and I'm excited. So March 23rd through April 26th, your artwork is going to be there.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:That's unbelievable.
Speaker 2:I'm excited. I can't wait to do it.
Speaker 1:Hugo, we got to go see this artwork. That's righty, yeah, that's righty, yeah, that's right, it's unbelievable. So tell me about how does this happen? Like I mean, I know you're painting all the time how does it get to a point where you have your solo show like this Well, I got very lucky.
Speaker 2:I would say. I mean, I think that you know I've been painting my entire life, even through all the interior design, and have some fun today. I have always been an artist.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And it's actually really interesting because when I was 16, and. I had just moved to Wyomissing, I saw that there was an art institute where I could take classes. I could take classes and, as a young girl, I would at night. Go take these night classes with these adults who were probably my age, but I thought they were so old at the time.
Speaker 1:Isn't it amazing how that changes it is really funny.
Speaker 2:But so I was actually. I actually learned how to oil paint at the Art Institute. Why Missing Art Institute?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I remember that, absolutely, absolutely. I took singing lessons there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's so cool, yeah, so so to be able to go back and have my first solo show outside of my own different art studios. I've had over the years um is amazing, and so how it happened was. Um the beginning of last year I knew that I really wanted to put a lot of effort into my making my art.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I started the series called the magic series which we touched on last time you were here. Yes, I know, and so the whole premise for it was me really trying to figure out how I want to spend my energy. You know, the older you get, you get very reflective. Oh yeah, I totally understand it's probably why you're doing this podcast it's totally understand.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the older you get, the more you sit there and go okay, there's actually probably more behind me than there is in front of me. Yeah, possibly, we know, nobody knows right. Um, but it makes you start to think.
Speaker 2:Every minute becomes a lot more valuable, yeah, so so I made this decision, that I was really going to put a lot of energy into my art, and I was thinking about you know cause you need to have like a like a premise for your, for making art, and so my premise was making magic. And when I make art, it feels like it feels like magic happening in my life. Yeah, you know, because these things come out of you and these paintings, you know, just appear through hours and hours of putting paint on a canvas. But there's a lot more to it than that.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So every painting that I made, I was doing a lot of meditating, I was doing a lot of writing, I was doing a lot of thinking and introspection and I knew the paintings I wanted to make. I was doing a lot of writing, I was doing a lot of thinking and introspection and I knew the paintings I wanted to make and I was trying to create a visual for what magic could look like if you were to see it. So that is what these paintings started out as that's the premise.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And so, when you come to the opening, you will be surrounded by many works of art, different sizes, but all with this vision of magic as the central theme.
Speaker 1:So there is a commonality, there's a I don't know what's the word I'm thinking of, but there's like a focus there. The magic is the thing.
Speaker 2:It's the theme.
Speaker 1:And that's the theme. That's what I was trying to think of the word, the theme. So that's the theme of, of the whole show that you're doing. You know all the artwork that's there.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And now does that then evolve? So this year, 2025, that was 2024. The works that you did now you're putting them out and to the public, or whatever does it as an artist. Is that now? Is there like a thing that's going to happen? 2025 is there? Do you think there's something that's going to come up another theme or no? How's that work? Absolutely yeah she looks at me confused. She's like don't you know that? I'm like I don't.
Speaker 2:I, I have no clue well, just just to go back for a second yeah, go ahead, go back how this happened.
Speaker 1:Yeah, how'd it happen.
Speaker 2:So I was like, having this intention, that I was really going to make all this art and really focus on the art, and the one thing I wanted to have happen was to be offered a solo show.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, Isn't that something so?
Speaker 2:it was like, I think in February I got a text from a friend, lisa Tiger, another real estate person, sure, and she happens to be on the. Got a text from a friend, lisa Tiger, another real estate person and she happens to be on the Berks Art. Council and she's an artist as well. I don't know if you know, that.
Speaker 2:But so you know, Lisa and I know each other and she remembered my work from when I had my studio at the Goggle Works many years ago before have Some Fun Today. And she reached out to me because she wanted to see if I had any of those paintings, because I was doing different series back then. And she came to me and she said you know, Steph, I loved your rock series and I have to be honest, I didn't get it then, but now I think it's amazing, and so we were kind of like talking about art. And then she reached out to me and she said would you want to do a solo show? And I was like, yes, that's awesome.
Speaker 2:And so that's how it? Happened, I guess. They went back to the board and they said, yeah, let's give her a show. And so they schedule it out a year ahead of time.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:So that's how long these things happen.
Speaker 1:So you knew this a year ago I knew this a year ago.
Speaker 2:Wow, that's crazy. I've just been working on all the pieces and then figuring out which ones I wanted to use in the show, because it has to like work in the space.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And then I decided I've been working with an art mentor out of New York City. He's a professor at Columbia and you know we were just kind of going over the different works and he kind of he kind of said something that you know sparked my curiosity. Yeah, and he kind of said something that sparked my curiosity, and he was talking about how you could maybe create different types of art that go along with it. So it just got me thinking about ceramics.
Speaker 2:And so I did like three months of an open studio at the Goggleworks in their ceramic studio to kind of round out the different media I wanted to use for the show. So it's, it's going to be very interesting of the paintings and the ceramics and the sculptures, and it's all my work and it's all magical.
Speaker 1:I saw the flowers the flowers. Is that what they are, Flowers?
Speaker 2:It's kind of like a flower like little flower, but you said, like sea urchin or something I call them my magical sea urchin.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what I thought, but they look like. So I saw those and they're cool, yeah, because they're kind of laced with a little bit of a gold ornament, whatever. Yeah, they're very pretty. You don't need to wear glasses when you're doing them either. I was watching your video. I I'm painting this and I can't really see it. I should go get my glasses, but I'm too lazy. She just kept going.
Speaker 2:Sometimes, you know, I go into my studio at night just because I'm like, oh, let me just go in here.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I am. You know, sometimes it's late at night.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And I don't have my glasses on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, of course, as we know, when we get in our 50s, we need to wear glasses. Absolutely, yeah, that's a great, that's so okay. So, going back, so you get told you that you get asked to do this show. So now, when you're ready for that, when you hear that, do you then start painting like crazy, or do you just kind of you just still have to do, you feel like stressed out about it?
Speaker 2:no, I didn't feel stressed out about it all, I was just super excited and it was just like fuel you know, to keep on looking at what I had and seeing what else I wanted to add in to complement the group, and then there's all the framing and there's like a lot of fun stuff too, actually, because you have to get it all ready together and then you have to pick out which ones are your favorites.
Speaker 2:Well, I wouldn't say like my favorites, it's more like what is going to work in the show, because I'm not showing everything.
Speaker 1:Well, you can. I made a ton of paintings last year. I would take up the whole building.
Speaker 2:I mean there's almost 50 pieces of art in the show.
Speaker 1:Wow, which is a lot yeah.
Speaker 2:But I'm doing like two areas that is more like a salon style hang.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:And so that's like what I mean by that. It's like you take a wall and then you hang paintings floor to ceiling. Okay, so you're hanging like tons of paintings on one space Sure. As opposed to if you were to go to like an art gallery in New York. City. You would just see like one painting and then you know, maybe six feet yeah, yeah, another painting, one, yeah and you know I am kind of doing that for part of the show because I do like paintings to breathe yeah it's like a little pet peeve of mine, like when people want you to be in an art show and there's just too many paintings yeah, because you're right, it doesn't give.
Speaker 1:It doesn't give each one its own ability to shine. Yeah, yeah so I.
Speaker 2:I don't like that, so you know. I was trying to figure out what's going to make this work the best yeah, yeah, because you only have so much space to work with. I mean, that's not a huge gallery yeah and it's a little, I think, a little challenging, you know, yeah, I know, I know where it is there.
Speaker 1:Actually, I've seen the wall there because our kids are, our daughter dances there. Yes, I'm in the building pretty often actually. Okay, so, yeah, so let's go back to the actual art. What is this type of art called? Again, what's it called?
Speaker 2:well, I mean, it's basically abstract expressionism abstract expressive.
Speaker 1:Now what does that mean? Like what I always like, look at these and I go okay, so when, when you, when I look at this, like, do you look at? Do you see this ahead of time or does it just come out of you while you're doing it?
Speaker 2:That's a great question. You know what I mean? Yeah, no, I totally.
Speaker 1:Like if I'm painting a bear, I see the bear in my head ahead of time.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would never say I'm going to paint a thing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm not a realist.
Speaker 2:However, I have been stretching my repertoire.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:And I have been stretching my repertoire and I have been. I did a self portrait and I did a portrait of my mother.
Speaker 1:I saw those on a picture One of your pictures of your studio.
Speaker 2:I saw it in the background. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yes, I saw that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I do believe, as an artist, in stretching your capabilities. So for me whenever I get curious about something, I then have to do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, got it.
Speaker 2:It's just I've learned that about myself and that is how I push myself into new territories and expand what I can do, and I think as an artist, it's really important to do that.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Because then when you go to do your work, these elements kind of seep in and it makes you a better artist.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's kind of funny because, as you're saying, that I'm thinking about when I told you I took opera lessons at one point. I don't sing opera, but when I took opera I knew I wasn't going to be an opera singer, but I did it because I was curious. There you go, I was curious, and also I had heard that the main thing that you learn from taking opera lessons is how to breathe, because they're very good at using their diaphragm to get that out and be loud and do what you need to do. So it's the same kind of thing. I don't use the opera sound when I sing, okay, but I use the diaphragm exercises that I learned from that. So it's, it's part of that, it's the same kind of. It's almost reminds me of that. It was so weird I didn't think about that until now. So you, even though you're not painting those kinds of things, all the time when you go to do your artwork, it's in there and it's in there somewhere.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it just, it improves. It improves your work.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:And I would say just about curiosity in general. I mean, curiosity is a driver for me, for everything.
Speaker 1:I do yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2:And I think it's important to recognize the things that drive you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely. Now the colors. Do you know ahead of time what colors you're going to use?
Speaker 2:Well, okay, so yes and no, okay. So this whole palette of the magic series is a palette that I haven't really used before, so I think that's very interesting. But I was, I was thinking about what colors, and when I I talked to myself okay, it's okay, we all do.
Speaker 2:I'm talking, don't talk back oh, I answer myself too okay, now that's a little different, but like I was trying to think of what colors come to my mind when I think of magic, so so that was where I started. I was with a question to myself and then, of course, I answered myself good, good that's good. Coral was like is the driver, yeah, of everything. Every painting almost in this series has the color coral yeah, now which color is that?
Speaker 1:I'm not so good with that the pinkish or the peachish color yeah, which I love that color it's a beach color. It's like a beachy color.
Speaker 2:Yeah, love that color I think it's my favorite color yeah, it's a great color and so I find myself using that color, and last year that color was was the impetus, yeah, but then you know, you kind of, as you're painting for me, I kind of just naturally get a feeling for what color should come next wow and sometimes, and sometimes you mess up, I mean you.
Speaker 1:So when you mess up, can you just paint over that then?
Speaker 2:Hell yeah.
Speaker 1:Hell yeah, says the artist, yeah, so you can just, you can just start painting over that and then, and that goes away.
Speaker 2:Yes, oh, wow.
Speaker 1:That's pretty cool, and is there words in there?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, cause I started thinking that there was something wrong with me, cause I'm looking at this, I'm like thinking there's words in there. Are they actually? There's letters, but is there a word in there? Yes, there's um you allowed to say what it is, or it says keep going. Oh, my God.
Speaker 2:It's the name of the painting.
Speaker 1:Wait, okay, I see the going.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I actually covered up the keep. Oh, okay, because my art mentor thought it was a little obvious.
Speaker 1:Oh, got it.
Speaker 2:He just mentioned that, and then it was up to me if I wanted to do anything about it. So interesting.
Speaker 1:You can't see the keep but I see the going there, totally see the going. And I knew there was letters in there.
Speaker 2:Yeah and um, I think this painting it's quite large. It's honestly like almost as big as your whole back wall.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:And so to me it's like my, it's like my pep talk. Okay, so it's keep going keep going because you know the stuff that we're doing is not easy stuff.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know it takes a lot of self-discipline. It takes a lot of just perseverance.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, look at, look what you've done with your brand. I mean you're, you're have some fun today, Brad, that's not something that happens overnight. We all know that. Yeah, it's a labor of love, right Is what that is. So let's talk more about so. You're going to be there for a whole month.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Okay, how does somebody? How do? If I want to see it and it's not the first day how do we? Is it open certain times of the day or I mean, I'm, I think, the Yoakum Institute is open all day, every day, and I think you could just go. Okay.
Speaker 2:So stop by. I mean it's going to be be a nothing like it in berks county good anytime good, you know it's gonna be a unique thing. I really want to bring back art to this area in a different way good when I had my art studio at the goggle works and early part of the 2000s, I used to have art openings all the time we had had music, we had drinks people came dressed up.
Speaker 1:It was fun, like I go to art openings all the time in New York and they're probably fancy or no.
Speaker 2:Um well, it depends where you go. If you go to the ones in Chelsea. They're fancy.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:People get dressed up and it's like major people watching the craziest most amazing outfits and prices.
Speaker 1:Oh the prices. You can't even see the prices.
Speaker 2:Oh, no way, they don't even you can't even see the prices.
Speaker 1:Wow.
Speaker 2:Like to to know what the price of a piece of art is and a Chelsea gallery. You have to. Somehow they have to believe that you might buy one. So you better put together in a certain way that they will hand you the price list. But they're really strict on that, so most of the time you don't know how much things are.
Speaker 1:Speaking about price, are your paintings for sale then? Yes, so when? So when they go?
Speaker 2:to the prices will be there.
Speaker 1:Hey, Hugo, we're going to be good enough to get the prices on this.
Speaker 2:This is good. This is good.
Speaker 1:All you need is a vest and a shirt and you can have the price.
Speaker 2:So, and you know, the cool thing about it is like if I were to do it at any gallery. I mean, they take, they take 50%. The Yoakum Institute will get 40% of anything that sells.
Speaker 1:And I'm I'm cool with that you know, like I would love I'm.
Speaker 2:I would be really happy if what I do supports the Oakham.
Speaker 1:Institute. It's a good, good organization. They do good stuff, good stuff, all right, so let's go. Let's go into what I wanted to ask you before was the um. Is there going to be any pottery there at all? Yeah, at the show there will be.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I have um Four pieces of my tall vessels that I made.
Speaker 1:And they're in the magic series too. Yes, okay.
Speaker 2:Yes, and I made these little flower sculptures. Those things are cool and they're going to be sold per piece.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:And I'm definitely going to go back and do more of that because I thought it was so cool.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it looks cool.
Speaker 2:It was so interesting to be at the Goggleworks in their ceramic studio around their ceramic artists.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Because I really I mean, I've done things with ceramics over the years but it's been like a little bit here, a little bit there. But these people oh yeah. And so I had such a respect for what they do, and they were all so nice and helpful. What I was doing was so different.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm sure they were like what the hell is she doing? They're like whoa. But you know, and the work is crude, you know, it's not like these refined beautiful things that they're throwing.
Speaker 1:But that's what makes it cool.
Speaker 2:But that's to me what makes it cool, absolutely. You know, and also you can go buy refined yeah, Refined potteries everywhere.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but to actually do it that it's something that's a little bit more earthy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's cool, so I'm a little addicted to it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's fun. I've never done it but I've. I know people that do it that well, wes Mucky, who will have one we'll have him on here at some point from Nolte forest pottery, Um, but he's a good friend of mine and he he throws his own clay. I mean it been. He just makes it look amazing and then does his all kinds of different artwork on. It's pretty cool. You should go to his studio. Oh, I will. He's got a great studio out and off of new holland road okay, cool.
Speaker 2:I think I I knew him from yeah years ago.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely he's been around for a long time he's been doing for a long time. So let's go. One of the questions I had as I was thinking about some notes here. So you do interior design. I also saw you're working on a house. Right now. You're doing a makeover somewhere, I think, down at the beach.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I saw that. So interior design you do. The fashion parallel was what I call it, which is basically your have some fun today stuff, and now you're doing paintings. Which of those children do you love the best?
Speaker 2:My art.
Speaker 1:Your art Interesting.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So you've come full, you've come back to cause. You've kind of always done that, but your art is still your.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's funny Like I've always been an artist. Before I was a fashion designer or an interior designer, you know, you, you, you just are what you are, you know. But I've done other things for work and you know the have some fun today thing. I couldn't not do that.
Speaker 1:Right, you know when my dad passed away like I had to.
Speaker 2:I had to do that, but I think it was through COVID you know when everybody was starting. People were becoming artists for the first time in their life, and I think that's so amazing. Um, I started painting again just cause. I had nothing else to do besides work. So, um, I started painting and I think it was really being in New York the past couple of years and going I'm right, I'm in Chelsea.
Speaker 2:So I'm near these like amazing galleries and I was going around to them and thinking my art feels just as good as a lot of stuff I'm seeing Like why am I not doing this? So I slowly kind of started going to more art shows and I got into a couple art shows in New York and then I got offered the solo show here, and then I've I've redid my art website, which is now you can shop on the art website.
Speaker 1:What's the art website? Just so we have we have it's stephanieradochiraminacom.
Speaker 2:okay, okay, yeah, good, that's good to know, yeah I know.
Speaker 1:For some reason I didn't stumble upon that, or maybe I missed it somehow yeah, maybe I guess you know so many things people are sharing, yeah, yeah exactly.
Speaker 1:No, I'm gonna have to have to check that out because that's something we can share also on our socials and stuff like that. Yeah, that'd be really cool. So that's so basically, and I kind of had a feeling you were going to say the art, the art. Back to the art. I mean it's all art. I mean the, the, the have some fun today. It's art. I mean you're creating, you know things, and and of course, interior design is art and all that stuff, but it's this is now. Yeah, Like to.
Speaker 2:to paint for me is like kind of just having a conversation with, with my deep inner soul, you know, and I find I find something really so beautiful about that. It's almost like leaving a legacy. Oh yeah, I mean talking about that, that thinking about your life and thinking about, like how are people going to remember you? How was my family going to remember me?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I know it sounds a little morbid. No, it's not morbid.
Speaker 1:No, I don't think that's morbid. I think that's just being responsible for one of knowing that nobody will be here forever.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And you know, if we have the ability to leave a legacy and I'm not talking money, I'm talking a legacy in other ways why not? I mean, you know, and also it's a contribution, yeah, in history, it's a contribution as a timestamp in our life.
Speaker 2:Well, right now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:Right now, like it's so interesting that you say that because you know the abstract expressionist movement which I you know, I'm an abstract painter.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And that was created in the United States in.
Speaker 1:New York City, oh, interesting.
Speaker 2:Through the Great Depression, world War I, world War II and the turmoil that people were experiencing because all the people in Europe, the creatives, all came to New York City during World War II because, they were fleeing persecution. So New York was this? It just burst with all this creativity and constraint.
Speaker 1:And that's where it came from.
Speaker 2:And so, right now, that is where my work is going to go after this show, because I feel like we are going through something in this country and in our world right now, and I want to. I want my work to re to reflect that history.
Speaker 1:Very cool. That's awesome, yeah, and, and we'll see what that is then. I don't know what it's going to be. We don't know yet, but we'll know next year.
Speaker 2:It's exciting to have like, an, like an inspiration.
Speaker 1:Yeah, absolutely so. That's well and it is nice to have. And also, why not take some of the stuff that's going on and put it into something that is positive or, you know, whatever you want to call it?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, very cool, very cool, so all right. So how do we tie in? Have some fun today with this you talked about? I said, you know where's have some fun today? Not obviously it's not like it's going away, but like where is that in your life and where how is that going to be? Are these going to come together?
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, um, you know, earlier, actually February one, we launched our one collection, which is one of a kind hand painted handbags.
Speaker 1:It's really cool, is that? The one I saw on the beach that you were showing off. Yeah, it's very cool.
Speaker 2:I did that one for myself.
Speaker 1:It looks good.
Speaker 2:You know, just to kind of, why not? Yeah right, I liked it, it's very nice, thank you.
Speaker 1:Doesn't it have these colors in it? It does pinky coral, but it's kind of it lends itself to that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's totally my thing, and so we collaborated with five other artists. Very cool In total and we asked them we actually just said, which bags inspire you, and then they pick them, and then they painted whatever they wanted and they're on our website and they are each one of a kind.
Speaker 1:That's neat.
Speaker 2:And so little things like that. Like, I definitely want to do more art related things with. Have some fun today, but one thing at a time.
Speaker 1:Yeah, have some fun today. The magic collection, whatever there you go yeah. That's cool, very cool, I love it, I love it. What do you think, hugo? It's cool, very cool, I love it, I love it. What do you think, hugo? It's fun, it's magic, it is magic, it is magic. So is there anything else you want to tell us about the show or anything? I mean, you know.
Speaker 2:Just that. I'm really excited We've sent out over a thousand invitations.
Speaker 1:Which is a lot.
Speaker 2:So I'm hoping it's going to be a really fun event. Yep photographer going to be there documenting the awesome, you know, the big social kind of thing we're going to have drinks cool and hopefully a lot of fun. People being curious about the work I'm.
Speaker 1:I gotta check my schedule for sunday and see, see if I can do it, but I'm gonna try and get out there I mean I come for like yeah, an hour yeah, I just, I definitely want to see it fun to catch up with different people because it's going to bring all different walks of Berks County, hopefully. Yep.
Speaker 2:And I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 1:That's awesome. It's really cool. Well, thanks for coming back. Absolutely, I appreciate it.
Speaker 2:Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1:You're very welcome Anytime. I said before, anytime you want to come back, you can come back. Right, Hugo? No-transcript.
