Pom 365 is my year-long commitment to making pom pom art every single day.
Behold every Pom I’ve created from day one until today:
He can open anything with his magical hands – any jar, any door, gates, locks, hearts, minds, eyes, Broadway shows – anything. When he finds something in need of opening, he turns on his magic hands and attracts all of the opening vibes in the atmosphere to his fingertips. Then he can touch the object, person, or place, and what was closed will now be open. Ta-Da! What do you wish he could open for you?
She is an astronomical holiday that happens this year on March 20th at 5:37AM. She is also known as the vernal equinox. She occurs when the sun crosses the celestial equator and travels north. On this day, the sun sits exactly above the equator and so the hours of day and night are almost the same throughout the Pom world. Starting this day and continuing to the summer solstice, the day length increases. This means that temperatures rise and sleeping flowers wake up. Hibernating animals emerge and Poms all over the world celebrate. Iranians celebrate Nowruz, Japanese Buddhists celebrate Higan, and Mexicans celebrate at the Mayan–constructed Pyramid of Kukulcan. Spring loves all of this joyous celebration, and her blooms multiply as the Pom happiness multiplies. She is beautiful!
Her predecessor PVDC (Pomvinyl Lidine Chloride) was created by accident in 1933 by Ralph Wiley, a lab worker at Dow chemical company. He was cleaning lab equipment and found a film inside of a vial that would not come off. He realized that it could be sprayed onto objects, creating a protective coating for things like fighter jets and combat boots. In 1949, a thin, clingy, plastic wrap was introduced, and Plastiquina was born. Plastiquina’s middle name is a combination of the names of the wife and daughter (Sara and Ann) of the President of Dow Chemical Co, John Reilly. She can be used not only to preserve food, but to warm premature babies after birth, as a dressing for burns, to unstop a toilet, keep paint from drying out, de–cork wine, enhance moisturizer and ointment treatment, and even poach the perfect egg. In the Pom world (unlike the human world) Plastiquina is biodegradable and pomvironmentally friendly. With her mesmerizing eyes, she is constantly looking for ways to be helpful and improve Poms’ lives. She and her plastic wrap minions find things in need of warming, moisturizing, or preserving, and wrap themselves around them like little plastic burritos. They are little plastic wrap angels!
