wonder world

The day finally arrived! I had no idea what to expect or how to feel about the entire weekend ahead of me, i felt scared and kind of clueless because everything was so new to me as well as the people. All fears and doubts disappeared the first day of setting up and makers party. As i walked in i heard bands play, saw people in different costumes, the check in desk was super kind finding our fixtures and our maker colleagues were such a pleasure to meet!
They served us Gerard's paella for dinner (food network's paella challenge winner) which was AMAZING!! I had the chicken and shrimp paella and the texture of such dish can't be described, it was so good i wouldn't attempt to make it myself.




yes there was an open bar and he wasted NO time.

the hooligan marching band

The next day the first day of the festival begun, with my heart in my hands i received my first customer 5 minutes after opening the booth and luckily that's how the day continued one after another different people from all over came to greet us, try on out items, tell us jokes or simply to give us a compliment. Which is PRICELESS! our top seller item was the vintage doll eyes!


Every time i got a chance i ran to see different activities going on and as i approached the other side of the fair i was blown away by all the creativity all around me, popular mechanics was there allowing people to do hands-on activities to understand certain mechanisms.


Everyone was representing their own style and what they were representing with their crazy outfits. Some were head to toe covered in gold riding cardboard gold ponies can you imagine that? My favorite bike was this one which took me back to some 1800's circus of some sort and i loveeeed it i followed him around like a creep.





orchestra made out of all kinds of random materials plugged into a mixer. INGENIUS to the max!

Every little sting and item made a noise like this beetle would have his own percussion set ha!


Hands down my favorite activity was Nelson with his electric chaircuts! He had an amplifier on his back and some sort of belt full of different tools and mechanisms that would make sick noises depending on the tool he was using to cut the hair. The customer was taped to the chair and also taped from eyes and mouth the whole thing was very asylum themed. Crazy awesome!!!




It was so amazing to have been able to be part of such a celebration of creativity as the world maker faire is. I could not believe my eyes in a lot of the things i saw and lived that weekend. i am Definitely honored to have been able to meet such great creative people from all over and specially being a part of the first time the world maker faire was in NYC. It was a whole other world were impossible things were possible and people from other planets existed. inspired yet?

I will post the second part and the customers hall of fame this upcoming week! stay tuned! oh and go visit us at the Mcallen art walk tonight ! We just landed back in town and we will work some more! come hang.