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Company Profile To have a positive impact on peoples lives thru our talk to the turtle products. One small pebble dropped in the water...............ripples out.......... About Us
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| My story….. I will never forget my first paying Feng Shui consultation. It was September 2000, and a costumer colleague that I was working on a t.v. show with referred me to a friend of hers that was trying to sell her townhouse. It was a bright sunny day, 9am appt. and there was no one on the road (I thought to myself) and out of nowhere a black mustang smashes into my drivers side door. As it turns out it was a car dealer showing a perspective client, a brand new model car, until they hit me that is. So, I climbed out of the passenger side door and looked at the damage. My car door, well you couldn’t open it and the mirror was just dangling and the front tire looked a little wobbly. I remember saying to those men in that mustang, “I don’t have time for this right now” – lets trade insurance notes and I will come and see you after my appointment. With that I got in my car and drove off to my Feng Shui consultation. It was a little embarressing to have to climb out of the passenger door to go knock on the front door…. at least I had a honest excuse as to why I was late…. anyways, the client was trying to sell her condo for several months and wanted to know what I thought. I walked thru and gave a verbal audit of her home and what had to happen to make it more “sales” friendly. Most of it involved moving the feng shui aspects of her furniture and overall redesigning the room. I remember her looking at me with wide eyes, and I could see everything was going over her head and she was not absorbing the information. My work colleague who gave me the referral was there as well and I looked at the both of them and said. “Well, if you two are up for it, why don’t we just move everything right now while im there. So we did. At the end of it the client said, “is this what you normally do”? I answered, “no not normally”… but it was a lot of fun to feel the energy shift right there before my eyes. I also recall her saying, “You should do this as your own style” Yeah, but how do I sell it? Decorate with Feng shui? It wasn’t just Feng shui or “just” decorating. I thanked her for the experience and left to go find the car salesman who drove me off my path.. or did he? My design education started with a year in Atlanta, Ga. – The course was a first year of arts and then the second year was your chosen field. The options were Interior Design Or Fashion Design. However, that first year was dedicated to mainly drawing and constructing structures and color theory. As it turns out all my Instructors were Architects, Interior Designers, and Graphic artists. Lots of drawing. A normal day would be breaking off into groups of four and constructing a working structure out of cardboard, or designing a moving machine using three elements, electricity, water, and wood,. In retrospect that year was a lot bigger in my design curve than I realized at the time. I left after that first year to go to a college on the west coast, in Los Angeles. The Fashion Design school would not accept my credits from Atlanta so I started my first year of a two year degree that was now going to take me three years. This design school was hard core fashion design, and it was very intense and competitive. The last semester of my first year I took at another college a class titled “Designing for T.V.series”, and spent the summer as a student apprentice prepping on an A.F.I. project which exposed me to the world of filmmaking. The upside to my story is that I won the contest for the scholarship first year and got my tuition paid for by the school for my second graduating year. At our graduating show I also won the “After Five” section of the juried show. My draping instructor gave me a “letter of recommendation” to a school in London England called St. Martins school of Art. I flew over to London with my portfolio and was accepted by my interview for my final year for a Bachelor of Arts degree. I remember getting the letter of acceptance and thinking- “now what do I do?’ I did’nt go. I just had been through enough already and really, really wanted to start designing. So, I did just that, I designed and mfg. a unique line of ladies silk dresses that half of the collection was my own textile designs. We used a process of washable wax that was silk screened on and then we would go in and paint by number so to speak. It was a successful collection and retailed in Vancouver and Soho N.Y. |
I also did a line of silk pyjamas and had a full page in the local “Vancouver Magazine” with restaurateur “Umberto Menghi” modeling my best selling style with the caption “For the man who has everything”.
However, my main bread and butter was a idea that I pitched to local restaurateur “Bud Kanke” to have designer uniforms for his nightclub, Viva. You have to understand that this was 1982 and nightclub’s in the 1980’s were a happening scene.
That idea opened the door of opportunity and I had several restaurants, nightclubs, and lounges in Vancouver as clients. However, a series of bad decisions in marketing on my part forced the closure of my design studio in 1986.
In 1987 basically with luck I guess I got into film. I entered the film industry as a designer and started designing for T.V. immediately. The first show that I designed as a Costume Designer was called 21 JUMPSTREET and it turned out to be
a big hit. I was on that series
for 2 seasons and went on to work on various other Stephen J. Cannell productions.
What a lot of people may or may not know about Vancouver and its film industry but
from my viewpoint, most of the T. V. industry was started by Mr. Cannell’s company. The industry is huge now
but really that’s how it all mainly started here in Vancouver B. C. aka. “Lotus Land”.
In 1991 some health issues I manifested in the form of viral meningitis and bells palsy together got my full attention. That took about 3 years to get over really, and it was hard
In everyway. It was in that time that I heard about feng shui and my initial interest was
purely for health, my health that is. I took my first class in 1994. From there I went
to the Western School of Feng Shui in 1999. The Western School was only teaching western style Feng shui at that time and I had a lot of questions that could only be answered by knowing both schools of Feng Shui East and West. I then studied Eastern
philosophy Feng Shui with Master Yap Cheng Hai.
The Last Show I designed was in 1999 a MTV series called 2GETHER.
Although I have been fortunate enough to keep working in the film industry as a buyer on different projects – I have been awakening in myself for several years..
I had been using my signature style of Feng Shui since 2000, and just this last fall
I got an alumni invitation from the Western School of Feng Shui to learn Interior Redesign with Feng Shui. I had never heard of re-design before but with my life scedule I couldn't make it down to San Diego, for that class with Mary Dennis. I started to research Interior ReDesign and Home Staging and found the Canadian founder and teacher of the “Canadian ReDesigners Association” C.R.D.A. which is the affiliate sister to the U.S.A. organization I.R.I.S. “Interior ReDesign Industry Specialists". Which brings me to the end of my current story and to introduce myself to
you as a Home Presentation Specialist with the wisdom of Feng Shui. I transform your space from “just not quite right”,
using reliable ReDesign principles, and the wisdom of Feng Shui so you can enjoy
The “joy” of a space that looks and “feels” amazing.
You know when that mustang drove into my car I knew that it meant something, but
I couldn’t understand what it was. As soon as I met Val Sharp who was my teacher
For Interior ReDesign I knew what it was and what an ah ha road it was to get here.
The moral of the story? “Anybody Can Cook!” oops, sorry, wrong movie, but if there
ever was a movie it would be “RATATOUILLE” to sum up the word perseverance,
of the little rat who envisioned himself to be a chef in Paris.
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RENA C CAMPBELL created her first TALK TO THE TURTLE design in the year 2001. She felt there was a need to leave her clients with something tangible to work with. In the Feng Shui philosophy the most important area of your home to consider is your front door.
“So, I designed a Modern/Western style bagua door mirror”... says the designer.