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Michelle Nicole - Unicorn SPiT Founder and Creator.
As a wide-eyed 17-year-old, Michelle Nicole visited Kansas City from Anthony, New Mexico then permanently moved
to Kansas City when she was 21 to live with her older brother, Tony. Tony owned and operated an adult daycare center in Kan-sas City, Kansas. This was a place where our elder-ly and disabled community could go to get out of the house and hang out with other people. Michelle soon found herself spending
a lot of time hanging out with the folks. She found a great
deal of joy being around them. Noticing that some folks got bored during the day, Michelle decided to start hav-ing arts and craft days for her friends. They made several of the basic things you’d expect – macaroni pictures, hook rugs and the like. Michelle took note that the men didn’t seem to participate and just kind of turned their noses to the projects. Here is an interesting story about how an arts and crafts project for an adult daycare became an underground sensation.
One afternoon, Michelle found a desk on the side of the road and decided to pick it up and bring it back to the center for the men to work on. Wouldn’t you know it? The men were very interested in working with their hands again. They sanded that desk down and made it look new but naked. Well, Michelle is not a black and white person or brown in this case. She’s more of a “the more color the better, happy little cloud” type.
Michelle wanted color and lots of it. The folks refused to paint real wood. Everyone started coming up with ideas to get the color they desired. Everything from beet juice to powdered juice mix were tried. These things worked OK, but what no one expected was the way the lights came back on in the eyes of men at the center. Michelle noticed and began on a mission
to get everyone’s lights back on. She brought more roadside jewels and got more men and women working on these fun projects. The more projects they completed, the more alive
MICHELLE’S STORY
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