The new store off 91st and Metcalf Avenue is not your run-of-the-mill home decor and antique store.
Step inside if you dare, and you’ll find items you might not find anywhere else; but only if you let your curiosity get the best of you. The sign above the entrance, after all, tells customers to expect “the unexpected.”
To the duo behind Spotdities, that’s the point.
“You might enter the store and have nothing in common with the person that’s in here with you, but you might like the same thing, and then you might start a conversation,” said Amanda Coney, manager at the shop. “We want people to walk in curious and leave obsessed.”
The new “curiosity emporium” opened inside the Glenwood Antique Mall at the beginning of September.
Spotdities opened at 9030 Metcalf Ave.
- The store occupies a space tucked inside the Glenwood Antique Mall in Overland Park.
- Previously, when the space as a whole was occupied by a TJ Maxx, Spotdities’ space was where the dressing rooms were.
- Spotdities’ regular hours are the same as the mall’s; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.
Spotdities offers handmade and curated decor
Spotdities’ shelves and display cases are filled with a variety of zany items — some more than others.
In the front, customers can find items like crystal vases, lamps, glass bowls, and even some clothing and accessories.
The back section is full of what owner Kara Gutierrez considers a collection of “clutch your pearls” types of items; clown statues, taxidermy squirrels and mice striking acrobatic poses, pythons and bearded dragons in jars, vintage medical bags.
Many items are handmade by Gutierrez herself, including all of the taxidermy and decorative glass globes. Other items have been collected and curated over time, through estate sales and other avenues.
Coney curates the shop’s “elegant” side, while Gutierrez has a knack for the “spooky” side.
“A lot of this old glamour is stuff that you just don’t see anymore, that we almost lost the value of,” Coney said. “I think that’s so important to get out and in front of people because a lot of it, until I had seen it from (Gutierrez) or from estate sales, I didn’t even know it existed.”
Between the two of them, they’ve worked hard to create a space for all personalities and all budgets.
“There is truly something for everybody, in any aspect you can interpret that,” Coney said.
Spotdities has been years in the making
Gutierrez first became interested in the world of “oddities and curiosities” in 2024; first as a collector, then steadily as a seller at various antique shows.
At the time, she’d already worked as a tattoo artist for more than a decade. Over time, she’s built a niche working with clients who have experienced trauma — from breast cancer survivors (Gutierrez is a survivor herself) to people seeking gender-affirming or scar-covering tattoos.
To her, Spotdities isn’t just a place to find funky decor. It’s also somewhere where people can see themselves reflected back at them.
“This work is not work,” she said. “This is a really enjoyable hobby that turned into (this). Spotdities is a part of me.”
With the shop’s first couple of weeks underway, Gutierrez and Coney said there’s still a lot of excitement to come — especially as “spooky season” inches closer.
“We’ll always have something new; stuff to make you laugh, make you feel something,” Gutierrez said. “You’re gonna have emotions when you come in here.”
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