UNiCORN SPiT - Why, What, Where & How?

As a wide-eyed 17-year-old, Michelle Nicole visited Kansas City from Anthony, New Mexico then permanently moved to Kansas City at 21 to live with her older brother, Tony. Tony owned and operated an adult daycare center in Kansas City, Kansas. This was a place where the elderly 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 with the folks. She found a great deal of joy being around them. Noticing that some folks got bored, Michelle decided to start having arts and craft days. 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 even 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 a mission to get everyone’s lights back on. She brought in more roadside jewels and got more men and women working on these fun projects. The more projects they completed, the more alive people became. People who once sat in the corner watching the walls all day were wanting in on the action. 

One man who still stands out above all the others is Mr. Johnny Boone. Mr. Boone had severe multiple sclerosis and couldn’t hold a paint brush, even though Michelle attempted taping them to his hands. She found that while he could not hold a paint brush, he could use the side of his hand to manipulate the stains into fun patterns. With this information, arose the need for something non toxic and safe if there was any skin contact. Back to the lab again which was a spaghetti pot. 

Through several rounds of trial and error, Michelle finally figured out a vibrantly colorful concentrated gel pigment that worked, was safe to be used indoors, smells like jasmine and helped the beautiful men and women find a part of themselves they’d seemingly lost. 

This sparked desire for art therapy which induced physical therapy as well!

Many unique techniques were also formed to help her folks use their ABILITIES to create very unique abstract art! Michelle found that people of all ages benefited from playing with the yet unnamed product. From Michelle’s oldest son John, who has ADHD, to her friend’s son Joe, with autism, men and women with dementia and Alzheimers, to an 80+ year old man whose hands didn’t work - everyone’s light came on. What a happy little miracle! Michelle’s heart and passion to see that look on peoples face became front and center. 

Michelle continued working at the facility until 2013 when Medicaid budget cuts forced the center to shut down. Undeterred from her mission and her love for refinishing furniture became a means to survive and feed her boys. 

Michelle worked tirelessly to knock out and refinish as much as she could, perfecting her colorful stain, glaze and paint combo in the process. 

Not long after, people started to take notice of her one-off creations and were even more in awe of the color and the THREE DIMENSIONAL EFFECT. 

In February of 2015, Unicorn SPiT™ was born! The demand for the color was greater than her furniture business, so Michelle decide to put down the sander and pick up the whisk. Selling off most of her own furniture, electronics and anything else of value so she could give the world the first ever Functional Art Therapy CREATiVE JUiCE™. She put every penny she had into buying supplies to brew her unique concoction. 

Next you know, Unicorn SPiT went viral on social media! Over 1 million shares of several posts highlighting this unusual artwork. 

After that the spaghetti pot couldn’t handle the demand, so she moved up to turkey fryers. Then the turkey fryers couldn’t keep up with the demand, so she moved up to 55 gallon drums. Then the drums couldn’t keep up with the demand.

Viral was awesome but we needed professional help! 

Luckily, the American manufacturing company, Eclectic Products Inc came in to save the day!

They were able to make UNiCORN SPiT even better, get all the non toxic with no VOC certificates and share our little concentrated colorful gel to the world. 

Today, you can find Unicorn SPiT in most hardware & craft & hobby store around the world. 

This is a story of the true American Dream. 

“I miss my folks from the daycare so much.....

In these photos you can see the first piece of furniture ever done using our colorful gift from God. 

With Eclectic Products help, we are in craft rooms, art & craft stores & art therapy centers around the world. With each jar sold, I feel our little adult daycare’s legacy will be forever praised & never forgotten.”

- Michelle Nicole (Creator - Unicorn SPiT)