Engaging in fun and imaginative play with children over the years, including storytelling, and creating short puppet shows, inspired me to design and sew Goga Toys plush characters.

Helping children understand their feelings became especially important when I became a mother myself many years ago. I experienced firsthand how challenging it could be navigating a busy family life, work, and all the rest of it. I juggled, struggled, and strived like most parents do, looking for stories and activities that could inspire busy families like mine to engage in fun-filled play with children, creating a space where everyone gets inspired to explore and nurture their feelings. This was the point where the Goga Toys characters were given their personalities and their central emotion to enable and support children to explore that emotion in a safe, constructive, and fun way.

OMI, TINKA, OGI, EPI and SUNKO try to be curious, kind, thoughtful, brave, and confident, but sometimes this is not so easy to be and do!

You will also meet other characters along the way, such as FEARY, MEANO, ELI and ELIO.

The toys I created inspired my lifelong dream of writing and illustrating children’s picture books. The first story in the making is titled “Wroombop is coming to Wiggleton town”

This further inspired me to make Goga Toys even more accessible and tangible by creating the Goga Play Kids program, currently available in Calgary.

I am delighted to bring excitement and fun play your way!