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Welcome to “Michelle’s Musings”
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
I have always been an artist looking at the world from a very unique place.
Textile and product design was not a career that I set out to have but one that seemed like a good idea at the time, and a great way to express my artistic mind. I love creating an idea on paper and then watching that idea develop into a finished product. It is very exciting and extremely satisfying. It is even better when I see my designs being used and enjoyed by so many people…
My design Motto is to laugh a lot and to have a lot of FUN. If I can’t laugh and have fun I find it very hard to create. I try very hard not to take myself too seriously!!!!
I am the kind of person that never stops creating and cannot stop learning. I am on a constant search of understanding universal truths if you will. That search led me to the art of Feng Shui, which is a Chinese system of esthetics based on nature. I often use these principles when I am creating new products. I received my Feng Shui certification 6 years ago, which opened a door to the world of energy healing and dowsing. If anyone would have told me I would some day be a designer and a healer I would have laughed out loud. I do have to admit that this unusual dichotomy makes for very interesting creations, and ways of seeing the world.
Working at Better Bath, as Design Director, among a whole cast of characters, I have truly found a home. It is here with Robert and Bill that I can fully express myself as an artist, designer and as a healer. I really enjoy creating cool and innovative products that we can all use everyday…Products that have a function and that solve some kind of problem or need.
As a Feng Shui Designer I am greatly aware of “clutter” and how so many people struggle with it. How funny that I should find myself designing products that help people “Put stuff in its place.”
Clutter as I see it, is anything that you don’t love or that you truly do not need. One of our newer products is our “Take Anywhere Tote”. I designed this basket remembering my days in college when all we had was a plastic bucket to store all our bathroom stuff in. Stuff like shampoo, soap, toothpaste and other “unmentionables”.
I thought it would be so cool to have a wire basket that stores all your bathroom stuff and where you can even put your shampoo bottles upside down to get out the very last drop…
I added a little color on the bottom to give the basket a bit of personality. These totes can also store and organize car washing stuff and garden stuff…
Check back next month for some more updates on whats happening here at Better Bath…