01/30/2026
It’s Been Fun ✌️ On to the Next Chapter.
2025 tested me in ways I didn’t expect. This move hits harder because I’m walking away from a place where I spent 8 hours a day for the past 8 years with my brother Meño. Leaving these walls behind feels like leaving a piece of him behind too.
Everywhere I look, I can still picture him cracking jokes, clowning on my Adidas tracksuits, and dropping his classic line: “Do they make those for men?”
Meño was a big part of my life and a big part of this crazy business he used to call “arts and crafts.”
Meño wasn’t just my brother — he was a whole energy on a different frequency. Anyone who knew him felt it. He was an amazing father, and he loved the simple things: riding bikes on the riverbed, fast cars, car shows, sketching classic car designs, hunting for new Hot Wheels, and jamming on his harmonica. And above all, he loved his friends and family.
That’s why hearing that my new neighbor is Mr. Hot Wheels himself, Larry Wood, stopped me for a moment. It felt like life giving me a gentle nudge, right when I needed it. Meño would’ve freaked out.
New production facility, new chapter… but the truth is, I carry him with me into every room I walk into.
And now we’re back in Long Beach, right where our story began — and where I know he’d be proud of how far we’ve come.
Onward. 💛✌️
